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See Rhaphides.

Very swift or quick; moving with celerity; fast; as, a rapid stream; a rapid flight; a rapid motion. Ascend my chariot; guide the rapid wheels. Milton.

A mount permitting easy and quick elevation or depression and training of the gun, and fitting with a device for taking up the recoil.

. L.), applied to all guns loading with the charge in bags, and formerly from quick-fire. Rapid-fire guns in the navy also sometimes include automatic or semiautomatic rapid-fire guns; the former being automatic guns of not less than one inch caliber, firing a shell of not less than one pound weight, the explosion of e…

The quality or state of being rapid; swiftness; celerity; velocity; as, the rapidity of growth or improvement.

In a rapid manner.

Quality of being rapid; rapidity.

A straight sword, with a narrow and finely pointed blade, used only for thrusting. Rapier fish (Zoöl.), the swordfish. [Obs.] Grew.

Wearing a rapier. "Scarletcoated, rapiered figures." Lowell.

Lapilli.

spoliation; pillage; plunder. Men who were impelled to war quite as much by the desire of rapine as by the desire of glory. Macaulay.

Given to rapine. [Obs.]

The enlargement of a molt caused by rapping the pattern.

derer, esp. one of the 17th century; -- so called from his carrying a half-pike, called a rapary. [Written also raparee.]

imp. & p. p. of Rap, to strike.

A pungent kind of snuff made from the darker and ranker kinds of tobacco leaves.

The beat of the drum to call soldiers to arms.

One who, or that which, raps or knocks; specifically, the knocker of a door. Sterne.

Relation; proportion; conformity; correspondence; accord. 'T is obvious what rapport there is between the conceptions and languages in every country. Sir W. Temple. En` rap`port" ( Etym: [F.], in accord, harmony, or sympathy; having a mutual, especially a private, understanding; in mesmerism, in that relation of sympat…

Act or fact of coming or being drawn near or together; establishment or state of cordial relations.