Chapter 1262

Ran"sack (?) , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Ransacked (?) ; p. pr. & vb. n. Ransacking .] [OE. ransaken , Icel, rannsaka to explore, examine; rann a house (akin to Goth. razn house, AS. r\'91sn plank, beam) + the root of s\'91kja to seek, akin to E. seek . See Seek , and cf. Rest repose.] 1. To search thoroughly; to search every place or part of; as, to ransack a house .

To ransack every corner of their . . . hearts. South.

2. To plunder; to pillage completely.

Their vow is made To ransack Troy. Shak.

3. To violate; to ravish; to defiour. [Obs.]

Rich spoil of ransacked chastity. Spenser.

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Ran"sack , v. i. To make a thorough search.

To ransack in the tas [heap] of bodies dead. Chaucer.

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Ran"sack , n. The act of ransacking, or state of being ransacked; pillage. [R.]

Even your father's house Shall not be free from ransack . J. Webster.

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Ran"som (?) , n. [OE. raunson , raunsoun , OF. ran&cced;on , raen&cced;on , raan&cced;on , F. ran&cced;on , fr. L. redemptio , fr. redimere to redeem. See Redeem , and cf. Redemption .] 1. The release of a captive, or of captive, or of captured property, by payment of a consideration; redemption; as, prisoners hopeless of ransom .

Dryden.

2. The money or price paid for the redemption of a prisoner, or for goods captured by an enemy; payment for freedom from restraint, penalty, or forfeit.

Thy ransom paid, which man from death redeems. Milton.

His captivity in Austria, and the heavy ransom he paid for his liberty. Sir J. Davies/.

3. (O. Eng. Law) A sum paid for the pardon of some great offense and the discharge of the offender; also, a fine paid in lieu of corporal punishment.

Blackstone.

Ransom bill (Law) , a war contract, valid by the law of nations, for the ransom of property captured at sea and its safe conduct into port.

Kent.

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Ran"som , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Ransomed (?) ; p. pr. & vb. n. Ransoming .] [Cf. F. ran&cced;onner . See Ransom , n. ] 1. To redeem from captivity, servitude, punishment, or forfeit, by paying a price; to buy out of servitude or penalty; to rescue; to deliver; as, to ransom prisoners from an enemy .

2. To exact a ransom for, or a payment on. [R.]

Such lands as he had rule of he ransomed them so grievously, and would tax the men two or three times in a year. Berners.

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Ran"som*a*ble (?) , a. Such as can be ransomed.

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Ran"som*er (?) , n. One who ransoms or redeems.

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Ran"som*less , a. Incapable of being ransomed; without ransom.

Shak.

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Rant (?) , v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Ranted ; p. pr. & vb. n. Ranting .] [OD. ranten , randen , to dote, to be enraged.] To rave in violent, high-sounding, or extravagant language, without dignity of thought; to be noisy, boisterous, and bombastic in talk or declamation; as, a ranting preacher .

Look where my ranting host of the Garter comes! Shak.

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Rant , n. High-sounding language, without importance or dignity of thought; boisterous, empty declamation; bombast; as, the rant of fanatics .

This is a stoical rant , without any foundation in the nature of man or reason of things. Atterbury.

Ranter <Xpage=1188>

Rant"er (?) , n. 1. A noisy talker; a raving declaimer.

2. (Eccl. Hist.) (a) One of a religious sect which sprung up in 1645; -- called also Seekers . See Seeker . (b) One of the Primitive Methodists, who seceded from the Wesleyan Methodists on the ground of their deficiency in fervor and zeal; -- so called in contempt.

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Rant"er*ism (?) , n. (Eccl. Hist.) The practice or tenets of the Ranters.

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Rant"ing*ly , adv. In a ranting manner.

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Rant"i*pole (?) , n. [ Ranty + pole , poll , head.] A wild, romping young person. [Low]

Marrya<?/.

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Rant"i*pole , a. Wild; roving; rakish. [Low]

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Rant"i*pole , v. i. To act like a rantipole. [Low]

She used to rantipole about the house. Arbuthnot.

Rantism <Xpage=1188>

Rant"ism (?) , n. (Eccl. Hist.) Ranterism.

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Rant"y (?) , a. Wild; noisy; boisterous.

