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Wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar; tumult. His headstrong riot hath no curb. Shak.

One who riots; a reveler; a roisterer. Chaucer.

Excess; tumult; revelry. [Obs.] His life he led in lawless riotise. Spenser.

A rioter. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Involving, or engaging in, riot; wanton; unrestrained; luxurious. The younger son . . . took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. Luke xv. 13.

The act or practice of rioting; riot. "Electioneering riotry." Walpole.

The opening of an artery, esp. for bloodletting.

A two-wheeled car or vehicle for war, racing, state processions, etc. First moved the chariots, after whom the foot. Cowper.

A light, covered, four-wheeled pleasure carriage with two seats.

One who drives a chariot.

s and feeling. The distrust with which they felt themselves to be regarded by their compatriots in America. Palfrey.

The condition of being compatriots.

A joint patriot.

A native or inhabitant of Cyprus.

A kind of sour cherry. Bacon.

chattels to the lord of the fee, paid on the decease of a tenant. Blackstone. Bouvier. Heriot custom, a heriot depending on usage. -- Heriot service (Law), a heriot due by reservation in a grant or lease of lands. Spelman. Blackstone.

Subject to the payment of a heriot. Burn.

The golden oriole of Europe. See Oriole.

See Boyle's law, under Law.

One who performs, or is skilled in, ovariotomy.