RI'ANT, adjective Laughing; exciting laughter. [Not anglicized.]

RIB, noun [Latin costa, signifies side, border, extremity.]

1. A bone of animal bodies which forms a part of the frame of the thorax. The ribs in the human body are twelve on each side, proceeding from the spine to the sternum, or towards it, and serving to inclose and protect the heart and lungs.

2. In ship building, a piece of timber which forms or strengthens the side of a ship.

RIBs of a parrel, are short pieces of plank, having holes through which are reeved the two parts of the parrel-rope.

3. In botany, the continuation of the petiole along the middle of a leaf, and from which the veins take their rise.

4. In cloth, a prominent line or rising, like a rib

5. Something long, thin and narrow; a strip.

RIB, verb transitive

1. To furnish with ribs. In manufactures, to form with rising lines and channels; as, to rib cloth; whence we say, ribbed cloth.

2. To inclose with ribs.

RIB'ALD, noun

A low, vulgar, brutal wretch; a lewd fellow.

RIB'ALD, adjective Low; base; mean.

RIB'ALDISH, adjective Disposed to ribaldry.

RIB'ALDRY, noun Mean, vulgar language; chiefly, obscene language.

RIB'AN, noun In heraldry, the eighth part of a bend.

RIB'BED, participle passive or adjective

1. Furnished with ribs; as ribbed with steel.

2. Inclosed as with ribs.

3. Marked or formed with rising lines and channels; as ribbed cloth.

RIB'IN, noun

1. A filet of silk; a narrow web of silk used for an ornament, as a badge, or for fastening some part of female dress.

2. In naval architecture, a long narrow flexible piece of timber, nailed upon the outside of the ribs from the stem to the sternpost, so as to encompass the ship lengthwise; the principal are the floor-ribin and the breadth-ribin.

RIB'IN, verb transitive To adorn with ribins.

RIB'ROAST, verb transitive [rib and roast.] To beat soundly; a burlesque word.

RIB'ROASTED, participle passive Soundly beaten.

RIB'ROASTING, participle present tense Beating soundly.

RIB'WORT, noun A plant of the genus Plantago.

RIC,

RICE, noun [Latin oryza; Gr.]

A plant of the genus Oryza, and its seed. The calyx is a bivalvular uniflorous glume; the corol bivalvular, nearly equal, and adhering to the seed. There is only one species. This plant is cultivated in all warm climates, and the grain forms a large portion of the food of the inhabitants. In America, it grows chiefly on low moist land, which can be overflowed. It is a light food, and said to be little apt to produce acidity in the stomach. Indeed it seems intended by the wise and benevolent Creator to be the proper food of men in warm climates.

RICE, n. [L. oryza; Gr.]

RICH, adjective [Latin rego, regnum, Eng. reach, region, from extending.]

1. Wealthy; opulent; possessing a large portion of land, goods or money, or a larger portion than is common to other men or to men of like rank. A farmer may be rich with property which would not make a nobleman rich An annual income of 500 sterling pounds would make a rich vicar, but not a rich bishop. Men more willingly acknowledge others to be richer, than to be wiser than themselves.

Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver and in gold.

Genesis 13:2.

2. Splendid; costly; valuable; precious; sumptuous; as a rich dress; a rich border; a rich silk; rich furniture; a rich present.

3. Abundant in materials; yielding great quantities of any thing valuable; as a rich mine; rich ore.

4. Abounding in valuable ingredients or qualities; as a rich odor or flavor; rich spices.

So we say, a rich description; a discourse rich in ideas.

5. Full of valuable achievements or works.

Each minute shall be rich in some great action.

6. Fertile; fruitful; capable of producing large crops or quantities; as a rich soil; rich land; rich mold.

7. Abundant; large; as a rich crop.

8. Abundant; affording abundance; plentiful.

The gorgeous East with richest hand pours on her sons barbaric pearl and gold.

9. Full of beautiful scenery; as a rich landscape; a rich prospect.

10. Abounding with elegant colors; as a rich picture.

11. Plentifully stocked; as pastures rich in flocks.

12. Strong; vivid; perfect; as a rich color.

13. Having something precious; as a grove of rich trees.

14. Abounding with nutritious qualities; as a rich diet.

15. Highly seasoned; as rich paste; a rich dish of food.

16. Abounding with a variety of delicious food; as a rich table or entertainment.

17. Containing abundance beyond wants; as a rich treasury.

18. In music, full of sweet or harmonious sounds.

19. In Scripture, abounding; highly endowed with spiritual gifts; as rich in faith. James 2:5.

20. Placing confidence in outward prosperity. Matthew 19:23.

21. Self-righteous; abounding, in one's own opinion, with spiritual graces. Revelation 3:17.

RICH in mercy, spoken of God, full of mercy, and ready to bestow good things on sinful men. Ephesians 2:4. Romans 10:12.

The rich used as a noun, denotes a rich man or person, or more frequently in the plural, rich men or persons.

The rich hath many friends. Proverbs 14:20.

RICH, verb transitive To enrich. [Not used. See Enrich.]

RICH'ED, participle passive Enriched. [Not used.]

RICH'ES, noun [This is in the singular number in fact, but treated as the plural.]

1. Wealth; opulence; affluence; possessions of land, good or money in abundance.

Riches do not consist in having more gold and silver, but in having more in proportion than our neighbors.

2. Splendid sumptuous appearance.

The riches of heav'n's pavement, trodden gold.

3. In Scripture, an abundance of spiritual blessings.

Luke 16:11.

The riches of God, his fullness of wisdom, power, mercy, grace and glory, Ephesians 1:7, 2; or the abundance supplied by his works. Psalms 104:24.

The riches of Christ, his abundant fullness of spiritual and eternal blessings for men. Ephesians 3:8.

The riches of a state or kingdom, consist less in a full treasury than in the productiveness of its soil and manufactures, and in the industry of its inhabitants.

RICH'LY, adverb

1. With riches; with opulence; with abundance of goods or estate; with ample funds; as a hospital richly endowed.

In Belmont is a lady richly left.

2. Gaily; splendidly; magnificently; as richly dressed; richly ornamented.

3. Plenteously; abundantly; amply as, to be richly paid for services. The reading of ancient authors will richly reward us for the perusal.

4. Truly; really; abundantly; fully; as a chastisement richly deserved.

RICH'NESS, noun

1. Opulence; wealth.

2. Finery; splendor.

3. Fertility; fecundity; fruitfulness; the qualities which render productive; as the richness of a oil.

4. Fullness; abundance; as the richness of a treasury.

5. Quality of abounding with something valuable; as the richness of a mine or an ore; the richness of milk or of cane-juice.

