_R_, at the head of a word, is strongly breathed, as _Hr_ in Anglo-Saxon,
as _Hhrong_, the rong of a ladder.
_R_ is given in Dorset by a rolling of the tongue back under the roof.
For _or_, as an ending sometimes given before a free breathing, or _h_,
try _ow_,--_hollor_, hollow.
_R_ before _s_, _st_, and _th_ often goes out, as bu'st, burst;
ve'ss, verse; be'th, birth; cu'st, curst; fwo'ce, force; me'th, mirth.
_Raft_, to rouse, excite.
_Rake_, to reek.
_Ram_, _Rammish_, rank of smell.
_Rammil_, raw milk (cheese), of unskimmed milk.
_Ramsclaws_, the creeping crowfoot. _Ranunculus repens._
_Randy_, a merry uproar or meeting.
_Rangle_, to range or reach about.
_Rathe_, early; whence rather.
_Ratch_, to stretch.
_Readship_, criterion, counsel.
_Reämes_, (1, 3), skeleton, frame.
_Reän_ (1, 4), to reach in greedily in eating.
_Reäves_, a frame of little rongs on the side of a waggon.
_Reed_ (2), wheat hulm drawn for thatching.
_Reely_, to dance a reel.
_Reem_, to stretch, broaden.
_Rick_, a stack.
_Rig_, to climb about.
_Rivel_, shrivel; to wrinkle up.
_Robin Hood_, The Red campion.
_Roller_ (6, 4). _See_ Haÿmeäkèn.
A Roller was also a little roll of wool from the card of a woolcomber.
_Rottlepenny_, the yellow rattle. _Rhinanthus Crista-galli._
_Rouet_, a rough tuft of grass.