Name Report For First Name ROSE:

ROSE

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

Rhymes with ROSE - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming ROSE

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES ROSE AS A WHOLE:

omorose rosemarie rosetta ambrose maddy-rose rosemaria rosemary rosemonde rosemunda roselin roselyn rosem

NAMES RHYMING WITH ROSE (According to last letters):

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

thutmose jose

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

alesandese libuse ingelise nourbese heloise anneliese alsoomse aase melesse lasse seoirse adelise agnese ailise ailse alese alise alisse allyse aloise alyse alysse amarise analise anlienisse annaliese annalise annelise ayalisse blisse bluinse blysse caresse celesse cerise chalise charise charlise chayse cherese cheresse cherise cherisse clarisse danise denise denisse dennise denyse dorise elise ellesse eloise else elyse emma-lise francoise hausisse hortense ilse ilyse janise jenise kaise labhaoise lise louise lssse luise margawse marise marlise marquise mavise mertise minoise morgawse morise naylise promyse sherise therese treise blaise blase case chase cochise jesse kesegowaase morse neese plaise reese rousse royse tse tyrese

NAMES RHYMING WITH ROSE (According to first letters):

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

ros rosa rosaleen rosalia rosalie rosalind rosalinda rosalinde rosamaria rosamonde rosamund rosana rosanne rosario roschelle rosco roscoe roshan roshin rosiyn roslin roslyn ross rosselin rosselyn rossiter rosston rosswald rostislav roswal roswald roswalt roswell

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

roald roan roana roane roanne roano roark rob robb robbie robbin robby robena robert roberta robertia roberto robertson robin robina robinetta robinette roble robynne roch roche rochelle rocio rock rocke rockford rockland rockwell rocky rod rodas rodd roddric roddrick roddy rodel rodell roderic roderica roderick roderiga roderigo roderik roderika rodes rodger rodica rodika rodman rodney rodolfo rodor rodric rodrick rodrigo rodrik rodwell roe roel roesia rogan rogelio

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH ROSE:

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 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 rolande rolfe rollie romaine romhilde romilde ronce ronelle ronnie roque rorke rourke rovere rowe roxane roxanne royale royce rozene rubie rudelle ruelle ruffe rule rune rupette rushe rute ruthie rutledge ryce rydge rye ryence ryenne rylee rylie

English Words Rhyming ROSE

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES ROSE AS A WHOLE:

aceroseadjective (a.) Having the nature of chaff; chaffy.
 adjective (a.) Needle-shaped, having a sharp, rigid point, as the leaf of the pine.

aeroseadjective (a.) Of the nature of, or like, copper; brassy.

aggeroseadjective (a.) In heaps; full of heaps.

ambrosenoun (n.) A sweet-scented herb; ambrosia. See Ambrosia, 3.

aporoseadjective (a.) Without pores.

brosenoun (n.) Pottage made by pouring some boiling liquid on meal (esp. oatmeal), and stirring it. It is called beef brose, water brose, etc., according to the name of the liquid (beef broth, hot water, etc.) used.

cerebrosenoun (n.) A sugarlike body obtained by the decomposition of the nitrogenous non-phosphorized principles of the brain.

cicatroseadjective (a.) Full of scars.

cirroseadjective (a.) Bearing a tendril or tendrils; as, a cirrose leaf.
 adjective (a.) Resembling a tendril or cirrus.

cribroseadjective (a.) Perforated like a sieve; cribriform.

dextrosenoun (n.) A sirupy, or white crystalline, variety of sugar, C6H12O6 (so called from turning the plane of polarization to the right), occurring in many ripe fruits. Dextrose and levulose are obtained by the inversion of cane sugar or sucrose, and hence called invert sugar. Dextrose is chiefly obtained by the action of heat and acids on starch, and hence called also starch sugar. It is also formed from starchy food by the action of the amylolytic ferments of saliva and pancreatic juice.

droseranoun (n.) A genus of low perennial or biennial plants, the leaves of which are beset with gland-tipped bristles. See Sundew.

eroseadjective (a.) Irregular or uneven as if eaten or worn away.
 adjective (a.) Jagged or irregularly toothed, as if nibbled out or gnawed.

excerebroseadjective (a.) Brainless.

guelderrose'noun (n.) A cultivated variety of a species of Viburnum (V. Opulus), bearing large bunches of white flowers; -- called also snowball tree.

hederoseadjective (a.) Pertaining to, or of, ivy; full of ivy.

