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Rivet
() A metallic pin with a head, used for uniting two plates or pieces of material together, by passing it through them and then beating or pressing down the point so that it shall spread out and form a second head; a pin or bolt headed or clinched at both ends.
Riveted
() of Rivet
Riveting
() of Rivet
Rivet
() To fasten with a rivet, or with rivets; as, to rivet two pieces of iron.
Rivet
() To spread out the end or point of, as of a metallic pin, rod, or bolt, by beating or pressing, so as to form a sort of head.
Rivet
() Hence, to fasten firmly; to make firm, strong, or immovable; as, to rivet friendship or affection.
Riveter
() One who rivets.
Riveting
() The act of joining with rivets; the act of spreading out and clinching the end, as of a rivet, by beating or pressing.
Riveting
() The whole set of rivets, collectively.
Rivose
() Marked with sinuate and irregular furrows.
Rivulet
() A small stream or brook; a streamlet.
Rixation
() A brawl or quarrel.
Rixatrix
() A scolding or quarrelsome woman; a scold.
Rixdaler
() A Dutch silver coin, worth about $1.00.
Rix-dollar
() A name given to several different silver coins of Denmark, Holland, Sweden,, NOrway, etc., varying in value from about 30 cents to $1.10; also, a British coin worth about 36 cents, used in Ceylon and at the Cape of Good Hope. See Rigsdaler, Riksdaler, and Rixdaler.
Rizzar
() To dry in the sun; as, rizzared haddock.
Roach
() A cockroach.
Roach
() A European fresh-water fish of the Carp family (Leuciscus rutilus). It is silver-white, with a greenish back.
Roach
() An American chub (Semotilus bullaris); the fallfish.
Roach
() The redfin, or shiner.
Roach
() A convex curve or arch cut in the edge of a sail to prevent chafing, or to secure a better fit.
Roach
() To cause to arch.
Roach
() To cut off, as a horse's mane, so that the part left shall stand upright.
Roach-backed
() Having a back like that of roach; -- said of a horse whose back a convex instead of a concave curve.
Road
() A journey, or stage of a journey.
Road
() An inroad; an invasion; a raid.
Road
() A place where one may ride; an open way or public passage for vehicles, persons, and animals; a track for travel, forming a means of communication between one city, town, or place, and another.
Road
() A place where ships may ride at anchor at some distance from the shore; a roadstead; -- often in the plural; as, Hampton Roads.
Roadbed
() In railroads, the bed or foundation on which the superstructure (ties, rails, etc.) rests; in common roads, the whole material laid in place and ready for travel.
Roadless
() Destitute of roads.
Roadmaker
() One who makes roads.
Roadside
() Land adjoining a road or highway; the part of a road or highway that borders the traveled part. Also used ajectively.
Roadstead
() An anchorage off shore. Same as Road, 4.
Roadster
() A clumsy vessel that works its way from one anchorage to another by means of the tides.
Roadster
() A horse that is accustomed to traveling on the high road, or is suitable for use on ordinary roads.
Roadster
() A bicycle or tricycle adapted for common roads rather than for the racing track.
Roadster
() One who drives much; a coach driver.
Roadster
() A hunter who keeps to the roads instead of following the hounds across country.
Roadway
() A road; especially, the part traveled by carriages.
Roamed
() of Roam
Roaming
() of Roam
Roam
() To go from place to place without any certain purpose or direction; to rove; to wander.
Roam
() To range or wander over.
Roam
() The act of roaming; a wandering; a ramble; as, he began his roam o'er hill amd dale.
Roamer
() One who roams; a wanderer.
Roan
() Having a bay, chestnut, brown, or black color, with gray or white thickly interspersed; -- said of a horse.
Roan
() Made of the leather called roan; as, roan binding.
Roan
() The color of a roan horse; a roan color.
Roan
() A roan horse.
Roan
() A kind of leather used for slippers, bookbinding, etc., made from sheepskin, tanned with sumac and colored to imitate ungrained morocco.