List of Old English Words in the OED/RI

Old English	sp	English
Rib	n	Any of a series of long curved bones occurring in 12 pairs in humans and other animals and extending from the spine to or toward the sternum. 2. part or piece, similar to a rib, and serving to shape or support something. 3. a cut of meat enclosing one or more rib bones. 4.(nautical) any of several curved members attached to a ship's keel and extending upward and outward to form the framework of the hull. 5. any of several transverse pieces that provide an aircraft wing with shape and strength. 6. (architecture) a long, narrow, usually arched member projecting from the surface of a structure, especially such a member separating the webs of a vault. 7. (knitting) a raised ridge in knitted material or in cloth. 8. (botany) The main, or any of the prominent veins of a leaf. 9. a teasing joke. 10. in Ireland, colloquially, a single strand of hair. 11. a stalk of celery
Rib	vb	To shape, support, or provide something with a rib or ribs. 2. to tease or make fun of someone. 3. to enclose, as if with ribs, and protect; to shut in. 2. to leave strips of undisturbed ground between the furrows in ploughing (land
Rib	phr	"Stick in One's Ribs" - satisfy one's hunger. 2. dig somebody in the ribs.
Ribbed	adj	Having or furnished with ribs.
Ribbing	n	A pattern of raised on a piece of clothing made for wool. 2. an act of laughing at some one in a friendly way.
Rib-cloud	n	A type of cirrus cloud, so named because it gives the impression of a vertebrae in a spinal column.
Rib-digger????	n	A person given to light-hearted banter and fun.
Ribless	adj	Lacking ribs.
Riblike	adj	Resembling or characteristic of ribs in some aspect or other.
Ribstone	n	An apple variety used in deserts, the ribstone pippin
Ribwort	n	Plantago lanceata, rib-grass: the narrow leave plantain.
Rich	adj	Old English rice via Germanic from Celtic, related to Latin rex (king); reinforced in Middle English from Old French. of persons: powerful, mighty, great, high-ranking, strong, potent of persons, powerful, mighty, noble, exalted, great. 2. of things, powerful, strong. 3. having large possessions or abundant means, wealthy, rich, opulent. 4. of places, countries: abounding in wealth or natural resources. 5. in a more general sense: fine, splendid, magnificent; plentiful, abundant 6. of feasts, food etc.,sumptuous, luxuriant. 7. of articles of food or drink with reference to their stimulative effects; composed of choice ingredients. 8. of colours: strong, deep, warm. 9. of musical sounds: full and mellow in tone. 10. of odours, full of fragrance. 11. of soils, abounding in the qualities necessary to produce good crops.
Rich	vb	In OE: to tug, pull or draw a rope. 2 to take one's way; to run, direct, advise, arrange, prepare a thing, adjust, settle, right or restore. 3. to do something, to address oneself to a place.
Rich	phr	"Strike It Rich" - obtain a lot of money.
Rich	phr	"That's Rich" - that's ridiculous, unbelievable.
Richdom	n	A royal power, kingdom, sovereignty, dominion, authority. 2. the territory over which authority extends, a kingdom, earldom, a diocese, district, town and so forth. 2. wealth, riches
Riche	n	Also rike, riche. a kingdom, realm, royal domain; also royal power or estate, sovereignty; riche. 2. The Kingdom of God or of Heaven; "The Heavenly Rike".
Richen	vb	To make richer, to make richer or better; enrich
Richening	n	The state of becoming richer or wealthier.
Riches	n	Abundance of means or of valuable possessions; wealth. 2. also the possession of wealth, condition of being rich.
Richling	n	A rich person, often used contemptuously.
Richful	adj	Wealthy.
Richish	adj	Somewhat rich.
Richly	adj.	In a rich, sumptuous or splendid manner. 2. in possession of riches. 3. ample, fully, thoroughly. 2. of colour, intensely deep.
Richman	n	A wealthy or powerful man.
Richness	n	The state or quality of being rich and,or powerful.
Rich root	A	kind of aconite: a poisonous plant of the order Rannunculae; esp. Monk's hood or wolf's bane.
Richweed	n	A species of Baneberry, Actea racemosa. 2 Horse-balm, or stone-root.
Rick	n	A stack of hay, corn, peas, esp. one regularly built and thatched; a mow. 2. a heap or pile. 3. a haycock in th e field. "Rick" words in combination: rick-burner, rick-shifter, rick-maker, rick-stones.
Rick	vb	To stack or pile in ricks; form corn or hay in ricks.
Ricking	n	the action of making ricks
Rickle	n	A stack
Rick-stand	n	The foundation upon which a rick is built. 2. a wood floor for a rick, or pile, of any kind of loose material.
Rick-yard	n	A farm yard enclosure containing ricks; a stack yard.
Ridden	n	An act of riding; a journey, esp. for pleasure, as on horseback, in a vehicle , etc., a riding track.
