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Show BI RI Rier'prry. ;. /. [rigidité, French rigid. fro The bafe degenerate age require Severity and juftice in its rigour This awes an impious bold offending world 1. Stiffnefs Rigidity is faid of the folids of the body, when . being fiff or impliable, they cannot readily perform their refpeive offices ; but a fibre is faid t 6. Rage of the fluids ought to overcome their refiftanc is fuch a ftate as make vefiels and organs muft neceflarily follow from th rigidity of the fibres Arbuthnet on Aliments or airy elegance This fevere obfervation of nature, by the one i and by the other in her abfolutef ‘her commoneft produc forms, muft nced in both a kind of rigi dity, and confequently more naturalnefs than gracefulnefs Wotton's Architecture Ri‘cipLy. adv. [from rigid. me 1. Stiffly 5 unpliantly % 2. Severely ; inflexibly ; without remiffion ; without mitigation Ri‘cIDNESS. 7. /. [from rigid.] Stiff nefs; feverity; inflexibility "Ri‘GLET #./ [reguler French. A fla thin fquare piece of wood The pieces that are intended to make the frame for pictures, before they are molded, are called rig- lets Moxon Ri'cor. n / Jpear A circle Ufed in Shake for a diadem This fleep is found ; this is a fleep That, from this golden rige/, hath divorc' So many Englith kings Shakefpeare's Henry IV . RIGOUR. #. /. [rigor, Latin. 1. Cold ftiffnefs Milton 2. A convulfive fhuddering with fenfe o ' ficold. Rigors, <hilnefs, and a fever attend every fuc Blackmore new {uppuration A right regimen, during the rigor or cold fit i tthe beginning of a fever, is of great importance ; long continued rigor is a fign of a ftrong difeafe duting the riger, the circulation is lefs quick, an the blood actually ftagnates in the extremities, and prefling upon the heart, may produce concretion therefore a rigor increafeth an inflammatien Arbuthnot 3. Severity; fternnefs; want of condefcen. fion to others Nature has got the vi¢tory over paflion, all hi rigour is turned to grief and pity. Denbam's Sophy Rigour makes it difficult for fliding virtue to re flexibility folidity The ftones the rigor of their kind expel And fupple into foftnefs as they fell Drydes Ri‘corous. adj 1 [from rigour. He fhall be thrown down the Tarpeian roc With rigorous hands ; he hath refifted law Ar thef term capacities to perform 2. Exaét Shakefpeare hard and rigorous fcrupuloufly nice beyon For I behold them foften'd, and with tear Bewailing their excefs, all terror hide Milton The people would examine his works more rigoroufly than himfelf, and would not forgive the lea miftake Dryden 2. Exallly; {crupuloufly; nicely RILL. #. /. [rivalus, Lat.] fmal Their full tribute never mifs From a thoufand patty ril/s Milton That tumble down the fnowy hills On every thorn delightful wifdom grows In every ri/l a fweet inftruétion flows But fome untaught, o'erhear the whifp'ring ril/ In fpite of facred leifure blockheads till Young [from the noun. T run in fmall ftreams became men to be martyrs to Does not loofenefs of life, an a wan Fell of ne ceffary fobriety in fome, drive others into rigors tha are unneceffary Spratt This prince lived in this convent, with all th rigor and aufterity of a capuchin. Addifon on Italy Striftnefs; unabated exa&nefs It may not feem hard, if in cafes of neceflit certain profitable ordinances fometime be releafed tather than all men always ftri@ly bound to the ge Draw tuns wnmeafureable; while thy favou Adminifters to my ambitious thirf The wholefome draught from Aganippe's {prin Genuine, and with foft murmurs gently rillin Adown the mountains where thy daughters haunt neral rigor thereof Hooker Heat and cold are not, according to philofophical rigour,y the cfficients; but are names ex prefling our paffions Glanville 7o Ri'mPLE Ri‘LLET. 2. /. [corrupted from rivalet. A {mall ftream Rim. #./. [juma, Saxon. 1. A border; a margin It keeps off' the fame thicknefs near its centr while its figure is capable of variation towards th Greaw z. That which encircles fomething elfe We may not affirm, that ruptures are confinabl unto one fide, as the peritoneum or rix of the bell may be broke; or its perforations relaxed in either Brown's Vulgar Errours RimE. n. /. [ppim, Saxon. 