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Show RA RAVISHINGLY. adv. [from rawifbing. To extremity of pleafure As all the houfewiferies of deities ar . To heare a voice {0 rawifbingly fair Chapman RAVISHMENT. #. f. [ravifement, Fr from ravifb. 1. Violation ; forcible conftupration Of his feveral rawifbments ing away of men's wives Taylor's Rule of Liwing Holy chafte maidens 1 told them I was one of their knight-errant Dryden that delivered them from rawvifbment rapture ; ecftafy; pleafin of th and bath as if h fuddenl wer Wilkins . pofleft, ran naked up and down RAW. adj. [bneap, Saxon; raa, Danifh roxw, Dut. 1. Not fubdued by the fire Full of great lumps of flefh, and gebbets raav Spenfer 2. Not covered with the fkin All aloud the wind doth blow And coughing drowns the parfon's faw And birds fit brooding in the fnow And Marian's nofe looks red and raw Lewiticus, xiile 10 3. Sore This her knight was fecble and too faint And all his finews waxen weak and ra Through long imprifonment Spenfer 4. Immature; unripe ; not concotted 5. Unfeafoned ; unripe in fkill Some people, very racw and ignorant, are ver anworthily and unfitly nominated to places, whe men of defert are held back #nd unpreferred Raleigh's Efays People, while young and raw, and foft-natured are apt to think it an eafy thing to gain love, an reckon their own friendfhip a fure price of anothe man's 3 but when experience fhall have once opene their eyes, they will find shat a friend is the gif of God South Sails were fpread to ev'ry wind that blew Raw were the failors, and the depths were new Dryden Well T kne What perils youthful ardour would purfue Dry This feems to be the meaning I have in my min A thoufand raw tricks of thefe bragging jacks Shakejpeare 7. Bleak; chill They carrje always with them that weed,: a their houfe, their bed, and their garment; an coming laftly into Ireland, they found there mor fpecial ufe. thercof, by reafon of the razv cold climate Spenfer's State of Ireland Youthful fill in your doublet and hofe, thi raw rheumatick day Shakefpeare Once upon araw and gufty day The troubled Tyber chafing with his fhores Shak 8. Not decoted Bacon as ra filk Ra'weonep. adj. [raw and bone.] Hav18g bones fcarcely covered with flefh Lean rawvbon'd rafcals ! who would e'er fuppof They had fuch ceyrage and hands and feet jection bones b tellin them of rawbead an blood Locke Ra'wrLy. adv. [from raw. 1. In a raw manner 2 Skakefpeaye The plage would be razed to the ground, an its foundations fown with falt. Addifin's Speétator z. To efface Fatal this marriage; cancelling your fame Razing the charatters of your renown. Shakefpeare Pluck from the memory a rooted forrow Raze out the written troubles of the brain. Shakefp He in derifion fet Upon their tongues a various fpirit, to raz Quite out their native language ; and inftead Miltont 3. To extirpate Uafkilfully; without experience I'll find a day to maffacre them all "3. Newly Shakefp And raze their faction and their family Some crying for afurgeon, fome upon the debt they owe, {fome upon their children razoly left Shakelpeare's Hemy V Ra'wnEss. n. /. [from raw, 1. State of being raw 2 Wetouch'd with jo The royal hand that raz'd unhappy Troy. Dryden To fow a jangling noife of words RA'ZOR. #n. /. [rafor; Latin. A knif with a thick blade and fine edge ufe in fhaving Zeal, except ordered aright, ufeth the razor wit fuch eagernefs, that the life of religion is thercb Chalk helpeth concoction, fo it be out of a dee well ; for then it cureth the razwzefs of the water hazarded Huyoker Thefe words are razors to my wounded heart Bacon Shakefpeare Thofe thy boift'rous locks, not by the fwor Unfikilfulnefs Charles V. confidering the 7awwnefs of his feaman, eftablifhed a pilot major for their examination Hakewill 3. Hafty manner This feems to be th meaning in this obfcure paflag Why in that razunefs left he wife and children Without leave taking Shakefpeare's Macketh a.[0 [raie rayon French radius Latin. 