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  • English Word Rakishness Definition The quality or state of being rakish.
  • English Word Raku ware Definition A kind of earthenware made in Japan, resembling Satsuma ware, but having a paler color.
  • English Word Rale Definition An adventitious sound, usually of morbid origin, accompanying the normal respiratory sounds. See Rhonchus.
  • English Word Rallentando Definition Slackening; -- a direction to perform a passage with a gradual decrease in time and force; ritardando.
  • English Word Ralliance Definition The act of rallying.
  • English Word Rallied Definition of Rally
  • English Word Rallier Definition One who rallies.
  • English Word Rallies Definition of Rally
  • English Word Ralline Definition Pertaining to the rails.
  • English Word Rally Definition To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.
  • English Word Rally Definition To come into orderly arrangement; to renew order, or united effort, as troops scattered or put to flight; to assemble; to unite.
  • English Word Rally Definition To collect one's vital powers or forces; to regain health or consciousness; to recuperate.
  • English Word Rally Definition To recover strength after a decline in prices; -- said of the market, stocks, etc.
  • English Word Rally Definition The act or process of rallying (in any of the senses of that word).
  • English Word Rally Definition A political mass meeting.
  • English Word Rally Definition To attack with raillery, either in good humor and pleasantry, or with slight contempt or satire.
  • English Word Rally Definition To use pleasantry, or satirical merriment.
  • English Word Rally Definition Good-humored raillery.
  • English Word Rallying Definition of Rally
  • English Word Ralph Definition A name sometimes given to the raven.
  • English Word Ralstonite Definition A fluoride of alumina and soda occurring with the Greenland cryolite in octahedral crystals.
  • English Word Ram Definition The male of the sheep and allied animals. In some parts of England a ram is called a tup.
  • English Word Ram Definition Aries, the sign of the zodiac which the sun enters about the 21st of March.
  • English Word Ram Definition The constellation Aries, which does not now, as formerly, occupy the sign of the same name.
  • English Word Ram Definition An engine of war used for butting or battering.
  • English Word Ram Definition In ancient warfare, a long beam suspended by slings in a framework, and used for battering the walls of cities; a battering-ram.
  • English Word Ram Definition A heavy steel or iron beak attached to the prow of a steam war vessel for piercing or cutting down the vessel of an enemy; also, a vessel carrying such a beak.
  • English Word Ram Definition A hydraulic ram. See under Hydraulic.
  • English Word Ram Definition The weight which strikes the blow, in a pile driver, steam hammer, stamp mill, or the like.
  • English Word Ram Definition The plunger of a hydraulic press.