Defn: The enlargement of a molt caused by rapping the pattern.
RAPPAREE
Rap`pa*ree", n.
Defn: A wild Irish plunderer, esp. one of the 17th century; — so called from his carrying a half-pike, called a rapary. [Written also raparee.]
RAPPED
Rapped (râpt),
Defn: imp. & p. p. of Rap, to strike.
RAPPED
Rapped,
Defn: imp. & p. p. of Rap, to snatch away.
RAPPEE Rap*pee", n. Etym: [F. râpé, fr. râper to grate, to rasp. See Rasp, v.]
Defn: A pungent kind of snuff made from the darker and ranker kinds of tobacco leaves.
RAPPEL
Rap"pel, n. Etym: [F. Cf. Repeal.] (Mil.)