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See Rye. [Obs.] Holland. Rie grass. (Bot.) (a) A kind of wild barley (Hordeum pratense). Dr. Prior. (b) Ray grass. Dr. Prior.

Robbery. [Obs. or Scot.]

covered with high grass or reeds. Its color is yellowish brown. Called also inghalla, and rietbok.

Tendency or impulse to act. [R.] Acturience, or desire of action, in one form or another, whether as restlessness, ennui, dissatisfaction, or the imagination of something desirable. J. Grote.

The nest of a bird of prey, as of an eagle or hawk; also a brood of such birds; eyrie. Shak. Also fig.: A human residence or resting place perched like an eagle's nest.

Made friends; reconciled. [Obs.] "Deadly foes . . . affriended." Spenser.

Oppression; hardship; injury; grievance. [Archaic]

njure in one's rights; to bear heavily upon; -- now commonly used in the passive TO be aggrieved. Aggrieved by oppression and extortion. Macaulay.

In grief; amiss. [Obs.] Chaucer.

An aperient medicine or food. Arbuthnot.

A chief priest; also, a kind of vicar, or a rural dean.

A variety of the gazelle (Antilope, or Gazella, dorcas), found in Arabia and adjacent countries. (b) A squirrel-like Australian marsupial, a species of Petaurus. (c) A beautiful Brazilian toucan Ramphastos ariel).

The Ram; the first of the twelve signs in the zodiac, which the sun enters at the vernal equinox, about the 21st of March.

To butt, as a ram. [Obs.]

The act of butting like a ram; act of using a battering-ram. [Obs.] Bacon.

A short aria, or air. "A military ariette." Sir W. Scott.

"; the rear; -- chiefly used as an adjective in the sense of behind, rear, subordinate. Arriere fee, Arriere fief, a fee or fief dependent on a superior fee, or a fee held of a feudatory. -- Arriere vassal, the vassal of a vassal.

A proclamation, as of the French kings, calling not only their immediate feudatories, but the vassals of these feudatories, to take the field for war; also, the body of vassals called or liable to be called to arms, as in ancient France.

A person dispatched before another person or company, to give notice of his or their approach.

Adultery. [Obs.] Chaucer.