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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 3

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. Wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar; tumult. His headstrong riot hath no curb. Shak.

2. Excessive and exxpensive feasting; wild and loose festivity; revelry. Venus loveth riot and dispense. Chaucer. The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day. Pope.

3. The tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by an unlawful assembly of three or more persons in the execution of some private object. To run riot, to act wantonly or without restraint.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 3

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To engage in riot; to act in an unrestrained or wanton manner; to indulge in excess of luxury, feasting, or the like; to revel; to run riot; to go to excess. Now he exact of all, wastes in delight, Riots in pleasure, and neglects the law. Daniel. No pulse that riots, and no blood that glows. Pope.

2. To disturb the peace; to raise an uproar or sedition. See Riot, n., 3. Johnson.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 3

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To spend or pass in riot. [He] had rioted his life out. Tennyson.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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