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Rhetian (?), a. [L. Rhaetius, Raetius: cf. F. rhétien.] Pertaining to the ancient Rhæti, or Rhætians, or to Rhætia, their country; as, the Rhetian Alps, now the country of Tyrol and the Grisons.
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Rhetic (?), a. (Min.) Same as .
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Rhetizite (?), n. (Min.) Same as .
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Rhetor (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. ���.] A rhetorician. [Obs.] Hammond.
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Rhetoric (?), n. [F. rhétorique, L. rhetorica, Gr. ���� (sc. ���), fr. ��� rhetorical, oratorical, fr. ��� orator, rhetorician; perhaps akin to E. word; cf. ��� to say.] 1. The art of composition; especially, elegant composition in prose.
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2. Oratory; the art of speaking with propriety, elegance, and force. Locke.
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3. Hence, artificial eloquence; fine language or declamation without conviction or earnest feeling.
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4. Fig. : The power of persuasion or attraction; that which allures or charms.
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Sweet, silent rhetoric of persuading eyes.
Daniel.
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Rhetorical (?), a. [L. rhetoricus, Gr. ����. See .] Of or pertaining to rhetoric; according to, or exhibiting, rhetoric; oratorical; as, the rhetorical art; a rhetorical treatise; a rhetorical flourish.
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They permit him to leave their poetical taste ungratified, provided that he gratifies their rhetorical sense.
M. Arnold.
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-- Rhetorically, adv. -- Rhetoricalness, n.
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Rhetoricate (?), v. i. [L. rhetoricari. See .] To play the orator. [Obs.] South.
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Rhetorication (?), n. [Cf. F. rhétorication.] Rhetorical amplification. [Obs.] Waterland.
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Rhetorician (?), n. [Cf. F. rhétoricien.] 1. One well versed in the rules and principles of rhetoric.
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The understanding is that by which a man becomes a mere logician and a mere rhetorician.
F. W. Robertson.
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2. A teacher of rhetoric.
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The ancient sophists and rhetoricians, which ever had young auditors, lived till they were an hundred years old.
Bacon.
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3. An orator; specifically, an artificial orator without genuine eloquence; a declaimer. Macaulay.
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Rhetorician, a. Suitable to a master of rhetoric. “With rhetorician pride.” Blackmore.
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Rhetorize (rĕt�rīz), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Rhetorized (-rīzd); p. pr. & vb. n. Rhetorizing (-rīzĭng).] To play the orator. Colgrave.
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Rhetorize, v. t. To represent by a figure of rhetoric, or by personification. Milton.
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Rheum (rēŭm), n. [NL., from L. Rha the river Volga, on the banks of which it grows. See .] (Bot.) A genus of plants. See .
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Rheum (rṳm), n. [OF. reume, rheume, F. rhume a cold,, L. rheuma rheum, from Gr. ���, fr. rei^n to flow, akin to E. stream. See , n., and cf. .] (Med.) A serous or mucous discharge, especially one from the eves or nose.
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I have a rheum in mine eyes too.
Shak.
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Coloq. Salt rheum . (Med.) See , in the Vocabulary.
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Rheumatic (?), a. [Gr. ��� subject to a discharge or flux: cf. L. rheumaticus, F. rhumatique. See , .] 1. Derived from, or having the character of, rheum; rheumic. [Obs.]
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2. (Med.) Of or pertaining to rheumatism; as, rheumatic pains or affections; affected with rheumatism; as, a rheumatic old man; causing rheumatism; as, a rheumatic day.
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That rheumatic diseases do abound.
Shak.
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Rheumatic, n. One affected with rheumatism.
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Rheumatism (?), n. [L. rheumatismus rheum, Gr. ����, fr.��� to have or suffer from a flux, fr. ��� rheum: cf. F. rheumatisme. See .] (Med.) A general disease characterized by painful, often multiple, local inflammations, usually affecting the joints and muscles, but also extending sometimes to the deeper organs, as the heart.
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Coloq. Inflammatory rheumatism (Med.), acute rheumatism attended with fever, and attacking usually the larger joints, which become swollen, hot, and very painful. -- Coloq. Rheumatism root . (Bot.) See .
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Rheumatismal (?), a. (Med.) Of or pertaining to rheumatism.
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Rheumatismoid (?), a. [Rheumatism + -oid.] (Med.) Of or resembling rheum or rheumatism.
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Rheumic (?), a. (Med.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, rheum.
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Coloq. Rheumic diathesis . See Dartrous diathesis, under .
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Rheumides (?), n. pl. [NL. See .] (Med.) The class of skin disease developed by the dartrous diathesis. See under .
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Rheumy (?), a. Of or pertaining to rheum; abounding in, or causing, rheum; affected with rheum.
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His head and rheumy eyes distill in showers.
Dryden.
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And tempt the rheumy and unpurged air
To add unto his sickness.
Shak.
