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- 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.
- English Word Raphe Definition Same as Rhaphe.
- English Word Raphides Definition See Rhaphides.
- English Word Rapid Definition Very swift or quick; moving with celerity; fast; as, a rapid stream; a rapid flight; a rapid motion.
- English Word Rapid Definition Advancing with haste or speed; speedy in progression; in quick sequence; as, rapid growth; rapid improvement; rapid recurrence; rapid succession.
- English Word Rapid Definition Quick in execution; as, a rapid penman.
- English Word Rapid Definition The part of a river where the current moves with great swiftness, but without actual waterfall or cascade; -- usually in the plural; as, the Lachine rapids in the St. Lawrence.
- English Word Rapidity Definition The quality or state of being rapid; swiftness; celerity; velocity; as, the rapidity of a current; rapidity of speech; rapidity of growth or improvement.
- English Word Rapidly Definition In a rapid manner.
- English Word Rapidness Definition Quality of being rapid; rapidity.
- English Word Rapier Definition A straight sword, with a narrow and finely pointed blade, used only for thrusting.