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Ran"u*la (?) , n. [L., a little frog, a little swelling on the tongue of cattle, dim. of rana a frog.] (Med.) A cyst formed under the tongue by obstruction of the duct of the submaxillary gland.

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Ra*nun`cu*la"ceous (?) , a. [See Ranunculus .] (Bot.) Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants ( Ranunculace\'91 ), of which the buttercup is the type, and which includes also the virgin's bower, the monkshood, larkspur, anemone, meadow rue, and peony.

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Ra*nun`cu*lus (?) , n. ; pl. E. Ranunculuses (#) , L. Ranunculi (#) . [L., a little frog, a medicinal plant, perhaps crowfoot, dim. of rana a frog; cf. raccare to roar.] (Bot.) A genus of herbs, mostly with yellow flowers, including crowfoot, buttercups, and the cultivated ranunculi ( R. Asiaticus , R. aconitifolius , etc.) in which the flowers are double and of various colors.

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Ranz" des` vaches" (?) . [F., the ranks or rows of cows, the name being given from the fact that the cattle, when answering the musical call of their keeper, move towards him in a row, preceded by those wearing bells.] The name for numerous simple, but very irregular, melodies of the Swiss mountaineers, blown on a long tube called the Alpine horn , and sometimes sung.

Rap <Xpage=1189>

Rap (?) , n. [Etymol. uncertain.] A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn.

Knight.

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Rap , v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Rapped (?) ; p. pr. & vb. n. Rapping .] [Akin to Sw. rappa to strike, rapp stroke, Dan. rap , perhaps of imitative origin.] To strike with a quick, sharp blow; to knock; as, to rap on the door .

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Rap , v. t. 1. To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.

With one great peal they rap the door. Prior.

2. (Founding) To free (a pattern) in a mold by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.

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Rap , n. A quick, smart blow; a knock.

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Rap , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Rapped (?) , usually written Rapt ; p. pr. & vb. n. Rapping .] [OE. rapen ; akin to LG. & D. rapen to snatch, G. raffen , Sw. rappa ; cf. Dan. rappe sig to make haste, and Icel. hrapa to fall, to rush, hurry. The word has been confused with L. rapere to seize. Cf. Rape robbery, Rapture , Raff , v. , Ramp , v. ] 1. To snatch away; to seize and hurry off.

And through the Greeks and Ilians they rapt The whirring chariot. Chapman.

From Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund Bacon, to Redgrove. Sir H. Wotton.

2. To hasten. [Obs.]

Piers Plowman.

3. To seize and bear away, as the mind or thoughts; to transport out of one's self; to affect with ecstasy or rapture; as, rapt into admiration .

I'm rapt with joy to see my Marcia's tears. Addison.

Rapt into future times, the bard begun. Pope.

4. To exchange; to truck. [Obs. & Law]

To rap and ren , To rap and rend . [Perhaps fr. Icel. hrapa to hurry and r\'91na plunder, fr. r\'ben plunder, E. ran .] To seize and plunder; to snatch by violence. Dryden . "[Ye] waste all that ye may rape and renne ." Chaucer.

All they could rap and rend pilfer. Hudibras.

-- To rap out , to utter with sudden violence, as an oath.

A judge who rapped out a great oath. Addison.

<-- 5. To engage in a discussion, converse; (b) (ca. 1985) to perform a type of rhythmic talking, often with accompanying rhythm instruments. -->

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Rap , n. [Perhaps contr. fr. raparee .] A popular name for any of the tokens that passed current for a half-penny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value.

Many counterfeits passed about under the name of raps . Swift.

Tie it [her money] up so tight that you can't touch a rap ,

save with her consent. Mrs. Alexander.

<-- 5. conversation, also rapping; (b) (ca. 1985) a type of rhythmic talking, often with accompanying rhythm instruments; rap music. -->

Not to care a rap , to care nothing. -- Not worth a rap , worth nothing.

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Ra*pa"ces (?) , n. pl. [NL. See Rapacious .] (Zo\'94l.) Same as Accipitres .

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Rapa"cious (?) , a. [L. rapax , -acis , from rapere to seize and carry off, to snatch away. See Rapid .]

1. Given to plunder; disposed or accustomed to seize by violence; seizing by force. " The downfall of the rapacious and licentious Knights Templar."

