1 a magistrate; a chief or governer 19-20.
2 a gentleman, specifically a Gypsy gentleman: They thus left me, with the strong impression on their minds, that I was a nawken, like themselves, but a riah –a gentleman gipsy. [The above example is Simson himself ‘talking’.] 19. Compare rajah etymology: Romany rai ‘a gentleman’; also forms riah, rai collected by Simson (1865) and attested by 5 of his informants; also attested by Galloway Tinkler-Gypsies; also collected by Joseph F G S Lucas from Kirk Yetholm Gypsies; form ry attested in Shelta note:
Smart & Crofton (1875) collected the form Rei n., ‘a gentleman’ from English Gypsies.