List of Old English Words in the OED/RA

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 * Old English||sp||English
 * Race ||n||The act of running, a run. 2. the course of life or portion of it. 3. Rush, onset, haste 4. A journey or voyage. (rare). 5. The reach of a river. 6. The channel bed of a stream. 7. A small thread of spar. 8.Channel or bed of a stream, a raceway.
 * Racehorse ||n||A horse kept or bred for racing. 2. A logger-head or steamer duck
 * Rache ||n||A hunting dog which pursues it prey by scent; also "ratch" from OE: raecc, related to ON rakki, dog
 * Rad ||adj||Quick, hasty, speedy. 2. prompt, eager, ready, elated.
 * Radish||n||The fleshy, slightly pungent, root of a cruciferous plant (Raphanus sativus), commonly eaten raw as a relish or in salads.
 * Radish-fly||n||A small dipterous insect, Anthonyia raphani)
 * Radknight || n||In OE times, a tenant holding land on condition of performing services on horseback; also "Radman" and "Rodman"
 * Radly ||adv||Quickly, promptly, without delay, soon
 * Radness || n||Fear, fright
 * Rafter ||n||One of the beams which give slope and form to a roof, and bear the outer covering of slates, tiles, thatch. 2. a large beam such as is used for a rafter. 3. One who is employed in rafting timber
 * Rag ||n||A small worthless fragment or shred of some woven material; esp. one of the irregular scraps into which pieces of mterial of such material is reduced by wear and tear. 2. ragged or tattered garments or clothes. 3 4 "Glad rags" clothes
 * Rag-chewing ||n||Protacted discussions or argument, as in " chewing the rag."
 * Rag-dust || n||Fine particles of dust when torn, used in making paper-mache
 * Ragweed||n||A plant belonging to the genus Ambrosia, esp. Ambrosia trifida
 * Ragwort||n||The proper name of several species of the genus Seneccio, esp. the Common ragwort
 * Rail ||n||A garment, dress. 2. A neckerchief usu. worn by women.; see also night-rail: a dressing gown
 * Rain ||n||The condensed vapour of the atmosphere, falling in drops large to attain a sensible velocity; the fall of such drops. 2. Showers of rain, rainfalls. 3. A (specified) kind of rain or shower. 4. The descent of liquid or solid particles or bodies thus falling. 5. A composition used in fireworks' rockets, producing a shower of bright-coloured sparks.
 * Rain||vb||Of rain: to fall 2.to send down or pour down rain. 3 of tears and other things, etc: to descend, fall, come, etc like rain.
 * Rain-band ||n||A long period of rain
 * Rainbow||n||A bow or arch exhibiting the prismatic colours in their order, forme in the sky opposite the sun by the reflection, double refraction, and the dispersion of the sun's rays in falling drops of rain. Also, a similar arch formed in the spray of cataracts.
 * Rainbow||vb||To brighten or span with a rainbow; to produce likea rainbow.
 * Rain-drop||n||A single drop of rain.
 * Rainfall||n||A shower of rain. 2. the amount of rain falling during a certain time within a given area; estimated usually in millimetres.
 * Rain-fowl||n||the Mistletoe Thrush
 * Rain-glass||n||A barometer
 * Rainless||adj||Entirely lacking in rain
 * Rainman ||n||A nerd; one who may be smart or particularly knowledgeable in some areas but socially or otherwise developmentally retarded
 * Rainmaker ||n||An influential political lobbyist, typically one who can attract large donation.
 * Rainwater||n||Water that falls from th clouds as rain.
 * Rainy||adj||Weather or climate whose qualities are rainy
 * Raise ||vb||
 * Rake ||vb||To proceed, make one's way; walk, stroll, wander. 2. Of hawks: to fly along after game; also rake out, off, away, to fly wide or (away from) game) the game. 3 Of hunting dogs; to runwith their noses close to the ground.
 * Rake ||n||Throat, jaws
 * Rake-up ||vb ||To concoct or fabricate
 * Rakente||n||A chain, from OE rackan
 * Ram ||n||A male sheep. 2. a sexually aggressive man; a lecher. 3.The process of ramming
 * Ram ||vb||to beat down earth with a heavy implement, so as to make it hard and firm; force down by a heavy blow; pile drive
 * Ram's horn ||n||The plant Orchis morio
 * Ramson ||n||Broad leaf garlic, allium ursinum
 * Rand ||n||OE brink or bank, shield rim. 2. a strip or long slice of ham. 3. a rand or strip of leather placed under a shoe or boot, to make this level. 4. a strip of iron. 5 a piece or mass of ice
 * Rank ||adj||Proud, highminded, haughty, froward, rebellious. 2. stout & strong. 3. having great speed or force; swift, impetuous, violent. 4. having an offensively strong smell. 5. lustful, licentious, grossly indecent. 7. grossly offensive or loathsome. 8. corrupt, foul, festering. 9 numerous, frequent. 10, luxuriant, abounding, full; rank-springing.
