Crossword clues for richer
richer
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rich \Rich\, (r[i^]ch), a. [Compar. Richer; superl. Richest.] [OE. riche, AS. r[=i]ce rich, powerful; akin to OS. r[=i]ki, D. rijk, G. reich, OHG. r[=i]hhi, Icel. r[=i]kr, Sw. rik, Dan. rig, Goth. reiks; from a word meaning, ruler, king, probably borrowed from Celtic, and akin to L. rex, regis, king, regere to guide, rule. [root]283. See Right, and cf. Derrick, Enrich, Rajah, Riches, Royal.]
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Having an abundance of material possessions; possessed of a large amount of property; well supplied with land, goods, or money; wealthy; opulent; affluent; -- opposed to poor. ``Rich merchants.''
--Chaucer.The rich [person] hath many friends.
--Prov. xiv. 20.As a thief, bent to unhoard the cash Of some rich burgher.
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Hence, in general, well supplied; abounding; abundant; copious; bountiful; as, a rich treasury; a rich entertainment; a rich crop.
If life be short, it shall be glorious; Each minute shall be rich in some great action.
--Rowe.The gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold.
--Milton. Yielding large returns; productive or fertile; fruitful; as, rich soil or land; a rich mine.
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Composed of valuable or costly materials or ingredients; procured at great outlay; highly valued; precious; sumptuous; costly; as, a rich dress; rich silk or fur; rich presents.
Like to rich and various gems.
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Abounding in agreeable or nutritive qualities; -- especially applied to articles of food or drink which are high-seasoned or abound in oleaginous ingredients, or are sweet, luscious, and high-flavored; as, a rich dish; rich cream or soup; rich pastry; rich wine or fruit.
Sauces and rich spices are fetched from India.
--Baker. Not faint or delicate; vivid; as, a rich color.
Full of sweet and harmonius sounds; as, a rich voice; rich music.
Abounding in beauty; gorgeous; as, a rich landscape; rich scenery.
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Abounding in humor; exciting amusement; entertaining; as, the scene was a rich one; a rich incident or character. [Colloq.]
--Thackeray.Note: Rich is sometimes used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, rich-fleeced, rich-jeweled, rich-laden, rich-stained.
Syn: Wealthy; affluent; opulent; ample; copious; abundant; plentiful; fruitful; costly; sumptuous; precious; generous; luscious.
Wiktionary
a. (en-comparative of: rich).
Wikipedia
Richer, or Richers is a surname, and may refer to:
- Bob Richer
- Claude Lavoie Richer
- Edmond Richer, French theologian
- Herbert Richers
- Robert Richers
- Julian Richer
- Robert Richer
- Stéphane Richer (ice hockey defenceman)
- Stéphane Richer (ice hockey forward)
- Jean Richer
It may also refer to:
- Richerus, monk of St. Remi at Reims
- "Richers", a pejorative for rich people (who all happen to be black) in the South Park episode " Here Comes the Neighborhood"
Usage examples of "richer".
If we introduced lucern, Italian rye-grass, corn-fodder, and mangel-wurzel into the rotation, we should need still richer land to produce a maximum growth of these crops.
The untilled and unmanured grass lands of Herkimer County, in this State, are no richer to-day than they were 50 years ago.
In other words, the food of the horse is usually richer in the valuable elements of plant-food than the ordinary food of the cow.
Feed the stock better, make richer manure, and then it will pay to bestow a little labor in taking care of it.
But if the manure is poor, consisting largely of straw, it will be very desirable to make it richer by mixing with it bone-dust, blood, hen-droppings, woollen rags, chamber-lye, and animal matter of any kind that you can find.
If our grain-growing farmers can keep up the fertility of their land, as they undoubtedly can, the dairymen ought to be making theirs richer and more productive every year.
It is not phosphates that the dairyman needs so much as richer manure.
If they eat as much hay or grass as their stomachs are capable of holding, we must endeavor to give them richer hay or grass.
Our climate is better than our farming, the sun richer than our neglected soil.
England may be able to produce more grass per acre in a year than we can, but we ought to produce richer grass, and, consequently, more cheese to a cow.
We have a shorter season but a brighter sun, and if we do not have richer grass it is due to the want of draining, clean culture, and manuring.
The accumulated fertility in the land could then be made available by good tillage, and from that day to this, his land has been growing richer and richer.
It is richer land to-day than when first plowed, while there is one field that for seventy years has had no manure applied to it, except plaster.
Whether the clover allowed to grow for seed, was on the richer or poorer half of the field, we are not informed.
But that may be because the soil happened to be richer on this part of the field.