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An odd or absurd fellow. Smart. Thackeray.

A low fellow; a churl. Raff merchant, a dealer in lumber and odd refuse. [Prov. Eng.]

A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin. The other zealous rag is the compositor. B. Jonson. Upon the proclamation, they all came in, both tag and rag. Spenser.

A paltry or disreputable fellow; a mean which. Dryden.

Wearing tattered clothes; as, a ragged fellow.

A lewd, dissolute fellow; a debauchee; a rake. It seldom doth happen, in any way of life, that a sluggard and a rakehell do not go together. Barrow.

Roving; wandering; discursive; as, a rambling fellow, talk, or building.

A rascal; a good-for-nothing fellow. [Colloq.] Howitt.

Transported with love, admiration, delight, etc.; enraptured. "The rapt musician." Longfellow. 3. Wholly absorbed or engrossed, as in work or meditation. "Rapt in secret studies." Shak.

A mean, trickish fellow; a base, dishonest person; a rogue; a scoundrel; a trickster. For I have sense to serve my turn in store, And he's a rascal who pretends to more. Dryden.

Rattle-headed. "A noisy, rattle-pated fellow." W. Irving.

Hence, decorations or insignia of an office or order, as of Freemasons, Odd Fellows,etc.

A common vagabond; a worthless or wicked fellow.

A low, vulgar, brutal, foul-mouthed wretch; a lewd fellow. Spenser. Pope. Ribald was almost a class name in the feudal system . . . He was his patron's parasite, bulldog, and tool . . . It is not to be wondered at that the word rapidly became a synonym for everything ruffianly and brutal. Earle.

To cleave; to rive; to split; as, to rift an oak or a rock; to rift the clouds. Longfellow. To dwell these rifted rocks between. Wordsworth.

esponding side of the lower animals. Became the sovereign's favorite, his right hand. Longfellow.

An anchorage off shore. Same as Road, 4. Moored in the neighboring roadstead. Longfellow.

athing, as horses having a certain disease. See Roaring, 2. Roaring boy, a roaring, noisy fellow; -- name given, at the latter end Queen Elizabeth's reign, to the riotous fellows who raised disturbances in the street. "Two roaring boys of Rome, that made all split." Beau & Fl. -- Roaring forties (Naut.), a sailor's na…

A riotous fellow; a roaring boy. A lady to turn roarer, and break glasses. Massinger.

erson of another by violence or by putting him in fear. Some roving robber calling to his fellows. Milton.