 * Rank-goat ||n||The plant "Motherwort"
 * Rank-minded ||adj||Offensive in thought and mind.
 * Rankness ||n||Strength. 2.state of rank: offensive, strong etc.
 * Rank-old ||adj||Old & smelly; renky
 * Rape||n||One of the six administrative districts into which Sussex is divided; each comprising severals hundreds
 * Rat ||n||Rodent of some of the larger species of the genus "mus"
 * Rat ||vb||To betray another's trust, betray
 * Ratbane ||n||Rat poisoning
 * Rat-brain ||adj||To think like a rat: cunning, opportunistic, sly
 * Rat-eyed ||adj||To have eyes like a rat: cunning, furtive, steathly and alert
 * Rathe ||n||Counsel, advice, help,
 * Rathe ||vb||To counsel, advice
 * Rathe ||adj||Quick in action, speedy, prompt. 2. eager, earnest, vehemence. 3. finished, done, ocurring or coming before the usual or natural time, early, as in rathe grave: early or premature death. 4. Of fruit, flowers which grow or bloom or ripen early in the year; a 'rathe-ripe' 5. early in the day or early in morning: "rathe day". 6. belonging to, or forming, the first part of some period of time.
 * Rathe ||adv||Denoting rapidity in the performance or completion of an action. 2. quickly, rapidly, swiftly; esp. without delay, promptly,swift. 2. Too quickly, too soon, too early; before a fitting or natural time: rathely
 * Ratheness ||n||Earliness, prematurity, precociousness
 * Rather ||adv||Comparitive of rathe: earlier, preceding another in time; coming in an earlier hour. 2. antecedent, prior of greater in place. 3. earlier of two (of persons or things), of earlier times
 * Rat-hole ||n||Refuge or hiding place. 2. a squalid or cramped building
 * Rat race ||n||The fiercely competitive struggle or constant struggle to maintain one's position in work or life; life in it's toughest
 * Rat-souled ||adj||Reproachful; wretched, despicable, ignoble, surreptitious, sly in quality and action.
 * Ratter ||n||A rat-catcher
 * Rat-tight ||adj||Rat proofed; secure against rat infestations or prescence
 * Rattish ||adj||Devoid of noble qualities or action. 2, in the way of or manner of a rat
 * Ratty||adj||Characteristics of a rat or rats. 2.infested with rats. 3. wretched, miserable, irritated, angry. 4. surrreptitious, stealthly, thievish
 * Raven ||n||A large black bird with a racous voice, Corbus corax.
 * Raven's book ||n||List of the dead, obituaries.
 * Raven's eye ||n||Species of toadstool
 * Raven's woe ||n||Death and destruction (often relating to war and battle)
 * Raw ||adj||Usu. uncooked, in a natural or unwrought. 2. crude, inexperienced. 3. "In the raw" : in the nude
 * Raw-boned ||adj||a very laen or gaunt person, a mere skeleton, thin, projecting bone.
 * Raw-edged ||adj||Unhemmed. 2. unmellowed
 * Raw-headed || adj||Callow, young, immature, inexperienced
 * Rawly ||adj||At a mature age. 2. crudely insufficient or unsatisfactory manner. 3.ignorant; of little knowledge or experience. 4. barely, scarely, immaturely exposed
 * Raw-necked ||adj||Crude, unsophiscated, boorish, conservative
 * Rawness||n||Inexperience, ignorance, crudeness. 2. incompleteness. 3. bareness of flesh. 4. excoriation. 5 soreness; smarting. 6. indigestion. 7. chilliness, dampness, cold
 * Raxness||vb|| To stretch oneself after sleep. 2. to start up wake up from a swoon: to rax. 3. to become longeror be stretched by pulling, to stretch, to be hanged. 4. to wax, grow. 5. to extend the hand, reach out. 6. toextend one's power or influence, to prevail. 7 to elongate the neck
 * Ram's horn ||n||The plant Orchis morio
 * Ramson ||n||Broad leaf garlic, allium ursinum
 * Rand ||n||OE brink or bank, shield rim. 2. a strip or long slice of ham. 3. a rand or strip of leather placed under a shoe or boot, to make this level. 4. a strip of iron. 5 a piece or mass of ice
 * Rank ||adj||Proud, highminded, haughty, froward, rebellious. 2. stout & strong. 3. having great speed or force; swift, impetuous, violent. 4. having an offensively strong smell. 5. lustful, licentious, grossly indecent. 7. grossly offensive or loathsome. 8. corrupt, foul, festering. 9 numerous, frequent. 10, luxuriant, abounding, full; rank-springing.
