rinsing 
The interview. 
That swallow'd so much treasure, . . . like a glass 
Did break i' the rinsing. Shak., Hen. VIII., i. 1. 167. 
2. That in which anything is rinsed; the liquid 
left from washing off. 
The beadle bolted in haste his last mouthful of fat bacon, 
[and] washed down the greasy morsel with the last rins- 
ings of the pot of ale. Scott, Heart of Mid-Lothian, xxxii. 
The very pigs and white ducks seeming to wander about 
the uneven neglected yard as if in low spirits from feed- 
ing on a too meagre quality of riiisinf/>t. 
George Eliot, Middlemarch, xxxix. 
rinsing-machine (rin'sing-ma-shen"), 1. 
In cotton-mnniif., a series of tanks fitted with 
rollers, through which fabrics are passed in the 
process of dyeing, to free them from dirt or 
surplus color. 2. A form of centrifugal drier 
for use in laundries. 
rin-thereout (rin'THar-ot), . and a. [< So. riii, 
= E. ran, + thereout."} I. n. A needy, house- 
less vagrant ; a vagabond. [Scotch.] 
II. a. Vagrant ; vagabond ; wandering with- 
out a home. [Scotch.] 
Ye little rin-there-out de'il that ye are, what takes you 
raking through the gutters to see folk hangit? 
Scott, Heart of Mid-Lothian, v. 
rio, riyo (re-6') ( . [Jap., = Chin. Hang: see 
liang.'] A Japanese ounce, of the same value 
as the Chinese liang; especially, an ounce of 
silver ; a tael. 
Riolani's muscle. See ciliary muscle of Rio- 
lanus, under ciliary. 
rionite (rl'on-it), . [Formation not ascer- 
tained.] A massive metallic mineral, allied to 
tetrahedrite in composition, but peculiar in 
containing a considerable amount of bismuth. 
It is found in Switzerland. 
riot (ri'ot), n. [Early mod. E. also riotte; < ME. 
riot, ryot, ryott, riote, ryote, riotte, < OF. riot, ryot, 
usually riote, riotte, F. riotte, quarreling, brawl- 
ing, confusion, riot, revelry, feasting, wrang- 
ling, = Pr. riote = It. riotta (ML. reflex "riota, 
riotta), quarrel, dispute, uproar, riot ; origin un- 
known. Cf. OD. revot, ravot, "caterua nebu- 
lonum et lupanar, luxus, luxuria" (Kiliau).] 
1. A disturbance arising from wanton and 
disorderly conduct; a tumult; an uproar; a 
brawl. 
Horse harneys tyte, that thei be tane, 
This ryott radly sail tham rewe. York Plays, p. 90. 
Other of your insolent retinue 
Do hourly carp and quarrel, breaking forth 
In rank and uot-to-be-endured riots. 
Shak., Lear, i. 4. 223. 
Now were all transform'd 
Alike, to serpents all, as accessories 
To his bold riot. MUton, P. L., x. 521. 
Specifically 2. In law, an unlawful assembly 
which has actually begun to execute the pur- 
pose for which it assembled by a breach of the 
peace, and to the terror of the public, or a law- 
ful assembly proceeding to execute an unlaw- 
ful purpose. A riot cannot take place unless 
three persons at least are present. Stephen. 
Compare rout 3 , 4, ftn&unlawful assembly (under 
unlawful). 3. A luxurious and loose manner 
of living; boisterous and excessive festivity; 
revelry. 
For sikerly a prentys revelour, 
That haunteth dys, riot, or paramour, 
His maister shal it in his shoppe abye, 
Al ban he no part of the mynstralcye : 
For thefte and riot they been convertible. 
Chaucer, Cook's Tale, 1. 28. 
All now was turn'd to jollity and game, 
To luxury and riot, feast and dance. 
MUton, P. L., xi. 715. 
4. Confusion; a confused or chaotic mass; a 
jumble ; a medley. 
