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- Rapacity
- n. Providence without industry. The thrift of power.
- Rarebit
- n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom it may be solemnly explained that the comestible known as toad-in-a-hole is really not a toad, and that riz-de-veau a la financiere is not the smile of a calf prepared after the recipe of a she banker.
- Rascal
- n. A fool considered under another aspect.
- Rascality
- n. Stupidity militant. The activity of a clouded intellect.
- Rash
- adj. Insensible to the value of our advice.
”Now lay your bet with mine, nor let
Bootle P. Gish
These gamblers take your cash.”
“Nay, this child makes no bet.” “Great snakes!
How can you be so rash?” - Rational
- adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.
- Rattlesnake
- n. Our prostrate brother, Homo ventrambulans.
- Razor
- n. An instrument used by the Caucasian to enhance his beauty, by the Mongolian to make a guy of himself, and by the Afro-American to affirm his worth.
- Reach
- n. The radius of action of the human hand. The area within
which it is possible (and customary) to gratify directly the
propensity to provide.
This is a truth, as old as the hills,
G.J.
That life and experience teach:
The poor man suffers that keenest of ills,
An impediment of his reach.