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The sweepings of society; the rabble; the mob; -- chiefly used in the compound or duplicate, riffraff.

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.

er; as, to rake together wealth; to rake together slanderous tales; to rake together the rabble of a town.

Boughs or branches. [Obs.] Crabb.

The production of branchlike figures. Crabb.

sing fixed ammunition or metallic cartridge cases; -- distinguished from breech- loading (abbr. B. 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…

A dainty morsel; a Welsh rabbit. See Welsh rabbit, under Rabbit.

One of the rabble; a low, common sort of person or creature; collectively, the rabble; the common herd; also, a lean, ill- conditioned beast, esp. a deer. [Obs.] He smote of the people seventy men, and fifty thousand of the rascal. Wyclif (1 Kings [1 Samuel] vi. 19). Poor men alone No, no; the noblest deer hath them [h…

A noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer. It may seem strange that a man who wrote with so much perspicuity, vivacity, and grace, should have been, whenever he took a part in conversation, an empty, noisy, blundering rattle. Macaulay.

A restangular longitudinal recess or groove, cut in the corner or edge of any body; a rabbet. See Rabbet.

To bloom again. Crabbe.

To contradict, meet, or oppose by argument, plea, or countervailing proof. Abbott.

An abbreviation for Red Republican. See under Red, a. [Cant]

oned upon a promise of redemtion; payable; due; as, bonds, promissory notes, etc. , redeemabble in gold, or in current money, or four months after date.

species of a tribe of butterflies (Fugacia) including the common yellow species and the cabbage butterflies. The antennæ are usually red.

dow reed grass (Bot.), the Glyceria aquatica, a tall grass found in wet places. -- Reed babbler. See Reedbird. -- Reed bunting (Zoöl.) A European sparrow (Emberiza schoeniclus) which frequents marshy places; -- called also reed sparrow, ring bunting. (b) Reedling. -- Reed canary grass (Bot.), a tall wild grass (Phal…

mall Asiatic singing birds of the genera Schoenicola and Eurycercus; -- called also reed babbler.

d to; to think of with gratitude, affection, respect, or any other emotion. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Ex. xx. 8. That they may have their wages duly paid 'em, And something over to remember me by. Shak. Remember what I warn thee; shun to taste. Milton.

homson. There is something inexpressibly pleasing in the annual renovation of the world. Rabbler.

The party in whose favor a rescue is made. Crabb.