radoub (radob)

[F., repairs made on a e el, radula (rad'ū-lä), n.; pl. radulæ (-lē). [NL., or set of teeth of the odontophore, which bites like a file. This structure is highly characteristic of the cephalophorous cla es, among which it presents great diversity in detail. It bears the numersmall chitinous proce es or teeth of these mol ous B A 1, median tooth and teeth of one row of right half of radula of Trochus cinerarius. B , one row of radular teeth of Cypræa europæa. A is rhipidoglo ate, and B is trænioglo ate. lusks, which serve to triturate food with a kind of filing or rasping action. According to the disposition of the teeth in any one of the many cro -rows which beset the length of the radula, mollusks are called rach i glo ate, tænioglo ate, rhipidoglo ate, toxoglo ate, ptenoglo ate, and doco glo ate. See these words, and odontophore. radular (rad'ū-lär), a. [ radulate (rad'ū-lāt), a. [ raduliferous (rad-ū-life-rus), a. [ radulate. raduliform (rad'ū-li-fôrm), a. [ rae (rā), n. A Scotch form of roe . rafet. A Middle English preterit of reave. rafft (raf), v. t. [OF. raffer, rafer, catch, snatch, slip away, = It. * raffare, in comp.ar raffare, snatch, seize, = MHG. raffen, reffen, G. raffen, snatch, sweep away, carry off suddenly, = MLG. LG. rapen, snatch, = Sw. rappa, snatch, seize, = Dan. rappe, hasten: see rap2, from the Scand. form cognate with the G. Hence ult. rafflel.] To sweep; snatch, draw, or huddle together; take by a promiscuous sweep. Their causes and effects... I thus raffe vp together. R. Carew, Survey of Cornwall, fol. 69. raff (råf), n. and a. [ [Obsolete or archaic.] The synod of Trent was convened to settle a raff of errors and superstitions. Barrow , Unity of the Church. 2. Trashy material; lumber; rubbish; refuse. [Old and prov. Eng.] And maken of the rym and raf 4936 One of the raffs we shrink from in the street, Wore an old hat, and went with naked feet. Leigh Hunt , High and Low. ( Davies .) 5. Collectively, worthle persons; the scum or sweepings of society; the rabble. Compare riffraff. "People, you see," he said, "won't buy their 'accounts' of raff ' ; they won't have them of any but respectable." Mayhew , London Labour and London Poor, I. 325. II. a. Idle; di olute. Hall i well . [Prov. Eng.]