King Alfred and the Shepherd

( Nares.) [ The state or quality of being reasty; rancidne . [Prov. Eng.] reastyl (rēs'ti), a. [Also resty and rusty (simuradi lating rust ); reast1 + -y1. Cf. the earlier adj. reasted .] Same as reasted . Through folly, too beastly, Much bacon is reasty. raup , MHG. roup , G. raub = Icel. rauf = Sw. rof = Dan. rov , spoil, plunder (see reaf ); from the primitive verb, AS. * reófan , in comp. be - reó fan , bi - reófan , deprive, = Icel. rjúfa (pp. rofinn ), break, rip, violate, = L. rumpere ( √rup ), break: see rupture . Hence, in comp., bereave . From the Teut. are It. rub a , spoil, etc., rubare , spoil, IMG:content-1717.png:[blocks in formation] And than came haltynge Jone, And broughte a gambone Of bakon that was resty . Stelton , Elynour Rummyng, 1. 328. Thy flesh is restie or leane, tough & olde, Or it come to borde unsavery and colde. Barclay, Cytezen & Uplondyshman (Percy Soc.), p. 39. [( Cath . Ang ., p. 304.) reasty2 (rēs'ti), a . Same as restyl . reata (re-ä'tä), n. [ Also riata ; reata , a rope, also a leader mule (= Pg. reata, ar-riata, a halter), reatar , tie one beast to another, retie (= Pg. reatar , ar - riatar , bind again), re- ( re- ), again, back, + Sp. Pg. Cat. atar , bind, aptare , fit on, fit together, etc.: see apt .] A rope, usually of rawhide, with or without a noose, used in western and Spanish America for catching or picketing animals; a lariat.