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To raise a blockade
To raise a check
To raise a siege
To raise Cain
To raise steam
To raise the devil
To raise the wind
To rake out
To rake up
To rap and ren
To rap and rend
To rape and ren
To rate a chronometer
To rattle off
To reach after
To read between the lines
To read one's self in
To reckon for
To reckon on
To reckon with
To reckon without one's host
To record a deed
To rectify a globe
To redeem the time
To reduce a square
To reduce an equation
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Rap Rap, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rapped, usually written Rapt; p. pr. & vb. n. Rapping.] [OE. rapen; akin to LG. & D. rapen to snatch, G. raffen, Sw. rappa; cf. Dan. rappe sig to make haste, and Icel. hrapa to fall, to rush, hurry. The word has been confused with L. rapere to seize. Cf. Rape robbery, Rapture, Raff, v., Ramp, v.] 1. To snatch away; to seize and hurry off. And through the Greeks and Ilians they rapt The whirring chariot. --Chapman. From Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund Bacon, to Redgrove. --Sir H. Wotton. 2. To hasten. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman. 3. To seize and bear away, as the mind or thoughts; to transport out of one's self; to affect with ecstasy or rapture; as, rapt into admiration. I'm rapt with joy to see my Marcia's tears. --Addison. Rapt into future times, the bard begun. --Pope. 4. To exchange; to truck. [Obs. & Law] To rap and ren, To rap and rend. [Perhaps fr. Icel. hrapa to hurry and r[ae]na plunder, fr. r[=a]n plunder, E. ran.] To seize and plunder; to snatch by violence. --Dryden. ``[Ye] waste all that ye may rape and renne.'' --Chaucer. All they could rap and rend pilfer. --Hudibras. To rap out, to utter with sudden violence, as an oath. A judge who rapped out a great oath. --Addison.
