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in a direction with the length of; in naval engagements, to cannonade, as a ship, on the stern or head so that the balls range the whole length of the deck. To rake up. (a) To collect together, as the fire (live coals), and cover with ashes. (b) To bring up; to search out an bring to notice again; as, to rake up old s…

Having the frames, stem, and sternpost adjusted; -- said of a ship on the stocks.

A line used to get a straight middle line, as on a spar, or from stem to stern in building a vessel.

tract of land used for grazing and rearing of horses, cattle, or sheep. See Rancho, 2. [Western U. S.]

An owner or occupant of, or laborer on, a ranch; a herdsman. [Western U. S.]

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

An excrescence growing from the pastern to the middle of the shank of a horse.

To learn by reading. I have read of an Eastern king who put a judge to death for an iniquitous sentence. Swift.

To restore, as from weariness, sickness; or the like; to repair. In western waves his weary wagon did recure. Spenser.

A look; aspect directed to another; view; gaze. But her, with stern regard, he thus repelled. Milton.

minant of the genus Rangifer, of the Deer family, found in the colder parts of both the Eastern and Western hemispheres, and having long irregularly branched antlers, with the brow tines palmate.

The state or quality of being renitent; resistance; reluctance. Sterne. We find a renitency in ourselves to ascribe life and irritability to the cold and motionless fibers of plants. E. Darwin.

, as a chapel; also, in an apsidal church, all the space beyond the line of the back or eastern face of the altar.

To utter as a rhapsody, or in the manner of a rhapsody Sterne.

Stiffness of opinion or temper; rugged sternness; hardness; relentless severity; hard-heartedness; cruelty. All his rigor is turned to grief and pity. Denham. If I shall be condemn'd Upon surmises, . . . I tell you 'T is rigor and not law. Shak.

ook; hence, an angular recess or hollow bend in a mountain, river, cliff, or the like. [Western & Southern U. S.] D. S. Jordan.

A morbid growth or deposit of bony matter between or on the small pastern and the great pastern bones. J. H. Walsh.

A picture. Sterne.

s power over the expression of his countenance, that he could in an instant shake off the sternness of winter, and robe it in the brightest smiles of spring. Wirt.

hard; unfeeling; obdurate; as, a rocky bosom. Shak. Rocky Mountain locust (Zoöl.), the Western locust, or grasshopper. See Grasshopper. -- Rocky Mountain sheep. (Zoöl.) See Bighorn.