Attended with risk or danger; hazardous.

Pertaining to, or producing, laughter; as, the risorial muscles.

A kind of pottage.

imp. of Rise.

Any one of very numerous species of small spiral gastropods of the genus Rissoa, or family Rissoidae, found both in fresh and salt water.

A small ball of rich minced meat or fish, covered with pastry and fried.

3d pers. sing. pres. of Rise, contracted from riseth.

3d pers. sing. pres. of Ride, contracted from rideth.

Retarding; -- a direction for slower time; rallentado.

The act of performing divine or solemn service, as established by law, precept, or custom; a formal act of religion or other solemn duty; a solemn observance; a ceremony; as, the rites of freemasonry.

Held back; holding back; ritardando.

Alt. of Ritornello

A short return or repetition; a concluding symphony to an air, often consisting of the burden of the song.

A short intermediate symphony, or instrumental passage, in the course of a vocal piece; an interlude.

A picture.

Of or pertaining to rites or ritual; as, ritual service or sacrifices; the ritual law.

A prescribed form of performing divine service in a particular church or communion; as, the Jewish ritual.

Hence, the code of ceremonies observed by an organization; as, the ritual of the freemasons.

A system founded upon a ritual or prescribed form of religious worship; adherence to, or observance of, a ritual.

Specifically :(a) The principles and practices of those in the Church of England, who in the development of the Oxford movement, so-called, have insisted upon a return to the use in church services of the symbolic ornaments (altar cloths, encharistic vestments, candles, etc.) that were sanctioned in the second year of Edward VI., and never, as they maintain, forbidden by competennt authority, although generally disused. Schaff-Herzog Encyc. (b) Also, the principles and practices of those in the Protestant Episcopal Church who sympathize with this party in the Church of England.

One skilled un, or attached to, a ritual; one who advocates or practices ritualism.

Pertaining to, or in accordance with, a ritual; adhering to ritualism.

By rites, or by a particular rite.

A bank, shore, or coast.

A duty paid to the crown for the passage of vessels on certain rivers.

A person having a common right or privilege with another; a partner.

One who is in pursuit of the same object as another; one striving to reach or obtain something which another is attempting to obtain, and which one only can posses; a competitor; as, rivals in love; rivals for a crown.

Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority; as, rival lovers; rival claims or pretensions.

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