List of Old English Words in the OED/RA

Old English	sp	English
Rabbi	n	A Jewish scholar or teacher, especially one who studies or teaches Jewish law. 2. a person appointed as a Jewish religious leader. Origin: Late Old English, via ecclesiastical Latin and Greek from Hebrew rabbī ‘my master’, from raḇ ‘master’.
Race	n	Late Old English, from Old Norse rás ‘current’. It was originally a northern English word with the sense ‘rapid forward movement’, which gave rise to the senses ‘contest of speed’ (early 16th century) and ‘channel, path’ (i.e. the space traversed). The verb dates from the late 15th century. 2. running, rush, impetus attack; akin to ON. rás. The act of running, a run. 3. the course of life or portion of it. 3. rush, onset, haste 5. a journey or voyage. (rare). 6. the reach of a river. 7. the channel bed of a stream. 8. a small thread of spar. 9. channel or bed of a stream, a raceway.
Race	phr	"Not in the Race" - having no chance.
Race	phr	"One Horse Race" - a race whose winner is known before the race commences.
Race	phr	"Race Against Time" - an effort to complete something before, or by, a given time or before something else happens to prevent its success.
Race	phr	"Race to the Bottom" - the situation in which companies and countries try to compete with each other by cutting wages and living standards for workers
Race	phr	"Race Up" - rise rapidly (to a particular level); shoot up.
Race	phr	"Two Horse Race" - a contest where there is only two serious contestants.
Race-glasses	n	Binoculars.
Race-goer	n	An attendee at a race track for a race-meeting.
Race-going	n	The attendance at a racecourse or racetrack for a race-meeting, consisting of a sequence of horse races.
Racehorse	n	A horse kept or bred for racing.
Race-meeting	n	A series of horse races of a paricular racecourse on a particular day.
Racer	n	One who races or take part in a race. 2. anything having unusually rapid speed, as a racehorse, racing car. 3.
Raceway	n	A channel for conducting or carrying water. 2. a racecourse for trotting horses.
Rache	n	A hunting dog which pursues it prey by scent; also "ratch" from OE: raecc, related to ON rakki, dog
Racing	n	The sport of taking part in races.
Racing	phr	"Have Racing Thoughts" - a series of uncontrollable thoughts that switch rapidly between ideas, a symptoms of bipolar disorder, anxiety disorders of other mental illness.
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)
Radish-like	adj	Resembling or characteristic of a radish.
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
Rafters	n	The slender timbers, or common rafters, running from ridge to wall plate and carrying the coering of the roof.
Rag	n	English has four separate words rag, none of them with a well-documented history. Rag ; 'a piece of cloth' is probably from Old Norse *ragg (suggested by derivative raggiġ “shaggy; bristly; ragged” and borrowed into Late O.E. Old English??? 2. tufted, shaggy. 3. strip of fur.
Rag-and-bone man*	n	A street trader who, formerly bought and sold old clothes, household waste or discarded articles.
Ragweed	n	A hogweed; a common North American weed.
Ragwort	n	A common roadside plant with bright yellow flowers on a tall, erect stem.
Raid	n	A variant of 'road' - search for something needed or desired. 2. raid an attempt by speculators to defraud investors. 3. raid a sudden short attack.
Raid	vb	Take over (a company) by buying a controlling interest of its stock. 2. search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on
Raider	n	One who makes a hostile and predatory raid, taking the spoils or plunder (often in wartime). 2. a corporate investor whose aim is to takeover a company, by buying a controlling interest in its stock and then bringinging in his own management team.
Raiding	n	The act of carrying out a raid.
Raiding	adj	marauding, attacking, assailing, assaulting, plundering, predatory.
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	phr	"As Right as Rain" - fit, OK , all right.
Rain	phr	"Come Rain or Shine" - whatever happens. 2. no matter what the weather
Rain	phr	"Put Aside (something) for a Rainy Day" - keep hold of something till it's needed.
