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- English Word Riding Definition A festival procession.
- English Word Riding Definition Same as Ride, n., 3.
- English Word Riding Definition A district in charge of an excise officer.
- English Word Ridotto Definition A favorite Italian public entertainment, consisting of music and dancing, -- held generally on fast eves.
- English Word Ridotto Definition To hold ridottos.
- English Word Rie Definition See Rye.
- English Word Rief Definition Robbery.
- English Word ries Definition of Lachrymatory
- English Word Rietboc Definition The reedbuck, a South African antelope (Cervicapra arundinacea); -- so called from its frequenting dry places covered with high grass or reeds. Its color is yellowish brown. Called also inghalla, and rietbok.
- English Word Rife Definition Prevailing; prevalent; abounding.
- English Word Rife Definition Having power; active; nimble.
- English Word Riffle Definition A trough or sluice having cleats, grooves, or steps across the bottom for holding quicksilver and catching particles of gold when auriferous earth is washed; also, one of the cleats, grooves, or steps in such a trough. Also called ripple.
- English Word Riffler Definition A curved file used in carving wool and marble.
- English Word Riffraff Definition Sweepings; refuse; the lowest order of society.
- English Word Rifle Definition To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.
- English Word Rifle Definition To strip; to rob; to pillage.
- English Word Rifle Definition To raffle.
- English Word Rifle Definition To raffle.
- English Word Rifle Definition To commit robbery.
- English Word Rifle Definition A gun, the inside of whose barrel is grooved with spiral channels, thus giving the ball a rotary motion and insuring greater accuracy of fire. As a military firearm it has superseded the musket.
- English Word Rifle Definition A body of soldiers armed with rifles.
- English Word Rifle Definition A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes.
- English Word Rifle Definition To grove; to channel; especially, to groove internally with spiral channels; as, to rifle a gun barrel or a cannon.
- English Word Rifle Definition To whet with a rifle. See Rifle, n., 3.
- English Word Riflebird Definition Any one of several species of beautiful birds of Australia and New Guinea, of the genera Ptiloris and Craspidophora, allied to the paradise birds.
- English Word Rifled Definition of Rifle
- English Word Rifleman Definition of Rifleman
- English Word Rifleman Definition A soldier armed with a rifle.
- English Word Rifler Definition One who rifles; a robber.
- English Word Rifling Definition of Rifle