The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Section R (part 2 of 3)

The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Section R (part 2 of 3)

7. (Mus.) (a) The compass of a voice or instrument; a specified portion of the compass of a voice, or a series of vocal tones of a given compass; as, the upper, middle, or lower register; the soprano register; the tenor register.

In respect to the vocal tones, the thick register properly extends below from the F on the lower space of the treble staff. The thin register extends an octave above this. The small register is above the thin. The voice in the thick register is called the chest voice; in the thin, the head voice. Falsetto is a kind off voice, of a thin, shrull quality, made by using the mechanism of the upper thin register for tones below the proper limit on the scale. E. Behnke.

(b) A stop or set of pipes in an organ.

Parish register, A book in which are recorded the births, baptisms, marriages, deaths, and burials in a parish.

Syn. -- List; catalogue; roll; record; archives; chronicle; annals. See List.

Reg"is*ter (rj"s*tr), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Registered (- trd); p. pr. & vb. n. Registering.] [Cf. F. regisrer, exregistrer, LL. registrare. See Register, n.] 1. To enter in a register; to record formally and distinctly, as for future use or service.

2. To enroll; to enter in a list.

Such follow him as shall be registered.

Milton.

Registered letter, a letter, the address of which is, on payment of a special fee, registered in the post office and the transmission and delivery of which are attended to with particular care.

Reg"is*ter, v. i. 1. To enroll one's name in a register.

2. (Print.) To correspond in relative position; as, two pages, columns, etc. , register when the corresponding parts fall in the same line, or when line falls exactly upon line in reverse pages, or (as in chromatic printing) where the various colors of the design are printed consecutively, and perfect adjustment of parts is necessary.

Reg"is*ter*ing, a. Recording; -- applied to instruments; having an apparatus which registers; as, a registering thermometer. See Recording.

Reg"is*ter*ship, n. The office of a register.

Reg"is*trant (-trant), n. [L. registrans, p. pr.] One who registers; esp., one who , by virtue of securing an official registration, obtains a certain right or title of possession, as to a trade-mark.

Reg"is*trar (-tr?r), n. [LL. registrarius, or F. régistraire. See Register.] One who registers; a recorder; a keeper of records; as, a registrar of births, deaths, and marriages. See Register, n., 3.

Reg"is*trar*ship, n. The office of a registrar.

Reg"is*tra*ry (- tr?*r?), n. A registrar. [Obs.]

Reg"is*trate (-tr?t), v. t. To register. [R.]

Reg`is*tra"tion (-tr?"sh?n), n. [LL. registratio, or F. régistration. See Register, v.] 1. The act of registering; registry; enrollment.

2. (Mus.) The art of selecting and combining the stops or registers of an organ.

Reg"is*try (r?j"?s*tr?), n. 1. The act of recording or writing in a register; enrollment; registration.

2. The place where a register is kept.

3. A record; an account; a register. Sir W. Temple.

||Re"gi*us (r?l"?*?s), a. [L. regius, from rex, regis, a king.] Of or ||pertaining to a king; royal.

Regius professor, an incumbent of a professorship founded by royal bounty, as in an English university.

Re*give" (r?*g?v"), v. t. To give again; to give back.

Re"gle (r?g"'l), v. t. [See Reglement.] To rule; to govern. [Obs.] "To regle their lives." Fuller.

Re"gle*ment (r?g"'l*ment), n. [F. réglement, fr. régler, L. regulare. See Regulate.] Regulation. [Obs.]

The reformation and reglement of usury.

Bacon.

Reg`le*men"ta*ry (-l?*m?n"t?*r?), a. [F. réglementaire, fr. réglement.] Regulative. [R.]

Reg"let (r?g"l?t), n. [F. réglet, dim. of règle a rule, L. regula. See Rule.] 1. (Arch.) A flat, narrow molding, used chiefly to separate the parts or members of compartments or panels from one another, or doubled, turned, and interlaced so as to form knots, frets, or other ornaments. See Illust. (12) of Column.

2. (Print.) A strip of wood or metal of the height of a quadrat, used for regulating the space between pages in a chase, and also for spacing out title-pages and other open matter. It is graded to different sizes, and designated by the name of the type that it matches; as, nonpareil reglet, pica reglet, and the like.

||Reg"ma (r?g"m?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;&?;&?;&?;, -&?;&?;&?;, fracture, ||fr. &?;&?;&?;&?;&?;&?; to break.] (Bot.) A kind of dry fruit, ||consisting of three or more cells, each which at length breaks open ||at the inner angle.

Reg"ma*carp (-k?rp), n. [Regma + Gr. &?;&?;&?; fruit.] (Bot.) Any dry dehiscent fruit.

Reg"nal (r?g"nal), a. [L. regnum reign.] Of or pertaining to the reign of a monarch; as, regnal years.

Reg"nan*cy (-nan*s?), n. The condition or quality of being regnant; sovereignty; rule. Coleridge.

Reg"nant (-nant), a. [L. regnans, -antis, p. pr. of regnare to reign: cf. F régnant. See Reign.] 1. Exercising regal authority; reigning; as, a queen regnant.

2. Having the chief power; ruling; predominant; prevalent. "A traitor to the vices regnant." Swift.

Reg"na*tive (-n?*t?v), a. Ruling; governing. [Obs.]

Regne (r?n), n. & v. See Reign. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Re*gorge" (r?*g?rj"), v. t. [F. regorder; re- + gorger to gorge. Cf. Regurgitate.] 1. To vomit up; to eject from the stomach; to throw back. Hayward.

2. To swallow again; to swallow back.

Tides at highest mark regorge the flood.

Dryden.

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Re*grade" (r?*gr?d"), v. i. [L. re- re- + gradi to go. Cf. Regrede. ] To retire; to go back. [Obs.] W. Hales.

Re*graft" (r?*gr?ft"), v. t. To graft again.

Re*grant" (r?*gr?nt"), v. t. To grant back; to grant again or anew. Ayliffe.

Re*grant", n. 1. The act of granting back to a former proprietor.

2. A renewed of a grant; as, the regrant of a monopoly.

Re*grate" (r?*gr?t"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Regrated; p. pr. & vb. n. Regrating.] [F. regratter, literally, to scrape again. See Re-, and Grate, v. t.] 1. (Masonry) To remove the outer surface of, as of an old hewn stone, so as to give it a fresh appearance.

2. To offend; to shock. [Obs.] Derham.

Re*grate", v. t. [F. regratter to regrate provisions; of uncertain origin.] (Eng.Law) To buy in large quantities, as corn, provisions, etc., at a market or fair, with the intention of selling the same again, in or near the same place, at a higher price, -- a practice which was formerly treated as a public offense.

Re*grat"er (-?r), n. [F. regrattier.] One who regrates.

Re*grat"er*y, n. The act or practice of regrating.

Re*gra"ti*a*to*ry (r?*gr?"sh?*?*t?*r?), n. A returning or giving of thanks. [Obs.] Skelton.

Re*grat"or (r?*gr?t"?r), n. One guilty of regrating.

Re*grede" (r?*gr?d"), v. i. [L. regredi to go back. Cf. Regrade, Regress.] To go back; to retrograde, as the apsis of a planet's orbit. [R.] Todhunter.

Re*gre"di*ence (r?*gr?"d?-ens), n. A going back; a retrogression; a return. [R.] Herrick.

Re*greet" (r?*gr?t"), v. t. To greet again; to resalute; to return a salutation to; to greet. Shak.

Re*greet", n. A return or exchange of salutation.

Re"gress (r?"gr?s), n. [L. regressus, fr. regredi, regressus. See Regrede.] 1. The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression. "The progress or regress of man". F. Harrison.

2. The power or liberty of passing back. Shak.

Re*gress" (r?*gr?s"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Regressed (-gr?st"); p. pr. & vb. n. Regressing.] To go back; to return to a former place or state. Sir T. Browne.

Re*gres"sion (r?*gr?sh"?n), n. [L. regressio: cf. F. régression.] The act of passing back or returning; retrogression; retrogradation. Sir T. Browne.

Edge of regression (of a surface) (Geom.), the line along which a surface turns back upon itself; -- called also a cuspidal edge. -- Regression point (Geom.), a cusp.

Re*gress"ive (r?*gr?s"?v), a. [Cf. F. régressif.]

1. Passing back; returning.

2. Characterized by retrogression; retrogressive.

Regressive metamorphism. (a) (Biol.) See Retrogression. (b) (Physiol.) See Katabolism.

Re*gress"ive*ly, adv. In a regressive manner.

Re*gret" (r?*gr?t"), n. [F., fr. regretter. See Regret, v.] 1. Pain of mind on account of something done or experienced in the past, with a wish that it had been different; a looking back with dissatisfaction or with longing; grief; sorrow; especially, a mourning on account of the loss of some joy, advantage, or satisfaction. "A passionate regret at sin." Dr. H. More.

What man does not remember with regret the first time he read Robinson Crusoe?

Macaulay.

Never any prince expressed a more lively regret for the loss of a servant.

Clarendon.

From its peaceful bosom [the grave] spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections.

W. Irving.

2. Dislike; aversion. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

Syn. -- Grief; concern; sorrow; lamentation; repentance; penitence; self-condemnation. -- Regret, Remorse, Compunction, Contrition, Repentance. Regret does not carry with it the energy of remorse, the sting of compunction, the sacredness of contrition, or the practical character of repentance. We even apply the term regret to circumstance over which we have had no control, as the absence of friends or their loss. When connected with ourselves, it relates rather to unwise acts than to wrong or sinful ones. C. J. Smith.

Re*gret", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Regretted (-td); p. pr. & vb. n. Regretting.] [F. regretter, OF. regreter; L. pref. re- re- + a word of Teutonic origin; cf. Goth. grtan to weep, Icel. grta. See Greet to lament.] To experience regret on account of; to lose or miss with a sense of regret; to feel sorrow or dissatisfaction on account of (the happening or the loss of something); as, to regret an error; to regret lost opportunities or friends.

Calmly he looked on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear.

Pope.

In a few hours they [the Israelites] began to regret their slavery, and to murmur against their leader.

Macaulay.

Recruits who regretted the plow from which they had been violently taken.

Macaulay.

Re*gret"ful (-f?l), a. Full of regret; indulging in regrets; repining. -- Re*gret"ful*ly, adv.

Re*grow" (r?*gr?"), v. i. & t. To grow again.

The snail had power to regrow them all [horns, tongue, etc.]

A. B. Buckley.

Re*growth" (r?*gr?th"), n. The act of regrowing; a second or new growth. Darwin.

The regrowth of limbs which had been cut off.

A. B. Buckley.

Re*guard"ant (r?*g?rd"ant), a. (Her.) Same as Regardant.

Re*guer"don (r?*g?r"d?n), v. t. [Pref. re- re- + guerdon: cf. OF. reguerdonner.] To reward. [Obs.] Shak.

Reg"u*la*ble (r?g"?*l?*b'l), a. Capable of being regulated. [R.]

Reg"u*lar (-l?r), a. [L. regularis, fr. regula a rule, fr. regere to guide, to rule: cf. F. régulier. See Rule.]

1. Conformed to a rule; agreeable to an established rule, law, principle, or type, or to established customary forms; normal; symmetrical; as, a regular verse in poetry; a regular piece of music; a regular verb; regular practice of law or medicine; a regular building.

2. Governed by rule or rules; steady or uniform in course, practice, or occurence; not subject to unexplained or irrational variation; returning at stated intervals; steadily pursued; orderlly; methodical; as, the regular succession of day and night; regular habits.

3. Constituted, selected, or conducted in conformity with established usages, rules, or discipline; duly authorized; permanently organized; as, a regular meeting; a regular physican; a regular nomination; regular troops.

4. Belonging to a monastic order or community; as, regular clergy, in distinction dfrom the secular clergy.

5. Thorough; complete; unmitigated; as, a regular humbug. [Colloq.]

6. (Bot. & Zoöl.) Having all the parts of the same kind alike in size and shape; as, a regular flower; a regular sea urchin.

7. (Crystallog.) Same as Isometric.

Regular polygon (Geom.), a plane polygon which is both equilateral and equiangular. -- Regular polyhedron (Geom.), a polyhedron whose faces are equal regular polygons. There are five regular polyhedrons, -- the tetrahedron, the hexahedron, or cube, the octahedron, the dodecahedron, and the icosahedron. -- Regular sales (Stock Exchange), sales of stock deliverable on the day after the transaction. -- Regular troops, troops of a standing or permanent army; -- opposed to militia.

Syn. -- Normal; orderly; methodical. See Normal.

Reg"u*lar (rg"*lr), n. [LL. regularis: cf. F. régulier. See Regular, a.] 1. (R. C. Ch.) A member of any religious order or community who has taken the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, and who has been solemnly recognized by the church. Bp. Fitzpatrick.

2. (Mil.) A soldier belonging to a permanent or standing army; -- chiefly used in the plural.

||Reg`u*la"ri*a (rg`*l"r*), n. pl. [NL.] (Zoöl.) A division of Echini ||which includes the circular, or regular, sea urchins.

Reg`u*lar"i*ty (-l?r"?*t?), n. [Cf. F. régularité.] The condition or quality of being regular; as, regularity of outline; the regularity of motion.

Reg"u*lar*ize (rg"*lr*z), v. t. To cause to become regular; to regulate. [R.]

Reg"u*lar*ly, adv. In a regular manner; in uniform order; methodically; in due order or time.

Reg"u*lar*ness, n. Regularity. Boyle.

Reg"u*late (-lt), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Regulated (- l`td); p. pr. & vb. n. Regulating.] [L. regulatus, p. p. of regulare, fr. regula. See Regular.] 1. To adjust by rule, method, or established mode; to direct by rule or restriction; to subject to governing principles or laws.

The laws which regulate the successions of the seasons.

Macaulay.

The herdsmen near the frontier adjudicated their own disputes, and regulated their own police.

Bancroft.

2. To put in good order; as, to regulate the disordered state of a nation or its finances.

3. To adjust, or maintain, with respect to a desired rate, degree, or condition; as, to regulate the temperature of a room, the pressure of steam, the speed of a machine, etc.

To regulate a watch or clock, to adjust its rate of running so that it will keep approximately standard time.

Syn. -- To adjust; dispose; methodize; arrange; direct; order; rule; govern.

Reg`u*la"tion (-l?"sh?n), n. 1. The act of regulating, or the state of being regulated.

The temper and regulation of our own minds.

Macaulay.

2. A rule or order prescribed for management or government; prescription; a regulating principle; a governing direction; precept; law; as, the regulations of a society or a school.

Regulation sword, cap, uniform, etc. (Mil.), a sword, cap, uniform, etc., of the kind or quality prescribed by the official regulations.

Syn. -- Law; rule; method; principle; order; precept. See Law.

Reg"u*la*tive (r?g"?*l?*t?v), a. 1. Tending to regulate; regulating. Whewell.

2. (Metaph.) Necessarily assumed by the mind as fundamental to all other knowledge; furnishing fundamental principles; as, the regulative principles, or principles a priori; the regulative faculty. Sir W. Hamilton.

These terms are borrowed from Kant, and suggest the thought, allowed by Kant, that possibly these principles are only true for the human mind, the operations and belief of which they regulate.

Reg"u*la`tor (-l?`t?r), n. 1. One who, or that which, regulates.

2. (Mach.) A contrivance for regulating and controlling motion, as: (a) The lever or index in a watch, which controls the effective length of the hairspring, and thus regulates the vibrations of the balance. (b) The governor of a steam engine. (c) A valve for controlling the admission of steam to the steam chest, in a locomotive.

3. A clock, or other timepiece, used as a standard of correct time. See Astronomical clock (a), under Clock.

4. A member of a volunteer committee which, in default of the lawful authority, undertakes to preserve order and prevent crimes; also, sometimes, one of a band organized for the comission of violent crimes. [U.S.]

A few stood neutral, or declared in favor of the Regulators.

Bancroft.

Reg"u*line (r?g"?*l?n), a. [Cf. F. régulin. See Regulus.] (Chem. & Metal.) Of or pertaining to regulus.

Reg"u*lize (-l?z), v. t. (Old Chem.) To reduce to regulus; to separate, as a metal from extraneous matter; as, to regulize antimony. [Archaic]

Reg"u*lus (-l?s), n.; pl. E. Reguluses (-&?;z), L. Reguli (- l&?;). [L., a petty king, prince, dim. of rex, regis, a king: cf. F. régule. See Regal.] 1. A petty king; a ruler of little power or consequence.

2. (Chem. & Metal.) The button, globule, or mass of metal, in a more or less impure state, which forms in the bottom of the crucible in smelting and reduction of ores.

The name was introduced by the alchemists, and applied by them in the first instance to antimony. It signifies little king; and from the facility with which antimony alloyed with gold, these empirical philosophers had great hopes that this metal, antimony, would lead them to the discovery of the philosopher's stone. Ure.

3. (Astron.) A star of the first magnitude in the constellation Leo; -- called also the Lion's Heart.

Re*gur"gi*tate (r?*g?r"j?*t?t), v. t. [LL. regurgitare, regurgitatum; L. pref. re- re- + gurges, -itis, a gulf. Cf. Regorge.] To throw or pour back, as from a deep or hollow place; to pour or throw back in great quantity.

Re*gur"gi*tate, v. i. To be thrown or poured back; to rush or surge back.

The food may regurgitatem the stomach into the esophagus and mouth.

Quain.

Re*gur`gi*ta"tion (-t?"sh?n), n. [Cf. F. régurgitation.] 1. The act of flowing or pouring back by the orifice of entrance; specifically (Med.), the reversal of the natural direction in which the current or contents flow through a tube or cavity of the body. Quain.

2. The act of swallowing again; reabsorption.

Re`ha*bil"i*tate (r?`h?*b?l"?*t?t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rehabilitated (- t?`t?d); p. pr. & vb. n. Rehabilitating.] [Pref. re- re- + habilitate: cf. LL. rehabilitare, F. réhabiliter.] To invest or clothe again with some right, authority, or dignity; to restore to a former capacity; to reinstate; to qualify again; to restore, as a delinquent, to a former right, rank, or privilege lost or forfeited; - - a term of civil and canon law.

Restoring and rehabilitating the party.

Burke.

Re`ha*bil`i*ta"tion (-t?"sh?n), n. [Cf. LL. rehabilitatio, F. Réhabilitation.] The act of rehabilitating, or the state of being rehabilitated. Bouvier. Walsh.

Re*hash" (r?*h?sh"), v. t. To hash over again; to prepare or use again; as, to rehash old arguments.

Re*hash", n. Something hashed over, or made up from old materials.

Re*hear" (r?*h?r"), v. t. To hear again; to try a second time; as, to rehear a cause in Chancery.

Re*hears"al (r?*h?rs"a), n. The act of rehearsing; recital; narration; repetition; specifically, a private recital, performance, or season of practice, in preparation for a public exhibition or exercise. Chaucer.

In rehearsal of our Lord's Prayer.

Hooker.

Here's marvelous convenient place for our rehearsal.

Shak.

Dress rehearsal (Theater), a private preparatory performance of a drama, opera, etc., in costume.

Re*hearse" (r?*h?rs"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rehearsed (-h?rst"); p. pr. & vb. n. Rehearsing.] [OE. rehercen, rehersen, OF. reherser, rehercier, to harrow over again; pref. re- re- + hercier to harrow, fr. herce a harrow, F. herse. See Hearse.] 1. To repeat, as what has been already said; to tell over again; to recite. Chaucer.

When the words were heard which David spake, they rehearsed them before Saul.

1 Sam. xvii. 31.

2. To narrate; to relate; to tell.

Rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord.

Judg. . v. 11.

3. To recite or repeat in private for experiment and improvement, before a public representation; as, to rehearse a tragedy.

4. To cause to rehearse; to instruct by rehearsal. [R.]

He has been rehearsed by Madame Defarge as to his having seen her.

Dickens.

Syn. -- To recite; recapitulate; recount; detail; describe; tell; relate; narrate.

Re*hearse", v. i. To recite or repeat something for practice. "There will we rehearse." Shak.

Re*hears"er (-?r), n. One who rehearses.

Re*heat" (r?*h?t"), v. t. 1. To heat again.

2. To revive; to cheer; to cherish. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

Re`hi*bi"tion (r?`h?*b?sh"?n), n. [Pref. re- + L. habere to have.] (Law) The returning of a thing purchased to the seller, on the ground of defect or frand.

Re*hib"i*to*ry (r?*h?b"?*t?*r?), a. (Law) Of or relating to rehibition; as, a rehibitory action.

Re*hire" (r?*h?r"), v. t. To hire again.

Re`hy*poth"e*cate (r?`h?*p?th"?*k?t), v. t. (Law) To hypothecate again. -- Re`hy*poth`e*ca"tion, n.

Rei (r?), n.;pl. Reis (r&?;"&?;s or r&?;z). [Pg. real, pl. reis. See Real a coin.] A portuguese money of account, in value about one tenth of a cent. [Spelt also ree.]

||Reichs"rath` (r?ks"r?t), n. [G] The parliament of Austria (exclusive ||of Hungary, which has its own diet, or parliament). It consists of an ||Upper and a Lower House, or a House of Lords and a House of ||Representatives.

||Reichs"stand` (r?ks"st?t`), n. [G.] A free city of the former German ||empire.

||Reichs"tag` (r?ks"t?g`), n. [G.] The Diet, or House of ||Representatives, of the German empire, which is composed of members ||elected for a term of three years by the direct vote of the people. ||See Bundesrath.

Reif (r?f), n. [AS. re&?;f.] Robbery; spoil. [Obs.]

Rei"gle (r?"g'l), n. [F. règle a rule, fr. L. regula. See Rule.] A hollow cut or channel for quiding anything; as, the reigle of a side post for a flood gate. Carew.

Rei"gle, v. t. To regulate; to govern. [Obs.]

Rei"gle*ment (-ment), n. [See Reglement.] Rule; regulation. [Obs.] Bacon. Jer. Taylor.

Reign (rn), n. [OE. regne, OF. reigne, regne, F. règne, fr. L. regnum, fr. rex, regis, a king, fr. regere to guide, rule. See Regal, Regimen.] 1. Royal authority; supreme power; sovereignty; rule; dominion.

He who like a father held his reign.

Pope.

Saturn's sons received the threefold reign Of heaven, of ocean, and deep hell beneath.

Prior.

2. The territory or sphere which is reigned over; kingdom; empire; realm; dominion. [Obs.] Spenser.

[God] him bereft the regne that he had.

Chaucer.

3. The time during which a king, queen, or emperor possesses the supreme authority; as, it happened in the reign of Elizabeth.

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Reign (r?n), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Reigned (r?nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Reigning.] [OE. regnen, reinen, OF. regner, F. régner, fr. L. regnare, fr. regnum. See Reign, n.] 1. To possess or exercise sovereign power or authority; to exercise government, as a king or emperor;; to hold supreme power; to rule. Chaucer.

We will not have this man to reign over us.

Luke xix. 14.

Shall Banquo's issue ever Reign in this kingdom?

Shak.

2. Hence, to be predominant; to prevail. "Pestilent diseases which commonly reign in summer." Bacon.

3. To have superior or uncontrolled dominion; to rule.

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body.

Rom. vi. 12.

Syn. -- To rule; govern; direct; control; prevail.

Reign"er (r?n"?r), n. One who reigns. [R.]

Re`il*lume" (r?`?l*l?m"), v. t. To light again; to cause to shine anew; to relume; to reillumine. "Thou must reillume its spark." J. R. Drake.

Re`il*lu"mi*nate (-l?"m?*n?t), v. t. To enlighten again; to reillumine.

Re`il*lu`mi*na"tion (-n?"sh?n), n. The act or process of enlightening again.

Re`il*lu"mine (-l?"m?n), v. t. To illumine again or anew; to reillume.

Reim (r?m), n. [D. riem, akin to G riemen; CF. Gr. &?;&?;&?;&?; a towing line.] A strip of oxhide, deprived of hair, and rendered pliable, -- used for twisting into ropes, etc. [South Africa] Simmonds.

Re`im*bark" (r?`?m*b?rk"), v. t. & i. See Reëmbark.

Re`im*bod"y (-b?d"?), v. t. & i. [See Reëmbody.] To imbody again. Boyle.

Re`im*burs"a*ble (r?`?m*b?rs"?*b'l), a. [CF. F. remboursable.] Capable of being repaid; repayable.

A loan has been made of two millions of dollars, reimbursable in ten years.

A. Hamilton.

Re`im*burse" (-b?rs"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reimbursed (-b?rst"); p. pr. & vb. n. Reimbursing.] [Pref. re- + imburse: cf. F. rembourser.] 1. To replace in a treasury or purse, as an equivalent for what has been taken, lost, or expended; to refund; to pay back; to restore; as, to reimburse the expenses of a war.

2. To make restoration or payment of an equivalent to (a person); to pay back to; to indemnify; -- often reflexive; as, to reimburse one's self by successful speculation. Paley.

Re`im*burse"ment (-b?rs"ment), n. [Cf. F. rembursement.] The act reimbursing. A. Hamilton.

Re`im*burs"er (-b?rs"?r), n. One who reimburses.

Re`im*plant" (-pl?nt"), v. t. To implant again.

Re`im*port" (-p?rt"), v. t. [Pref. re- + import: cf. F. remporter.] To import again; to import what has been exported; to bring back. Young.

Re*im`por*ta"tion (r?*?m`p?r*t?"sh?n), n. The act of reimporting; also, that which is reimported.

Re*im`por*tune" (-p?r*t?n"), v. t. To importune again.

Re`im*pose" (r?`?m*p?z), v. t. To impose anew.

Re`im*preg"nate (-pr?g"n?t), v. t. To impregnate again or anew. Sir T. Browne.

Re`im*press" (-pr?s"), v. t. To impress anew.

Re`im*pres"sion (-pr?sh"?n), n. A second or repeated impression; a reprint.

Re`im*print" (-pr?nt"), v. t. To imprint again.

Re`im*pris"on (-pr?z'n), v. t. To imprison again.

Re`im*pris"on*ment (-ment), n. The act of reimprisoning, or the state of being reimprisoned.

Rein (r?n), n. [F. rêne, fr. (assumed) LL. retina, fr. L. retinere to hold back. See Retain.] 1. The strap of a bridle, fastened to the curb or snaffle on each side, by which the rider or driver governs the horse.

This knight laid hold upon his reyne.

Chaucer.

2. Hence, an instrument or means of curbing, restraining, or governing; government; restraint. "Let their eyes rove without rein." Milton.