Brute terrors, like the scurrying of rats in a deserted 
attic, filled the more remote chambers of his brain with 
riot. R. L. Stevenson, Markheim. 
No-popery or Gordon riots. See no-popery. Riot Act, 
an English statute of 1714 (1 Geo. I., st. 2, c. 5), designed to 
prevent tumults and riotous assemblies, and providing for 
the punishment of rioters who do not disperse upon proc- 
lamation made. Any one who continues to riot after this 
proclamation is made (called reading the Riot Act) is guilty 
of felony. To run riot (adverbial use of the noun), (a) 
To act or move without control or restraint. 
One man's head runs riot upon hawks and dice. 
Sir R. L'Estrange. 
(b) To grow luxuriantly, wildly, or in rank abundance. 
And overhead the wandering ivy and vine, 
This way and that, in many a wild festoon, 
Ran riot. Tennyson, (Enone. 
= Syn. 1 and 2. Mutiny, Sediti&n, etc. See inmtrrection, 
quarrel^. 
riot (ri'ot), v. [< ME. rioten, ryoten, riottcn, 
ryotten,'< OF. rioter (=It. riotture ; ML. riotare, 
"riott/ire), quarrel, revel, < riote, quarrel, riot: 
see rio t, .] I. intrunx. 1. To act in a wanton 
rip 
and disorderly manner; rouse a tumult or dis- riotously (ri'ot-us-li), adr. In a riotous manner, 
turbance; specifically, to take part in a riot (> In the mannerof an unlawful assembly ; tumultuously ; 
(see riot, n.,2), or outbreak against the public turbulently ; seditiously. 
peace. 
Under this word riuting . . . many thousands of old 
women have been arrested and put to expense, sometimes 
in prison, for a little intemperate use of their tongues. 
Fielding, Amelia, i. 2, note. 
2. To be in a state of disorder or confusion ; 
act irregularly. 
Thy life a long dead calm of flx'd repose ; 
No pulse that riots, and no blood that glows. 
Pope, Eloisa to Abelard, 1. 252. 
3. To revel ; run to excess in feasting, drink- 
ing, or other sensual indulgences ; act in an un- 
restrained or wanton manner. 
Now lat him riote al the nyght or leve. 
Chaucer, Cook's Tale, 1. 50. 
Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting [rer- 
elling, R. V.) and drunkenness, not in chambering and 
wantonness. Rom. xiii. IS. 
If any persons so riotously assembled begin, even before 
proclamation, to pull down any church, chapel, meeting- 
house, dwelling-house, or out-houses, they shall be felons 
without benefit of clergy. Blackstone, Com., IV. xi. 
(b) With licentious revelry or debauchery. 
He that gathereth by defrauding his own soul gathereth 
for others that shall spend his goods riotously. 
Ecclus. xiv. 4. 
riotousness (ri'ot-us-nes), n. The state or con- 
dition of being riotous. 
Excess inclndeth riotoueness, expence of money, prodi- 
gal housekeeping. 
Raleigh, Arts of Empire, xix. (Latham.) 
riotry (ri'ot-ri), n. [< riot + -ry.~] Eiot; the 
practice of rioting; riotousness. 
I hope your electioneering riotry has not, nor will mix 
in these tumults. 
Walpole, Letters, To Rev. W. Cole, June 15, 1780. 
They at will 
Entered our houses, lived upon our means 
It may well be conceived that, at such a time, such a 
nature as that of Marlborough would riot in the very lux- 
ury of baseness. Xacaulay, Hallam's Const. Hist. 
II. trans. If. To throw into tumult or con- rip 1 (rip), c. ; pret. and pp. rip. 
fusion; disturb; harass; annoy. 
Sir, and we wyste jour wylle, we walde wirke ther-af- 
tyre; 
3if this journee sulde halde, or be arouwede [doubtful 
reading] forthyre, 
To ryd* one xone Romaynes and ryott theire landez. 
