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- English Word Riglet Definition See Reglet.
- English Word Rigmarole Definition A succession of confused or nonsensical statements; foolish talk; nonsense.
- English Word Rigmarole Definition Consisting of rigmarole; frovolous; nonsensical; foolish.
- English Word Rigol Definition A circle; hence, a diadem.
- English Word Rigoll Definition A musical instrument formerly in use, consisting of several sticks bound together, but separated by beads, and played with a stick with a ball at its end.
- English Word Rigor Definition Rigidity; stiffness.
- English Word Rigor Definition A sense of chilliness, with contraction of the skin; a convulsive shuddering or tremor, as in the chill preceding a fever.
- English Word Rigor Definition The becoming stiff or rigid; the state of being rigid; rigidity; stiffness; hardness.
- English Word Rigor Definition See 1st Rigor, 2.
- English Word Rigor Definition Severity of climate or season; inclemency; as, the rigor of the storm; the rigors of winter.
- English Word Rigor Definition Stiffness of opinion or temper; rugged sternness; hardness; relentless severity; hard-heartedness; cruelty.
- English Word Rigor Definition Exactness without allowance, deviation, or indulgence; strictness; as, the rigor of criticism; to execute a law with rigor; to enforce moral duties with rigor; -- opposed to lenity.
- English Word Rigor Definition Severity of life; austerity; voluntary submission to pain, abstinence, or mortification.
- English Word Rigor Definition Violence; force; fury.
- English Word Rigorism Definition Rigidity in principle or practice; strictness; -- opposed to laxity.
- English Word Rigorism Definition Severity, as of style, or the like.
- English Word Rigorist Definition One who is rigorous; -- sometimes applied to an extreme Jansenist.
- English Word Rigorous Definition Manifesting, exercising, or favoring rigor; allowing no abatement or mitigation; scrupulously accurate; exact; strict; severe; relentless; as, a rigorous officer of justice; a rigorous execution of law; a rigorous definition or demonstration.
- English Word Rigorous Definition Severe; intense; inclement; as, a rigorous winter.
- English Word Rigorous Definition Violent.
- English Word Rigsdaler Definition A Danish coin worth about fifty-four cents. It was the former unit of value in Denmark.
- English Word Riksdaler Definition A Swedish coin worth about twenty-seven cents. It was formerly the unit of value in Sweden.
- English Word Rile Definition To render turbid or muddy; to stir up; to roil.
- English Word Rile Definition To stir up in feelings; to make angry; to vex.
- English Word Riled Definition of Rile
- English Word Rilievo Definition Same as Relief, n., 5.
- English Word Riling Definition of Rile
- English Word Rill Definition A very small brook; a streamlet.
- English Word Rill Definition See Rille.
- English Word Rill Definition To run a small stream.