isotherombrosenoun (n.) A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall.

kerosenenoun (n.) An oil used for illuminating purposes, formerly obtained from the distillation of mineral wax, bituminous shale, etc., and hence called also coal oil. It is now produced in immense quantities, chiefly by the distillation and purification of petroleum. It consists chiefly of several hydrocarbons of the methane series.

labroseadjective (a.) Having thick lips.

leproseadjective (a.) Covered with thin, scurfy scales.

melrosenoun (n.) Honey of roses.

microsemeadjective (a.) Having the orbital index relatively small; having the orbits broad transversely; -- opposed to megaseme.

moroseadjective (a.) Of a sour temper; sullen and austere; ill-humored; severe.
 adjective (a.) Lascivious; brooding over evil thoughts.

morosenessnoun (n.) Sourness of temper; sulenness.

mulieroseadjective (a.) Fond of woman.

microseismnoun (n.) A feeble earth tremor not directly perceptible, but detected only by means of specially constructed apparatus.

microseismographnoun (n.) A microseismometer; specif., a microseismometer producing a graphic record.

microseismologynoun (n.) Science or study of microseisms.

microseismometernoun (n.) A seismometer for measuring amplitudes or periods, or both, of microseisms.

necrosedadjective (a.) Affected by necrosis; dead; as, a necrosed bone.

neurosensiferousadjective (a.) Pertaining to, or forming, both nerves and sense organs.

nidoroseadjective (a.) Nidorous.

nitroseadjective (a.) See Nitrous.

operoseadjective (a.) Wrought with labor; requiring labor; hence, tedious; wearisome.

parachroseadjective (a.) Changing color by exposure

primroseadjective (a.) An early flowering plant of the genus Primula (P. vulgaris) closely allied to the cowslip. There are several varieties, as the white-, the red-, the yellow-flowered, etc. Formerly called also primerole, primerolles.
 adjective (a.) Any plant of the genus Primula.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the primrose; of the color of a primrose; -- hence, flowery; gay.

prosenoun (n.) The ordinary language of men in speaking or writing; language not cast in poetical measure or rhythm; -- contradistinguished from verse, or metrical composition.
 noun (n.) Hence, language which evinces little imagination or animation; dull and commonplace discourse.
 noun (n.) A hymn with no regular meter, sometimes introduced into the Mass. See Sequence.
 adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or composed of, prose; not in verse; as, prose composition.
 adjective (a.) Possessing or exhibiting unpoetical characteristics; plain; dull; prosaic; as, the prose duties of life.
 verb (v. t.) To write in prose.
 verb (v. t.) To write or repeat in a dull, tedious, or prosy way.
 verb (v. i.) To write prose.

prosectornoun (n.) One who makes dissections for anatomical illustration; usually, the assistant of a professional anatomist.

prosecutableadjective (a.) Capable of being prosecuted; liable to prosecution.

prosecutingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prosecute

prosecutionnoun (n.) The act or process of prosecuting, or of endeavoring to gain or accomplish something; pursuit by efforts of body or mind; as, the prosecution of a scheme, plan, design, or undertaking; the prosecution of war.
 noun (n.) The institution and carrying on of a suit in a court of law or equity, to obtain some right, or to redress and punish some wrong; the carrying on of a judicial proceeding in behalf of a complaining party, as distinguished from defense.
 noun (n.) The institution, or commencement, and continuance of a criminal suit; the process of exhibiting formal charges against an offender before a legal tribunal, and pursuing them to final judgment on behalf of the state or government, as by indictment or information.
 noun (n.) The party by whom criminal proceedings are instituted.

prosecutornoun (n.) One who prosecutes or carries on any purpose, plan, or business.
 noun (n.) The person who institutes and carries on a criminal suit against another in the name of the government.

prosecutrixnoun (n.) A female prosecutor.

proselytenoun (n.) A new convert especially a convert to some religion or religious sect, or to some particular opinion, system, or party; thus, a Gentile converted to Judaism, or a pagan converted to Christianity, is a proselyte.
 verb (v. t.) To convert to some religion, opinion, or system; to bring over.

proselytingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Proselyte

proselytismnoun (n.) The act or practice of proselyting; the making of converts to a religion or a religious sect, or to any opinion, system, or party.
 noun (n.) Conversion to a religion, system, or party.

proselytizingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Proselytize

proselytizernoun (n.) One who proselytes.

prosemannoun (n.) A writer of prose.

