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Right"wise`ly, adv. Righteously. [Obs.]

Right"wise`ness, n. Righteousness. [Obs.]

In doom and eke in rightwisnesse.

Chaucer.

Rig"id (?), a. [L. rigidus, fr. rigere to be stiff or numb: cf. F. rigide. Cf. Rigor. ] 1. Firm; stiff; unyielding; not pliant; not flexible.

Upright beams innumerable Of rigid spears.

Milton.

2. Hence, not lax or indulgent; severe; inflexible; strict; as, a rigid father or master; rigid discipline; rigid criticism; a rigid sentence.

The more rigid order of principles in religion and government.

Hawthorne.

Syn. -- Stiff; unpliant; inflexible; unyielding; strict; exact; severe; austere; stern; rigorous; unmitigated.

Ri*gid"i*ty (?), n. [L. rigiditas: cf. F. rigidité. See Rigid.] 1. The quality or state of being rigid; want of pliability; the quality of resisting change of form; the amount of resistance with which a body opposes change of form; -- opposed to flexibility, ductility, malleability, and softness.

2. Stiffness of appearance or manner; want of ease or elegance. Sir H. Wotton.

3. Severity; rigor. [Obs. orR.] Bp. Burnet.

Syn. -- Stiffness; rigidness; inflexibility.

Rig"id*ly (?), v. In a rigid manner; stiffly.

Rig"id*ness, n. The quality or state of being rigid.

Ri*gid"u*lous (?), a. [Dim. from rigid.] (Bot.) Somewhat rigid or stiff; as, a rigidulous bristle.

Rig"let (?), n. (Print.) See Reglet.

Rig"ma*role (?), n. [For ragman roll. See Ragman's roll.] A succession of confused or nonsensical statements; foolish talk; nonsense. [Colloq.]

Often one's dear friend talks something which one scruples to call rigmarole.

De Quincey.

Rig"ma*role, a. Consisting of rigmarole; frovolous; nonsensical; foolish.

Rig"ol (?), n. [OE. also ringol. Cf. Ring.] A circle; hence, a diadem. [Obs.] Shak.

Rig"oll (?), n. [Corrupted fr. regal.] A musical instrument formerly in use, consisting of several sticks bound together, but separated by beads, and played with a stick with a ball at its end. Moore (Encyc. of Music.).

||Ri"gor (?), n. [L. See Rigor., below.] 1. Rigidity; stiffness.

2. (ed.) A sense of chilliness, with contraction of the skin; a convulsive shuddering or tremor, as in the chill preceding a fever.

||Rigor caloris (&?;) [L., rigor of heat] (Physiol.), a form of rigor ||mortis induced by heat, as when the muscle of a mammal is heated to ||about 50°C. -- ||Rigor mortis (&?;) [L. , rigor of death], death ||stiffening; the rigidity of the muscles that occurs at death and ||lasts till decomposition sets in. It is due to the formation of ||myosin by the coagulation of the contents of the individual muscle ||fibers.