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- English Word Ricinic Definition Pertaining to, or derived from, castor oil; formerly, designating an acid now called ricinoleic acid.
- English Word Ricinine Definition A bitter white crystalline alkaloid extracted from the seeds of the castor-oil plant.
- English Word Ricinoleate Definition A salt of ricinoleic acid; -- formerly called palmate.
- English Word Ricinoleic Definition Pertaining to, or designating, a fatty acid analogous to oleic acid, obtained from castor oil as an oily substance, C/H/O/ with a harsh taste. Formerly written ricinolic.
- English Word Ricinolein Definition The glycerin salt of ricinoleic acid, occuring as a characteristic constituent of castor oil; -- formerly called palmin.
- English Word Ricinolic Definition Ricinoleic.
- English Word Ricinus Definition A genus of plants of the Spurge family, containing but one species (R. communis), the castor-oil plant. The fruit is three-celled, and contains three large seeds from which castor oil iss expressed. See Palma Christi.
- English Word Rick Definition A stack or pile, as of grain, straw, or hay, in the open air, usually protected from wet with thatching.
- English Word Rick Definition To heap up in ricks, as hay, etc.
- English Word Ricker Definition A stout pole for use in making a rick, or for a spar to a boat.
- English Word Ricketish Definition Rickety.
- English Word Rickets Definition A disease which affects children, and which is characterized by a bulky head, crooked spine and limbs, depressed ribs, enlarged and spongy articular epiphyses, tumid abdomen, and short stature, together with clear and often premature mental faculties. The essential cause of the disease appears to be the nondeposition of earthy salts in the osteoid tissues. Children afflicted with this malady stand and walk unsteadily. Called also rachitis.
- English Word Rickety Definition Affected with rickets.
- English Word Rickety Definition Feeble in the joints; imperfect; weak; shaky.
- English Word Rickrack Definition A kind of openwork edging made of serpentine braid.
- English Word Rickstand Definition A flooring or framework on which a rick is made.
- English Word Ricochet Definition A rebound or skipping, as of a ball along the ground when a gun is fired at a low angle of elevation, or of a fiat stone thrown along the surface of water.
- English Word Ricochet Definition To operate upon by ricochet firing. See Ricochet, n.
- English Word Ricochet Definition To skip with a rebound or rebounds, as a flat stone on the surface of water, or a cannon ball on the ground. See Ricochet, n.
- English Word Ricochetted Definition of Ricochet
- English Word Ricochetting Definition of Ricochet
- English Word Rictal Definition Of or pertaining to the rictus; as, rictal bristles.
- English Word Ricture Definition A gaping.
- English Word Rictus Definition The gape of the mouth, as of birds; -- often resricted to the corners of the mouth.
- English Word Rid Definition imp. & p. p. of Ride, v. i.
- English Word Rid Definition of Rid
- English Word Rid Definition To save; to rescue; to deliver; -- with out of.
- English Word Rid Definition To free; to clear; to disencumber; -- followed by of.
- English Word Rid Definition To drive away; to remove by effort or violence; to make away with; to destroy.
- English Word Rid Definition To get over; to dispose of; to dispatch; to finish.