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- English Word Rap Definition To hasten.
- English Word Rap Definition To seize and bear away, as the mind or thoughts; to transport out of one's self; to affect with ecstasy or rapture; as, rapt into admiration.
- English Word Rap Definition To exchange; to truck.
- English Word Rap Definition A popular name for any of the tokens that passed current for a half-penny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value.
- English Word Rapaces Definition Same as Accipitres.
- English Word Rapacious Definition Given to plunder; disposed or accustomed to seize by violence; seizing by force.
- English Word Rapacious Definition Accustomed to seize food; subsisting on prey, or animals seized by violence; as, a tiger is a rapacious animal; a rapacious bird.
- English Word Rapacious Definition Avaricious; grasping; extortionate; also, greedy; ravenous; voracious; as, rapacious usurers; a rapacious appetite.
- English Word Rapacity Definition The quality of being rapacious; rapaciousness; ravenousness; as, the rapacity of pirates; the rapacity of wolves.
- English Word Rapacity Definition The act or practice of extorting or exacting by oppressive injustice; exorbitant greediness of gain.
- English Word Raparee Definition See Rapparee.
- English Word Rape Definition Fruit, as grapes, plucked from the cluster.
- English Word Rape Definition The refuse stems and skins of grapes or raisins from which the must has been expressed in wine making.
- English Word Rape Definition A filter containing the above refuse, used in clarifying and perfecting malt, vinegar, etc.
- English Word Rape Definition The act of seizing and carrying away by force; violent seizure; robbery.
- English Word Rape Definition Sexual connection with a woman without her consent. See Age of consent, under Consent, n.
- English Word Rape Definition That which is snatched away.
- English Word Rape Definition Movement, as in snatching; haste; hurry.
- English Word Rape Definition To commit rape upon; to ravish.
- English Word Rape Definition To rob; to pillage.
- English Word Rape Definition One of six divisions of the county of Sussex, England, intermediate between a hundred and a shire.
- English Word Rape Definition A name given to a variety or to varieties of a plant of the turnip kind, grown for seeds and herbage. The seeds are used for the production of rape oil, and to a limited extent for the food of cage birds.
- English Word Rapeful Definition Violent.
- English Word Rapeful Definition Given to the commission of rape.
- English Word Rapfully Definition Violently.
- English Word Raphaelesque Definition Like Raphael's works; in Raphael's manner of painting.
- English Word Raphaelism Definition The principles of painting introduced by Raphael, the Italian painter.
- English Word Raphaelite Definition One who advocates or adopts the principles of Raphaelism.
- English Word Raphany Definition A convulsive disease, attended with ravenous hunger, not uncommon in Sweden and Germany. It was so called because supposed to be caused by eating corn with which seeds of jointed charlock (Raphanus raphanistrum) had been mixed, but the condition is now known to be a form of ergotism.
- English Word Raphe Definition A line, ridge, furrow, or band of fibers, especially in the median line; as, the raphe of the tongue.