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RHY'MELESS, adj. Not having consonance of verses. 
Too popular is Iragick poesie. 
Straining his tiptoes for a farthing fee: 
And doth beside on rhymeless numbers tread. Bp. Hall. 
RHY'MER, or Rhy'mester, s . One who makes 
rhymes; a versifier; a poet in contempt. 
Saucy Iictors 
Will catch at us like strumpets; and scald rhymers 
Ballad us outo’tune. Shakspeare. 
RHYMNICI Montes, in ancient geopraphy, mountains 
of Scythia, on this side of Imaus, in which the river Rhym- 
nus had its source. The mouth of this river was in the Cas¬ 
pian sea, between that of the river Rha and that of the river 
Dais. 
RHYN, a small river of the Prussian province of Branden¬ 
burg, which has its source on the confines of Mecklenburg- 
Strelitz, flows through several lakes, and falls into the Havel. 
It is used for floating wood.' 
RHYNCITE, in ancient geography, a country of Greece, 
in the isle of Euboea. Steph. Byz. 
RHYNCOSPORA, a genus of plants established by 
Brown, consisting of some species of Dichromena and 
Schoenus, which see. 
RHYNCOSIA, [from ovyx 0 ^ Cr. a beak, because the keel 
terminates in a long sharp point.] in botany, a genus of the 
class diadelphia, order decandria, natural order papilionacese. 
Leguminosae, (Juss.)—Essevtial Character. Corolla papi¬ 
lionaceous. Keel rhomboid, beaked. Legume membranous, 
with two seeds. 
1. Rhyncosia volubilis.—Found wild near Canton in 
China. Stem herbaceous, round, twining. Leaves ternate, 
roundish, downy. Flower-stalks axillary, in pairs, many- 
flowered. Calyx two-lipped. Corolla yellow. Seeds black 
and shining. ® This genus was introduced by Loureiro. 
RHYNDACUS, in ancient geography, a river of Asiatic 
Mysia, according to Pomponius Mela, who places its source 
in mount Olympus. According to Pliny it had been deno¬ 
minated Lycus.—Also, a town of Asia, between Phrygia 
and the Hellespont. Steph. Byz. 
RHYNIE AND ESSIE, a united parish of Scotland, in 
Aberdeenshire, of nearly a square form, comprehending 30 
square miles. Population 676. 
RHYNS, or Rinns of Galloway, is a term applied 
to that peninsula of Wigtonshire, Scotland, formed by the 
approximation of the bays of Loch Ryan and Glenluce. It 
is named by Ptolemy and the ancient geographers, Cherson- 
ssum Novantum from the Novantoe, or Tovantes, the in¬ 
habitants. 
RHYPiE, Ripe, or Rhypes, in ancient geopraphy, a 
town of the Peloponnesus, in Achaia, the territory of which 
was denominated Rhypidis. According to Strabo it was 
north of Helice, and at some distance from the coasts of the 
gulph of Corinth. Pausanias says that in his time they 
could only perceive the ruins of Rhypae; 30 miles from 
ASgium. Homer calls this town Repe. 
RHYPTICS, Rhiptics, [‘PvTr7i/ca, Gr.] In old medical 
writers, detergent remedies. 
RHYSSADIUS, in ancient geography, a mountain of 
Africa, in Lybia interior, in which Ptolemy places the source 
of the river Stachir. 
RHYTHM, s. [ rhythmus , Lat. yvfyzo?, Gr.] Metre; 
verse; numbers. 
Now sportive youth 
Carol incondite rhythms with suiting notes, 
And quaver unharmonious. Philips. 
Proportion applied to any motion whatever. Harris. 
RHY'THMICAL, adj. '(yvOpuKot;, Gr.] Harmonical; hav¬ 
ing one sound proportioned to another.—The term figurate, 
which we now employ to distinguish florid from more simple 
melody, was used to denote that which was simply rhythmi¬ 
cal or accentual. Mason. 
RYTIDQSIS, formed of’pvltiou, to wrinkle; the name of 
a distemper in the eye, in which it wastes and wrinkles up. 
