Word Meanings - RAGIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Raging; furious; rageful. -- Ra"gious*ness, n.

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• RAGULED; RAGGULED
  Notched in regular diagonal breaks; -- said of a line, or a bearing having such an edge.
• RAGE
  1. Violent excitement; eager passion; extreme vehemence of desire, emotion, or suffering, mastering the will. "In great rage of pain." Bacon. He appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat. Macaulay. Convulsed with a rage of grief.
• RAGLAN
  A loose overcoat with large sleeves; -- named from Lord Raglan, an English general.
• RAGAMUFFIN
  The long-tailed titmouse. (more info) 1. A paltry or disreputable fellow; a mean which. Dryden. 2. A person who wears ragged clothing.
• RAGHUVANSA
  A celebrated Sanskrit poem having for its subject the Raghu dynasty.
• RAGIOUS
  Raging; furious; rageful. -- Ra"gious*ness, n.
• RAGMAN
  A man who collects, or deals in, rags.
• RAGEFUL
  Full of rage; expressing rage. "Rageful eyes." Sir P. Sidney.
• RAGWEED
  A common American composite weed with finely divided leaves; hogweed. Great ragweed, a coarse American herb , with rough three-lobed opposite leaves.
• RAGMAN'S ROLL
  The rolls of deeds on parchment in which the Scottish nobility and gentry subscribed allegiance to Edward I. of England, A. D. 1296. (more info) devil's roll or list; where ragman is of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. ragmenni a craven person, Sw. raggen
• FURIOUS
  1. Transported with passion or fury; raging; violent; as, a furious animal. 2. Rushing with impetuosity; moving with violence; as, a furious stream; a furious wind or storm. Syn. -- Impetuous; vehement; boisterous; fierce; turbulent; tumultuous;
• RAGWORT
  A name given to several species of the composite genus Senecio. Note: Senecio aureus is the golden ragwort of the United States: S. elegans is the purple ragwort of South Africa.
• RAGOUT
  A dish made of pieces of meat, stewed, and highly seasoned; as, a ragout of mutton. (more info) appetite, fr. L. pref. re- re- + ad to + gustare to taste, gustus
• RAGPICKER
  One who gets a living by picking up rags and refuse things in the streets.
• RAGING
  a. & n. from Rage, v. i. -- Ra"*ging*ly, adv.
• RAGGIE; RAGGY
  Ragged; rough. "A stony and raggie hill." Holland.
• RAGWORK
  A kind of rubblework. In the United States, any rubblework of thin and small stones.
• RAGERY
  Wantonness. Chaucer.
• RAG
  To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter. Pegge.
• RAGNAROK; RAGNAROK
  The so-called "Twilight of the Gods" (called in German Götterdämmerung), the final destruction of the world in the great conflict between the Æsir on the one hand, and on the other, the gaints and the powers of Hel under the leadership of Loki
• TETRAGYNIA
  A Linnæan order of plants having four styles.
• SACRILEGIOUS
  Violating sacred things; polluted with sacrilege; involving sacrilege; profane; impious. Above the reach of sacrilegious hands. pope. -- Sac`ri*le"gious*ly, adv. -- Sac`ri*le"gious*ness, n.
• PHRAGMOCONE
  The thin chambered shell attached to the anterior end of a belemnite.
• OUTRAGEOUS
  Of the nature of an outrage; exceeding the limits of right, reason, or decency; involving or doing an outrage; furious; violent; atrocious. "Outrageous weeping." Chaucer. "The most outrageous villainies." Sir P. Sidney. "The vile, outrageous
• MOORAGE
  A place for mooring.
• CORAL-RAG
  See CORALLIAN
• INTERAGENT
  An intermediate agent.
• VORAGINOUS
  Pertaining to a gulf; full of gulfs; hence, devouring. Mallet.
• ACCOURAGE
  To encourage.
• ALTARAGE
  1. The offerings made upon the altar, or to a church. 2. The profit which accrues to the priest, by reason of the altar, from the small tithes. Shipley.
• PRESTIGIOUS
  Practicing tricks; juggling. Cotton Mather.
• PARAGRAPH
  1. Originally, a marginal mark or note, set in the margin to call attention to something in the text, e. g., a change of subject; now, the character Note: This character is merely a modification of a capital P (the initial of the word paragraph),
• SPONGIOSE; SPONGIOUS
  Somewhat spongy; spongelike; full of small cavities like sponge; as, spongious bones.
• DRAG LINE; DRAG ROPE
  A guide rope.
• PENDRAGON
  A chief leader or a king; a head; a dictator; -- a title assumed by the ancient British chiefs when called to lead other chiefs. The dread Pendragon, Britain's king of kings. Tennyson.
• DISCOURAGING
  Causing or indicating discouragement. -- Dis*cour"a*ging*ly, adv.
• PRESAGIOUS
  Foreboding; ominous.
• VIRAGINITY
  The qualities or characteristics of a virago.