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A group of five notes to be played or sung in the time of four of the same species.

ality of being radiant; brilliancy; effulgence; vivid brightness; as, the radiance of the sun. Girt with omnipotence, with radiance crowned. Milton. What radiancy of glory, What light beyond compare ! Neale.

ams or rays; beaming with brightness; emitting a vivid light or splendor; as, the radiant sun. Mark what radiant state she spreads. Milton.

; to be radiant; to shine. Virtues shine more clear In them [kings], and radiant like the sun at noon. Howell.

A ray, or outer floret, of the capitulum of such plants as the sunflower and the daisy. See Ray, 2.

attracting body with that of a body describing an orbit around it, as a line joining the sun and a planet or comet, or a planet and its satellite.

e clouds; the descent of water from the clouds in drops. Rain is water by the heat of the sun divided into very small parts ascending in the air, till, encountering the cold, it be condensed into clouds, and descends in drops. Ray. Fair days have oft contracted wind and rain. Milton.

several colors of the spectrum, and formed in the part of the hemisphere opposite to the sun by the refraction and reflection of the sun's rays in drops of falling rain.

A grape dried in the sun or by artificial heat. Raisin tree (Bot.), the common red currant, whose fruit resembles the small raisins of Corinth called currants. [Eng.] Dp. Prior.

Aries, the sign of the zodiac which the sun enters about the 21st of March.

ies of the Swiss mountaineers, blown on a long tube called the Alpine horn, and sometimes sung.

To slash; to hack; to slice. [Obs.] Rushing of helms and riving plates asunder. Spenser.

part of the flower or plant; the marginal florets of a compound flower, as an aster or a sunflower; one of the pedicels of an umbel or other circular flower cluster; radius. See Radius.

Darting forth rays, as the sun when it shines out.

ch is under the dominion of a king; a kingdom. The absolute master of realms on which the sun perpetually alone. Motley.

One who reaps. The sun-burned reapers wiping their foreheads. Macaulay.

To send back; to reverberate. Silenus sung; the vales his voice rebound. Dryden.

rtaining to the receptacle, or growing on it; as, the receptacular chaff or scales in the sunflower.

Of or pertaining to recession or withdrawal. Recessional hymn, a hymn sung in a procession returning from the choir to the robing room.

, etc.; obtainable from a debtor or possessor; as, the debt is recoverable; goods lost or sunk in the ocean are not recoverable. A prodigal course Is like the sun's; but not, like his, recoverable. Shak. If I am recoverable, why am I thus Cowper. -- Re*cov"er*a*ble*ness, n.