rabbitbrush (rabitbrush)

A tall shrubby composite plant, Bigelovia graveolens, growing abundantly in alkaline soils of western North America, often, of like the sage-brush (but at low- ( Bigelovia graveo. er elevations), monopolizing the Flowering Plant Rabbit-brush lens). a, a head; d, a flower. IMG:content-1531.png:[blocks in formation] 2. A gull; a dupe; a cony. See cony, 7. rabbit-warren (rab'it-wor"en), n. A piece of ground appropriated to the per ser vat i on and breeding of rabbits. rabblel (rab'l), v.; pret. and pp. rabbled, ppr. rabbling. [Also ravel; The rabble now such freedom did enjoy As winds at sea that use it to destroy. Flies, Butterflies, Gnats, Bees, and all the rabbles Of other Insects. Roger North , Examen, p. 306. ( Davies .) The victory of Beaumont proved to MacMahon that his only resource left was to abandon the attempt to reach Bazaine, and to concentrate his rabble army around the frontier fortre of Sedan. Lowe , Bismarck, I. 548. rabble2 (rab'l), v . t .; pret. and pp. rabbled , ppr. rabbling . [ rabble2 , n .] To a ault in a vio- lent and disorderly manner; mob. [Scotch.] Unhappily, throughout a large part of Scotland, the clergy of the established church were, to use the phrase then common, rabbled . Macaulay , Hist. Eng., xiii. The desolation of Ireland, the ma acre of Glencoe, the abandonment of the Darien colonists, the rabbling of about 300 Episcopal clergymen in Scotland Lecky , Eng. in 18th Cent., i. rabblement2+ (rab'l-ment), n . [Formerly also rablement ; rabble2 + -ment .] 1. Atumultu- ous crowd or a emblage; a disorderly rout; a rabble. The first troupe was a monstrous rablement Of fowle mi hapen wightes. Spenser, F. Q., II. xi. 8. The rabblement hooted, and clapped their chopped hands. Shak ., J. C., i. 2. 245. giants and dwarfs, Clowns, conjurors, posture-masters, harlequins, Amid the uproar of the rabblement , Perform their feats. Words worth, Prelude, vii. 2. Refuse; dregs. Hall i well . [Prov. Eng.] rabbler (rab'lėr), n. One who works with or uses a rabble, especially in the operation of puddling. rabbling (rab'ling), a . Same as rambling . See ramble . [Prov. Eng.] rabboni (ra-bō'ni), n . [Heb.: see rabbi .] Liter- ally, 'my great master': a title of honor among the Jews; specifically, the highest title given to doctors or expounders of the law. It was publicly given to only seven persons of great eminence, all of the school of Hillel. She turned herself, and saith unto him, Rabboni ; which is to say, Master [i. e., Teacher]. rabd, rabdoid, etc. See rhabd , etc. rabel, n. Same as rebec . Rabelaisian (rab-e-lā'zi-an), a. [F. rabelai- sien , Rabelais (see def.).] Of or pertaining to François Rabelais (about 1490-1553), a French priest, author of "Gargantua and Pant a gruel"; resembling or suggestive of Rabelais and the characteristics of his thought and style. Com- pare Pant a gruel ism . Gleams of the truest poetical sensibility alternate in him [John Skelton] with an almost brutal coarsene . ne . He was truly Rabelaisian before Rabelais. rabet1t, n. An obsolete spelling of rabbit1 . rabet2t, n. An obsolete spelling of rabbet . rabilt, n. An obsolete spelling of rabbi . rabi2 (rab'i), n. [Also written rubbee ; rabi , the spring, the crop then gathered.] The great grain-crop of Hindu stan, consisting of wheat, barley, oats, and millet. It is the last of the three crops, being laid down in August and September, partly on land has lain fallow and partly on land which has been cleared of the bhadoee or earliest crop. It furnishes about five sixteenths of the food-supply in a IMG:content-1532.png:[blocks in formation] Lamentation of Mary Magdalen . rabi at or (rā'bi-ā-tor), п . [ rabi at or , a furious man, rabiare , rave, go mad: see rabi- ate. The Sc. rubiature , a robber, bully, It. ru- batore , a robber, * rubator , does not seem to be connected.] A furious animal or person; a violent, greedy person. [Scotch.] rabic (rab'ik), a . [ rabi ( es ) + -ic.] Of or per- taining to rabies; affected or caused by rabies. Of eight unvaccinated dogs, six succumbed to the in- trave no us inoculation of rabic matter. IMG:content-1533.png:[blocks in formation] To M. Grancher was most justly accorded the very agreeable task of expounding in a few simple and un- adorned sentences the results of the anti- rabietic treat- ment of M. Pasteur. Nature , XXXIX. 73. rabific (rā-bif'ik), a . [ rabies , madne , + facere , make (see -fic ).] bies or canine madne ; hydrophobia. rabinett (rab'i-net), n. [Origin obscure.] A small piece of ordnance formerly in use, weigh- ing about 300 pounds, and carrying a ball about 14 inches in diameter. rabioust (rā'bi-us), a . [ rabieux = Sp. rabioso = Pg. raivoso = It. rabbioso , rabi- osus , full of rage, raging, rabies , rage, fury: see rabies and rage .] Wild; raging; fierce. Syr Gye bestrode a rabyghte , That was moc he and lyghte. rabot (rab'ot), n . [F. rabot : see rabbet .] A hard-wood rubber used in rubbing marble to prepare it for polishing. E. H. Knight . raca (rä kä), a . [Formerly also rach a ; LL. raca , ῥακά , rēkā , an insulting epithet of doubtful meaning, connected per- haps with raq , spit, spit upon (Ar. riq ), or with rīgā , empty, valuele (Ar. raïq , vain, futile).] Worthle ; naught: a transliterated word occurring in Mat. v. 22, common among the Jews in Christ's time as an expre ion of contempt. raccourcy courcir, shorten,