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  • English Word Raffish Definition Resembling, or having the character of, raff, or a raff; worthless; low.
  • English Word Raffle Definition A kind of lottery, in which several persons pay, in shares, the value of something put up as a stake, and then determine by chance (as by casting dice) which one of them shall become the sole possessor.
  • English Word Raffle Definition A game of dice in which he who threw three alike won all the stakes.
  • English Word Raffle Definition To engage in a raffle; as, to raffle for a watch.
  • English Word Raffle Definition To dispose of by means of a raffle; -- often followed by off; as, to raffle off a horse.
  • English Word Raffled Definition of Raffle
  • English Word Raffler Definition One who raffles.
  • English Word Rafflesia Definition A genus of stemless, leafless plants, living parasitically upon the roots and stems of grapevines in Malaysia. The flowers have a carrionlike odor, and are very large, in one species (Rafflesia Arnoldi) having a diameter of two or three feet.
  • English Word Raffling Definition of Raffle
  • English Word Raft Definition imp. & p. p. of Reave.
  • English Word Raft Definition A collection of logs, boards, pieces of timber, or the like, fastened together, either for their own collective conveyance on the water, or to serve as a support in conveying other things; a float.
  • English Word Raft Definition A collection of logs, fallen trees, etc. (such as is formed in some Western rivers of the United States), which obstructs navigation.
  • English Word Raft Definition A large collection of people or things taken indiscriminately.
  • English Word Raft Definition To transport on a raft, or in the form of a raft; to make into a raft; as, to raft timber.
  • English Word Raft Definition of Reave
  • English Word Rafte Definition imp. of Reave.
  • English Word Rafted Definition of Raft
  • English Word Rafter Definition A raftsman.
  • English Word Rafter Definition Originally, any rough and somewhat heavy piece of timber. Now, commonly, one of the timbers of a roof which are put on sloping, according to the inclination of the roof. See Illust. of Queen-post.
  • English Word Rafter Definition To make into rafters, as timber.
  • English Word Rafter Definition To furnish with rafters, as a house.
  • English Word Rafter Definition To plow so as to turn the grass side of each furrow upon an unplowed ridge; to ridge.
  • English Word Rafting Definition of Raft
  • English Word Rafting Definition The business of making or managing rafts.
  • English Word Raftsman Definition A man engaged in rafting.
  • English Word Raftsmen Definition of Raftsman
  • English Word Rafty Definition Damp; musty.
  • English Word Rag Definition A ragged edge.
  • English Word Rag Definition To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.
  • English Word Rag Definition To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.