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Rhigolene (?), n. [Gr. ��� cold + L. oleum oil.] (Chem.) A mixture of volatile hydrocarbons intermediate between gsolene and cymogene. It is obtained in the purification of crude petroleum, and is used as a refregerant.
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Rhime (?), n. See . [Obs.]
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Rhinal (?), a. [Gr���, ���, the nose.] (Anat.) Og or pertaining to the nose or olfactory organs.
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Rhinaster (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. ���, ���, nose + ��� star.] (Zoöl.) The borele.
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Rhine (?), n. [AS. ryne. See .] A water course; a ditch. [Written also rean.] [Prov. Eng.] Macaulay.
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Rhinencephalic (?), a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the rhinencephalon.
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Rhinencephalon (rīnĕnsĕfȧlŏn), n.; pl. Rhinencephala (rīnĕnsĕfȧlȧ). [NL., fr. Gr. ris, rinos, the nose + 'egkefalos the brain.] (Anat.) The division of the brain in front of the prosencephalon, consisting of the two olfactory lobes from which the olfactory nerves arise.
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☞ The term is sometimes used for one of the olfactory lobes, the plural being used for the two taken together.
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Rhinestone (?), n. [Cf. G. rheinkiesel Rhine quartz.] A colorless stone of high luster, made of paste. It is much used as an inexpensive ornament.
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Rhinitis (r�nītĭs), n. [NL., fr. Gr. ris, rinos, the nose + -itis.] (Med.) Inflammation of the nose; esp., inflammation of the mucous membrane of the nostrils.
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Rhino (?), n. [Etymol. uncertain.] Gold and silver, or money. [Cant] W. Wagstaffe.
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As long as the rhino lasted.
Marryat.
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Rhino-. A combining form from Greek ��, ���, the nose, as in rhinolith, rhinology.
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{ Rhinocerial (?), Rhinocerical (?), } a. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the rhinoceros; resembling the rhinoceros, or his horn. Tatler.
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Rhinoceros (r�nŏs�rŏs), n. [L., fr. Gr. rinokerws, rinokerwtos; ris, rinos, the nose + keras a horn: cf. F. rhinocéros. See .] (Zoöl.) Any pachyderm belonging to the genera Rhinoceros, Atelodus, and several allied genera of the family Rhinocerotidæ, of which several living, and many extinct, species are known. They are large and powerful, and usually have either one or two stout conical median horns on the snout.
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☞ The Indian, or white, and the Javan rhinoceroses (Rhinoceros Indicus and Rhinoceros Sondaicus) have incisor and canine teeth, but only one horn, and the very thick skin forms shieldlike folds. The two or three African species belong to Atelodus, and have two horns, but lack the dermal folds, and the incisor and canine teeth. The two Malay, or East Indian, two-horned species belong to Ceratohinus, in which incisor and canine teeth are present. See , and .
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Coloq. Rhinoceros auk (Zoöl.), an auk of the North Pacific (Cerorhina monocrata) which has a deciduous horn on top of the bill. -- Coloq. Rhinoceros beetle (Zoöl.), a very large beetle of the genus Dynastes, having a horn on the head. -- Coloq. Rhinoceros bird . (Zoöl.) (a) A large hornbill (Buceros rhinoceros), native of the East Indies. It has a large hollow hornlike process on the bill. Called also rhinoceros hornbill. See . (b) An African beefeater (Buphaga Africana). It alights on the back of the rhinoceros in search of parasitic insects.
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Rhinocerote (?), n. A rhinoceros. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
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Rhinocerotic (?), a. Of or pertaining to the rhinoceros. [R.]
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{ Rhinolite (?), Rhinolith (?), } n. [Rhino- + -lite, -lith.] (Med.) A concretion formed within the cavities of the nose.
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Rhinological (?), a. Of or pertaining to rhinology.
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Rhinologist (?), n. One skilled in rhinology.
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Rhinology (?), n. [Rhino- + -logy.] The science which treats of the nose, and its diseases.
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Rhinolophid (?), n. [Rhino- + Gr. ��� crest.] (Zoöl.) Any species of the genus Rhinilophus, or family Rhinolophidæ, having a horseshoe-shaped nasal crest; a horseshoe bat.
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Rhinolophine (?), a. (Zoöl.) Like or pertaining to the rhinolophids, or horseshoe bats.
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Rhinophore (?), n. [Rhino- + Gr. ferein to bear.] (Zoöl.) One of the two tentacle-like organs on the back of the head or neck of a nudibranch or tectibranch mollusk. They are usually retractile, and often transversely furrowed or plicate, and are regarded as olfactory organs. Called also dorsal tentacles. See Illust. under , and .
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Rhinoplastic (?), a. [Rhino- + -plastic: cf. F. rhinoplastique.] (Surg.) Of or pertaining to rhinoplasty; as, a rhinoplastic operation.
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Rhinoplasty (?), n. [Rhino- + -plasty: cf. F. rhinoplastie.] Plastic surgery of the nose to correct deformity or to replace lost tissue. Tissue may be transplanted from the patient's cheek, forehead, arm, etc., or even from another person.
