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Rai Bareli – Rampant

Rai Bareli

or RAI BAREILLY, a town and district of India; 48 miles S.

E. of Lucknow; has a large brick fort (15th century), a magnificent palace and tomb of a former ru ruler, and some fine mosques. Pop. town (1911), 18,798. The district is part of the province Oudh and Agra. Area, 1,751 square miles.

Pop. about 1,100,000.

Ragwort

the Senecio jacobæa, producing yellow flowers. Common by roadsides and in pastures.

Rail Wagon

a combination vehicle so constructed as to be readily convertible for use on any ordinary roadway or on a railroad track. It was invented by Joseph C. Brown, of Toledo, O., in 1898.

Rain Prints

indentations produced in geological times by raindrops on sedimentary strata when the latter were soft.

Rainy Lake

a sheet of water forming a portion of the boundary line between Ontario and the United States, W., and 100 miles distant from the nearest point of Lake Superior, and about 50 miles long. It discharges by Rainy river into Lake of the Woods.

Raisin River

a stream rising in Hillsdale co., Mich., and falling into Lake Erie, 2½ miles below Monroe, after a circuitous course of about 130 miles.

Rakoczy March

a simple but grand military air by an unknown composer, dating from the end of the 17th century. The Hungarians adopted it as their national march. The air most generally known out of Hungary as the Rakoczy march is one by Berlioz in his "Damnation of Faust"; Liszt also wrote an orchestral version of the original.

Rakshasas

in Hindu mythology, a class of evil spirits or genii, cruel monsters, frequenting cemeteries, devouring human beings, and assuming any shape at pleasure. They are generally hideous, but some, especially the females, allure by their beauty.

Rale

in pathology, a noise or crepitation caused by the air passing through mucus in the bronchial tubes or lungs.

Rallentando

in music, a direction that the time of the passage over which it is written is to be gradually decreased.

Rameswaram

a low sandy island in the Gulf of Manaar, between the mainland of India and Ceylon. It is about 11 miles long and 6 broad, and contains one of the most venerated Hindu temples in India, the resort of thousands of pilgrims. Pop. about 18,000.

Rampant

in heraldry, standing upright on the hind legs (properly on one foot only), as if attacking (said of a beast of prey, as the lion). Counterrampant, said of an animal rampant toward the sinister. When applied to two animals the term denotes that they are rampant contrariwise in saltire, or that they are rampant face to face.