To give rein, To give the rein to, to give license to; to leave withouut restrain. -- To take the reins, to take the guidance or government; to assume control.

Rein, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reined (r?nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Reining.] 1. To govern or direct with the reins; as, to rein a horse one way or another.

He mounts and reins his horse.

Chapman.

2. To restrain; to control; to check.

Being once chafed, he can not Be reined again to temperance.

Shak.

To rein in or rein up, to check the speed of, or cause to stop, by drawing the reins.

Rein, v. i. To be guided by reins. [R.] Shak.

Re`in*au"gu*rate, v. t. To inaugurate anew.

Re"in*cit" (-s?t"), v. t. To incite again.

Re`in*cor"po*rate, v. t. To incorporate again.

Re`in*crease" (-kr?s"), v. t. To increase again.

Re`in*cur" (-k?r"), v. t. To incur again.

Rein"deer` (r?n"d?r), n. [Icel. hreinn reindeer + E. deer. Icel. hreinn is of Lapp or Finnish origin; cf. Lappish reino pasturage.] [Formerly written also raindeer, and ranedeer.] (Zool.) Any ruminant of the genus Rangifer, of the Deer family, found in the colder parts of both the Eastern and Western hemispheres, and having long irregularly branched antlers, with the brow tines palmate.

The common European species (R. tarandus) is domesticated in Lapland. The woodland reindeer or caribou (R. caribou) is found in Canada and Maine (see Caribou.) The Barren Ground reindeer or caribou (R. Grœnlandicus), of smaller size, is found on the shores of the Arctic Ocean, in both hemispheries.

Reindeer moss (Bot.), a gray branching lichen (Cladonia rangiferina) which forms extensive patches on the ground in arctic and even in north temperature regions. It is the principal food of the Lapland reindeer in winter. -- Reindeer period (Geol.), a name sometimes given to a part of the Paleolithic era when the reindeer was common over Central Europe.

Re`in*duce" (r?`?n*d?s"), v. t. To induce again.

Rei*nette" (r?*n?t"), n. [F. See 1st Rennet.] (Bot.) A name given to many different kinds of apples, mostly of French origin.

Re`in*fect" (r?`?n*f?kt), v. t. [Pref. re- + infect: cf. F. réinfecter.] To infect again.

Re`in*fec"tious (-f?k"sh?s), a. Capable of reinfecting.

Re`in*force" (-f?rs"), v. t. See Reënforce, v. t.

Re`in*force", n. See Reënforce, n.

Re`in*force"ment (-ment), n. See Reënforcement.

Re`in*fund" (-f?nd"), v. i. [Pref. re- + L. infundere to pour in.] To flow in anew. [Obs.] Swift.

Re`in*gra"ti*ate (-gr?"sh?*?t), v. t. To ingratiate again or anew. Sir. T. Herbert.

Re`in*hab"it (-h?b"?t), v. t. To inhabit again. Mede.

Rein"less (r?n"l?s), a. Not having, or not governed by, reins; hence, not checked or restrained.

Reins (rnz), n. pl. [F. rein, pl. reins, fr. L. ren, pl. renes.] 1. The kidneys; also, the region of the kidneys; the loins.

2. The inward impulses; the affections and passions; -- so called because formerly supposed to have their seat in the part of the body where the kidneys are.

My reins rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.

Prov. xxiii. 16.

I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts.

Rev. ii. 23.

Reins of a vault (Arch.), the parts between the crown and the spring or abutment, including, and having especial reference to, the loading or filling behind the shell of the vault. The reins are to a vault nearly what the haunches are to an arch, and when a vault gives way by thrusting outward, it is because its reins are not sufficiently filled up.

Re`in*sert" (r?`?n*s?rt"), v. t. To insert again.

Re`in*ser"tion (-s?r"sh?n), n. The act of reinserting.

Re`in*spect" (-sp?kt"), v. t. To inspect again.

Re`in*spec"tion (-sp?k"sh?n), n. The act of reinspecting.

Re`in*spire" (-sp?r"), v. t. To inspire anew. Milton.

Re`in*spir"it (-sp`r"?t), v. t. To give fresh spirit to.

Re`in*stall" (-st?l"), v. t. [Pref. re- + install: cf. F. réinstaller.] To install again. Milton.

Re`in*stall"ment (-ment), n. A renewed installment.

Re`in*state" (-st?t"), v. t. To place again in possession, or in a former state; to restore to a state from which one had been removed; to instate again; as, to reinstate a king in the possession of the kingdom.

For the just we have said already thet some of them were reinstated in their pristine happiness and felicity.

Glanvill.

Re`in*state"ment (-ment), n. The act of reinstating; the state of being reinstated; re&?;stablishment.

Re`in*sta"tion (-st?"sh?n), n. Reinstatement. [R.]

Re`in*struct" (-str?kt"), v. t. To instruct anew.

Re`in*sur"ance (-sh?r"ans), n. 1. Insurance a second time or again; renewed insurance.

2. A contract by which an insurer is insured wholly or in part against the risk he has incurred in insuring somebody else. See Reassurance.

Re`in*sure" (-sh?r"), v. t. 1. To insure again after a former insuranse has ceased; to renew insurance on.

2. To insure, as life or property, in favor of one who has taken an insurance risk upon it.

The innsurer may cause the property insured to be reinsured by other persons.

Walsh.

Re`in*sur"er (-sh?r"?r), n. One who gives reinsurance.

Re*in"te*grate (r?*?n"t?*gr?t), v. t. [Pref. re- + integrate. Cf. Redintegrate.] To renew with regard to any state or quality; to restore; to bring again together into a whole, as the parts off anything; to reëstablish; as, to reintegrate a nation. Bacon.

Re*in`te*gra"tion (-gr?"sh?n), n. A renewing, or making whole again. See Redintegration.

Re`in*ter" (r?`?n*t?r"), v. t. To inter again.

Re`in*ter"ro*gate (-t?r"r?*g?t), v. t. To interrogate again; to question repeatedly. Cotgrave.

Re`in*throne" (-thr?n"), v. t. See Reënthrone.

Re`in*thron"ize (-?z), v. t. To enthrone again. [Obs.]

Re*in`tro*duce" (r?*?n`tr?*d?s"), v. t. To introduce again. -- Re*in`tro*duc"tion (- d&?;k"sh&?;n), n.

Re`in*vest" (r?`?n*v?st"), v. t. To invest again or anew.

Re`in*ves"ti*gate (-v?s"t?*g?t), v. t. To investigate again. -- Re`in*ves`ti*ga"tion (- g&?;"sh&?;n), n.

Re`in*vest"ment (-v?st"ment), n. The act of investing anew; a second or repeated investment.

Re`in*vig"or*ate (-v?g"?r*?t), v. t. To invigorate anew.

Re`in*volve" (-v?lv"), v. t. To involve anew.

||Re`is (r?"?s or r?z), n. [Pg., pl. of real, an ancient Portuguese ||coin.] The word is used as a Portuguese designation of money of ||account, one hundred reis being about equal in value to eleven cents.

Reis (rs), n. [Ar. raïs head, chief, prince.] A common title in the East for a person in authority, especially the captain of a ship. [Written also rais and ras.]

||Reis` Ef*fen"di (r?s` ?f*f?n"d?). [See 2d Reis, and Effendi.] A title ||formerly given to one of the chief Turkish officers of state. He was ||chancellor of the empire, etc.

Reiss"ner's mem"brane (r?s"n?rz m?m"br?n). [Named from E. Reissner, A German anatomist.] (Anat.) The thin membrane which separates the canal of the cochlea from the vestibular scala in the internal ear.

Re*is"su*a*ble (r?*?sh"?*?*b'l), a. Capable of being reissued.

Re*is"sue (r?*?sh"?), v. t. & i. To issue a second time.

Re*is"sue, n. A second or repeated issue.

Reit (r?t), n. Sedge; seaweed. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

||Rei"ter (r?"t?r), n. [G., rider.] A German cavalry soldier of the ||fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

Re*it"er*ant (r?-?t"?r-ant), a. [See Reiterate.] Reiterating. [R.] Mrs. Browning.

Re*it"er*ate (-t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reiterated (- `td); p. pr. & vb. n. Reiterating.] [Pref. re- + iterate: cf. F. réitérer, LL. reiterare to question again.] To repeat again and again; to say or do repeatedly; sometimes, to repeat.

That with reiterated crimes he might Heap on himself damnation.

Milton.

You never spoke what did become you less Than this; which to reiterate were sin.

Shak.

Syn. -- To repeat; recapitulate; rehearse.

Re*it"er*ate (-?t), a. Reiterated; repeated. [R.]

Re*it"er*a`ted*ly (-?`t?d-l?), adv. Repeatedly.

Re*it`er*a"tion (-?"sh?n), n. [Cf. F. réitération.] The act of reiterating; that which is reiterated.

Re*it"er*a*tive (r?-?t"?r-?-t?v), n. 1. (Gram.) A word expressing repeated or reiterated action.

2. A word formed from another, or used to form another, by repetition; as, dillydally.

Reiv"er (r?v"?r), n. See Reaver. Ruskin.

Re*ject" (r?-j?kt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rejected; p. pr. & vb. n. Rejecting.] [L. rejectus, p. p. of reicere, rejicere; pref. re- re- + jacere to throw: cf. F. rejeter, formerly also spelt rejecter. See Jet a shooting forth.]

1. To cast from one; to throw away; to discard.

Therefore all this exercise of hunting . . . the Utopians have rejected to their butchers.

Robynson (More's Utopia).

Reject me not from among thy children.

Wisdom ix. 4.

2. To refuse to receive or to acknowledge; to decline haughtily or harshly; to repudiate.

That golden scepter which thou didst reject.

Milton.

Because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me.

Hos. iv. 6.

3. To refuse to grant; as, to reject a prayer or request.

Syn. -- To repel; renounce; discard; rebuff; refuse; decline.

Re*ject"a*ble (-?-b'l), a. Capable of being, or that ought to be, rejected.

||Re*jec`ta*men"ta (r?-j?k`t?-m?n"ta), n. pl. [NL., fr. L. rejectare, ||v. intens. fr. rejicere. See Reject.] Things thrown out or away; ||especially, things excreted by a living organism. J. Fleming.

Re`jec*ta"ne*ous (r?`j?k-t?"n?-?s), a. [L. rejectaneus.] Not chosen or received; rejected. [Obs.] "Profane, rejectaneous, and reprobate people." Barrow.

Re*ject"er (r?-j?kt"?r), n. One who rejects.

Re*jec"tion (r?-j?k"sh?n), n. [L. rejectio: cf. F. réjection.] Act of rejecting, or state of being rejected.

Re`jec*ti"tious (r?`j?k-t?sh"?s), a. Implying or requiring rejection; rejectable. Cudworth.

Re*ject"ive (r?-j?kt"?v), a. Rejecting, or tending to reject.

Re*ject"ment (-ment), n. Act of rejecting; matter rejected, or thrown away. Eaton.

Re*joice" (r*jois"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Rejoiced (-joist"); p. pr. & vb. n. Rejoicing (-joi"s?ng).] [OE. rejoissen, OF. resjouir, resjoir, F. réjouir; pref. re- re- + OF, esjouir, esjoir, F. éjouir, to rejoice; pref. es- (L. ex-) + OF. jouir, joir, F. jouir, from L. gaudere to rejoice. See Joy.] To feel joy; to experience gladness in a high degree; to have pleasurable satisfaction; to be delighted. "O, rejoice beyond a common joy." Shak.

I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy.

Ps. xxxi. 7.

Syn. -- To delight; joy; exult; triumph.

Re*joice", v. t. 1. To enjoy. [Obs.] Bp. Peacock.

2. To give joy to; to make joyful; to gladden.

I me rejoysed of my liberty.

Chaucer.

While she, great saint, rejoices heaven.

Prior.

Were he [Cain] alive, it would rejoice his soul to see what mischief it had made.

Arbuthnot.

Syn. -- To please; cheer; exhilarate; delight.

Re*joice", n. The act of rejoicing. Sir T. Browne.

Re*joice"ment (-ment), n. Rejoicing. [Obs.]

Re*joi"cer (r?-joi"s?r), n. One who rejoices.

Re*joi"cing (-s?ng), n. 1. Joy; gladness; delight.

We should particularly express our rejoicing by love and charity to our neighbors.

R. Nelson.

2. The expression of joy or gladness.

The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous.

Ps. cxviii. 15.

3. That which causes to rejoice; occasion of joy.

Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage forever, for they are the rejoicing of my heart.

Ps. cxix. 111.

Re*joi"cing*ly, adv. With joi or exultation.

Re*join" (r?-join"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rejoined (-joind"); p. pr. & vb. n. Rejoining.] [F. rejoindre; pref. re- re- + joindre to join. See Join, and cf. Rejoinder.] 1. To join again; to unite after separation.

2. To come, or go, again into the presence of; to join the company of again.

Meet and rejoin me, in the pensive grot.

Pope.

3. To state in reply; -- followed by an object clause.

Re*join", v. i. 1. To answer to a reply.

2. (Law) To answer, as the defendant to the plaintiff's replication.

Re*join"der (-d?r), n. [From F. rejoindre, inf., to join again. See Rejoin.] 1. An answer to a reply; or, in general, an answer or reply.

2. (Law) The defendant's answer to the plaintiff's replication.

Syn. -- Reply; answer; replication. See Reply.

Re*join"der, v. i. To make a rejoinder. [Archaic]

Re*join"dure (-dr), n. Act of joining again. [Obs.] "Beguiles our lips of all rejoindure" (i.e., kisses). Shak.

Re*joint" (r-joint"), v. t. 1. To reunite the joints of; to joint anew. Barrow.

2. Specifically (Arch.), to fill up the joints of, as stones in buildings when the mortar has been dislodged by age and the action of the weather. Gwilt.

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Re*jolt" (r?-j?lt"), n. A reacting jolt or shock; a rebound or recoil. [R.]

These inward rejolts and recoilings of the mind.

South.

Re*jolt", v. t. To jolt or shake again. Locke.

Re*journ" (r?-j?rn"), v. t. [Cf. F. réajourner. See Adjourn.] To adjourn; to put off. [Obs.] Shak.

Re*journ"ment (-ment), n. Adjournment. [Obs.]

Re*judge" (r?-j?j"), v. t. To judge again; to reëxamine; to review; to call to a new trial and decision.

Rejudge his acts, and dignify disgrace.

Pope.

Re*ju"ve*nate (r?-j?"v?-n?t), v. t. [Pref. re- re- + L. juventis young, youthful.] To render young again.

Re*ju`ve*na"tion (-n?"sh?n), n. Rejuvenescence.

Re*ju`ve*nes"cence (-n?s"sens), n. 1. A renewing of youth; the state of being or growing young again.

2. (Bot.) A method of cell formation in which the entire protoplasm of an old cell escapes by rupture of the cell wall, and then develops a new cell wall. It is seen sometimes in the formation of zoöspores, etc.

Re*ju`ve*nes"cen*cy (-sen-s?), n. Rejuvenescence.

Re*ju`ve*nes"cent (-sent), a. Becoming, or causing to become, rejuvenated; rejuvenating.

Re*ju`ve*nize (r?-j?"v?-n?z), v. t. To rejuvenate.

Re*kin"dle (r?-k?n"d'l), v. t. & i. To kindle again.

Rek"ne (r?k"ne), v. t. To reckon. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Re*lade" (r*ld"), v. t. To lade or load again.

Re*laid" (r*ld"), imp. & p. p. of Relay.

||Re*lais" (re*l"), n. [F. See Relay, n.] (Fort.) A narrow space ||between the foot of the rampart and the scarp of the ditch, serving ||to receive the earth that may crumble off or be washed down, and ||prevent its falling into the ditch. Wilhelm.

Re*land" (r?-l?nd"), v. t. To land again; to put on land, as that which had been shipped or embarked.

Re*land", v. i. To go on shore after having embarked; to land again.

Re*lapse" (r?-l?ps"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Relapsed (-l?pst"); p. pr. & vb. n. Relapsing.] [L. relapsus, p. p. of relabi to slip back, to relapse; pref. re- re- + labi to fall, slip, slide. See Lapse.] 1. To slip or slide back, in a literal sense; to turn back. [Obs.] Dryden.

2. To slide or turn back into a former state or practice; to fall back from some condition attained; -- generally in a bad sense, as from a state of convalescence or amended condition; as, to relapse into a stupor, into vice, or into barbarism; -- sometimes in a good sense; as, to relapse into slumber after being disturbed.

That task performed, [preachers] relapse into themselves.

Cowper.

3. (Theol.) To fall from Christian faith into paganism, heresy, or unbelief; to backslide.

They enter into the justified state, and so continue all along, unless they relapse.

Waterland.

Re*lapse", n. [For sense 2 cf. F. relaps. See Relapse, v.] 1. A sliding or falling back, especially into a former bad state, either of body or morals; backsliding; the state of having fallen back.

Alas! from what high hope to what relapse Unlooked for are we fallen!

Milton.

2. One who has relapsed, or fallen back, into error; a backslider; specifically, one who, after recanting error, returns to it again. [Obs.]

Re*laps"er (-l?ps"?r), n. One who relapses. Bp. Hall.

Re*laps"ing, a. Marked by a relapse; falling back; tending to return to a former worse state.

Relapsing fever (Med.), an acute, epidemic, contagious fever, which prevails also endemically in Ireland, Russia, and some other regions. It is marked by one or two remissions of the fever, by articular and muscular pains, and by the presence, during the paroxism of spiral bacterium (Spirochæte) in the blood. It is not usually fatal. Called also famine fever, and recurring fever.

Re*late" (r?-l?t"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Related; p. pr. & vb. n. Relating.] [F. relater to recount, LL. relatare, fr. L. relatus, used as p. p. of referre. See Elate, and cf. Refer.] 1. To bring back; to restore. [Obs.]

Abate your zealous haste, till morrow next again Both light of heaven and strength of men relate.

Spenser.

2. To refer; to ascribe, as to a source. [Obs. or R.]

3. To recount; to narrate; to tell over.

This heavy act with heavy heart relate.

Shak.

4. To ally by connection or kindred.

To relate one's self, to vent thoughts in words. [R.]

Syn. -- To tell; recite; narrate; recount; rehearse; report; detail; describe.

Re*late", v. i. 1. To stand in some relation; to have bearing or concern; to pertain; to refer; -- with to.

All negative or privative words relate positive ideas.

Locke.

2. To make reference; to take account. [R.& Obs.]

Reckoning by the years of their own consecration without relating to any imperial account.

Fuller.

Re*lat"ed (-l?t"?d), p. p. & a. 1. Allied by kindred; connected by blood or alliance, particularly by consanguinity; as, persons related in the first or second degree.

2. Standing in relation or connection; as, the electric and magnetic forcec are closely related.

3. Narrated; told.

4. (Mus.) Same as Relative, 4.

Re*lat"ed*ness, n. The state or condition of being related; relationship; affinity. [R.] Emerson.

Re*lat"er (-?r), n. One who relates or narrates.

Re*la"tion (r?-l?"sh?n), n. [F. relation, L. relatio. See Relate.] 1. The act of relating or telling; also, that which is related; recital; account; narration; narrative; as, the relation of historical events.

&?;&?;&?;&?;&?;&?;oet's relation doth well figure them.

Bacon.

2. The state of being related or of referring; what is apprehended as appertaining to a being or quality, by considering it in its bearing upon something else; relative quality or condition; the being such and such with regard or respect to some other thing; connection; as, the relation of experience to knowledge; the relation of master to servant.

Any sort of connection which is perceived or imagined between two or more things, or any comparison which is made by the mind, is a relation.

I. Taylor.

3. Reference; respect; regard.

I have been importuned to make some observations on this art in relation to its agreement with poetry.

Dryden.

4. Connection by consanguinity or affinity; kinship; relationship; as, the relation of parents and children.

Relations dear, and all the charities Of father, son, and brother, first were known.

Milton.

5. A person connected by cosanguinity or affinity; a relative; a kinsman or kinswoman.

For me . . . my relation does not care a rush.

Ld. Lytton.

6. (Law) (a) The carrying back, and giving effect or operation to, an act or proceeding frrom some previous date or time, by a sort of fiction, as if it had happened or begun at that time. In such case the act is said to take effect by relation. (b) The act of a relator at whose instance a suit is begun. Wharton. Burrill.

Syn. -- Recital; rehearsal; narration; account; narrative; tale; detail; description; kindred; kinship; consanguinity; affinity; kinsman; kinswoman.

Re*la"tion*al (r?-l?"sh?n-al), a. 1. Having relation or kindred; related.

We might be tempted to take these two nations for relational stems.

Tooke.

2. Indicating or specifying some relation.

Relational words, as prepositions, auxiliaries, etc.

R. Morris.

Re*la"tion*ist, n. A relative; a relation. [Obs.]

Re*la"tion*ship, n. The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.

Rel"a*tive (r?l"?-t?v), a. [F. relatif, L. relativus. See Relate.] 1. Having relation or reference; referring; respecting; standing in connection; pertaining; as, arguments not relative to the subject.

I'll have grounds More relative than this.

Shak.

2. Arising from relation; resulting from connection with, or reference to, something else; not absolute.

Every thing sustains both an absolute and a relative capacity: an absolute, as it is such a thing, endued with such a nature; and a relative, as it is a part of the universe, and so stands in such a relations to the whole.

South.

3. (Gram.) Indicating or expressing relation; refering to an antecedent; as, a relative pronoun.

4. (Mus.) Characterizing or pertaining to chords and keys, which, by reason of the identify of some of their tones, admit of a natural transition from one to the other. Moore (Encyc. of Music).

Relative clause (Gram.), a clause introduced by a relative pronoun. -- Relative term, a term which implies relation to, as guardian to ward, matter to servant, husband to wife. Cf. Correlative.

Rel"a*tive, n. One who, or that which, relates to, or is considered in its relation to, something else; a relative object or term; one of two object or term; one of two objects directly connected by any relation. Specifically: (a) A person connected by blood or affinity; strictly, one allied by blood; a relation; a kinsman or kinswoman. "Confining our care . . . to ourselves and relatives." Bp. Fell. (b) (Gram.) A relative pronoun; a word which relates to, or represents, another word or phrase, called its antecedent; as, the relatives "who", "which", "that".

Rel"a*tive*ly, adv. In a relative manner; in relation or respect to something else; not absolutely.

Consider the absolute affections of any being as it is in itself, before you consider it relatively.

I. Watts.

Rel"a*tive*ness, n. The state of being relative, or having relation; relativity.

Rel`a*tiv"i*ty (-t?v"?-t?), n. The state of being relative; as, the relativity of a subject. Coleridge.

Re*lat"or (r?-l?t"?r), n. [ L.: cf. F. relateur. See Relate.] 1. One who relates; a relater. "The several relators of this history." Fuller.

2. (Law) A private person at whose relation, or in whose behalf, the attorney-general allows an information in the nature of a quo warranto to be filed.

Re*lat"rix (-r?ks), n. [L.] (Law) A female relator.

Re*lax" (r?-l?ks"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Relaxed (-l?kst"); p. pr. & vb. n. Relaxing.] [L. relaxare; pref. re- re- + laxare to loose, to slacken, from laxus loose. See Lax, and cf. Relay, n., Release.] 1. To make lax or loose; to make less close, firm, rigid, tense, or the like; to slacken; to loosen; to open; as, to relax a rope or cord; to relax the muscles or sinews.

Horror . . . all his joints relaxed.

Milton.

Nor served it to relax their serried files.

Milton.

2. To make less severe or rigorous; to abate the stringency of; to remit in respect to strenuousness, earnestness, or effort; as, to relax discipline; to relax one's attention or endeavors.

The statute of mortmain was at several times relaxed by the legislature.

Swift.

3. Hence, to relieve from attention or effort; to ease; to recreate; to divert; as, amusement relaxes the mind.

4. To relieve from constipation; to loosen; to open; as, an aperient relaxes the bowels.

Syn. -- To slacken; loosen; loose; remit; abate; mitigate; ease; unbend; divert.

Re*lax", v. i. 1. To become lax, weak, or loose; as, to let one's grasp relax.

His knees relax with toil.

Pope.

2. To abate in severity; to become less rigorous.

In others she relaxed again, And governed with a looser rein.

Prior.

3. To remit attention or effort; to become less diligent; to unbend; as, to relax in study.

Re*lax", n. Relaxation. [Obs.] Feltham.

Re**lax", a. Relaxed; lax; hence, remiss; careless.

Re*lax"a*ble (-?-b'l), a. Capable of being relaxed.

Re*lax"ant (r?-l?ks"ant), n. [L. relaxans, p. pr. of relaxare.] (Med.) A medicine that relaxes; a laxative.

Re`lax*a"tion (r?`l?ks-?"sh?n;277), n. [L. relaxatio; cf. F. relaxation.] 1. The act or process of relaxing, or the state of being relaxed; as, relaxation of the muscles; relaxation of a law.

2. Remission from attention and effort; indulgence in recreation, diversion, or amusement. "Hours of careless relaxation." Macaulay.

Re*lax"a*tive (r?-l?ks"?-t?v), a. Having the quality of relaxing; laxative. -- n. A relaxant. B. Jonson.

Re*lay" (r?-l?"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Relaid (-l?d); p. pr. & vb. n. Relaying.] [Pref. re- + lay, v.] To lay again; to lay a second time; as, to relay a pavement.

Re*lay" (r?-l?"), n. [F. relais (cf. OF. relais relaxation, discontinuance, It. rilascio release, relief, rilasso relay), fr. OF. relaissier to abandon, release, fr. L. relaxare. See Relax.] 1. A supply of anything arranged beforehand for affording relief from time to time, or at successive stages; provision for successive relief. Specifically: (a) A supply of horses placced at stations to be in readiness to relieve others, so that a trveler may proceed without delay. (b) A supply of hunting dogs or horses kept in readiness at certain places to relive the tired dogs or horses, and to continue the pursuit of the game if it comes that way. (c) A number of men who relieve others in carrying on some work.

2. (Elec.) In various forms of telegraphic apparatus, a magnet which receives the circuit current, and is caused by it to bring into into action the power of a local battery for performing the work of making the record; also, a similar device by which the current in one circuit is made to open or close another circuit in which a current is passing.

Relay battery (Elec.), the local battery which is brought into use by the action of the relay magnet, or relay.

Rel"bun (r?l"b?n), n. The roots of the Chilian plant Calceolaria arachnoidea, -- used for dyeing crimson.

Re*leas"a*ble (r?-l?s"?-b'l), a. That may be released.

Re*lease" (r?-l?s"), v. t. [Pref. re + lease to let.] To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.