 * Rank-goat ||n||The plant "Motherwort"
 * Rank-minded ||adj||Offensive in thought and mind.
 * Rankness ||n||Strength. 2.state of rank: offensive, strong etc.
 * Rank-old ||adj||Old & smelly; renky
 * Rape||n||One of the six administrative districts into which Sussex is divided; each comprising severals hundreds
 * Rat ||n||Rodent of some of the larger species of the genus "mus"
 * Rat ||vb||To betray another's trust, betray
 * Ratbane ||n||Rat poisoning
 * Rat-brain ||adj||To think like a rat: cunning, opportunistic, sly
 * Rat-eyed ||adj||To have eyes like a rat: cunning, furtive, steathly and alert
 * Rathe ||n||Counsel, advice, help,
 * Rathe ||vb||To counsel, advice
 * Rathe ||adj||Quick in action, speedy, prompt. 2. eager, earnest, vehemence. 3. finished, done, ocurring or coming before the usual or natural time, early, as in rathe grave: early or premature death. 4. Of fruit, flowers which grow or bloom or ripen early in the year; a 'rathe-ripe' 5. early in the day or early in morning: "rathe day". 6. belonging to, or forming, the first part of some period of time.
 * Rathe ||adv||Denoting rapidity in the performance or completion of an action. 2. quickly, rapidly, swiftly; esp. without delay, promptly,swift. 2. Too quickly, too soon, too early; before a fitting or natural time: rathely
 * Ratheness ||n||Earliness, prematurity, precociousness
 * Rather ||adv||Comparitive of rathe: earlier, preceding another in time; coming in an earlier hour. 2. antecedent, prior of greater in place. 3. earlier of two (of persons or things), of earlier times
 * Rat-hole ||n||Refuge or hiding place. 2. a squalid or cramped building
 * Rat race ||n||The fiercely competitive struggle or constant struggle to maintain one's position in work or life; life in it's toughest
 * Rat-souled ||adj||Reproachful; wretched, despicable, ignoble, surreptitious, sly in quality and action.
 * Ratter ||n||A rat-catcher
 * Rat-tight ||adj||Rat proofed; secure against rat infestations or prescence
 * Rattish ||adj||Devoid of noble qualities or action. 2, in the way of or manner of a rat
 * Ratty||adj||Characteristics of a rat or rats. 2.infested with rats. 3. wretched, miserable, irritated, angry. 4. surrreptitious, stealthly, thievish
 * Raven ||n||A large black bird with a racous voice, Corbus corax.
 * Raven's book ||n||List of the dead, obituaries.
 * Raven's eye ||n||Species of toadstool
 * Raven's woe ||n||Death and destruction (often relating to war and battle)
 * Raw ||adj||Usu. uncooked, in a natural or unwrought. 2. crude, inexperienced. 3. "In the raw" : in the nude
 * Raw-boned ||adj||a very laen or gaunt person, a mere skeleton, thin, projecting bone.
 * Raw-edged ||adj||Unhemmed. 2. unmellowed
 * Raw-headed || adj||Callow, young, immature, inexperienced
 * Rawly ||adj||At a mature age. 2. crudely insufficient or unsatisfactory manner. 3.ignorant; of little knowledge or experience. 4. barely, scarely, immaturely exposed
 * Raw-necked ||adj||Crude, unsophiscated, boorish, conservative
 * Rawness||n||Inexperience, ignorance, crudeness. 2. incompleteness. 3. bareness of flesh. 4. excoriation. 5 soreness; smarting. 6. indigestion. 7. chilliness, dampness, cold
 * Raxness||vb|| To stretch oneself after sleep. 2. to start up wake up from a swoon: to rax. 3. to become longeror be stretched by pulling, to stretch, to be hanged. 4. to wax, grow. 5. to extend the hand, reach out. 6. toextend one's power or influence, to prevail. 7 to elongate the neck
 * Rat-hole ||n||Refuge or hiding place. 2. a squalid or cramped building
 * Rat race ||n||The fiercely competitive struggle or constant struggle to maintain one's position in work or life; life in it's toughest
 * Rat-souled ||adj||Reproachful; wretched, despicable, ignoble, surreptitious, sly in quality and action.
 * Ratter ||n||A rat-catcher
 * Rat-tight ||adj||Rat proofed; secure against rat infestations or prescence
 * Rattish ||adj||Devoid of noble qualities or action. 2, in the way of or manner of a rat
 * Ratty||adj||Characteristics of a rat or rats. 2.infested with rats. 3. wretched, miserable, irritated, angry. 4. surrreptitious, stealthly, thievish
 * Raven ||n||A large black bird with a racous voice, Corbus corax.
