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To strike with a quick, sharp blow; to knock; as, to rap on the door.

Same as Accipitres.

der; disposed or accustomed to seize by violence; seizing by force. " The downfall of the rapacious and licentious Knights Templar." Motley.

The quality of being rapacious; rapaciousness; ravenousness; as, the rapacity of pirates; the rapacity of wolves.

See Rapparee.

Fruit, as grapes, plucked from the cluster. Ray.

Given to the commission of rape. Byron.

Violently. [Obs.]

Like Raphael's works; in Raphael's manner of painting.

The principles of painting introduced by Raphael, the Italian painter.

One who advocates or adopts the principles of Raphaelism.

called because supposed to be caused by eating corn with which seeds of jointed charlock (Raphanus raphanistrum) had been mixed, but the condition is now known to be a form of ergotism.

A line, ridge, furrow, or band of fibers, especially in the median line; as, the raphe of the tongue.

See Rhaphides.

Very swift or quick; moving with celerity; fast; as, a rapid stream; a rapid flight; a rapid motion. Ascend my chariot; guide the rapid wheels. Milton.

A mount permitting easy and quick elevation or depression and training of the gun, and fitting with a device for taking up the recoil.

. L.), applied to all guns loading with the charge in bags, and formerly from quick-fire. Rapid-fire guns in the navy also sometimes include automatic or semiautomatic rapid-fire guns; the former being automatic guns of not less than one inch caliber, firing a shell of not less than one pound weight, the explosion of e…

The quality or state of being rapid; swiftness; celerity; velocity; as, the rapidity of growth or improvement.

In a rapid manner.

Quality of being rapid; rapidity.