6. Abundance of any ingredient or quality; as the richness of spices or of fragrance.

7. Abundance of beautiful scenery; as the richness of a landscape or prospect.

8. Abundance of nutritious qualities; as the richness of diet.

9. Abundance of high seasoning; as the richness of cake.

10. Strength; vividness; or whatever constitutes perfection; as the richness of color or coloring.

11. Abundance of imagery or of striking ideas; as richness of description.

RICK, noun [Eng. ridge.]

A heap or pile of grain or hay in the field or open air, but sheltered with a kind of roof. In America, we usually give this name to a long pile; the round and conical pile being called stack. In the north of England, it is said this name is given to small piles of corn in the field.

RICK, as a termination, denotes jurisdiction, or a district over which government is exercised, as in bishopric. Latin rego, to rule, and region.

RIC, as a termination of names, denotes rich or powerful, as in Alfric, Fredrick, like the Greek Polycrates and Plutarchus. It is the first syllable of Richard. [See Rich.]

RICK'ETS, noun [In technical language, rachitis, Gr. from back or spine, Eng. rack, applied to the neck piece of meat. See Rack and Ridge.]

A disease which affects children, and in which the joints become knotted, and the legs and spine grow crooked. As the child advances in life, the head is enlarged, the thorax is compressed on the sides, and the sternum rises.

RICK'ETY, adjective

1. Affected with rickets.

2. Weak; feeble in the joints; imperfect.

RIC'OCHET, noun In gunnery, the firing of guns, mortars or howitzers with small charges, and elevated a few degrees, so as to carry the balls or shells just over the parapet, and cause them to roll along the opposite rampart. This is called ricochet-firing, and the batteries are called ricochet-batteries.

RID, pret of ride.

RID, verb transitive preterit tense rid; participle passive id.

1. To free; to deliver; properly, to separate, and thus to deliver or save.

That he might rid him out of their hands. Genesis 37:22.

I will rid you out of their bondage. Exodus 6:6.

2. To separate; to drive away.

I will rid evil beasts out of the land. Leviticus 26:6.

[This use is not common.]

3. To free; to clear; to disencumber; as, to rid one of his care. It is not easy to rid the sea of pirates.

Resolv'd at once to rid himself of pain.

4. To dispatch.

For willingness rids away.

5. To drive away; to remove by violence; to destroy.

Ah death's men! you have rid this sweet young prince.

RID, pp or adjective Free; clear; as, to be rid of trouble.

To get rid of, to free one's self.

RID'DANCE, noun

1. Deliverance; a setting free; as riddance from all adversity.

2. Disencumbrance.

3. The act of clearing away.

Thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field. Leviticus 23:22.

RID'DEN,

RID, participle passive of ride.

RID'DING, participle present tense Freeing; clearing; disencumbering.

RID'DLE, noun [See Cradle.]

An instrument for cleaning grain, being a large sieve with a perforated button, which permits the grain to pass through it, but retains the chaff.

RID'DLE, verb transitive To separate, as grain from the chaff with a riddle; as, to riddle wheat. [Note. The machines now used have nearly superseded the riddle ]

RID'DLE, noun [See Read.]

1. An enigma; something proposed for conjecture, or that is to be solved by conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition. Judges 14:12.

2. Any thing ambiguous or puzzling.

RID'DLE, verb transitive To solve; to explain; but we generally use unriddle, which is more proper.

Riddle me this, and guess him if you can.

RID'DLE, verb intransitive To speak ambiguously, obscurely or enigmatically.

RID'DLER, noun One who speaks ambiguously or obscurely.

RID'DLINGLY, adverb In the manner of a riddle; secretly.

RIDE, verb intransitive preterit tense rode or rid; participle passive rid, ridden. [L rheda, a chariot or vehicle.]

1. To be carried on horseback, or on any beast, or in any vehicle. We ride on a horse, on a camel, in a coach, chariot, wagon, etc.

2. To be borne on or in a fluid. A ship rides at anchor; the ark rode on the flood; a balloon rides in the air.

He rode on a cherub and did fly; yea, he did fly on the wings of the wind. Psalms 18:1.

3. To be supported in motion.

Strong as the axle-tree on which heaven rides.

4. To practice riding. He rides often for his health.

5. To manage a horse well.

He rode, he fenc'd, he mov'd with graceful ease.

6. To be supported by something subservient; to sit.

On whose foolish honesty my practices rid easy.

To ride easy, in seaman's language, is when a ship does not labor or feel a great strain on her cables.

To ride hard, is when a ship pitches violently, so as to strain her cables, masts and hull.

To ride out, as a gale, signifies that a ship does not drive during a storm.

RIDE, verb transitive

1. To sit on, so as to be carried; as, to ride a horse.

They ride the air in whirlwind.

2. To manage insolently at will; as in priestridden.

The nobility could no longer endure to be ridden by bakers, cobblers and brewers.

3. To carry. [Local.]

RIDE, noun

1. An excursion on horseback or in a vehicle.

2. A saddle horse. [Local.]

3. A road cut in a wood or through a ground for the amusement of riding; a riding.

RI'DER, noun

1. One who is borne on a horse or other beast, or in a vehicle.

2. One who breaks or manages a horse.

3. The matrix of an ore.

4. An inserted leaf or an additional clause, as to a bill in parliament.

5. In ship building, a short of interior rib fixed occasionally in a ships's hold, opposite to some of the timbers to which they are bolted, and reaching from the keelson to the beams of the lower deck, to strengthen her frame.

RIDGE, noun [Latin rugo.]

1. The back or top of the back.

2. A long or continued range of hills or mountains; or the upper part of such a range. We say, a long ridge of hills, or the highest ridge

3. A steep elevation, eminence or protuberance.

Part rise in crystal wall, or ridge direct.

4. A long rising land, or a strip of ground thrown up by a plow or left between furrows. Psalms 65:10.

5. The top of the roof of a building.

6. Any long elevation of land.

7. Ridges of a horse's mouth, are wrinkles or risings of flesh in the roof of the mouth.

RIDGE, verb transitive

1. To form a ridge; as bristles that ridge the back of a boar.

2. In tillage, to form into ridges with the plow. The farmers in Connecticut ridge their land for maize, leaving a balk between two ridges.

3. To wrinkle.

RIDG'IL,

RIDG'LING, noun The male of any beast half gelt.

RIDG'LING, n. The male of any beast half gelt.

