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866 words match “SWIFT”

RESETTLE v. 2 definitions
To settle again. Swift.
RESOLUTELY adv.
firmly; steadily; with perseverance. Some.. facts he examines, some he resolutely denies. Swift.
RESTORABLE a.
Admitting of being restored; capable of being reclaimed; as, restorable land. Swift. -- Re*stor"a*ble*ness, n.
RETALIATE v. 2 definitions
hose works are so soon forgotten that we are in danger of appearing the first aggressors. Swift.
REVERENCER n.
One who regards with reverence. "Reverencers of crowned heads." Swift.
REVIVE v. 8 definitions
ng to recollection; to recall attention to; to reawaken. "Revive the libels born to die." Swift. The mind has a power in many cases to revive perceptions which it has once had. Locke.
RIDE v. 13 definitions
e riden by the way. Chaucer. Let your master ride on before, and do you gallop after him. Swift.
RIGHT n. 33 definitions
. (a) In a direct line; straight. [R.] Woodward. (b) At once; directly. [Obs. or Colloq.] Swift. -- To set to rights, To put to rights, to put in good order; to adjust; to regulate, as what is out of order. -- Writ of right (Law), a writ which lay to recover lands in fee simple, unjustly withheld from the true owner.…
ROADSTER n. 5 definitions
ustomed to traveling on the high road, or is suitable for use on ordinary roads. A sound, swift, well-fed hunter and roadster. Thackeray.
ROOMFUL n. 2 definitions
As much or many as a room will hold; as, a roomful of men. Swift.
ROTE n. 6 definitions
of speech without attention to the meaning; mere repetition; as, to learn rules by rote. Swift. till he the first verse could [i. e., knew] all by rote. Chaucer. Thy love did read by rote, and could not spell. Shak.
ROUND v. 46 definitions
To make full, smooth, and flowing; as, to round periods in writing. Swift. To round in (Naut.) To haul up; usually, to haul the slack of (a rope) through its leading block, or to haul up (a tackle which hangs loose) by its fall. Totten. (b) To collect together (cattle) by riding around them, as on cattle ranches. [West…
RUM n. 3 definitions
A queer or odd person or thing; a country parson. [Slang, Obs.] Swift.
RUMMAGE v. 5 definitions
ch a place narrowly. I have often rummaged for old books in Little Britain and Duck Lane. Swift. [His house] was haunted with a jolly ghost, that . . . . . . rummaged like a rat. Tennyson.
RUMP n. 3 definitions
ouse of Lords, the army abolished the Rump, and by this army of saints Cromwell governed. Swift. -- Rump steak, a beefsteak from the rump. Goldsmith.
RUN v. 71 definitions
To move, proceed, advance, pass, go, come, etc., swiftly, smoothly, or with quick action; -- said of things animate or inanimate. Hence, to flow, glide, or roll onward, as a stream, a snake, a wagon, etc.; to move by quicker action than in walking, as a person, a horse, a dog. Specifically: --
RUNNER n. 16 definitions
A messenger. Swift.
SANGUINITY n.
The quality of being sanguine; sanguineness. Swift.
SASIN n.
The Indian antelope (Antilope bezoartica, or cervicapra), noted for its beauty and swiftness. It has long, spiral, divergent horns.
SATIRIZE v.
rize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues. Swift.
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