Ridden	sfx	Figuratively construed as "repeatedly subject to" or "unable to escape from." 2. bedridden, book-ridden, church-ridden, cloud-ridden, devil-ridden, dust-ridden, fear-ridden, filth-ridden, god-ridden, guilt-ridden, hate-ridden, flea-ridden, louse-ridden, mose-ridden, rat-ridden, sin-ridden, sorrow-ridden, storm-ridden, war-ridden, worm-ridden.
Riddle	n	A question or statement intentionally worded in a dark or puzzling manner and propounded in order that it may be guessed or answered, esp as a pastime. 2 an enigma, conundrum, a dark saying.
Riddle	n	A sieve, sifter.
Riddle	vb	To make riddles or enigmas. 2 . to speak in riddles. 3. riddling
Riddle	vb	To pierce holes in materials or metals
Riddle	phr	"Riddle With" - make many holes in something. 2. full of holes, weaknesses etc
Riddleboard	n	A board used when making riddle bread or cake.
Riddle cake	n	A kind of leavened bread or cake made from oatmeal, the dough for which is often riddled to make it expand before baking.
Riddlecraft	n	The craft or occupation of making riddles, conundrums or enigmas
Riddled	adj	having many holes in, esp. because of gunshot. 2. fill, spread through; permeate (holes, errors, a disease).
Riddledom	n	The realm or world of riddles and enignas.
Riddle-like	adj	Puzzling, enigmatic
Riddle-maker	n	A maker or monger of riddles, enigmas or conundrums.
Riddler	n	One who creates riddles or enigmas. 2. one who speaks in riddles or conundrums.
Riddlesome	adj	Enignamatic, puzzling, perplexing.
Riddle-wise	n	Clever at making riddles or enigmas
Riddingly	adv	In a ridding manner.
Riddling	n	Speaking or expressed in riddles.
Riddlingly	adv	In an enigmatic manner.
Riddlings	n	Coarse materials left in a sieve after sifting; worthless materials.
Ride	n	To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc. 2. to be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger; 3. to transport (someone) in a vehicle. 3. of a ship: to sail, to float on the water. 4. to be carried or supported by something lightly and quickly; to travel in such a way, as though on horseback. 5. to support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle. 6. to mount (someone) to have sex with them; to have sexual intercourse with. 7. to nag or criticize; to annoy (someone). 8. to clothing: to gradually move (up) and crease; to ruckle. 9. to rely, depend (on). 10. of clothing: to rest (in a given way on a part of the body). 11. to manage insolently at will; to domineer over. 12. to convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding. 13. (surgery) to overlap (each other); said of bones or fractured fragments
Ride	n	An instance of riding. 2. (informal) a vehicle. 3. an amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park. 4. lift given to someone in another person's vehicle. 5. a road or avenue cut in a wood, for riding; a bridleway or other wide country path. 6. a saddle horse. 7. (Ireland) a person (or sometimes a thing or a place) that is visually attractive.
Ride	phr	"Give Somebody a Rough Ride" - submit somebody to harsh treatment.
Ride	phr	"Go along for the Ride" - for the company; to make up the numbers (without taking part).
Ride	phr	"Let (Something) Ride" - leave something or a thing alone; don't interfere. 2. let something take its natural course.
Ride	phr	"Ride Again " - reappear, especially unexpectedly and reinvigorated.
Ride	phr	"Ride Ahead" - ride before a group.
Ride	phr	"Ride a Horse Foaled by an Acorn" - to be hanged on the gallows.
Ride	phr	"Ride Along" - for the company. 2. to make up numbers, without taking part.
Ride	phr	"Ride and Tie" - done by travelers sharing one horse between them. One rides ahead and the ties the horse up and walks on, the other has his go on the horse when he has reached it.
Ride	phr	"Ride Bareback" - a form of horseback riding without a saddle.
Ride	phr	"Ride Down" - overtake, or trample on horseback. 2. direct one's horse at somebody as if to knock them down.
Ride	phr	"Ride for a Fall" - act so recklessly, risking chagrin, defeat, failure, disaster.
Ride	phr	"Ride Hard" - said of a ship when she pitches violently at anchor.
Ride	phr	"Ride/Ridden Hard and Put Away Wet" - the way someone looks or feels when they've had a hard time of it. From a horseman's term, when someone has not taken care of a horse after a hard day.
Ride	phr	"Ride Herd on" - keep watch on.
Ride	phr	"Ride High" - be elated or successful. 2. riding high, but vulnerable.
Ride	phr	"Ride a High Horse" - to assume grand airs. 2. be arrogant, haughty, proud.
Ride	phr	"Ride On Ahead" - ride before others.
Ride	phr	"Ride On the Back of" - without effort to benefit from the prior efforts of others.
Ride	phr	"Ride On the Sheep's Back" - to benefit from the production of wool.
Ride	phr	"Ride Out a (Storm)" - come safely through a storm; survive danger or difficulty. 2. endure, weather, tolerate till something turns out successfully.
Ride	phr	"Ride Over" - to tyrannize or lord over.
Ride	phr	"Ride Roughshod Over" - treat inconsiderately or arrogantly; bully.
