h rank that the saluting officer is below the admiral.

RETURNS. All the various reports and statements required by officers in
command to be made periodically. (_See_ SUPPLIES AND RETURNS.)

REVEILLE. The beat of drum at break of day, when night duties cease.

REVENUE. In cases of revenue proceedings, the law harshly provides that
the _onus probandi_ is to be on the claimant, however injured.

REVENUE-CUTTERS. Sharp-built single-masted vessels armed, for the
purpose of preventing smuggling, and enforcing the custom-house
regulations. They are usually styled _revenue-cruisers_.

REVERSE. A change; a vicissitude. Also, the flank at the other extremity
from the pivot of a division is termed the reverse flank.

REVETMENT. A sloping wall of brick-work, or any other attainable
material, supporting the outer face of the rampart, and lining the side
of the ditch.

REVIEW. The inspection of a fleet or army, or of any body of men under
arms.

REVOLUTION, TIME OF. In relation to a planet or comet, this is the time
occupied in completing a circuit round the sun, and is synonymous with
_periodic time_.

RHE. A very old word signifying an overflow of water.

RHILAND-ROD. A Dutch measure of 12 English feet, formerly in use with
us: it is more properly _Rhine-land rod_.

RHODIAN LAWS. A maritime code, asserted, but without sufficient proof,
to be the basis of the Roman sea-laws. The code published by Leunclavius
and others, as a body of Rhodian laws, is a mere forgery of modern
times.

RHODINGS. The brass cleats on which the axles of the pumps work.

RHOMBOID. An oblique parallelogram, having its opposite sides equal and
parallel, but its angles not right angles.

RHOMBUS. A lozenge-shaped figure, having four equal sides, but its
angles not right angles.

RHUMB, OR RHOMB. A vertical circle of any given place, or the
intersection of a part of such a circle with the horizon. Rhumbs,
therefore, coincide with points of the world, or of the horizon; and
hence seamen distinguish the rhumbs by the same names as the points and
winds, as marked on the fly or card of the compass. The _rhumb-line_,
therefore, is a line prolonged from any point of the compass in a
nautical chart, except the four cardinal points; or it is a line which a
ship, keeping in the same collateral point or rhumb, describes
throughout its whole course.

RHYDAL [from the Celtic _rhydle_]. A ford or channel joining lakes or
broad waters.

RIBADOQUIN. A