Name Report For First Name RUNE:

RUNE

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

Rhymes with RUNE - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming RUNE

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES RUNE AS A WHOLE:

brunetta brune brunella irune prunellie brunelle prunella

NAMES RHYMING WITH RUNE (According to last letters):

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

deheune josune lajeune doune fortune sigune

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

berhane ankine gayane lucine yserone agurtzane barkarne eguskine hanne jensine larine nielsine petrine stinne mafuane aceline alaine albertine alexandrine allyriane ermengardine jacqueline jeanne julienne marjolaine simone adeline alfonsine helene alcmene alcyone ambrosine amymone anemone antigone arachne arene ariadne celandine clymene cyrene daphne eirene erigone euphrosyne evadne evangeline halcyone hesione ismene lexine melpomene mnemosyne nerine oenone procne sebastene theone tisiphone abarrane tzigane aithne columbine yone kimane tegene celidone cymbeline turquine uwaine doane cymbelline locrine janne beltane airdsgainne boyne arne arsene eugene hasione bane konane duane pivane johanne adalene adene adenne adilene adine adriane adrianne adriene

NAMES RHYMING WITH RUNE (According to first letters):

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

runihura

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 ruodrik ruomhildi rupert rupetta rupette ruprecht ruqaya ruqayyah rusalka rush rushe rushford rushkin russ russel russell russu rust rusty ruta rute rutger ruth rutherford ruthie rutledge rutley ruusu ruwaydah ruza

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH RUNE:

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 RUNE

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES RUNE AS A WHOLE:

brunetteadjective (a.) A girl or woman with a somewhat brown or dark complexion.
 adjective (a.) Having a dark tint.

prunenoun (n.) A plum; esp., a dried plum, used in cookery; as, French or Turkish prunes; California prunes.
 verb (v. t.) To lop or cut off the superfluous parts, branches, or shoots of; to clear of useless material; to shape or smooth by trimming; to trim: as, to prune trees; to prune an essay.
 verb (v. t.) To cut off or cut out, as useless parts.
 verb (v. t.) To preen; to prepare; to dress.
 verb (v. i.) To dress; to prink; -used humorously or in contempt.

prunellanoun (n.) Angina, or angina pectoris.
 noun (n.) Thrush.
 noun (n.) Alt. of Prunello

prunellonoun (n.) A smooth woolen stuff, generally black, used for making shoes; a kind of lasting; -- formerly used also for clergymen's gowns.
 noun (n.) A species of dried plum; prunelle.

prunellenoun (n.) A kind of small and very acid French plum; -- applied especially to the stoned and dried fruit.

prunernoun (n.) One who prunes, or removes, what is superfluous.
 noun (n.) Any one of several species of beetles whose larvae gnaw the branches of trees so as to cause them to fall, especially the American oak pruner (Asemum moestum), whose larva eats the pith of oak branches, and when mature gnaws a circular furrow on the inside nearly to the bark. When the branches fall each contains a pupa.

runenoun (n.) A letter, or character, belonging to the written language of the ancient Norsemen, or Scandinavians; in a wider sense, applied to the letters of the ancient nations of Northern Europe in general.
 noun (n.) Old Norse poetry expressed in runes.

runernoun (n.) A bard, or learned man, among the ancient Goths.

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


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


aunenoun (n.) A French cloth measure, of different parts of the country (at Paris, 0.95 of an English ell); -- now superseded by the meter.

communenoun (n.) Communion; sympathetic intercourse or conversation between friends.
 noun (n.) The commonalty; the common people.
 noun (n.) A small territorial district in France under the government of a mayor and municipal council; also, the inhabitants, or the government, of such a district. See Arrondissement.
 noun (n.) Absolute municipal self-government.
 verb (v. i.) To converse together with sympathy and confidence; to interchange sentiments or feelings; to take counsel.
 verb (v. i.) To receive the communion; to partake of the eucharist or Lord's supper.

dejeunenoun (n.) A dejeuner.

demilunenoun (n.) A work constructed beyond the main ditch of a fortress, and in front of the curtain between two bastions, intended to defend the curtain; a ravelin. See Ravelin.
 noun (n.) A crescentic mass of granular protoplasm present in the salivary glands.

