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allentando 264
rallentando [It], slackening; gradually slower (abbr. ral., rail., or rallo.):
music.
Ramadan [Ar], ninth month of the Muslim year; also, the great religious
fast held each day during this period, from dawn to sunset.
rambla [Sp], ravine; avenue (Barcelona).
ramo [Sp & It], branch (in all senses).
ramollissement [Fr], a softening, esp. of the brain; colloq., quasiimbecility.
rana [Hind], Hindu ruling prince; rajah: India.
ranchería [Sp], dwelling place oía ranchero; herdsman's hut or a collection
of such huts; also, an Indian settlement: Sp. Am. fcf southwestern U.S.
ranchero [Sp], herdsman; ranchman: Sp. Am. fcf southwestern U.S.
rancho [Sp], a rude hut or group of huts for stockmen and laborers;
also, a ranch; stock farm (as distinguished from hacienda): Sp. Am. fcf
(in the second sense) southwestern U.S.
rançon [Fr], ransom.
rani or ranee [Hind], Hindu queen; wife of a rana: India.
rann [Norw], house.
ranz des vaches [Swiss dial.], pastoral song played on the alpenhorn
by Swiss herdsmen.
rapin [Fr], a painter's pupil; art student; colloq., dauber.
rappel [Fr], drum call to arms or quarters: mil.
rapport [Fr], harmonious relationship; agreement; harmony; correspondence;
affinity; sympathetic contact, -—en rapport, in accord; in
sympathy.
rapprochement [Fr], the act of bringing (or coming) together; reconciliation,
reestablishment of friendly relations, esp. between countries.
rara avis [L; pi. rarae aves], a rare bird; prodigy. —rara avis in terris
nigroque simillima cycno, a rare bird upon the earth and very like
a black swan; a strange prodigy; unusual person or thing: Juvenal.
rari nantes [L], a few (shipwrecked sailors at sea) swimming here and
there: Virgil.
Raskolnik [Russ; pi. Raskolniki], dissenter; nonconformist; esp., a
seceder from the Greek Church.
rassemblement [Fr], lit., an assembling; fall in! rally!: mil.
Rast macht Rost [Ger], rest makes (or breeds) rust.
rata [LL], rate; individual share.
Rathaus [Ger], town hall.
ratione domicilii [L], by reason of domicile: law.
ratione soli [L], by reason of the soil: law.
Ratskeller [Ger], orig., in Germany, a town-hall cellar commonly used
as a beer room and restaurant; hence, rathskeller [naturalized in U.S.],
a bar or restaurant on the German model.
Raum für alle hat die Erde [Ger], the earth has room for all: Schiller.