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A hard rider. [Obs.]

Rasor. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Ransom. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To sound again or anew.

To resound. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far.

f overcoming a difficulty; resort; expedient. Threat'nings mixed with prayers, his last resource. Dryden.

Full of resources.

Destitute of resources. Burke. -- Re*source"less*ness, n. R. Browning.

Without care; free and easy.

A half sound; a low tone. [Obs.] "Soft he cougheth with a semisoun." Chaucer.

To deprive of soul, spirit, or principle. [R.] Shelton.

Not sound; not whole; not solid; defective; infirm; diseased. -- Un*sound"ly, adv. -- Un*sound"ness, n.

A dish consisting of small fish stewed and served in a little water. [Written also water souchet.] See Zoutch.

A sort of apple.

Thoroughly imbued with a right spirit; noble-minded; devoted.

itself from the Egyptian origin. The Aleph was a consonant letter, with a guttural breath sound that was not an element of Greek articulation; and the Greeks took it to represent their vowel Alpha with the ä sound, the Phoenician alphabet having no vowel symbols. This letter, in English, is used for several different v…

A, as a prefix to English words, is derived from various sources. (1) It frequently signifies on or in (from an, a forms of AS. on), denoting a state, as in afoot, on foot, abed, amiss, asleep, aground, aloft, away (AS. onweg), and analogically, ablaze, atremble, etc. (2) AS. of off, from, as in adown (AS. ofdüne off t…

tate mammal, of the genus Orycteropus, somewhat resembling a pig, common in some parts of Southern Africa. It burrows in the ground, and feeds entirely on ants, which it catches with its long, slimy tongue.

A carnivorous quadruped (Proteles Lalandii), of South Africa, resembling the fox and hyena. See Proteles.