 * Raven's book ||n||List of the dead, obituaries.
 * Raven's eye ||n||Species of toadstool
 * Raven's woe ||n||Death and destruction (often relating to war and battle)
 * Raw ||adj||Usu. uncooked, in a natural or unwrought. 2. crude, inexperienced. 3. "In the raw" : in the nude
 * Raw-boned ||adj||a very laen or gaunt person, a mere skeleton, thin, projecting bone.
 * Raw-edged ||adj||Unhemmed. 2. unmellowed
 * Raw-headed || adj||Callow, young, immature, inexperienced
 * Rawly ||adj||At a mature age. 2. crudely insufficient or unsatisfactory manner. 3.ignorant; of little knowledge or experience. 4. barely, scarely, immaturely exposed
 * Raw-necked ||adj||Crude, unsophiscated, boorish, conservative
 * Rawness||n||Inexperience, ignorance, crudeness. 2. incompleteness. 3. bareness of flesh. 4. excoriation. 5 soreness; smarting. 6. indigestion. 7. chilliness, dampness, cold
 * Raxness||vb|| To stretch oneself after sleep. 2. to start up wake up from a swoon: to rax. 3. to become longeror be stretched by pulling, to stretch, to be hanged. 4. to wax, grow. 5. to extend the hand, reach out. 6. toextend one's power or influence, to prevail. 7 to elongate the neck
 * Raven's eye ||n||Species of toadstool
 * Raven's woe ||n||Death and destruction (often relating to war and battle)
 * Raw ||adj||Usu. uncooked, in a natural or unwrought. 2. crude, inexperienced. 3. "In the raw" : in the nude
 * Raw-boned ||adj||a very laen or gaunt person, a mere skeleton, thin, projecting bone.
 * Raw-edged ||adj||Unhemmed. 2. unmellowed
 * Raw-headed || adj||Callow, young, immature, inexperienced
 * Rawly ||adj||At a mature age. 2. crudely insufficient or unsatisfactory manner. 3.ignorant; of little knowledge or experience. 4. barely, scarely, immaturely exposed
 * Raw-necked ||adj||Crude, unsophiscated, boorish, conservative
 * Rawness||n||Inexperience, ignorance, crudeness. 2. incompleteness. 3. bareness of flesh. 4. excoriation. 5 soreness; smarting. 6. indigestion. 7. chilliness, dampness, cold
 * Raxness||vb|| To stretch oneself after sleep. 2. to start up wake up from a swoon: to rax. 3. to become longeror be stretched by pulling, to stretch, to be hanged. 4. to wax, grow. 5. to extend the hand, reach out. 6. toextend one's power or influence, to prevail. 7 to elongate the neck
 * Raw-headed || adj||Callow, young, immature, inexperienced
 * Rawly ||adj||At a mature age. 2. crudely insufficient or unsatisfactory manner. 3.ignorant; of little knowledge or experience. 4. barely, scarely, immaturely exposed
 * Raw-necked ||adj||Crude, unsophiscated, boorish, conservative
 * Rawness||n||Inexperience, ignorance, crudeness. 2. incompleteness. 3. bareness of flesh. 4. excoriation. 5 soreness; smarting. 6. indigestion. 7. chilliness, dampness, cold
 * Raxness||vb|| To stretch oneself after sleep. 2. to start up wake up from a swoon: to rax. 3. to become longeror be stretched by pulling, to stretch, to be hanged. 4. to wax, grow. 5. to extend the hand, reach out. 6. toextend one's power or influence, to prevail. 7 to elongate the neck
 * Rawness||n||Inexperience, ignorance, crudeness. 2. incompleteness. 3. bareness of flesh. 4. excoriation. 5 soreness; smarting. 6. indigestion. 7. chilliness, dampness, cold
 * Raxness||vb|| To stretch oneself after sleep. 2. to start up wake up from a swoon: to rax. 3. to become longeror be stretched by pulling, to stretch, to be hanged. 4. to wax, grow. 5. to extend the hand, reach out. 6. toextend one's power or influence, to prevail. 7 to elongate the neck
 * Raxness||vb|| To stretch oneself after sleep. 2. to start up wake up from a swoon: to rax. 3. to become longeror be stretched by pulling, to stretch, to be hanged. 4. to wax, grow. 5. to extend the hand, reach out. 6. toextend one's power or influence, to prevail. 7 to elongate the neck
 * Raxness||vb|| To stretch oneself after sleep. 2. to start up wake up from a swoon: to rax. 3. to become longeror be stretched by pulling, to stretch, to be hanged. 4. to wax, grow. 5. to extend the hand, reach out. 6. toextend one's power or influence, to prevail. 7 to elongate the neck