Re*lease" (r?-l?s"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Released (r?*l?st"); p. pr. & vb. n. Releasing.] [OE. relessen, OF. relassier, to release, to let free. See Relay, n., Relax, and cf. Release to lease again.] 1. To let loose again; to set free from restraint, confinement, or servitude; to give liberty to, or to set at liberty; to let go.

Now at that feast he released unto them one prisoner, whomsoever they desired.

Mark xv. 6.

2. To relieve from something that confines, burdens, or oppresses, as from pain, trouble, obligation, penalty.

3. (Law) To let go, as a legal claim; to discharge or relinquish a right to, as lands or tenements, by conveying to another who has some right or estate in possession, as when the person in remainder releases his right to the tenant in possession; to quit.

4. To loosen; to relax; to remove the obligation of; as, to release an ordinance. [Obs.] Hooker.

A sacred vow that none should aye release.

Spenser.

Syn. -- To free; liberate; loose; discharge; disengage; extricate; let go; quit; acquit.

Re*lease", n. 1. The act of letting loose or freeing, or the state of being let loose or freed; liberation or discharge from restraint of any kind, as from confinement or bondage. "Who boast'st release from hell." Milton.

2. Relief from care, pain, or any burden.

3. Discharge from obligation or responsibility, as from debt, penalty, or claim of any kind; acquittance.

4. (Law) A giving up or relinquishment of some right or claim; a conveyance of a man's right in lands or tenements to another who has some estate in possession; a quitclaim. Blackstone.

5. (Steam Engine) The act of opening the exhaust port to allow the steam to escape.

Lease and release. (Law) See under Lease. -- Out of release, without cessation. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Syn. -- Liberation; freedom; discharge. See Death.

Re*leas`ee" (-?"), n. One to whom a release is given.

Re*lease"ment (r?-l?s"ment), n. The act of releasing, as from confinement or obligation. Milton.

Re*leas"er (-?r), n. One who releases, or sets free.

Re*leas"or (-?r), n. One by whom a release is given.

Rel"e*gate (r?l"?-g?t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Relegated (-g?`t?d); p. pr. & vb. n. Relegating.] [L. relegatus, p. p. of relegare; pref. re- re- + legare to send with a commission or charge. See Legate.] To remove, usually to an inferior position; to consign; to transfer; specifically, to send into exile; to banish.

It [the Latin language] was relegated into the study of the scholar.

Milman.

Rel`e*ga"tion (-g?"sh?n), n. [L. relegatio: cf. F. relégation.] The act of relegating, or the state of being relegated; removal; banishment; exile.

Re*lent" (r?-l?nt"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Relented; p. pr. & vb. n. Relenting.] [F. ralentir, fr. L. pref. re- re- + ad to + lentus pliant, flexible, slow. See Lithe.] 1. To become less rigid or hard; to yield; to dissolve; to melt; to deliquesce. [Obs.]

He stirred the coals till relente gan The wax again the fire.

Chaucer.

[Salt of tartar] placed in a cellar will . . . begin to relent.

Boyle.

When opening buds salute the welcome day, And earth, relenting, feels the genial ray.

Pope.

2. To become less severe or intense; to become less hard, harsh, cruel, or the like; to soften in temper; to become more mild and tender; to feel compassion.

Can you . . . behold My sighs and tears, and will not once relent?

Shak.

Re*lent", v. t. 1. To slacken; to abate. [Obs.]

And oftentimes he would relent his pace.

Spenser.

2. To soften; to dissolve. [Obs.]

3. To mollify ; to cause to be less harsh or severe. [Obs.]

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Re*lent" (r?-l?nt"), n. Stay; stop; delay. [Obs.]

Nor rested till she came without relent Unto the land of Amazons.

Spenser.

Re*lent"less, a. Unmoved by appeals for sympathy or forgiveness; insensible to the distresses of others; destitute of tenderness; unrelenting; unyielding; unpitying; as, a prey to relentless despotism.

For this the avenging power employs his darts, . . . Thus will persist, relentless in his ire.

Dryden.

-- Re*lent"less*ly, adv. -- Re*lent"less*ness, n.

Re*lent"ment (-ment), n. The act or process of relenting; the state of having relented. Sir T. Browne.

Re*lesse" (r?-l?s"), v. t. To release. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Re`les*see" (r?`l?s-s?"), n. See Releasee.

Re`les*sor" (-s?r"), n. See Releasor.

Re-let" (r?-l?t"), v. t. To let anew, as a house.

{ Rel"e*vance (r?l"?*vans), Rel"e*van*cy (-van*s?), } n. 1. The quality or state of being relevant; pertinency; applicability.

Its answer little meaning, little relevancy bore.

Poe.

2. (Scots Law) Sufficiency to infer the conclusion.

Rel"e*vant (-vant), a. [F. relevant, p. pr. of relever to raise again, to relieve. See Relieve.] 1. Relieving; lending aid or support. [R.] Pownall.

2. Bearing upon, or properly applying to, the case in hand; pertinent; applicable.

Close and relevant arguments have very little hold on the passions.

Sydney Smith.

3. (Scots Law) Sufficient to support the cause.

Rel"e*vant*ly, adv. In a relevant manner.

Rel`e*va"tion (-v?"sh?n), n. [L. relevatio, fr. relevare. See Relieve.] A raising or lifting up. [Obs.]

Re*li`a*bil"i*ty (r?-l?`?-b?l"?-t?), n. The state or quality of being reliable; reliableness.

Re*li"a*ble (r?-l?"?-b'l), a. Suitable or fit to be relied on; worthy of dependance or reliance; trustworthy. "A reliable witness to the truth of the miracles." A. Norton.

The best means, and most reliable pledge, of a higher object.

Coleridge.

According to General Livingston's humorous account, his own village of Elizabethtown was not much more reliable, being peopled in those agitated times by "unknown, unrecommended strangers, guilty-looking Tories, and very knavish Whigs."

W. Irving.

Some authors take exception to this word, maintaining that it is unnecessary, and irregular in formation. It is, however, sanctioned by the practice of many careful writers as a most convenient substitute for the phrase to be relied upon, and a useful synonym for trustworthy, which is by preference applied to persons, as reliable is to things, such as an account, statement, or the like. The objection that adjectives derived from neuter verbs do not admit of a passive sense is met by the citation of laughable, worthy of being laughed at, from the neuter verb to laugh; available, fit or able to be availed of, from the neuter verb to avail; dispensable, capable of being dispensed with, from the neuter verb to dispense. Other examples might be added.

-- Re*li"a*ble*ness, n. -- Re*li"a*bly, adv.

Re*li"ance (-ans), n. [From Rely.] 1. The act of relying, or the condition or quality of being reliant; dependence; confidence; trust; repose of mind upon what is deemed sufficient support or authority.

In reliance on promises which proved to be of very little value.

Macaulay.

2. Anything on which to rely; dependence; ground of trust; as, the boat was a poor reliance. Richardson.

Re*li"ant (-ant), a. Having, or characterized by, reliance; confident; trusting.

Rel"ic (r?l"?k), n. [F. relique, from L. reliquiae, pl., akin to relinquere to leave behind. See Relinquish.] [Formerly written also relique.] 1. That which remains; that which is left after loss or decay; a remaining portion; a remnant. Chaucer. Wyclif.

The relics of lost innocence.

Kebe.

The fragments, scraps, the bits and greasy relics.

Shak.

2. The body from which the soul has departed; a corpse; especially, the body, or some part of the body, of a deceased saint or martyr; -- usually in the plural when referring to the whole body.

There are very few treasuries of relics in Italy that have not a tooth or a bone of this saint.

Addison.

Thy relics, Rowe, to this fair urn we trust, And sacred place by Dryden's awful dust.

Pope.

3. Hence, a memorial; anything preserved in remembrance; as, relics of youthful days or friendships.

The pearls were spilt; Some lost, some stolen, some as relics kept.

Tennyson.

Rel"ic*ly, adv. In the manner of relics. [Obs.]

Rel"ict (-?kt), n. [L. relicta, fr. of relictus, p. p. of relinquere to leave behind. See Relinquish.] A woman whose husband is dead; a widow.

Eli dying without issue, Jacob was obliged by law to marry his relict, and so to raise up seed to his brother Eli.

South.

Re*lict"ed (r?-l?kt"?d), a. [L. relictus, p. p.] (Law) Left uncovered, as land by recession of water. Bouvier.

Re*lic"tion (r?-l?k"sh?n), n. [L. relictio a leaving behind.] (Law) A leaving dry; a recession of the sea or other water, leaving dry land; land left uncovered by such recession. Burrill.

Re*lief" (r?-l?f"), n. [OE. relef, F. relief, properly, a lifting up, a standing out. See Relieve, and cf. Basrelief, Rilievi.] 1. The act of relieving, or the state of being relieved; the removal, or partial removal, of any evil, or of anything oppressive or burdensome, by which some ease is obtained; succor; alleviation; comfort; ease; redress.

He sees the dire contagion spread so fast, That, where it seizes, all relief is vain.

Dryden.

2. Release from a post, or from the performance of duty, by the intervention of others, by discharge, or by relay; as, a relief of a sentry.

For this relief much thanks; 'tis bitter cold.

Shak.

3. That which removes or lessens evil, pain, discomfort, uneasiness, etc.; that which gives succor, aid, or comfort; also, the person who relieves from performance of duty by taking the place of another; a relay.

4. (Feudal Law) A fine or composition which the heir of a deceased tenant paid to the lord for the privilege of taking up the estate, which, on strict feudal principles, had lapsed or fallen to the lord on the death of the tenant.

5. (Sculp. & Arch.) The projection of a figure above the ground or plane on which it is formed.

Relief is of three kinds, namely, high relief (altorilievo), low relief, (basso-rilievo), and demirelief (mezzo-rilievo). See these terms in the Vocabulary.

6. (Paint.) The appearance of projection given by shading, shadow, etc., to any figure.

7. (Fort.) The height to which works are raised above the bottom of the ditch. Wilhelm.

8. (Physical Geog.) The elevations and surface undulations of a country. Guyot.

Relief valve, a valve arranged for relieving pressure of steam, gas, or liquid; an escape valve.

Syn. -- Alleviation; mitigation; aid; help; succor; assistance; remedy; redress; indemnification.

Re*lief"ful (r?-l?f"f?l), a. Giving relief. [Obs.]

Re*lief"less, a. Destitute of relief; also, remediless.

Re*li"er (r?-l?"?r), n. [From Rely.] One who relies.

Re*liev"a*ble (r?-l?v"?-b'l), a. Capable of being relieved; fitted to recieve relief. Sir M. Hale.

Re*lieve" (r?-l?v"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Relieved (-l?vd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Relieving.] [OE. releven, F. relever to raise again, discharge, relieve, fr. L. relevare to lift up, raise, make light, relieve; pref. re- re- + levare to raise, fr. levis light. See Levity, and cf. Relevant, Relief.] 1. To lift up; to raise again, as one who has fallen; to cause to rise. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

2. To cause to seem to rise; to put in relief; to give prominence or conspicuousness to; to set off by contrast.

Her tall figure relieved against the blue sky; seemed almost of supernatural height.

Sir W. Scott.

3. To raise up something in; to introduce a contrast or variety into; to remove the monotony or sameness of.

The poet must . . . sometimes relieve the subject with a moral reflection.

Addison.

4. To raise or remove, as anything which depresses, weighs down, or crushes; to render less burdensome or afflicting; to alleviate; to abate; to mitigate; to lessen; as, to relieve pain; to relieve the wants of the poor.

5. To free, wholly or partly, from any burden, trial, evil, distress, or the like; to give ease, comfort, or consolation to; to give aid, help, or succor to; to support, strengthen, or deliver; as, to relieve a besieged town.

Now lend assistance and relieve the poor.

Dryden.

6. To release from a post, station, or duty; to put another in place of, or to take the place of, in the bearing of any burden, or discharge of any duty.

Who hath relieved you?

Shak.

7. To ease of any imposition, burden, wrong, or oppression, by judicial or legislative interposition, as by the removal of a grievance, by indemnification for losses, or the like; to right.

Syn. -- To alleviate; assuage; succor; assist; aid; help; support; substain; ease; mitigate; lighten; diminish; remove; free; remedy; redress; indemnify.

Re*lieve"ment (-ment), n. The act of relieving, or the state of being relieved; relief; release. [Archaic.]

Re*liev"er (-?r), n. One who, or that which, relieves.

Re*liev"ing, a. Serving or tending to relieve.

Relieving arch (Arch.), a discharging arch. See under Discharge, v. t. -- Relieving tackle. (Naut.) (a) A temporary tackle attached to the tiller of a vessel during gales or an action, in case of accident to the tiller ropes. (b) A strong tackle from a wharf to a careened vessel, to prevent her from going over entirely, and to assist in righting her. Totten. Craig.

Re*lie"vo (r?-l?"v?), n. [It. rilievo.] See Relief, n., 5.

Re*light" (r?-l?t"), v. t. To light or kindle anew.

{ ||Re*li`gi`euse" (re-l?`zh?`?z"), n. f. ||Re*li`gi`eux" (re-l?`zh?`?"), n. m. } [F.] A person bound by monastic vows; a nun; a monk.

Re*li"gion (r*lj"n), n. [F., from L. religio; cf. religens pious, revering the gods, Gr. 'ale`gein to heed, have a care. Cf. Neglect.] 1. The outward act or form by which men indicate their recognition of the existence of a god or of gods having power over their destiny, to whom obedience, service, and honor are due; the feeling or expression of human love, fear, or awe of some superhuman and overruling power, whether by profession of belief, by observance of rites and ceremonies, or by the conduct of life; a system of faith and worship; a manifestation of piety; as, ethical religions; monotheistic religions; natural religion; revealed religion; the religion of the Jews; the religion of idol worshipers.

An orderly life so far as others are able to observe us is now and then produced by prudential motives or by dint of habit; but without seriousness there can be no religious principle at the bottom, no course of conduct from religious motives; in a word, there can be no religion.

Paley.

Religion [was] not, as too often now, used as equivalent for godliness; but . . . it expressed the outer form and embodiment which the inward spirit of a true or a false devotion assumed.

Trench.

Religions, by which are meant the modes of divine worship proper to different tribes, nations, or communities, and based on the belief held in common by the members of them severally. . . . There is no living religion without something like a doctrine. On the other hand, a doctrine, however elaborate, does not constitute a religion.

C. P. Tiele (Encyc. Brit.).

Religion . . . means the conscious relation between man and God, and the expression of that relation in human conduct.

J. Köstlin (Schaff-Herzog Encyc.)

After the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

Acts xxvi. 5.

The image of a brute, adorned With gay religions full of pomp and gold.

Milton.

2. Specifically, conformity in faith and life to the precepts inculcated in the Bible, respecting the conduct of life and duty toward God and man; the Christian faith and practice.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.

Washington.

Religion will attend you . . . as a pleasant and useful companion in every proper place, and every temperate occupation of life.

Buckminster.

3. (R. C. Ch.) A monastic or religious order subject to a regulated mode of life; the religious state; as, to enter religion. Trench.

A good man was there of religion.

Chaucer.

4. Strictness of fidelity in conforming to any practice, as if it were an enjoined rule of conduct. [R.]

Those parts of pleading which in ancient times might perhaps be material, but at this time are become only mere styles and forms, are still continued with much religion.

Sir M. Hale.

Religion, as distinguished from theology, is subjective, designating the feelings and acts of men which relate to God; while theology is objective, and denotes those ideas which man entertains respecting the God whom he worships, especially his systematized views of God. As distinguished from morality, religion denotes the influences and motives to human duty which are found in the character and will of God, while morality describes the duties to man, to which true religion always influences. As distinguished from piety, religion is a high sense of moral obligation and spirit of reverence or worship which affect the heart of man with respect to the Deity, while piety, which first expressed the feelings of a child toward a parent, is used for that filial sentiment of veneration and love which we owe to the Father of all. As distinguished from sanctity, religion is the means by which sanctity is achieved, sanctity denoting primarily that purity of heart and life which results from habitual communion with God, and a sense of his continual presence.

Natural religion, a religion based upon the evidences of a God and his qualities, which is supplied by natural phenomena. See Natural theology, under Natural. -- Religion of humanity, a name sometimes given to a religion founded upon positivism as a philosophical basis. -- Revealed religion, that which is based upon direct communication of God's will to mankind; especially, the Christian religion, based on the revelations recorded in the Old and New Testaments.

Re*li"gion*a*ry (r?-l?j"?n-?-r?), a. Relating to religion; pious; as, religionary professions. [Obs.]

{ Re*li"gion*a*ry, Re*li"gion*er (-?r), } n. A religionist. [R.]

Re*li"gion*ism (-?z'm), n. 1. The practice of, or devotion to, religion.

2. Affectation or pretense of religion.

Re*li"gion*ist, n. One earnestly devoted or attached to a religion; a religious zealot.

The chief actors on one side were, and were to be, the Puritan religionists.

Palfrey.

It might be that an Antinomian, a Quaker, or other heterodo&?; religionists, was to be scourged out of the town.

Hawthorne.

Re*li"gion*ize (-?z), v. t. To bring under the influence of religion. [R.] Mallock.

Re*li"gion*less, a. Destitute of religion.

Re*lig`i*os"i*ty (-l?j`?-?s"?-t?), n. [L. religiositas: cf. F. religiosit&?;.] The quality of being religious; religious feeling or sentiment; religiousness. [R.] M. Arnold.

Re*li"gious (r?-l?j"?s), a. [OF. religius, religious, F. religieux, from L. religiosus. See Religion.] 1. Of or pertaining to religion; concerned with religion; teaching, or setting forth, religion; set apart to religion; as, a religious society; a religious sect; a religious place; religious subjects, books, teachers, houses, wars.

Our law forbids at their religious rites My presence.

Milton.

2. Possessing, or conforming to, religion; pious; godly; as, a religious man, life, behavior, etc.

Men whose lives Religious titled them the sons of God.

Mlton

3. Scrupulously faithful or exact; strict.

Thus, Indianlike, Religious in my error, I adore The sun, that looks upon his worshiper.

Shak.

4. Belonging to a religious order; bound by vows.

One of them is religious.

Chaucer.

Syn. -- Pious; godly; holy; devout; devotional; conscientious; strict; rogod; exact.

Re*li"gious, n. A person bound by monastic vows, or sequestered from secular concern, and devoted to a life of piety and religion; a monk or friar; a nun. Addison.

Re*li"gious*ly, adv. In a religious manner. Drayton.

Re*li"gious*ness, n. The quality of being religious.

Rel"ik (r?l"?k), n. Relic. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Re*lin"quent (r?-l?n"kwent), a. [L. relinquens, p. pr. of relinqquere. See Relinquish.] Relinquishing. [R.]

Re*lin"quent, n. One who relinquishes. [R.]

Re*lin"quish (-kw?sh), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Relinquished (-kw?sht); p. pr. & vb. n. Relinquishing.] [OF. relinquir, L. relinquere to leave behind; pref. re- re + linquere to leave. See Loan, and cf. Relic, Relict.]

1. To withdraw from; to leave behind; to desist from; to abandon; to quit; as, to relinquish a pursuit.

We ought to relinquish such rites.

Hooker.

They placed Irish tenants upon the lands relinquished by the English.

Sir J. Davies.

2. To give up; to renounce a claim to; resign; as, to relinquish a debt.

Syn. -- To resign; leave; quit; forsake; abandon; desert; renounce; forb&?;ar; forego. See Resign.

Re*lin"quish*er (-r?r), n. One who relinquishes.

Re*lin"quish*ment (-ment), n. The act of relinquishing.

Rel"i*qua*ry (r?l"?-kw?-r?), n.; pl. -ries (-rz). [LL. reliquiarium, reliquiare: cf. F. reliquaire. See Relic.] A depositary, often a small box or casket, in which relics are kept.

Re*lique" (r?-l?k"), n. [F.] See Relic. Chaucer.

||Re*liq"ui*æ (r?-l?k"w?-?), n. pl. [L. See Relic.]

1. Remains of the dead; organic remains; relics.

2. (Bot.) Same as Induviæ.

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Re*liq"ui*an (r?-l?k"w?-an), a. Of or pertaining to a relic or relics; of the nature of a relic. [R.]

Re*liq"ui*date (r?-l?k"w?-d?t), v. t. To liquidate anew; to adjust a second time.

Re*liq`ui*da"tion (-d"sh?n), n. A second or renewed liquidation; a renewed adjustment. A. Hamilton.

Rel"ish (r?l"?sh), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Relished (-&?;sht); p. pr. & vb. n. Relishing.] [Of. relechier to lick or taste anew; pref. re- re-+ lechier to lick, F. l&?;cher. See Lecher, Lick.] 1. To taste or eat with pleasure; to like the flavor of; to partake of with gratification; hence, to enjoy; to be pleased with or gratified by; to experience pleasure from; as, to relish food.

Now I begin to relish thy advice.

Shak.

He knows how to prize his advantages, and to relish the honors which he enjoys.

Atterbury.

2. To give a relish to; to cause to taste agreeably.

A savory bit that served to relish wine.

Dryden.

Rel"ish, v. i. To have a pleasing or appetizing taste; to give gratification; to have a flavor.

Had I been the finder-out of this secret, it would not have relished among my other discredits.

Shak.

A theory, which, how much soever it may relish of wit and invention, hath no foundation in nature.

Woodward.

Rel"ish, n. 1. A pleasing taste; flavor that gratifies the palate; hence, enjoyable quality; power of pleasing.

Much pleasure we have lost while we abstained From this delightful fruit, nor known till now True relish, tasting.

Milton.

When liberty is gone, Life grows insipid, and has lost its relish.

Addison.

2. Savor; quality; characteristic tinge.

It preserve some relish of old writing.

Pope.

3. A taste for; liking; appetite; fondness.

A relish for whatever was excelent in arts.

Macaulay.

I have a relish for moderate praise, because it bids fair to be j&?;dicious.

Cowper.

4. That which is used to impart a flavor; specifically, something taken with food to render it more palatable or to stimulate the appetite; a condiment.

Syn. -- Taste; savor; flavor; appetite; zest; gusto; liking; delight.

Rel"ish, n. (Carp.) The projection or shoulder at the side of, or around, a tenon, on a tenoned piece. Knight.

Rel"ish*a*ble (-?-b'l), a. Capable of being relished; agreeable to the taste; gratifying.

Re*live" (r?-l?v"), v. i. To live again; to revive.

Re*live", v. t. To recall to life; to revive. [Obs.]

Re*load" (r?-l?d"), v. t. To load again, as a gun.

Re*loan" (r?-l?n"), n. A second lending of the same thing; a renewal of a loan.

Re*lo"cate (r?-l?"k?t), v. t. To locate again.

Re`lo*ca"tion (r?`l-k?"sh?n), n. 1. A second location.

2. (Roman & Scots Law) Renewal of a lease.

Re*lodge" (r?-l?j"), v. t. To lodge again.

Re*love" (-l?v"), v. t. To love in return. [Obs.] Boyle.

Re*lu"cent (r?-l?"sent), a. [L. relucens, p. pr. relucere. See Lucent.] Reflecting light; shining; glittering; glistening; bright; luminous; splendid.

Gorgeous banners to the sun expand Their streaming volumes of relucent gold.

Glover.

Re*luct" (r?-l?kt"), v. i. [L. reluctari, p. p. reluctatus, to struggle; pref. re- re- + luctari to struggle, fr. lucia a wresting.] To strive or struggle against anything; to make resistance; to draw back; to feel or show repugnance or reluctance.

Apt to reluct at the excesses of it [passion].

Walton.

{ Re*luc"tance (r?-l?k"tans), Re*luc"tan*cy (-tan-s?), } n. [See Reluctant.] The state or quality of being reluctant; repugnance; aversion of mind; unwillingness; -- often followed by an infinitive, or by to and a noun, formerly sometimes by against. "Tempering the severity of his looks with a reluctance to the action." Dryden.

He had some reluctance to obey the summons.

Sir W. Scott.

Bear witness, Heaven, with what reluctancy Her helpless innocence I doom to die.

Dryden.

Syn. See Dislike.

Re*luc"tant (-tant), a. [L. reluctans, -antis, p. pr. of reluctari. See Reluct.] 1. Striving against; opposed in desire; unwilling; disinclined; loth.

Reluctant, but in vain.

Milton.

Reluctant now I touched the trembling string.

Tickell.

2. Proceeding from an unwilling mind; granted with reluctance; as, reluctant obedience. Mitford.

Syn. -- Averse; unwilling; loth; disinclined; repugnant; backward; coy. See Averse.

Re*luc"tant*ly, adv. In a reluctant manner.

Re*luc"tate (-t?t), v. i. [See Reluct.] To struggle against anything; to resist; to oppose. [Obs.] "To delude their reluctating consciences." Dr. H. More.

Rel`uc*ta"tion (r?l`?k-t?"sh?n), n. Repugnance; resistance; reluctance. [Obs.] Bacon.

Re*lume" (r?-l?m"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Relumed (-l?md"); p. pr. & vb. n. Reluming.] [OF. relumer (cf. F. rallumer), L. reluminare; pref. re- re- + luminare to light. Cf. Reillume.] To rekindle; to light again.

Relumed her ancient light, not kindled new.

Pope.

I know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume.

Shak.

Re*lu"mine (r?-l?"m?n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Relumined (-m?nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Relumining.] [See Relume.] 1. To light anew; to rekindle. Shak.

2. To illuminate again.

Re*ly" (r?-l?"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Relied (-l?d"); p. pr. & vb. n. Relying.] [Pref. re- + lie to rest.] To rest with confidence, as when fully satisfied of the veracity, integrity, or ability of persons, or of the certainty of facts or of evidence; to have confidence; to trust; to depend; -- with on, formerly also with in.

Go in thy native innocence; rely On what thou hast of virtue.

Milton.

On some fond breast the parting soul relies.

Gray.

Syn. -- To trust; depend; confide; repose.

Re*made" (r?-m?d"), imp. & p. p. of Remake.

Re*main" (r?-m?n"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Remained (-m?nd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Remaining.] [OF. remaindre, remanoir, L. remanere; pref. re- re- + manere to stay, remain. See Mansion, and cf. Remainder, Remnant.]

1. To stay behind while others withdraw; to be left after others have been removed or destroyed; to be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not included or comprised.

Gather up the fragments that remain.

John vi. 12.

Of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.

1 Cor. xv. 6.

That . . . remains to be proved.

Locke.

2. To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last.

Remain a widow at thy father's house.

Gen. xxxviii. 11.

