Name Report For First Name RUTE:

RUTE

First name RUTE's origin is Scandinavian. RUTE means "beautiful". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with RUTE below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of rute.(Brown names are of the same origin (Scandinavian) with RUTE and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)

Rhymes with RUTE - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming RUTE

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES RUTE AS A WHOLE:

 

NAMES RHYMING WITH RUTE (According to last letters):

Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ute) - Names That Ends with ute:

manute

Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (te) - Names That Ends with te:

amanishakhete linette florete maledysaunte tote suette annemette bergitte astarte agate bradamate huette josette pierrette yolette bernadette amphitrite anaxarete aphrodite arete ate calliste fate hippolyte ocypete tienette vedette volante dete baptiste mette dante wambli-waste adette amette amite anate anjanette anjeanette annette annjeanette antoinette araminte argante ariette ariste arlette babette bemadette bernette bette birte bridgette brigette brigitte brite cate celeste chante chariste charlette charlotte chaunte clarette colette collette comforte danette davite dawnette diamante elberte ellette enite evette georgette georgitte ginnette hanriette harriette hecate hugette hughette idette ivette jaenette janette jaquenette jeanette jenette johnette jonette juliette kannelite kate kinnette lanette laurette linnette

NAMES RHYMING WITH RUTE (According to first letters):

Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (rut) - Names That Begins with rut:

ruta rutger ruth rutherford ruthie rutledge rutley

Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ru) - Names That Begins with ru:

ruadhagan ruadhan ruadson ruaidhri ruairidh ruanaidh ruarc ruark ruben rubie ruby ruck rudd ruddy rudella rudelle rudiger rudo rudrani rudy rudyard rueban ruelle rufa ruff ruffe rufford rufina rufio rufo ruford rugby ruhdugeard ruhleah rui rukan rule ruma rumford rune runihura ruodrik ruomhildi rupert rupetta rupette ruprecht ruqaya ruqayyah rusalka rush rushe rushford rushkin russ russel russell russu rust rusty ruusu ruwaydah ruza

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH RUTE:

First Names which starts with 'r' and ends with 'e':

rachele rachelle radbourne radbyrne radcliffe radeliffe radite rae raedburne rafe raighne ramone randale rane ranice rapere rayce rayhourne rayne reade reave recene reece reese reeve reggie reigne reine renae rene renee renke renne rennie reule reve rhete rhodanthe ricadene rice richelle richere richie rickie ridere ridge rille rillette rillie rique ritchie rive roane roanne robbie robinette roble robynne roche rochelle rocke roe rolande rolfe rollie romaine romhilde romilde ronce ronelle ronnie roque rorke rosalie rosalinde rosamonde rosanne roschelle roscoe rose rosemarie rosemonde rourke rousse rovere rowe roxane roxanne royale royce royse rozene ryce rydge rye ryence ryenne rylee rylie

English Words Rhyming RUTE

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES RUTE AS A WHOLE:

brutenoun (n.) An animal destitute of human reason; any animal not human; esp. a quadruped; a beast.
 noun (n.) A brutal person; a savage in heart or manners; as unfeeling or coarse person.
 adjective (a.) Not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature.
 adjective (a.) Not possessing reason, irrational; unthinking; as, a brute beast; the brute creation.
 adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, a brute beast. Hence: Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless; as, brute violence.
 adjective (a.) Having the physical powers predominating over the mental; coarse; unpolished; unintelligent.
 adjective (a.) Rough; uncivilized; unfeeling.
 verb (v. t.) To report; to bruit.

brutenessnoun (n.) Brutality.
 noun (n.) Insensibility.

frutescentadjective (a.) Somewhat shrubby in character; imperfectly shrubby, as the American species of Wistaria.

frutexnoun (n.) A plant having a woody, durable stem, but less than a tree; a shrub.

imbrutementnoun (n.) The act of imbruting, or the state of being imbruted.

prutenicadjective (a.) Prussian; -- applied to certain astronomical tables published in the sixteenth century, founded on the principles of Copernicus, a Prussian.

suffrutescentadjective (a.) Slightly woody at the base.

teruteronoun (n.) The South American lapwing (Vanellus Cayennensis). Its wings are furnished with short spurs. Called also Cayenne lapwing.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH RUTE (According to last letters):


Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ute) - English Words That Ends with ute:


absolutenoun (n.) In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.
 adjective (a.) Loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promise or command; absolute power; an absolute monarch.
 adjective (a.) Complete in itself; perfect; consummate; faultless; as, absolute perfection; absolute beauty.
 adjective (a.) Viewed apart from modifying influences or without comparison with other objects; actual; real; -- opposed to relative and comparative; as, absolute motion; absolute time or space.
 adjective (a.) Loosed from, or unconnected by, dependence on any other being; self-existent; self-sufficing.
 adjective (a.) Capable of being thought or conceived by itself alone; unconditioned; non-relative.
 adjective (a.) Positive; clear; certain; not doubtful.
 adjective (a.) Authoritative; peremptory.
 adjective (a.) Pure; unmixed; as, absolute alcohol.
 adjective (a.) Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence in government; as, the case absolute. See Ablative absolute, under Ablative.

acuteadjective (a.) Sharp at the end; ending in a sharp point; pointed; -- opposed to blunt or obtuse; as, an acute angle; an acute leaf.
 adjective (a.) Having nice discernment; perceiving or using minute distinctions; penetrating; clever; shrewd; -- opposed to dull or stupid; as, an acute observer; acute remarks, or reasoning.
 adjective (a.) Having nice or quick sensibility; susceptible to slight impressions; acting keenly on the senses; sharp; keen; intense; as, a man of acute eyesight, hearing, or feeling; acute pain or pleasure.
 adjective (a.) High, or shrill, in respect to some other sound; -- opposed to grave or low; as, an acute tone or accent.
 adjective (a.) Attended with symptoms of some degree of severity, and coming speedily to a crisis; -- opposed to chronic; as, an acute disease.
 verb (v. t.) To give an acute sound to; as, he acutes his rising inflection too much.

