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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.

pe. The range and compass of Hammond's knowledge filled the whole circle of the arts. Bp. Fell. A man has not enough range of thought. Addison.

Rankly; stoutly; violently. [Obs.] That rides so rank and bends his lance so fell. Fairfax.

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.

rise, become erect, etc.; to elevate; as, to rear a monolith. In adoration at his feet I fell Submiss; he reared me. Milton. It reareth our hearts from vain thoughts. Barrow. Mine [shall be] the first hand to rear her banner. Ld. Lytton.

To refute; to disprove; as, to refel the tricks of a sophister. [Obs.] How he refelled me, and how I replied. Shak.

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

ation; a kinsman or kinswoman. "Confining our care . . . to ourselves and relatives." Bp. Fell.

A common vagabond; a worthless or wicked fellow.

he repair of a church or of a city. Sunk down and sought repair Of sleep, which instantly fell on me. Milton.

Lying on the back; supine; hence, careless. Sir K. Digby. He spake, and, downward swayed, fell resupine, With his huge neck aslant. Cowper.

reverence; submissive; humble; respectful; as, reverent disciples. "They . . . prostrate fell before him reverent." Milton.

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.