villain named Villard. Charles Belmont,
hearing her cries of distress, rescued her and took her home. The
gouvernante at death confessed the truth, and Charles Belmont married
her.--Edward Moore, _The Foundling_ (1748).

=Raz'eka=, the giver of food, one of the four gods of the Adites (2
_syl._).

We called on Razeka for food.

Southey, _Thalaba, the Destroyer_, i. 24 (1797).

=Razor=, a barber who could "think of nothing but old England." He was the
friend and neighbor of Quidnunc, the upholsterer, who was equally crazy
about the political state of the nation, and the affairs of Europe in
general.--Murphy, _The Upholsterer_ (1758).

_Razor_ (_To cut blocks with a_). Oliver Goldsmith said of Edward Burke,
the statesman.

Too deep for his hearers, he went on refining,
And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining:
Tho' equal to all things, to all things unfit;
Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit;
For a patriot too cool; for a drudge disobedient;
And too fond of the _right_ to pursue the _expedient_.
In short, 'twas his fate, unemployed or in place, sir,
To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor.

_Retaliation_ (1774.)

=Read= (_Sir William_), a tailor, who set up for oculist, and was knighted
by Queen Anne. This quack was employed both by Queen Anne and George I.
Sir William could not read. He professed to cure wens, wry-necks, and
hare-lips (died 1715).

None shall their rise to merit owe--
That popish doctrine is exploded quite,
Or Ralph had been no duke, and Read no knight.

_A Political Squib of the Period._

[Asterism] The "Ralph" refered[TN-118] to is Ralph Montagu, created
viscount in 1682, and duke of Montagu in 1705 (died 1709).

=Ready-to-Halt=, a pilgrim that journeyed to the Celestial City on
crutches. He joined Mr. Greatheart's party, and was carried to heaven
in a chariot of fire.--Bunyan, _Pilgrim's Progress_, ii. (1684).

=Reason= (_The goddess of_), in the French Revolution, some say, was the
wife of Momoro, the printer; but Lamartine says it was Mdlle. Malliard,
an actress.

=Rebecca=, leader of the Rebecca[:i]tes, a band of Welsh rioters, who, in
1843, made a raid upon toll-gates. The captain and his guard disguised
themselves in female attire.

[Asterism] This name arose from a gross perversion of a text of
Scripture: "And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, ... let thy
seed po