Uorte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 340. 
Indeed, perjury is but scandalous words, and I know a 
man cannot have a warrant for those, unless you put for 
rioting them into the warrant. Fielding, Amelia, i. 2. 
2f. To indulge in pleasure or sensual enjoy- 
ment; satiate: used reflexively. 
The roo and the rayne-dere reklesse thare rounene, 
In ranez and in rosers to ryotte thame selvene. 
Uorte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 923. 
3. To pass in riot ; destroy or put an end to by 
riotous living: with out. [Rare.] 
And he, 
Thwarted by one of these old father-fools, 
Had rioted his life out, and made an end. 
Tennyson, Aylmer's Field. 
rioter (ri'pt-er), n. [< ME. riotoui; rioter, 
ryotour, < OF. riotour, F. rioteur, a rioter, < ri- 
oter, riot: see riot,v.~\ One who riots, (a) A per- 
son who originates an uproar or disturbance or takes 
part in one ; specifically, in law, one guilty of uniting with 
others in a riot. 
Any two justices, together with the sheriff or under- 
sheriff of the county, may come with the posse comitatus, 
if need be, and suppress any such riot, assembly, or rout, 
[and] arrest the rioters. Blaokstone, Com., IV. xi. 
In 1411 a statute against rioters was passed. 
Stubts, Const. Hist., 372. 
(6) A reveler ; a roisterer. 
Thise ryotoures three, of which I telle, . . . 
Were set hem in a taverne for to drinke. 
Chaucer, Pardoner's Tale, 1. 19!). 
He 's a sworn rioter ; he has a sin that often 
Drowns him, and takes his valour prisoner. 
Shak., T. of A., iii. 5. 68. 
riotiset(ri'pt-is), u. [Early mod. E. ulsoriotyze; 
< riot + -we 1 .] 1. Turbulence; riot; uproar. 
They come at last, who, with the warders cryes 
Astonisht, to the tumult preaseth neere, 
Thinking t' appease the broyle and riotyze. 
Heywood, Troia Britannica (1609). (Nares.) 
2. Luxury; dissoluteness; debauchery. 
His life he led in lawlesse riotise. 
Spenser, F. Q., I. iv. 20. 
riotous (ri'pt-us),. [< ME. riotous, < OF.*riotos, 
riotoux, rioteux = It. riottoso (ML. riotosus) ; 
as riot + -ous.~\ 1. Tumultuous; of the nature 
of an unlawful assembly ; seditious ; guilty of 
riot: as, a riotous mob; a riotous demagogue. 
The forfeit, sovereign, of my servants' life ; 
Who slew to-day a riotous gentleman 
Lately attendant on the Duke of Norfolk. 
Shak., Rich. III., ii. 1. 100. 
2. Indulging in riot or revelry; accompanied 
by or consisting in revelry or debauchery ; wan- 
ton or licentious. 
The younger son 
living. 
All our offices have been oppress'd 
With riotous feeders. Shak., T. of A., ii. 2. 168. 
Be sumptuous, but not riotous ; be bounteous, 
But not in drunken bacchanals. 
Fletcher, Pilgrim, v. 3. 
wasted his substance with riotoui 
Luke xv. 13. 
In riotry, made plunder of our goods. 
Sir //. Taylor, Ph. van Artevelde, I., i. 3. 
PP r - ripping. 
[liarly'mod. E. ryppe, rype, <~ME. rippen, ripen, 
rypen, rip up, search into, seek out (AS. "rypan, 
Vi/jipaw, rip, break in pieces, not authenticated), 
= F. riper, scrape, drag, < Norw. ripa, scratch, 
score with the point of a knife, = Sw. dial. 
iv'/i, scratch, also pluck asunder, rip open, 
Sw. repa, scratch, rip (in repa upp, rip up), = 
Dan. rippe, rip (in oprippe, rip up) ; appar. a 
secondary form, from the root of Icel. rifa, rive 
(rifa upp, pull up, rifa aptr, rip up) : see rive 1 . 
