Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Rap \Rap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rapped}, usually written {Rapt};
   p. pr. & vb. n. {Rapping}.] [OE. rapen; akin to LG. & D.
   rapen to snatch, G. raffen, Sw. rappa; cf. Dan. rappe sig to
   make haste, and Icel. hrapa to fall, to rush, hurry. The word
   has been confused with L. rapere to seize. Cf. {Rape}
   robbery, {Rapture}, {Raff}, v., {Ramp}, v.]
   1. To snatch away; to seize and hurry off.

            And through the Greeks and Ilians they rapt The
            whirring chariot.                     --Chapman.

            From Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund
            Bacon, to Redgrove.                   --Sir H.
                                                  Wotton.

   2. To hasten. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman.

   3. To seize and bear away, as the mind or thoughts; to
      transport out of one's self; to affect with ecstasy or
      rapture; as, rapt into admiration.

            I'm rapt with joy to see my Marcia's tears.
                                                  --Addison.

            Rapt into future times, the bard begun. --Pope.

   4. To exchange; to truck. [Obs. & Law]

   {To rap and ren}, {To rap and rend}. [Perhaps fr. Icel. hrapa
      to hurry and r[ae]na plunder, fr. r[=a]n plunder, E. ran.]
      To seize and plunder; to snatch by violence. --Dryden.
      ``[Ye] waste all that ye may rape and renne.'' --Chaucer.

            All they could rap and rend pilfer.   --Hudibras.

   {To rap out}, to utter with sudden violence, as an oath.

            A judge who rapped out a great oath.  --Addison.

Rend \Rend\ (r[e^]nd), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rent} (r?nt); p. pr.
   & vb. n. {Rending}.] [AS. rendan, hrendan; cf. OFries. renda,
   randa, Fries. renne to cut, rend, Icel. hrinda to push,
   thrust, AS. hrindan; or cf. Icel. r?na to rob, plunder, Ir.
   rannaim to divide, share, part, W. rhanu, Armor. ranna.]
   1. To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to
      tear asunder; to split; to burst; as, powder rends a rock
      in blasting; lightning rends an oak.

            The dreadful thunder Doth rend the region. --Shak.

   2. To part or tear off forcibly; to take away by force.

            An empire from its old foundations rent. --Dryden.

            I will surely rend the kingdom from thee. --1 Kings
                                                  xi. 11.

   {To rap and rend}. See under {Rap}, v. t., to snatch.

   Syn: To tear; burst; break; rupture; lacerate; fracture;
        crack; split.