RIDG'Y, adjective Having a ridge or ridges; rising in a ridge.

RID'ICULE, noun [Latin ridiculum, from rideo, to laugh or laugh at.]

1. Contemptuous laughter; laughter with some degree of contempt; derision. It expresses less than scorn. ridicule is aimed at what is not only laughable, but improper, absurd or despicable. Sacred subjects should never be treated with ridicule [See Ludicrous.]

Ridicule is too rough an entertainment for the polished and refined. It is banished from France, and is losing ground in England.

2. That species of writing which excites contempt with laughter. It differs from burlesque, which may excite laughter without contempt, or it may provoke derision.

Ridicule and derision are not exactly the same, as derision is applied to persons only, and ridicule to persons or things. We deride the man, but ridicule the man or his performances.

RID'ICULE, verb transitive

1. To laugh at with expressions of contempt; to deride.

2. To treat with contemptuous merriment; to expose to contempt or derision by writing.

RID'ICULE, adjective Ridiculous. [Not in use.]

RID'ICULED, participle passive Treated with laughter and contempt; derided.

RID'ICULER, noun One that ridicules.

RID'ICULING, participle present tense Laughing at in contempt; exposing to contempt and derision.

RIDIC'ULOUS, adjective [Latin ridiculus.]

That may justly excite laughter with contempt; as a ridiculous dress; ridiculous behavior. A fop and a dandy are ridiculous in their dress.

RIDIC'ULOUSLY, adverb In a manner worthy of contemptuous merriment; as a man ridiculously vain.

RIDIC'ULOUSNESS, noun The quality of being ridiculous; as the ridiculousness of worshiping idols.

RI'DING, participle present tense [from ride.]

1. Passing or traveling on a beast or in a vehicle; floating.

2. adjective Employed to travel on any occasion.

No suffragan bishop shall have more than one riding apparitor.

RI'DING, noun

1. A road cut in a wood or through a ground, for the diversion of riding therein.

2. [corrupted from trithing, third.] One of the three intermediate jurisdictions between a three and a hundred, into which the county of York, in England, is divided, anciently under the government of a reeve.

RIDOT'TO, noun [Latin reductus.]

1. A public assembly.

2. A musical entertainment consisting of singing and dancing, in the latter of which the whole company join.

RIE. [See Rye.]

RIFE, adjective [Heb. to multiply.]

Prevailing; prevalent. It is used of epidemic diseases.

The plague was then rife in Hungary.

RI'FELY, adverb Prevalently; frequently.

It was rifely reported that the Turks were coming in a great fleet.

RI'FENESS, noun Frequency; prevalence.

RIFF'RAFF, noun Sweepings; refuse.

RI'FLE, verb transitive [This is one of the family of rip, rive, reap, raffle, Latin rapio. Eng. rub, etc.]

1. To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away.

Till time shall rifle ev'ry youthful grace.

2. To strip; to rob; to pillage; to plunder.

You have rifled my master.

RI'FLE, noun [This word belongs to the family of rip, rive, Latin rapio, etc. supra. The word means primarily a channel or groove.]

A gun about the usual length and size of a musket, the inside of whose barrel is rifled, that is, grooved, or formed with spiral channels.

RI'FLE, verb transitive To groove; to channel.

RI'FLED, participle passive Seized and carried away by violence; pillaged; channeled.

RI'FLEMAN, noun A man armed with a rifle.

RI'FLER, noun A robber; one that seizes and bears away by violence.

RI'FLING, participle present tense Plundering; seizing and carrying away by violence; grooving.

RIFT, noun [from rive.] A cleft; a fissure; an opening made by riving or splitting.

RIFT, verb transitive to cleave; to rive; to split; as, to rift an oak or a rock.

RIFT, verb intransitive

1. to burst open; to split.

Timber - not apt to rift with ordnance.

2. to belch; to break wind. [Local.]

RIFT'ED, participle passive split; rent; cleft.

RIFT'ING, participle present tense splitting; cleaving; bursting.

RIG, noun A ridge, which see.

RIG, verb transitive

1. to dress; to put on; when applied to persons, not elegant, but rather a ludicrous word, to express the putting on of a gay, flaunting or unusual dress.

Jack was rigged out in his gold and silver lace, with a feather in his cap.

2. To furnish with apparatus or gear; to fit with tackling.

3. To rig a ship, in seamen's language, is to fit the shrouds, stays, braces, etc. to their respective masts and yards.

RIG, noun [See the Verb.]

1. Dress; also, bluster.

2. A romp; a wanton; a strumpet.

To run the rig to play a wanton trick.

To run the rig upon, to practice a sportive trick on.

RIG, verb intransitive to play the wanton.

RIGADOON', noun a gay brisk dance performed by one couple, and said to have been borrowed from Provdence in France.

RIGA'TION, noun [Latin rigatio, from rigo, Gr. See Rain.]

The act of watering; but irrigation is generally used.

RIG'GED, participle passive Dressed; furnished with shrouds, stays, etc. as a ship.

RIG'GER, noun One that rigs or dresses; one whose occupation is to fit the rigging of a ship.

RIG'GING, participle present tense Dressing; fitting with shrouds, braces, etc.

RIG'GING, noun Dress; tackle; particularly, the ropes which support the masts, extend and contract the sails, etc. of a ship. This is of two kinds, standing rigging as the shrouds and stays, and running rigging such as braces, sheets, halliards, clewlines, etc.

RIG'GISH, adjective Wanton; lewd. [Not in use.]

RIG'GLE, verb intransitive To move one way and the other. [See Wriggle.]

RIGHT, adjective rite. [Latin rectus, from the root of rego, properly to strain or stretch, whence straight.]

Properly; strained; stretched to straightness; hence,

1. Straight. A right line in geometry is the shortest line that can be drawn or imagined between two points. A right line may be horizontal, perpendicular, or inclined to the plane of the horizon.

2. In morals and religion, just; equitable; accordant to the standard of truth and justice or the will of God. That alone is right in the sight of God, which is consonant to his will or law; this being the only perfect standard of truth and justice. In social and political affairs, that is right which is consonant to the laws and customs of a country, provided these laws and customs are not repugnant to the laws of God. A man's intentions may be right though his actions may be wrong in consequence of a defect in judgment.

3. Fit; suitable; proper; becoming. In things indifferent, or which are regulated by no positive law, that is right which is best suited to the character, occasion or purpose, or which is fitted to produce some good effect. It is right for a rich man to dress himself and his family in expensive clothing, which it would not be right for a poor man to purchase. It is right for every man to choose his own time for eating or exercise.

