rice-mill 
rice-mill (ris'mil). . A mill for removing the 
husk from rough rice or paddy; a rico-huller. 
rice-paper (ris 'pa 'per), w. 1. Paper made from 
the straw of rice, used in China and Japan and 
elsewhere. 2. A name commonly but errone- 
ously applied ( o a delicate white film prepared in 
(Jhina from the pith of a shrill). l''ii/xin jxi/ii/rifem. 
The pith freed from the stem is an inch or an inch and a 
half in diameter, and is out into lengths of about three 
iiK-hes. These by the use of ii sharp blade are pared into 
thin rolls which are flattened and dried under pressure, 
forming sheets a few inches square. The Chinese draw 
and paint upon these, and they are much used in the man- 
ufacture of artificial flowers, some pith being imported in 
the stem for the same purpose. In the Malay archipelago 
the pith of Scievdla Kaeitigii furnishes the rice-paper. 
See Potato, Rice-paper tree, a small tree. Fatgia papy- 
rifera, native in the swamps of Formosa, and cultivated 
in China, whose pith forms the material of so-called rice- 
paper. It grows 20 feet high or less, has leaves a foot across, 
palmately five- to seven-lowed, and clusters of small green- 
ish flowers on long peduncles. From its ample leaves and 
stately habit, it is a favorite in subtropical planting. The 
Malayan rice-paper plant, Self cola Koeniyii, is a sea-shore 
shrub found from India to Australia and Polynesia. Its 
young stems are stout and succulent, and yield a ptth 
used like that of Fatsia, though smaller. It is the taccada 
of India and Ceylon. 
rice-planter (ris'plan-ter), ii. An implement 
for sowing or planting rice ; a special form of 
grain-drill. The seed falls through the tubular stan- 
dard of a plow which opens a furrow for it, is deflected by 
a board or plate, and covered by a serrated or ribbed fol- 
lower-plate. Also called rice-smcer and rice-drill. E. H. 
KnigM. 
rice-ppunder (ris'pouu"der), . A rice-mill; a 
machine for freeing rice from its outer skin or 
hull. This is effected by placing the rice in mortars which 
have small pointed elevations to prevent the pestles from 
crushing the rice, while their action causes the grains to 
rub off the red skin against one another. 
rice-pudding (ris'pud"ing), . A pudding made 
of nee and milk, with sugar, and often enriched 
with eggs and fruit, as currants, raisins, etc. 
rice-rat (ris'rat), . The rice-field mouse. 
ricercare (re-cher-ka're), H. [It. ricercare, a pre- 
lude, flourish, < ricercare, seek out, request, etc. : 
see research.} In music, same as ricereata. 
ricercata (re-cher-ka'ta), w. [It., a prelude, 
search, < ricercare, search: see ricercare.'] In 
music: (a) Originally, a composition in fugal 
style, like a toccata. (6) Now, a fugue of spe- 
cially learned character, in which every con- 
trapuntal device is utilized ; or a fugue without 
episodes, subject and answer recurring contin- 
ually. 
rice-shell (ris'shel), H. A shell of the genus 
Olivella, of about the size and whiteness of a 
grain of rice: sometimes extended to similar 
shells of the family Oliritlx. See cut under 
olive-shell. 
rice-soup (ris'sop), n. A soup made with rice 
and thickened with flour, enriched with veal, 
chicken, or mutton stock. 
rice-sower (ris'so"er), H. Same as r/ce-plantei: 
rice-Stitch (ris'stich), . An embroidery-stitch 
by which a loop an eighth of an inch long and 
pointed at each end is made on the surface of 
the foundation. This, when done in white 
thread, resembles a grain of rice. 
rice-stone (ris'ston), M. Stone mottled as with 
rice-grains. Rice-stone glass. Same as alabaster 
glass (which see, under alabaster). 
rice-SUgar (ris'shug'''ar), . A confection made 
from rice in Japan, and there called amc. 
rice-tenrec (iis'ten"rek), . A species of the 
genus Oryzuryctes. Also rice-teiulrac. 
rice-troopial (ris'tro"pi-al), . Same as rice- 
bird, I. [A book-name.] 
rice-water (r^'wa'ter), n. Water which has 
been thickened with the substance of rice by 
boiling. It is administered as a drink to the 
sick, either plain, or sweetened and flavored. 