Childless thou art; childless remain.

Milton.

Syn. -- To continue; stay; wait; tarry; rest; sojourn; dwell; abide; last; endure.

Re*main", v. t. To await; to be left to. [Archaic]

The easier conquest now remains thee.

Milton.

Re*main" n. 1. State of remaining; stay. [Obs.]

Which often, since my here remain in England, I 've seen him do.

Shak.

2. That which is left; relic; remainder; -- chiefly in the plural. "The remains of old Rome." Addison.

When this remain of horror has entirely subsided.

Burke.

3. Specif., in the plural: (a) That which is left of a human being after the life is gone; relics; a dead body.

Old warriors whose adored remains In weeping vaults her hallowed earth contains!

Pope.

(b) The posthumous works or productions, esp. literary works, of one who is dead; as, Cecil's Remains.

Re*main"der (r?-m?n"d?r), n. [OF. remaindre, inf. See Remain.] 1. Anything that remains, or is left, after the separation and removal of a part; residue; remnant. "The last remainders of unhappy Troy." Dryden.

If these decoctions be repeated till the water comes off clear, the remainder yields no salt.

Arbuthnot.

2. (Math.) The quantity or sum that is left after subtraction, or after any deduction.

3. (Law) An estate in expectancy, generally in land, which becomes an estate in possession upon the determination of a particular prior estate, created at the same time, and by the same instrument; for example, if land be conveyed to A for life, and on his death to B, A's life interest is a particuar estate, and B's interest is a remainder, or estate in remainder.

Syn. -- Balance; rest; residue; remnant; leavings.

Re*main"der, a. Remaining; left; left over; refuse.

Which is as dry as the remainder biscuit After a voyage.

Shak.

Re*main"der-man (- mn), n.; pl. Remainder-men (-mn). (Law) One who has an estate after a particular estate is determined. See Remainder, n., 3. Blackstone.

Re*make" (r?-m?k"), v. t. To make anew.

Re*mand" (r?-m?nd"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Remanded; p. pr. & vb. n. Remanding.] [F. remander to send word again, L. remandare; pref. re- re- + mandare to commit, order, send word. See Mandate.] To recommit; to send back.

Remand it to its former place.

South.

Then were they remanded to the cage again.

Bunyan.

Re*mand", n. The act of remanding; the order for recommitment.

Re*mand"ment (-ment), n. A remand.

{ Rem"a*nence (r?m"?*nens), Rem"a*nen*cy (-nen*s?), } n. [Cf. OF. remanence, LL. remanentia, fr. L. remanens. See Remanent, a.] The state of being remanent; continuance; permanence. [R.] Jer. Taylor.

The remanence of the will in the fallen spirit.

Coleridge.

Rem"a*nent (-nent), n. [See Remanent, a.] That which remains; a remnant; a residue.

Rem"a*nent, a. [L. remanens, p. pr. of remanere. See Remain, and cf. Remnant.] Remaining; residual.

That little hope that is remanent hath its degree according to the infancy or growth of the habit.

Jer. Taylor.

Remanent magnetism (Physics), magnetism which remains in a body that has little coercive force after the magnetizing force is withdrawn, as soft iron; -- called also residual magnetism.

||Rem"a*net (-n?t), n. [L., it remains.] (Legal Practice) A case for ||trial which can not be tried during the term; a postponed case. ||[Eng.]

Re-mark" (r?-m?rk"), v. t. [Pref. re- + mark.] To mark again, or a second time; to mark anew.

Re*mark" (r?-m?rk"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Remarked (-m?rkt"); p. pr. & vb. n. Remarking.] [F. remarquer; pref. re- re- + marquer to mark, marque a mark, of German origin, akin to E. mark. See Mark, v.& n.] 1. To mark in a notable manner; to distinquish clearly; to make noticeable or conspicuous; to piont out. [Obs.]

Thou art a man remarked to taste a mischief.

Ford.

His manacles remark him; there he sits.

Milton.

2. To take notice of, or to observe, mentally; as, to remark the manner of a speaker.

3. To express in words or writing, as observed or noticed; to state; to say; -- often with a substantive clause; as, he remarked that it was time to go.

Syn. -- To observe; notice; heed; regard; note; say. -- Remark, Observe, Notice. To observe is to keep or hold a thing distinctly before the mind. To remark is simply to mark or take note of whatever may come up. To notice implies still less continuity of attention. When we turn from these mental states to the expression of them in language, we find the same distinction. An observation is properly the result of somewhat prolonged thought; a remark is usually suggested by some passing occurence; a notice is in most cases something cursory and short. This distinction is not always maintained as to remark and observe, which are often used interchangeably. "Observing men may form many judgments by the rules of similitude and proportion." I. Watts. "He can not distinguish difficult and noble speculations from trifling and vulgar remarks." Collier. "The thing to be regarded, in taking notice of a child's miscarriage, is what root it springs from." Locke.

Re*mark" (r?-m?rk"), v. i. To make a remark or remarks; to comment.

Re*mark", n. [Cf. F. remarque.] 1. Act of remarking or attentively noticing; notice or observation.

The cause, though worth the search, may yet elude Conjecture and remark, however shrewd.

Cowper.

2. The expression, in speech or writing, of something remarked or noticed; the mention of that which is worthy of attention or notice; hence, also, a casual observation, comment, or statement; as, a pertinent remark.

Syn. -- Observation; note; comment; annotation.

Re*mark"a*ble (-?-b'l), a. [F. remarquable.] Worthy of being remarked or noticed; noticeable; conspicuous; hence, uncommon; extraordinary.

'T is remarkable, that they Talk most who have the least to say.

Prior.

There is nothing left remarlable Beneath the visiting moon.

Shak.

Syn. -- Observable; noticeable; extraordinary; unusual; rare; strange; wonderful; notable; eminent.

-- Re*mark"a*ble*ness, n. -- Re*mark"a*bly, adv.

Re*mark"er (-?r), n. One who remarks.

Re*mar"riage (r?-m?r"r?j), n. A second or repeated marriage.

Re*mar"ry (r?-m?r"rr?), v. t. & i. To marry again.

Re*mast" (r?-m?st"), v. t. To furnish with a new mast or set of masts.

Re*mas"ti*cate (r?-m?s"t?-k?t), v. t. To chew or masticate again; to chew over and over, as the cud.

Re*mas`ti*ca"tion (-k?"sh?n), n. The act of masticating or chewing again or repeatedly.

Rem"berge (r?m"b?rj), n. See Ramberge.

||Rem`blai" (r?n`bl?"), n. [F., fr. remblayer to fill up an excavation, ||to embank.] (Fort. & Engin.) Earth or materials made into a bank ||after having been excavated.

Rem"ble (r&?;m"b'l), v. t. [Cf. OF. embler to steal, fr. L. involare to fly into or at, to carry off.] To remove. [Prov. Eng.] Grose. Tennyson.

Reme (r&?;m), n. Realm. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Re*mean" (r&?;-m&?;n"), v. t. To give meaning to; to explain the meaning of; to interpret. [Obs.] Wyclif.

Re"me*ant (r&?;"m&?;*ant), a. [L. remeans, -antis, p. pr. of remeare to go or come back.] Coming back; returning. [R.] "Like the remeant sun." C. Kingsley.

Re*meas"ure (r?-m?zh"?r; 135), v. t. To measure again; to retrace.

They followed him . . . The way they came, their steps remeasured right.

Fairfax.

Re*mede" (r?-m?d"), n. Remedy. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Re*me"di*a*ble (r?-m?"d?-?-b'l), a. [L. remediabilis: cf. F. remédiable.] Capable of being remedied or cured.

-- Re*me"di*a*ble*ness, n. - Re*me"di*a*bly, adv.

Re*me"di*al (-al), a. [L. remedialis.] Affording a remedy; intended for a remedy, or for the removal or abatement of an evil; as, remedial treatment.

Statutes are declaratory or remedial.

Blackstone.

It is an evil not compensated by any beneficial result; it is not remedial, not conservative.

I. Taylor.

Re*me"di*al*ly, adv. In a remedial manner.

Re*me"di*ate (-?t), a. Remedial. [R.] Shak.

Re*med"i*less (r?-m?d"?-l?s or r?m"?-d?-l?s; 277), a. 1. Not admitting of a remedy; incapable of being restored or corrected; incurable; irreparable; as, a remediless mistake or loss. "Chains remedilesse." Spenser.

Hopeless are all my evils, all remediless.

Milton.

2. Not answering as a remedy; ineffectual. [Obs.]

Forced to forego the attempt remediless.

Spenser.

Syn. -- Incurable; cureless; irremediable; irrecoverable; irretrievable; irreparable; desperate.

-- Re*med"i*less, adv. [Obs.] Udall. -- Re*med"i*less*ly, adv. -- Re*med"i*less*ness, n.

Rem"e*dy (r?m"?-d?), n.; pl. Remedies (-d&?;z). [L. remedium; pref. re- re- + mederi to heal, to cure: cf. F. remède remedy, remédier to remedy. See Medical.]

1. That which relieves or cures a disease; any medicine or application which puts an end to disease and restores health; -- with for; as, a remedy for the gout.

2. That which corrects or counteracts an evil of any kind; a corrective; a counteractive; reparation; cure; -- followed by for or against, formerly by to.

What may else be remedy or cure To evils which our own misdeeds have wrought, He will instruct us.

Milton.

3. (Law) The legal means to recover a right, or to obtain redress for a wrong.

Civil remedy. See under Civil. -- Remedy of the mint (Coinage), a small allowed deviation from the legal standard of weight and fineness; -- called also tolerance.

Syn. -- Cure; restorative; counteraction; reparation; redress; relief; aid; help; assistance.

Rem"e*dy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Remedied (-d?d); p. pr. & vb. n. Remedying.] [L. remediare, remediari: cf. F. rem&?;dier. See Remedy, n.] To apply a remedy to; to relieve; to cure; to heal; to repair; to redress; to correct; to counteract.

I will remedy this gear ere long.

Shak.

Re*melt" (r?-m?lt"), v. t. To melt again.

Re*mem"ber (r?-m?m"b?r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Remembered (-b?rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Remembering.] [OF. remebrer, L. rememorari; pref. re- re- + memorare to bring to remembrance, from memor mindful. See Memory, and cf. Rememorate.] 1. To have ( a notion or idea) come into the mind again, as previously perceived, known, or felt; to have a renewed apprehension of; to bring to mind again; to think of again; to recollect; as, I remember the fact; he remembers the events of his childhood; I cannot remember dates.

We are said to remember anything, when the idea of it arises in the mind with the consciousness that we have had this idea before.

I. Watts.

2. To be capable of recalling when required; to keep in mind; to be continually aware or thoughtful of; to preserve fresh in the memory; to attend to; to think of with gratitude, affection, respect, or any other emotion.

Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

Ex. xx. 8.

That they may have their wages duly paid 'em, And something over to remember me by.

Shak.

Remember what I warn thee; shun to taste.

Milton.

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3. To put in mind; to remind; -- also used reflexively and impersonally. [Obs.] "Remembering them the trith of what they themselves known." Milton.

My friends remembered me of home.

Chapman.

Remember you of passed heaviness.

Chaucer.

And well thou wost [knowest] if it remember thee.

Chaucer.

4. To mention. [Obs.] "As in many cases hereafter to be remembered." Ayliffe.

5. To recall to the mind of another, as in the friendly messages, remember me to him, he wishes to be remembered to you, etc.

Re*mem"ber (r?-m?m"b?r), v. i. To execise or have the power of memory; as, some remember better than others. Shak.

Re*mem"ber*a*ble (-?-b'l), a. Capable or worthy of being remembered. -- Re*mem"ber*a*bly, adv.

The whole vale of Keswick is so rememberable.

Coleridge.

Re*mem"ber*er (-?r), n. One who remembers.

Re*mem"brance (-brans), n. [OF. remembrance.]

1. The act of remembering; a holding in mind, or bringing to mind; recollection.

Lest fierce remembrance wake my sudden rage.

Milton.

Lest the remembrance of his grief should fail.

Addison.

2. The state of being remembered, or held in mind; memory; recollection.

This, ever grateful, in remembrance bear.

Pope.

3. Something remembered; a person or thing kept in memory. Shak.

4. That which serves to keep in or bring to mind; a memorial; a token; a memento; a souvenir; a memorandum or note of something to be remembered.

And on his breast a bloody cross he bore, The dear remembrance of his dying Lord.

Spenser.

Keep this remembrance for thy Julia's sake.

Shak.

5. Something to be remembered; counsel; admoni&?;&?;on; instruction. [Obs.] Shak.

6. Power of remembering; reach of personal knowledge; period over which one's memory extends.

Thee I have heard relating what was done Ere my remembrance.

Milton.

Syn. -- Recollection; reminiscence. See Memory.

Re*mem"bran*cer (-bran-s?r), n. 1. One who, or that which, serves to bring to, or keep in, mind; a memento; a memorial; a reminder.

Premature consiolation is but the remembrancer of sorrow.

Goldsmith.

Ye that are the lord's remembrancers.

Isa. lxii. 6. (Rev. Ver.).

2. A term applied in England to several officers, having various functions, their duty originally being to bring certain matters to the attention of the proper persons at the proper time. "The remembrancer of the lord treasurer in the exchequer." Bacon.

Re*mem"o*rate (-?-r?t), v. i. [L. rememoratus, p. p. of rememorari. See Remember.] To recall something by means of memory; to remember. [Obs.] Bryskett.

Re*mem`o*ra"tion (-r?"sh?n), n. [F. remémoration, or L. rememoratio.] A recalling by the faculty of memory; remembrance. [Obs. & R.] Bp. Montagu.

Re*mem"o*ra*tive (r?-mEm"?-r?-t?v), a. Tending or serving to remind. [R.]

Rem"e*nant (r?m"?-nant), n. A remnant. [Obs.]

{ Re*mer"cie, Re*mer"cy } (r- mr"s), v. t. [F. remercier; pref. re- re- + OF. mercier to thank, from OF. & F. merci. See Mercy.] To thank. [Obs.]

She him remercied as the patron of her life.

Spenser.

Re*merge" (r?-m?rj"), v. i. To merge again. "Remerging in the general Soul." Tennyson.

{ Re*meve" (r?-mEv"), Re*mewe" (r?-m?") }, v. t. & i. To remove. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Rem"i*form (r?m"?*f?rm), a. [L. remus oar + -form.] Shaped like an oar.

||Rem"i*ges (r?m"?*j?z), n. pl.; sing. Remex. (r&?;"m&?;ks). [L. remex, ||- igis, an oarsman.] (Zoöl.) The quill feathers of the wings of a ||bird.

Rem"i*grate (r?m"?-gr?t or r?-m?"gr?t; 277), v. i. [L. remigrare. See Re-, and Migrate.] To migrate again; to go back; to return. Boyle.

Rem`i*gra"tion (r?m`?-gr?"sh?n), n. Migration back to the place from which one came. Sir M. Hale.

Re*mind" (r?-m?nd"), v. t. To put (one) in mind of something; to bring to the remembrance of; to bring to the notice or consideration of (a person).

When age itself, which will not be defied, shall begin to arrest, seize, and remind us of our mortality.

South.

Re*mind"er (-?r), n. One who, or that which, reminds; that which serves to awaken remembrance.

Re**mind"ful (f?l), a. Tending or adapted to remind; careful to remind. Southey.

Rem`i*nis"cence (r?m`?-n?s"sens), n. [F. réminiscence, L. reminiscentia.] 1. The act or power of recalling past experience; the state of being reminiscent; remembrance; memory.

The other part of memory, called reminiscence, which is the retrieving of a thing at present forgot, or but confusedly remembered.

South.

I forgive your want of reminiscence, since it is long since I saw you.

Sir W. Scott.

2. That which is remembered, or recalled to mind; a statement or narration of remembered experience; a recollection; as, pleasing or painful reminiscences.

Syn. -- Remembrance; recollection. See Memory.

Rem`i*nis"cen*cy (-sen-s?), n. Reminiscence. [Obs.]

Rem`i*nis"cent (-sent), a. [L. reminiscens, -entis, p. pr. of reminisci to recall to mind, to recollect; pref. re- re + a word akin to mens mind, memini I remember. See Mind.] Recalling to mind, or capable of recalling to mind; having remembrance; reminding one of something.

Some other of existence of which we have been previously conscious, and are now reminiscent.

Sir W. Hamilton.

Rem`i*nis"cent (r?m`?-n?s"sent), n. One who is addicted to indulging, narrating, or recording reminiscences.

Rem`i*nis*cen"tial (-n?s-s?n"shal), a. Of or pertaining to reminiscence, or remembrance. Sir T. Browne.

Rem"i*ped (r?m"?-p?d), a. [L. remus oar + pes, pedis, foot: cf. F. rémipède.] (Zoöl.) Having feet or legs that are used as oars; -- said of certain crustaceans and insects.

Rem"i*ped, n. (Zoöl.) (a) An animal having limbs like oars, especially one of certain crustaceans. (b) One of a group of aquatic beetles having tarsi adapted for swimming. See Water beetle.

Re*mise" (r?-m?z"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Remised (-m?zd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Remising.] [F. remise delivery, surrender, fr. remettre to put back, deliver, L. remittere. See Remit.] To send, give, or grant back; to release a claim to; to resign or surrender by deed; to return. Blackstone.

Re*mise", n. (Law) A giving or granting back; surrender; return; release, as of a claim.

Re*miss" (r?-m?s"), a. [L. remissus, p. p. of remittere to send back, relax. See Remit.] Not energetic or exact in duty or business; not careful or prompt in fulfilling engagements; negligent; careless; tardy; behindhand; lagging; slack; hence, lacking earnestness or activity; languid; slow.

Thou never wast remiss, I bear thee witness.

Milton.

These nervous, bold; those languid and remiss.

Roscommon.

Its motion becomes more languid and remiss.

Woodward.

Syn. -- Slack; dilatory; slothful; negligent; careless; neglectful; inattentive; heedles; thoughtless.

Re*miss", n. The act of being remiss; inefficiency; failure. [Obs.] "Remisses of laws." Puttenham.

Re*miss"ful (-f?l), a. Inclined to remit punishment; lenient; clement. Drayton.

Re*mis`si*bil"i*ty (r?-m?s`s?-b?l"?-t?), n. The state or quality of being remissible. Jer. Taylor.

Re*mis"si*ble (r?-m?s"s?-b'l), a. [L. remissibilis: cf. F. rémissible. See Remit.] Capable of being remitted or forgiven. Feltham.

Re*mis"sion (r?-m?sh"?n), n. [F. rémission, L. remissio. See Remit.] 1. The act of remitting, surrendering, resigning, or giving up.

2. Discharge from that which is due; relinquishment of a claim, right, or obligation; pardon of transgression; release from forfeiture, penalty, debt, etc.

This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

Matt. xxvi. 28.

That ples, therefore, . . . Will gain thee no remission.

Milton.

3. Diminution of intensity; abatement; relaxation.

4. (Med.) A temporary and incomplete subsidence of the force or violence of a disease or of pain, as destinguished from intermission, in which the disease completely leaves the patient for a time; abatement.

5. The act of sending back. [R.] Stackhouse.

6. Act of sending in payment, as money; remittance.

Re*mis"sive (r?-m?s"s?v), a. [L. remissivus. See Remit.] Remitting; forgiving; abating. Bp. Hacket.

Re*miss"ly (r?-m?s"l?), adv. In a remiss or negligent manner; carelessly.

Re*miss"ness, n. Quality or state of being remiss.

Re*mis"so*ry (r?-m?s"s?-r?), a. Serving or tending to remit, or to secure remission; remissive. "A sacrifice expiatory or remissory." Latimer.

Re*mit" (r?-m?t"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Remitted; p. pr. & vb. n. Remitting.] [L. remittere, remissum, to send back, to slacken, relax; pref. re- re- + mittere to send. See Mission, and cf. Remise, Remiss.] 1. To send back; to give up; to surrender; to resign.

In the case the law remits him to his ancient and more certain right.

Blackstone.

In grevious and inhuman crimes, offenders should be remitted to their prince.

Hayward.

The prisoner was remitted to the guard.

Dryden.

2. To restore. [Obs.]

The archbishop was . . . remitted to his liberty.

Hayward.

3. (Com.) To transmit or send, esp. to a distance, as money in payment of a demand, account, draft, etc.; as, he remitted the amount by mail.

4. To send off or away; hence: (a) To refer or direct (one) for information, guidance, help, etc. "Remitting them . . . to the works of Galen." Sir T. Elyot. (b) To submit, refer, or leave (something) for judgment or decision. "Whether the counsel be good I remit it to the wise readers." Sir T. Elyot.

5. To relax in intensity; to make less violent; to abate.

So willingly doth God remit his ire.

Milton.

6. To forgive; to pardon; to remove.

Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them.

John xx. 23.

7. To refrain from exacting or enforcing; as, to remit the performance of an obligation. "The sovereign was undoubtedly competent to remit penalties." Macaulay.

Syn. -- To relax; release; abate; relinguish; forgive; pardon; absolve.

Re*mit", v. i. 1. To abate in force or in violence; to grow less intense; to become moderated; to abate; to relax; as, a fever remits; the severity of the weather remits.

2. To send money, as in payment. Addison.

Re*mit"ment (-ment), n. The act of remitting, or the state of being remitted; remission.

Disavowing the remitment of Claudius.

Milton.

Re*mit"tal (-tal), n. A remitting; a giving up; surrender; as, the remittal of the first fruits. Swift.

Re*mit"tance (r?-m?t"tans), n. 1. The act of transmitting money, bills, or the like, esp. to a distant place, as in satisfaction of a demand, or in discharge of an obligation.

2. The sum or thing remitted. Addison.

Re*mit`tee" (r?-m?t`t?"), n. (Com.) One to whom a remittance is sent.

Re*mit"tent (r?-m?t"tent), a. [L. remittens, p. pr. : cf. F. rémittent.] Remitting; characterized by remission; having remissions.

Remittent fever (Med.), a fever in which the symptoms temporarily abate at regular intervals, but do not wholly cease. See Malarial fever, under Malarial.

Re*mit"ter (-t?r), n. 1. One who remits. Specifically: (a) One who pardons. (b) One who makes remittance.

2. (Law) The sending or placing back of a person to a title or right he had before; the restitution of one who obtains possession of property under a defective title, to his rights under some valid title by virtue of which he might legally have entered into possession only by suit. Bouvier.

||Re*mit"ti*tur (-t?-t?r), n. [L., (it) is remitted.] (Law) (a) A ||remission or surrender, -- remittitur damnut being a remission of ||excess of damages. (b) A sending back, as when a record is remitted ||by a superior to an inferior court. Wharton.

Re*mit"tor (-t?r), n. (Law) One who makes a remittance; a remitter.

Re*mix" (r?-m?ks"), v. t. To mix again or repeatedly.

Rem"nant (r?m"nant), a. [OF. remanant, p. pr. of remanoir, remaindre. See Remanent, Remain.] Remaining; yet left. [R.] "Because of the remnant dregs of his disease." Fuller.

And quiet dedicate her remnant life To the just duties of an humble wife.

Prior.

Rem"nant, n. [OF. remanant. See Remnant, a.]

1. That which remains after a part is removed, destroyed, used up, performed, etc.; residue. Chaucer.

The remnant that are left of the captivity.

Neh. i. 3.

The remnant of my tale is of a length To tire your patience.

Dryden.

2. A small portion; a slight trace; a fragment; a little bit; a scrap.

Some odd quirks and remnants of wit.

Shak.

3. (Com.) An unsold end of piece goods, as cloth, ribbons, carpets, etc.

Syn. -- Residue; rest; remains; remainder.

Re*mod"el (r?-m?d"?l), v. t. To model or fashion anew; to change the form of.

The corporation had been remodeled.

Macaulay.

Re*mod`i*fi*ca"tion (-?-f?-k?"sh?n), n. The act of remodifying; the state of being remodified.

Re*mod"i*fy (r?-m?d"?-f?), v. t. To modify again or anew; to reshape.

{ ||Ré`mo`lade" (r?`m?`l?d"), ||Ré`mou`lad" (r?`m??`l?d"), } n. [F.] A kind of piquant sauce or salad dressing resembling mayonnaise.

{ Re*mold", Re*mould" } (r*mld"), v. t. To mold or shape anew or again; to reshape.

Re*mol"lient (r?-m?l"yent or -l?-ent), a. [L. remolliens, p. pr. of remollire to mollify: cf. F. rémollient. See Mollient.] Mollifying; softening. [R.]

Re*mon`e*ti*za"tion (r?-m?n`?-t?-z?"sh?n or -m?n`-), n. The act of remonetizing.

Re*mon"e*tize (-t?z), v. t. To restore to use as money; as, to remonetize silver.

Re*mon"strance (-m?n"strans), n. [Cf. OF. remonstrance, F. remonstrance. See Remonstrate.] 1. The act of remonstrating; as: (a) A pointing out; manifestation; proof; demonstration. [Obs.]

You may marvel why I . . . would not rather Make rash remonstrance of my hidden power Than let him be so lost.

Shak.

(b) Earnest presentation of reason in opposition to something; protest; expostulation.

2. (R.C.Ch.) Same as Monstrance.

Re*mon"strant (-strant), a. [LL. remonstranc, -antis, p. pr. of remonstrare: cf. OF. remonstrant, F. remontrant.] Inclined or tending to remonstrate; expostulatory; urging reasons in opposition to something.

Re*mon"strant, n. One who remonstrates; specifically (Eccl. Hist.), one of the Arminians who remonstrated against the attacks of the Calvinists in 1610, but were subsequently condemned by the decisions of the Synod of Dort in 1618. See Arminian.

Re*mon"strant*ly, adv. In a remonstrant manner.

Re*mon"strate (-str?t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Remonstrated (-str&?;*t&?;d); p. pr. & vb. n. Remonstrating.] [LL. remonstratus, p. p. of remonstrare to remonstrate; L. pref. re- + monstrare to show. See Monster.] To point out; to show clearly; to make plain or manifest; hence, to prove; to demonstrate. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

I will remonstrate to you the third door.

B. Jonson.

Re*mon"strate, v. i. To present and urge reasons in opposition to an act, measure, or any course of proceedings; to expostulate; as, to remonstrate with a person regarding his habits; to remonstrate against proposed taxation.

It is proper business of a divine to state cases of conscience, and to remonstrate against any growing corruptions in practice, and especially in principles.

Waterland.