dunenoun (n.) A low hill of drifting sand usually formed on the coats, but often carried far inland by the prevailing winds.

fortunenoun (n.) The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident; luck; hap; also, the personified or deified power regarded as determining human success, apportioning happiness and unhappiness, and distributing arbitrarily or fortuitously the lots of life.
 noun (n.) That which befalls or is to befall one; lot in life, or event in any particular undertaking; fate; destiny; as, to tell one's fortune.
 noun (n.) That which comes as the result of an undertaking or of a course of action; good or ill success; especially, favorable issue; happy event; success; prosperity as reached partly by chance and partly by effort.
 noun (n.) Wealth; large possessions; large estate; riches; as, a gentleman of fortune.
 noun (n.) To make fortunate; to give either good or bad fortune to.
 noun (n.) To provide with a fortune.
 noun (n.) To presage; to tell the fortune of.
 verb (v. i.) To fall out; to happen.

immunenoun (n.) One who is immune; esp., a person who is immune from a disease by reason of previous affection with the disease or inoculation.
 adjective (a.) Exempt; protected by inoculation.

importuneadjective (a.) To request or solicit, with urgency; to press with frequent, unreasonable, or troublesome application or pertinacity; hence, to tease; to irritate; to worry.
 adjective (a.) To import; to signify.
 verb (v. i.) To require; to demand.

impuneadjective (a.) Unpunished.

infortunenoun (n.) Misfortune.

inopportuneadjective (a.) Not opportune; inconvenient; unseasonable; as, an inopportune occurrence, remark, etc.

jejuneadjective (a.) Lacking matter; empty; void of substance.
 adjective (a.) Void of interest; barren; meager; dry; as, a jejune narrative.

junenoun (n.) The sixth month of the year, containing thirty days.
 noun (n.) The sister and wife of Jupiter, the queen of heaven, and the goddess who presided over marriage. She corresponds to the Greek Hera.
 noun (n.) One of the early discovered asteroids.

lacunenoun (n.) A lacuna.

lagunenoun (n.) See Lagoon.

lunenoun (n.) Anything in the shape of a half moon.
 noun (n.) A figure in the form of a crescent, bounded by two intersecting arcs of circles.
 noun (n.) A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak.

malacatunenoun (n.) See Melocoton.

misfortunenoun (n.) Bad fortune or luck; calamity; an evil accident; disaster; mishap; mischance.
 verb (v. i.) To happen unluckily or unfortunately; to miscarry; to fail.

neptunenoun (n.) The son of Saturn and Ops, the god of the waters, especially of the sea. He is represented as bearing a trident for a scepter.
 noun (n.) The remotest known planet of our system, discovered -- as a result of the computations of Leverrier, of Paris -- by Galle, of Berlin, September 23, 1846. Its mean distance from the sun is about 2,775,000,000 miles, and its period of revolution is about 164,78 years.

nyctibunenoun (n.) A South American bird of the genus Nyctibius, allied to the goatsuckers.

opportuneadjective (a.) Convenient; ready; hence, seasonable; timely.
 verb (v. t.) To suit.

paunenoun (n.) A kind of bread. See Pone.

picayunenoun (n.) A small coin of the value of six and a quarter cents. See Fippenny bit.

plenilunenoun (n.) The full moon.

semilunenoun (n.) The half of a lune.

tribunenoun (n.) An officer or magistrate chosen by the people, to protect them from the oppression of the patricians, or nobles, and to defend their liberties against any attempts that might be made upon them by the senate and consuls.
 noun (n.) Anciently, a bench or elevated place, from which speeches were delivered; in France, a kind of pulpit in the hall of the legislative assembly, where a member stands while making an address; any place occupied by a public orator.

triuneadjective (a.) Being three in one; -- an epithet used to express the unity of a trinity of persons in the Godhead.

