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To leap or prance about, as an animal; to be violent; to rage. [Prov. or Low]

To range about in an irregular manner. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Inclined or able to range, or rove about, for considerable distances; apt or suited for much roving, --chiefly used of cattle.

To act like a rantipole. [Low] She used to rantipole about the house. Arbuthnot.

arly part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value. Many counterfeits passed about under the name of raps. Swift. Tie it [her money] up so tight that you can't touch a rap, save with her consent. Mrs. Alexander. Not to care a rap, to care nothing. -- Not worth a rap, worth nothing.

A show carried about in a box; a peep show. Pope.

Noisy, rapid talk. All this ado about the golden age is but an empty rattle and frivolous conceit. Hakewill.

To talk with unreasonable enthusiasm or excessive passion or excitement; -- followed by about, of, or on; as, he raved about her beauty. The hallowed scene Which others rave on, though they know it not. Byron.

In a half-raised position, as if about to spring on prey.

ion. An armed corse did lie, In whose dead face he read great magnanimity. Spenser. Those about her From her shall read the perfect ways of honor. Shak.

Prepared for what one is about to do or experience; equipped or supplied with what is needed for some act or event; prepared for immediate movement or action; as, the troops are ready to march; ready for the journey. "When she redy was." Chaucer.

mmodore. See Admiral. -- Rear front (Mil.), the rear rank of a body of troops when faced about and standing in that position. -- Rear guard (Mil.), the division of an army that marches in the rear of the main body to protect it; -- used also figuratively. -- Rear line (Mil.), the line in the rear of an army. -- Rea…

being reconcentrated; esp., the act or policy of concentrating the rural population in or about towns and villages for convenience in political or military administration, as in Cuba during the revolution of 1895-98.

To affect nicety or subtilty in thought or language. "He makes another paragraph about our refining in controversy." Atterbury.

A famous diamond of fine quality, which weighs about 137 carats and is among the state jewels of France. It is so called from the Duke of Orleans, Regent of France, to whom it was sold in 1717 by Pitt the English Governor of Madras (whence also called the Pitt diamond), who bought it of an Indian merchant in 1701.…

Tract, part, or space, lying about and including anything; neighborhood; vicinity; sphere. "Though the fork invade the region of my heart." Shak. Philip, tetrarch of .. the region of Trachonitis. Luke iii. 1.

A portuguese money of account, in value about one tenth of a cent. [Spelt also ree.]

The word is used as a Portuguese designation of money of account, one hundred reis being about equal in value to eleven cents.

athe, for supporting the cutting tool or steadying the work. He made narrowed rests round about, that the beams should not be fastened in the walls of the house. 1 Kings vi. 6.

Uneasy; restless; averse to standing still; fidgeting about; -- applied especially to horses. Trench. -- Rest"ive, adv. -- Rest"ive*ness, n.