Ride	phr	"Ride Shank's Mare - to go on foot.
Ride	phr	"Ride Tall in the Saddle" - to remain proud or stoi, in one one's manner of composure.
Ride	phr	"Ride the Pine" - in sport, to remain on the bench rather than being able to participate in the game.
Ride	phr	"Ride the Wave" - be at a high, or the highest point of one's power, success, popularity.
Ride	phr	"Ride to Hounds" - go fox-hunting on horseback (C18th term).
Ride	phr	"Ride Up" - of a garment, clothing, carpet: move up or work out gradually from its proper or normal position.
Ride	phr	"Take for a Ride" - hoax or deceive. 2. cheat or murder someone.
Ride height	n	Ride height (also called ground clearance or simply clearance) is the amount of space between the base of an automobile tire and the lowest point (typically the axle); or, more properly, to the shortest distance between a flat, level surface, and the lowest part of a vehicle other than those parts designed to contact the ground (such as tires, tracks, skis, etc.)
Ride-off	adj	In a riding competition: a round held to resolve a tie or determine qualifiers for a later stage.
Ride-on	adj	Especially of a lawn-mower, on which one sits or rides while using it.
Rider	n	One who rides. 2. an addition clause or other documents. 3. an additional clause to a bill. 4. a supplement attached to a motion or verdict.
Rider	phr	"Rider of the Shires" - of the radical William Cobbett's journeys on horseback through out England and recorded in his work "Rural Rides".
Riderless	adj	Of a horse, without a rider.
Ridership	n	The number of passengers using a particular form of public transport.
Ride-sharing	n	An arrangement whereby several participants or their children travel together in one vehicle, the participants sharing the costs and often taking turns as the driver. 2. a group of commuters or parents participating in a carpool.
Ridge	n	The back of any animal; especially the upper or projecting part of the back of a quadruped. 2. any extended protuberance; a projecting line or strip. 3. the line or spine along which two sloping surfaces meet which diverge towards the ground. 4. the highest point on a roof, represented by a horizontal line where two roof areas intersect, running the length of the area. 4. (fortifications) the highest portion of the glaciers proceeding from the salient angle of the covered way. 5. a chain of mountains; chain of hills. 6. a long narrow elevation on an ocean bottom. 7. (meteorology) a type of warm air that comes down on to land from mountains.
Ridge	vb	To provide a building with a ridge; or a proper covering for this; to renew a ridge on a house. 2. to break up or throw up land or a field etc. into ridges. 3. to make a ridge or ripples; to raise ridges. 4. to form into a ridge. 5. to extend in ridges
Ridge-back	n	The spine of a mountain, etc.
Ridge barrow	n	A long, parallel-sided mound of earth and stone erected for the storage of ceremonial or funerary materials.
Ridge-bone	n	The backbone; spine; vertebrae.
Ridgelike	adj	Resembling or characteristic of a ridge.
Ridge-line	n	The top edge of a ridge of a mountain.
Ridge-runner	n	A farmer, or farmers collectively who live on, a farm an area of a ridge.
Ridge-side	n	A piece of land adjacent to a ridge.
Ridgeside	adv	Adjacent to a ridge.
Ridge-top	n	The crest that extends along the highest contours of a ridge.
Ridgeway	n	A way, track or road along a ridge, esp. one following the ridge of downs or low hill ranges. 2. road built along the top or crest of a hill.
Ridging	n	The various ridging of the roof of a building, taken collectively. 2. the act of covering a ridge with ridge tiles.
Ridging	vb	To cover with ridges. 2. to mark with ridges.
Ridgy	adj	Having ridges; raised in a ridge; ridged.
Riding	n	One of the three administrative districts into which Yorkshire is divided. 2. a similar division of other counties or districts in the United Kingdom or in the colonies. 2. a knot; a slip knot
Riding	n	A way or road specially intended for person's riding: especially a green track cut through or skirting a wood or covert. 2. the practice or skill of riders of horses.
Riding-boots	n	A high boot worn in riding.
Riding-halter	n	A piece of rope of a leather strap that is tied around an animal's head so that it can be led by someone or tied to something.
Riding-hood	n	A cloak with a hood, formerly worn by women when traveling.
Riding-light	n	A white light on the foresty of a vessel at anchor or an aircraft made fast to a mooring post, to give an indication of its presence.
Riding school	n	An establishment teaching skill in horse-riding and horsemanship.
Riding-spear	n	Javelin.
Riem	n	A long strip or thong of undressed leather; OE: reoma= rim: a long strip
Rife	adj	Of common occurrence; common, widespread; prevalent (especially of unpleasant or harmful thing). 2. abounding in; or containing in abundance, abundant, teeming with; frequent. 3. great or in large number or quantity, plentiful. 4.having power, active, nimble.
Rife	adv	Plentifully, abundantly.
Rifeness	n	The state or quality of being rife.
Riff	n	The belly, as in "midriff"
Riff	n	A cutaneous eruption; an itch or mange
Right	n	"A Bit of All Right" - an very attractive person, usually in referring to woman.