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RHYTIS, [from jvns, a channel, or furrow, so named 
by Loureiro, because it has a furrowed berry.] in botany, 
a genus of the class polygamia, order dioecia.—Generic 
Character. Perfect flowers.—Calyx : perianth inferior, clo¬ 
ven into from three to six, obtuse spreading segments. 
Corolla none. Stamens : filaments three, thread-shaped, 
erect, longer than the calyx, attached to the receptacle; 
anthers two-lobed. Pistils: germen superior, rather long; 
style none; stigmas three, cloven, reflexed. Pericarp: 
berry flatly ovate, rugose, flaccid, with one cell, and three, 
ovate, small seeds. 
Female flowers on a separate plant. Calyx: perianth 
inferior, cloven into numerous, lanceolate, hairy, spreading 
segments. Corolla none. Stamina none. Pistil and peri¬ 
carp as in the perfect flowers .—Essential Character. Calyx 
from three to six-cleft. Corolla none. Stamens three. 
Stigmas three. Berry three-seeded. Female: Calyx cloven 
into many segments. 
1. Rhytis fruticosa, or shrubby rhytis.—Native of woods 
in Cochinchina. A shrub about six feet high. Stem nearly 
erect, branched in a spreading manner. Leaves alternate, 
ovate-oblong, slightly pointed, smooth, entire. Flowers 
in long, slender, crowded, terminal spikes. Berry chan¬ 
nelled. 
RHYZELIUS (Andrew), a learned Swedish bishop, was 
born in West Gothland in 1677, and studied at Upsal. In 
.1711 he was appointed professor of theology at Abo, from 
thence he proceeded to Upsal, where he was ordained, and 
appointed under pastor of the congregation of St. Nicholas 
at Stockholm. In 1713 he was nominated by Charles XII. 
to be one of his chaplains, whom he afterwards accompanied 
to Norway. He obtained other high offices, and at length, 
in 1743, he was raised to the episcopal bench. He died in 
the year 1761, leaving behind him a high character for deep 
learning and accurate judgment. His works are numerous, 
some of which are, 1. “ Svio-Golhica munita,” or an histori¬ 
cal description of the towns, fortresses, castles, and royal 
palaces in the kingdoms of Sweden and Gothland. 2. 
“ Monasteriologia Svio-Gothica,” or a description of monas¬ 
teries. 3. “ Mnemonica Historiae Svio-Gothica Epitome.” 
RIACA, or Riaza, a river of Spain, which rises in the 
mountains between Old and New Castile, and runs into the 
Douro, at Roa. 
RIACHUCO, a small river of the province of Buenos 
Ayres, which enters the Plata, opposite the capital. 
RIACHUELO, a small river of the same province and 
government, which runs west, and enters the Plata. 
RIADHIAT, a superstitious practice among the Mahome¬ 
tans, and chiefly among those of Hindoostan, which consists 
in shutting themselves up for fifteen days, without any other 
nourishment than bread and water, in a place where there 
is no light; during which time, the devout Mussulman inces¬ 
santly repeats the word hou, which denotes one of the attri¬ 
butes of God. 
RI'AL, s. A piece of money. See Real. 
In 1 Henry VI. by indenture of the mint, a pound weight 
of gold of the old standard was coined into 45 rials, passing 
for ten shillings a-piece, or a proportional number of half 
rials, passing at five shillings a-piece; or rial farthings, 
which went at two shillings and two-pence. 
In 1 Henry VIII. the gold rial was ordered to pass at 
eleven shillings and three-pence. In 2 Elizabeth, gold rials 
were coined at fifteen shillings a-piece, when a pound weight 
of old standard gold was to be coined into forty-eight rials. 
In 3 James I. rose-rials of gold were coined at thirty shillings 
a-piece, and spur-rials at fifteen shillings. 
RIALEJO, a sea-port on the western coast of the island 
of Teneriffe. 
RIANA, [so named by Aublet, but that author gives no 
account or reason why it is so called. We presume this 
may be its common name in Guiana.] In botany, a genus 
of the class pentandria, order monogynia, natural order 
berberides, (Juss .)—Generic Character. Calyx: perianth 
inferior, of one leaf, cloven into five roundish-acute seg¬ 
ments. Corolla: petals five, ovate, acute, joined at the 
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