Rain	phr	"Rain Cats and Dogs" - pour with heavy rain.
Rain	phr	"Rain Down" - cause to fall in showers; fall thick and fast (on).
Rain	phr	"Rain, Hail or Shine" - lit., in all kinds of weather. 2. fig. in all sorts of difficult situations.
Rain	phr	"Rain Off" - cause an event to be interrupted, cancelled or terminated because of rain. 2. rain out.
Rain	phr	"Rain Out" - the cancellation or premature ending of an event because of rain. 2. rain off.
Rain	phr	"Rain Upon" - be offer in abundance; in great quantity; shower upon.
Rain	phr	"Right as Rain" - in good order; comfortably situated .
Rainberry	n	The common buckthorn.
Rainbird	n	A bird said to foretell rain by its cry, esp. the green woodpecker.
Rainbow	n	A (rain) bow or arch exhibiting the prismatic colours in their order, formed in the sky opposite the sun by the reflection, double refraction, and the dispersion of the sun's rays in falling drops of rain. 2. also, a similar arch formed in the spray of cataracts.
Rainbow	phr	"Look for the Pot of Gold at the End of the Rainbow" - be a good bit too unrealistic or naive.
Rainbow	vb	To brighten or span with a rainbow; to produce like a rainbow.
Rainbow bird	The Rainbow bee-eater
Rainbow bee-eater	n	A migratory bee-eater, Merops ornatus, which has multicoloured plumage and a black eyestripe, and breeds chiefly in Australia. 2. the rainbow bird.
Rainbowed	adj	Resembling a rainbow.
Rainbow bridge	n	Used in reference to an idyllic place where a pet animal is imagined to go after death, where it will eventually be reunited with its owner.
Rainbow fish	n	Any of a number of small brightly coloured fish of the warm waters near Australia and Indonesia.
Rainbow-like	adj	Consisting of or containing many different colours
Rainbow runner	n	Elagatis bipinnulata, family Carangidae. A colourfully striped fish of the jack family, of warm seas worldwide.
Rainbow trout	n	a large trout, originally of the Pacific coast of North America.
Rainbowy	adj	Pertaining to, or like a rainbow in some aspect; rainbowish.
Rain cloud	n	A cloud bringing rain.
Rain-dog	n	A small part of a rainbow, the rest being invisible
Rain-drop	n	A single drop of rain.
Rainfall	n	A shower of rain. 2. the amount or quanity of rain falling during a certain time within a given area; estimated usually in millimetres.
Rainfast	adj	Of a surface coating or spray not able to be washed off by rain.
Rain-fowl	n	the Mistletoe Thrush
Rain-glass	n	A barometer
Rain hat	n	A waterproof hat worn to protect the wearer from rain.
Rainily	adv	In a somewhat rainy way or manner.
Raininess	n	Characterized by, full of, or bringing rain.
Raining tree	n	Old travelers to the the Canary Islands told of a linden tree from which sufficient water to supply all people and animals of the island concerned. In certain weather conditions moisture condenses and collects on the broad leaves of many trees. The genisaro or guango, Pithecolibium saman, or ornamental tropical tree, one of the Leguminosae, is known as the rain-tree. In this case ejection of juice by cicadas are responsible for the 'rain' under its branches. Another is the Andira inermis, found in tropical Africa and America.
Rainish	adj	Somewhat rainy or wet.
Rainless	adj	Entirely lacking in rain
Rainlike	adj	Characteristic by, full of, or bringing rain.
Rainmaker	n	A person who seeks to bring rain by magic or seeding techniques. 2. an influential political lobbyist, typically one who can attract large donation.
Rainmaking	n	The bringing about of rain through technology, such as cloud seeding.
Rain man	n	A nerd; one who may be smart or particularly knowledgeable in some areas but socially or otherwise developmentally retarded.
Rain-out	n	The cancellation or premature ending of an event because of rain. 2. precipitation of radioactive water droplets from clouds masses resulting from an underwater nuclear explosions.