Rice-water evacuations, watery evacuations passed 
hy cholera patients, containing albuminous flakes, epi- 
thelial cells, bacteria, salts, and organic substances. 
rice-weevil (ris'we'vl), H. The cosmopolitan 
beetle, Calandra oryae, which feeds on rice and 
other stored grains in all parts of the world. 
It is an especial pest in the corn-cribs of the southern 
United States, and in the rice-granaries of India. See cut 
under Calandra. 
rice-Wine (ris' win), . A name given to the fer- 
mented liquor made from rice, used by the Chi- 
nese and Japanese. See minixlioo and sake'*. 
rich 1 (rich), ii. [< ME. rirh, ricltr, ryelir ; (a) 
partly < AS. rire, rich, powerful, = OS. riki = 
OFries. rike, rll, = I). rijl;= MLG. LG. rik, n/,v 
= 011(4. rililii. MI 1C. >-i,-ln;(l. rriclt = Icel. rikr 
= Sw. )(/, = Dan. riy = Goth, rrikx, powerful; 
and (b) partly < OP. riclie, P. riflie = I J r. /'< = 
Sp. \>z. rim = It. ric,;,. rich (all from Tent.); 
with adj. formative, < Goth, i-rikx, ruler, king, < 
OCelt. //</ (Ir. i-it/li, Gael, rii/h), a king, = L. rci 
5167 
(rey-), a king (= Skt. rrijaii, a king), < m/"'' 
Skt. T/ n~ij. rule: see regent, re.r, Rajcfi. Cf. 
rii'ln-^, n.~\ If. Ruling; powerful; mighty; no- 
ble. 
This kyng lay at Camylot vpon kryst.masse, 
With mony lllflych lorde, ledej of the best, 
Rekenly of the rounde table alle tho rich hrether. 
Sir Gawayne aiul the Green KniijM (E. E. T. S.), 1. 39. 
() rightwis riche Code, this rewthe thow be-holde ! 
JUorte Arthvre (E. E. T. .S.), 1. 3990. 
2. Having wealth or large possessions; pos- 
sessed of much money, goods, laud, or other 
valuable property; wealthy; opulent: opposed 
to poor. 
This riche man hadde grete plente of hestes and of 
othir richesse. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), L S. 
Why, man, she is mine own, 
And I as rich in having such a jewel 
As twenty seas, if all their santl were pearl, 
The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold. 
Shall., T. O. of V., ii. 4. 109. 
3. Amply supplied or equipped; abundantly 
provided; abounding: often followed by in or 
ti-it/t. 
God, who is rich in mercy, . . . hath quickened us to- 
gether with Christ. Eph. Ii. 4. 
The King of Scots . . . she did send to France, 
To fill King Edward's fame with prisoner kings. 
And make her chronicle as rich u-ilh praise 
As is the ooze and bottom of the sea 
With sunken wreck and sumless treasuries. 
Shale., Hen. V., i. 2. 183. 
Foremost captain of his time, 
Kich in saving common-sense. 
Tennyson, Death of Wellington. 
4. Abundant in materials ; producing or yield- 
ing abundantly; productive; fertile; fruitful: 
as, a rich mine ; rich ore ; rich soil. 
Let us not hang like roping icicles 
Upon our houses' thatch, whiles a more frosty people 
Sweat drops of gallant youth in our rich fields ! 
Shak., Hen. V., iii. 5. 25. 
After crossing a small ascent, we came into a very rich 
Valley called Rooge. 
MaundreU, Aleppo to Jerusalem, p. 3. 
Where some refulgent sunset of India 
Streams o'er a rich ambrosial ocean isle. 
Tennyson, Experiments in Quantity, Milton. 
