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To counterfeit; to imitate. [Obs.] "They can so well resemble man's speech." Holland.

. [Obs.] Little resolution and certainty there is as touching the islands of Mauritania. Holland.

of being resty; sluggishness. [Obs.] The snake by restiness and lying still all winter. Holland.

Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.

The backbone. [Obs.] Blood . . . lying cluttered about the ridgebone. Holland.

See Rye. [Obs.] Holland. Rie grass. (Bot.) (a) A kind of wild barley (Hordeum pratense). Dr. Prior. (b) Ray grass. Dr. Prior.

A rafter. [Obs.] Holland.

ring of color around the neck. Ring- necked duck (Zool.), an American scaup duck (Aythya collaris). The head, neck, and breast of the adult male are black, and a narrow, but conspicuous, red ring encircles the neck. This ring is absent in the female. Called also ring-neck, ring-necked blackhead, ringbill, tufted duck,…

The reed bunting. It has a collar of white feathers. Called also ring bunting.

Having the lips widely separated and gaping like an open mouth; as a ringent bilabiate corolla.

Hence, to scratch or tear. Holland.

A wrinkle; a rimple. [Obs.] Holland.

Like a rose in shape or appearance; as, a rosaceous corolla.

er side of the spatangoid and clypeastroid sea urchins. See Illust. of Spicule, and Sand dollar, under Sand.

arts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped; as, a rotate spicule or scale; a rotate corolla, i.e., a monopetalous corolla with a flattish border, and no tube or a very short one.

To whisper. [obs.] Shak. Holland. The Bishop of Glasgow rounding in his ear, "Ye are not a wise man," . . . he rounded likewise to the bishop, and said, "Wherefore brought ye me here" Calderwood.

h honor more justly for scouring the seas, and taking from the rovers 846 sail of ships. Holland.

The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc. [Prov.Eng.] Simmonds. Coursed rubble, rubble masonry in which courses are formed by leveling off the work at certain heights.

quilled, or goffered strip of lace, net, ribbon, or other material, -- used in place of collars or cuffs, and as a trimming for women's dresses and bonnets. [Written also rouche.]

A riddle or sieve. [Obs.] Holland.