RIGHT is a relative term; what may be right for one end, may be wrong for another.

4. Lawful; as the right heir of an estate.

5. True; not erroneous or wrong; according to fact.

If there be no prospect beyond the grave, the inference is certainly right 'let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.'

6. Correct; passing a true judgment; not mistaken or wrong.

You are right justice, and you weigh this well.

7. Not left; most convenient or dextrous; as the right hand, which is generally most strong or most convenient in use.

8. Most favorable or convenient.

The lady has been disappointed on the right side.

9. Properly placed, disposed or adjusted; orderly; well regulated.

10. Well performed, as an art or act.

11. Most direct; as the right way from London to Oxford.

12. Being on the same side as the right hand; as the right side.

13. Being on the right hand of a person whose face is towards the mouth of a river; as the right bank of the Hudson.

RIGHT, adverb

1. In a right or straight line; directly.

Let thine eyes look right on. Proverbs 4:11.

2. According to the law or will of God, or to the standard of truth and justice; as, to judge right

3. According to any rule of art.

You with strict discipline instructed right

4. According to fact or truth; as, to tell a story right

5. In a great degree; very; as right humble; right noble; right valiant. [Obsolescent or inelegant.]

6. It is prefixed to titles; as in right honorable; right reverend.

RIGHT, is used elliptically for it is right what you say is right it is true, etc.

RIGHT, cries his lordship.

On the right on the side with the right hand.

RIGHT, noun

1. Conformity to the will of God, or to his law, the perfect standard of truth and justice. In the literal sense, right is a straight line of conduct, and wrong a crooked one. right therefore is rectitude or straightness, and perfect rectitude is found only in an infinite Being and his will.

2. Conformity to human laws, or to other human standard of truth, propriety or justice. When laws are definite, right and wrong are easily ascertained and understood. In arts, there are some principles and rules which determine what is right In many things indifferent, or left without positive law, we are to judge what is right by fitness or propriety, by custom, civility or other circumstances.

3. Justice; that which is due or proper; as, to do right to every man.

Long love to her has borne the faithful knight, and well deserv'd had fortune done him right

4. Freedom from error; conformity with truth or fact.

Seldom your opinions err, your eyes are always in the right

5. Just claim; legal title; ownership; the legal power of exclusive possession and enjoyment. In hereditary monarchies, a right to the throne vests in the heir on the decease of the king. A deed vests the right of possession in the purchaser of land. right and possession are very different things. We often have occasion to demand and sue for rights not in possession.

6. Just claim by courtesy, customs, or the principles of civility and decorum. Every man has a right to civil treatment. The magistrate has a right to respect.

7. Just claim by sovereignty; prerogative. God, as the author of all things, has a right to govern and dispose of them at his pleasure.

8. That which justly belongs to one.

Born free, he sought his right

9. Property; interest.

A subject in his prince may claim a right

10. Just claim; immunity; privilege. All men have a right to the secure enjoyment of life, personal safety, liberty and property. We deem the right of trial by jury invaluable, particularly in the case of crimes. Rights are natural, civil, political, religious, personal, and public.

11. Authority; legal power. We have no right to disturb others in the enjoyment of their religious opinions.

12. In the United States, a tract of land; or a share or proportion of property, as in a mine or manufactory.

13. The side opposite to the left; as on the right Look to the right

1. To rights, in a direct line; straight. [Unusual.]

2. Directly; soon.

To set to rights,

To put to rights, to put into good order; to adjust; to regulate what is out of order.

Bill of rights, a list of rights; a paper containing a declaration of rights, or the declaration itself.

Writ of right a writ which lies to recover lands in fee simple, unjustly withheld from the true owner.

RIGHT, verb transitive

1. To do justice to; to relieve from wrong; as, to right an injured person.

2. In seamen's language, to right a ship, is to restore her to an upright position from a careen.

To right the helm, to place it in the middle of the ship.

RIGHT, verb intransitive To rise with the masts erect, as a ship.

RIGHTED, participle passive Relieved from injustice; set upright.

RIGHTEN, verb transitive To do justice to. obsolete

RIGHTEOUS, adjective ri'chus.

1. Just; accordant to the divine law. Applied to persons, it denotes one who is holy in heart, and observant of the divine commands in practice; as a righteous man. Applied to things, it denotes consonant to the divine will or to justice; as a righteous act. It is used chiefly in theology, and applied to God, to his testimonies and to his saints.

The righteous in Scripture, denote the servants of God, the saints.

2. Just; equitable; merited.

And I thy righteous doom will bless.

RIGHTEOUSLY, adverb ri'chusly. Justly; in accordance with the laws of justice; equitably; as a criminal righteously condemned.

Thou shalt judge the people righteously Psalms 67:4.

RIGHTEOUSNESS, noun ri'chusness.

1. Purity of heart and rectitude of life; conformity of heart and life to the divine law. righteousness as used in Scripture and theology, in which it is chiefly used, is nearly equivalent to holiness, comprehending holy principles and affections of heart, and conformity of life to the divine law. It includes all we call justice, honesty and virtue, with holy affections; in short, it is true religion.

2. Applied to God, the perfection or holiness of his nature; exact rectitude; faithfulness.

3. The active and passive obedience of Christ, by which the law of God is fulfilled. Daniel 9:7.

4. Justice; equity between man and man. Luke 1:75.

5. The cause of our justification.

The Lord our righteousness Jeremiah 23:6.

RIGHTER, noun One who sets right; one who does justice or redresses wrong.

RIGHTFUL, adjective

1. Having the right or just claim according to established laws; as the rightful heir to a throne or an estate.

2. Being by right, or by just claim; as a rightful lord; rightful property; rightful judge.

3. Just; consonant to justice; as a rightful cause; a rightful war.

RIGHTFULLY, adverb According to right, law or justice; as a title rightfully vested.

RIGHTFULNESS, noun

1. Justice; accordance with the rules of right; as the rightfulness of a claim to lands or tenements.

2. Moral rectitude.

But still although we fail of perfect rightfulness [Not usual.]

RIGHTING, participle passive Doing justice; to; setting upright.

RIGHTLY, adverb

1. According to justice; according to the divine will or moral rectitude; as duty rightly performed.

2. Properly; fitly; suitably; as a person rightly named.

3. According to truth or fact; not erroneously. He has rightly conjectured.

4. Honestly; uprightly.

5. Exactly.

Thou didst not rightly see.

6. Straightly; directly. [Not in use.]

RIGHTNESS, noun

1. Correctness; conformity to truth or to the divine will, which is the standard of moral rectitude. It is important that a man should have such persuasion of the rightness of his conscience as to exclude rational doubt.