Syn. -- Expostulate, Remonstrate. These words are commonly interchangeable, the principal difference being that expostulate is now used especially to signify remonstrance by a superior or by one in authority. A son remonstrates against the harshness of a father; a father expostulates with his son on his waywardness. Subjects remonstrate with their rulers; sovereigns expostulate with the parliament or the people.

Re`mon*stra"tion (r?`m?n*str?"sh?n), n. [Cf. OF. remonstration, LL. remonstratio.] The act of remonstrating; remonstrance. [R.] Todd.

Re*mon"stra*tive (r?*m?n"str?*t?v), a. Having the character of a remonstrance; expressing remonstrance.

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Re*mon"stra*tor (r?*m?n"str?*t?r), n. One who remonstrates; a remonsrant. Bp. Burnet.

Re*mon"tant (-tant), a.[F.] (Hort.) Rising again; -- applied to a class of roses which bloom more than once in a season; the hybrid perpetual roses, of which the Jacqueminot is a well-known example.

||Re*mon`toir" (re-m?n"tw?r"; E. r?- m?n"tw?r), n. [F.] (Horology) See ||under Escapement.

||Rem"o*ra (r?m"?*r?), n. [L.: cf. F. rémora.]

1. Delay; obstacle; hindrance. [Obs.] Milton.

2. (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of fishes belonging to Echeneis, Remora, and allied genera. Called also sucking fish.

The anterior dorsal fin is converted into a large sucking disk, having two transverse rows of lamellæ, situated on the top of the head. They adhere firmly to sharks and other large fishes and to vessels by this curious sucker, letting go at will. The pegador, or remora of sharks (Echeneis naucrates), and the swordfish remora (Remora brachyptera), are common American species.

3. (Surg.) An instrument formerly in use, intended to retain parts in their places. Dunglison.

Rem"o*rate (-r?t), v. t. [L. remoratus, p. p. of remorari; pref. re- re- + morari to delay.] To hinder; to delay. [Obs.] Johnson.

Re*mord" (r?-m?rd"), v. t. [L. remordere to bite again, to torment: cf. F. remordre. See Remorse.] To excite to remorse; to rebuke. [Obs.] Skelton.

Re*mord", v. i. To feel remorse. [Obs.] Sir T. Elyot.

Re*mord"en*cy (-en*s?), n. Remorse; compunction; compassion. [Obs.] Killingbeck.

Re*morse" (r?*m?rs"), n. [OE. remors, OF. remors,F. remords, LL. remorsus, fr. L. remordere, remorsum, to bite again or back, to torment; pref. re- re- + mordere to bite. See Morsel.] 1. The anguish, like gnawing pain, excited by a sense of guilt; compunction of conscience for a crime committed, or for the sins of one's past life. "Nero will be tainted with remorse." Shak.

2. Sympathetic sorrow; pity; compassion.

Curse on the unpardoning prince, whom tears can draw To no remorse.

Dryden.

But evermore it seem'd an easier thing At once without remorse to strike her dead.

Tennyson.

Syn. -- Compunction; regret; anguish; grief; compassion. See Compunction.

Re*morsed" (r?-m?rst"), a. Feeling remorse. [Obs.]

Re*morse"ful (-m?rs"f?l), a. 1. Full of remorse.

The full tide of remorseful passion had abated.

Sir W. Scott.

2. Compassionate; feeling tenderly. [Obs.] Shak.

3. Exciting pity; pitiable. [Obs.] Chapman.

-- Re*morse"ful*ly, adv. -- Re*morse"ful*ness, n.

Re*morse"less, a. Being without remorse; having no pity; hence, destitute of sensibility; cruel; insensible to distress; merciless. "Remorseless adversaries." South. "With remorseless cruelty." Milton.

Syn. -- Unpitying; pitiless; relentless; unrelenting; implacable; merciless; unmerciful; savage; cruel.

-- Re*morse"less*ly, adv. -- Re*morse"less*ness, n.

Re*mote" (r?-m?t"), a. [Compar. Remoter (-?r); superl. Remotest.] [L. remotus, p. p. of removere to remove. See Remove.] 1. Removed to a distance; not near; far away; distant; -- said in respect to time or to place; as, remote ages; remote lands.

Places remote enough are in Bohemia.

Shak.

Remote from men, with God he passed his days.

Parnell.

2. Hence, removed; not agreeing, according, or being related; -- in various figurative uses. Specifically: (a) Not agreeing; alien; foreign. "All these propositions, how remote soever from reason." Locke. (b) Not nearly related; not close; as, a remote connection or consanguinity. (c) Separate; abstracted. "Wherever the mind places itself by any thought, either amongst, or remote from, all bodies." Locke. (d) Not proximate or acting directly; primary; distant. "From the effect to the remotest cause." Granville. (e) Not obvious or sriking; as, a remote resemblance.

3. (Bot.) Separated by intervals greater than usual.

-- Re*mote"ly, adv. -- Re*mote"ness, n.

Re*mo"tion (r?-m?"sh?n), n. [L. remotio. See Remove.] 1. The act of removing; removal. [Obs.]

This remotion of the duke and her Is practice only.

Shak.

2. The state of being remote; remoteness. [R.]

The whitish gleam [of the stars] was the mask conferred by the enormity of their remotion.

De Quincey.

Re*mould" (r?-m?ld"), v. t. See Remold.

Re*mount" (r?-mount"), v. t. & i. To mount again.

Re*mount", n. The opportunity of, or things necessary for, remounting; specifically, a fresh horse, with his equipments; as, to give one a remount.

Re*mov"a*ble (r?-m??v"?-b'l), a. Admitting of being removed. Ayliffe. -- Re*mov`a*bil"i*ty (-&?;-b&?;l"&?;-t&?;), n.

Re*mov"al (-al), n. The act of removing, or the state of being removed.

Re*move" (r?-m??v"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Removed (-m??vd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Removing.] [OF. removoir, remouvoir, L. removere, remotum; pref. re- re- + movere to move. See Move.] 1. To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building.

Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark.

Deut. xix. 14.

When we had dined, to prevent the ladies' leaving us, I generally ordered the table to be removed.

Goldsmith.

2. To cause to leave a person or thing; to cause to cease to be; to take away; hence, to banish; to destroy; to put an end to; to kill; as, to remove a disease. "King Richard thus removed." Shak.

3. To dismiss or discharge from office; as, the President removed many postmasters.

See the Note under Remove, v. i.

Re*move" (r?-m??v"), v. i. To change place in any manner, or to make a change in place; to move or go from one residence, position, or place to another.

Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane, I can not taint with fear.

Shak.

The verb remove, in some of its application, is synonymous with move, but not in all. Thus we do not apply remove to a mere change of posture, without a change of place or the seat of a thing. A man moves his head when he turns it, or his finger when he bends it, but he does not remove it. Remove usually or always denotes a change of place in a body, but we never apply it to a regular, continued course or motion. We never say the wind or water, or a ship, removes at a certain rate by the hour; but we say a ship was removed from one place in a harbor to another. Move is a generic term, including the sense of remove, which is more generally applied to a change from one station or permanent position, stand, or seat, to another station.

Re*move", n. 1. The act of removing; a removal.

This place should be at once both school and university, not needing a remove to any other house of scholarship.

Milton.

And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.

Goldsmith.

2. The transfer of one's business, or of one's domestic belongings, from one location or dwelling house to another; - - in the United States usually called a move.

It is an English proverb that three removes are as bad as a fire.

J. H. Newman.

3. The state of being removed. Locke.

4. That which is removed, as a dish removed from table to make room for something else.

5. The distance or space through which anything is removed; interval; distance; stage; hence, a step or degree in any scale of gradation; specifically, a division in an English public school; as, the boy went up two removes last year.

A freeholder is but one remove from a legislator.

Addison.

6. (Far.) The act of resetting a horse's shoe. Swift.

Re*moved" (r?-m??vd"), a. 1. Changed in place.

2. Dismissed from office.

3. Distant in location; remote. "Something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling." Shak.

4. Distant by degrees in relationship; as, a cousin once removed.

-- Re*mov"ed*ness (r&?;-m&?;&?;v"&?;d-n&?;s), n. Shak.

Re*mov"er (-?r), n. One who removes; as, a remover of landmarks. Bacon.

Re*mu"a*ble (r?-m?"?-b'l), a. [F.] That may be removed; removable. [Obs.] Gower.

Re*mue" (r?-m?"), v. t. [F. remuer. See Mew to molt.] To remove. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Re*mu"gi*ent (r?-m?"j?-ent), a. [L. remugiens, p. pr. of remugire. See Mugient.] Rebellowing. Dr. H. More.

Re**mu"ner*a*ble (r?-m?"n?r-?-b'l), a. [See Remunerate.] Admitting, or worthy, of remuneration. -- Re*mu`ner*a*bil"i*ty (r&?;-m&?;"n&?;r- &?;-b&?;l"i-t&?;), n.

Re*mu"ner*ate (-?t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Remunerated (-?"t?d); p. pr. & vb. n. Remunerating.] [L. remuneratus, p. p. of remunerare, remunerari; pref. re- re- + munerare, munerari, to give, present, from munus, muneris, a gift, present. Cf. Munificent.] To pay an equivalent to for any service, loss, expense, or other sacrifice; to recompense; to requite; as, to remunerate men for labor.

Syn. -- To reward; recompense; compensate; satisfy; requite; repay; pay; reimburse.

Re*mu`ner*a"tion (-?"sh?n), n. [L. remuneratio: cf. F. rémunération.] 1. The act of remunerating.

2. That which is given to remunerate; an equivalent given, as for services, loss, or sufferings. Shak.

Syn. -- Reward; recompense; compensation; pay; payment; repayment; satisfaction; requital.

Re*mu"ner*a*tive (r?-m?"n?r-?-t?v), a. [Cf.F. rémun&?;ratif.] Affording remuneration; as, a remunerative payment for services; a remunerative business. -Re*mu"ner*a*tive*ly, adv. -- Re*mu"ner*a*tive*ness, n.

Re*mu"ner*a*to*ry (-t?-r?), a. [Cf. F. rémun&?;ratoire.] Remunerative. Johnson.

Re*mur"mur (r?-m?r"m?r), v. t. & i. [Pref. re- + murmur: cf. F. remurmurare.] To murmur again; to utter back, or reply, in murmurs.

The trembling trees, in every plain and wood, Her fate remurmur to the silver flood.

Pope.

Ren (r?n), v. t. & i. See Renne. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Ren, n. A run. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Ren"a*ble (r?n"?-b'l), a. [OF. resnable.] Reasonable; also, loquacious. [Obs.] "Most renable of tongue." Piers Plowman. -- Ren"a*bly, adv. [Obs.] Chaucer.

||Re*nais`sance" (F. re-n`säNs"; E. r-ns"sans), n. [F., fr. renaître to ||be born again. Cf. Renascence.] A new birth, or revival. ||Specifically: (a) The transitional movement in Europe, marked by the ||revival of classical learning and art in Italy in the 15th century, ||and the similar revival following in other countries. (b) The style ||of art which prevailed at this epoch.

The Renaissance was rather the last stage of the Middle Ages, emerging from ecclesiastical and feudal despotism, developing what was original in mediæval ideas by the light of classic arts and letters.

J. A. Symonds (Encyc. Brit.).

Re*nais"sant (r?-n?s"sant), a. Of or pertaining to the Renaissance.

Re"nal (r?"nal), a. [L. renalis, fr. renes the kidneys or reins: cf. F. rénal. See Reins.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the kidneys; in the region of the kidneys.

Renal calculus (Med.), a concretion formed in the excretory passages of the kidney. -- Renal capsules or glands, the suprarenal capsules. See under Capsule. -- Renal casts, Renal colic. (Med.) See under Cast, and Colic.

Re"nal-por`tal (r?"nal-p?r"tal), a. (Anat.) Both renal and portal. See Portal.

Re*name" (r?*n?m"), v. t. To give a new name to.

Ren"ard (r?n"?rd), n. [F. renard the fox, the name of the fox in a celebrated epic poem, and of German origin, G. Reinhard, OHG. Reginhard, properly, strong in counsel; regin counsel (akin to Goth. ragin) + hart hard. See Hard.] A fox; -- so called in fables or familiar tales, and in poetry. [Written also reynard.]

Ren"ard*ine (-?n), a. Of or pertaining to Renard, the fox, or the tales in which Renard is mentioned.

Re*nas"cence (r?-n?s"sens), n. [See Renascent, and cf. Renaissance.] 1. The state of being renascent.

Read the Ph&?;nix, and see how the single image of renascence is varied.

Coleridge.

2. Same as Renaissance.

The Renascence . . . which in art, in literature, and in physics, produced such splendid fruits.

M. Arnold.

Re*nas"cen*cy (-sen-s?), n. State of being renascent.

Re*nas"cent (-sent), a. [L. renascens, p. pr. of renasci to be born again; pref. re- re- + nasci to be born. See Nascent.] 1. Springing or rising again into being; being born again, or reproduced.

2. See Renaissant.

Re*nas"ci*ble (-s?-b'l), a. [LL. renascibilis, from L. renasci to be born again.] Capable of being reproduced; ablle to spring again into being.

Re*nate" (r?-n?t"), a. [L. renatus, p. p. of renasci.] Born again; regenerate; renewed. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Re*nav"i*gate (r?-n?v"?-g?t), v. t. To navigate again.

Re*nay" (r?-n?"), v. t. [OF. reneier, F. renier, F. renier; L. pref. re- re- + negare to deny. See Renegade.] To deny; to disown. [Obs.]

Ren*con"tre (r?n-k?n"t?r; F. r?N`k?n"tr'), n. [F.] Same as Rencounter, n.

Ren*coun"ter (r?n-koun"t?r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rencountered (-t?rd); p. pr. & vb/ n. Rencountering.] [F. rencontrer; pref. re- + OF. encontrer to encounter. See Encounter.] 1. To meet unexpectedly; to encounter.

2. To attack hand to hand. [Obs.] Spenser.

Ren*coun"ter, v. i. To meet unexpectedly; to encounter in a hostile manner; to come in collision; to skirmish.

Ren*coun"ter, n. [F. rencontre, from renconter to meet.] 1. A meeting of two persons or bodies; a collision; especially, a meeting in opposition or contest; a combat, action, or engagement.

The justling chiefs in rude rencounter join.

Granville.

2. A causal combat or action; a sudden contest or fight without premeditation, as between individuals or small parties.

The confederates should . . . outnumber the enemy in all rencounters and engagements.

Addison.

Syn. -- Combat; fight; conflict; collision; clash.

Rend (rnd), 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.

Rend, v. i. To be rent or torn; to become parted; to separate; to split. Jer. Taylor.

Rend"er (-?r), n. [From Rend.] One who rends.

Ren"der (r?n"d?r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rendered (-d?rd);p. pr. & vb. n. Rendering.] [F. rendre, LL. rendre, fr. L. reddere; pref. red-, re-, re- + dare to give. See Datetime, and cf. Reddition, Rent.] 1. To return; to pay back; to restore.

Whose smallest minute lost, no riches render may.

Spenser.

2. To inflict, as a retribution; to requite.

I will render vengeance to mine enemies.

Deut. xxxii. 41.

3. To give up; to yield; to surrender.

I 'll make her render up her page to me.

Shak.

4. Hence, to furnish; to contribute.

Logic renders its daily service to wisdom and virtue.

I. Watts.

5. To furnish; to state; to deliver; as, to render an account; to render judgment.

6. To cause to be, or to become; as, to render a person more safe or more unsafe; to render a fortress secure.

7. To translate from one language into another; as, to render Latin into English.

8. To interpret; to set forth, represent, or exhibit; as, an actor renders his part poorly; a singer renders a passage of music with great effect; a painter renders a scene in a felicitous manner.

He did render him the most unnatural That lived amongst men.

Shak.

9. To try out or extract (oil, lard, tallow, etc.) from fatty animal substances; as, to render tallow.

10. To plaster, as a wall of masonry, without the use of lath.

Ren"der, v. i. 1. To give an account; to make explanation or confession. [Obs.]

2. (Naut.) To pass; to run; -- said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc.; as, a rope renders well, that is, passes freely; also, to yield or give way. Totten.

Ren"der, n. 1. A surrender. [Obs.] Shak.

2. A return; a payment of rent.

In those early times the king's household was supported by specific renders of corn and other victuals from the tenants of the demains.

Blackstone.

3. An account given; a statement. [Obs.] Shak.

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Ren"der*a*ble (r?n"d?r-?-b'l), a. Capable of being rendered.

Ren"der*er (-?r), n. 1. One who renders.

2. A vessel in which lard or tallow, etc., is rendered.

Ren"der*ing, n. The act of one who renders, or that which is rendered. Specifically: (a) A version; translation; as, the rendering of the Hebrew text. Lowth. (b) In art, the presentation, expression, or interpretation of an idea, theme, or part. (c) The act of laying the first coat of plaster on brickwork or stonework. (d) The coat of plaster thus laid on. Gwilt. (e) The process of trying out or extracting lard, tallow, etc., from animal fat.

Ren"dez*vous (r?n"d?*v or r?n"-; 277), n.; pl. Rendezvouses (r&?;n"d&?;-v`z&?;z). [Rare in the plural.] [F. rendez- vous, properly, render yourselves, repair to a place. See Render.] 1. A place appointed for a meeting, or at which persons customarily meet.

An inn, the free rendezvous of all travelers.

Sir W. Scott.

2. Especially, the appointed place for troops, or for the ships of a fleet, to assemble; also, a place for enlistment.

The king appointed his whole army to be drawn together to a rendezvous at Marlborough.

Clarendon.

3. A meeting by appointment. Sprat.

4. Retreat; refuge. [Obs.] Shak.

Ren"dez*vous (rn"d*v or räN"-; 277), v. i. [imp. &. p. p. Rendezvoused (-vd); p. pr. & vb. n. Rendezvousing (-v*ng).] To assemble or meet at a particular place.

Ren"dez*vous, v. t. To bring together at a certain place; to cause to be assembled. Echard.

Rend"i*ble (r?nd"?-b'l), a. [From Rend.] Capable of being rent or torn.

Ren"di*ble (r?n"d?-b'l), a. [See Render.] Capable, or admitting, of being rendered.

Ren*di"tion (r?n-d?sh"?n), n. [LL. rendere to render: cf. L. redditio. See Render, and cf. Reddition.]

1. The act of rendering; especially, the act of surrender, as of fugitives from justice, at the claim of a foreign government; also, surrender in war.

The rest of these brave men that suffered in cold blood after articles of rendition.

Evelyn.

2. Translation; rendering; version.

This rendition of the word seems also most naturally to agree with the genuine meaning of some other words in the same verse.

South.

Rend"rock` (r?nd"r?k`), n. A kind of dynamite used in blasting. [U.S.]

Ren"e*gade (r?n"?-g?d), n. [Sp. renegado, LL. renegatus, fr. renegare to deny; L. pref. re- re- + negare to deny. See Negation, and cf. Runagate.] One faithless to principle or party. Specifically: (a) An apostate from Christianity or from any form of religious faith.

James justly regarded these renegades as the most serviceable tools that he could employ.

Macaulay.

(b) One who deserts from a military or naval post; a deserter. Arbuthnot. (c) A common vagabond; a worthless or wicked fellow.

Ren`e*ga"do (r?n`?-g?"d?), n. [Sp.] See Renegade.

Ren"e*gat (r?n"?-g?t), n. [See Runegate.] A renegade. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Ren`e*ga"tion (r?n`?-ga"sh?n), n. A denial. [R.] "Absolute renegation of Christ." Milman.

Re*nege" (r?-n?j" or r?-n?g"), v. t. [LL. renegare. See Renegade.] To deny; to disown. [Obs.] Shak.

All Europe high (all sorts of rights reneged) Against the truth and thee unholy leagued.

Sylvester.

Re*nege", v. i. 1. To deny. [Obs.] Shak.

2. (Card Playing) To revoke. [R.]

Re*nerve" (r?-n?rv"), v. t. To nerve again; to give new vigor to; to reinvigorate.

Re*new" (r?-n?"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reneved (-n?d"); p. pr. & vb. n. Renewing.] [Pref. re- + new. Cf. Renovate.] 1. To make new again; to restore to freshness, perfection, or vigor; to give new life to; to rejuvenate; to re&?;stablish; to recreate; to rebuild.

In such a night Medea gathered the enchanted herbs That did renew old &?;son.

Shak.

2. Specifically, to substitute for (an old obligation or right) a new one of the same nature; to continue in force; to make again; as, to renew a lease, note, or patent.

3. To begin again; to recommence.

The last great age . . . renews its finished course.

Dryden.

4. To repeat; to go over again.

The birds-their notes renew.

Milton.

5. (Theol.) To make new spiritually; to regenerate.

Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.

Rom. xii. 2.

Re*new", v. i. To become new, or as new; to grow or begin again.

Re*new`a*bil"i*ty (-?-b?l"?-t?), n. The quality or state of being renewable. [R.]

Re*new"a*ble (r?-n?"?-b'l), a. Capable of being renewed; as, a lease renewable at pleasure. Swift.

Re*new"al (-al), n. The act of renewing, or the state of being renewed; as, the renewal of a treaty.

Re*new"ed*ly, adv. Again; once more. [U.S.]

Re*new"ed*ness, n. The state of being renewed.

Re*new"er (-?r), n. One who, or that which, renews.

Re*neye" (r?-n?"), v. t. [See Renay.] To deny; to reject; to renounce. [Obs.]

For he made every man reneye his law.

Chaucer.

Reng (r?ng), n. [See Rank, n.] 1. A rank; a row. [Obs.] "In two renges fair." Chaucer.

2. A rung or round of a ladder. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Re*nid`i*fi*ca"tion (r?-n?d`?-f?-k?"sh?n), n. (Zoöl.) The act of rebuilding a nest.

Ren"i*form (r?n"?-f?rm; 277), a. [L. renes kidneys + -form: cf. F. réniforme.] Having the form or shape of a kidney; as, a reniform mineral; a reniform leaf.

{ Re*ni"tence (r?-n?"tens), Re*ni"ten*cy (-te-s?), } n. [Cf. F. rénitence.] The state or quality of being renitent; resistance; reluctance. Sterne.

We find a renitency in ourselves to ascribe life and irritability to the cold and motionless fibers of plants.

E. Darwin.

Re*ni"tent (-tent), a. [L. renitens, -entis, p. pr. of renit to strive or struggle against, resist; pref. re- re- + niti to struggle or strive: cf. F. rénitent.] 1. Resisting pressure or the effect of it; acting against impulse by elastic force. "[Muscles] soft and yet renitent." Ray.

2. Persistently opposed.

Ren"ne (r?n"ne), v. t. To plunder; -- only in the phrase "to rape and renne." See under Rap, v. t., to snatch. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Ren"ne, v. i. To run. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Ren"ner (-n?r), n. A runner. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Ren"net (r?n"n?t), n. [F. rainette, reinette, perhaps fr. raine a tree frog, L. rana, because it is spotted like this kind of frog. Cf. Ranunculus.] (Bot.) A name of many different kinds of apples. Cf. Reinette. Mortimer.

Ren"net, n. [AS. rinnan, rennan, to run, cf. gerinnan to curdle, coagulate. &radic;11. See Run, v.] The inner, or mucous, membrane of the fourth stomach of the calf, or other young ruminant; also, an infusion or preparation of it, used for coagulating milk. [Written also runnet.]

Cheese rennet. (Bot.) See under Cheese. -- Rennet ferment (Physiol. Chem.), a ferment, present in rennet and in variable quantity in the gastric juice of most animals, which has the power of curdling milk. The ferment presumably acts by changing the casein of milk from a soluble to an insoluble form. -- Rennet stomach (Anat.), the fourth stomach, or abomasum, of ruminants.

Ren"net*ed, a. Provided or treated with rennet. [R.] "Pressed milk renneted." Chapman.

Ren"net*ing, n. (Bot.) Same as 1st Rennet.

Ren"ning (r?n"n?ng), n. See 2d Rennet. [Obs.]

Asses' milk is holden for to be thickest, and therefore they use it instead of renning, to turn milk.

Holland.

Re`no*mee" (r`n*m"), n. [F. renommée.] Renown. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Re*nounce" (r*nouns"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Renounced (-nounst"); p. pr. & vb. n. Renouncing (-noun"s?ng).] [F. renoncer, L. renuntiare to bring back word, announce, revoke, retract, renounce; pref. re- re- + nuntiare to announce, fr. nuncius, a messenger. See Nuncio, and cf. Renunciation.] 1. To declare against; to reject or decline formally; to refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one; to disclaim; as, to renounce a title to land or to a throne.

2. To cast off or reject deliberately; to disown; to dismiss; to forswear.

This world I do renounce, and in your sights Shake patiently my great affliction off.

Shak.

3. (Card Playing) To disclaim having a card of (the suit led) by playing a card of another suit.

To renounce probate (Law), to decline to act as the executor of a will. Mozley & W.

Syn. -- To cast off; disavow; disown; disclaim; deny; abjure; recant; abandon; forsake; quit; forego; resign; relinquish; give up; abdicate. -- Renounce, Abjure, Recant. -- To renounce is to make an affirmative declaration of abandonment. To abjure is to renounce with, or as with, the solemnity of an oath. To recant is to renounce or abjure some proposition previously affirmed and maintained.

From Thebes my birth I own; . . . since no disgrace Can force me to renounce the honor of my race.

Dryden.

Either to die the death, or to abjure Forever the society of man.

Shak.

Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void.

Milton.

Re*nounce", v. i. 1. To make renunciation. [Obs.]

He of my sons who fails to make it good, By one rebellious act renounces to my blood.

Dryden.

2. (Law) To decline formally, as an executor or a person entitled to letters of administration, to take out probate or letters.

Dryden died without a will, and his widow having renounced, his son Charles administered on June 10.

W. D. Christie.

Re*nounce", n. (Card Playing) Act of renouncing.

Re*nounce"ment (-ment), n. [Cf. F. renoncement.] The act of disclaiming or rejecting; renunciation. Shak.

Re*noun"cer (r?-noun"s?r), n. One who renounces.

Ren"o*vate (r?n"?-v?t), v. t. [L. renovatus, p. p. of renovare;pref. re- re- + novare to make new, fr. novus new. See New, and &?;&?; Renew.] To make over again; to restore to freshness or vigor; to renew.

All nature feels the reniovating force Of winter.

Thomson.

Ren`o**va"tion (-v?"sh?n), n. [L. renovatio: cf. F. rénovation.] The act or process of renovating; the state of being renovated or renewed. Thomson.

There is something inexpressibly pleasing in the annual renovation of the world.

Rabbler.

