Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • abbreviation rabbi
  • abbreviation rector
  • abbreviation river

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Examples

  • _R. indica, R. rubra_, and _R. salicifolia_, but only the last named one is generally known.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882 Various

  • Those quoted by Mickiewicz seem to be _Russula nitida, R. alutacea_, and _R. emetica_.

    Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 Adam Mickiewicz 1826

  • "You see, dear, our greatest danger is this: we had to exert such a tremendous lot of power getting away from Jupiter and Saturn, that we haven't any too much to spare, and if we have to spend it in counteracting the pull of this dead sun, or whatever it is, we may not have enough of what I call the R. fluid left to get home with."

    A Honeymoon in Space George Chetwynd Griffith 1881

  • This time, it was a sheet cake iced to look like a "Commonwealth Express" credit card in the name of R. F. McDonnell.

    Virginia General Assembly adjourns final time 2011

  • It was this experience of Warsaw under siege and, later, her life in the Shanghai ghetto that Shoshana described in her memoir, In Fayer un in Flamen [In fire and in flames], her only work to appear in book form, published in 1949 in Buenos Aires under the name R. Shoshana-Kahan, as part of the series Dos Poylishe Yidntum [Polish Jewry].

    Rose Shoshana. 2009

  • If ever there was a time to use the acronym R.I.P.

    Ted Kennedy, Workhorse Lawmaker - Dan_McLaughlin’s blog - RedState 2009

  • A highlight, when asked what the acronym R.E.B.E.L.S. stands for:

    R.E.B.E.L.S.! Atten-shun! 2009

  • In the process, this emerging vision provides us with “a reason to hope” the title of R.

    The G.O.D. Experiments Gary E. Schwartz 2006

  • In the list of the R.pton team appeared the name R. Peteiro.

    The White Feather 1928

  • I marked my name with red paint on a Cotton tree near my Camp, and Set out at an early hour and proceeded on very well the river is much wider from 4 to 600 yards much divided by Islands and Sand bars, passed a large dry Creek at 15 miles and halted at the enterance of R.ver 50 yards wide on the Lard Side I call R. Labeech killed 4 Buffalow and

    The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

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