tunenoun (n.) A sound; a note; a tone.
 noun (n.) A rhythmical, melodious, symmetrical series of tones for one voice or instrument, or for any number of voices or instruments in unison, or two or more such series forming parts in harmony; a melody; an air; as, a merry tune; a mournful tune; a slow tune; a psalm tune. See Air.
 noun (n.) The state of giving the proper, sound or sounds; just intonation; harmonious accordance; pitch of the voice or an instrument; adjustment of the parts of an instrument so as to harmonize with itself or with others; as, the piano, or the organ, is not in tune.
 noun (n.) Order; harmony; concord; fit disposition, temper, or humor; right mood.
 verb (v. t.) To put into a state adapted to produce the proper sounds; to harmonize, to cause to be in tune; to correct the tone of; as, to tune a piano or a violin.
 verb (v. t.) To give tone to; to attune; to adapt in style of music; to make harmonious.
 verb (v. t.) To sing with melody or harmony.
 verb (v. t.) To put into a proper state or disposition.
 verb (v. i.) To form one sound to another; to form accordant musical sounds.
 verb (v. i.) To utter inarticulate harmony with the voice; to sing without pronouncing words; to hum.

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


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


runningnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Run
 noun (n.) The act of one who, or of that which runs; as, the running was slow.
 noun (n.) That which runs or flows; the quantity of a liquid which flows in a certain time or during a certain operation; as, the first running of a still.
 noun (n.) The discharge from an ulcer or other sore.
 adjective (a.) Moving or advancing by running.
 adjective (a.) Having a running gait; not a trotter or pacer.
 adjective (a.) trained and kept for running races; as, a running horse.
 adjective (a.) Successive; one following the other without break or intervention; -- said of periods of time; as, to be away two days running; to sow land two years running.
 adjective (a.) Flowing; easy; cursive; as, a running hand.
 adjective (a.) Continuous; keeping along step by step; as, he stated the facts with a running explanation.
 adjective (a.) Extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem; as, a running vine.
 adjective (a.) Discharging pus; as, a running sore.