Ren"o*va`tor (r?n"?-v?`t?r), n. [L.: cf. F. rénovateur.] One who, or that which, renovates. Foster.

Re*nov"el (r?-n?v"el), v. t. [F. renouveler to renew.] To renew; to renovate. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Re*nov"el*ance (-ans), n. Renewal. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Re*nowme" (r?-noum"), n. Renown. [Obs.]

The glory and renowme of the ancectors.

Robynson (More's Utopia).

Re*nowmed" (r?-noumd"), a. Renowned. [Obs.]

Re*nown" (r?-noun"), n. [F. renom. See Noun, and cf. Renown, v.] 1. The state of being much known and talked of; exalted reputation derived from the extensive praise of great achievements or accomplishments; fame; celebrity; -- always in a good sense.

Nor envy we Thy great renown, nor grudge thy victory.

Dryden.

2. Report of nobleness or exploits; praise.

This famous duke of Milan, Of whom so often I have heard renown.

Shak.

Re*nown" (r?-noun"), v. t. [F. renommer to name again, celebrate, make famous; pref. re- re- + nommer to name, L. nominare , fr. nomen a name. See Noun.] To make famous; to give renown to. [Obs.]

For joi to hear me so renown his son.

Chapman.

The bard whom pilfered pastorals renown.

Pope.

Re*nowned" (r?-nound"), a. Famous; celebrated for great achievements, for distinguished qualities, or for grandeur; eminent; as, a renowned king. "Some renowned metropolis with glistering spires." Milton.

These were the renowned of the congregation.

Num. i. 61.

Syn. -- Famous; famed; distinguished; noted; eminent; celebrated; remarkable; wonderful. See Famous.

Re*nown"ed*ly (r?-noun"?d-l?), adv. With renown.

Re*nown"er (-?r), n. One who gives renown. [R.]

Re*nown"ful (-f?l), a. Having great renown; famous. "Renownful Scipio." Marston.

Re*nown"less, a. Without renown; inglorius.

Rens"se*laer*ite (r?ns"se-l?r-?t), n. (Min.) A soft, compact variety of talc,, being an altered pyroxene. It is often worked in a lathe into inkstands and other articles.

Rent (r?nt), v. i. To rant. [R. & Obs.] Hudibras.

Rent, imp. & p. p. of Rend.

Rent, n. [From Rend.] 1. An opening made by rending; a break or breach made by force; a tear.

See what a rent the envious Casca made.

Shak.

2. Figuratively, a schism; a rupture of harmony; a separation; as, a rent in the church.

Syn. -- Fissure; breach; disrupture; rupture; tear; dilaceration; break; fracture.

Rent, v. t. To tear. See Rend. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Rent, n. [F. rente, LL. renta, fr. L. reddita, fem. sing. or neut. pl. of redditus, p. p. of reddere to give back, pay. See Render.] 1. Income; revenue. See Catel. [Obs.] "Catel had they enough and rent." Chaucer.

[Bacchus] a waster was and all his rent In wine and bordel he dispent.

Gower.

So bought an annual rent or two, And liv'd, just as you see I do.

Pope.

2. Pay; reward; share; toll. [Obs.]

Death, that taketh of high and low his rent.

Chaucer.

3. (Law) A certain periodical profit, whether in money, provisions, chattels, or labor, issuing out of lands and tenements in payment for the use; commonly, a certain pecuniary sum agreed upon between a tenant and his landlord, paid at fixed intervals by the lessee to the lessor, for the use of land or its appendages; as, rent for a farm, a house, a park, etc.

The term rent is also popularly applied to compensation for the use of certain personal chattels, as a piano, a sewing machine, etc.

Black rent. See Blackmail, 3. -- Forehand rent, rent which is paid in advance; foregift. -- Rent arrear, rent in arrears; unpaid rent. Blackstone. -- Rent charge (Law), a rent reserved on a conveyance of land in fee simple, or granted out of lands by deed; -- so called because, by a covenant or clause in the deed of conveyance, the land is charged with a distress for the payment of it. Bouvier. -- Rent roll, a list or account of rents or income; a rental. -- Rent seck (Law), a rent reserved by deed, but without any clause of distress; barren rent. A power of distress was made incident to rent seck by Statute 4 George II. c. 28. -- Rent service (Eng. Law), rent reserved out of land held by fealty or other corporeal service; -- so called from such service being incident to it. -- White rent, a quitrent when paid in silver; -- opposed to black rent.

Rent, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rented; p. pr. & vb. n. Renting.] [F. renter. See Rent, n.] 1. To grant the possession and enjoyment of, for a rent; to lease; as, the owwner of an estate or house rents it.

2. To take and hold under an agreement to pay rent; as, the tennant rents an estate of the owner.

Rent, v. i. To be leased, or let for rent; as, an estate rents for five hundred dollars a year.

Rent"a*ble (-?-b'l), a. Capable of being rented, or suitable for renting.

Rent"age (-?j), n. [Cf. OF. rentage.] Rent. [Obs.]

Rent"al (-al), n. [LL. rentale, fr. renta. See Rent income.] 1. A schedule, account, or list of rents, with the names of the tenants, etc.; a rent roll.

2. A sum total of rents; as, an estate that yields a rental of ten thousand dollars a year.

||Rente (räNt), n. [F. See Rent income.] In France, interest payable by ||government on indebtedness; the bonds, shares, stocks, etc., which ||represent government indebtedness.

Rent"er (r?nt"?r), n. One who rents or leases an estate; -- usually said of a lessee or tenant.

Ren"ter (r?n"t?r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rentered (-t?rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Rentering.] [F. rentraire; L. pref. re- re- + in into, in + trahere to draw.] 1. To sew together so that the seam is scarcely visible; to sew up with skill and nicety; to finedraw.

2. To restore the original design of, by working in new warp; -- said with reference to tapestry.

Ren"ter*er (-?r), n. One who renters.

||Ren`tier" (r?N`ty?"), n. [F. See 5th Rent.] One who has a fixed ||income, as from lands, stocks, or the like.

Re*nu"mer*ate (r?-n?"m?r-?t), v. t. [L. renumeratus, p. p. of renumerare to count over, count up; pref. re- re- + numerare to count. See Numerate.] To recount.

Re*nun`ci*a"tion (r?-n?n`s?-?"sh?n or -sh?-?"sh?n; 277), n. [Cf. F. renonciation, L. renuntiatio ann announcement. See Renounce.] 1. The act of renouncing.

2. (Law) Formal declination to take out letters of administration, or to assume an office, privilege, or right.

Syn. -- Renouncement; disownment; disavowal; disavowment; disclaimer; rejection; abjuration; recantation; denial; abandonment; relinquishment.

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Re*nun"ci*a*to*ry (r?-n?n"sh?-?-t?-r?), a. [Cf. LL. renuntiatorius.] Pertaining to renunciation; containing or declaring a renunciation; as, renunciatory vows.

Ren*verse" (r?n-vErs"), v. t. [F. renverser; L. pref. re- re- + in in, into + versare, v. intens. fr. vertere to turn.] To reverse. [Obs.]

Whose shield he bears renverst.

Spenser.

{ Ren*verse" (r?n*v?rs"), or ||Ren`ver`sé" (r?n`v?r`s?") }, a. [F. renversé, p. p. ] (Her.) Reversed; set with the head downward; turned contrary to the natural position.

Ren*verse"ment (-ment), n. [F.] A reversing. [Obs.]

Ren*voy" (-voi"), v. t. [F. renvoyer.] To send back. [Obs.] "Not dismissing or renvoying her." Bacon.

Ren*voy", n. [F. renvoi.] A sending back. [Obs.]

Re`ob*tain" (r?`?b-t?n"), v. t. To obtain again.

Re`ob*tain"a*ble (-?-b'l), a. That may be reobtained.

Re*oc"cu*py (r?-?k"k?-p?), v. t. To occupy again.

Re*om"e*ter (r?-?m"?-t$r), n. Same as Rheometer.

Re*o"pen (r?-?"p'n), v. t. & i. To open again.

Re`op*pose" (r?`?p-p?z"), v. t. To oppose again.

Re`or*dain" (r?`?r-d?n"), v. t. [Pref. re- re- + ordain: cf. F. réordonner.] To ordain again, as when the first ordination is considered defective. Bp. Burnet.

Re*or"der (r?-?r"d?r), v. t. To order a second time.

Re*or`di*na"tion, n. A second ordination.

Re*or`gan*i*za"tion (-gan-?-z?"sh?n), n. The act of reorganizing; a reorganized existence; as, reorganization of the troops.

Re*or"gan*ize (r?-?r"gan-?z), v. t. & i. To organize again or anew; as, to reorganize a society or an army.

Re*o"ri*ent (r?-?"r?-ent), a. Rising again. [R.]

The life reorient out of dust.

Tennyson.

Re"o*stat (r?"?-st?t), n. (Physics) See Rheostat.

Re"o*trope (-tr?p), n. (Physics) See Rheotrope.

Rep (r?p), n. [Prob. a corruption of rib: cf. F. reps.] A fabric made of silk or wool, or of silk and wool, and having a transversely corded or ribbed surface.

Rep, a. Formed with a surface closely corded, or ribbed transversely; -- applied to textile fabrics of silk or wool; as, rep silk.

Re*pace" (r?-p?s"), v. t. To pace again; to walk over again in a contrary direction.

Re*pac"i*fy (r?-p?s"?-f?), v. t. To pacify again.

Re*pack" (r?-p?k"), v. t. To pack a second time or anew; as, to repack beef; to repack a trunk.

Re*pack"er (-?r), n. One who repacks.

Re*pa"gan*ize (r?-p?"gan-?z), v. t. To paganize anew; to bring back to paganism.

Re*paid" (r?-p?d"), imp. & p. p. of Repay.

Re*paint" (r?-p?nt"), v. t. To paint anew or again; as, to repaint a house; to repaint the ground of a picture.

Re*pair" (r?-p?r"), v. i. [OE. repairen, OF. repairier to return, fr. L. repatriare to return to one's contry, to go home again; pref. re- re- + patria native country, fr. pater father. See Father, and cf. Repatriate.] 1. To return. [Obs.]

I thought . . . that he repaire should again.

Chaucer.

2. To go; to betake one's self; to resort; ass, to repair to sanctuary for safety. Chaucer.

Go, mount the winds, and to the shades repair.

Pope.

Re*pair", n. [OF. repaire retreat, asylum, abode. See Repair to go.] 1. The act of repairing or resorting to a place. [R.] Chaucer.

The king sent a proclamation for their repair to their houses.

Clarendon.

2. Place to which one repairs; a haunt; a resort. [R.]

There the fierce winds his tender force assail And beat him downward to his first repair.

Dryden.

Re*pair", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Repaired (-p?rd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Repairing.] [F. réparer, L. reparare; pref. re- re- + parare to prepare. See Pare, and cf. Reparation.] 1. To restore to a sound or good state after decay, injury, dilapidation, or partial destruction; to renew; to restore; to mend; as, to repair a house, a road, a shoe, or a ship; to repair a shattered fortune.

Secret refreshings that repair his strength.

Milton.

Do thou, as thou art wont, repair My heart with gladness.

Wordsworth.

2. To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to indemnify for; as, to repair a loss or damage.

I 'll repair the misery thou dost bear.

Shak.

Syn. -- To restore, recover; renew; amend; mend; retrieve; recruit.

Re*pair", n. 1. Restoration to a sound or good state after decay, waste, injury, or partial restruction; supply of loss; reparation; as, materials are collected for the repair of a church or of a city.

Sunk down and sought repair Of sleep, which instantly fell on me.

Milton.

2. Condition with respect to soundness, perfectness, etc.; as, a house in good, or bad, repair; the book is out of repair.

Re*pair"a*ble (-?*b'l), a. Reparable. Gauden.

Re*pair"er (-?r), n. One who, or that which, repairs, restores, or makes amends.

Re*pair"ment, n. Act of repairing.

Re*pand" (r?*p?nd), a. [L. repandus bent backward, turned up; pref. re- re- + pandus bent, crooked.] (Bot. & Zool.) Having a slightly undulating margin; -- said of leaves.

Rep`a*ra*bil"i*ty (r?p`?-r?-b?l"?-t?), n. The quality or state of being reparable.

Rep"a*ra*ble (r?p"?-r?-b'l), a. [L. reparabilis: cf. F. réparable.] Capable of being repaired, restored to a sound or good state, or made good; restorable; as, a reparable injury.

Rep"a*ra*bly, adv. In a reparable manner.

Rep`a*ra"tion (-r?"sh?n), n. [F. réparation, L. reparatio. See Repair to mend.] 1. The act of renewing, restoring, etc., or the state of being renewed or repaired; as, the reparation of a bridge or of a highway; -- in this sense, repair is oftener used. Arbuthnot.

2. The act of making amends or giving satisfaction or compensation for a wrong, injury, etc.; also, the thing done or given; amends; satisfaction; indemnity.

I am sensible of the scandal I have given by my loose writings, and make what reparation I am able.

Dryden.

Syn. -- Restoration; repair; restitution; compensation; amends; satisfaction.

Re*par"a*tive (r?-p?r"?-t?v), a. Repairing, or tending to repair. Jer. Taylor.

Re*par"a*tive, n. That which repairs. Sir H. Wotton.

Re*par"el (-?l), n. [Cf. Reapparel.] A change of apparel; a second or different suit. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Rep`ar*tee" (r?p`3r-t?"), n. [F. repartie, fr. repartir to reply, depart again; pref. re- re- partir to part, depart. See Part.] A smart, ready, and witty reply.

Cupid was as bad as he; Hear but the youngster's repartee.

Prior.

Syn. -- Retort; reply. See Retort.

Rep`ar*tee", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Reparteed (-t?d"); p. pr. & vb. n. Reparteeing.] To make smart and witty replies. [R.] Prior.

||Re`par*ti`mi*en"to (r?`p?r-t?`m?-?n"t?), n. [Sp., fr. repartir to ||divide.] A partition or distribution, especially of slaves; also, an ||assessment of taxes. W. Irving.

Re`par*to"tion (r?-p?r-t?sh"?n), n. Another, or an additional, separation into parts.

Re*pass" (r?-p?s"), v. t. [Pref. re- + pass: cf. F. repasser. Cf. Repace.] To pass again; to pass or travel over in the opposite direction; to pass a second time; as, to repass a bridge or a river; to repass the sea.

Re*pass", v. i. To pass or go back; to move back; as, troops passing and repassing before our eyes.

Re*pas"sage (r?-p?s"s?j;48), n. The act of repassing; passage back. Hakluyt.

Re*pas"sant (r?-p?s"sant), a. [Cf. F. repassant, p. pr.] (Her.) Counterpassant.

Re*past" (r?-p?st"), n. [OF. repast, F. repas, LL. repastus, fr. L. repascere to feed again; pref. re- re- + pascere, pastum, to pasture, feed. See Pasture.] 1. The act of taking food.

From dance to sweet repast they turn.

Milton.

2. That which is taken as food; a meal; figuratively, any refreshment. "Sleep . . . thy best repast." Denham.

Go and get me some repast.

Shak.

Re*past", v. t. & i. To supply food to; to feast; to take food. [Obs.] "Repast them with my blood." Shak.

He then, also, as before, left arbitrary the dieting and repasting of our minds.

Milton.

Re*past"er (-?r), n. One who takes a repast. [Obs.]

Re*pas"ture (-p?s"t?r;135), n. [See Repast.] Food; entertainment. [Obs.]

Food for his rage, repasture for his den.

Shak.

Re*pa"tri*ate (r?-p?"tr?-?t), v. t. [L. repatriare. See 1st Repair.] To restore to one's own country.

Re*pa`tri*a"tion (-?"sh?n), n. [Cf. LL. repatriatio return to one's country.] Restoration to one's country.

Re*pay" (r?-p?"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Repaid (-p?d"); p. pr. & vb. n. Repaying.] [Pref. re- + pay: cf. F. repayer.] 1. To pay back; to refund; as, to repay money borrowed or advanced.

If you repay me not on such a day, In such a place, such sum or sums.

Shak.

2. To make return or requital for; to recompense; -- in a good or bad sense; as, to repay kindness; to repay an injury.

Benefits which can not be repaid . . . are not commonly found to increase affection.

Rambler.

3. To pay anew, or a second time, as a debt.

Syn. -- To refund; restore; return; recompense; compensate; remunerate; satisfy; reimburse; requite.

Re*pay"a*ble (-?-b'l), a. Capable of being, or proper to be , repaid; due; as, a loan repayable in ten days; services repayable in kind.

Re*pay"ment (-ment), n. 1. The act of repaying; reimbursement. Jer. Taylor.

2. The money or other thing repaid.

Re*peal" (r?-p?l"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Repealed (-p?ld"); p. pr. & vb. n. Repealing.] [OF. repeler to call back, F. rappeler; pref. re- re- + OF. apeler, F. appeler, to call, L. appellare. See Appeal, and. cf. Repel.] 1. To recall; to summon again, as persons. [Obs.]

The banished Bolingbroke repeals himself, And with uplifted arms is safe arrived.

Shak.

2. To recall, as a deed, will, law, or statute; to revoke; to rescind or abrogate by authority, as by act of the legislature; as, to repeal a law.

3. To suppress; to repel. [Obs.]

Whence Adam soon repealed The doubts that in his heart arose.

Milton.

Syn. -- To abolish; revoke; rescind; recall; annul; abrogate; cancel; reverse. See Abolish.

Re*peal", n. 1. Recall, as from exile. [Obs.]

The tribunes are no soldiers; and their people Will be as rash in the repeal, as hasty To expel him thence.

Shak.

2. Revocation; abrogation; as, the repeal of a statute; the repeal of a law or a usage.

Re*peal`a*bil"i*ty (-?-b?l"?-t?), n. The quality or state of being repealable.

Re*peal"a*ble (r?-p?l"?-b'l), a. Capable of being repealed. -- Re*peal"a*ble*ness, n.

Syn. -- Revocable; abrogable; voidable; reversible.

Re*peal"er (-?r), n. One who repeals; one who seeks a repeal; specifically, an advocate for the repeal of the Articles of Union between Great Britain and Ireland.

Re*peal"ment (-ment), n. Recall, as from banishment. [Obs.]

Re*peat" (-p?t"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Repeated; p. pr. & vb. n. Repeating.] [F. répéter, L. repetere; pref. re- re- + petere to fall upon, attack. See Petition.]

1. To go over again; to attempt, do, make, or utter again; to iterate; to recite; as, to repeat an effort, an order, or a poem. "I will repeat our former communication." Robynson (More's Utopia).

Not well conceived of God; who, though his power Creation could repeat, yet would be loth Us to abolish.

Milton.

2. To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again. [Obs.] Waller.

3. (Scots Law) To repay or refund (an excess received).

To repeat one's self, to do or say what one has already done or said. -- To repeat signals, to make the same signals again; specifically, to communicate, by repeating them, the signals shown at headquarters.

Syn. -- To reiterate; iterate; renew; recite; relate; rehearse; recapitulate. See Reiterate.

Re*peat" (r?-p?t"), n. 1. The act of repeating; repetition.

2. That which is repeated; as, the repeat of a pattern; that is, the repetition of the engraved figure on a roller by which an impression is produced (as in calico printing, etc.).

3. (Mus.) A mark, or series of dots, placed before and after, or often only at the end of, a passage to be repeated in performance.

Re*peat"ed*ly, adv. More than once; again and again; indefinitely.

Re*peat"er (-?r), n. One who, or that which, repeats. Specifically: (a) A watch with a striking apparatus which, upon pressure of a spring, will indicate the time, usually in hours and quarters. (b) A repeating firearm. (c) (Teleg.) An instrument for resending a telegraphic message automatically at an intermediate point. (d) A person who votes more than once at an election. [U.S.] (e) See Circulating decimal, under Decimal. (f) (Naut.) A pennant used to indicate that a certain flag in a hoist of signal is duplicated. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

Re*peat"ing, a. Doing the same thing over again; accomplishing a given result many times in succession; as, a repeating firearm; a repeating watch.

Repeating circle. See the Note under Circle, n., 3. -- Repeating decimal (Arith.), a circulating decimal. See under Decimal. -- Repeating firearm, a firearm that may be discharged many times in quick succession; especially: (a) A form of firearm so constructed that by the action of the mechanism the charges are successively introduced from a chamber containing them into the breech of the barrel, and fired. (b) A form in which the charges are held in, and discharged from, a revolving chamber at the breech of the barrel. See Revolver, and Magazine gun, under Magazine. -- Repeating instruments (Astron. & Surv.), instruments for observing angles, as a circle, theodolite, etc., so constructed that the angle may be measured several times in succession, and different, but successive and contiguous, portions of the graduated limb, before reading off the aggregate result, which aggregate, divided by the number of measurements, gives the angle, freed in a measure from errors of eccentricity and graduation. -- Repeating watch. See Repeater (a)

Rep"e*da"tion (r?p`?-da"sh?n), n. [L. repedare to step back; pref. re- re- + pes, pedis, foot.] A stepping or going back. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

Re**pel" (r?-p?l"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Repelled (-p?ld"); p. pr. & vb. n. Repelling.] [L. repellere, repulsum; pref. re- re- + pellere to drive. See Pulse a beating, and cf. Repulse, Repeal.] 1. To drive back; to force to return; to check the advance of; to repulse as, to repel an enemy or an assailant.

Hippomedon repelled the hostile tide.

Pope.

They repelled each other strongly, and yet attracted each other strongly.

Macaulay.

2. To resist or oppose effectually; as, to repel an assault, an encroachment, or an argument.

[He] gently repelled their entreaties.

Hawthorne.

Syn. -- Tu repulse; resist; oppose; reject; refuse.

Re*pel", v. i. To act with force in opposition to force impressed; to exercise repulsion.

{ Re*pel"lence (-lens), Re*pel"len*cy (- len-s?), } n. The principle of repulsion; the quality or capacity of repelling; repulsion.

Re*pel"lent (-lent), a. [L. repellens, -entis, p. pr. ] Driving back; able or tending to repel.

Re*pel"lent, n. 1. That which repels.

2. (Med.) A remedy to repel from a tumefied part the fluids which render it tumid. Dunglison.

3. A kind of waterproof cloth. Knight.

Re*pel"ler (-l?r), n. One who, or that which, repels.

Re"pent (r?"p?nt), a. [L. repens, -entis, creeping, p. pr. of repere to creep.] 1. (Bot.) Prostrate and rooting; -- said of stems. Gray.

2. (Zoöl.) Same as Reptant.

Re*pent" (r?-p?nt"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Repented; p. pr. & vb. n. Repenting.] [F. se repentir; L. pref. re- re- + poenitere to make repent, poenitet me it repents me, I repent. See Penitent.] 1. To feel pain, sorrow, or regret, for what one has done or omitted to do.

First she relents With pity; of that pity then repents.

Dryden.

2. To change the mind, or the course of conduct, on account of regret or dissatisfaction.

Lest, peradventure, the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt.

Ex. xiii. 17.

3. (Theol.) To be sorry for sin as morally evil, and to seek forgiveness; to cease to love and practice sin.

Except ye repent, ye shall likewise perish.

Luke xii. 3.

Re*pent", v. t. 1. To feel pain on account of; to remember with sorrow.

I do repent it from my very soul.

Shak.

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2. To feel regret or sorrow; -- used reflexively.

My father has repented him ere now.

Dryden.

3. To cause to have sorrow or regret; -- used impersonally. [Archaic] "And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth." Gen. vi. 6.

Re*pent"ance (r*pnt"ans), n. [F. repentance.] The act of repenting, or the state of being penitent; sorrow for what one has done or omitted to do; especially, contrition for sin. Chaucer.

Godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation.

2. Cor. vii. 20.

Repentance is a change of mind, or a conversion from sin to God.

Hammond.

Repentance is the relinquishment of any practice from the conviction that it has offended God. Sorrow, fear, and anxiety are properly not parts, but adjuncts, of repentance; yet they are too closely connected with it to be easily separated.

Rambler.

Syn. -- Contrition; regret; penitence; contriteness; compunction. See Contrition.

Re*pent"ant (-ant), a. [F. repentant.] 1. Penitent; sorry for sin. Chaucer.

Thus they, in lowliest plight, repentant stood.

Millton.

2. Expressing or showing sorrow for sin; as, repentant tears; repentant ashes. "Repentant sighs and voluntary pains." Pope.

Re*pent"ant, n. One who repents, especially one who repents of sin; a penitent.

Re*pent"ant*ly, adv. In a repentant manner.

Re*pent"er (-r), n. One who repents.

Re*pent"ing*ly, adv. With repentance; penitently.

Re*pent"less, a. Unrepentant. [R.]

Re*peo"ple (r*p"p'l), v. t. [Pref. re- + people: cf. F. repeupler.] To people anew.

Re`per*cep"tion (r?`p?r-s?p"sh?n), n. The act of perceiving again; a repeated perception of the same object.

No external praise can give me such a glow as my own solitary reperception and ratification of what is fine.

Keats.

Re`per*cuss" (-ks"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Repercussed (-k?st");p. pr. & vb. n. Repercussing.] [L. repercusus, p. p. of repercutere to drive back; pref. re- re- + percutere. See Percussion.] To drive or beat back; hence, to reflect; to reverberate.

Perceiving all the subjacent country, . . . to repercuss such a light as I could hardly look against.

Evelyn.

Re`per*cus"sion (-k?sh"?n), n. [L. repercussio: cf. F. répercussion.] 1. The act of driving back, or the state of being driven back; reflection; reverberation; as, the repercussion of sound.

Ever echoing back in endless repercussion.

Hare.

2. (Mus.) Rapid reiteration of the same sound.

3. (Med.) The subsidence of a tumor or eruption by the action of a repellent. Dunglison.

4. (Obstetrics) In a vaginal examination, the act of imparting through the uterine wall with the finger a shock to the fetus, so that it bounds upward, and falls back again against the examining finger.

Re`per*cuss"ive (-k?s"?v), a. [Cf. F. répercussif.]

1. Tending or able to repercuss; having the power of sending back; causing to reverberate.

Ye repercussive rocks! repeat the sound.

W. Pattison.

2. Repellent. [Obs.] "Blood is stanched by astringent and repercussive medicines." Bacon.

3. Driven back; rebounding; reverberated. "Rages loud the repercussive roar." Thomson.

Re`per*cuss"ive, n. A repellent. [Obs.] Bacon.

Rep`er*ti"tious (r?p`?r-t?sh"?s), a. [L. reperticius. See Repertory.] Found; gained by finding. [Obs.]

||Ré`per`toire" (F. r`pâr`twär"; E. rp"r*twär), n. [F. See Repertory.] ||A list of dramas, operas, pieces, parts, etc., which a company or a ||person has rehearsed and is prepared to perform.

