RESPONSIBLE, _a._ answerable; accountable

RESTRAINT, _s._ abridgment of liberty; prohibition; restriction

RETALIATION, _s._ requital; return of like for like

RETA"RD, _v.a._ hinder; delay

RE"TINUE, _s._ a number attending upon a princ.i.p.al person; train

 

RETROSPECTION, _s._ act or faculty of looking backward

RETU"RN, _s._ the act of coming back to the same place; act of restoring or giving back

REVELA"TION, _s._ discovery; communication; apocalypse; the prophecy of St. John, revealing future things

REVE"NUE, _s._ income; annual profits received from lands or other funds

RE"VERENCE, _s._ veneration; respect; t.i.tle of the clergy

REVE"RSE, _v.a._ turn upside down; overturn

RHINO"CERUS, _s._ a large animal with a horn on its nose

RHODODE"NDRON, _s._ the rose-bay

RI"BALDRY, _s._ mean, lewd, brutal language

RI"DICULE, _s._ contemptive mockery

RI"VET, _v.a._ fasten strongly

RI"VULET, _s_ a small river; streamlet; brook

ROMA"NTIC, _a._ wild; fanciful

ROO"KERY, _s._ a nursery of rooks

ROYA"LIST, _s._ adherent to a King

RU"BY, _s._ a precious stone of a red colour

RU"DIMEMT, _s._ the first principle

RU"GGED, _a._ rough; uneven; rude

RU"STIC, _a._ rough; rude; pertaining to the country

RUSTI"CITY, _s._ rural appearance; simplicity

SA"CRAMENT, _s._ an oath; an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace

SA"CRED, _a._ immediately relating to G.o.d; holy

SA"CRIFICE, _v.a._ offer to heaven; destroy or give up for the sake of something else; destroy; kill

SAGA"CITY, _a._ quickness of scent; acuteness of discovery

SA"LINE, _a._ consisting of salt; const.i.tuting bait

SA"NCt.i.tY, _s._ holiness; goodness; purity

SA"NGUINARY, _a._ cruel; b.l.o.o.d.y; murderous

SA"PPHIRE, _s._ a precious stone, of a blue colour

SAU"RIAN, _s._ a reptile belonging to the order of Sauris or lizards

SAVA"NNAH, _s._ an open meadow without wood

SCABBARD, _s._ the sheath of a sword or dagger

SCE"NERY, _s._ the appearances of places or things; the background of the scenes of a play

SCE"PTRE, _s._ the ensign of royalty borne in the hand

SCI"ENCE, _s._ knowledge; certainty grounded, on demonstration

SCIENTIFIC, _a._ producing demonstrative knowledge

SCREECH, _s._ cry of horror and anguish; harsh cry

SCRI"PTURE, _s._ sacred writing; the Bible

SCU"RRY, _a._ mean; vile; dirty; worthless

SCU"LPTURE, _s._ carved work

SE"AMAN, _s._ a sailor

SE"ASON, _s._ one of the four parts of the year; a fit time

SE"CRET, _s._ something studiously hidden; privacy; solitude; a thing unknown

SECRE"TE, _v.a._ put aside; hide

SECU"RITY, _s._ protection; safety; certainty

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