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Rhinopome (?), n. [Rhino- + Gr. pw^ma a lid. ] (Zoöl.) Any old-world bat of the genus Rhinopoma. The rhinopomes have a long tail extending beyond the web, and inhabit caves and tombs.
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Rhinoscleroma (?), n. [Rhino- + scleroma.] (Med.) A rare disease of the skin, characterized by the development of very hard, more or less flattened, prominences, appearing first upon the nose and subsequently upon the neighboring parts, esp. the lips, palate, and throat. J. V. Shoemaker.
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Rhinoscope (?), n. [Rhino- + -scope.] A small mirror for use in rhinoscopy.
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Rhinoscopic (?), a. (Physiol.) Of or pertaining to rhinoscopy.
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Rhinoscopy (?), n. [Rhino- + -scopy.] (Physiol.) The examination or study of the soft palate, posterior nares, etc., by means of a laryngoscopic mirror introduced into the pharynx.
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Rhinotheca (?), n.; pl. Rhinothecæ (#). [NL., from gr. ���, ���, the nose + ��� case.] (Zoöl.) The sheath of the upper mandible of a bird.
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Rhipidoglossa (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. ��� a fan + ���� a tongue.] (Zoöl.) A division of gastropod mollusks having a large number of long, divergent, hooklike, lingual teeth in each transverse row. It includes the scutibranchs. See Illustration in Appendix.
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Rhipipter (?), n. [Gr. ��� a fan + ��� wing.] (Zoöl.) One of the Rhipiptera, a group of insects having wings which fold like a fan; a strepsipter.
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Rhipipteran (?), n. (Zoöl.) Same as .
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Rhizanthous (?), a. [Gr. ��� root + ��� flower.] (Bot.) Producing flowers from a rootstock, or apparently from a root.
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Rhizine (?), n. [Gr. ��� root.] (Bot.) A rootlike filament or hair growing from the stems of mosses or on lichens; a rhizoid.
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Rhizocarpous (?), a. [Gr. ��� root + ��� fruit.] (Bot.) Having perennial rootstocks or bulbs, but annual flowering stems; -- said of all perennial herbs.
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Rhizocephala (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. ��� root + ��� head.] (Zoöl.) A division of Pectostraca including saclike parasites of Crustacea. They adhere by rootlike extensions of the head. See Illusration in Appendix.
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Rhizodont (?), n. [Gr. ��� root + ���, ���, a tooth.] (Zoöl.) A reptile whose teeth are rooted in sockets, as the crocodile.
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Rhizogan (?), a. [Gr. ��� root + -gen: cf. F. rhizogène.] (Bot.) Prodicing roots.
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Rhizogen, n. (Bot.) One of a proposed class of flowering plants growning on the roots of other plants and destitute of green foliage.
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Rhizoid (?), n. [Gr. ��� root + -oid.] (Bot.) A rootlike appendage.
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Rhizoma (?), n.; pl. Rhizomata (#). [NL.] (Bot.) SAme as .
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Rhizomatous (?), a. (Bot.) Having the nature or habit of a rhizome or rootstock.
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Rhizome (?), n. [Gr. ��� the mass of roots (of a tree), a stem, race, fr. ��� to make to root, pass., to take root, fr. ��� a root: cf. F. rhizome.] (Bot.) A rootstock. See .
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Rhizophaga (?), n. pl. [NL.] (Zoöl.) A division of marsupials. The wombat is the type.
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Rhizophagous (?), a. [Gr. ���; ��� a root + ��� to eat.] Feeding on roots; root-eating.
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Rhizophora (?), n. [NL. See .] (Bot.) A genus of trees including the mangrove. See .
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Rhizophorous (?), a. [Gr. ��� a root + ferein to bear.] (Bot.) Bearing roots.
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Rhizopod (?), n. (Zoöl.) One of the Rhizopoda.
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☞ The rhizopods belonging to the Radiolaria and Foraminifera have been of great geological importance, especially in the Cretaceous and Tertiary periods. Chalk is mostly made from the shells of Foraminifera. The nummulites are the principal ingredient of a limestone which is of great extent in Europe and Asia, and is the material of which some of the pyramids of Egypt are made. The shells are abundant in deepsea mud, and are mostly minute, seldom larger than a small grain of sand, except in the case of the nummulities, which are sometimes an inch in diameter.
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Rhizopoda (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. ��� a root + -poda.] (Zoöl.) An extensive class of Protozoa, including those which have pseudopodia, by means of which they move about and take their food. The principal groups are Lobosa (or Amœbea), Helizoa, Radiolaria, and Foraminifera (or Reticularia). See .
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Rhizopodous (?), a. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the rhizopods.
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Rhizostomata (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. ��� a root + ���, ����, a mouth.] (Zoöl.) A suborder of Medusæ which includes very large species without marginal tentacles, but having large mouth lobes closely united at the edges. See Illust. in Appendix.
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Rhizostome (?), n. (Zoöl.) One of the Rhizostomata.
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