Vocabulary : Ranz des vaches to Raphaelesque

Ranz des vaches : The name for numerous simple, but very irregular, melodies of the Swiss mountaineers, blown on a long tube called the Alpine horn, and sometimes sung.
Rap : A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn. ;; To strike with a quick, sharp blow; to knock; as, to rap on the door. ;; To strike with a quick blow; to knock on. ;; To free (a pattern) in a mold by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal. ;; A quick, smart blow; a knock. ;; To snatch away; to seize and hurry off. ;; To hasten. ;; To seize and bear away, as the mind or thoughts; to transport out of one's self; to affect with ecstasy or rapture; as, rapt into admiration. ;; To exchange; to truck. ;; A popular name for any of the tokens that passed current for a half-penny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value.
Rapaces : Same as Accipitres.
Rapacious : Given to plunder; disposed or accustomed to seize by violence; seizing by force. ;; Accustomed to seize food; subsisting on prey, or animals seized by violence; as, a tiger is a rapacious animal; a rapacious bird. ;; Avaricious; grasping; extortionate; also, greedy; ravenous; voracious; as, rapacious usurers; a rapacious appetite.
Rapacity : The quality of being rapacious; rapaciousness; ravenousness; as, the rapacity of pirates; the rapacity of wolves. ;; The act or practice of extorting or exacting by oppressive injustice; exorbitant greediness of gain.

Raparee : See Rapparee.
Rape : Fruit, as grapes, plucked from the cluster. ;; The refuse stems and skins of grapes or raisins from which the must has been expressed in wine making. ;; A filter containing the above refuse, used in clarifying and perfecting malt, vinegar, etc. ;; The act of seizing and carrying away by force; violent seizure; robbery. ;; Sexual connection with a woman without her consent. See Age of consent, under Consent, n. ;; That which is snatched away. ;; Movement, as in snatching; haste; hurry. ;; To commit rape upon; to ravish. ;; To rob; to pillage. ;; One of six divisions of the county of Sussex, England, intermediate between a hundred and a shire. ;; A name given to a variety or to varieties of a plant of the turnip kind, grown for seeds and herbage. The seeds are used for the production of rape oil, and to a limited extent for the food of cage birds.
Rapeful : Violent. ;; Given to the commission of rape.
Rapfully : Violently.
Raphaelesque : Like Raphael's works; in Raphael's manner of painting.