Right	phr	"A Right One" - colloquially; a foolish or silly person.
Right	phr	"As of Right" - having legal or moral entitlement.
Right	phr	"Be One's Right Arm" - one's most trusted and reliable helper.
Right	phr	"Be Right Back" - I will back be in a minute or so.
Right	phr	"By Rights" - according to the rules.
Right	phr	"Dead to Right" - with no excuse.
Right	phr	"Do Right by" - act fairly, properly and dutifully towards a person. 2. to do one justice; be perfectly fair to. 3. do one right.
Right	phr	"Get On the Right Side of" - make a good impression on someone.
Right	phr	"Get Somebody on the Right Road" - to show a person how to go about doing something.
Right	phr	"Get Something Right" - correctly understand something.
Right	phr	"Give One's Right Arm for" - I am very keen to acquire a person.
Right	phr	"Go Right" - happen correctly and/or successfully.
Right	phr	"In One's Own Right" - through one's on position or effort, etc.
Right	phr	"In One's Right Mind" - sane; sensible, competent to think and act, after a state of excitement.
Right	phr	"In the Right" - having justice and truth on one's side. 2. correct legally and morally.
Right	phr	"It Will Come Right in the End" - the hope of the optimist when things are going wrong.
Right	phr	"Keep On the Right Side Of " - be careful to make a good impression in order to remain in favor with. 2. not annoy another person. 3. maintain friendly relations with somebody. 4. somewhat less specified as a person's age.
Right	phr	"Left Hand Doesn't Know what the Right Hand is doing" - one section of the bureaucracy does not realize that another section is simultaneously doing something inconsistent.
Right	phr	"Right Side Out" - with the right side out.
Right	phr	"Put Right" - make correct or well ordered. 2. correct a wrong, or repair something.
Right	phr	"Put Things to Right" - to tidy up, put everything in its proper place.
Right	phr	"Right and Left" - on all sides.
Right	phr	"Right and Wrong" - what is honest, just, morally justified, normally admirable, contrasted what is not.
Right	phr	"Right as Rain" - perfectly sound and healthy.
Right	phr	"Right Away" - immediately, at once, right now.
Right	phr	"Right Enough" - an expression of agreement that what somebody else has said is sufficiently correct or accurate.
Right	phr	"Right Foot Foremost" - it was once considered unlucky to enter a house or a room, on the left foot. In ancient Rome a boy was stationed at the door of a wealthy person's home to ensure that visitors did not cross the threshold with the left foot.
Right	phr	"Right (Not Right) In the Head" - (not) sane, sensible; (not) normal psychologically.
Right	phr	"Right Now/Then" - immediately, right away; at this very moment.
Right	phr	"Right of Abode" - person right to take up residence or remain a resident in a country.
Right	phr	"Right Off" immediately, right away.
Right	phr	"Right off the Reel" - without hesitation; without needing or taking time.
Right	phr	"Right of Way" - the right of passing through the land of another.
Right	phr	"Right On" - (slang) an expression of strong approval or encouragement.
Right	phr	"Rights and Wrongs" - the particular aspects of a situation, procedure, way of behaving which may be considered right or wrong.
Right	phr	"Right Side Out" - with the right side inwards, not outwards.
Right	phr	"Rights of Man" - the rights of a man/woman to life, liberty, and property.
Right	phr	"Rights or Wrongs (of Something)" - particular aspects of something, procedure, way of behaving, which may be considered right or wrong, esp. morally or legally.
Right	phr	"Right the Helm" - to put the helm amidship - that is, in line with the helm.
Right	phr	"Right to Keep and Bear Arms" - the second amendment to the US Constitution allowing for a well regulated and trained militia, being necessary for the security and protection of a democratic nation, with the right of the folk to have and bear weapons.
Right	phr	"Right to Life" - pro-life.
Right	phr	"Right You Are!" - an exclamation of assent; certainly; I will do as you say.
Right	phr	"See Somebody Right" - ensure that somebody is well rewarded or paid.
Right	phr	"She'll Be Right" - everything is OK.
Right	phr	"Start Off on the Right Foot" - to begin well. 2. commence an operation with great care to do it properly.
Right	phr	"Strike the Right Key" - to find the appropriate solution.
Right	phr	"Too Right" - an expression of agreement.
Right	phr	"Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right" - a second error doesn't make the earlier error right.
Right	phr	"Within One's Right" - not exceeding one's authority or entitlement.
Right brain	n	The right-hand side of the human brain, which is believed to be associated with creative thought and the emotions.
Right-down	adj	With verbs: positively without any limitation or reserve; rightout. 2. positively, thoroughly, complete
Righten	vb	To set right or correct.
Righteous	adj	Rightwise; morally right or justifiable. 2. informally: very good, excellent.
Righteously	adv	Characterized by uprightness or morality. 2. a righteous observance of the law.
Righteousness	n	The quality of being morally right.