Rain shadow	n	A region shielded from rain by mountains, etc. 2. an area on the leeward (downwind) side of a mountain or mountain range that receives greatly diminished precipitation.
Rain-shadowing	adj	The production of a rain shadow.
Rain-storm	n	A storm with heavy rain.
Rainswept	adj	Expsed to rain.
Rain-tight	n	Impervious to rain.
Rain tree	n	Various species of tree, especially in India and South America valued for its beauty and shade rather than its wood.
Rainwash	n	Loose material, and the movement of this, carried away by rain.
Rainwater	n	Water that falls directly from the clouds as, or in the form of, rain.
Rain waterpipe	n	A long square box, or closed trough, for conveying water from the eaves gutter to the ground.
Rainwear	n	Clothes for wearing in the rain.
Rainworm	n	The common earthworm.
Rainy	adj	Weather or climate whose qualities are rainy
Rainy day	n	A day on which rain is falling constantly. 2. time of special need, usually financial need, and in the future.
Raise	vb	A close cognate to rear. It was borrowed from Old Norse 'reisa', which descended from the same Germanic word that gave us English 'rear' : 'lift', 'rise'. To cause to move upwards ??????
Raise	phr	"Raise a Glass to" - drink a toast to somebody, thus signalling one's approval or admiration of him,
Raise	phr	"Raise a Laugh/Smile" - amuse somebody one's companions, an audience, (either deliberately or not)enough to make them laughor smile.
Raise	phr	"Raise a Stink" - make a fuss.
Raise	phr	"Raise From the Dead" - restore to life, usually by supernatural means.
Raise	phr	"Raise Merry Hell" - complain, protest, exert one's authority, etc angrier or violently. 2. behave in an extravagant, noisy, unrestrained or riotous way
Raise	phr	"Raise One's Eyebrows" - express by facial gesture one's doubts, skepticism, or disapproval (cause others to display similar feelings).
Raise	phr	"Raise One's Hand Against" - physically threaten.
Raise	phr	"Raise One's Hat to" - indicate one's approval or admiration for somebody (by literally removing one's hat to).
Raise	phr	"Raise One's Rights" - be more ambitious.
Raise	phr	"Raise Someone's Hopes" - make somebody more hopeful that something will happen.
Raise	phr	"Raise the Roof" - make a lot or too much noise, by singing, shouting, applauding etc.
Raise	phr	"Raise With" - introduce in discussion a subject with.
Raising	n	The act of lifting, propagating, erecting, causing a rise in any sense. 2. the embossed part of a sheet-metal work. 3. the process of deepening colors in dyeing.
Raising-bee	n	The gathering of persons for the purpose of erecting the frame of a building.
Rake	n	Partly from OE and ON. - an implement consisting of a comb-like crossbar fitted with a long handle. 2.
Rake	vb	Draw together by means of a rake. 2. to proceed on the wrong course, make one's way; walk, stroll, wander; range about, as 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 run with their noses close to the ground. 4. to direct a heavy volley of shots along the length of a ship or a row of soldiers. 5. to make a search or carefully examine. 6. to gather by diligent effort.
Rake	n	O.E (hracu): throat gorge, jaw (rare).
Rake	phr	"Rake About" - search here and there for something.
Rake	phr	"Rake In" - take (abundantly) as proceeds of one's business.
Rake	phr	"Rake Off" - to share in profits, proceeds, esp. in a shady or illegal deal.
Rake	phr	"Rake Over" - re-examine, have a second look at.
Rake	phr	"Rake Over Old Coals/Ashes" - revive (usually unpleasant) memories of the past.
Rake	phr	"Rake (Something) Up" - discover something (usually to someone's disadvantage).
Rake	phr	"Rake Through" - examine documents very carefully in search of evidence, etc.
Rake	phr	"Rake Up" - revive something which is now forgotten (and is best left forgotten); drag up. 2. rake something up, or discover something from someone's past that discredits them.