2. Straightness; as the rightness of a line.

RIG'ID, adjective [Gr. to be stiff; Latin frigeo, frigidus; Heb. to be still, to be stiff.]

1. Stiff; not pliant; not easily bent. It is applied to bodies or substances that are naturally soft or flexible, but not fluid. We never say, a rigid stone or rigid iron, nor do we say, rigid ice; but we say, an animal body or limb, when cold, is rigid rigid is then opposed to flexible, but expresses less than inflexible.

2. Strict in opinion, practice or discipline; severe in temper; opposed to lax or indulgent; as a rigid father or master; a rigid officer.

3. Strict; exact; as a rigid law or rule; rigid discipline; rigid criticism.

4. Severely just; as a rigid sentence or judgment.

5. Exactly according to the sentence or law; as rigid execution.

RIGID'ITY, noun [Latin rigiditas.]

1. Stiffness; want of pliability; the quality of not being easily bent.

2. A brittle hardness, as opposed to ductibility, malleability and softness.

3. Stiffness of appearance or manner; want of ease or airy elegance.

RIG'IDLY, adverb

1. Stuffy; unpliantly.

2. Severely; strictly; exactly; without laxity, indulgence or abatement; as, to judge rigidly; to criticize rigidly; to execute a law rigidly

RIG'IDNESS, noun

1. Stiffness of a body; the quality of not being easily bent; as the rigidness of a limb or of flesh.

2. Severity of temper; strictness in opinion or practice; but expressing less than inflexibility.

RIG'LET, noun [Latin regula, rego.] a flat thin piece of wood, used for picture frames; also used in printing; to regulate the margin, 7c.

RIG'MAROLE, noun a repetition of stories; a succession of stories.

RIG'OL, noun A circle; a diadem.

RIG'OLI, noun a musical instrument consisting of several sticks bound together, but separated by beads.

RIG'OR, noun [Latin from rigeo, to be stiff.

1. Stiffness; rigidness; as Gorgonian rigor

2. In medicine, a sense of chilliness, with contradiction of the skin; a convulsive shuddering or slight tremor, as in the cold fit of a fever.

3. Stiffness of opinion or temper; severity; sternness.

All his rigor is turned to grief and pity.

4. Severity of life; austerity; voluntary submission to pain, abstinence or mortification.

5. Strictness; exactness without allowance, latitude or indulgence; as the rigor of criticism; to execute a law with rigor; to enforce moral duties with rigor

6. violence; fury. [Not in use.]

7. Hardness; solidity. [Unusual.]

8. Severity; asperity; as the rigors of a cold winter.

RIG'OROUS, adjective

1. Severe; allowing no abatement or mitigation; as a rigorous officer of justice.

2. Severe; exact; strict; without abatement or relaxation; as a rigorous execution of law; an enforcement of rigorous discipline.

3. Exact; strict; scrupulously accurate; as a rigorous definition or demonstration.

4. Severe; very cold; as a rigorous winter.

RIG'OROUSLY, adverb

1. Severely; without relaxation, abatement or mitigation; as a sentence rigorously executed.

2. Strictly; exactly; with scrupulous nicety; rigidly.

The people would examine his works more vigorously than himself.

RIG'OROUSNESS, noun

1. Severity without relaxation or mitigation; exactness.

2. Severity

RILL, noun

A small brook; a rivulet; a streamlet.

RILL, verb intransitive to run in a small stream, or in streamlets.

RILL'ET, noun A small stream; a rivulet.

RIM, noun

1. the border, edge or margin of a thing; as the rim of a kettle or bason; usually applied to things circular or curving.

2. the lower part of the belly or abdomen.

RIM, verb transitive to put on a rim or hoop at the border.

RIME, noun This is the more correct orthography, but rhyme is commonly used, which see.]

RIME, noun

White or hoar frost; congealed dew or vapor.

RIME, noun [Latin rima.]

A chink; a fissure; a rent or long aperture. [Not in use.]

RIME, verb intransitive to freeze or congeal into hoar frost.

RIME, noun [The deduction of this word from the Greek is a palpable error. The true orthography is rime or ryme; but as rime is hoar frost, and rhyme gives the true pronunciation, it may be convenient to continue the present orthography.

1. In poetry, the correspondence of sounds in the terminating words or syllables of two verses, one of which succeeds the other immediately, or at no great distance.

For rhyme with reason may dispense, and sound has right to govern sense.

To constitute this correspondence in single words or in syllables, it is necessary that the vowel, and the final articulations or consonants, should be the same, or have nearly the same sound. The initial consonants may be different, as in find and mind, new and drew, cause and laws.

2. A harmonical succession of sounds.

The youth with songs and rhymes, some dance, and some haul the rope.

3. Poetry; a poem.

He knew himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.

4. A word of sound to answer to another word.

Rhyme or reason, number or sense.

But from that time unto this season, I had neither rhyme nor reason.

RHYME, verb intransitive

1. To accord in sound.

But fagoted his notions as they fell, and if they rhym'd and rattl'd, all was well.

2. To make verses.

There march'd the bard and blockhead side by side, who rhym'd for hire, and patroniz'd for pride.

RHYME, verb transitive To put into rhyme.

RI'MOSE,

RI'MOUS, adjective [Latin rimosus, from rima.] In botany, chinky; abounding with clefts, cracks or chinks; as the bark of trees.

RI'MOUS, a. [L. rimosus, from rima.] In botany, chinky; abounding with clefts, cracks or chinks; as the bark of trees.

RIM'PLE, noun A fold or wrinkle. [See rumple.]

RIM'PLE, verb transitive To rumple; to wrinkle.

RIM'PLING, noun Undulation.

RI'MY, adjective [from rime.] Abounding with rime; frosty.

RIND, noun [Gr.]

The bark of a plant; the skin or coat of fruit that may be pared or peeled off; also, the inner bark of trees.

RIND, verb transitive To bark; to decorticate. [Not in use.]

RIN'DLE, noun A small water course or gutter.

RING, noun

1. A circle, or a circular line, or any thing in the form of a circular line or hoop. Thus we say of men, they formed themselves into a ring to see a wrestling match. Rings of gold were made for the ark. Exodus 25:12. Rings of gold or other material are worn on the fingers and sometimes in the ears, as ornaments.

2. A circular course.

Place me, O place me in the dusty ring where youthful charioteers contend for glory.

RING, noun [from the verb.]