arbutenoun (n.) The strawberry tree, a genus of evergreen shrubs, of the Heath family. It has a berry externally resembling the strawberry; the arbute tree.

archlutenoun (n.) Alt. of Archilute

archilutenoun (n.) A large theorbo, or double-necked lute, formerly in use, having the bass strings doubled with an octave, and the higher strings with a unison.

arguteadjective (a.) Sharp; shrill.
 adjective (a.) Sagacious; acute; subtle; shrewd.

astuteadjective (a.) Critically discerning; sagacious; shrewd; subtle; crafty.

attributenoun (n.) That which is attributed; a quality which is considered as belonging to, or inherent in, a person or thing; an essential or necessary property or characteristic.
 noun (n.) Reputation.
 noun (n.) A conventional symbol of office, character, or identity, added to any particular figure; as, a club is the attribute of Hercules.
 noun (n.) Quality, etc., denoted by an attributive; an attributive adjunct or adjective.
 verb (v. t.) To ascribe; to consider (something) as due or appropriate (to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging (to).

basisoluteadjective (a.) Prolonged at the base, as certain leaves.

chutenoun (n.) A framework, trough, or tube, upon or through which objects are made to slide from a higher to a lower level, or through which water passes to a wheel.
 noun (n.) See Shoot.

computenoun (n.) Computation.
 verb (v. t.) To determine calculation; to reckon; to count.

constitutenoun (n.) An established law.
 verb (v. t.) To cause to stand; to establish; to enact.
 verb (v. t.) To make up; to compose; to form.
 verb (v. t.) To appoint, depute, or elect to an office; to make and empower.

convoluteadjective (a.) Rolled or wound together, one part upon another; -- said of the leaves of plants in aestivation.

corfutenoun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Corfu, an island in the Mediterranean Sea.

cornamutenoun (n.) A cornemuse.

cornuteadjective (a.) Alt. of Cornuted
 verb (v. t.) To bestow horns upon; to make a cuckold of; to cuckold.

cuteadjective (a.) Clever; sharp; shrewd; ingenious; cunning.

deputenoun (n.) A person deputed; a deputy.
 verb (v. t.) To appoint as deputy or agent; to commission to act in one's place; to delegate.
 verb (v. t.) To appoint; to assign; to choose.

destituteadjective (a.) Forsaken; not having in possession (something necessary, or desirable); deficient; lacking; devoid; -- often followed by of.
 adjective (a.) Not possessing the necessaries of life; in a condition of want; needy; without possessions or resources; very poor.
 verb (v. t.) To leave destitute; to forsake; to abandon.
 verb (v. t.) To make destitute; to cause to be in want; to deprive; -- followed by of.
 verb (v. t.) To disappoint.

diluteadjective (a.) Diluted; thin; weak.
 verb (v. t.) To make thinner or more liquid by admixture with something; to thin and dissolve by mixing.
 verb (v. t.) To diminish the strength, flavor, color, etc., of, by mixing; to reduce, especially by the addition of water; to temper; to attenuate; to weaken.
 verb (v. i.) To become attenuated, thin, or weak; as, it dilutes easily.

diminuteadjective (a.) Small; diminished; diminutive.

disreputenoun (n.) Loss or want of reputation; ill character; disesteem; discredit.
 verb (v. t.) To bring into disreputation; to hold in dishonor.

dissoluteadjective (a.) With nerves unstrung; weak.
 adjective (a.) Loosed from restraint; esp., loose in morals and conduct; recklessly abandoned to sensual pleasures; profligate; wanton; lewd; debauched.

ecoutenoun (n.) One of the small galleries run out in front of the glacis. They serve to annoy the enemy's miners.

emeutenoun (n.) A seditious tumult; an outbreak.

evolutenoun (n.) A curve from which another curve, called the involute or evolvent, is described by the end of a thread gradually wound upon the former, or unwound from it. See Involute. It is the locus of the centers of all the circles which are osculatory to the given curve or evolvent.

flutenoun (n.) A similar channel or groove made in wood or other material, esp. in plaited cloth, as in a lady's ruffle.
 noun (n.) A long French breakfast roll.
 noun (n.) A stop in an organ, having a flutelike sound.
 noun (n.) A kind of flyboat; a storeship.
 verb (v. i.) A musical wind instrument, consisting of a hollow cylinder or pipe, with holes along its length, stopped by the fingers or by keys which are opened by the fingers. The modern flute is closed at the upper end, and blown with the mouth at a lateral hole.
 verb (v. i.) A channel of curved section; -- usually applied to one of a vertical series of such channels used to decorate columns and pilasters in classical architecture. See Illust. under Base, n.
 verb (v. i.) To play on, or as on, a flute; to make a flutelike sound.
 verb (v. t.) To play, whistle, or sing with a clear, soft note, like that of a flute.
 verb (v. t.) To form flutes or channels in, as in a column, a ruffle, etc.

hirsuteadjective (a.) Rough with hair; set with bristles; shaggy.
 adjective (a.) Rough and coarse; boorish.
 adjective (a.) Pubescent with coarse or stiff hairs.
 adjective (a.) Covered with hairlike feathers, as the feet of certain birds.