Righter	n	One who arranges or regulates. 2. an executive, headman. 3. one who settles or sets right, esp., wrongs or grievances: a redresser; a vindicator. 4. one who advocates equal rights for women.
Right-footer	n	One who kicks a ball with his or her right foot. 2. a person who uses the right foot more naturally than the left; a person (especially a sportsperson) whose right foot is stronger or more dexterous than the left. 3. a kick executed with the right foot. 4. in soccer: a shot, pass, or clearance made by kicking a ball with the right foot. 5. slang (chiefly depreciative, sometimes considered offensive). : a Protestant.
Rightforth	adj	forthright, straightforward; or in a straight course.
Rightful	adj	Of a person, who is legitimately entitled to a a position etc; the rightful heir. 2. of status or property, etc that one is entitled to. 3. of an fair and equitable action.
Rightfully	adj	In accordance with a legitimate right or claim to property, position or statue.
Rightfulness	n	Righteousness, justice.
Right-hand	adj	Pertaining or situating on the right side, dextral. 2. on or towards the right side of a person's or thing (right-hand drive). 3. done or carried out with the right hand.
Right-handed	adj	Using the right hand by preference as more serviceable than the left one. 2. of a tool made to be used by the right hand. 3. of a blow struck with the right hand. 4. turning to the right; towards the right.
Right-hander	n	A right-handed person.
Right-handedly	adv	Using their right hand more skillfully or easily than left. 2. done with the right hand.
Right-handedness	n	The state of being right-handed.
Right-hander	n	One who uses their right hand by preference as more serviceable than the left one.
Right-hand man	n	One chiefly depended on, as an indispensable chief assistant.
Rightish	adj	Correct in direction somewhat to thre right. 2. somewhat towards the political right.
Rightleche	vb	To set right, rectify, amend to order, aright
Rightless	adj	Lacking legal rights.
Rightlessness	n	The state of lacking legal rights.
Rightly	adv	In a right manner, correctly, justifiably.
Right-minded	adj	Having approved feelings or opinions. 2. well disposed.
Rightmost	adv	Furthest to the right.
Rightness	n	The quality or condition of being right. 2. moral rectitude. 3. correctness; straightness.
Right-of-way	n	A right established by usage to pass over another's ground. 2. a path subject to such right. 3. the right of one vehicle or ship etc. to proceed before another.
Right-on	adj	Excellent; fashionable; politically correct.
Right one	n	An unpredictable person.
Right side	n	A better or desirable, or usable side of.
Right side	phr	"On the Right Side Of " - be careful to make a good impression in order to remain in favor with. 2. not annoy another person. 3. maintain friendly relations with somebody. 4. somewhat less specified as a person's age.
Right side	phr	"Right Side Out" - with the right side out.
Right smart	n	A large quantity; a great number. 2. a large pile. 3. rather well; "I fell right smart."
Right thinking	n	Right-minded.
Right-to-life	adj	Pro-life.
Right turn	n	A turn that brings one's front to face of one's right side did before. 2. a turn or turning to the right.
Rightwards	adv	Rightward; towards or facing the right or right hand.
Rightwards	adv	Towards or facing the right.
Right whale	n	Any large-headed whale of the family Baelenidae, rich in whalebone and easily captured.
Right wing	adj	A political party or group advocating conservative or moderate policies. 2. the part of any group advocating conservative policies.
Right-winger	n	One who belongs to a political party or group advocating conservative or moderate policies. 2. one who is part of any group advocating conservative policies.
Rightwise	adj	Righteous.
Rightwisely	adv	In a righteous manner.
Rightwiseness	n	The state or quality of being righteous.
Righty	adj	Of a person: right-handed. 2. a person who supports or is involved in right-wing or conservative politics.
Rike	n	See "Rich" - sovereignty, dominion, authority. (Note German "Reich")
Rim	n	Raised edge, margin, border or brim, as in dayrim, sea rim, wood-rim, way-rim; bank, coast. 2. the membrane (peritoneum, enclosing the abdomen, midriff, belly-rim: the womb. 3. the part of the spectacles surrounding the lenses. 4. a boundary line, as the rim of the horizon; the skyrim. 5. outer edge of a wheel on which the tyre is fitted.
Rim	n	Rocky bottom of the sea. 2. a membrame, pellicle, caul. 3. scale or film upon the eyes.
Rim	vb	Be a rim for or to; to edge, border.
Rim-bursten	n	A hernia or rupture.
Rimcraft	n	Computation, computing.
Rime	n	A hoarfrost; frozen mist, chill mist or fog.
Rime	vb	To cover with rime or hoar frost.
Rime	n	Also "rim"": a number; reckoning
Rime	vb	To number, count, reckon. 2. to make clear or vacant for one's use, give up. 3. to clear or open up (a way) for some one. 4. to remove, clear away. 5. to move house, to remove 5. to extend, increase, enlarge, 6. to stretch or extend oneself. 7 to widen(a hole).
Rimeless	adj	Without rime
Rimland	n	A peripheral area of land of political and strategic significance.