1. A sound; particularly, the sound of metals; as the ring of a bell.

2. Any loud sound, or the sounds of numerous voices; or sound continued, repeated or reverberated; as the ring of acclamations.

3. A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.

RING, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive rung.

To cause to sound, particularly by striking a metallic body; as, to ring a bell. This word expresses appropriately the sounding of metals.

RING, verb transitive [from the noun.

1. To encircle.

2. To fit with rings, as the fingers, or as a swine's snout. Farmers ring swine to prevent their rooting.

And ring these fingers with thy household worms.

RING, verb intransitive

1. To sound, as a bell or other sonorous body, particularly a metallic one.

2. To practice the art of making music with bells.

3. To sound; to resound.

With sweeter notes each rising temple rung.

4. To utter, as a bell; to sound.

The shardborn beetle with his drowsy hums, hath rung night's yawning peal.

5. To tinkle; to have the sensation of sound continued.

My ears still ring with noise.

6. To be filled with report or talk. The whole town rings with his fame.

RING'DOVE, noun A species of pigeon, the Columba palumbus, the largest of the European species.

RING'ENT, adjective [Latin ringor, to make wry faces, that is, to wring or twist.]

In botany, a ringent or labiate corol is one which is irregular, monopetalous, with the border usually divided into two parts called the upper and lower lip; or irregular and gaping, like the mouth of an animal.

RING'ER, noun One who rings. [In the sense of wringer, not used.]

RING'ING, participle present tense Causing to sound, as a bell; sounding; fitting with rings.

RING'ING, noun The act of sounding or of causing to sound.

RING'LEAD, verb transitive To conduct. [Little used.]

RING'LEADER, noun [ring and leader.] The leader of any association of men engaged in violating of law or an illegal enterprise, as rioters, mutineers and the like. this name is derived from the practice which men associating to oppose law have sometimes adopted, of signing their names to articles of agreement in a ring, that no one of their number might be distinguished as the leader.

RING'LET, noun

1. A small ring.

2. A curl; particularly, a curl of hair.

Her golden tresses in wanton ringlets wav'd

3. A circle.

To dance our ringlets in the whistling wind.

RING'-OUSEL, noun A bird of the genus Turdus, inhabiting the hilly and mountainous parts of Great Britain.

RINSE, verb transitive rins. [Our common people pronounce this word rens, retaining their native pronunciation. This is one of a thousand instances in which the purity of our vernacular language has been corrupted by those who have understood French better than their mother tongue.]

1. To wash; to cleanse by washing. But in present usage,

2. To cleanse with a second or repeated application of water, after washing. We distinguish washing from rinsing. Washing is performed by rubbing, or with the use of soap; rinsing is performed with clean water, without much rubbing or the use of soap. Clothes are rinsed by dipping and dashing; and vessels are rinsed by dashing water on them, or by slight rubbing. A close barrel may be rinsed, but cannot well be washed.

RINS'ED, participle passive Cleansed with a second water; cleaned.

RINS'ER, noun One that rinses.

RINS'ING, participle present tense Cleansing with a second water.

RI'OT, noun

1. In a general sense, tumult; uproar; hence technically, in law, a riotous assembling of twelve persons or more, and not dispersing upon proclamation.

The definition of riot must depend on the laws. In Connecticut, the assembling of three persons or more, to do an unlawful act by violence against the person or property of another, and not dispersing upon proclamation, is declared to be a riot In Massachusetts and New Hampshire, the number necessary to constitute a riot is twelve.

2. Uproar; wild and noisy festivity.

3. Excessive and expensive feasting. 2 Peter 2:13.

4. Luxury.

The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today.

To run riot to act or move without control or restraint.

RI'OT, verb intransitive

1. To revel; to run to excess in feasting, drinking or other sensual indulgences.

2. To luxuriate; to be highly excited.

No pulse that riots, and no blood that glows.

3. To banquet; to live in luxury; to enjoy.

How base is the ingratitude which forgets the benefactor, while it is rioting on the benefit!

4. To raise an uproar or sedition.

RI'OTER, noun

1. One who indulges in loose festivity or excessive feasting.

2. In law, one guilty of meeting with others to do an unlawful act, and declining to retire upon proclamation.

RI'OTING, participle present tense Reveling; indulging in excessive feasting.

RI'OTING, noun A reveling.

RI'OTISE, noun Dissoluteness; luxury. [Not in use.]

RI'OTOUS, adjective

1. Luxurious; wanton or licentious in festive indulgences; as riotous eaters of flesh. Proverbs 23:20.

2. Consisting of riot; tumultuous; partaking of the nature of an unlawful assembly; seditious.

3. Guilty of riot; applied to persons.

RI'OTOUSLY, adverb

1. With excessive or licentious luxury.

2. In the manner of an unlawful assembly; tumultuously; seditiously.

RI'OTOUSNESS, noun The state or quality of being riotous.

RIP, verb transitive [Latin rapio. Eng. reap and rive; allied perhaps to the Latin crepo.]

1. To separate by cutting or tearing; to tear or cut open or off; to tear off or out by violence; as, to rip open a garment by cutting the stitches; to rip off the skin of a beast; to rip open a sack; to rip off the shingles or clapboards of a house; to rip up a floor. We never use lacerate in these senses, but apply it to a partial tearing of the skin and flesh.

2. To take out or away by cutting or tearing.

He'll rip the fatal secret from her heart.

3. To tear up for search or disclosure or for alteration; to search to the bottom; with up.

You rip up the original of Scotland.

They ripped up all that had been done from the beginning of the rebellion.

4. To rip out, as an oath. [L crepo.]

RIP, noun

1. A tearing; a place torn; laceration.

2. A wicker basket to carry fish in.

3. Refuse. [Not in use or local.]

RIPE, adjective

1. Brought to perfection in growth or to the best state; mature; fit for use; as ripe fruit; ripe corn.

2. Advanced to perfection; matured; as ripe judgment, or ripe in judgment.

3. Finished; consummate; as a ripe scholar.

4. Brought to the point of taking effect; matured; ready; prepared; as things just ripe for war.

5. Fully qualified by improvement; prepared; as a student ripe for the university; a saint ripe for heaven.

6. Resembling the ripeness of fruit; as a ripe lip.

7. Complete; proper for use.

When time is ripe

8. Maturated; suppurated; as an abscess or tumor.

RIPE, verb intransitive To ripen; to grow ripe; to be matured. [Not used. See Ripen.]

RIPE, verb transitive To mature; to ripen. [Not used.]

RI'PELY, adverb Maturely; at the fit time.