institutenoun (n.) An institution; a society established for the promotion of learning, art, science, etc.; a college; as, the Institute of Technology; also, a building owned or occupied by such an institute; as, the Cooper Institute.
 noun (n.) The person to whom an estate is first given by destination or limitation.
 adjective (p. a.) Established; organized; founded.
 adjective (a.) The act of instituting; institution.
 adjective (a.) That which is instituted, established, or fixed, as a law, habit, or custom.
 adjective (a.) Hence: An elementary and necessary principle; a precept, maxim, or rule, recognized as established and authoritative; usually in the plural, a collection of such principles and precepts; esp., a comprehensive summary of legal principles and decisions; as, the Institutes of Justinian; Coke's Institutes of the Laws of England. Cf. Digest, n.
 verb (v. t.) To set up; to establish; to ordain; as, to institute laws, rules, etc.
 verb (v. t.) To originate and establish; to found; to organize; as, to institute a court, or a society.
 verb (v. t.) To nominate; to appoint.
 verb (v. t.) To begin; to commence; to set on foot; as, to institute an inquiry; to institute a suit.
 verb (v. t.) To ground or establish in principles and rudiments; to educate; to instruct.
 verb (v. t.) To invest with the spiritual charge of a benefice, or the care of souls.

involutenoun (n.) A curve traced by the end of a string wound upon another curve, or unwound from it; -- called also evolvent. See Evolute.
 adjective (a.) Alt. of Involuted

irresoluteadjective (a.) Not resolute; not decided or determined; wavering; given to doubt or irresolution.

jutenoun (n.) The coarse, strong fiber of the East Indian Corchorus olitorius, and C. capsularis; also, the plant itself. The fiber is much used for making mats, gunny cloth, cordage, hangings, paper, etc.

lutenoun (n.) A cement of clay or other tenacious infusible substance for sealing joints in apparatus, or the mouths of vessels or tubes, or for coating the bodies of retorts, etc., when exposed to heat; -- called also luting.
 noun (n.) A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc.
 noun (n.) A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from mold.
 noun (n.) A stringed instrument formerly much in use. It consists of four parts, namely, the table or front, the body, having nine or ten ribs or "sides," arranged like the divisions of a melon, the neck, which has nine or ten frets or divisions, and the head, or cross, in which the screws for tuning are inserted. The strings are struck with the right hand, and with the left the stops are pressed.
 verb (v. t.) To close or seal with lute; as, to lute on the cover of a crucible; to lute a joint.
 verb (v. i.) To sound, as a lute. Piers Plowman. Keats.
 verb (v. t.) To play on a lute, or as on a lute.

meutenoun (n.) A cage for hawks; a mew. See 4th Mew, 1.

minutenoun (n.) The sixtieth part of an hour; sixty seconds. (Abbrev. m.; as, 4 h. 30 m.)
 noun (n.) The sixtieth part of a degree; sixty seconds (Marked thus ('); as, 10Á 20').
 noun (n.) A nautical or a geographic mile.
 noun (n.) A coin; a half farthing.
 noun (n.) A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a tittle.
 noun (n.) A point of time; a moment.
 noun (n.) The memorandum; a record; a note to preserve the memory of anything; as, to take minutes of a contract; to take minutes of a conversation or debate.
 noun (n.) A fixed part of a module. See Module.
 noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a minute or minutes; occurring at or marking successive minutes.
 adjective (a.) Very small; little; tiny; fine; slight; slender; inconsiderable.
 adjective (a.) Attentive to small things; paying attention to details; critical; particular; precise; as, a minute observer; minute observation.

mutenoun (n.) The dung of birds.
 noun (n.) One who does not speak, whether from physical inability, unwillingness, or other cause.
 noun (n.) One who, from deafness, either congenital or from early life, is unable to use articulate language; a deaf-mute.
 noun (n.) A person employed by undertakers at a funeral.
 noun (n.) A person whose part in a play does not require him to speak.
 noun (n.) Among the Turks, an officer or attendant who is selected for his place because he can not speak.
 noun (n.) A letter which represents no sound; a silent letter; also, a close articulation; an element of speech formed by a position of the mouth organs which stops the passage of the breath; as, p, b, d, k, t.
 noun (n.) A little utensil made of brass, ivory, or other material, so formed that it can be fixed in an erect position on the bridge of a violin, or similar instrument, in order to deaden or soften the tone.
 adjective (a.) Not speaking; uttering no sound; silent.
 adjective (a.) Incapable of speaking; dumb.
 adjective (a.) Not uttered; unpronounced; silent; also, produced by complete closure of the mouth organs which interrupt the passage of breath; -- said of certain letters. See 5th Mute, 2.
 adjective (a.) Not giving a ringing sound when struck; -- said of a metal.
 verb (v. t.) To cast off; to molt.
 verb (v. t. & i.) To eject the contents of the bowels; -- said of birds.

nasuteadjective (a.) Having a nice sense of smell.
 adjective (a.) Critically nice; captious.

obvoluteadjective (a.) Alt. of Obvoluted

parachutenoun (n.) A contrivance somewhat in the form of an umbrella, by means of which a descent may be made from a balloon, or any eminence.
 noun (n.) A web or fold of skin which extends between the legs of certain mammals, as the flying squirrels, colugo, and phalangister.

penchutenoun (n.) See Penstock.

peracuteadjective (a.) Very sharp; very violent; as, a peracute fever.

polluteadjective (a.) Polluted.
 verb (v. t.) To make foul, impure, or unclean; to defile; to taint; to soil; to desecrate; -- used of physical or moral defilement.
 verb (v. t.) To violate sexually; to debauch; to dishonor.
 verb (v. t.) To render ceremonially unclean; to disqualify or unfit for sacred use or service, or for social intercourse.

