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Ridges
- noun - a beam laid along the edge where two sloping sides of a roof meet at the top; provides an attachment for the upper ends of rafters
- a long narrow natural elevation on the floor of the ocean
- a long narrow natural elevation or striation
- a long narrow range of hills
- any long raised border or margin of a bone or tooth or membrane
- any long raised strip
- extend in ridges; "The land ridges towards the South"
- form into a ridge
- plough alternate strips by throwing the furrow onto an unploughed strip
- spade into alternate ridges and troughs; "ridge the soil"
- throw soil toward (a crop row) from both sides; "He ridged his corn"
Rifles
- noun - a shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore; "he lifted the rifle to his shoulder and fired"
- go through in search of something; search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way; "Who rifled through my desk drawers?"
- steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"
Rights
- noun - (frequently plural) the interest possessed by law or custom in some intangible thing; "mineral rights"; "film rights"
- a turn toward the side of the body that is on the south when the person is facing east; "take a right at the corner"
- an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature; "they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights"; "Certain rights can never be granted to the government but must be kept in the hands of the people"- Eleanor Roosevelt; "a right is not something that somebody gives you; it is something that nobody can take away"
- anything in accord with principles of justice; "he feels he is in the right"; "the rightfulness of his claim"
- location near or direction toward the right side; i.e. the side to the south when a person or object faces east; "he stood on the right"
- make reparations or amends for; "right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaus
Rigors
- noun - excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp"
- something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters"
- the quality of being valid and rigorous
Rinses
- noun - a liquid preparation used on wet hair to give it a tint
- clean with some chemical process
- rinse one's mouth and throat with mouthwash; "gargle with this liquid"
- the act of giving a light tint to the hair
- the removal of soap with clean water in the final stage of washing
- wash off soap or remaining dirt
- washing lightly without soap
Ripens
- verb - cause to ripen or develop fully; "The sun ripens the fruit"; "Age matures a good wine"
- grow ripe; "The plums ripen in July"
Risers
- noun - a person who rises (especially from bed); "he's usually a late riser"
- a vertical pipe in a building
- structural member consisting of the vertical part of a stair or step
Rivals
- noun - be equal to in quality or ability; "Nothing can rival cotton for durability"; "Your performance doesn't even touch that of your colleagues"; "Her persistence and ambition only matches that of her parents"
- be the rival of, be in competition with; "we are rivaling for first place in the race"
- the contestant you hope to defeat; "he had respect for his rivals"; "he wanted to know what the competition was doing"
Rivers
- noun - (poker) To improve one’s hand to beat another player on the final card in a poker game.
- a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek); "the river was navigable for 50 miles"