Motley.

2. Accustomed to seize food; subsisting on prey, or animals seized by violence,; as, a tiger is a rapacious animal; a rapacious bird.

3. Avaricious; grasping; extortionate; also, greedy; ravenous; voracious; as, rapacious usurers; a rapacious appetite.

[Thy Lord] redeem thee from Death's rapacious claim Milton .

Syn. -- Greedy; grasping; ravenous; voracious.

-- Ra*pa"cious*ly , adv. -- Ra*pa"cious*ness , n.

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Ra*pac"i*ty (?) , n. [L. rapacitas : cf. F. rapacite . See Rapacious .] 1. The quality of being rapacious; rapaciousness; ravenousness; as, the rapacity of pirates; the rapacity of wolves.

2. The act or practice of extorting or exacting by oppressive injustice; exorbitant greediness of gain. "The rapacity of some ages."

Sprat.

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Rap`a*ree" (?) , n. See Rapparee .

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Rape (r&amac;p) , n. [F. r\'83pe a grape stalk.] 1. Fruit, as grapes, plucked from the cluster.

Ray.

2. The refuse stems and skins of grapes or raisins from which the must has been expressed in wine making.

3. A filter containing the above refuse, used in clarifying and perfecting malt, vinegar, etc.

Rape wine , a poor, thin wine made from the last dregs of pressed grapes.

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Rape , n. [Akin to rap to snatch, but confused with L. rapere . See Rap to snatch.] 1. The act of seizing and carrying away by force; violent seizure; robbery. <-- [Rare] -->

And ruined orphans of thy rapes complain. Sandys.

2. (Law) Sexual connection with a woman without her consent. See Age of consent , under Consent , n. <-- (b) Any sexual intercourse forced on a person, whether male or female (also called forcible rape, or sexual assault, and sometimes, as a euphemism, criminal assault); Any sexual intercourse performed with a person who is under the age of consent, whether male or female, is statutory rape . -->

3. That which is snatched away. [Obs.]

Where now are all my hopes? O, never more. Shall they revive! nor death her rapes restore. Sandys.

4. Movement, as in snatching; haste; hurry. [Obs.]

<-- 5. (Fig., Colloq.) An action causing results harmful to a person or thing; as, the rape of the land by mining companies. -->

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Rape , v. t. To commit rape upon; to ravish.

<-- 2. (Fig., Colloq.) To perform an action causing results harmful or very unpleasant to a person or thing; as, women raped first by their assailant, and then by the Justice system. Corresponds to 2nd rape , n. 5. -->

To rape and ren . See under Rap , v. t. , to snatch.

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Rape , v. i. To rob; to pillage. [Obs.]

Heywood.

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Rape , n. [Icel. hreppr village, district; cf. Icel. hreppa to catch, obtain, AS. hrepian , hreppan , to touch.] One of six divisions of the county of Sussex, England, intermediate between a hundred and a shire.

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Rape , n. [L. rapa , rapum , akin to Gr. <?/, <?/, G. r\'81be .] (Bot.) 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.

&hand; These plants, with the edible turnip, have been variously named, but are all now believed to be derived from the Brassica campestris of Europe, which by some is not considered distinct from the wild stock ( B. oleracea ) of the cabbage. See Cole .

Broom rape . (Bot.) See Broom rape , in the Vocabulary. -- Rape cake , the refuse remaining after the oil has been expressed from the seed. -- Rape root . Same as Rape . -- Summer rape . (Bot.) See Colza .

Rapeful <Xpage=1189>

Rape"ful (?) , a. 1. Violent. [Obs.]

2. Given to the commission of rape.

Byron.

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Rap"ful*ly (?) , adv. Violently. [Obs.]

Raphaelesque <Xpage=1189>

Raph`a*el*esque" (?) , a. Like Raphael's works; in Raphael's manner of painting.

Raphaelism <Xpage=1189>

Raph"a*el*ism (?) , n. The principles of painting introduced by Raphael, the Italian painter.

Raphaelite <Xpage=1189>

Raph"a*el*ite (?) , n. One who advocates or adopts the principles of Raphaelism.