RIPEN, verb intransitive ri'pn.

1. To grow ripe; to be matured; as grain or fruit. Grain ripens best in dry weather.

2. To approach or come to perfection; to be fitted or prepared; as, a project is ripening for execution.

RIPEN, verb transitive ri'pn.

1. To mature; to make ripe; as grain or fruit.

2. To mature; to fit or prepare; as, to ripen one for heaven.

3. To bring to perfection; as, to ripen the judgment.

RI'PENESS, noun

1. The state of being ripe or brought to that state of perfection which fits for use; maturity; as the ripeness of grain.

2. Full growth.

Time which made them their fame outlive, to Cowley scarce did ripeness give.

3. Perfection; completeness; as the ripeness of virtue, wisdom or judgment.

4. Fitness; qualification.

5. Complete maturation or suppuration, as of an ulcer or abscess.

6. A state of preparation; as the ripeness of a project for execution.

RIPHE'AN, adjective An epithet given to certain mountains in the north of Asia, probably signifying snowy mountains.

RIP'IER,

RIP'PED, participle passive Torn or cut off or out; torn open.

RIP'PER, noun One who tears or cuts open.

RIP'PED, pp. Torn or cut off or out; torn open.

RIP'PER, noun In old laws, one who brings fish to market in the inland country.

RIP'PING, participle present tense Cutting or tearing off or open; tearing up.

RIP'PING, noun

1. A tearing.

2. A discovery. obsolete

RIP'PLE, verb intransitive

To fret on the surface; as water when agitated or running over a rough bottom, appears rough and broken, or as if ripped or torn.

RIP'PLE, verb transitive

1. To clean, as flax.

2. To agitate the surface of water.

RIP'PLE, noun

1. The fretting of the surface of water; little curling waves.

2. A large comb or hatchel for cleaning flax.

RIP'PLING, participle present tense Fretting on the surface.

RIP'PLING, noun

1. The ripple dashing on the shore, or the noise of it.

2. The act or method of cleaning flax; a hatcheling.

RIPT, participle passive for ripped.

RIP'TOWELL, noun A gratuity given to tenants after they had reaped their lord's corn.

RISE, verb intransitive rize. preterit tense rose; participle passive risen; pronoun rose, rizn. [See Raise.]

1. To move to pass upward in any manner; to ascend; as, a fog rises from a river or from low ground; a fish rises in water; fowls rise in the air; clouds rise from the horizon towards the meridian; a balloon rises above the clouds.

2. To get up; to leave the place of sleep or rest; as, to rise from bed.

3. To get up or move from any recumbent to an erect posture; as, to rise after a fall.

4. To get up from a seat; to leave a sitting posture; as, to rise from a sofa or chair.

5. To spring; to grow; as a plant; hence, to be high or tall. A tree rises to the height of 60 feet.

6. To swell in quantity or extent; to be more elevated; as, a river rises after a rain.

7. To break forth; to appear; as, a boil rises on the skin.

8. To appear above the horizon; to shine; as, the sun or a star rises.

He maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good. Matthew 5:45.

9. To begin to exist; to originate; to come into being or notice. Great evils sometimes rise from small imprudences.

10. To be excited; to begin to move or act; as, the wind rose at 12 o'clock.

11. To increase in violence. The wind continued to rise till 3 o'clock.

12. To appear in view; as, to rise up to the reader's view.

13. To appear in sight; also, to appear more elevated; as in sailing towards a shore, the land rises.

14. To change a station; to leave a place; as, to rise from a siege.

15. To spring; to be excited or produced. A thought now rises in my mind.

16. To gain elevation in rank, fortune or public estimation; to be promoted. Men may rise by industry, by merit, by favor, or by intrigue.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

When the wicked rise men hide themselves. Proverbs 28:12.

17. To break forth into public commotions; to make open opposition to government; or to assemble and oppose government; or to assemble in arms for attacking another nation. The Greeks have risen against their oppressors.

No more shall nation against nation rise

18. To be excited or roused into action.

RISE up to the battle. Jeremiah 49:14.

19. To make a hostile attack; as when a man riseth against his neighbor. Deuteronomy 22:1.

Also, to rebel. 2 Samuel 18:32.

20. To increase; to swell; to grow more or greater. A voice, feeble at first, rises to thunder. The price of good rises. The heat rises to intensity.

21. To be improved; to recover from depression; as, a family may rise after misfortune to opulence and splendor.

22. To elevate the style or manner; as, to rise in force of expression; to rise in eloquence.

23. To be revived from death.

The dead in Christ shall rise first. 1 Thessalonians 4:16.

24. To come by chance.

25. To ascend; to be elevated above the level or surface; as, the ground rises gradually one hundred yards. The Andes rise more than 20, 000 feet above the level of the ocean; a mountain in Asia is said to rise still higher.

26. To proceed from.

A scepter shall rise out of Israel. Numbers 24:17.

27. To have its sources in. Rivers rise in lakes, ponds and springs.

28. To be moved, roused, excited, kindled or inflamed, as passion. His wrath rose to rage.

29. To ascend in the diatonic scale; as, to rise a tone or semitone.

30. To amount. The public debt rises to a hundred million.

31. To close a session. We say, congress will rise on the 4th of March; the legislature or the court will rise on a certain day.

This verb is written also arise, which see. In general, it is indifferent which orthography is used; but custom has, in some cases, established one to the exclusion of the other. Thus we never say, the price of goods arises, when we mean advanced, but we always say, the price rises. We never say, the ground arises to a certain altitude, and rarely, a man arises into an office or station. It is hardly possible to class or define the cases in which usage has established a difference in the orthography of this verb.

RISE, noun rise

1. The act of rising, either in a literal or figurative sense; ascent; as the rise of vapor in the air; the rise of mercury in the barometer; the rise of water in a river.

2. The act of springing or mounting from the ground; as the rise of the feet in leaping.

3. Ascent; elevation, or degree of ascent; as the rise of a hill or mountain.

4. Spring; source; origin; as the rise of a stream in a mountain. All sin has its rise in the heart.

5. Any place elevated above the common level; as a rise of land.

6. Appearance above the horizon; as the rise of the sun or a star.

7. Increase; advance; as a rise in the price of wheat.

8. Advance in rank, honor, property or fame. Observe a man after his rise to office, or a family after its rise from obscurity.

9. Increase of sound on the same key; a swelling of the voice.

10. Elevation or ascent of the voice in the diatonic scale; as a rise of a tone or semitone.

11. Increase; augmentation.

12. A bough or branch. [Not in use.]

RIS'EN, participle passive [See Rise.]