The word has prob. been confused with others 
of similar form, and has thus taken on an un- 
usual variety of meanings ; cf. rijfl, rip*, ripe'*, 
ripple^, reap.'] I. trans. 1. To separate or di- 
vide the parts of by cutting or tearing; tear 
or cut open or off ; split : as, to rip open a sack ; 
to rip off the shingles of a roof ; to rip up the 
belly; especially, to undo (a seam, as of a gar- 
ment), either by cutting the threads of it or by 
pulling the two pieces of material apart, so that 
the sewing-thread is drawn out or broken. 
Poor I am stale, a garment out of fashion ; 
And, for I am richer than to hang by the walls, 
I must be ripp'd: to pieces with me. 
Shak., Cymbeline, iii. 4. 55. 
Tell me thy thoughts ; for I will know the least 
That dwells within thee, or will rip thy heart 
To know it. Beau, and Ft., Philaster, Iii. 1. 
Multitudes of the Jews (2000 in one night) had their 
bowels ript up by the Roman Souldiers, in hopes to have 
found the gold and silver there which they were supposed 
to have swallowed. Stillingjleet, Sermons, I. viii. 
Sails ripp'd, seams op'ning wide, and compass lost. 
Cowper, My Mother's Picture. 
2. To drag or force out or away, as by cutting 
or rending. 
Macdufi* was from his mother's womb 
Untimely ripped. Shak., Macbeth, v. 8. 16. 
He 11 rip the fatal secret from her heart Granuille. 
3. Figuratively, to open or reopen for search 
or disclosure ; lay bare ; search out and dis- 
close : usually with up. See ripe 2 . 
Certes, sir Knight, ye seemen much to blame 
To rip up wrong that battell once hath tried. 
Spenser, F. Q., IV. ix. 37. 
I shall not need 
To rip the cause up from the first to you. 
Fletcher (and another), Noble Gentleman, iv. 3. 
It was printed, he saith, by his own hand, and rips all 
the faults of the kingdom in king and people. 
Court and Times of Charles I., I. 367. 
They ripped up all that had been done from the begin- 
ning of the rebellion. Clarendon. 
4. To saw (wood) in the direction of the grain. 
See rip-saw. 5f. To rob; pillage; plunder. 
To rippenn hemm and rsefeun. Onnulum, 1. 10212. 
= Syn. 1. Tear, Cleave, etc. Seerendl. 
II. intrans. 1. To be torn or split open; 
open or part: as, a seam rips by the breaking 
or drawing out of the threads; the ripping of 
a boiler at the seams. 2. To rush or drive 
headlong or with violence. [Colloq.] Let her 
rip. See fefi. TO rip and tear, to be violent or furi- 
ous, as with excitement or rage. [Colloq.] 
rip 1 (rip), 11. [< n'p 1 , r.] 1. A rent made by 
ripping or tearing; a laceration; the place so 
ripped. 
A rip in his flesh coloured doublet. 
Addison, Spectator, No. 13. 
2. A rip-saw. [Colloq.] 
He devoted himself to the expression of sensuous, even 
riotous beauty. Stedman, Viet. Poets, p. 392. 
3. Boisterous; uproarious: as, riotous glee. rip 2 (rip), . [< 'ME. ri'p", rippe, a basket, < Icel. 
Riotous assembling, in law. the unlawful assembling /irip, a basket or box of laths to carry peat, 
of twelve or more persons to the detriment of the peace. f /% . wiptp,. hnnkpt in which to carrv fish 
If such persons refuse to disperse after proclamation, they '- te - J 
are accounted felons. A riot may be made by three per- 
sons (see riot, 2), while it takes at least twelve persons to 
constitute a riotous assembly. = Syn. 1. See inmrrectian. 
Astirte til him with his rippe, 
n the fish to kippe. 
Hawlok (ed. Madden-Skeat), 1. 893. 