5. Of great price or money value ; costly ; ex- 
pensive ; sumptuous ; magnificent : as, rich jew- 
els ; rich gifts. 
Forthi I rede sow riche reueles whan se maketh 
For to solace goure soules suche ministrales to haue. 
Piers Plowman (B), xiii. 442. 
The next day they came to the Savoy, the Duke of Lan- 
caster's House, which they set on Fire, burning all his 
rich Furniture. Baker, Chronicles, p. 138. 
Yet some of the Portuguese, fearing the worst, would 
every Sight put their richest Goods into a Boat, ready to 
take their flight on the first Alarm. 
Dampier, Voyages, II. i. 145. 
He took me from a goodly house, 
With store of rich apparel, sumptuous fare, 
And page, and maid, and squire, and seneschal. 
Tennyson, Geraint. 
6. Of great moral worth; highly esteemed: 
invaluable; precious. 
As frendes be a rich and iofull possession, so be foes a 
continuall torment and canker to the mimic of man. 
Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 46. 
Ah ! but those tears are pearl which thy love sheds, 
And they are rich, and ransom all ill deeds. 
Shak., Sonnets, xxxiv. 
A faith once fair 
Was richer than these diamonds. 
Tennyson, Lancelot and Elaine. 
7. Ample ; copious ; abundant ; plentiful ; lux- 
uriant. 
In shorte tyine shall oure enmyes be put bakke, and 
fayn to take flight, for I se ther my baners that brynge vs 
riche socour. Merlin(E. E. T. S.), iii. 400. 
Our duty is so rich, so infinite, 
That we may do it still without accompt. 
Shot., L. L. L., v. 2. 109. 
Down on her shoulders falls the brown hair, in rich 
liberal clusters. 
Thackeray, Fitz-Boodle Papers, Dorothea. 
With the flgure sculpture of French architecture is as- 
sociated a rich profusion of carved leafage. 
C. H. Moore, Gothic Architecture, p. 2(i. 
8. Abounding in desirable or effective qualities 
or elements ; of superior quality, composition, 
or potency. 
The batayle was so stronge, 
At many a betyr wownde 
The ruche blod out spronsre. 
Holy Kood(E. E. T. S.), p. 151. 
Bees, tho little almsmen of spring-bowers, 
Know there is -richest Juice in poison-flowers. 
Kfiii-: Isabella, st. is. 
Hence, specifically 9. Having a pleasing or 
otherwise marked effect upon the senses by vir- 
tue of the abundance of some characteristic 
<|ti;ility. (a) As applied to articles of food, highly sea- 
soned, or containing an excess of nutritive, saccharine, or 
rich 
oily matter ; pleasing to the palate ; or to articles of drink, 
highly flavorril. stimulating, or strung : as, rich wiin 
cream ; rich cake ; rich gravy ; rich sauce. 
That jelly's rich, this malmsey hculiiiL'. 
Pope, Imit. of Horace, II. vi. L'oi. 
Who now will bring me a beaker 
Of the rich old \\iiH- tlmt here, 
In the choked-up vaults of Windeck, 
Has lain for many a year? 
Bryant, Lady of Castle Windeck. 
(6) Pleading to the ear ; full or mellow in tone ; harmoni- 
ous; sweet. 
Let rich music's tongue 
Unfold the imagined happiness that both 
Eeceive in either by this dear encounter. 
Shak., R. and J., ii. B. 27. 
What . . . voice, the rtcAest-toned that sings, 
Hath power to give thee as thoit wert? 
Tennyson, In Memoriam, Ixxv. 
(c) Pleasing to the eye, through strength and beauty of 
hue ; pure and strong ; vivid : applied especially to color. 
Ther myght oon haue seyn many a riche garnement and 
many afressh banere of riche colour wave in the wynde. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 384. 
A sudden splendour from behind 
Flush'd all the leaves with rich gold-green. 
Tennyson, Arabian Sights. 
A colour is said to be rich or " pure " when the propor- 
tion of white light entering into its composition is small. 
