produced a shudder of terror through the crowded theatre.--Boaden,
_Life of Kemble_.

=Random=, a man of fortune with a scapegrace son. He is pale and puffy,
with gout and a tearing cough. Random goes to France to recruit his
health, and on his return to England, gets arrested for debt by mistake
for his son. He raves and rages, threatens and vows vengeance, but finds
his son on the point of marrying a daughter of Sir David Dunder of
Dunder Hall, and forgets his evils in contemplation of this most
desirable alliance.--G. Colman, _Ways and Means_ (1788).

_Random_ (_Roderick_), a young Scotch scapegrace, in quest of fortune.
At one time he revels in prosperity, at another he is in utter
destitution. Roderick is led into different countries (whose
peculiarities are described), and falls into the society of wits,
sharpers, courtiers, and harlots. Occasionally lavish, he is essentially
mean; with a dash of humor, he is contemptibly revengeful; and, though
generous minded when the whim jumps with his wishes, he is thoroughly
selfish. His treatment of Strap is revolting to a generous mind. Strap
lends him money in his necessity, but the heartless Roderick wastes the
loan, treats Strap as a mere servant, fleeces him at dice, and cuffs him
when the game is adverse.--T. Smollett, _Roderick Random_ (1748).

=Ranger=, the madcap cousin of Clarinda, and the leading character in
Hoadly's _Suspicious Husband_ (1747).

=Ran'tipole= (3 _syl._), a madcap. One of the nicknames given to Napoleon
III. (See NAPOLEON III.)

Dick, be a little rantipolish,[TN-116]

Colman, _Heir-at-Law_, i. 2 (1797).

=Raoul= [_Rawl_], the old huntsman of Sir Raymond Berenger.--Sir W. Scott,
_The Betrothed_ (time, Henry II.).

=Raoul di Nangis= (_Sir_), the Huguenot in love with Valentina (daughter
of the Comte de St. Bris, governor of the Louvre). Sir Raoul is offered
the hand of Valentina in marriage, but rejects it because he fancies she
is betrothed to the comte de Nevers. Nevers being slain in the
Bartholomew Massacre, Raoul marries Valentina, but scarcely is the
ceremony over when both are shot by the musketeers under the command of
St. Bris.--Meyerbeer, _Les Huguenots_ (opera, 1836).

=Raphael= (2 or 3 _syl._), called by Milton, "The Sociable Spirit," and
"The Affable Archangel." In the book of _Tobit_ it was Raphael who
travelled with Tobias into Media and back again; and it is the same
angel that holds discourse with