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[ME. richen, ricchen, a var. of * rec chen, C. H. Moore, Gothic Architecture, p. 266. 8. Abounding in desirable or effective qualities or elements; of superior quality, composition, 2. To direct. or potency. The batayle was so stronge, At many a betyr wownde The ryche blod out spronge. Holy Rood (E. E. T. S.), p. 151. Bees, the little almsmen of spring-bowers, Know there is richest juice in poison-flowers. Keats , Isabella, st. 13. Hence, specifically-9. Having a pleasing or otherwise marked effect upon the senses by virtue of the abundance of some characteristic quality. (a) As applied to articles of food, highly seasoned, or containing an exce of nutritive, saccharine, or Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), L. 6693. ze schal not rise of your bedde, I rych yow better, I schal happe yow here that other half als, And sythen karp wyth my knygt that I kazt haue. Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1223. 3. To adjust; set right. There launch it I to laund, a litle for ese, Restid me rifely, ricchit my seluyn. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 13149. 4. To addre ; set (one's self to do a thing). (He) riches him radly to ride and remowis his ost. Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), Glo ., p. 186. (K. Alex., (p. 172.) The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia 5. To dre . rich When ho watz gon, syr G. gerez hym sone, Rises, and riches hym in araye noble. Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1873. 6. To mend; improve. Then comford he caght in his cole hert, Thus hengit in hope, and his hele mend it; More redy to rest, ricchit his chere. 7. To avenge. IMG:content-2256.png:[blocks in formation] Than he purpost plainly with a proude ost Ffor to send of his sonnes and other sib be fryndes, The Grekes for to greve, if hom grace felle; To wreke hym of wrathe and his wrong riche. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2059. II. in trans . To take one's way. As he herd the howndes, that hasted hym swythe, Renaud com richchande thurz a roze greue, And alle the rabel in a res, ryzt at his helez. Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1898. Richard i a (ri-chär'di-ä), n. [NL. (Kunth, 1815), named from the French botanists L. C. М. Richard (1754-1821) and his son Achille Rich ard (1794-1859).] 1. A genus of monocotyledonous plants of the order Araceæ, suborder Philodendroideæ, and tribe Richardicæ (of the last the only genus). It comprises perennial stemle herbs, with monœcio us flowers without perianth, the two sexes borne close together on the same spadix. The male flowers bear two or three stamens, the female three staminodia. The ovoid ovary ripens into a berry of from two to five cells, each containing one or two anatropous albuminous seeds. The leaves are sagittate, and the spa Sterna minuta . [Prov. Eng.] richellest, n. A form of rekels.