1. A beam of light Thefe eyes that roll in vai To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn. Milt The leaft light, or part of light, which may b ftopt alone, or do or fuffer any thing alone, whic the reft of the light doth not or fuffers not, call a ray of light Neavton Sol through white curtains fhot a tim'rous ray And op'd thofe eyes that muft eclipfe the day. Pope 2. Any luftre corporeal or intellectual The air fharpen'd his vifual ray He now, obfervant of the parting ray Eyes the calm funfet of thy various day 3. [Raye, French Milton Pope raia, Lat. A fith Ainfworth. 4. [Lolium, Latin.] An herb. Ainfaworth 70 Ray. @. a. [rayer, French; from th noun. To ftreak; to mar lines An old word in lon ‘Which fhe increafed with her bleeding heart And the clean waves with purple gore did ray His horfe is raied with the yellows. Shakefpeare ‘Was ever man fo beaten ? was ever men fo raied was ever man fo weary ? Shak:fpeare Spenfer Ray, for array Raze. n. /. [rayz, a root, Spanifh. root of ginger This is commonl written race, but lefs properly I have a gammon of bacon and two razes o ginger to be delivered Shakefpeare's Henry 1 rafus Zo Raze. w. a. [rafer, French See Rask Latin. 1. To overthrow ; to ruin Wil yo fuffe a temple to {fubvert ho bu il 7 poorl foever, but yeta temple of your deity, to be He yoaketh your rebellious necks Razeth your cities, and fubverts your towns It grieved the tyrant, that fo bafe Sha tow thould fo long hold out, fo that he would threate to raze it Of noble warrior, fo to ftain his honour But by the barber's razor beft fubdu'd Miltom Razor makers generally clap a fmall bar o Venice fteel between two {mall bars of Flemit fteel, and weld them together, to ftrengthen th back of the razor Moxon As in fmooth oil the razor beft is whet So wit is by politenefs fharpeft fet Their want of edge from their offence is feen; Both pain us leat when exquifitely keen Young Razors of a boar. A boar's tuiks Ra‘zouraBLE. adj. [from razor.] Fitt be thaved Not in ufe New-born chins be rough and razourable. Shak Ra'zorrIsH Knolles Shed chriftian blood, and populous cities razi Becaufe they're taught to ufe fome diff 'rent };hr:\yl\? Waller 7. / The fheath or razorfifh refembleth in length an bignefs a man's finger Carcw Ra‘zure Latin. #. /. [rafure, French A& of erafing rafura Oh! your defert fpeaks loud It well deferves with charaters of braf A forted refidence, 'gaingt the tooth of tim And razure of oblivion Shake[peare RE. Is an infeparable particle ufed by th Latins, and from them borrowed by u to denote iteration or backward aétion as, return, to come back; to rewiwve t liv again drivin Befide a bubbling fountain low fhe lay Si Diftilled waters will laft Jonger than razv waters 9. Not fpun or twifted Raavhead and bloody bones S/.'enfcr Young as thou wert in dangers, raw to war 6. New and to the ftage permi Ray Shakefp If there be quick razv fleth in the rifings, it i an old leprofye Hence draw thy theme Ragoufts for Tercus or Thyeftes dreft Dryden Servants awe children, and keep them in fub the mind All things joy, with ravifbmen Milton Attracted by thy beauty fill to gaze Can any mortal mixture of earth's moul Breathe fuch divine enchanting rawifbment! Milton What a rawvifbment was that, when having foun out the way to meafure Hiero's crown, he leape ou Ra'wueap. n. /. [raw and bead. Th name of a {pe&tre, mentioned to frigh children came in all thofe ancien Tell them ancient ftories of the rawifbment o violence o The wolf was content to barter away a rawboned carcafe for a fmooth and fat one. L'Effrange betrayings and fteal fables of his transformations and all that rabble o Raleigh Grecian forgeries 2. Tranfport RE RA repercuffion back: reciprocation th a o as, to re criminate It 1s put almoft arbitraril before verbs and verbal nouns, fo tha many words {0 compounded will per haps be found, which it was not neceffary to infert. It fometimes adds littl to the fimple meaning of the word, a in rejoice REeacce'ss #. /i [rs and aceefs. Vifi renewed Let pafs the quailing and withering of all thing by the recefs, and their reviving by the reaccefs o the fun Hakewwill 7o REacH. @. 2. ancient preterite raught [nzcan, Saxon. 1. ‘{'o touch with the hand extended Roun They longing ftood ave riches But large means t the tre but could not reach empire, pow'r gratify the wil Th we climb to rife and reac tteps by whic Miltin Our wifh, and that obtained, down witha fcaffold in O fcepters, crown their end an thrones they'v ferv' And there like lumber to be left and fcorn'd 1 |