Index of English words, starting with "ra"

(1) - Rally (n.) Good-humored raillery.
(2) - Rally (v. i.) To use pleasantry, or satirical merriment.
(3) - Rally (v. t.) To attack with raillery, either in good humor and pleasantry, or with slight contempt or satire.
(4) - Rally (n.) A political mass meeting.
(5) - Rally (n.) The act or process of rallying (in any of the senses of that word).
(6) - Rally (v. i.) To recover strength after a decline in prices; -- said of the market, stocks, etc.
(7) - Rally (v. i.) To collect one's vital powers or forces; to regain health or consciousness; to recuperate.
(8) - Rally (v. i.) To come into orderly arrangement; to renew order, or united effort, as troops scattered or put to flight; to assemble; to unite.
(9) - Rally (v. t.) To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.

(1) - Ram (v. t.) To fill or compact by pounding or driving.
(2) - Ram (v. t.) To butt or strike against; to drive a ram against or through; to thrust or drive with violence; to force in; to drive together; to cram; as, to ram an enemy's vessel; to ram piles, cartridges, etc.
(3) - Ram (n.) The plunger of a hydraulic press.
(4) - Ram (n.) The weight which strikes the blow, in a pile driver, steam hammer, stamp mill, or the like.
(5) - Ram (n.) A hydraulic ram. See under Hydraulic.
(6) - Ram (n.) A heavy steel or iron beak attached to the prow of a steam war vessel for piercing or cutting down the vessel of an enemy; also, a vessel carrying such a beak.
(7) - Ram (n.) In ancient warfare, a long beam suspended by slings in a framework, and used for battering the walls of cities; a battering-ram.
(8) - Ram (n.) An engine of war used for butting or battering.
(9) - Ram (n.) The constellation Aries, which does not now, as formerly, occupy the sign of the same name.
(10) - Ram (n.) Aries, the sign of the zodiac which the sun enters about the 21st of March.
(11) - Ram (n.) The male of the sheep and allied animals. In some parts of England a ram is called a tup.

(1) - Ramadan (n.) The great annual fast of the Mohammedans, kept during daylight through the ninth month.
(2) - Ramadan (n.) The ninth Mohammedan month.

(1) - Ramble (n.) A bed of shale over the seam.
(2) - Ramble (n.) A going or moving from place to place without any determinate business or object; an excursion or stroll merely for recreation.
(3) - Ramble (v. i.) To extend or grow at random.
(4) - Ramble (v. i.) To talk or write in a discursive, aimless way.
(5) - Ramble (v. i.) To walk, ride, or sail, from place to place, without any determinate object in view; to roam carelessly or irregularly; to rove; to wander; as, to ramble about the city; to ramble over the world.

(1) - Rambler (n.) One who rambles; a rover; a wanderer.