R in many words is wholly omitted, as, Arth. CoÄse, Guth,
He'Äth, Pason, Vooath, Wuss, &c., for Earth, Coarse, Girth,
Hearth, Parson, Forth, Worse.

To Rake Up. v. a. To cover; to bury. To rake the vier. To cover up the fire with ashes, that it may remain burning all night.

Rames. s. pl. The dead stalks of potatoes, cucumbers, and such plants; a skeleton.

Rams-claws. s. pl. The plant called gold cups; ranunculus pratensis.

Ram'shackle. adj. Loose; disjointed.

Ram'pin. part. Distracted, obstreperous: rampin mad, outrageously mad.

Ran'dy, Ran'din. s. A merry-making; riotous living.

Range. s. A sieve.

To Rangle. v. n. To twine, or move in an irregular or sinuous manner. Rangling plants are plants which entwine round other plants, as the woodbine, hops, etc.

Ran'gle. s. A sinuous winding.

Ras'ty. adj. Rancid: gross; obscene.

Rathe-ripe. adj. Ripening early. Rath. English
Dictionary:

"The rathe-ripe wits prevent their own perfection."

BP. HALL.

Raught. part. Reached.

Rawd. part. Rode.

To Rawn. v. a. To devour greedily.

Raw'ny. adj. Having little flesh: a thin person, whose bones are conspicuous, is said to be rawny.

To Ray. v. a. To dress.

To Read. v. a. To strip the fat from the intestines; to read the inward.

Read'ship. s. Confidence, trust, truth.

To Ream. v. a. To widen; to open.

Reamer. s. An instrument used to make a hole larger.

Re'balling. s. The catching of eels with earthworms attached to a ball of lead, hung by a string from a pole.

Reed. s. Wheat straw prepared for thatching.

Reen, Rhine. s. A water-course: an open drain.

To Reeve. v. a. To rivel; to draw into wrinkles.

Rem'let. s. A remnant.

Rev'el. s. A wake.

To Rig. v. n. To climb about; to get up and down a thing in wantonness or sport.

Hence the substantive rig, as used in John Gilpin, by COWPER.

"He little dreamt of running such a rig."

To Rig. v. a. To dress.

Hence, I suspect, the origin of the rigging of a vessel.

Righting-lawn. Adjusting the ridges after the wheat is sown.

Rip. s. A vulgar, old, unchaste woman. Hence, most probably, the origin of Demirip.

Robin-Riddick. s. A redbreast. [Also Rabbin
Hirddick; the r and i transposed.]

Rode. s. To go to rode, means, late at night or early in the morning, to go out to shoot wild fowl which pass over head on the wing.

To Rose. v. n. To drop out from the pod, or other seed vessel, when the seeds are over-ripe.

To Rough. v. a. To roughen; to make rough.

Round-dock. s. The common mallow; malva sylvestris.

Called round-dock from the roundness of its leaves. CHAUCER has the following expression which has a good deal puzzled the glossarists:

"But canst thou playin raket to and fro, Nettle in, Docke out, now this, now that, Pandare?"

Troilus and Cressida, Book IV.

The round-dock leaves are used at this day as a supposed remedy or charm for the sting of a nettle, by being rubbed on the stung part, with the following words:—

In dock, out nettle, Nettle have a sting'd me.

That is, Go in dock, go out nettle. Now, to play Nettle in Docke out, is to make use of such expedients as shall drive away or remove some previous evil, similar to that of driving out the venom of the nettle by the juice or charm of the dock.

Roz'im. s. A quaint saying; a low proverb. s. Rosin.

Rud'derish. adj. Hasty, rude, without care.

Ruf. s. A roof.

Rum. s. Room; space.

Rum'pus. s A great noise.

This word ought to be in our English Dictionaries.

Rungs. s. pl. The round steps of a ladder.