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Rapacious
a.
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Given to plunder; disposed or accustomed to seize by violence; seizing by force.
Rapacious
a.
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Accustomed to seize food; subsisting on prey, or animals seized by violence; as, a tiger is a rapacious animal; a rapacious bird.
Rapacious
a.
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Avaricious; grasping; extortionate; also, greedy; ravenous; voracious; as, rapacious usurers; a rapacious appetite.
Rapacity
n.
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The quality of being rapacious; rapaciousness; ravenousness; as, the rapacity of pirates; the rapacity of wolves.
Rapacity
n.
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The act or practice of extorting or exacting by oppressive injustice; exorbitant greediness of gain.
Raparee
n.
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See Rapparee.
Rape
n.
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Fruit, as grapes, plucked from the cluster.
Rape
n.
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The refuse stems and skins of grapes or raisins from which the must has been expressed in wine making.
Rape
n.
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A filter containing the above refuse, used in clarifying and perfecting malt, vinegar, etc.
Rape
n.
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The act of seizing and carrying away by force; violent seizure; robbery.
Rape
n.
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Sexual connection with a woman without her consent. See Age of consent, under Consent, n.
Rape
n.
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That which is snatched away.
Rape
n.
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Movement, as in snatching; haste; hurry.
Rape
v. t.
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To commit rape upon; to ravish.
Rape
v. i.
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To rob; to pillage.
Rape
n.
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One of six divisions of the county of Sussex, England, intermediate between a hundred and a shire.
Rape
n.
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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.
Rapeful
a.
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Violent.
Rapeful
a.
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Given to the commission of rape.
Rapfully
adv.
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Violently.
Raphaelesque
a.
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Like Raphael's works; in Raphael's manner of painting.
Raphaelism
n.
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The principles of painting introduced by Raphael, the Italian painter.
Raphaelite
n.
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One who advocates or adopts the principles of Raphaelism.
Raphany
n.
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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
n.
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A line, ridge, furrow, or band of fibers, especially in the median line; as, the raphe of the tongue.
Raphe
n.
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Same as Rhaphe.
Raphides
n. pl.
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See Rhaphides.
Rapid
a.
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Very swift or quick; moving with celerity; fast; as, a rapid stream; a rapid flight; a rapid motion.
Rapid
a.
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Advancing with haste or speed; speedy in progression; in quick sequence; as, rapid growth; rapid improvement; rapid recurrence; rapid succession.
Rapid
a.
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Quick in execution; as, a rapid penman.