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A name for a fox. [Prov. Eng.] C. Kingsley.

d) To start from a cover, as game. "She has been frightened; she has been put up." C. Kingsley.

The domain of puzzles; puzzles, collectively. C. Kingsley.

all the rack, . . . pass without noise. Bacon. And the night rack came rolling up. C. Kingsley.

One of the Primitive Methodists, who seceded from the Wesleyan Methodists on the ground of their deficiency in fervor and zeal; -- so called in contempt.

A rattlehead. C. Kingsley.

A reactionary. C. Kingsley.

things abstruse; profound; searching; as, recondite studies. "Recondite learning." Bp. Horsley.

rp threads pass, set in the swinging lathe or batten of a loom for beating up the weft; a sley. See Batten.

of the prevailing social system. I dream . . . of the new régime which is to come. H. Kingsley.

Coming back; returning. [R.] "Like the remeant sun." C. Kingsley.

ief recapitulation. The exellent little résumé thereof in Dr. Landsborough's book. C. Kingsley.

Having no rider; as, a riderless horse. H. Kingsley.

sed to clothe everything with roseate hues; hence, sentimental. "Rose-pink piety." C. Kingsley.

Of or pertaining to the rubric or rubrics. "Rubrical eccentricities." C. Kingsley.

rson, of manner, of sound, of appearance, and the like. "A sameness of the terms." Bp. Horsley.

and exposed by the ebb of the tide. "The Libyan sands." Milton. "The sands o'Dee." C. Kingsley.

The state of being savage; savageness; savagism. A like work of primeval savagery. C. Kingsley.

To cleanse, as streets, from filth. C. Kingsley.

or disgust; hence, to have dislike, prejudice, or reluctance. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] C. Kingsley.