rafflel (rafl)

[ Now comth hasardrie with hise a pur ten a unces, as tables and raftes, of which comth deceite, false othes, chidynges, and alle ravynes, blasphemynge and reneyinge of God. Chaucer, Parson's Tale. 2. A method of sale by chance or lottery, in which the price of the thing to be disposed of is divided into equal shares, and the persons taking the shares cast lots for its po e ion by throwing dice or otherwise. rafflel (raf'l), v.; pret. and pp. rafled , ppr. raffting . [= Sw. rafla = from the noun.] I. in trans . To try the chance of a raffle; engage in a raffle: as, to raffle for a watch. They were raffling for his coat. Dan. rafle , raffle; S. Butler, Satire upon Gaming. The great Rendezvous is at night, after the Play and Opera are done; and Rafiling for all Things Vendible is the great Diversion. Lister , Journey to Paris, p. 176. II. trans . To dispose of by means of a raffle: often with off : as, to raffle or raffle off a watch. raffle2 (raf'l), v.; pret. and pp. rafted , ppr. raffting . [Perhaps hrafla , scrape together (a slang term); cf. hrapa , hurry, hasten: seeraff, v. Cf. rafflel.] I. in trans. 1. To move or fidget about. Hall i well. [Prov. Prov. Eng.] -2. To live in a disorderly way. Hall i well . [Prov. Eng.] II. trans. 1. To stir (a fire).-2. To brush off (walnuts). Hall i well . [Prov. Eng.] raffle2 (raf'l), n. [ raffle2 , v. Cf. raff , n.] Naut ., raff; lumber; rubbish. Her decks were heavily encumbered with what sailors call raffle that is, the muddle of ropes, torn canvas, staves of boats and casks, with which the ocean ilAppendix to W. Mapes , p. 340. ( Hall i well .) lustrates her violence. W. C. Ru ell, Death Ship, xxx. Suche gylours for pompe and pride. IMG:content-1559.png:[blocks in formation] raffle3 (raf'l), n. raffle -net. rafied (raf'ld), a. the edge finely divided or serrated. [Origin obscure.] Same as [Origin obscure.] Having A peculiar small cut or raffled leaf resembling an ivy, or more nearly a vine leaf. Soul ages Catalogue , p. 116, note to No. 365. raffle-net (raf'l-net), n. A kind of fishing-net. raffler (raf'ler), n. [ raffle2 + -er1 .] One who raffles. Rafflesia (raf-lē'zi-i), n . [NL. (R. Brown, 1821), W. Combe , Dr. Syntax, i. 20. ( Davies .) named after Sir Stamford Raffles , British gover or proper stem, growing out from the porous root or stem of species of Vitis ( Ci us ), at a time when the leaves and flowers of the foster-plant have withered. The flower of the parasite protrudes as a knob from the bark at first, and enlarges for some months, resembling before opening a close cabbage, and remaining fully expanded only a few days. It exhales an odor of tainted meat, securing cro fertilization by aid of the flies thus attracted to it. The flower reaches 3 inches or more in diameter in R. Rochus sen i (valued by the Javanese for astringent and styptic properties), 6 inches in others, and 2 feet in R. Patma. R. Arnold i has long been famed for its size, greatly exceeding the Victoria lily (23 inches), and even exceeding the Aris to lochia Goldieana (a specimen of which at Kew, March, 1890, was 28 inches long and 16 broad). The first flower Rafflesia Arnold i, parasitic on a stem. of R. Arnold i found measured 3 feet acro its flat circular top, and weighed about 15 pounds; the roundish calyx lobes were each a foot long, and in places an inch thick; and the globular central cup was a foot acro and held about 6 quarts. The fruit ripens into a chestnut-brown and truncated nut, about 5 inches thick, with irregularly furrowed and broken surface, and containing you sands of hard, curiously append aged and lacunose seeds. The flower is flesh-colored and mottled pink and yellow within, and with brown or bluish scales beneath. It is called ambun - ambun or wonder - wonder by the Malays, and kru but, a name which they also give to another gigantic plant which grows with it, the ovoid A morpho phallus Titanum.