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A fluoride of alumina and soda occurring with the Greenland cryolite in octahedral crystals.

To snatch away; to seize and hurry off. And through the Greeks and Ilians they rapt The whirring chariot. Chapman. From Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund Bacon, to Redgrove. Sir H. Wotton.

Avaricious; grasping; extortionate; also, greedy; ravenous; voracious; as, rapacious usurers; a rapacious appetite. [Thy Lord] redeem thee from Death's rapacious claim Milton .

The act or practice of extorting or exacting by oppressive injustice; exorbitant greediness of gain. "The rapacity of some ages." Sprat.

One of the separatists or dissenters from the established or Greek church in Russia. [Written also rascolnik.]

To prey with rapacity; to be greedy; to show rapacity. [Written also ravin, and ravine.] Benjamin shall raven as a wolf. Gen. xlix. 27.

Greedily devouring; rapacious; as, ravening wolves. -- Rav"en*ing*ly, adv.

own in apprehension or experience. Many coincidences . . . soon begin to appear in them [Greek inscriptions] which realize ancient history to us. Jowett. We can not realize it in thought, that the object . . . had really no being at any past moment. Sir W. Hamilton.

offered in payment of a debt; to receive a gift, a message, or a letter. Receyven all in gree that God us sent. Chaucer.

. Painters, when they work on white grounds, place before them colors mixed with blue and green, to recreate their eyes, white wearying . . . the sight more than any. Dryden. St. John, who recreated himself with sporting with a tame partridge. Jer. Taylor. These ripe fruits recreate the nostrils with their aromatic sce…

To greet again; to resalute; to return a salutation to; to greet. Shak.

A grayish green color, like that of the flowers of mignonette.

A translucent variety of serpentine, of a honey yellow or greenish yellow color, having a waxy resinlike luster.

A growing green or fresh again; renewal of youth or vigor. [Obs.]

A combining form from Greek the nose, as in rhinolith, rhinology.

proposed class of flowering plants growning on the roots of other plants and destitute of green foliage.

Riband jasper (Min.), a variety of jasper having stripes of different colors, as red and green.

The bowhead, Arctic, or Greenland whale (Balæna mysticetus), from whose mouth the best whalebone is obtained.

adophis punctatus) having a white ring around the neck. The back is ash- colored, or sage green, the belly of an orange red. -- Ring stopper. (Naut.) See under Stopper. -- Ring thrush (Zoöl.), the ring ousel. -- The prize ring, the ring in which prize fighters contend; prize fighters, collectively. -- The ring. (a)…

g; a small circle; specifically, a fairy ring. You demi-puppets, that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites. Shak.