Rigor () Exactness without allowance, deviation, or indulgence; strictness; as, the rigor of criticism; to execute a law with rigor; to enforce moral duties with rigor; -- opposed to lenity.

Rigor () Severity of life; austerity; voluntary submission to pain, abstinence, or mortification.

Rigor () Violence; force; fury.

Rigorism () Rigidity in principle or practice; strictness; -- opposed to laxity.

Rigorism () Severity, as of style, or the like.

Rigorist () One who is rigorous; -- sometimes applied to an extreme Jansenist.

Rigorous () Manifesting, exercising, or favoring rigor; allowing no abatement or mitigation; scrupulously accurate; exact; strict; severe; relentless; as, a rigorous officer of justice; a rigorous execution of law; a rigorous definition or demonstration.

Rigorous () Severe; intense; inclement; as, a rigorous winter.

Rigorous () Violent.

Rigsdaler () A Danish coin worth about fifty-four cents. It was the former unit of value in Denmark.

Rig-Veda () See Veda.

Riksdaler () A Swedish coin worth about twenty-seven cents. It was formerly the unit of value in Sweden.

Riled () of Rile

Riling () of Rile

Rile () To render turbid or muddy; to stir up; to roil.

Rile () To stir up in feelings; to make angry; to vex.

Rilievo () Same as Relief, n., 5.

Rill () A very small brook; a streamlet.

Rill () See Rille.

Rill () To run a small stream.

Rille () One of certain narrow, crooked valleys seen, by aid of the telescope, on the surface of the moon.

Rillet () A little rill.

Rily () Roily.

Rim () The border, edge, or margin of a thing, usually of something circular or curving; as, the rim of a kettle or basin.

Rim () The lower part of the abdomen.

Rimmed () of Rim

Rimming () of Rim

Rim () To furnish with a rim; to border.

Rimae () of Rima

Rima () A narrow and elongated aperture; a cleft; a fissure.

Rimau dahan () The clouded tiger cat (Felis marmorata) of Southern Asia and the East Indies.

Rimbase () A short cylinder connecting a trunnion with the body of a cannon. See Illust. of Cannon.

Rime () A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack.

Rime () White frost; hoarfrost; congealed dew or vapor.

Rimed () of Rime

Riming () of Rime

Rime () To freeze or congeal into hoarfrost.

Rime () A step or round of a ladder; a rung.

Rime () Rhyme. See Rhyme.

Rime () To rhyme. See Rhyme.

Rimer () A rhymer; a versifier.

Rimer () A tool for shaping the rimes of a ladder.

Rimey () To compose in rhyme; to versify.

Rimmer () An implement for cutting, trimming, or ornamenting the rim of anything, as the edges of pies, etc.; also, a reamer.

Rimose () Full of rimes, fissures, or chinks.

Rimose () Having long and nearly parallel clefts or chinks, like those in the bark of trees.

Rimosely () In a rimose manner.

Rimosity () State of being rimose.

Rimous () Rimose.

Rimple () A fold or wrinkle. See Rumple.

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