runnoun (n.) The act of running; as, a long run; a good run; a quick run; to go on the run.
 noun (n.) A small stream; a brook; a creek.
 noun (n.) That which runs or flows in the course of a certain operation, or during a certain time; as, a run of must in wine making; the first run of sap in a maple orchard.
 noun (n.) A course; a series; that which continues in a certain course or series; as, a run of good or bad luck.
 noun (n.) State of being current; currency; popularity.
 noun (n.) Continued repetition on the stage; -- said of a play; as, to have a run of a hundred successive nights.
 noun (n.) A continuing urgent demand; especially, a pressure on a bank or treasury for payment of its notes.
 noun (n.) A range or extent of ground for feeding stock; as, a sheep run.
 noun (n.) The aftermost part of a vessel's hull where it narrows toward the stern, under the quarter.
 noun (n.) The distance sailed by a ship; as, a good run; a run of fifty miles.
 noun (n.) A voyage; as, a run to China.
 noun (n.) A pleasure excursion; a trip.
 noun (n.) The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by license of the proprietor of a mine or by the nature of the formation; also, the direction which a vein of ore or other substance takes.
 noun (n.) A roulade, or series of running tones.
 noun (n.) The greatest degree of swiftness in marching. It is executed upon the same principles as the double-quick, but with greater speed.
 noun (n.) The act of migrating, or ascending a river to spawn; -- said of fish; also, an assemblage or school of fishes which migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
 noun (n.) In baseball, a complete circuit of the bases made by a player, which enables him to score one; in cricket, a passing from one wicket to the other, by which one point is scored; as, a player made three runs; the side went out with two hundred runs.
 noun (n.) A pair or set of millstones.
 noun (n.) A number of cards of the same suit in sequence; as, a run of four in hearts.
 noun (n.) The movement communicated to a golf ball by running.
 noun (n.) The distance a ball travels after touching the ground from a stroke.
 adjective (a.) To move, proceed, advance, pass, go, come, etc., swiftly, smoothly, or with quick action; -- said of things animate or inanimate. Hence, to flow, glide, or roll onward, as a stream, a snake, a wagon, etc.; to move by quicker action than in walking, as a person, a horse, a dog.
 adjective (a.) To go swiftly; to pass at a swift pace; to hasten.
 adjective (a.) To flee, as from fear or danger.
 adjective (a.) To steal off; to depart secretly.
 adjective (a.) To contend in a race; hence, to enter into a contest; to become a candidate; as, to run for Congress.
 adjective (a.) To pass from one state or condition to another; to come into a certain condition; -- often with in or into; as, to run into evil practices; to run in debt.
 adjective (a.) To exert continuous activity; to proceed; as, to run through life; to run in a circle.
 adjective (a.) To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation; as, to run from one subject to another.
 adjective (a.) To discuss; to continue to think or speak about something; -- with on.
 adjective (a.) To make numerous drafts or demands for payment, as upon a bank; -- with on.
 adjective (a.) To creep, as serpents.
 adjective (a.) To flow, as a liquid; to ascend or descend; to course; as, rivers run to the sea; sap runs up in the spring; her blood ran cold.
 adjective (a.) To proceed along a surface; to extend; to spread.
 adjective (a.) To become fluid; to melt; to fuse.
 adjective (a.) To turn, as a wheel; to revolve on an axis or pivot; as, a wheel runs swiftly round.
 adjective (a.) To travel; to make progress; to be moved by mechanical means; to go; as, the steamboat runs regularly to Albany; the train runs to Chicago.
 adjective (a.) To extend; to reach; as, the road runs from Philadelphia to New York; the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.
 adjective (a.) To go back and forth from place to place; to ply; as, the stage runs between the hotel and the station.
 adjective (a.) To make progress; to proceed; to pass.
 adjective (a.) To continue in operation; to be kept in action or motion; as, this engine runs night and day; the mill runs six days in the week.
 adjective (a.) To have a course or direction; as, a line runs east and west.
 adjective (a.) To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
 adjective (a.) To be popularly known; to be generally received.
 adjective (a.) To have growth or development; as, boys and girls run up rapidly.
 adjective (a.) To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
 adjective (a.) To spread and blend together; to unite; as, colors run in washing.
 adjective (a.) To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company; as, certain covenants run with the land.
 adjective (a.) To continue without falling due; to hold good; as, a note has thirty days to run.
 adjective (a.) To discharge pus or other matter; as, an ulcer runs.
 adjective (a.) To be played on the stage a number of successive days or nights; as, the piece ran for six months.
 adjective (a.) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing closehauled; -- said of vessels.
 adjective (a.) Specifically, of a horse: To move rapidly in a gait in which each leg acts in turn as a propeller and a supporter, and in which for an instant all the limbs are gathered in the air under the body.
 adjective (a.) To move rapidly by springing steps so that there is an instant in each step when neither foot touches the ground; -- so distinguished from walking in athletic competition.
 adjective (a.) Melted, or made from molten material; cast in a mold; as, run butter; run iron or lead.
 adjective (a.) Smuggled; as, run goods.
 verb (v. t.) To cause to run (in the various senses of Run, v. i.); as, to run a horse; to run a stage; to run a machine; to run a rope through a block.
 verb (v. i.) To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
 verb (v. i.) To cause to enter; to thrust; as, to run a sword into or through the body; to run a nail into the foot.
 verb (v. i.) To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
 verb (v. i.) To fuse; to shape; to mold; to cast; as, to run bullets, and the like.
 verb (v. i.) To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine; as, to run a line.
 verb (v. i.) To cause to pass, or evade, offical restrictions; to smuggle; -- said of contraband or dutiable goods.
 verb (v. i.) To go through or accomplish by running; as, to run a race; to run a certain career.
 verb (v. i.) To cause to stand as a candidate for office; to support for office; as, to run some one for Congress.
 verb (v. i.) To encounter or incur, as a danger or risk; as, to run the risk of losing one's life. See To run the chances, below.
 verb (v. i.) To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
 verb (v. i.) To discharge; to emit; to give forth copiously; to be bathed with; as, the pipe or faucet runs hot water.
 verb (v. i.) To be charged with, or to contain much of, while flowing; as, the rivers ran blood.
 verb (v. i.) To conduct; to manage; to carry on; as, to run a factory or a hotel.
 verb (v. i.) To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
 verb (v. i.) To sew, as a seam, by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series of stitches on the needle at the same time.
 verb (v. i.) To migrate or move in schools; -- said of fish; esp., to ascend a river in order to spawn.
 verb (v. t.) To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.
  () of Run
  (p. p.) of Run

runagatenoun (n.) A fugitive; a vagabond; an apostate; a renegade. See Renegade.