prostitutenoun (n.) A woman giver to indiscriminate lewdness; a strumpet; a harlot.
 noun (n.) A base hireling; a mercenary; one who offers himself to infamous employments for hire.
 adjective (a.) Openly given up to lewdness; devoted to base or infamous purposes.
 verb (v. t.) To offer, as a woman, to a lewd use; to give up to lewdness for hire.
 verb (v. t.) To devote to base or unworthy purposes; to give up to low or indiscriminate use; as, to prostitute talents; to prostitute official powers.

reputenoun (n.) Character reputed or attributed; reputation, whether good or bad; established opinion; public estimate.
 noun (n.) Specifically: Good character or reputation; credit or honor derived from common or public opinion; -- opposed to disrepute.
 verb (v. t.) To hold in thought; to account; to estimate; to hold; to think; to reckon.

resolutenoun (n.) One who is resolute; hence, a desperado.
 noun (n.) Redelivery; repayment.
 verb (v. t. & i.) Having a decided purpose; determined; resolved; fixed in a determination; hence, bold; firm; steady.
 verb (v. t. & i.) Convinced; satisfied; sure.
 verb (v. t. & i.) Resolving, or explaining; as, the Resolute Doctor Durand.

restitutenoun (n.) That which is restored or offered in place of something; a substitute.
 verb (v. t.) To restore to a former state.

revoluteadjective (a.) Rolled backward or downward.

routenoun (n.) The course or way which is traveled or passed, or is to be passed; a passing; a course; a road or path; a march.

sautenoun (n.) An assault.
  () p. p. of Sauter.

scorbutenoun (n.) Scurvy.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH RUTE (According to first letters):


Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (rut) - Words That Begins with rut:


rutnoun (n.) Sexual desire or oestrus of deer, cattle, and various other mammals; heat; also, the period during which the oestrus exists.
 noun (n.) Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote. See Rote.
 noun (n.) A track worn by a wheel or by habitual passage of anything; a groove in which anything runs. Also used figuratively.
 verb (v. i.) To have a strong sexual impulse at the reproductive period; -- said of deer, cattle, etc.
 verb (v. t.) To cover in copulation.
 verb (v. t.) To make a rut or ruts in; -- chiefly used as a past participle or a participial adj.; as, a rutted road.

ruttingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rut

rutaceousadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to plants of a natural order (Rutaceae) of which the rue is the type, and which includes also the orange, lemon, dittany, and buchu.

rutatenoun (n.) A salt of rutic acid.

ruthenicadjective (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, ruthenium; specifically, designating those compounds in which it has a higher valence as contrasted with ruthenious compounds.

rutheniousadjective (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, ruthenium; specifically, designating those compounds in which it has a lower valence as contrasted with ruthenic compounds.

rutheniumnoun (n.) A rare element of the light platinum group, found associated with platinum ores, and isolated as a hard, brittle steel-gray metal which is very infusible. Symbol Ru. Atomic weight 103.5. Specific gravity 12.26. See Platinum metals, under Platinum.

ruthfuladjective (a.) Full of ruth
 adjective (a.) Pitiful; tender.
 adjective (a.) Full of sorrow; woeful.
 adjective (a.) Causing sorrow.

ruthlessadjective (a.) Having no ruth; cruel; pitiless.

ruticadjective (a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, rue (Ruta); as, rutic acid, now commonly called capric acid.

rutilantadjective (a.) Having a reddish glow; shining.

rutilenoun (n.) A mineral usually of a reddish brown color, and brilliant metallic adamantine luster, occurring in tetragonal crystals. In composition it is titanium dioxide, like octahedrite and brookite.

rutiliannoun (n.) Any species of lamellicorn beetles belonging to Rutila and allied genera, as the spotted grapevine beetle (Pelidnota punctata).

rutinnoun (n.) A glucoside resembling, but distinct from, quercitrin. Rutin is found in the leaves of the rue (Ruta graveolens) and other plants, and obtained as a bitter yellow crystalline substance which yields quercitin on decomposition.

rutternoun (n.) A horseman or trooper.
 noun (n.) That which ruts.

rutterkinnoun (n.) An old crafty fox or beguiler -- a word of contempt.

ruttiernoun (n.) A chart of a course, esp. at sea.

ruttishadjective (a.) Inclined to rut; lustful; libidinous; salacious.

ruttlenoun (n.) A rattling sound in the throat arising from difficulty of breathing; a rattle.

ruttyadjective (a.) Ruttish; lustful.
 adjective (a.) Full of ruts; as, a rutty road.
 adjective (a.) Rooty.

rutylenenoun (n.) A liquid hydrocarbon, C10H18, of the acetylene series. It is produced artificially.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH RUTE:

English Words which starts with 'r' and ends with 'e':

rabatinenoun (n.) A collar or cape.

rabbatenoun (n.) Abatement.
 verb (v. t.) To abate or diminish.

rabbinitenoun (n.) Same as Rabbinist.

rabblenoun (n.) An iron bar, with the end bent, used in stirring or skimming molten iron in the process of puddling.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a rabble; like, or suited to, a rabble; disorderly; vulgar.
 verb (v. t.) To stir or skim with a rabble, as molten iron.
 verb (v. i.) To speak in a confused manner.
 verb (v. i.) A tumultuous crowd of vulgar, noisy people; a mob; a confused, disorderly throng.
 verb (v. i.) A confused, incoherent discourse; a medley of voices; a chatter.
 verb (v. t.) To insult, or assault, by a mob; to mob; as, to rabble a curate.
 verb (v. t.) To utter glibly and incoherently; to mouth without intelligence.
 verb (v. t.) To rumple; to crumple.