Rimless	adj	Not having a rim, edge or border.
Rimlock	n	A lock attached to the surface of a door in contradiction to the mortise lock.
Rimmed	adj	Having a rim; edge or border.
Rim-side	n	The fleshy side of the skin.
Rimth	n	Roomth, room, space, leisure. 2. A-rimth: in wide array
Rimy	adj	abounding in, or covered with rime or hoar frost. 2. accompanied by rime, frosty.
Rind	n	The external covering of coating of trees, fruits, cheese, bacon, etc.; skin, peel, husk, bark. 2. the bark of a tree or plant.
Rind	vb	To strip the bark from a tree or rind from fruit, cheese, bacon, etc.
Rindgall	n	A defect or surface damage in timber where the branch has been wrenched off and new growth has appeared.
Rindle	n	A small watercourse or stream; a runnel; an ea, rill or yea; a waterway, a rindel; lick.
Rindless	adj	Without rind or bark
Rindy	adj	Having a rind or hard skin
Rine	vb	To touch; affect. 2. to lay the fingers or hands on. 3. to fall upon, to reach to, something. 4. to take effect, to work, on one. 5. to touch on in discourse. 6. to belong to, to pertain to, be about something or someone; to tend to something.
Rine	vb	Of rain: to fall; to send down, or to fall, like rain.
Ring	n	A circular object, form, line, or arrangement. 2. a small circular band, generally made of precious metal and often set with jewels, worn on the finger. 3. a circular band used for carrying, holding, or containing something: a napkin ring. 4. pair of circular metal bands suspended in the air for gymnastic exercises, on which balancing and swinging maneuvers are performed while holding the bands as motionless as possible. 5. a circular movement or course, as in dancing. 6. an enclosed, usually circular area in which exhibitions, sports, or contests take place: a circus ring. 7. a rectangular arena set off by stakes and ropes in which boxing or wrestling events are held. 8. an enclosed area in which bets are placed at a racetrack. 8. bookmakers considered as a group. 9. an exclusive group of people acting privately or illegally to advance their own interests: a drug ring. 11. a political contest; a race. 12. an annual ring, a tree ring. 12. in mathematics: the area between two concentric circles; annulus. 14. any of the turns constituting a spiral or helix.
Ring	n	A sound of a bell
Ring	phr	"A Ring of Bells" - a set of bells from 5-12 in number for change ringing.
Ring	phr	"Have a Hollow Ring to" - seem false or insincere.
Ring	phr	"Have a Ring-side Seat" - have a seat in front of a boxing ring, auction, etc.
Ring	phr	"Have a True Ring to It" - seem meritorious and worthy.
Ring	phr	"It Has a True Ring" - it has intrinsic merit; it is of real talent.
Ring	phr	"Ring a Bell" - revive a distant recollection; make familiar; remind somebody somebody of something.
Ring	phr	"Ring Back" - call someone who has rung you when you have been unavailable. 2. after speaking on the phone to someone,phone him again later.
Ring	phr	"Ring Down" - cause to end something.
Ring	phr	"Ring for" - to summon.
Ring	phr	"Ring Hollow" - sound fake, insincere or dishonest.
Ring	phr	"Ring In" - report or make contact by telephone. 2. to substitute fraudulently.
Ring	phr	"Ring In One's Ears/Heart" - linger in one's memory.
Ring	phr	"Ring in the New Year and Ring Out the Old Year"" - announce, or celebrate the end of one year, and the beginning of next year by ringing bells. 2. celebration of the New Year.
Ring	phr	"Ring Off" - end a telephone call by deliberately putting down the receiver.
Ring	phr	"Ring of Fire" - an area of frequent earthquakes and volcanic activity, around the Pacific Ocean.
Ring	phr	"Ring off the Hook" - of a telephone, to ring constantly or excessively.
Ring	phr	"Ring of Steel" - a form of civil protection (by using CCTV, control zones, and restricted areas) that effectively seals off city centres.
Ring	phr	"Ring of the Fisherman" - a seal-ring with which the Pope is invested at his election, bearing a device of St Peter fishing from a boat.
Ring	phr	"Ring of Truth" - convey an impression of truth.
Ring	phr	"Ring One's Bell" - to strike or bump one's own head with a strong blow, especially with concussive force.
Ring	phr	"Ring Out" - make a sudden, sharp noise, as a gun firing. 2. of a telephone giving a ringing tone.
Ring	phr	"Ring True" - seem or sound as if it is true, correct, sincere, genuine.
Ring	phr	"Ring Up" - call somebody by telephone. 2. record the amounts being paid for goods, by pressing the keys on a cash register.
Ring	phr	"Ring with" - be filled with a ringing sound; resound.
Ring	phr	"Step into the Ring" - to enter a competitive environment.
Ring	phr	"That Rings a Bell" - that recalls something to mind; that stirs a recollection.
Ring	phr	"Throw One's Hat Into the Ring" - to publicly announce one's interest in some position.
Ringbark	n	Removing a ring of bark to kill the tree.