Rep"er*to*ry (r?p"?r-t?-r?), n. [L. repertorium, fr. reperire to find again; pref. re- re + parire, parere, to bring forth, procure: cf. F. répertoire. Cf. Parent.]

1. A place in which things are disposed in an orderly manner, so that they can be easily found, as the index of a book, a commonplace book, or the like.

2. A treasury; a magazine; a storehouse.

3. Same as Répertoire.

Re`pe*rus"al (r?`p?-r?z"al), n. A second or repeated perusal.

Re`pe*ruse" (-r?z"), v. t. To peruse again. Ld. Lytton.

Rep`e*tend (r?p`?-t?nd"), n. [L. repetendus to be repeated, fr. repetere to repeat.] (Math.) That part of a circulating decimal which recurs continually, ad infinitum: -- sometimes indicated by a dot over the first and last figures; thus, in the circulating decimal .728328328 + (otherwise .7&2dot;8&3dot;), the repetend is 283.

Rep`e*ti"tion (rp`-tsh"n), n. [L. repetitio: cf. F. répétition. See Repeat.] 1. The act of repeating; a doing or saying again; iteration.

I need not be barren of accusations; he hath faults, with surplus to tire in repetition.

Shak.

2. Recital from memory; rehearsal.

3. (Mus.) The act of repeating, singing, or playing, the same piece or part a second time; reiteration of a note.

4. (Rhet.) Reiteration, or repeating the same word, or the same sense in different words, for the purpose of making a deeper impression on the audience.

5. (Astron. & Surv.) The measurement of an angle by successive observations with a repeating instrument.

Syn. -- Iteration; rehearsal. See Tautology.

{ Rep`e*ti"tion*al (-al). Rep`e*ti"tion*a*ry (-?-r?) }, a. Of the nature of, or containing, repetition. [R.]

Rep`e*ti"tion*er (-?r), n. One who repeats. [Obs.]

Rep`e*ti"tious (-t?sh"?s), a. Repeating; containing repetition. [U.S.] Dr. T. Dwight.

Re*pet"i*tive (r?-p?t"?-t?v), a. Containing repetition; repeating. [R.]

||Rep"e*ti`tor (r?p"?-t?`t?r), n. [Cf. L. repetitor a reclaimer.] ||(Ger.Univ.) A private instructor.

Re*pine" (r?-p?n"), v. i. [Pref. re- + pine to languish.]

1. To fail; to wane. [Obs.] "Reppening courage yields no foot to foe." Spenser.

2. To continue pining; to feel inward discontent which preys on the spirits; to indulge in envy or complaint; to murmur.

But Lachesis thereat gan to repine.

Spenser.

What if the head, the eye, or ear repined To serve mere engines to the ruling mind?

Pope.

Re*pine", n. Vexation; mortification. [Obs.] Shak.

Re*pin"er (r?-p?n"?r), n. One who repines.

Re*pin"ing*ly, adv. With repening or murmuring.

||Rep"kie (r?p"k?), n. [From the native name.] (Zoöl.) Any edible sea ||urchin. [Alaska]

Re*place" (r?-pl?s"), v. t. [Pref. re- + place: cf. F. replacer.] 1. To place again; to restore to a former place, position, condition, or the like.

The earl . . . was replaced in his government.

Bacon.

2. To refund; to repay; to restore; as, to replace a sum of money borrowed.

3. To supply or substitute an equivalent for; as, to replace a lost document.

With Israel, religion replaced morality.

M. Arnold.

4. To take the place of; to supply the want of; to fulfull the end or office of.

This duty of right intention does not replace or supersede the duty of consideration.

Whewell.

5. To put in a new or different place.

The propriety of the use of replace instead of displace, supersede, take the place of, as in the third and fourth definitions, is often disputed on account of etymological discrepancy; but the use has been sanctioned by the practice of careful writers.

Replaced crystal (Crystallog.), a crystal having one or more planes in the place of its edges or angles.

Re*place`a*bil"i*ty (-?-b?l"?-t?), n. The quality, state, or degree of being replaceable.

Re*place"a*ble (r?-pl?s"?-b'l), a. 1. Capable or admitting of being put back into a place.

2. Admitting of having its place supplied by a like thing or an equivalent; as, the lost book is replaceable.

3. (Chem.) Capable of being replaced (by), or of being exchanged (for); as, the hydrogen of acids is replaceable by metals or by basic radicals.

Re*place"ment (-ment), n. 1. The act of replacing.

2. (Crystallog.) The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes.

Re*plait" (r?-pl?t"), v. t. To plait or fold again; to fold, as one part over another, again and again.

Re*plant" (rE-pl?nt"), v. t. To plant again.

Re*plant"a*ble (-?-b'l), a. That may be planted again.

Re`plan*ta"tion (r?`pl?n-t?"sh?n), n. The act of planting again; a replanting. [R.] Hallywell.

Re*plead" (r?-pl?d"), v. t. & i. To plead again.

Re*plead"er (-?r), n. (Law) A second pleading, or course of pleadings; also, the right of pleading again.

Whenever a repleader is granted, the pleadings must begin de novo.

Blackstone.

Re*plen"ish (r?-pl?n"?sh), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Replenished (-?sht); p. pr. & vb. n. Replenishing.] [OE. replenissen, OF. replenir; L. pref. re- re- + plenus full. See Full, -ish, and cf. Replete.] 1. To fill again after having been diminished or emptied; to stock anew; hence, to fill completely; to cause to abound.

Multiply and replenish the earth.

Gen. i. 28.

The waters thus With fish replenished, and the air with fowl.

Milton.

2. To finish; to complete; to perfect. [Obs.]

We smothered The most replenished sweet work of nature.

Shak.

Re*plen"ish, v. i. To recover former fullness. [Obs.]

The humors will not replenish so soon.

Bacon.

Re*plen"ish*er (-?r), n. One who replenishes.

Re*plen"ish*ment (-ment), n. 1. The act of replenishing, or the state of being replenished.

2. That which replenishes; supply. Cowper.

Re*plete" (r?-pl?t"), a. [L. repletus, p. p. of replere to fill again, fill up; pref. re- re- + plere to fill, akin to plenus full: cf. F. replet corpulent. See Plenty, Replenish.] Filled again; completely filled; full; charged; abounding. "His words replete with guile." Milton.

When he of wine was replet at his feast.

Chaucer.

In heads replete with thoughts of other men.

Cowper.

Re*plete", v. t. To fill completely, or to satiety. [R.]

Re*plete"ness, n. The state of being replete.

Re*ple"tion (r?-pl?"sh?n), n. [L. repletio a filling up: cf. F. réplétion. See Replete.] 1. The state of being replete; superabundant fullness.

The tree had too much repletion, and was oppressed with its own sap.

Bacon.

Repleccioun [overeating] ne made her never sick.

Chaucer.

2. (Med.) Fullness of blood; plethora.

Re*ple"tive (-t?v), a. [Cf. F. réplétif.] Tending to make replete; filling. -- Re*ple"tive*ly, adv.

Re*ple"to*ry (-t?-r?), a. Repletive. [R.]

Re*plev"i*a*ble (r?-pl?v"?-?-b'l), a. [See Replevy.] (Law) Capable of being replevied.

Re*plev"in (-?n), n. [LL. replevina. See Replevy, and cf. Plevin.] 1. (Law) A personal action which lies to recover possession of goods and chattle wrongfully taken or detained. Originally, it was a remedy peculiar to cases for wrongful distress, but it may generally now be brought in all cases of wrongful taking or detention. Bouvier.

2. The writ by which goods and chattels are replevied.

Re*plev"in, v. t. (Law) To replevy.

Re*plev"i*sa*ble (-?-s?-b'l), a. [OF. replevisable.] Repleviable. Sir M. Hale.

Re*plev"y (-?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Replevied (-?d); p. pr. & vb. n. Replevying.] [OF. replevir, LL. replevire. See Pledge, Replevin.] 1. (Law) To take or get back, by a writ for that purpose (goods and chattels wrongfully taken or detained), upon giving security to try the right to them in a suit at law, and, if that should be determined against the plaintiff, to return the property replevied.

2. (Old Eng. Law) To bail. Spenser.

Re*plev"y (r?-pl?v"?), n. Replevin. Mozley & W.

||Rep"li*ca (r?p"l?-k?), n. [It. See Reply, v. & n.]

1. (Fine Arts) A copy of a work of art, as of a picture or statue, made by the maker of the original.

2. (Mus.) Repetition.

Rep"li*cant (r?p"l?-kant), n. One who replies.

Rep"li*cate (-?-k?t), v. t. To reply. [Obs.]

{ Rep"li*cate (l?-k?t), Rep"li*ca`ted (-k?`t?d), } a. [L. replicatus, p. p. of replicare. See Reply.] Folded over or backward; folded back upon itself; as, a replicate leaf or petal; a replicate margin of a shell.

Rep`li*ca"tion (-k?"sh?n), n. [L. replicatio. See Reply.] 1. An answer; a reply. Shak.

Withouten any repplicacioun.

Chaucer.

2. (Law Pleadings) The reply of the plaintiff, in matters of fact, to the defendant's plea.

3. Return or repercussion, as of sound; echo.

To hear the replication of your sounds.

Shak.

4. A repetition; a copy.

Farrar.

Syn. -- Answer; response; reply; rejoinder.

Re*pli"er (r?-pl?"?r), n. One who replies. Bacon.

||Re"plum (r?"pl?m), n. [L., doorcase.] (Bot.) The framework of some ||pods, as the cress, which remains after the valves drop off. Gray.

Re*ply" (r?-pl?"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Replied (-pl?d"); p. pr. & vb. n. Replying.] [OE. replien, OF. replier, F. répliquer, fr. L. replicare to fold back, make a reply; pref. re- re- + plicare to fold. See Ply, and cf. Replica.] 1. To make a return in words or writing; to respond; to answer.

O man, who art thou that repliest against God?

Rom. ix. 20.

2. (Law) To answer a defendant's plea.

3. Figuratively, to do something in return for something done; as, to reply to a signal; to reply to the fire of a battery.

Syn. -- To answer; respond; rejoin.

Re*ply", v. t. To return for an answer. Milton.

Lords, vouchsafe To give me hearing what I shall reply.

Shak.

Re*ply", n.; pl. Replies (-pl&?;z"). [See Reply, v. i., and cf. Replica.] That which is said, written, or done in answer to what is said, written, or done by another; an answer; a response.

Syn. -- Answer; rejoinder; response. -- Reply, Rejoinder, Answer. A reply is a distinct response to a formal question or attack in speech or writing. A rejoinder is a second reply (a reply to a reply) in a protracted discussion or controversy. The word answer is used in two senses, namely (1), in the most general sense of a mere response; as, the answer to a question; or (2), in the sense of a decisive and satisfactory confutation of an adversary's argument, as when we speak of a triumphant answer to the speech or accusations of an opponent. Here the noun corresponds to a frequent use of the verb, as when we say. "This will answer (i.e., fully meet) the end in view;" "It answers the purpose."

Re*ply"er (-?r), n. See Replier. Bacon.

Re*pol"ish (r?-p?l"?sh), v. t. To polish again.

Re*pone" (r?-p?n"), v. t. [L. reponere; pref. re- re- + ponere to place.] To replace. R. Baillie.

Re*pop`u*la"tion (r?*p?p`?*l?"sh?n), n. The act of repeopling; act of furnishing with a population anew.

Re*port" (r?-p?rt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reported; p. pr. & vb. n. Reporting.] [F. reporter to carry back, carry (cf. rapporter; see Rapport), L. reportare to bear or bring back; pref. re- re- + portare to bear or bring. See Port bearing, demeanor.] 1. To refer. [Obs.]

Baldwin, his son, . . . succeeded his father; so like unto him that we report the reader to the character of King Almeric, and will spare the repeating his description.

Fuller.

2. To bring back, as an answer; to announce in return; to relate, as what has been discovered by a person sent to examine, explore, or investigate; as, a messenger reports to his employer what he has seen or ascertained; the committee reported progress.

There is no man that may reporten all.

Chaucer.

3. To give an account of; to relate; to tell; to circulate publicly, as a story; as, in the common phrase, it is reported. Shak.

It is reported among the heathen, and Gashmu saith it, that thou and the Jews think to rebel.

Neh. vi. 6.

4. To give an official account or statement of; as, a treasurer reports the receipts and expenditures.

5. To return or repeat, as sound; to echo. [Obs. or R.] "A church with windows only from above, that reporteth the voice thirteen times." Bacon.

6. (Parliamentary Practice) To return or present as the result of an examination or consideration of any matter officially referred; as, the committee reported the bill witth amendments, or reported a new bill, or reported the results of an inquiry.

7. To make minutes of, as a speech, or the doings of a public body; to write down from the lips of a speaker.

8. To write an account of for publication, as in a newspaper; as, to report a public celebration or a horse race.

9. To make a statement of the conduct of, especially in an unfavorable sense; as, to report a servant to his employer.

To be reported, or To be reported of, to be spoken of; to be mentioned, whether favorably or unfavorably. Acts xvi. 2. -- To report one's self, to betake one's self, as to a superior or one to whom service is due, and be in readiness to receive orders or do service.

Syn. -- To relate; narrate; tell; recite; describe.

Re*port" (r?-p?rt"), v. i. 1. To make a report, or response, in respect of a matter inquired of, a duty enjoined, or information expected; as, the committee will report at twelve o'clock.

2. To furnish in writing an account of a speech, the proceedings at a meeting, the particulars of an occurrence, etc., for publication.

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3. To present one's self, as to a superior officer, or to one to whom service is due, and to be in readiness for orders or to do service; also, to give information, as of one's address, condition, etc.; as, the officer reported to the general for duty; to report weekly by letter.

Re*port" (r*prt"), n. [Cf. F. rapport. See Report.v. t.] 1. That which is reported. Specifically: (a) An account or statement of the results of examination or inquiry made by request or direction; relation. "From Thetis sent as spies to make report." Waller. (b) A story or statement circulating by common talk; a rumor; hence, fame; repute; reputation.

It was a true report that I heard in mine own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom.

1 Kings x. 6.

Cornelius the centurion, a just man, and . . . of good report among all the nation of the Jews.

Acts x. 22.

(c) Sound; noise; as, the report of a pistol or cannon. (d) An official statement of facts, verbal or written; especially, a statement in writing of proceedings and facts exhibited by an officer to his superiors; as, the reports of the heads af departments to Congress, of a master in chancery to the court, of committees to a legislative body, and the like. (e) An account or statement of a judicial opinion or decision, or of case argued and determined in a court of law, chancery, etc.; also, in the plural, the volumes containing such reports; as, Coke's Reports. (f) A sketch, or a fully written account, of a speech, debate, or the proceedings of a public meeting, legislative body, etc.

2. Rapport; relation; connection; reference. [Obs.]

The corridors worse, having no report to the wings they join to.

Evelyn.

Syn. -- Account; relation; narration; detail; description; recital; narrative; story; rumor; hearsay.

Re*port"a*ble (-*b'l), a. Capable or admitting of being reported.

Re*port"age (-j), n. SAme as Report. [Obs.]

Re*port"er (-r), n. One who reports. Specifically: (a) An officer or person who makes authorized statements of law proceedings and decisions, or of legislative debates. (b) One who reports speeches, the proceedings of public meetings, news, etc., for the newspapers.

Of our tales judge and reportour.

Chaucer.

Re*port"ing*ly, adv. By report or common fame.

Re`por*to"ri*al (r`pr*t"r*al), a. Of or pertaining to a reporter or reporters; as, the reportorial staff of a newspaper.

Re*pos"al (r*pz"al), n. [From Repose.] 1. The act or state of reposing; as, the reposal of a trust. Shak.

2. That on which one reposes. [Obs.] Burton.

Re*pos"ance (-ans), n. Reliance. [Obs.] John Hall.

Re*pose" (r*pz"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reposed (-p?zd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Reposing.] [F. reposer; L. pref. re- re- + pausare to pause. See Pause, Pose, v.] 1. To cause to stop or to rest after motion; hence, to deposit; to lay down; to lodge; to reposit. [Obs.]

But these thy fortunes let us straight repose In this divine cave's bosom.

Chapman.

Pebbles reposed in those cliffs amongst the earth . . . are left behind.

Woodward.

2. To lay at rest; to cause to be calm or quiet; to compose; to rest, -- often reflexive; as, to repose one's self on a couch.

All being settled and reposed, the lord archbishop did present his majesty to the lords and commons.

Fuller.

After the toil of battle to repose Your wearied virtue.

Milton.

3. To place, have, or rest; to set; to intrust.

The king reposeth all his confidence in thee.

Shak.

Re*pose", v. i. 1. To lie at rest; to rest.

Within a thicket I reposed.

Chapman.

2. Figuratively, to remain or abide restfully without anxiety or alarms.

It is upon these that the soul may repose.

I. Taylor.

3. To lie; to be supported; as, trap reposing on sand.

Syn. -- To lie; recline; couch; rest; sleep; settle; lodge; abide.

Re*pose", n. [F. repos. See Repose, v.] 1. A lying at rest; sleep; rest; quiet.

Shake off the golden slumber of repose.

Shak.

2. Rest of mind; tranquillity; freedom from uneasiness; also, a composed manner or deportment.

3. (Poetic) A rest; a pause.

4. (Fine Arts) That harmony or moderation which affords rest for the eye; -- opposed to the scattering and division of a subject into too many unconnected parts, and also to anything which is overstrained; as, a painting may want repose.

Angle of repose (Physics), the inclination of a plane at which a body placed on the plane would remain at rest, or if in motion would roll or slide down with uniform velocity; the angle at which the various kinds of earth will stand when abandoned to themselves.

Syn. -- Rest; recumbency; reclination; ease; quiet; quietness; tranquillity; peace.

Re*posed" (r*pzd"), a. Composed; calm; tranquil; at rest. Bacon. -- Re*pos"ed*ly (r*pz"d*l), adv. -- Re*pos"ed*ness, n.

Re*pose"ful (r*pz"fl), a. Full of repose; quiet.

Re*pos"er (r*pz"r), n. One who reposes.

Re*pos"it (r*pz"t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reposited; p. pr. & vb. n. Repositing.] [L. repositus, p. p. of reponere to put back; pref. re- re- + ponere to put. See Position.] To cause to rest or stay; to lay away; to lodge, as for safety or preservation; to place; to store.

Others reposit their young in holes.

Derham.

Re`po*si"tion (r`p*zsh"n), n. [L. repositio.] The act of repositing; a laying up.

Re*pos"i*tor (r*pz"*tr), n. (Surg.) An instrument employed for replacing a displaced organ or part.

Re*pos"i*to*ry (r*pz"*t*r), n. [L. repositorium, repostorium: cf. OF. repositoire.] A place where things are or may be reposited, or laid up, for safety or preservation; a depository. Locke.

Re`pos*sess" (r?"p?z*z?s" or -p?s*s?s"), v. t. To possess again; as, to repossess the land. Pope.

To repossess one's self of (something), to acquire again (something lost).

Re`pos*ses"sion (r?`p?z-z?sh"?n or -p?s s?sh"?n), n. The act or the state of possessing again.

Re*po"sure (r?-p?"sh?r; 135), n. Rest; quiet.

In the reposure of most soft content.

Marston.

Re*pour" (r?-p?r"), v. t. To pour again.

||Re*pous`sé" (re -p??`s?"), a. [F., p. p. of repousser to thrust back; ||pref re- + pousser to push. See Push.] (a) Formed in relief, as a ||pattern on metal. (b) Ornamented with patterns in relief made by ||pressing or hammering on the reverse side; -- said of thin metal, or ||of a vessel made of thin metal. -- n. Repoussé work.

Repoussé work, ornamentation of metal in relief by pressing or hammering on the reverse side.

Re*prefe" (r?-pr?f"), n. Reproof. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Rep`re*hend" (r?p`r?-h?nd"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reprehended; p. pr. & vb. n. Reprehending.] [L. reprehendere, reprehensum, to hold back, seize, check, blame; pref. re- re- + prehendere to lay hold of. See Prehensile, and cf. Reprisal. ] To reprove or reprimand with a view of restraining, checking, or preventing; to make charge of fault against; to disapprove of; to chide; to blame; to censure. Chaucer.

Aristippus being reprehended of luxury by one that was not rich, for that he gave six crowns for a small fish.

Bacon.

Pardon me for reprehending thee.

Shak.

In which satire human vices, ignorance, and errors . . . are severely reprehended.

Dryden.

I nor advise nor reprehend the choice.

J. Philips.

Rep`re*hend"er (-?r), n. One who reprehends.

Rep`re*hen"si*ble (-h?n"s?-b'l), a. [L. reprehensibilis: cf. F. répréhensible.] Worthy of reprehension; culpable; censurable; blamable. -- Rep`re*hen"si*ble*ness, n. -- Rep`re*hen"si*bly, adv.

Rep`re*hen"sion (-sh?n), n. [L. reprehensio: cf. F. répréhension.] Reproof; censure; blame; disapproval.

This Basilius took as though his mistress had given him a secret reprehension that he had not showed more gratefulness to Dorus.

Sir P. Sidney.

Syn. -- Censure; reproof; reprimand. See Admonition.

Rep`re*hen"sive (-h?n"s?v), a. [Cf. F. répréhensif.] Containing reprehension; conveying reproof. South.

-- Rep`re*hen"sive*ly, adv.

Rep`re*hen"so*ry (-s?-r?), a. Containing reproof; reprehensive; as, reprehensory complaint. Johnson.

Re`-pre*sent" (r?`pr?-z?nt"), v. t. To present again; as, to re-present the points of an argument.

Rep`re*sent" (r?p`r?-z?nt"), v. t. [F. repr&?;senter, L. repraesentare, repraesentatum; pref. re- re- + preesentare to place before, present. See Present, v. t.] 1. To present again or anew; to present by means of something standing in the place of; to exhibit the counterpart or image of; to typify.

Before him burn Seven lamps, as in a zodiac representing The heavenly fires.

Milton.

2. To portray by pictoral or plastic art; to delineate; as, to represent a landscape in a picture, a horse in bronze, and the like.

3. To portray by mimicry or action of any kind; to act the part or character of; to personate; as, to represent Hamlet.

4. To stand in the place of; to supply the place, perform the duties, exercise the rights, or receive the share, of; to speak and act with authority in behalf of; to act the part of (another); as, an heir represents his ancestor; an attorney represents his client in court; a member of Congress represents his district in Congress.

5. To exhibit to another mind in language; to show; to give one's own impressions and judgement of; to bring before the mind; to set forth; sometimes, to give an account of; to describe.

He represented Rizzio's credit with the queen to be the chief and only obstacle to his success in that demand.

Robertson.

This bank is thought the greatest load on the Genoese, and the managers of it have been represented as a second kind of senate.

Addison.

6. To serve as a sign or symbol of; as, mathematical symbols represent quantities or relations; words represent ideas or things.

7. To bring a sensation of into the mind or sensorium; to cause to be known, felt, or apprehended; to present.

Among these. Fancy next Her office holds; of all external things Which he five watchful senses represent, She forms imaginations, aery shapes.

Milton.

8. (Metaph.) To form or image again in consciousness, as an object of cognition or apprehension (something which was originally apprehended by direct presentation). See Presentative, 3.

The general capability of knowledge necessarily requires that, besides the power of evoking out of unconsciousness one portion of our retained knowledge in preference to another, we posses the faculty of representing in consciousness what is thus evoked . . . This representative Faculty is Imagination or Phantasy.

Sir. W. Hamilton.

Rep`re*sent"a*ble (-?-b'l), a. Capable of being represented.

Rep`re*sent"ance (-ans), n. Representation; likeness. [Obs.] Donne.

Rep`re*sent"ant (-ant), a. [Cf. F. repr&?;sentant.] Appearing or acting for another; representing.

Rep`re*sent"ant, n. [F. representant.] A representative. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

Rep`re*sen*ta"tion (-z?n-t?"sh?n), n. [F. repr&?;sentation, L. representatio.] 1. The act of representing, in any sense of the verb.

2. That which represents. Specifically: (a) A likeness, a picture, or a model; as, a representation of the human face, or figure, and the like. (b) A dramatic performance; as, a theatrical representation; a representation of Hamlet. (c) A description or statement; as, the representation of an historian, of a witness, or an advocate. (d) The body of those who act as representatives of a community or society; as, the representation of a State in Congress. (e) (Insurance Law) Any collateral statement of fact, made orally or in writing, by which an estimate of the risk is affected, or either party is influenced.

3. The state of being represented.

Syn. -- Description; show; delineaton; portraiture; likeness; resemblance; exhibition; sight.

Re-pres`en*ta"tion (r?-prez`?n-t?"sh?n), n. [See Re-present.] The act of re- presenting, or the state of being presented again; a new presentation; as, re-presentation of facts previously stated.

Rep`re*sen*ta"tion*a*ry (r?p`r?--z?n-t?"sh?n-?-r?), a. Implying representation; representative. [R.]

Rep`re*sent"a*tive (-z?nt`?-t?v), a. [Cf. F. repr&?;sentatif.] 1. Fitted to represent; exhibiting a similitude.

2. Bearing the character or power of another; acting for another or others; as, a council representative of the people. Swift.

3. Conducted by persons chosen to represent, or act as deputies for, the people; as, a representative government.

4. (Nat.Hist.) (a) Serving or fitted to present the full characters of the type of a group; typical; as, a representative genus in a family. (b) Similar in general appearance, structure, and habits, but living in different regions; -- said of certain species and varieties.

5. (Metaph.) Giving, or existing as, a transcript of what was originally presentative knowledge; as, representative faculties; representative knowledge. See Presentative, 3 and Represent, 8.

Rep`re*sent"a*tive, n. [Cf. LL. repraesentativus.]

1. One who, or that which, represents (anything); that which exhibits a likeness or similitude.

A statute of Rumor, whispering an idiot in the ear, who was the representative of Credulity.

Addison.

Difficulty must cumber this doctrine which supposes that the perfections of God are the representatives to us of whatever we perceive in the creatures.

Locke.

2. An agent, deputy, or substitute, who supplies the place of another, or others, being invested with his or their authority.

3. (Law) One who represents, or stands in the place of, another.

The executor or administrator is ordinarily held to be the representative of a deceased person, and is sometimes called the legal representative, or the personal representative. The heir is sometimes called the real representative of his deceased ancestor. The heirs and executors or administrators of a deceased person are sometimes compendiously described as his real and personal representatives. Wharton. Burrill.

