The Foolish Dictionary Words starting with R

R. E. MORSE : A veteran General who commands the largest army in the world.
RABBIT : A small rodent, very similar to a hare, which feeds on grass and burrows in the earth. WELSH RABBIT More like a string, thrives on cheese and burrows in the stomach.
RACE-TRACK : An interesting locality, where pools are bought and sold in books and the heat never interferes with the search for the Pole.
RADIUM : A radiant radiator, redolent of ranging radial rays of radio-activity, raised to radical rates and regarded as a ruthless rake-off in the reign of riches within the arrayed radius of a raging, raving and raided race.
RAG-TIME : Music pulled into many pieces--the invention of a flannel-mouth to which many have cottoned.

RAPID TRANSIT : A municipal myth, circulated for the amusement of the long suffering--and slow moving--public.
REFORM : In general, a periodic epidemic, starting with marked heat, followed by a high fever, and accompanied by a flow of ink in the newspapers, a discharge of words from the face and a rush of blood to the polls, leaving the victim a chronic invalid until the next campaign. In New York, reform has been confined to a Low attempt at government.
REFORMER : One who, when he smells a rat, is eager to let the cat out of the bag.
REGISTER : The only autograph album which it costs you money to write in.
REGRETS : An excuse for non-attendance at a social function. Occasionally, an expression of sorrow; usually, a paean of praise at deliverance from evil.

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