Ring-bearer	n	Traditionally a small boy aged four to eight, walks down the aisle just before the flower girl (if there is one), carrying a pillow with two rings tied to it
Ring-binder	n	A loose binder used to hold documents.
Ring-bolt	n	A bolt with a ring attached to for fitting a rope to.
Ring-bone	n	A bony enlargement or excrescence on the pastern bone of a horse; usually causing lameness.
Ring-craft	n	Skill in boxing
Ring-dove	n	The cushat, also called the wood pigeon.
Ringed	adj	Having a wedding ring; hence lawfully married. 2. encircled by raised or depressed lines or bands, as the stems or roots of some plants. 3. surrounded or encircled by a ring or rings of color. 4. composed or rings.
Ringer	n	A ring-in; an athlete or horse entered in a race/competition by fraudulent means, esp. a substitute. 2. a person or thing's double, esp. as a double. 3. in Australia, the fastest shearer in the shed; that is the one who shears the most sheep. 4. a person who ring, esp. a bell-ringer.
Ringer	phr	"Be a Dead Ringer (for Someone)" - to resemble a person exactly.
Ringer-iron	n	An implement, used in crate making, for bending and twisting the staves.
Ring-finger	n	The third finger on the left hand, on which the marriage ring is worn.
Ring-in	n	Fraudulent substitute
Ringing	n	The act or sound of ringing a bell.
Ringing	adj	Making a sonorous or resonant sound.
Ringing	phr	"The Ringing Island" - Britain was once called because of the fame and excellence of its bell ringers.
Ringingly	adv	In a ringing manner.
Ring-latch	n	A fall-bar, or latch, operated by a drop-in ring.
Ringle	n	A ringing jingling sound, as a door ring, used a knocker.
Ringleader	n	A leader or organizer of any undertaking, esp of an unlawful act, deal, like a riot.
Ringless	adj	Lacking rings or a ring.
Ring-like	adj	Shaped like a ring or circle.
Ring-mail	n	Chain armor.
Ring main	n	An electrical supply serving a series of consumer and returning to the original source, so that each consumer has an alternative path in the event of a failure.
Ringmaster	n	The person directing a circus performance.
Ring-neck	n	Any of various ring-necked birds, esp. a type of pheasant.
Ring of Bells	n	A set of bells from 5 to 12 in number for change ringing.
Ring-pull	n	A ring on a tin for pulling or breaking the seal.
Ring road	n	A bypass road encircling a town or city.
Ring rot	n	Decay in logs following the direction of the growth rings.
Ring shake	n	A cup shake caused by lack of cohesion betwen adjacent groth rings.
Ringside	n	The area immediately beside a boxing, wrestling or circus ring.
Ringsider	n	One who is near to the ring during a boxing, wrestling or circus event.
Ring-side seat	n	A seat in front of a boxing ring, auction, etc.
Ring-sight	n	A sight esp. a gun-sight, in the shape of a ring or concentric rings, through which aim is taken and distance estimated.
Ringster	n	A member of a political group or ring.
Ring-streaked	adj	Streaked with encircling rings, as an animal.
Ring-tail	adj	Of possums or monkeys having a ringed-tail.
Ring-time	n	The time of marriage and betrothal
Ringwise	adv	Towards or near to a boxing , wrestling or circus ring.
Ringwork	n	Training down by boxers or wrestlers to prepare for contests.
Ringworm	n	A contagious skin disease affecting both man and beast, caused by a fungi with red, round marks on the face and skelp
Rink	n	A man esp. a fighting man, a warrior.
Rip	n	A tool for opening safes. 2. An implement that is attached to a tractor to break-up concrete or hard soil. 3. a person or thing esp. good, as an attractive young woman.
Rip	vb	To rob; see "Ripe"
Ripe	vb	To rob, to engage in robbery. 2. to grope, search for or after something hidden. 3. to search a place, bin or receptacle etc. thoroughly in order to find something; to ransack. 4. to search out or into; examine thoroughly, inquire, investigate, scrutinize. 5. to clean, cleanse out. 6. to break, dig or plough new ground.
Ripe	adj	(Of a grain, fruit, cheese, etc) ready to be reaped or picked or eaten. 2. mature, fully-developed. 3. mature (of a person age). 4. fit or ready, as in the 'time is ripe for'. 5. red and full complexion, like fruit.
Ripe	adj	Of fruit, grain, etc) mature and ready to be eaten or used; fully developed. 2. mature enough to be eaten or used. 3. fully developed in mind or body. 4. resembling ripe fruit, esp in redness or fullness. 5. (followed by: for) ready or eager (to undertake or undergo an action) 6. (followed by: for) suitable; right or opportune time. 7. mature in judgment or knowledge. 8. advanced but healthy, as a ripe old age). as slang: complete; thorough, excessive; exorbitant. 10. as slang slightly indecent; risque, salacious.
Ripen	vb	To make or become ripe.
Ripen	phr	"Ripen Up" - make or become ripe or mature.
