_v.a._ to widen, to open, to stretch _s._ an instrument or tool
for widening a hole (generally used for metals) _v.n._ to bear
stretching. Reamy _adj._

Reams, Rames _s. pl._ the dead stalks of potatoes, &c.; skeleton (Query
Remains)

Re-balling _s._ the catching of ells with earthworms (yeasses) attached
to a ball of lead

Reed _s._ wheat-straw prepared for thatching (w. of Parret)

Reen, or Rhine _s._ watercourse, or dyke; an open drain

Reeve _v.n._ to shrivel up, to contract into wrinkles

Remlet _s._ a remnant

Reneeg _v._ to withdraw from an engagement (Lat. _renegare_) (Shaksp.
Ant. and Cleop. i. 5)

Rere-Mouse _s._ a bat (A S _hrere-mus_)

Revel-twine _s._ same as Hevel-twine

Revesse _s._ the burden of a song, from _vessey_, _v._ to make verses

Rew _s._ row _v._ to put grass in rows

Rexen _s. p._ rushes (A S _rixe_)

Rip _v._ to rate or chide

Riscous applied to bread imperfectly baked

Robin-riddick, or Ruddock _s._ redbreast

Roddicks, Roddocks _s._ ex. Off the roddocks, as a cart off the grooves
of the axle

Rode _v.n._ to go out to shoot wild fowl which pass over head on the
wing early at night or in the morning; also applied to the passage of the
birds themselves, ex. The woodcocks' rode

Roe-briar _s._ the large dog-rose briar

Roller, Rawler, Brawler _s._ a bundle of reed, ex. As weak as a rawler

Rompstal _s._ a rude girl

Ronge _v._ to gnaw, to devour (Fr. _ronger_)

Room, Rhume _s._ scurf of the scalp

Root-chains _s._ main plough chains

Roozement _s._ a slip or falling-in of earth

Ropy _adj._ wine or other liquor is ropy when it becomes thick and
coagulated; also bread when a kind of second fermentation takes place in
warm weather

Rose _v.n._ to drop out from the pod or other seed-vessel when the seeds
are over ripe

Rose, Rooze-in _v._ to fall in, as the upper part of a quarry, or well

Round-dock _s._ the common mallow

Rouse-about _adj._ big, unwieldly

Rout _v._ to snore

Rowless _adj._ roofless. A Rowless Tenement an estate without a house

Rowsse _v._ to rush out with a great noise

Rozzim, Rozzums _s._ quaint sayings, low proverb

Ruck _v._ to couch down

"What is mankind more unto you yhold
Than is the shepe that rouketh in the fold."

(Chaucer, Knight's Tale)

Rudderish _adj._ rude, hasty

Ruge _v.n._ to hang in folds, to wrinkle (Lat.