To rap and ren, To rap and rend. [Perhaps fr. Icel. hrapa to hurry and
ræna plunder, fr. rn plunder, E. ran.] To seize and plunder; to snatch
by violence. Dryden. "[Ye] waste all that ye may rape and renne."
Chaucer.
All they could rap and rend and pilfer.
Hudibras.
-- To rap out, to utter with sudden violence, as an oath.
A judge who rapped out a great oath.
Addison.
Rap, n. [Perhaps contr. fr. raparee.] A popular name for any of the
tokens that passed current for a half-penny in Ireland in the early
part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value.
Many counterfeits passed about under the name of raps.
Swift.
Tie it [her money] up so tight that you can't touch a rap, save
with her consent.
Mrs. Alexander.
Not to care a rap, to care nothing. -- Not worth a rap, worth nothing.
||Ra*pa"ces (r*p"sz), n. pl. [NL. See Rapacious.] (Zoöl.) Same as
||Accipitres.
Ra*pa"cious (-shs), a. [L. rapax, -acis, from rapere to seize and carry
off, to snatch away. See Rapid.]
1. Given to plunder; disposed or accustomed to seize by violence;
seizing by force. " The downfall of the rapacious and licentious
Knights Templar." Motley.
2. Accustomed to seize food; subsisting on prey, or animals seized by
violence; as, a tiger is a rapacious animal; a rapacious bird.
3. Avaricious; grasping; extortionate; also, greedy; ravenous;
voracious; as, rapacious usurers; a rapacious appetite.
[Thy Lord] redeem thee quite from Death's rapacious claim
Milton.
Syn. -- Greedy; grasping; ravenous; voracious.
-- Ra*pa"cious*ly, adv. -- Ra*pa"cious*ness, n.
Ra*pac"i*ty (r*ps"*t), n. [L. rapacitas: cf. F. rapacité. See
Rapacious.] 1. The quality of being rapacious; rapaciousness;
ravenousness; as, the rapacity of pirates; the rapacity of wolves.
2. The act or practice of extorting or exacting by oppressive
injustice; exorbitant greediness of gain. "The rapacity of some ages."
Sprat.
Rap`a*ree" (rp`*r"), n. See Rapparee.
Rape (rp), n. [F. râpe a grape stalk.] 1. Fruit, as grapes, plucked
from the cluster. Ray.
2. The refuse stems and skins of grapes or raisins from which the must
has been expressed in wine making.
3. A filter containing the above refuse, used in clarifying and
perfecting malt, vinegar, etc.
Rape wine, a poor, thin wine made from the last dregs of pressed
grapes.
Rape, n. [Akin to rap to snatch, but confused with L. rapere. See Rap
to snatch.] 1. The act of seizing and carrying away by force; violent
seizure; robbery.
And ruined orphans of thy rapes complain.
Sandys.
2. (Law) Sexual connection with a woman without her consent. See Age of
consent, under Consent, n.