Hypertext Webster Gateway: "ris"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Ris \Ris\, n. [AS. hr[=i]s; akin to D. rils, G. reis, OHG.
hr[=i]s.]
A bough or branch; a twig. [Obs.]
As white as is the blossom upon the ris. --Chaucer.
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