Index of English words, starting with "ra"

(1) - Ransom (n.) To exact a ransom for, or a payment on.
(2) - Ransom (n.) To redeem from captivity, servitude, punishment, or forfeit, by paying a price; to buy out of servitude or penalty; to rescue; to deliver; as, to ransom prisoners from an enemy.
(3) - Ransom (n.) A sum paid for the pardon of some great offense and the discharge of the offender; also, a fine paid in lieu of corporal punishment.
(4) - Ransom (n.) The money or price paid for the redemption of a prisoner, or for goods captured by an enemy; payment for freedom from restraint, penalty, or forfeit.
(5) - Ransom (n.) The release of a captive, or of captured property, by payment of a consideration; redemption; as, prisoners hopeless of ransom.

(1) - Ransomable (a.) Such as can be ransomed.

(1) - Ransomer (n.) One who ransoms or redeems.

(1) - Rant (n.) High-sounding language, without importance or dignity of thought; boisterous, empty declamation; bombast; as, the rant of fanatics.
(2) - Rant (v. i.) To rave in violent, high-sounding, or extravagant language, without dignity of thought; to be noisy, boisterous, and bombastic in talk or declamation; as, a ranting preacher.

(1) - Ranter (n.) One of the Primitive Methodists, who seceded from the Wesleyan Methodists on the ground of their deficiency in fervor and zeal; -- so called in contempt.
(2) - Ranter (n.) One of a religious sect which sprung up in 1645; -- called also Seekers. See Seeker.
(3) - Ranter (n.) A noisy talker; a raving declaimer.