Ripener	n	Maturation; one who, or that, which comes to ripeness.
Ripeness	n	The state of being ripe.
Ripening	n	To make or become ripe or ripened; mature.
Riper	n	A robber; rip-off merchant; a ripper.
Ripewood	n	A term applied to certain trees, as the silver firs, that not produce apparent heartwood.
Rip-off	n	The action of stealing, swindling, defrauding, racketering, exploiting financially. 2. Plagiarize usu. in order to exploit public taste
Rise	vb	To assume a standing position after lying, sitting, or kneeling. 2. o get out of bed. 3. to move from a lower to a higher position; ascend. 4. to increase in size, volume, or level, as a river. 5. to increase in number, amount, or value, as prices. 6. to increase in intensity, force, or speed, as the wind. 7. to increase in pitch or volume, as one's voice. 8. to ascend above the horizon. 9. to extend upward; be prominent, as a mountain. 10. to slant or slope upward. 11. to come into existence; originate. 12. to be erected, as a new skyscraper. 13. to appear at the surface of the water or the earth; emerge.m14. to puff up or become larger; swell up. 15. to become stiff and erect. 16. to attain a higher status. 17. to become apparent to the mind or senses, to haunt. 18. to uplift oneself to meet a demand or challenge. 19. to return to life; rise from the dead. 20. to rebel, revolt, mutiny, rise up against. 21. to close a session of an official assembly; adjourn.
Rise	phr	"Get a Rise" - receive a pay increase.
Rise	phr	"Give Rise to" - to cause or originate.
Rise	phr	"On the Rise" - on the increase; going up in price, more value especially in shares.
Rise	phr	"Rise Above Oneself" - be superior to petty feelings etc. 2. show dignity or strength in the face of difficulty or poor conditions.
Rise	phr	"Rise and Fall" - increase and then decline in power, popularity.
Rise	phr	"Rise and Shine" - get out of bed smartly, wake up.
Rise	phr	"Rise from the Ashes" - fig. for a building having to be new after destruction. 2. come out as new from something that has been wiped away.
Rise	phr	"Rise from the Dead" - reappear alive after having been believed dead. 2. become conscious after having been supposedly dead.
Rise	phr	"Rise in the World" - attain a higher social and economic position in a society.
Rise	phr	"Rise To" - develop powers equal to an occasion.
Rise	phr	"Rise to One Feet" - stand up , usually to make a speech, propose a toast.
Rise	phr	"Rise Up" - come to the surface or top, go up, ascend, emerge. 2. rebel, mutiny, revolt. 3. stand upon one's hind legs as a four-legged beast.
Rise	phr	"Rise Up with the Lark" - rise up very early in the morning.
Rise	phr	"Rise With the Sun" - get up early in the morning.
Rise	phr	"Rising Twenty" - not much younger than twenty etc; close on, pushing.
Rise	phr	"Take A Rise Out Of" - provoke an emotional reaction from a person, esp. by teasing.
Risen	n	The act of rising.
Riser	n	A person who rises, esp. from bed, as an 'early riser'. 2. the vertical part of stairs
Rising	n	A revolt, insurrection, rebellion, uprising, armed revolt against 'legal' authority.
Rising	adj	Going up, increasing, or sloping upwards.
Rising	phr	"A Rising Tide Lifts all Boats" - this aphorism is associated with the idea that improvements in the general economy will benefit all participants in that economy, and that economic policy, particularly government economic policy, should therefore focus on the general macroeconomic environment first and foremost.
Rising damp	n	Moisture absorbed from the ground into the wall.
Rising Star	n	A person who is growing quickly in popularity or importance in a particular field.
Rising sun	n	The sun as it emerges above the horizon.
Rist	n	A source, origin. 2. a rise in cost, prices etc. 3. a rising ground or slope, an ascent. NB. Sunrist, (dawn) uprist (resurrection.) nb: pp of rise
Rit	vb	To rip or cut with a sharp instrument, to tear, scratch, slit. 2. to thrush asword through someone.
Rithe	n	A small stream or channel, a rythe, rivulet, brooklet, lick, watercourse, runnell, burn, bourne, fleet, yea, ea. 2. A small stream, usu. one flowing only at times of heavy rain, a fleet.
Rivel	n	A wrinkle, pucker or fold upon the skin, esp. of the face. 2. fold on the skin of fruit.
Rivel	vb	To become wrinkled, puckered or shrivelled; to form wrinkles or small folds. 2. to cause the skin to wrinkle, shrivel, shrink, or pucker.
Rivelled	adj	Wrinkled; full of wrinkles or small folds; corrugated or furrowed. 2. of the skin or face; of fruit: dried up. 4. of bark: shrunken, shrivelled, esp. by heat. 5. twisted, coiled, pleated or small folds. 6. undergoing shriveling, shrinking, or riveling
Rixle	vb	To reign, bear away, rule, have dominion over, prevail. 2. to deal masterfully with a person. 3.to conduce: to lead away.
Rixling	n	Rule, reign, dominate, lead.