racenoun (n.) A root.
 noun (n.) The descendants of a common ancestor; a family, tribe, people, or nation, believed or presumed to belong to the same stock; a lineage; a breed.
 noun (n.) Company; herd; breed.
 noun (n.) A variety of such fixed character that it may be propagated by seed.
 noun (n.) Peculiar flavor, taste, or strength, as of wine; that quality, or assemblage of qualities, which indicates origin or kind, as in wine; hence, characteristic flavor; smack.
 noun (n.) Hence, characteristic quality or disposition.
 noun (n.) A progress; a course; a movement or progression.
 noun (n.) Esp., swift progress; rapid course; a running.
 noun (n.) Hence: The act or process of running in competition; a contest of speed in any way, as in running, riding, driving, skating, rowing, sailing; in the plural, usually, a meeting for contests in the running of horses; as, he attended the races.
 noun (n.) Competitive action of any kind, especially when prolonged; hence, career; course of life.
 noun (n.) A strong or rapid current of water, or the channel or passage for such a current; a powerful current or heavy sea, sometimes produced by the meeting of two tides; as, the Portland Race; the Race of Alderney.
 noun (n.) The current of water that turns a water wheel, or the channel in which it flows; a mill race.
 noun (n.) A channel or guide along which a shuttle is driven back and forth, as in a loom, sewing machine, etc.
 verb (v. t.) To raze.
 verb (v. i.) To run swiftly; to contend in a race; as, the animals raced over the ground; the ships raced from port to port.
 verb (v. i.) To run too fast at times, as a marine engine or screw, when the screw is lifted out of water by the action of a heavy sea.
 verb (v. t.) To cause to contend in a race; to drive at high speed; as, to race horses.
 verb (v. t.) To run a race with.
  () A game, match, etc., open only to losers in early stages of contests.

racematenoun (n.) A salt of racemic acid.

racemenoun (n.) A flower cluster with an elongated axis and many one-flowered lateral pedicels, as in the currant and chokecherry.

racemoseadjective (a.) Resembling a raceme; growing in the form of a raceme; as, (Bot.) racemose berries or flowers; (Anat.) the racemose glands, in which the ducts are branched and clustered like a raceme.

racemulenoun (n.) A little raceme.

racemuloseadjective (a.) Growing in very small racemes.

rachenoun (n.) A dog that pursued his prey by scent, as distinguished from the greyhound.

rachitomenoun (n.) A dissecting instrument for opening the spinal canal.

racleadjective (a.) See Rakel.

raddlenoun (n.) A long, flexible stick, rod, or branch, which is interwoven with others, between upright posts or stakes, in making a kind of hedge or fence.
 noun (n.) A hedge or fence made with raddles; -- called also raddle hedge.
 noun (n.) An instrument consisting of a wooden bar, with a row of upright pegs set in it, used by domestic weavers to keep the warp of a proper width, and prevent tangling when it is wound upon the beam of the loom.
 noun (n.) A red pigment used in marking sheep, and in some mechanical processes; ruddle.
 verb (v. t.) To interweave or twist together.
 verb (v. t.) To mark or paint with, or as with, raddle.

radenoun (n.) A raid.

radialenoun (n.) The bone or cartilage of the carpus which articulates with the radius and corresponds to the scaphoid bone in man.
 noun (n.) Radial plates in the calyx of a crinoid.

radiancenoun (n.) Alt. of Radiancy

radiatenoun (n.) One of the Radiata.
 adjective (a.) Having rays or parts diverging from a center; radiated; as, a radiate crystal.
 adjective (a.) Having in a capitulum large ray florets which are unlike the disk florets, as in the aster, daisy, etc.
 adjective (a.) Belonging to the Radiata.
 verb (v. i.) To emit rays; to be radiant; to shine.
 verb (v. i.) To proceed in direct lines from a point or surface; to issue in rays, as light or heat.
 verb (v. t.) To emit or send out in direct lines from a point or points; as, to radiate heat.
 verb (v. t.) To enlighten; to illuminate; to shed light or brightness on; to irradiate.

radiativeadjective (a.) Capable of radiating; acting by radiation.

radicateadjective (a.) Radicated.
 verb (v. i.) To take root; to become rooted.
 verb (v. t.) To cause to take root; to plant deeply and firmly; to root.

radiclenoun (n.) The rudimentary stem of a plant which supports the cotyledons in the seed, and from which the root is developed downward; the stem of the embryo; the caulicle.
 noun (n.) A rootlet; a radicel.

radiculenoun (n.) A radicle.

radiculoseadjective (a.) Producing numerous radicles, or rootlets.

radiolitenoun (n.) A hippurite.

radiophonenoun (n.) An apparatus for the production of sound by the action of luminous or thermal rays. It is essentially the same as the photophone.

raffaelesqueadjective (a.) Raphaelesque.

raffinosenoun (n.) A colorless crystalline slightly sweet substance obtained from the molasses of the sugar beet.

ragenoun (n.) Violent excitement; eager passion; extreme vehemence of desire, emotion, or suffering, mastering the will.
 noun (n.) Especially, anger accompanied with raving; overmastering wrath; violent anger; fury.
 noun (n.) A violent or raging wind.
 noun (n.) The subject of eager desire; that which is sought after, or prosecuted, with unreasonable or excessive passion; as, to be all the rage.
 noun (n.) To be furious with anger; to be exasperated to fury; to be violently agitated with passion.
 noun (n.) To be violent and tumultuous; to be violently driven or agitated; to act or move furiously; as, the raging sea or winds.
 noun (n.) To ravage; to prevail without restraint, or with destruction or fatal effect; as, the plague raged in Cairo.
 noun (n.) To toy or act wantonly; to sport.
 verb (v. t.) To enrage.

raggieadjective (a.) Alt. of Raggy

raiaenoun (n. pl.) The order of elasmobranch fishes which includes the sawfishes, skates, and rays; -- called also Rajae, and Rajii.

raisableadjective (a.) Capable of being raised.

raisonneadjective (a.) Arranged systematically, or according to classes or subjects; as, a catalogue raisonne. See under Catalogue.

rakenoun (n.) An implement consisting of a headpiece having teeth, and a long handle at right angles to it, -- used for collecting hay, or other light things which are spread over a large surface, or for breaking and smoothing the earth.
 noun (n.) A toothed machine drawn by a horse, -- used for collecting hay or grain; a horserake.
 noun (n.) A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so; -- called also rake-vein.
 noun (n.) The inclination of anything from a perpendicular direction; as, the rake of a roof, a staircase, etc.
 noun (n.) the inclination of a mast or funnel, or, in general, of any part of a vessel not perpendicular to the keel.
 noun (n.) A loose, disorderly, vicious man; a person addicted to lewdness and other scandalous vices; a debauchee; a roue.
 verb (v. t.) To collect with a rake; as, to rake hay; -- often with up; as, he raked up the fallen leaves.
 verb (v. t.) To collect or draw together with laborious industry; to gather from a wide space; to scrape together; as, to rake together wealth; to rake together slanderous tales; to rake together the rabble of a town.
 verb (v. t.) To pass a rake over; to scrape or scratch with a rake for the purpose of collecting and clearing off something, or for stirring up the soil; as, to rake a lawn; to rake a flower bed.
 verb (v. t.) To search through; to scour; to ransack.
 verb (v. t.) To scrape or scratch across; to pass over quickly and lightly, as a rake does.
 verb (v. t.) To enfilade; to fire in a direction with the length of; in naval engagements, to cannonade, as a ship, on the stern or head so that the balls range the whole length of the deck.
 verb (v. i.) To use a rake, as for searching or for collecting; to scrape; to search minutely.
 verb (v. i.) To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along.
 verb (v. i.) To incline from a perpendicular direction; as, a mast rakes aft.
 verb (v. i.) To walk about; to gad or ramble idly.
 verb (v. i.) To act the rake; to lead a dissolute, debauched life.

rakeshamenoun (n.) A vile, dissolute wretch.

rakestalenoun (n.) The handle of a rake.

ralenoun (n.) An adventitious sound, usually of morbid origin, accompanying the normal respiratory sounds. See Rhonchus.

ralliancenoun (n.) The act of rallying.

rallineadjective (a.) Pertaining to the rails.

ralstonitenoun (n.) A fluoride of alumina and soda occurring with the Greenland cryolite in octahedral crystals.

ramagenoun (n.) Boughs or branches.
 noun (n.) Warbling of birds in trees.
 adjective (a.) Wild; untamed.

rambergenoun (n.) Formerly, a kind of large war galley.

ramblenoun (n.) A going or moving from place to place without any determinate business or object; an excursion or stroll merely for recreation.
 noun (n.) A bed of shale over the seam.
 verb (v. i.) To walk, ride, or sail, from place to place, without any determinate object in view; to roam carelessly or irregularly; to rove; to wander; as, to ramble about the city; to ramble over the world.
 verb (v. i.) To talk or write in a discursive, aimless way.
 verb (v. i.) To extend or grow at random.

ramboozenoun (n.) A beverage made of wine, ale (or milk), sugar, etc.

rameenoun (n.) See Ramie.

ramienoun (n.) The grass-cloth plant (B/hmeria nivea); also, its fiber, which is very fine and exceedingly strong; -- called also China grass, and rhea. See Grass-cloth plant, under Grass.

ramlinenoun (n.) A line used to get a straight middle line, as on a spar, or from stem to stern in building a vessel.

ramollescencenoun (n.) A softening or mollifying.

ramoseadjective (a.) Branched, as the stem or root of a plant; having lateral divisions; consisting of, or having, branches; full of branches; ramifying; branching; branchy.

rampenoun (n.) The cuckoopint.

rampirenoun (n.) A rampart.
 verb (v. t.) To fortify with a rampire; to form into a rampire.

ramshackleadjective (a.) Loose; disjointed; falling to pieces; out of repair.
 verb (v. t.) To search or ransack; to rummage.

ramuloseadjective (a.) Having many small branches, or ramuli.

ramusculenoun (n.) A small ramus, or branch.

rancenoun (n.) A prop or shore.
 noun (n.) A round between the legs of a chair.

raneenoun (n.) Same as Rani.

ranforcenoun (n.) See Re/nforce.

rangenoun (n.) To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order; to rank; as, to range soldiers in line.
 noun (n.) To place (as a single individual) among others in a line, row, or order, as in the ranks of an army; -- usually, reflexively and figuratively, (in the sense) to espouse a cause, to join a party, etc.
 noun (n.) To separate into parts; to sift.
 noun (n.) To dispose in a classified or in systematic order; to arrange regularly; as, to range plants and animals in genera and species.
 noun (n.) To rove over or through; as, to range the fields.
 noun (n.) To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near; as, to range the coast.
 noun (n.) To be native to, or to live in; to frequent.
 verb (v. i.) To rove at large; to wander without restraint or direction; to roam.
 verb (v. i.) To have range; to change or differ within limits; to be capable of projecting, or to admit of being projected, especially as to horizontal distance; as, the temperature ranged through seventy degrees Fahrenheit; the gun ranges three miles; the shot ranged four miles.
 verb (v. i.) To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
 verb (v. i.) To have a certain direction; to correspond in direction; to be or keep in a corresponding line; to trend or run; -- often followed by with; as, the front of a house ranges with the street; to range along the coast.
 verb (v. i.) To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region; as, the peba ranges from Texas to Paraguay.
 verb (v.) A series of things in a line; a row; a rank; as, a range of buildings; a range of mountains.
 verb (v.) An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.
 verb (v.) The step of a ladder; a rung.
 verb (v.) A kitchen grate.
 verb (v.) An extended cooking apparatus of cast iron, set in brickwork, and affording conveniences for various ways of cooking; also, a kind of cooking stove.
 verb (v.) A bolting sieve to sift meal.
 verb (v.) A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.
 verb (v.) That which may be ranged over; place or room for excursion; especially, a region of country in which cattle or sheep may wander and pasture.
 verb (v.) Extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope; discursive power; as, the range of one's voice, or authority.
 verb (v.) The region within which a plant or animal naturally lives.
 verb (v.) The horizontal distance to which a shot or other projectile is carried.
 verb (v.) Sometimes, less properly, the trajectory of a shot or projectile.
 verb (v.) A place where shooting, as with cannons or rifles, is practiced.
 verb (v.) In the public land system of the United States, a row or line of townships lying between two successive meridian lines six miles apart.
 verb (v.) See Range of cable, below.

ranineadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the frogs and toads.
 adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a swelling under the tongue; also, pertaining to the region where the swelling occurs; -- applied especially to branches of the lingual artery and lingual vein.

rankleadjective (a.) To become, or be, rank; to grow rank or strong; to be inflamed; to fester; -- used literally and figuratively.
 adjective (a.) To produce a festering or inflamed effect; to cause a sore; -- used literally and figuratively; as, a splinter rankles in the flesh; the words rankled in his bosom.
 verb (v. t.) To cause to fester; to make sore; to inflame.

ransomableadjective (a.) Such as can be ransomed.

rantipolenoun (n.) A wild, romping young person.
 adjective (a.) Wild; roving; rakish.
 verb (v. i.) To act like a rantipole.

rapareenoun (n.) See Rapparee.

rapenoun (n.) Fruit, as grapes, plucked from the cluster.
 noun (n.) The refuse stems and skins of grapes or raisins from which the must has been expressed in wine making.
 noun (n.) A filter containing the above refuse, used in clarifying and perfecting malt, vinegar, etc.
 noun (n.) The act of seizing and carrying away by force; violent seizure; robbery.
 noun (n.) Sexual connection with a woman without her consent. See Age of consent, under Consent, n.
 noun (n.) That which is snatched away.
 noun (n.) Movement, as in snatching; haste; hurry.
 noun (n.) One of six divisions of the county of Sussex, England, intermediate between a hundred and a shire.
 noun (n.) 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.
 verb (v. t.) To commit rape upon; to ravish.
 verb (v. i.) To rob; to pillage.

raphaelesqueadjective (a.) Like Raphael's works; in Raphael's manner of painting.

raphaelitenoun (n.) One who advocates or adopts the principles of Raphaelism.

raphenoun (n.) A line, ridge, furrow, or band of fibers, especially in the median line; as, the raphe of the tongue.
 noun (n.) Same as Rhaphe.

rapinenoun (n.) The act of plundering; the seizing and carrying away of things by force; spoliation; pillage; plunder.
 noun (n.) Ravishment; rape.
 verb (v. t.) To plunder.

rappagenoun (n.) The enlargement of a mold caused by rapping the pattern.

rappareenoun (n.) A wild Irish plunderer, esp. one of the 17th century; -- so called from his carrying a half-pike, called a rapary.

rapturenoun (n.) A seizing by violence; a hurrying along; rapidity with violence.
 noun (n.) The state or condition of being rapt, or carried away from one's self by agreeable excitement; violence of a pleasing passion; extreme joy or pleasure; ecstasy.
 noun (n.) A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium.
 verb (v. t.) To transport with excitement; to enrapture.

rareadjective (a.) Early.
 superlative (superl.) Nearly raw; partially cooked; not thoroughly cooked; underdone; as, rare beef or mutton.
 superlative (superl.) Not frequent; seldom met with or occurring; unusual; as, a rare event.
 superlative (superl.) Of an uncommon nature; unusually excellent; valuable to a degree seldom found.
 superlative (superl.) Thinly scattered; dispersed.
 superlative (superl.) Characterized by wide separation of parts; of loose texture; not thick or dense; thin; as, a rare atmosphere at high elevations.

rarefiableadjective (a.) Capable of being rarefied.

rareripenoun (n.) An early ripening fruit, especially a kind of freestone peach.
 adjective (a.) Early ripe; ripe before others, or before the usual season.

rasanteadjective (a.) Sweeping; grazing; -- applied to a style of fortification in which the command of the works over each other, and over the country, is kept very low, in order that the shot may more effectually sweep or graze the ground before them.

rasenoun (n.) A scratching out, or erasure.
 noun (n.) A slight wound; a scratch.
 noun (n.) A way of measuring in which the commodity measured was made even with the top of the measuring vessel by rasing, or striking off, all that was above it.
 verb (v. t.) To rub along the surface of; to graze.
 verb (v. t.) To rub or scratch out; to erase.
 verb (v. t.) To level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to raze.
 verb (v. i.) To be leveled with the ground; to fall; to suffer overthrow.

rassenoun (n.) A carnivore (Viverricula Mallaccensis) allied to the civet but smaller, native of China and the East Indies. It furnishes a perfume resembling that of the civet, which is highly prized by the Javanese. Called also Malacca weasel, and lesser civet.

ratableadjective (a.) Capable of being rated, or set at a certain value.
 adjective (a.) Liable to, or subjected by law to, taxation; as, ratable estate.
 adjective (a.) Made at a proportionate rate; as, ratable payments.

