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  • Riot \Ri"ot\, v. t. To spend or pass in Riot. [1913 Webster]
    [He] had rioted his life out. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
  • Riot \Ri"ot\, n. [OF. riote, of uncertain origin; cf. OD. revot, ravot.] 1. Wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar; tumult. [1913 Webster]
    His headstrong Riot hath no curb. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
    2. Excessive and exxpensive feasting; wild and loose festivity; revelry. [1913 Webster]
    Venus loveth Riot and dispense. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
    The lamb thy Riot dooms to bleed to-day. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
    3. (Law) The tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by an unlawful assembly of three or more persons in the execution of some private object. [1913 Webster]
    To run Riot, to act wantonly or without restraint. [1913 Webster]
  • Riot \Ri"ot\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Rioted; p. pr. & vb. n. Rioting.] [OF. rioter; cf. OD. ravotten.] 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. [1913 Webster]
    Now he exact of all, wastes in delight, Riots in pleasure, and neglects the law. --Daniel. [1913 Webster]
    No pulse that riots, and no blood that glows. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
    2. (Law) To disturb the peace; to raise an uproar or sedition. See Riot, n., 3. --Johnson. [1913 Webster]
  • Riot n 1: a public act of violence by an unruly mob [syn: Riot, public violence] 2: a state of disorder involving group violence [syn: rioting, Riot] 3: a joke that seems extremely funny [syn: belly laugh, sidesplitter, howler, thigh-slapper, scream, wow, Riot] 4: a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity [syn: orgy, debauch, debauchery, saturnalia, Riot, bacchanal, bacchanalia, drunken revelry] v 1: take part in a Riot; disturb the public peace by engaging in a Riot; "Students were rioting everywhere in 1968" 2: engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking; "They were out carousing last night" [syn: carouse, roister, Riot]
  • Riot, n. A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
  • Riot, crim. law. At common law a Riot is a tumultuous disturbance of the peace, by three persons or more assembling together of their own authority, with an intent, mutually to assist each other against any who shall oppose them, in the execution of some enterprise of a private nature, and afterwards actually executing the same in a violent and turbulent manner, to the terror of the people, whether the act intended were of itself lawful or unlawful. 2. In this case there must be proved, first, an unlawful assembling; for if a number of persons lawfully met together; as, for example, at a fire, in a theatre or a church, should suddenly quarrel and fight, the offence is an affray and not a Riot, because there was no unlawful assembling; but if three or more being so assembled, on a dispute occurring, they form into parties with promises of mutual assistance, which promises may be express, or implied from the circumstances, then the offence will no longer be an affray, but a Riot; the unlawful combination will amount to an assembling within the meaning of the law. In this manner any lawful assembly may be converted into a Riot. Any one who joins the rioters after they have actually commenced, is equally guilty as if he had joined them while assembling. 3. Secondly, proof must be made of actual violence and force on the part of the rioters, or of such circumstances as have an apparent tendency to force and violence, and calculated to strike terror into the public mind. The definition requires that the offenders should assemble of their own authority, in order to create a Riot; if, therefore, the parties act under the authority of the law, they may use any necessary force to enforce their mandate, without committing this offence. 4. Thirdly, evidence must be given that the defendants acted in the riot, and were participants in the disturbance. Vide 1 Russ. on Cr. 247 Vin. Ab. h.t.; Hawk. c. 65, s. 1, 8, 9; 3 Inst. 176; 4 Bl. Com. 146 Com. Dig. h.t.; Chit. Cr. Law, Index, h.t. Roscoe, Cr. Ev. h.t.
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