Rake	phr	"Thin As a Rake" - very thin.
Rake-off	n	Share of profit, proceeds, esp. in a shady or illegal deal.
Rake-up	vb	To concoct or fabricate
Rakente	n	A chain, from OE rackan
Ram	n	O.E may be related to ON ramr 'strong,' the allusion being to the ram's (a male sheep) strength in butting. 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	phr	"Ram Down" - strike something firmly so that it parts pack tightly together.
Ram	phr	"Ram Down Somebody's Throat" - repeat something often in the hope in the hope of impressing it on the hearer. 2. stuff something down someone's throat.
Ram	phr	"Ram Home" - make a point forcefully and absolutely clear by illustration or example.
Ram	phr	"Ram Into" - Drive one's motor vehicle with great force into another.
Rame	vb	To scream.
Rammish	adj	Like a ram, esp. in being lustful.
Rammishness	n	The quality of being rammish (sheeplike)
Rammy	adj	Pertaining to or like a ram.
Ramraid	n	A robbery in which the shop window is rammed with a vehicle and looted.
Ramraider	n	One or those who carry out a ramraid.
Ramraiding	n	The act of robbery by ramraid.
Ramrod	n	A rod for ramming doewn the charge of a nuzzle-loading firearm, 2. a thing very straight or rigid.
Ramrod	phr	"As Stiff as a Ramrod" - of a person, standing or sitting with their back very straight or stiff.
Ram's horn	n	The plant Orchis morio
Ramson	n	Broad leaf garlic, allium ursinum
Rand	n	OE brink or bank, shield rim; a border, edge, a margin. 2. a river border overgrown with reeds or the unplowed border around a field. 3. a strip or long slice of ham. 4. a rand or strip of leather placed under a shoe or boot, to make this level. 5. a strip of iron. 6. 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	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 several hundreds
Rare	adj	(OE. hrere: lightly boiled) - not thoroughly cooked; applied to a roasted or broiled meat retaining its rareness and juices; in England commonly called 'underdone'.
Rare-ripe	n	A fruit that ripens early; applied esp. to some varieties of peaches; and onions.
Rare-ripe	adj	Ripening early.
Rash	adj	See "race" - unrecorded but probably from OE????. 2. reckless, impetuous, hasty. 2. acting or done without due consideration.
Rashly	adv	In a rash or reckless manner.
Rashness	n	The state or action of being rash.
Rat	n	Rodent of some of the larger species of the genus "mus". 2. one who refuses to join a trade union but takes the benefits the union wins for him/her and his/her fellow. workers.
Rat	vb	To betray the trust of another, betray.
Rat	phr	"As Wet as a Drowned Rat" - very wet.
Rat	phr	"Like Rats Leaving a Sinking Ship" - cowardice or prudence makes people desert a friend, employer etc if danger threatens.
Rat	phr	"Rat On (Somebody)" - betray, inform against, grass. 2. withdraw from an agreement or undertaking.
Rat	phr	"Smell a Rat" - be suspicious.
Rat	phr	"Take a Rat by the Tail" - a picket pocket. When purses were worn suspended from a girdle, thieves cut the strings by which the purse was attached.
Rat-arsed	adj	(Slang) : drunk.
Ratbane	n	Rat poison.
Rat-brain	adj	To think like a rat: cunning, opportunistic, sly
Ratch	n	OE : raecce; a hound which hunts by scent, as the blood-hound; also 'rach'.
Rat-eyed	adj	To have eyes like a rat: cunning, furtive, steathly and alert
Rat-foot dots	n	In Chinese painting, a method of representing pine boughs or branches by brush strokes that resemble the print of a rat foot; four or five slightly curved strokes radiating from a white centre dot.
Rathe	n	Counsel, advice, help,
Rathe	vb	To counsel, advice
Rathe	adj	Quick in action, speedy, prompt; rath. 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.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. 3. rathely, precociously,early; betimely.
