raill (ral)

[ The sayd herse must bee raylyd about, and hangyd with blake Cloth. Booke of Precedence (E. E. T. S., extra ser.), i. 33. .. It is a spot railed in , and a piece of ground is laid out like a garden bed. Pococke , Description of the East, II. ii. 101. Mr. Langdon has now reached the railed space. W. M. Baker , New Timothy, p. 150. 2. To furnish with rails; lay the rails of, as a railway; construct a railway upon or along, as a street. [Recent.] Fifty miles of new road graded last year, which was to receive its rails this spring, will not be railed , because it is not safe for the company to make further investments in that State. Harper's Mag., LXXVII. 125. II. in trans . To fish with a hand-line over the rail of a ship or boat. [Colloq.] In England, the summer fishing for mackerel is carried on by means of hand lines, and small boats may be seen railing or "whiffing" amongst the schools of mackerel. Nature , XLI. 180. rail2t (rāl), v. t. [ Al watz rayled on red ryche golde naylez, That al glytered & glent as glem of the sunne. Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), 1. 603. 4941 Spotted rail, the spotted crake, Porzana maruetta, also called spotted skitty and spotted water - hen. - Weka rail. See Ocydromus. rail5 (ral), v. [Early mod. E. rayle; Thou raylest on, right withouten reason, And blamest hem much for small encheason. Angels. Spenser , Shep. Cal., May. bring not railing accusation against them. 2 Pet. ii. 11. railed extremely at me. Coryat, Crudities, I. 126. A certain Spaniard With God and Fate to rail at suffering easily. M. Arnold, Empedocles on Etna. =Syn. of rail at. To upbraid, scold or scold at or scold about, inveigh against, abuse, objurgate. Railing and scolding are always undignified, if not improper; literally, abusing is improper; all three words may by hyperbole be used for talk which is proper. II.t trans. To scoff at; taunt; scold; banter; affect by railing or raillery. Till thou canst rail the seals from off my bond, Thou but offend'st thy lungs to speak so loud. Shak ., M. of V., iv. 1. 159. Such as are capable of goodne are railed into vice, that might as easily be admonished into virtue. Sir T. Browne , Religio Medici, ii. 4. rail6t (rāl), v . i. [Early mod. E. rayle ; railen , reilen , roilen , flow, prob. a var. of roilen , roll, wander: see roill .] Torun; flow. Whan the Geaunte felt hym wounded and saugh the blode raile down by the lifte iye, he was nygh wode oute of witte. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 342. I saw a spring out of a rocke forth rayle , As clear as Christ all gainst the Sunnie beames. Spenser , Visions of Bellay, 1. 155. rail-bender (rāl'ben"dėr), n . A screw-pre or hydraulic pre for straightening rails, or for bending them in the construction railway curves and -switches. The rail is supported upon two bearers, between which the pre ure is applied. Also called rail - bending machine . rail-bird (ral'bėrd), n . The Carolina rail or sora, Porzana carolina . [U. S.] They were brought to London all railed in ropes, like a rail-bittern (rāl ́bit"èrn), n. One of the small team of horses in a cart, and were executed, some at London, and the rest at divers places. Bacon, Hist. Hen. VII. Audley. Flammock, Joseph, The ringleaders of this commotion, Railed in ropes, fit ornaments fór traitors, Wait your determinations. Ford, Perkin Warbeck, iii. 1. rail3t (rāl), п. [Early mod. E., also rayle; ME. rail, reil, rezel, Rayle for a womans neck, crevechief, en quarttre dou bles. And then a good grey frocke, A kercheffe, and a raile. Palsgrave. Friar Bacon's Prophesie (1604). ( Hall i well .) rail3t (rāl), v. t. [ME. railen; Reali railled with wel riche clothes. William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1618. rail4 (rāl), n. [Early mod. E. rayle ; raale , rasle, F. rale (> G. ralle , ML. rallus ), F. dial. reille, a rail; so called from its cry; cf. OF. rasle, F. rálé, a rattling in the throat; raller, F. raler, rattle in the throat, of the genus Rallus; a water-rail, land-rail, marsh-hen, or crake. Rails are small marsh-loving wading birds, related to coots and gallinules. They abound in the marshes and swamps of most parts of the world, where they thread their way in the mazes of the reeds with great ease and celerity, the body being thin and compre ed, and the legs stout and strong with long toes. They nest on the ground, and lay numerous spotted eggs; the young run about as soon as hatched. The com mon rail of Europe is Rallus aquatic us; the clapper-rail or salt-water marsh-hen of the United States is R. crepitans; the king-rail or fresh-water marsh-hen is R. elegans; the Virginia rail is R. virginia nus, also called red rail, little red-breasted rail, le er clapper - rail, small mud - hen, etc. Very generally, in the United States, the word rail used absolutely means the sora or soree, Porzana caro lin a, more fully called rail bird, chicken - billed rail, English rail. Carolina rail, American rail, common rail, sora -rail, ortolan, Carolina crake, crake - gallinule, etc. See Crex, Porzana, and cut under Rallus. - Golden rail, a snipe of the genus Rhynchæa; a painted-snipe or rail-snipe. bitterns of the genus Ardetta, as A. neoxena, which in some respects resemble rails. Coues. rail-board (rāl'bord), n. A board nailed to the rail of a ve el engaged in fishing for mack erel with hand-lines.