RI'SER, noun

1. One that rises; as an early riser

2. Among joiners, the upright board of a stair.

RISIBIL'ITY, noun [from risible.]

1. The quality of laughing, or of being capable of laughter. risibility is peculiar to the human species.

2. Proneness to laugh.

RI'SIBLE, adjective [Latin risibilis, from rideo, risi, to laugh. See Ridiculous.]

1. Having the faculty or power of laughing. Man is a risible animal.

2. Laughable; capable of exciting laughter. The description of Falstaff in Shakespeare, exhibits a risible scene. risible differs from ludicrous, as species from genus; ludicrous expressing that which is playful and sportive; risible that which may excite laughter. risible differs from ridiculous, as the latter implies something mean or contemptible, and risible does not.

RI'SING, participle present tense

1. Getting up; ascending; mounting; springing; proceeding from; advancing; swelling; increasing; appearing above the horizon; reviving from death, etc.

2. Increasing in wealth, power or distinction; as a rising state; a rising character.

RI'SING, noun

1. The act of getting up from any recumbent or sitting posture.

2. The act of ascending; as the rising of vapor.

3. The act of closing a session, as of a public body; as the rising of the legislature.

4. The appearance of the sun or a star above the horizon.

5. The act of reviving from the dead; resurrection.

Mark 9:10.

6. A tumor on the body. Leviticus 13:2.

7. An assembling in opposition to government; insurrection; sedition or mutiny.

RISK, noun

1. Hazard; danger; peril; exposure to harm. He, at the risk of his life, saved a drowning man.

2. In commerce, the hazard of loss, either of ship, goods or other property. Hence, risk signifies also the degree of hazard or danger; for the premiums of insurance are calculated upon the risk The underwriters now take risks at a low premium.

To run a risk is to incur hazard; to encounter danger.

RISK, verb transitive

1. To hazard; to endanger; to expose to injury or loss; as, to risk goods on board of a ship; to risk one's person in battle; to risk one's fame by a publication; to risk life in defense of rights.

2. To venture; to dare to undertake; as, to risk a battle or combat.

RISK'ED, participle passive Hazarded; exposed to injury or loss.

RISK'ER, noun One who hazards.

RISK'ING, participle present tense Hazarding; exposing to injury or loss.

RISSE, obsolete preterit tense of rise.

RITE, noun [Latin ritus.]

The manner of performing divine or solemn service as established by law, precept or custom; formal act of religion, or other solemn duty. The rites of the Israelites were numerous and expensive; the rites of modern churches are more simple. Funeral rites are very different in different countries. The sacrament is a holy rite

RITORNEL'LO, noun

In music, a repeat; the burden of a song, or the repetition of a verse or strain.

RIT'UAL, adjective

1. Pertaining to rites; consisting of rites; as ritual service or sacrifices.

2. Prescribing rites; as the ritual law.

RIT'UAL, noun A book containing the rites to be observed, or the manner of performing divine service in a particular church, diocese or the like.

RIT'UALIST, noun One skilled in the ritual.

RIT'UALLY, adverb By rites; or by a particular rite.

RIV'AGE, noun A bank, shore or coast. [Not in use.]

RI'VAL, noun [Latin rivalis; Heb. to contend, to strive. See Raffle.]

1. One who is in pursuit of the same object as another; one striving to reach or obtain something which another is attempting to obtain, and which one only can possess; a competitor; as rivals in love; rivals for a crown. Love will not patiently bear a rival

2. One striving to equal or exceed another in excellence; as two rivals in eloquence.

3. An antagonist; a competitor in any pursuit or strife.

RI'VAL, adjective Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority; as rival lovers; rival claims or pretensions.

Equal in years and rival in renown.

RI'VAL, verb transitive

1. To stand in competition with; to strive to gain the object which another is contending for; as, to rival one in love.

2. To strive to equal or excel; to emulate.

To rival thunder in its rapid course.

RI'VAL, verb intransitive To be competitors. [Not in use.]

RIVAL'ITY, noun Rivalry. [Not in use.]

RI'VALRY, noun [from rival.] Competition; a strife or effort to obtain an object which another is pursuing; as rivalry in love; or an endeavor to equal or surpass another in some excellence; emulation; as rivalry for superiority at the bar or in the senate.

RI'VALSHIP, noun

1. The state or character of a rival.

2. Strife; contention for superiority; emulation; rivalry.

RIVE, verb transitive preterit tense rived; participle passive rived or riven. [Latin rumpo, rupi. It may be allied to the family of Latin rapio, reap, rip.]

To split; to cleave; to rend asunder by force; as, to rive timber for rails or shingles with wedges; the riven oak; the riven clouds.

The scolding winds have riv'd the knotty oaks.

RIVE, verb intransitive To be split or rent asunder.

Freestone rives, splits and breaks in any direction.

RIV'EL, verb transitive [This word is obsolete, but shrivel, from the same root, is in use. It may be allied to ruffle.]

To contract into wrinkles; to shrink; as riveled fruits; riveled flowers.

RIV'EN, participle passive of rive. Split; rent or burst asunder.

RI'VER, noun One who rives or splits.

RIV'ER, noun [Latin rivus, rivulus, rips.]

1. A large stream of water flowing in a channel on land towards the ocean, a lake or another river It is larger than a rivulet or brook; but is applied to any stream from the size of a mill-stream to that of the Danube, Maranon and Mississippi. We give this name to large streams which admit the tide and mingle salt water with fresh, as the rivers Hudson, Delaware and St. Lawrence.

2. A large stream; copious flow; abundance; as rivers of blood; rivers of oil

RIV'ERET, noun A small river. [Not in use.]

RIV'ET, verb transitive [Heb. to drive.]

1. To fasten with a rivet or with rivets; as, to rivet two pieces of iron.

2. To clinch; as, to rivet a pin or bolt.

3. To fasten firmly; to make firm, strong or immovable; as, to rivet friendship or affection.

RIV'ET, noun a pin of iron or other metal with a head, driven through a piece of timber or metal, and the point bent or spread and beat down fast, to prevent its being drawn out; or a pin or bolt clinched at both ends.

RIV'ETED, participle passive Clinched; made fast.

RIV'ETING, participle present tense Clinching; fastening firmly.

RIV'ULET, noun [Latin rivulus.] A small stream or book; a streamlet.

By fountain or by shady rivulet he sought them.

RIXA'TION, noun [Latin rixatio, from rixor, to brawl or quarrel.]

A brawl or quarrel. [Not in use.]