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


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


acauloseadjective (a.) Alt. of Acaulous

acervoseadjective (a.) Full of heaps.

acetoseadjective (a.) Sour like vinegar; acetous.

acinoseadjective (a.) Alt. of Acinous

aconddyloseadjective (a.) Alt. of Acondylous

actuoseadjective (a.) Very active.

acuminoseadjective (a.) Terminating in a flat, narrow end.

adenoseadjective (a.) Like a gland; full of glands; glandulous; adenous.

adiposenoun (n.) The fat present in the cells of adipose tissue, composed mainly of varying mixtures of tripalmitin, tristearin, and triolein. It solidifies after death.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to animal fat; fatty.

albuminosenoun (n.) A diffusible substance formed from albumin by the action of natural or artificial gastric juice. See Peptone.
 adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, albumen; having the properties of, or resembling, albumen or albumin.

albumosenoun (n.) A compound or class of compounds formed from albumin by dilute acids or by an acid solution of pepsin. Used also in combination, as antialbumose, hemialbumose.

almosenoun (n.) Alms.

alosenoun (n.) The European shad (Clupea alosa); -- called also allice shad or allis shad. The name is sometimes applied to the American shad (Clupea sapidissima). See Shad.
 verb (v. t.) To praise.

amylosenoun (n.) One of the starch group (C6H10O5)n of the carbohydrates; as, starch, arabin, dextrin, cellulose, etc.

anfractuoseadjective (a.) Anfractuous; as, anfractuose anthers.

anginoseadjective (a.) Pertaining to angina or angina pectoris.

anguloseadjective (a.) Angulous.

anheloseadjective (a.) Anhelous; panting.

animoseadjective (a.) Alt. of Animous

annuloseadjective (a.) Furnished with, or composed of, rings or ringlike segments; ringed.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Annulosa.

antialbumosenoun (n.) See Albumose.

aquoseadjective (a.) Watery; aqueous.

arabinosenoun (n.) A sugar of the composition C5H10O5, obtained from cherry gum by boiling it with dilute sulphuric acid.

araneoseadjective (a.) Of the aspect of a spider's web; arachnoid.

arenoseadjective (a.) Sandy; full of sand.

arioseadjective (a.) Characterized by melody, as distinguished from harmony.

anthracnosenoun (n.) Any one of several fungus diseases, caused by parasitic species of the series Melanconiales, attacking the bean, grape, melon, cotton, and other plants. In the case of the grape, brown concave spots are formed on the stem and fruit, and the disease is called bird's-eye rot.

arkosenoun (n.) A sandstone derived from the disintegration of granite or gneiss, and characterized by feldspar fragments.

bellicoseadjective (a.) Inclined to war or contention; warlike; pugnacious.

bicalloseadjective (a.) Alt. of Bicallous

bisetoseadjective (a.) Alt. of Bisetous

bispinoseadjective (a.) Having two spines.

bluenosenoun (n.) A nickname for a Nova Scotian.
 noun (n.) A Nova Scotian; also, a Nova Scotian ship (called also Blue"nos`er (/)); a Nova Scotian potato, etc.

boosenoun (n.) A stall or a crib for an ox, cow, or other animal.
 verb (v. i.) To drink excessively. See Booze.

boothosenoun (n.) Stocking hose, or spatterdashes, in lieu of boots.
 noun (n.) Hose made to be worn with boots, as by travelers on horseback.

botryoseadjective (a.) Having the form of a cluster of grapes.
 adjective (a.) Of the racemose or acropetal type of inflorescence.

brigosenoun (n.) Contentious; quarrelsome.

bulboseadjective (a.) Bulbous.

burnoosenoun (n.) Alt. of Burnous

caboosenoun (n.) A house on deck, where the cooking is done; -- commonly called the galley.
 noun (n.) A car used on freight or construction trains for brakemen, workmen, etc.; a tool car.

caespitoseadjective (a.) Same as Cespitose.

calaboosenoun (n.) A prison; a jail.

calloseadjective (a.) Furnished with protuberant or hardened spots.

camboosenoun (n.) See Caboose.

capilloseadjective (a.) Having much hair; hairy.

cargoosenoun (n.) A species of grebe (Podiceps crisratus); the crested grebe.

carnoseadjective (a.) Alt. of Carnous

cellulosenoun (n.) The substance which constitutes the essential part of the solid framework of plants, of ordinary wood, linen, paper, etc. It is also found to a slight extent in certain animals, as the tunicates. It is a carbohydrate, (C6H10O5)n, isomeric with starch, and is convertible into starches and sugars by the action of heat and acids. When pure, it is a white amorphous mass. See Starch, Granulose, Lignin.
 adjective (a.) Consisting of, or containing, cells.

cespitoseadjective (a.) Having the form a piece of turf, i. e., many stems from one rootstock or from many entangled rootstocks or roots.

chosenoun (n.) A thing; personal property.
  (imp.) of Choose
  () of Choose
  () imp. & p. p. of Choose.

