Render, depict, exhibit, show.

Repair, reinstate.

Repetition, recital, narration.

Reremouse, bat.

RESIANT, resident.

Residence, sediment.

Resolution, judgment, decision.

Resolve, inform; assure; prepare, make up one’s mind; dissolve; come to a decision, be convinced; relax, set at ease.

Respective, worthy of respect; regardful, discriminative.

Respectively, with reverence.

RESPECTLESS, regardless.

Respire, exhale; inhale.

Responsible, correspondent.

Rest, musket-rest.

Rest, “set up one’s—­,” venture one’s all, one’s
last stake (from game of primero).

Rest, arrest.

Restive, RESTY, dull, inactive.

Retchless(ness), reckless(ness).

Retire, cause to retire.

RETRICATO, fencing term.

Retrieve, rediscovery of game once sprung.

Returns, ventures sent abroad, for the safe return of
which so much money is received.

Reverberate, dissolve or blend by reflected heat.

Reverse, reverso, back-handed thrust, etc., in fencing.

Revise, reconsider a sentence.

Rheum, spleen, caprice.

RIBIBE, abusive term for an old woman.

Rid, destroy, do away with.

Rifling, raffling, dicing.

Ring, “cracked within the—­,” coins so cracked were
unfit for currency.

Risse, risen, rose.

RIVELLED, wrinkled.

Roarer, swaggerer.

Rochet, fish of the gurnet kind.

Rock, distaff.

RODOMONTADO, braggadocio.

Rogue, vagrant, vagabond.

Rondel, “a round mark in the score of a public-house”
(Nares); roundel.

Rook, sharper; fool, dupe.

ROSAKER, similar to ratsbane.

Rosa-Solis, a spiced spirituous liquor.

Roses, rosettes.

Round, “gentlemen of the—­,” officers of inferior rank.

Round trunks, trunk hose, short loose breeches reaching almost or quite to the knees.

Rouse, carouse, bumper.

Rover, arrow used for shooting at a random mark at
uncertain distance.

ROWLY-powly, roly-poly.

Rude, rudeness, unpolished, rough(ness), coarse(ness).

Ruffle, flaunt, swagger.

Rug, coarse frieze.

Rug-gowns, gown made of rug.

Rush, reference to rushes with which the floors were
then strewn.

Rusher, one who strewed the floor with rushes.