rigorous, rygorous

[French rigoreux, from Low Lat. rigorosus, from rigor =rigor (q. v.); Sp. rigoroso, riguroso; Port. & Ital. rigorosa.] 1. Characterized by or manifesting rigor; severe, stern, inflexible; allowing no abatement or mitigation. "And finds him rigorous and severe." Cowper: Divine Love. marine; gō, põt, IMG:content-0652.png:[merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][subsumed][ocr errors] "As sunshine, broken in the rill , Though turn'd astray, is sunshine still!" Moore: Fire-Worshipers. IMG:content-0653.png:[blocks in formation] *2. The lower part of the abdomen or belly; the peritoneum or inner membrane of the belly. "I will fetch thy rim out at thy throat." Shakesp.: Henry V., iv. 4. II. Technically : 1. Nautical : (2) The circular, notched plate of a capstan or rim an .] windla into which the paw is drop. 2. Vehicles: (1) The circular wooden portion forming the per- iphery of a wheel. IMG:content-0654.png:[blocks in formation] "A length of bright horizon rimmed the dark." Tennyson: Gardener's Daughter, 177. ri-ma, s . [Lat.] 1. Anat .: A cleft; as, the rima of the glottis. 2. Bot . The cleft-like ostiolum of certain fungals. rî-mau-da-han, s . [Native name.] Zool.: Felis macro cel is ; about three feet long, or four with the tail, and combining the markings both of the tiger and the leopard. It is found in Sumatra. musket against which the breech of the barrel rests. rim-ble-răm-ble, adj . [A redupl. of ramble (q. v.).] Vague; harum-scarum. "The greatest part of the task was only rimble - ramble discourse." - The Pusan Prince (1690). trim-bom-bō, s . [Ital.] Geol.: A peculiar resonance of the ground when struck during some volcanic or earthquake convul- sions. 2. An expre ion of thought in verse; poetry, verse, meter; a composition, especially a short one, in verse. "Things unattempted yet in prose or rime." Milton: P. L., i. 16. 3. A verse or line riming with another. "If, perhaps, these rhymes of mine should sound not weil in strangers' ears." Long fellow: Poctic Aphorisms; Rhymes. 1. A reamer (q. v.). 2. Fort .: A palisade. rim-ple, v . t. & i. [ Dut.rimpelen .] [RIMPLE, 8. ] A. Trans.: To rimple, to rumple, to pucker. "The skin was tense, also rimpled and blistered."- IMG:content-0655.png:[blocks in formation] I. Ordinary Language: 1. Literally: (1) A circle, or a circular line, or anything in the form of a circular line or hoop; as (a) A circle or hoop of gold, or other material worn on the finger, or in the ears, or other parts of the body as an ornament. (b) A hoop of metal used as a means of attachment, of the nature of a link, as in the ring -bolt, lap- ring , the ring on a neck-yoke, . In other cases, as a means of a embling, as the key- ring , split-ring. Other applications are obvious; as, a napkin- ring , . (2) An inclosed area or space, generally of a circular form; as (a) An area in which sports or games are held. (b) The inclosed space within which pugilists fight. (c) The inclosed space in which horses, ., are exhibited or exercised in a cattle show or market, or at an auction. (d) The space set apart for betting on a race course. 2. Figuratively: (1) A circle. "But life within a narrow ring Of giddy joys comprised." Cowper: Bill of Mortality , A. D. 1792. (2) A group of persons in a circle; a circle. "Make a ring about the corpse of Cæsar." (3) A circular course. Shakesp.: Julius Cæsar , iii. 2. (4) A combination of persons for personal ends, as for controlling the market in stocks, or any particular commodity, or for political purposes. II. Technically : 1. Anat .: Anything more or le like a ring. Above the crest of the pubis there is a super 'ficial or abdominal ring, an oblique opening, and an internal or deep abdominal ring, and near them a crural ring. 2. Arch .: The list, cincture, or annulet round a column. 3. Bot .: One of the annual circular layers in tim ber. 4. Comm.: A measure of staves or wood prepared for casks, containing four shocks or 240 pieces. 5. Geom.: The area or space between two concentric circles. 6. Naut .: The appendage by which the cable is attached to the anchor by means of the shackle on the end of the chain-cable, called the anchor -shackle. 7. Surv .: An instrument formerly used for taking the sun's altitude, ., consisting of a ring, usually of bra , suspended by a swivel, with a hole on one side, through which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude upon the inner graduated concave surface. 8. Ordn.: A circle of metal of which there are five kinds, viz., the base-ring, reinforce-ring, runnion ring, cornice-ring, and muzzle-ring, but these terms do not apply to most modern ordnance. (1) Fairy rings : [FAIRY-RINGS.] (2) Newton's rings : [NEWTON.] (3) Nobilis rings : [NOBILI.] (4) Saturn's rings : [SATURN.] IMG:content-0656.png:[blocks in formation] "Ring- bone is a hard callous substance growing in the hollow circle of the little pastern of a horse, just above the coronet; it sometimes goes quite round like a ring, and thence it is called the ring -bone."-Farrier's Dictionary. *ring-carrier, s. A go-between, so called from his carrying a ring as a token of his mi ion.