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


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


rosaceousadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Rosaceae) of which the rose is the type. It includes also the plums and cherries, meadowsweet, brambles, the strawberry, the hawthorn, applies, pears, service trees, and quinces.
 adjective (a.) Like a rose in shape or appearance; as, a rosaceous corolla.
 adjective (a.) Of a pure purpish pink color.

rosacicadjective (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid (called also lithic acid) found in certain red precipitates of urine. See Uric.

rosalgarnoun (n.) realgar.

rosalianoun (n.) A form of melody in which a phrase or passage is successively repeated, each time a step or half step higher; a melodic sequence.

rosanilinenoun (n.) A complex nitrogenous base, C20H21N3O, obtained by oxidizing a mixture of aniline and toluidine, as a colorless crystalline substance which forms red salts. These salts are essential components of many of the socalled aniline dyes, as fuchsine, aniline red, etc. By extension, any one of the series of substances derived from, or related to, rosaniline proper.

rosariannoun (n.) A cultivator of roses.

rosarynoun (n.) A bed of roses, or place where roses grow.
 noun (n.) A series of prayers (see Note below) arranged to be recited in order, on beads; also, a string of beads by which the prayers are counted.
 noun (n.) A chapelet; a garland; a series or collection, as of beautiful thoughts or of literary selections.
 noun (n.) A coin bearing the figure of a rose, fraudulently circulated in Ireland in the 13th century for a penny.

roscidadjective (a.) Containing, or consisting of, dew; dewy.

roscoelitenoun (n.) A green micaceous mineral occurring in minute scales. It is essentially a silicate of aluminia and potash containing vanadium.

rosenoun (n.) A flower and shrub of any species of the genus Rosa, of which there are many species, mostly found in the morthern hemispere
 noun (n.) A knot of ribbon formed like a rose; a rose knot; a rosette, esp. one worn on a shoe.
 noun (n.) A rose window. See Rose window, below.
 noun (n.) A perforated nozzle, as of a pipe, spout, etc., for delivering water in fine jets; a rosehead; also, a strainer at the foot of a pump.
 noun (n.) The erysipelas.
 noun (n.) The card of the mariner's compass; also, a circular card with radiating lines, used in other instruments.
 noun (n.) The color of a rose; rose-red; pink.
 noun (n.) A diamond. See Rose diamond, below.
 verb (v. t.) To render rose-colored; to redden; to flush.
 verb (v. t.) To perfume, as with roses.
  (imp.) of Rise
  () imp. of Rise.

rosealadjective (a.) resembling a rose in smell or color.

roseateadjective (a.) Full of roses; rosy; as, roseate bowers.
 adjective (a.) resembling a rose in color or fragrance; esp., tinged with rose color; blooming; as, roseate beauty; her roseate lips.

rosebaynoun (n.) the oleander.
 noun (n.) Any shrub of the genus Rhododendron.
 noun (n.) An herb (Epilobium spicatum) with showy purple flowers, common in Europe and North America; -- called also great willow herb.

rosebudnoun (n.) The flower of a rose before it opens, or when but partially open.

rosebushnoun (n.) The bush or shrub which bears roses.

rosedropnoun (n.) A lozenge having a rose flavor.
 noun (n.) A kind of earring.
 noun (n.) A ruddy eruption upon the nose caused by drinking ardent spirits; a grog blossom.

rosefinchnoun (n.) Any one of numerous species of Asiatic finches of the genera Carpodacus, and Propasser, and allied genera, in which the male is more or less colored with rose red.

rosefishnoun (n.) A large marine scorpaenoid food fish (Sebastes marinus) found on the northern coasts of Europe and America. called also red perch, hemdurgan, Norway haddok, and also, erroneously, snapper, bream, and bergylt.

roseheadnoun (n.) See Rose, n., 4.
 noun (n.) A many-sided pyramidal head upon a nail; also a nail with such a head.

roseinenoun (n.) See Magenta.

roselitenoun (n.) A hydrous arsenite of cobalt, occuring in small red crystals, allied to erythrite.