Field's Chmnatography, p. 41. 
[Rich as applied to colors in zoology has a restricted mean - 
ing, which, however, is very difficult to define. A metal- 
lic, lustrous, or iridescent color is not rich ; the word is 
generally applied to soft and velvety colors which are pure 
and distinct, as a rich black, a rich scarlet spot, etc., just 
as we speak of rich velvets, but generally of bright or glossy 
silks. Vivid is very rich or very distinct.] (d) Pleasing 
to the sense of smell; full of fragrance; sweet-scented; 
aromatic. 
No rich perfumes refresh the fruitful field, 
Nor fragrant herbs their native incense yield. 
Pope, Winter, 1. 47. 
10. Excessive; extravagant; inordinate; out- 
rageous; preposterous: commonly applied to 
ideas, fancies, fabrications, claims, demands, 
pretensions, conceits, jests, tricks, etc. : as, a 
rich notion ; a rich idea ; rich impudence ; a 
n'eftjoke; a rich hoax. [Colloq.] 
"A capital party, only you were wanted. We had Beau- 
manoir and Vere, and Jack Tufton and Spraggs. " " Was 
Spraggsrtcft?" "Wasn't he! I have not done laughing 
yet. He told us a story about the little Birou, who was 
over here last year. . . . Killing ! Get him to tell it you. 
The richest thing you ever heard." 
Disraeli, Coningsby, viii. 1. 
The rich, the rich man; more frequently, in the plural, 
people of wealth. 
The rich hath many friends. Prov. xiv. 20. 
Vicissitude wheels round the motley crowd, 
The rich grow poor, the poor become purse-proud. 
Cowper, Hope, 1. 18. 
The rich, on going out of the mosque, often give alms to 
the poor outside the door. 
E. W. Lane, Modern Egyptians, I. 107. 
[This word is often used in the formation of compounds 
which are self-explanatory : as, n'cA-colored, ne/t-fleeced, 
ricA-haired, ricA-laden, etc.] = Syn_ 2 and 3. Affluent. 4. 
fertile, etc. (see fruitful), luxuriant, teeming. 5 and 6. 
Splendid, valuable. 7. Copious, plenteous. 9, Savory, 
delicious. 
rich 1 ? (rich), c. [Also sometimes ritcli ; < ME. 
richen, rechen, ryclien (= OD. rijken = OHG. 
riehan, rilihan, richen, rule, control), < rich 1 , a. 
Cf. rich 1 , -.] I. trans. To enrich. 
To ritch his country, let his words lyke flowing water fall. 
Drant, tr. of Horace. (Nares.) 
Rich'd with the pride of nature's excellence. 
Greene and Lodge, Looking Glass for Lond. and Eng. 
Of all these bounds, even from this line to this, 
With shadowy forests and with champains rich a. 
Shak., Lear, 1. 1. 65. 
II. iii trans. To grow rich. 
Thei rychen thorw regraterye and rentes hem buggen 
With that the pore people shulde put in here wombe. 
Piers Plouinan (B), iii. 83. 
richH, ffrfc. [< ME. rielie; < riWii, n.] Richly. 
Ful riche he was astored prively. 
Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 609. 
rich 2 t, '' [ME. riclien, ricelieii, a var. of "rec- 
chen, < AS. reccaii, stretch, direct, rule : see 
retch 1 , rarf' 1 .] I. trans. 1. To stretch; pull. 
Ector richit his reyne, the Eenke for to mete, 
ffor to wreike of his wound, A- the wegh hanne. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), L 6693. 
2. To direct. 
5e schal not rise of your bedde, I riich yow better, 
I schal happe yow here that other half als, 
And sythen karp wyth my knyjt that I kajt haue. 
Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1223. 
3. To adjust; set right. 
There launchit I to laiind, a litle for ese, 
Restid me rifely, ricchit my seliiyn. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1S149. 
4. To address: set (one's self to do a thin;,'). 
(He) riches him radly to ride and remowis his ost. 
Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), flloss., p. 186. (K. Alex , 
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