1. Hoar froft w. 2 To pucker tralt into corrugations and RumprE The fkin was tenfe T to con See CRUMPL alfo rimpled and bliftered Wijeman is now cold hot, dry Steamy or moift then thin, thick, foggy, rimy, or poifonous an Harwey ininb Bark Saxo rinde hutk Therewith a piteous yelling voice was heard Crying, O fpare with guilty hands to tea My tender fides in this rough rind embar'd. Spen/ Within the infant rind of this fmall flowe Poifon hath refidence, and medicine power Thefe plants are neither red nor polithed, whe drawn out of the water, till their r7izd have bee taken off Boyle Others whofe fruit, burnifh'd with golden rind Sung amiable Miltor's Paradife Lof? Thou can'ft not touch the freedom of this min With all thy charms, although this corporal rin Thou haft immanacl'd Milton This monument, thy maiden beauty's due Zo RinD @, 7 [from the noun. Mortimer Breathing upon a glafs giveth a dew ; .and in rim ~T decorticate5 to bark ;. to hutk RING. #./. [prng, Saxon. 1. A circle; an erbicular line In this habi Met I my father with his bleeding rings befor Shatke[peare they bega to exhibi their colours to the naked eye, have appeare through a prifm girded about with many paralle and horizontal rings Newton 2. A circle of gold or fome other matte wor a Prior The drum-maker ufes it for rimbs the noun. freeze with hoar froft Bubbles of water Ill-judging and verbofe, from Lethe's lake rint [fro Their precious gems new loft mighty king, let envy He refumed his rigors, efteeming this calamit "fuch a one as fhould not be outlived, but that i @. # High on a plane-tree fhall be hung to view On the fmooth rizd the paffenger fhall fe Thy name engrav'd, and worthip Helen's tree Dryden Th' induftrious mufe thus labours to relat Thofe rillets that attend proud Tamer and her ftate Dyrayton fterity fo ast Shakefpeare Left they fain At the fad fentence rigoronfly urg'd Apollo 7o Rime a rigo gation To rime or chink of their larinx Brown's Pulgar Errours Dutch. Ri‘corousLy. adv. [from rigorous. 1. Severely ; without tendernefs or miti @. z a chink prevent the admiffion of wet or dry indigefted Renpa rous demonftration ; a r7gorous definition Zo RiLL th ou Rogers's Sermons as hole birds have no epiglottis, yet can the The ai And therefore law fhall fcorn him further trial Than the feverity of publick power contraé Ri'my adj [from rime. foggy; full of frozen mift Severe ; allowing no abatement Clariffa ' 4. Severity of life; voluntary pain; au- not foftnefs no A creeke of Ofe, between two hills, delivering Carew little frefh rillet into the fea cover Hardunefs May thy brimmed waves from thi Bound with Gorgonian rigour, not to move Driven by the neceflities of the times and th temper of the people, ‘more than led by his ow difpofition to any height and rigou of aions King Charles brook ; a little ftreamlet The reft his loo 7 of eaf wan % 2. Stiffnefs of appearance Thoug Spenfer mentations G:rca'u 2. [Rima, Latin. Not ufed That to the ground it doubleth him full low in order to th frofts you fhall find drops of dew upon the infide o glafs windows Bacon In a hoar froft, a rime is a multitude of quadrapgular prifms piled without any order one ove another The ftroke upon his fhield fo heavy lights whic them refift that expanfion, which-is neceffary t rigidity of th carry on the vital funétions cruelty; fary That firongeft oak might feem to overthrow prefervation of health : it is to be remedied by foRigidity of the organ Addifon He at his foe with furious rigour {mites be rigid, when its parts fo ftrongly cohere together as not to yield to that actio RI a ornament A quarrel -About 3 hoop of gold, a paltry ring. Shakefpeare I have feen old Roman rings fo very thick about and with fuch large ftones in them, that 'tis n wondgr a fop fhould reckon them a little cumberfome in the fummer Addifor 3. A circle of metal to be held by The rings of iron, that oa the doors were hung Sent out a jarring found, and harshly rung. Drydes Some eagle got the ring of. my box in his beak with an intent to let it fall, and devour it Szwift 4. A circular courfe Chafte Diana Goddefs prefiding o'er the rapid race Place me, O place me in the dufty ring Where youthful charioteers contend for glory 5. A circl round mad b perfon Sith ftandin Make a ring about the corpfe of Caefar And let me fhew you him that made the wiil Sbakefpeare 3U Th |
