Definition of riot

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Riot (n.) Wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar; tumult.

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Riotry :: Riotry (n.) The act or practice of rioting; riot.
Posse Comitatus :: Posse comitatus () The power of the county, or the citizens who may be summoned by the sheriff to assist the authorities in suppressing a riot, or executing any legal precept which is forcibly opposed..
Comessation :: Comessation (n.) A reveling; a rioting.
Revel-rout :: Revel-rout (n.) A rabble; a riotous assembly; a mob.
Rioter :: Rioter (n.) One who riots; a reveler; a roisterer.
Scythe :: Scythe (n.) A scythe-shaped blade attached to ancient war chariots.
Phaethon :: Phaethon (n.) The son of Helios (Phoebus), that is, the son of light, or of the sun. He is fabled to have obtained permission to drive the chariot of the sun, in doing which his want of skill would have set the world on fire, had he not been struck with a thunderbolt by Jupiter, and hurled headlong into the river Po..
Patriotism :: Patriotism (n.) Love of country; devotion to the welfare of one's country; the virtues and actions of a patriot; the passion which inspires one to serve one's country.
Septembrist :: Septembrist (n.) An agent in the massacres in Paris, committed in patriotic frenzy, on the 22d of September, 1792..
Accessory :: Accessory (a.) Accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; additional; connected as an incident or subordinate to a principal; contributing or contributory; said of persons and things, and, when of persons, usually in a bad sense; as, he was accessory to the riot; accessory sounds in music..
Guise :: Guise (n.) Cover; cloak; as, under the guise of patriotism..
Shindy :: Shindy (n.) An uproar or disturbance; a spree; a row; a riot.
Copatriot :: Copatriot (n.) A joint patriot.
Unrioted :: Unrioted (a.) Free from rioting.
Dissipation :: Dissipation (n.) A dissolute course of life, in which health, money, etc., are squandered in pursuit of pleasure; profuseness in vicious indulgence, as late hours, riotous living, etc.; dissoluteness..
Coachman :: Coachman (n.) A tropical fish of the Atlantic ocean (Dutes auriga); -- called also charioteer. The name refers to a long, lashlike spine of the dorsal fin..
Judas-colored :: Judas-colored (a.) Red; -- from a tradition that Judas Iscariot had red hair and beard.
Roarer :: Roarer (n.) A riotous fellow; a roaring boy.
Revel :: Revel (v. i.) A feast with loose and noisy jollity; riotous festivity or merrymaking; a carousal.
Charioting :: Charioting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chario.
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