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- English Word Rhapsody Definition A recitation or song of a rhapsodist; a portion of an epic poem adapted for recitation, or usually recited, at one time; hence, a division of the Iliad or the Odyssey; -- called also a book.
- English Word Rhapsody Definition A disconnected series of sentences or statements composed under excitement, and without dependence or natural connection; rambling composition.
- English Word Rhapsody Definition A composition irregular in form, like an improvisation; as, Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsodies."
- English Word Rhatanhy Definition The powerfully astringent root of a half-shrubby Peruvian plant (Krameria triandra). It is used in medicine and to color port wine.
- English Word Rhatany Definition Alt. of Rhatanhy
- English Word Rhea Definition The ramie or grass-cloth plant. See Grass-cloth plant, under Grass.
- English Word Rhea Definition Any one of three species of large South American ostrichlike birds of the genera Rhea and Pterocnemia. Called also the American ostrich.
- English Word Rheae Definition A suborder of struthious birds including the rheas.
- English Word Rheeboc Definition The peele.
- English Word Rheic Definition Pertaining to, or designating, an acid (commonly called chrysophanic acid) found in rhubarb (Rheum).
- English Word Rhein Definition Chrysophanic acid.
- English Word Rheinberry Definition One of the berries or drupes of the European buckthorn; also, the buckthorn itself.
- English Word Rhematic Definition Having a verb for its base; derived from a verb; as, rhematic adjectives.
- English Word Rhematic Definition The doctrine of propositions or sentences.
- English Word Rhemish Definition Of or pertaining to Rheimis, or Reima, in France.
- English Word Rhenish Definition Of or pertaining to the river Rhine; as, Rhenish wine.
- English Word Rhenish Definition Rhine wine.
- English Word Rheochord Definition A metallic wire used for regulating the resistance of a circuit, or varying the strength of an electric current, by inserting a greater or less length of it in the circuit.
- English Word Rheometer Definition An instrument for measuring currents, especially the force or intensity of electrical currents; a galvanometer.
- English Word Rheometer Definition An instrument for measuring the velocity of the blood current in the arteries.
- English Word Rheometric Definition Of or pertaining to a rheometer or rheometry.
- English Word Rheometry Definition The measurement of the force or intensity of currents.
- English Word Rheometry Definition The calculus; fluxions.
- English Word Rheomotor Definition Any apparatus by which an electrical current is originated.
- English Word Rheophore Definition A connecting wire of an electric or voltaic apparatus, traversed by a current.
- English Word Rheophore Definition One of the poles of a voltaic battery; an electrode.
- English Word Rheoscope Definition An instrument for detecting the presence or movement of currents, as of electricity.
- English Word Rheostat Definition A contrivance for adjusting or regulating the strength of electrical currents, operating usually by the intercalation of resistance which can be varied at will.
- English Word Rheotome Definition An instrument which periodically or otherwise interrupts an electric current.
- English Word Rheotrope Definition An instrument for reversing the direction of an electric current.