Rathe day	n	Early in the day or early in morning..
Ratheness	n	Earliness, prematurity, precociousness
Rather	adv	Comparative 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. 4. more willingly; preferably, on the other hand; on the contrary, somewhat. 5. for the reason that; by so much the more.
Rather	phr	'Rather than" - prefer
Rathe-ripe	adj	Ripening prematurely; precocious. 2. of fruit, flowers which grow or bloom or ripen early in the year.
Rat-hole	n	Refuge or hiding place. 2. a squalid or cramped building; a small underground hovel.
Ratless	adj	Free from rats.
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 run	n	A route on minor roads used by traffic to avoid congestion at peak periods.
Rat snake	n	Any of various nonvenomous rodent-eating colubrid snakes, such as Elaphe obsoleta of North America and Ptyas mucosus of Asia
Rat-souled	adj	Reproachful; wretched, despicable, ignoble, surreptitious, sly in quality and action.
Ratter	n	A rat-catcher. 2. a dog or cat that catches rats. 3. a deserter or traitor.
Rat-tight	adj	Rat proofed; secure against rat infestations or presence.
Rattish	adj	Devoid of noble qualities or action. 2. belonging to or resembling a rat. 3. 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, ill-tempered, angry. 4. surreptitious, stealthy, thievish.
Raven	n	A bird of ill omen; fabled to forbode death, and to bring infection and bad luck. 2. a common name for several, generally large and lustrous black species of birds with a raucous voice in the genus Corvus, especially the common raven; a blood bird. 3. rapacity; food obtined by violence. 4. plunder; prey. 5. a undertaker, funeral director. 6. a female given name for a girl with raven hair, used since the 1970s
Raven,	adj	Of the color of the raven; jet-black. 2. rapine
Raven	vb	To obtain or seize by violence.m 2. To devour with great eagerness. 3. to prey with rapacity; to be greedy; to show rapacity.
Raven flint	n	Obsidian, a raven's wing's gleam against the light just like a slab of obsidian.
Ravenhood	n	The state or quality of being a raven.
Ravenish	adj	Resembling or reminiscent of a raven; especially blackish, dark.
Raven's book	n	List of the dead, obituaries.
Raven's eye	n	Species of toadstool
Raven haired	adj	Having hair very black and lustrous.
Ravening	adj	Rabid, mad.
Raveningly	adv	In a rabid manner.
Raven-kind	adj	The class or type to which ravens belong.
Ravenlike	adj	Resembling or characteristic of a raven.
Raven-stone	n	Place of execution, gallows or gibbet.
Raven's woe	n	Death and destruction (often relating to war and battle). The raven is considered a bird of ill-omen.
Raven-wise	adj	The raven has the playful nature, acts like a trickster and is one of the most intelligent of all the birds. As such it has long been considered a prophetic bird, a bird of dawn (cawing the day) and a a symbol of knowledge, omniscience.
Raw	adj	OE: hreaw; usually uncooked, in a natural, unworked, not wrought. 2. crude, inexperienced. 3. "In the raw" : in the nude
Raw	phr	"Get a Raw Deal" - an unfair deal or unfair treatment.
Raw	phr	"In the Raw" - bare, in the nude, naked.
Raw	phr	"Rawhead and Bloody Bones" - a bogey at one time the terror of children.
Rawboned	adj	A very lean or gaunt person, a mere skeleton, thin, projecting bone.
Raw deal	n	Harsh or unfair treatment.
Raw-edged	adj	Without a hem. 2. not yet mellow. 3. having a raw edge or edges (literal and figurative).
Raw-headed	adj	Callow, young, immature, inexperienced.
Rawhide	n	Untanned hides. 2. a rope made of untanned hide.
Rawish	adj	Somewhat raw.
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 milk	n	Unpasteurized milk.
Raw-necked	adj	Crude, unsophisticated, 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. to extend one's power or influence, to prevail. 7 to elongate the neck