ratenoun (n.) Established portion or measure; fixed allowance.
 noun (n.) That which is established as a measure or criterion; degree; standard; rank; proportion; ratio; as, a slow rate of movement; rate of interest is the ratio of the interest to the principal, per annum.
 noun (n.) Valuation; price fixed with relation to a standard; cost; charge; as, high or low rates of transportation.
 noun (n.) A tax or sum assessed by authority on property for public use, according to its income or value; esp., in England, a local tax; as, parish rates; town rates.
 noun (n.) Order; arrangement.
 noun (n.) Ratification; approval.
 noun (n.) The gain or loss of a timepiece in a unit of time; as, daily rate; hourly rate; etc.
 noun (n.) The order or class to which a war vessel belongs, determined according to its size, armament, etc.; as, first rate, second rate, etc.
 noun (n.) The class of a merchant vessel for marine insurance, determined by its relative safety as a risk, as A1, A2, etc.
 verb (v. t. & i.) To chide with vehemence; to scold; to censure violently.
 verb (v. t.) To set a certain estimate on; to value at a certain price or degree.
 verb (v. t.) To assess for the payment of a rate or tax.
 verb (v. t.) To settle the relative scale, rank, position, amount, value, or quality of; as, to rate a ship; to rate a seaman; to rate a pension.
 verb (v. t.) To ratify.
 verb (v. i.) To be set or considered in a class; to have rank; as, the ship rates as a ship of the line.
 verb (v. i.) To make an estimate.

rateableadjective (a.) See Ratable.

ratheadjective (a.) Coming before others, or before the usual time; early.
 adverb (adv.) Early; soon; betimes.

rathripenoun (n.) A rareripe.
 adjective (a.) Rareripe, or early ripe.

ratiocinativeadjective (a.) Characterized by, or addicted to, ratiocination; consisting in the comparison of propositions or facts, and the deduction of inferences from the comparison; argumentative; as, a ratiocinative process.

rationaleadjective (a.) An explanation or exposition of the principles of some opinion, action, hypothesis, phenomenon, or the like; also, the principles themselves.

ratitaenoun (n. pl.) An order of birds in which the wings are small, rudimentary, or absent, and the breastbone is destitute of a keel. The ostrich, emu, moa, and apteryx are examples.

ratitateadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Ratitae.

ratitenoun (n.) One of the Ratitae.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Ratitae.

ratsbanenoun (n.) Rat poison; white arsenic.

rattlenoun (n.) A rapid succession of sharp, clattering sounds; as, the rattle of a drum.
 noun (n.) Noisy, rapid talk.
 noun (n.) An instrument with which a rattling sound is made; especially, a child's toy that rattles when shaken.
 noun (n.) A noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer.
 noun (n.) A scolding; a sharp rebuke.
 noun (n.) Any organ of an animal having a structure adapted to produce a rattling sound.
 noun (n.) The noise in the throat produced by the air in passing through mucus which the lungs are unable to expel; -- chiefly observable at the approach of death, when it is called the death rattle. See R/le.
 verb (v. i.) To make a quick succession of sharp, inharmonious noises, as by the collision of hard and not very sonorous bodies shaken together; to clatter.
 verb (v. i.) To drive or ride briskly, so as to make a clattering; as, we rattled along for a couple of miles.
 verb (v. i.) To make a clatter with the voice; to talk rapidly and idly; to clatter; -- with on or away; as, she rattled on for an hour.
 verb (v. t.) To cause to make a rattling or clattering sound; as, to rattle a chain.
 verb (v. t.) To assail, annoy, or stun with a rattling noise.
 verb (v. t.) Hence, to disconcert; to confuse; as, to rattle one's judgment; to rattle a player in a game.
 verb (v. t.) To scold; to rail at.

rattlemousenoun (n.) A bat.

rattlepatenoun (n.) A rattlehead.

rattlesnakenoun (n.) Any one of several species of venomous American snakes belonging to the genera Crotalus and Caudisona, or Sistrurus. They have a series of horny interlocking joints at the end of the tail which make a sharp rattling sound when shaken. The common rattlesnake of the Northern United States (Crotalus horridus), and the diamond rattlesnake of the South (C. adamanteus), are the best known. See Illust. of Fang.

ravagenoun (n.) Desolation by violence; violent ruin or destruction; devastation; havoc; waste; as, the ravage of a lion; the ravages of fire or tempest; the ravages of an army, or of time.
 noun (n.) To lay waste by force; to desolate by violence; to commit havoc or devastation upon; to spoil; to plunder; to consume.

ravenoun (n.) One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh.
 verb (v. i.) To wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging, as a madman.
 verb (v. i.) To rush wildly or furiously.
 verb (v. i.) To talk with unreasonable enthusiasm or excessive passion or excitement; -- followed by about, of, or on; as, he raved about her beauty.
 verb (v. t.) To utter in madness or frenzy; to say wildly; as, to rave nonsense.
  () imp. of Rive.

ravinenoun (n.) Food obtained by violence; plunder; prey; raven.
 noun (n.) A torrent of water.
 noun (n.) A deep and narrow hollow, usually worn by a stream or torrent of water; a gorge; a mountain cleft.
 verb (v. t. & i.) See Raven, v. t. & i.

rawboneadjective (a.) Rawboned.

rawhidenoun (n.) A cowhide, or coarse riding whip, made of untanned (or raw) hide twisted.

razenoun (n.) A Shakespearean word (used once) supposed to mean the same as race, a root.
 verb (v. t.) To erase; to efface; to obliterate.
 verb (v. t.) To subvert from the foundation; to lay level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to demolish.

razorableadjective (a.) Ready for the razor; fit to be shaved.

razurenoun (n.) The act of erasing or effacing, or the state of being effaced; obliteration. See Rasure.
 noun (n.) An erasure; a change made by erasing.

reachableadjective (a.) Being within reach.