rosellanoun (n.) A beautiful Australian parrakeet (Platycercus eximius) often kept as a cage bird. The head and back of the neck are scarlet, the throat is white, the back dark green varied with lighter green, and the breast yellow.

rosellenoun (n.) a malvaceous plant (Hibiscus Sabdariffa) cultivated in the east and West Indies for its fleshy calyxes, which are used for making tarts and jelly and an acid drink.

rosemaloesnoun (n.) The liquid storax of the East Indian Liquidambar orientalis.

rosemarynoun (n.) A labiate shrub (Rosmarinus officinalis) with narrow grayish leaves, growing native in the southern part of France, Spain, and Italy, also in Asia Minor and in China. It has a fragrant smell, and a warm, pungent, bitterish taste. It is used in cookery, perfumery, etc., and is an emblem of fidelity or constancy.

rosenadjective (a.) Consisting of roses; rosy.

roseolanoun (n.) A rose-colored efflorescence upon the skin, occurring in circumscribed patches of little or no elevation and often alternately fading and reviving; also, an acute specific disease which is characterized by an eruption of this character; -- called also rose rash.

rosernoun (n.) A rosier; a rosebush.

roserootnoun (n.) A fleshy-leaved herb (Rhodiola rosea); rosewort; -- so called because the roots have the odor of roses.

roserynoun (n.) A place where roses are cultivated; a nursery of roses. See Rosary, 1.

rosetnoun (n.) A red color used by painters.

rosettenoun (n.) An imitation of a rose by means of ribbon or other material, -- used as an ornament or a badge.
 noun (n.) An ornament in the form of a rose or roundel, -much used in decoration.
 noun (n.) A red color. See Roset.
 noun (n.) A rose burner. See under Rose.
 noun (n.) Any structure having a flowerlike form; especially, the group of five broad ambulacra on the upper side of the spatangoid and clypeastroid sea urchins. See Illust. of Spicule, and Sand dollar, under Sand.
 noun (n.) A flowerlike color marking; as, the rosettes on the leopard.

rosewoodnoun (n.) A valuable cabinet wood of a dark red color, streaked and variegated with black, obtained from several tropical leguminous trees of the genera Dalbergia and Machaerium. The finest kind is from Brazil, and is said to be from the Dalbergia nigra.

rosewormnoun (n.) The larva of any one of several species of lepidopterous insects which feed upon the leaves, buds, or blossoms of the rose, especially Cacaecia rosaceana, which rolls up the leaves for a nest, and devours both the leaves and buds.

rosewortnoun (n.) Roseroot.
 noun (n.) Any plant nearly related to the rose.

rosicruciannoun (n.) One who, in the 17th century and the early part of the 18th, claimed to belong to a secret society of philosophers deeply versed in the secrets of nature, -- the alleged society having existed, it was stated, several hundred years.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Rosicrucians, or their arts.

rosiedadjective (a.) Decorated with roses, or with the color of roses.

rosiernoun (n.) A rosebush; roses, collectively.

rosinnoun (n.) The hard, amber-colored resin left after distilling off the volatile oil of turpentine; colophony.
 verb (v. t.) To rub with rosin, as musicians rub the bow of a violin.

rosinessnoun (n.) The quality of being rosy.

rosinweednoun (n.) The compass plant. See under Compass.
 noun (n.) A name given in California to various composite plants which secrete resins or have a resinous smell.

rosinyadjective (a.) like rosin, or having its qualities.

roslandnoun (n.) heathy land; land full of heather; moorish or watery land.

rosmarinenoun (n.) Dew from the sea; sea dew.
 noun (n.) Rosemary.
 noun (n.) A fabulous sea animal which was reported to climb by means of its teeth to the tops of rocks to feed upon the dew.

rosolicadjective (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a complex red dyestuff (called rosolic acid) which is analogous to rosaniline and aurin. It is produced by oxidizing a mixture of phenol and cresol, as a dark red amorphous mass, C20H16O3, which forms weak salts with bases, and stable ones with acids. Called also methyl aurin, and, formerly, corallin.

rossnoun (n.) The rough, scaly matter on the surface of the bark of trees.
 verb (v. t.) To divest of the ross, or rough, scaly surface; as, to ross bark.

rosselnoun (n.) Light land; rosland.

rossellyadjective (a.) Loose; light.

rostnoun (n.) See Roust.

rostelnoun (n.) same as Rostellum.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH ROSE:

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.