runawaynoun (n.) One who, or that which, flees from danger, duty, restraint, etc.; a fugitive.
 noun (n.) The act of running away, esp. of a horse or teams; as, there was a runaway yesterday.
 adjective (a.) Running away; fleeing from danger, duty, restraint, etc.; as, runaway soldiers; a runaway horse.
 adjective (a.) Accomplished by running away or elopement, or during flight; as, a runaway marriage.
 adjective (a.) Won by a long lead; as, a runaway victory.
 adjective (a.) Very successful; accomplishing success quickly; as, a runaway bestseller.

runcationnoun (n.) A weeding.

runchnoun (n.) The wild radish.

runcinateadjective (a.) Pinnately cut with the lobes pointing downwards, as the leaf of the dandelion.

rundelnoun (n.) A moat with water in it; also, a small stream; a runlet.
 noun (n.) A circle.

rundlenoun (n.) A round; a step of a ladder; a rung.
 noun (n.) A ball.
 noun (n.) Something which rotates about an axis, as a wheel, or the drum of a capstan.
 noun (n.) One of the pins or trundles of a lantern wheel.

rundletnoun (n.) A small barrel of no certain dimensions. It may contain from 3 to 20 gallons, but it usually holds about 14/ gallons.

rungnoun (n.) A floor timber in a ship.
 noun (n.) One of the rounds of a ladder.
 noun (n.) One of the stakes of a cart; a spar; a heavy staff.
 noun (n.) One of the radial handles projecting from the rim of a steering wheel; also, one of the pins or trundles of a lantern wheel.
  () of Ring
  (p. p.) of Ring
  () imp. & p. p. of Ring.

rungheadnoun (n.) The upper end of a floor timber in a ship.

runicadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a rune, to runes, or to the Norsemen; as, runic verses; runic letters; runic names; runic rhyme.

runletnoun (n.) A little run or stream; a streamlet; a brook.
 noun (n.) Same as Rundlet.

runnelnoun (n.) A rivulet or small brook.

runnernoun (n.) One who, or that which, runs; a racer.
 noun (n.) A detective.
 noun (n.) A messenger.
 noun (n.) A smuggler.
 noun (n.) One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc.
 noun (n.) A slender trailing branch which takes root at the joints or end and there forms new plants, as in the strawberry and the common cinquefoil.
 noun (n.) The rotating stone of a set of millstones.
 noun (n.) A rope rove through a block and used to increase the mechanical power of a tackle.
 noun (n.) One of the pieces on which a sled or sleigh slides; also the part or blade of a skate which slides on the ice.
 noun (n.) A horizontal channel in a mold, through which the metal flows to the cavity formed by the pattern; also, the waste metal left in such a channel.
 noun (n.) A trough or channel for leading molten metal from a furnace to a ladle, mold, or pig bed.
 noun (n.) The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are attached.
 noun (n.) A food fish (Elagatis pinnulatus) of Florida and the West Indies; -- called also skipjack, shoemaker, and yellowtail. The name alludes to its rapid successive leaps from the water.
 noun (n.) Any cursorial bird.
 noun (n.) A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or polishing a surface of stone.
 noun (n.) A tool on which lenses are fastened in a group, for polishing or grinding.
  () One that starts from the scratch; hence, one of first-rate ability.

runnetnoun (n.) See Rennet.

runnionnoun (n.) See Ronion.

runologynoun (n.) The science of runes.

runroundnoun (n.) A felon or whitlow.

runtadjective (a.) Any animal which is unusually small, as compared with others of its kind; -- applied particularly to domestic animals.
 adjective (a.) A variety of domestic pigeon, related to the barb and carrier.
 adjective (a.) A dwarf; also, a mean, despicable, boorish person; -- used opprobriously.
 adjective (a.) The dead stump of a tree; also, the stem of a plant.

runtyadjective (a.) Like a runt; diminutive; mean.

runwaynoun (n.) The channel of a stream.
 noun (n.) The beaten path made by deer or other animals in passing to and from their feeding grounds.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH RUNE:

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.