Raphany <Xpage=1189>

Raph"a*ny (?) , n. [Cf. F. raphanie .] (Med.) A convulsive disease, attended with ravenous hunger, not uncommon in Sweden and Germany. It was so called because supposed to be caused by eating corn with which seeds of jointed charlock ( Raphanus raphanistrum ) had been mixed, but the condition is now known to be a form of ergotism.

Raphe <Xpage=1189>

Ra"phe (r&amac;"f&esl;) , n. [NL., fr. Gr. <?/ a seam or suture, fr. <?/ to sew or stitch together.] 1. (Anat.) A line, ridge, furrow, or band of fibers, especially in the median line; as, the raphe of the tongue .

2. (Bot.) Same as Rhaph<?/ .

Raphides <Xpage=1189>

Raph"i*des (?) , n. pl. [F. raphide .] (Bot.) See Rhaphides .

Rapid <Xpage=1189>

Rap"id (?) , a. [L. rapidus , fr. rapere to seize and carry off, to snatch or hurry away; perhaps akin to Gr. <?/; cf. F. rapide . Cf. Harpy , Ravish .]

1. Very swift or quick; moving with celerity; fast; as, a rapid stream; a rapid flight; a rapid motion.

Ascend my chariot; guide the rapid wheels. Milton.

2. Advancing with haste or speed; speedy in progression; in quick sequence; as, rapid growth; rapid improvement; rapid recurrence; rapid succession.

3. Quick in execution; as, a rapid penman .

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Rap"id , n. [Cf. F. rapide . See Rapid , a. ] The part of a river where the current moves with great swiftness, but without actual waterfall or cascade; -- usually in the plural; as, the Lachine rapids in the St. Lawrence . <-- sometimes called whitewater -->

Row, brothers, row the stream runs fast, The rapids are near, and the daylight's past. Moore.

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Ra*pid"i*ty (?) , n. [L. rapiditas : cf. F. rapidit\'82 .] The quality or state of being rapid; swiftness; celerity; velocity; as, the rapidity of growth or improvement .

Syn. -- -- Rapidness; haste; speed; celerity; velocity; swiftness; fleetness; quickness; agility.

Rapidly <Xpage=1189>

Rap"id*ly (?) , adv. In a rapid manner.

Rapidness <Xpage=1189>

Rap"id*ness , n. Quality of being rapid; rapidity.

Rapier <Xpage=1189>

Ra"pi*er (?) , n. [F. rapi\'8are , perhaps for raspi\'8are , and ultimately of German origin, akin to E. rasp , v.] A straight sword, with a narrow and finely pointed blade, used only for thrusting.

Rapier fish (Zo\'94l.) , the swordfish. [Obs.]

Grew.

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Ra"pi*ered (?) , a. Wearing a rapier. "Scarletcoated, rapiered figures."

Lowell.

Rapilli <Xpage=1189>

Ra*pil"li (?) , n. pl. [It.] (Min.) Lapilli.

Rapine <Xpage=1189>

Rap"ine (?) , n. [F. rapine ; cf. Pr. & It. rapina ; all fr. L. rapina , fr. rapere to seize and carry off by force. See Rapid , and cf. Raven rapine.] 1. The act of plundering; the seizing and carrying away of things by force; spoliation; pillage; plunder.

Men who were impelled to war quite as much by the desire of rapine as by the desire of glory. Macaulay.

2. Ravishment; rape. [Obs.]

Shak.

Rapine <Xpage=1189>

Rap"ine , v. t. To plunder.

Sir G. Buck.

Rapinous <Xpage=1189>

Rap"i*nous (?) , a. Given to rapine. [Obs.]

Rappage <Xpage=1189>

Rap"page (?) , n. (Founding) The enlargement of a molt caused by rapping the pattern.

Rapparee <Xpage=1189>

Rap`pa*ree" (?) , n. A wild Irish plunderer, esp. one of the 17th century; -- so called from his carrying a half-pike, called a rapary . [Written also raparee .]

Rapped <Xpage=1189>

Rapped (r&acr;pt) , imp. & p. p. of Rap , to strike.

Rapped <Xpage=1189>

Rapped , imp. & p. p. of Rap , to snatch away.

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Rap*pee" (?) , n. [F. r\'83p\'82 , fr. r\'83per to grate, to rasp. See Rasp , v. ] A pungent kind of snuff made from the darker and ranker kinds of tobacco leaves.

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