Relieving Officer, a significant term for a father.—University.
Renage, to revoke, a word used in Ireland at the game of five-card.
Rench, vulgar pronunciation of RINSE. “(W)rench your mouth out,” said a fashionable dentist one day.
Re-raw, “on the RE-RAW,” tipsy or drunk.
Resurrection pie, once a school but now a common phrase, used in reference to a pie supposed to be made of the scraps and leavings that have appeared before.
Ret, an abbreviation of the word REITERATION, used to denote the forme which, in a printing-office, backs or perfects paper already printed on one side.
Rhino, ready money.—Old.
“Some as I know,
Have parted with their ready RINO.”
Rhinoceral, rich, wealthy, abounding in RHINO. At first sound it would seem as though it meant a man abounding in rhinoceroses.
Rib, a wife. Derivation, of course, Biblical.