4. A member of the lower or popular house in a State legislature, or in the national Congress. [U.S.]

5. (Nat.Hist.) (a) That which presents the full character of the type of a group. (b) A species or variety which, in any region, takes the place of a similar one in another region.

Rep`re*sent"a*tive*ly, adv. In a representative manner; vicariously.

Rep`re*sent"a*tive*ness, n. The quality or state of being representative.

Dr. Burnet observes, that every thought is attended with consciousness and representativeness.

Spectator.

Rep`re*sent"er (-?r), n. 1. One who shows, exhibits, or describes. Sir T. Browne.

2. A representative. [Obs.] Swift.

Rep`re*sent"ment (-ment), n. Representation. [Obs.]

Re*press" (r?-pr?s"), v. t. [Pref. re- + press.] To press again.

Re*press" (r?-pr?s"), v. t. [Pref. re- + press: cf. L. reprimere, repressum. Cf. Reprimand.] 1. To press back or down effectually; to crush down or out; to quell; to subdue; to supress; as, to repress sedition or rebellion; to repress the first risings of discontent.

2. Hence, to check; to restrain; to keep back.

Desire of wine and all delicious drinks, . . . Thou couldst repress.

Milton.

Syn. -- To crush; overpower; subdue; suppress; restrain; quell; curb; check.

Re*press", n. The act of repressing. [Obs.]

Re*press"er (-?r), n. One who, or that which, represses.

Re*press"i*ble (-?-b'l), a. Capable of being repressed.

Re*pres"sion (r?-pr?sh"?n), n. [Cf. F. répression.]

1. The act of repressing, or state of being repressed; as, the repression of evil and evil doers.

2. That which represses; check; restraint.

Re*press"ive (r?-pr?s"?v), a. [Cf. F. répressif. LL. repressivus.] Having power, or tending, to repress; as, repressive acts or measures. -- Re*press"ive*ly, adv.

Re*prev"a*ble (r?-pr?v"?-b'l), a. Reprovable. [Obs.]

Re*preve" (r?-pr?v"), v. t. [See Reprieve, v. t.] To reprove. [Obs.] "Repreve him of his vice." Chaucer.

Re*preve", n. Reproof. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Re*priefe" (r?-pr?f"), n. Repreve. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Re*priev"al (r?-pr?v"al), n. Reprieve. Overbury.

Re*prieve (r?-pr?v"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reprieved (-pr?vd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Reprieving.] [OE. repreven to reject, disallow, OF. reprover to blame, reproach, condemn (pres. il reprueve), F. réprouver to disapprove, fr. L. reprobare to reject, condemn; pref. re- re- + probare to try, prove. See Prove, and cf. Reprove, Reprobate.]

1. To delay the punishment of; to suspend the execution of sentence on; to give a respite to; to respite; as, to reprieve a criminal for thirty days.

He reprieves the sinnner from time to time.

Rogers.

2. To relieve for a time, or temporarily.

Company, thought it may reprieve a man from his melaneholy yet can not secure him from his conscience.

South.

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Re*prieve" (r?-pr?v"), n. 1. A temporary suspension of the execution of a sentence, especially of a sentence of death.

The morning Sir John Hotham was to die, a reprieve was sent to suspend the execution for three days.

Clarendon.

2. Interval of ease or relief; respite.

All that I ask is but a short reprieve, ll I forget to love, and learn to grieve.

Denham.

Rep"ri*mand (r?p"r?-m?nd), n. [F. réprimande, fr. L. reprimendus, reprimenda, that is to be checked or suppressed, fr. reprimere to check, repress; pref. re- re + premere to press. See Press, and cf. Repress.] Severe or formal reproof; reprehension, private or public.

Goldsmith gave his landlady a sharp reprimand for her treatment of him.

Macaulay.

Rep"ri*mand, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reprimanded; p. pr. & vb. n. Reprimanding.] [Cf. F. réprimander. See Reprimand, n.] 1. To reprove severely; to reprehend; to chide for a fault; to consure formally.

Germanicus was severely reprimanded by Tiberius for traveling into Egypt without his permission.

Arbuthnot.

2. To reprove publicly and officially, in execution of a sentence; as, the court ordered him to be reprimanded.

Syn. -- To reprove; reprehend; chide; rebuke; censure; blame. See Reprove.

Rep"ri*mand`er (-m?nd`?r), n. One who reprimands.

Re*prim"er (r?-pr?m"?r), n. (Firearms) A machine or implement for applying fresh primers to spent cartridge shells, so that the shells be used again.

Re*print" (r?-pr?nt"), v. t. 1. To print again; to print a second or a new edition of.

2. To renew the impression of.

The whole business of our redemption is . . . to reprint God's image upon the soul.

South.

Re"print` (r?"pr?nt`), n. A second or a new impression or edition of any printed work; specifically, the publication in one country of a work previously published in another.

Re*print"er (r?-pr?nt"?r), n. One who reprints.

Re*pris"al (r?-priz"al), n. [F. repr&?;saille, It. ripresaglia, rappresaglia, LL. reprensaliae, fr. L. reprehendere, reprehensum. See Reprehend, Reprise.] 1. The act of taking from an enemy by way of reteliation or indemnity.

Debatable ground, on which incursions and reprisals continued to take place.

Macaulay.

2. Anything taken from an enemy in retaliation.

3. The act of retorting on an enemy by inflicting suffering or death on a prisoner taken from him, in retaliation for an act of inhumanity. Vattel (Trans.)

4. Any act of retaliation. Waterland.

Letters of marque and reprisal. See under Marque.

Re*prise" (r?-pr?z"), n. [F. reprise, fr. reprendre, repris, to take back, L. reprehendere. See Reprehend.]

1. A taking by way of retaliation. [Obs.] Dryden.

2. pl. (Law) Deductions and duties paid yearly out of a manor and lands, as rent charge, rent seck, pensions, annuities, and the like. [Written also reprizes.] Burrill.

3. A ship recaptured from an enemy or from a pirate.

Re*prise", v. t. [Written also reprize.] 1. To take again; to retake. [Obs.] Spenser.

2. To recompense; to pay. [Obs.]

Re*pris"tin*ate (r?-pr?s"t?n-?t), v. t. [Pref. re- + pristine.] To restore to an original state. [R.] Shedd.

Re*pris`ti*na"tion (-t?-n?"sh?n), n. Restoration to an original state; renewal of purity. [R.] R. Browning.

Re*prive" (r?-pr?v"), v. t. [Pref. re- + L. privare to deprive.] To take back or away. [Obs.] Spenser.

Re*prive", v. t. To reprieve. [Obs.] Howell.

Re*prize" (-pr?z"), v. t. See Reprise. [Obs.] Spenser.

Re*priz"es (-pr?z"?z), n. pl. (Law) See Reprise, n., 2.

Re*proach" (r?-pr?ch"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reproached (-pr?cht"); p. pr. & vb. n. Reproaching.] [F. reprocher, OF. reprochier, (assumed) LL. reproriare; L. pref. re- again, against, back + prope near; hence, originally, to bring near to, throw in one's teeth. Cf. Approach.] 1. To come back to, or come home to, as a matter of blame; to bring shame or disgrace upon; to disgrace. [Obs.]

I thought your marriage fit; else imputation, For that he knew you, might reproach your life.

Shak.

2. To attribute blame to; to allege something disgraceful against; to charge with a fault; to censure severely or contemptuously; to upbraid.

If ye be reproached for the name of Christ.

1 Peter iv. 14.

That this newcomer, Shame, There sit not, and reproach us as unclean.

Milton.

Mezentius . . . with his ardor warmed His fainting friends, reproached their shameful flight. Repelled the victors.

Dryden.

Syn. -- To upbraid; censure; blame; chide; rebuke; condemn; revile; vilify.

Re*proach", n. [F. reproche. See Reproach, v.]

1. The act of reproaching; censure mingled with contempt; contumelious or opprobrious language toward any person; abusive reflections; as, severe reproach.

No reproaches even, even when pointed and barbed with the sharpest wit, appeared to give him pain.

Macaulay.

Give not thine heritage to reproach.

Joel ii. 17.

2. A cause of blame or censure; shame; disgrace.

3. An object of blame, censure, scorn, or derision.

Come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.

Neh. ii. 17.

Syn. -- Disrepute; discredit; dishonor; opprobrium; invective; contumely; reviling; abuse; vilification; scurrility; insolence; insult; scorn; contempt; ignominy; shame; scandal;; disgrace; infamy.

Re*proach"a*blr (-?-b'l), a. [Cf. F. reprochable.]

1. Deserving reproach; censurable.

2. Opprobrius; scurrilous. [Obs.] Sir T. Elyot.

-- Re*proach"a*ble*ness, n. -- Re*proach"a*bly, adv.

Re*proach"er (-?r), n. One who reproaches.

Re*proach"ful (-f?l), a. 1. Expressing or containing reproach; upbraiding; opprobrious; abusive.

The reproachful speeches . . . That he hath breathed in my dishonor here.

Shak.

2. Occasioning or deserving reproach; shameful; base; as, a reproachful life.

Syn. -- Opprobrious; contumelious; abusive; offensive; insulting; contemptuous; scornful; insolent; scurrilous; disreputable; discreditable; dishonorable; shameful; disgraceful; scandalous; base; vile; infamous.

-- Re*proach"ful*ly (r&?;-pr&?;ch"f&?;l-l&?;), adv. -- Re*proach"ful*ness, n.

Re*proach"less, a. Being without reproach.

Rep"ro*ba*cy (r?p"r?-b?-c?), n. Reprobation. [R.]

Rep"ro*bance (-bans), n. Reprobation. [Obs.] Shak.

Rep"ro*bate (-b?t), a. [L. reprobatus, p. p. of reprobare to disapprove, condemn. See Reprieve, Reprove.]

1. Not enduring proof or trial; not of standard purity or fineness; disallowed; rejected. [Obs.]

Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them.

Jer. vi. 30.

2. Abandoned to punishment; hence, morally abandoned and lost; given up to vice; depraved.

And strength, and art, are easily outdone By spirits reprobate.

Milton.

3. Of or pertaining to one who is given up to wickedness; as, reprobate conduct. "Reprobate desire." Shak.

Syn. -- Abandoned; vitiated; depraved; corrupt; wicked; profligate; base; vile. See Abandoned.

Rep"ro*bate, n. One morally abandoned and lost.

I acknowledge myself for a reprobate, a villain, a traitor to the king.

Sir W. Raleigh.

Rep"ro*bate (-b?t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reprobated (-b?`t?d); p. pr. & vb. n. Reprobating.] 1. To disapprove with detestation or marks of extreme dislike; to condemn as unworthy; to disallow; to reject.

Such an answer as this is reprobated and disallowed of in law; I do not believe it, unless the deed appears.

Ayliffe.

Every scheme, every person, recommended by one of them, was reprobated by the other.

Macaulay.

2. To abandon to punishment without hope of pardon.

Syn. -- To condemn; reprehend; censure; disown; abandon; reject.

Rep"ro*bate*ness, n. The state of being reprobate.

Rep"ro*ba`ter (-b?`t?r), n. One who reprobates.

Rep`ro*ba"tion (-b?`sh?n), n. [F. réprobation, or L. reprobatio.] 1. The act of reprobating; the state of being reprobated; strong disapproval or censure.

The profligate pretenses upon which he was perpetually soliciting an increase of his disgraceful stipend are mentioned with becoming reprobation.

Jeffrey.

Set a brand of reprobation on clipped poetry and false coin.

Dryden.

2. (Theol.) The predestination of a certain number of the human race as reprobates, or objects of condemnation and punishment.

Rep`ro*ba"tion*er (-?r), n. (Theol.) One who believes in reprobation. See Reprobation, 2. South.

Rep"ro*ba*tive (-b?-t?v), a. Of or pertaining to reprobation; expressing reprobation.

Rep"ro*ba`to*ry (-b?`t?-r?), a. Reprobative.

Re`pro*duce" (r?`pr?-d?s"), v. t. To produce again. Especially: (a) To bring forward again; as, to reproduce a witness; to reproduce charges; to reproduce a play. (b) To cause to exist again.

Those colors are unchangeable, and whenever all those rays with those their colors are mixed again they reproduce the same white light as before.

Sir I. Newton.

(c) To produce again, by generation or the like; to cause the existence of (something of the same class, kind, or nature as another thing); to generate or beget, as offspring; as, to reproduce a rose; some animals are reproduced by gemmation. (d) To make an image or other representation of; to portray; to cause to exist in the memory or imagination; to make a copy of; as, to reproduce a person's features in marble, or on canvas; to reproduce a design.

Re`pro*du"cer (-d?"s?r), n. One who, or that which, reproduces. Burke.

Re`pro*duc"tion (-d?k"sh?n), n. [Cf. F. reproduction.] 1. The act or process of reproducing; the state of being reproduced; specifically (Biol.), the process by which plants and animals give rise to offspring.

There are two distinct methods of reproduction; viz.: asexual reproduction (agamogenesis) and sexual reproduction (gamogenesis). In both cases the new individual is developed from detached portions of the parent organism. In asexual reproduction (gemmation, fission, etc.), the detached portions of the organism develop into new individuals without the intervention of other living matter. In sexual reproduction, the detached portion, which is always a single cell, called the female germ cell, is acted upon by another portion of living matter, the male germ cell, usually from another organism, and in the fusion of the two (impregnation) a new cell is formed, from the development of which arises a new individual.

2. That which is reproduced.

Re`pro*duc"tive (-t?v), a. [Cf. F. reproductif.] Tending, or pertaining, to reproduction; employed in reproduction. Lyell.

Re`pro*duc"to*ry (-t?-r?), a. Reproductive.

Re*proof" (r?-pr??f"), n. [OE. reproef. See Proof, Reprove.] 1. Refutation; confutation; contradiction. [Obs.]

2. An expression of blame or censure; especially, blame expressed to the face; censure for a fault; chiding; reproach.

Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.

Pope.

Syn. -- Admonition; reprehension; chiding; reprimand; rebuke; censure; blame. See Admonition.

Re*prov"a*ble (r?-pr??v"?-b'l), a. [Cf. F. réprouvable.] Worthy of reproof or censure. Jer. Taylor.

Syn. -- Blamable; blameworthy; censurable; reprehensible; culpable; rebukable.

--Re*prov"a*ble*ness, n. -- Re*prov"a*bly, adv.

Re prov"al (-al), n. Reproof. Sir P. Sidney.

Re*prove" (r?-pr??v"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reproved (-pr??vd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Reproving.] [F. réprouver, OF. reprover, fr. L. reprobare. See Reprieve, Reprobate, and cf. Reproof.] 1. To convince. [Obs.]

When he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment.

John xvi. 9.

2. To disprove; to refute. [Obs.]

Reprove my allegation, if you can.

Shak.

3. To chide to the face as blameworthy; to accuse as guilty; to censure.

What if thy son

Prove disobedient, and, reproved, retort, "Wherefore didst thou beget me?"

Milton.

4. To express disapprobation of; as, to reprove faults.

He neither reproved the ordinance of John, neither plainly condemned the fastings of the other men.

Udall.

Syn. -- To reprehend; chide; rebuke; scold; blame censure. -- Reprove, Rebuke, Reprimand. These words all signufy the expression of disapprobation. To reprove implies greater calmness and self-possession. To rebuke implies a more excited and personal feeling. A reproof may be administered long after the offience is committed, and is usually intended for the reformation of the offender; a rebuke is commonly given at the moment of the wrong, and is administered by way of punishment and condemnation. A reprimand proceeds from a person invested with authority, and is a formal and offiscial act. A child is reproved for his faults, and rebuked for his impudence. A military officer is reprimanded for neglect or violation of duty.

Re*prov"er (r?-pr??v"?r), n. One who, or that which, reproves.

Re*prov"ing*ly, adv. In a reproving manner.

Re*prune" (r*prn"), v. t. To prune again or anew.

Yet soon reprunes her wing to soar anew.

Young.

Rep"-sil`ver (r?p"s?l`v?r), n. [See Reap.] Money anciently paid by servile tenants to their lord, in lieu of the customary service of reaping his corn or grain.

Rep"tant (r?p"tant), a. [L. reptans, -antis, p. pr. of reptare, v. intens. from repere to creep. See Reptile.]

1. (Bot.) Same as Repent.

2. (Zoöl.) Creeping; crawling; -- said of reptiles, worms, etc.

||Rep*tan"ti*a (r?p-t?n"sh?-?), n. pl. [NL.] (Zoöl.) A division of ||gastropods; the Pectinibranchiata.

Rep*ta"tion (r?p-t?"sh?n), n. [L. reptatio, from reptare: cf. F. reptation.] (Zoöl.) The act of creeping.

Rep"ta*to*ry (r?p"t?-t?-r?), a. (Zoöl.) Creeping.

Rep"tile (r?p"t?l;277), a. [F. reptile, L. reptilis, fr. repere, reptum, to creep; cf. Lith. reploti; perh. akin to L. serpere. Cf. Serpent.] 1. Creeping; moving on the belly, or by means of small and short legs.

2. Hence: Groveling; low; vulgar; as, a reptile race or crew; reptile vices.

There is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution, but of fear.

Burke.

And dislodge their reptile souls From the bodies and forms of men.

Coleridge.

Rep"tile, n. 1. (Zoöl.) An animal that crawls, or moves on its belly, as snakes,, or by means of small, short legs, as lizards, and the like.

An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path; But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live.

Cowper.

2. (Zoöl.) One of the Reptilia, or one of the Amphibia.

The amphibians were formerly classed with Reptilia, and are still popularly called reptiles, though much more closely allied to the fishes.

3. A groveling or very mean person.

||Rep*til"i*a (r?p-t?l"?-?), n. pl. [NL.] (Zoöl.) A class of ||air-breathing oviparous vertebrates, usually covered with scales or ||bony plates. The heart generally has two auricles and one ventricle. ||The development of the young is the same as that of birds.

It is nearly related in many respects to Aves, or birds. The principal existing orders are Testidunata or Chelonia (turtles), Crocodilia, Lacertilla (lizards), Ophidia (serpents), and Rhynchocephala; the chief extinct orders are Dinosauria, Theremorpha, Mosasauria, Pterosauria, Plesiosauria, Ichtyosauria.

Rep*til"i*an (-an), a. Belonging to the reptiles.

Reptilian age (Geol.), that part of geological time comprising the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods, and distinguished as that era in which the class of reptiles attained its highest expansion; -- called also the Secondary or Mezozoic age.

Rep*til"i*an, n. (Zoöl.) One of the Reptilia; a reptile.

Re*pub"lic (r?-p?b"l?k), n. [F. république, L. respublica commonwealth; res a thing, an affair + publicus, publica, public. See Real, a., and Public.]

1. Common weal. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

2. A state in which the sovereign power resides in the whole body of the people, and is exercised by representatives elected by them; a commonwealth. Cf. Democracy, 2.

In some ancient states called republics the sovereign power was exercised by an hereditary aristocracy or a privileged few, constituting a government now distinctively called an aristocracy. In some there was a division of authority between an aristocracy and the whole body of the people except slaves. No existing republic recognizes an exclusive privilege of any class to govern, or tolerates the institution of slavery.

Republic of letters, The collective body of literary or learned men.

Re*pub"lic*an (-l?-kan), a. [F. républicain.] 1. Of or pertaining to a republic.

The Roman emperors were republican magistrates named by the senate.

Macaulay.

2. Consonant with the principles of a republic; as, republican sentiments or opinions; republican manners.

Republican party. (U.S. Politics) (a) An earlier name of the Democratic party when it was opposed to the Federal party. Thomas Jefferson was its great leader. (b) One of the existing great parties. It was organized in 1856 by a combination of voters from other parties for the purpose of opposing the extension of slavery, and in 1860 it elected Abraham Lincoln president.

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Re*pub"lic*an (r?-p?b"l?-kan), n. 1. One who favors or prefers a republican form of government.

2. (U.S.Politics) A member of the Republican party.

3. (Zoöl.) (a) The American cliff swallow. The cliff swallows build their nests side by side, many together. (b) A South African weaver bird (Philetærus socius). These weaver birds build many nests together, under a large rooflike shelter, which they make of straw.

Red republican. See under Red.

Re*pub"lic*an*ism (-?z'm), n. [Cf. F. républicanisme.] 1. A republican form or system of government; the principles or theory of republican government.

2. Attachment to, or political sympathy for, a republican form of government. Burke.

3. The principles and policy of the Republican party, so called [U.S.]

Re*pub"lic*an*ize (-?z), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Republicanized (-?zd); p. pr. & vb. n. Republicanizing (-?`z?ng).] [Cf. F. républicaniser.] To change, as a state, into a republic; to republican principles; as, France was republicanized; to republicanize the rising generation. D. Ramsay.

Re*pub"li*cate (r?*p?b"l?*k?t), v. t. [Cf. LL. republicare.] To make public again; to republish. [Obs.]

Re*pub`li*ca"tion (r?-p?b`l?-k?"sh?n), n. A second publication, or a new publication of something before published, as of a former will, of a volume already published, or the like; specifically, the publication in one country of a work first issued in another; a reprint.

If there be many testaments, the last overthrows all the former; but the republication of a former will revokes one of a later date, and establishes the first.

Blackstone.

Re*pub"lish (r?-p?b"l?sh), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Republished (-l?sht); p. pr. & vb. n. Republishing.] To publish anew; specifically, to publish in one country (a work first published in another); also, to revive (a will) by re&?;xecution or codicil.

Subsecquent to the purchase or contract, the devisor republished his will.

Blackstone.

Re*pub"lish*er (-?r), n. One who republishes.

Re*pu"di*a*ble (r?-p?"d?-?-b'l), a. [See Repudilate.] Admitting of repudiation; fit or proper to be put away.

Re*pu"di*ate (-?t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Repudiated (-?`t?d); p. pr. & vb. n. Repudiating.] [L. repudiatus, p. p. of repudiare to repudiate, reject, fr. repudium separation, divorce; pref. re- re- + pudere to be ashamed.]

1. To cast off; to disavow; to have nothing to do with; to renounce; to reject.

Servitude is to be repudiated with greater care.

Prynne.

2. To divorce, put away, or discard, as a wife, or a woman one has promised to marry.

His separation from Terentis, whom he repudiated not long afterward.

Bolingbroke.

3. To refuse to acknowledge or to pay; to disclaim; as, the State has repudiated its debts.

Re*pu`di*a"tion (-"sh?n), n. [Cf.F. répudiation, L. repudiatio.] The act of repudiating, or the state of being repuddiated; as, the repudiation of a doctrine, a wife, a debt, etc.

Re*pu`di*a"tion, n. One who favors repudiation, especially of a public debt.

Re*pu"di*a`tor (r?-p?"d?-?`t?r), n. [L., a rejecter, contemner.] One who repudiates.

Re*pugn" (r?-p?n"), v. t. [F. répugner, L. repugnare, repugnatum; pref. re- + pugnare to fight. See Pugnacious.] To fight against; to oppose; to resist. [R.]

Stubbornly he did repugn the truth.

Shak.

Re*pug"na*ble (r?-p?g"n?-b'l), a. Capable of being repugned or resisted. [R.] Sir T. North.

{ Re*pug"nance (-nans), Re*pug"nan*cy (- nan-s?), } n. [F. répugnance, L. repugnantia.] The state or condition of being repugnant; opposition; contrariety; especially, a strong instinctive antagonism; aversion; reluctance; unwillingness, as of mind, passions, principles, qualities, and the like.

That which causes us to lose most of our time is the repugnance which we naturally have to labor.

Dryden.

Let the foes quietly cut their throats, Without repugnancy.

Shak.

Syn. -- Aversion; reluctance; unwillingness; dislike; antipathy; hatred; hostility; irreconcilableness; contrariety; inconsistency. See Dislike.

Re*pug"nant (-nant), a. [F. répugnant, or L. repugnans, -antis, p. pr. of repugnare. See Repugn.] Disposed to fight against; hostile; at war with; being at variance; contrary; inconsistent; refractory; disobedient; also, distasteful in a high degree; offensive; -- usually followed by to, rarely and less properly by with; as, all rudeness was repugnant to her nature.

[His sword] repugnant to command.

Shak.

There is no breach of a divine law but is more or less repugnant unto the will of the Lawgiver, God himself.

Perkins.

Syn. -- Opposite; opposed; adverse; contrary; inconsistent; irreconcilable; hostile; inimical.

Re*pug"nant*ly, adv. In a repugnant manner.

Re*pug"nate (-n?t), v. t. [From L. repugnare. See Repugn.] To oppose; to fight against. [Obs.]

Re*pugn"er (r?-p?n"?r), n. One who repugns.

Re*pul"lu*late (r?-p?l"l?-l?t), v. i. [L. repullulare, repullulatum. See Pullulate.] To bud again.

Though tares repullulate, there is wheat still left in the field.

Howell.

Re*pul`lu*la"tion (r?-p?l`l?-l?"sh?n), n. The act of budding again; the state of having budded again.

Re*pulse" (r?-p?ls"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Repulsed (-p?lst"); p. pr. & vb. n. Repulsing.] [L. repulsus, p. p. of repellere. See Repel.] 1. To repel; to beat or drive back; as, to repulse an assault; to repulse the enemy.

Complete to have discovered and repulsed Whatever wiles of foe or seeming friend.

Milton.

2. To repel by discourtesy, coldness, or denial; to reject; to send away; as, to repulse a suitor or a proffer.

Re*pulse", n. [L. repulsa, fr. repellere, repulsum.]

1. The act of repelling or driving back; also, the state of being repelled or driven back.

By fate repelled, and with repulses tired.

Denham.

He received in the repulse of Tarquin seven hurts in the body.

Shak.

2. Figuratively: Refusal; denial; rejection; failure.

Re*pulse"less, a. Not capable of being repulsed.

Re*puls"er (-?r), n. One who repulses, or drives back.

Re*pul"sion (r?-p?l"sh?n), n. [L. repulsio: cf. F. répulsion.] 1. The act of repulsing or repelling, or the state of being repulsed or repelled.

2. A feeling of violent offence or disgust; repugnance.

3. (Physics) The power, either inherent or due to some physical action, by which bodies, or the particles of bodies, are made to recede from each other, or to resist each other's nearer approach; as, molecular repulsion; electrical repulsion.

Re*pul"sive (-s?v), a. [Cf. F. répulsif.] 1. Serving, or able, to repulse; repellent; as, a repulsive force.

Repulsive of his might the weapon stood.

Pope.

2. Cold; forbidding; offensive; as, repulsive manners.

-- