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▪ I. rile, n.|raɪl|
[var. of roil n.2]
A thick or muddy condition of water or other liquid.
1848Lowell Biglow P. Ser. i. Poems 1890 II. 124 'T 'll take more fish-skin than folks think to take the rile clean out on 't. 1859Beecher Life Thoughts Ser. ii. 7 The muddy bottom sends its rile through all the waters.
▪ II. rile
dial. variant of roil n.1 and v.1
▪ III. rile, v. Chiefly U.S. and colloq.|raɪl|
Also ryle.
[Later form of roil v.3]
1. trans. To make (a liquid) thick or turbid by stirring up the sediment; to muddy.
1838Holloway Prov. Dict., To rile or roile, to stir up liquor and make it thick by moving the sediment. 1838J. C. Neal Charcoal Sketches (Bartlett), No doubt existed in the minds of Mr. Dobb's fellow-boarders, that the well of his good spirits had been riled. 1896Strand Mag. XII. 348/2 At spring tides the water becomes too ‘riled-up’ to dive with any degree of success.
2. a. To excite, disturb, to vex, annoy, make angry. Also const. up.
1825J. Neal Bro. Jonathan I. 158 Bein' afeared he might ryle my blood. 1836Haliburton Clockm. Pref. (1862) 7 Fair play's a jewel, and I must say I feel ryled and kinder sore. 1850Smedley F. Fairleigh viii, I like to rile Cumberland sometimes because he's so soft and silky. 1857J. G. Holland Bay-Path iii. 32 It only raises the devil in me, and riles me all up. 1863W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting vii. 273 It riles me to hear them everlastingly talking of getting home. 1872W. A. Hickman Brigham's Destroying Angel iii. 72 Some of the boys began to get terribly riled up. 1889R. Buchanan Heir of Linne xxi, Don't get riled. 1929W. Faulkner Sound & Fury 67 ‘Getting Quentin all riled up.’ Dilsey said. ‘Why can't you keep him away from her.’ 1966T. Pynchon Crying of Lot 49 iii. 68 Calculating this ought to rile up public opinion some.
b. absol. with up. To get angry.
1844Dickens Mart. Chuz. xvi, They rile up, sometimes; but in general we have a hold upon our citizens. 1863Brierley Waverlow 156 The little fellow riled up at this.
Hence riled ppl. a. (also riled-up.) (Cf. roiled ppl. a.)
1839J. Very Poems 163, I thirst for one cool cup of water clear, But drink the riled stream of lying breath. 1856S. Smith in National Intelligencer 26 Jan. 3/1, I found the President..looking kind of riled and very resolute. 1978G. A. Sheehan Running & Being x. 137 If we go to bed mad we are likely to wake up with a riled-up stomach. |