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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.