DOMINANT MEANINGS OF R. 83 



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The Letter-Sound R. 

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DOMINANT MEANING : Discontinuity, or Solution of 

 the Continuity, by the application of Force, which, re- 

 peated or continued, is RAPIDITY of Movement ; whence, 

 as Special Classes of Meaning 1. BREAK, 2. ROUGHNESS 

 (brokenness of Surface), 3. TURN or Curvature (the 

 continued repetition of breaks), 4. BEAT (the Simple 

 Active application of Force), and 5. to GRAB or seize 

 (the application of Force eitJier to accelerate or to arrest 

 Motion.) 



1. BrEAK, (b)reak (to break out with Moisture), 

 rack, racking (pain), rock (a broken fragment), ruck, 

 rift, raft, rupture, riff-raff (broken stuff), rut, route (the 

 breaking up of the enemy's position) ; raze, razure 

 (destruction) ; rash (out-breaking, violent), rush, 

 rave, rage, row ; to rear, (to break ground or break 

 up his gait as a horse) ; (w)rig, (wriggle) ; rag (a 

 thing broken or torn), ridge (the break at the top) ; 

 ravine (a break in the ground), to rive, ray (an angle, 

 or break of light), rad-ius ; radix, root, (where the 

 plant is broken off when it is pulled ; compare with 

 branch, the thing broken off), romp (a " break 

 down "), rump (the break of the body) ; rumple, 

 rumble, roar (breaking noise), rummage, rampart, 

 rampage, run (" to break and run "), rAeum (flux), 

 ruin (Lat. ruo to rusn) ; race ; current, course ; raid, 

 rail, rip ; ramus (a branch.) Even rest is the break 

 off of Motion ; so, contrariwise, rise, raise, and rouse 

 are breaks from the quiet state. 



