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- English Word Ringlestone Definition The ringed dotterel, or ring plover.
- English Word Ringlet Definition A small ring; a small circle; specifically, a fairy ring.
- English Word Ringlet Definition A curl; especially, a curl of hair.
- English Word Ringman Definition The ring finger.
- English Word Ringmaster Definition One in charge of the performances (as of horses) within the ring in a circus.
- English Word Ringmen Definition of Ringman
- English Word Ringneck Definition Any one of several species of small plovers of the genus Aegialitis, having a ring around the neck. The ring is black in summer, but becomes brown or gray in winter. The semipalmated plover (Ae. semipalmata) and the piping plover (Ae. meloda) are common North American species. Called also ring plover, and ring-necked plover.
- English Word Ringneck Definition The ring-necked duck.
- English Word Ringsail Definition See Ringtail, 2.
- English Word Ringstraked Definition Ring-streaked.
- English Word Ringtail Definition A bird having a distinct band of color across the tail, as the hen harrier.
- English Word Ringtail Definition A light sail set abaft and beyong the leech of a boom-and-gaff sail; -- called also ringsail.
- English Word Ringtoss Definition A game in which the object is to toss a ring so that it will catch upon an upright stick.
- English Word Ringworm Definition A contagious affection of the skin due to the presence of a vegetable parasite, and forming ring-shaped discolored patches covered with vesicles or powdery scales. It occurs either on the body, the face, or the scalp. Different varieties are distinguished as Tinea circinata, Tinea tonsurans, etc., but all are caused by the same parasite (a species of Trichophyton).
- English Word Rink Definition The smooth and level extent of ice marked off for the game of curling.
- English Word Rink Definition An artificial sheet of ice, generally under cover, used for skating; also, a floor prepared for skating on with roller skates, or a building with such a floor.
- English Word Rinker Definition One who skates at a rink.
- English Word Rinking Definition Skating in a rink.
- English Word Rinse Definition To wash lightly; to cleanse with a second or repeated application of water after washing.
- English Word Rinse Definition To cleancse by the introduction of water; -- applied especially to hollow vessels; as, to rinse a bottle.
- English Word Rinse Definition The act of rinsing.
- English Word Rinsed Definition of Rinse
- English Word Rinser Definition One who, or that which, rinses.
- English Word Rinsing Definition of Rinse
- English Word Riot Definition Wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar; tumult.
- English Word Riot Definition Excessive and exxpensive feasting; wild and loose festivity; revelry.
- English Word Riot Definition The tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by an unlawful assembly of three or more persons in the execution of some private object.
- English Word Riot Definition To engage in riot; to act in an unrestrained or wanton manner; to indulge in excess of luxury, feasting, or the like; to revel; to run riot; to go to excess.
- English Word Riot Definition To disturb the peace; to raise an uproar or sedition. See Riot, n., 3.
- English Word Riot Definition To spend or pass in riot.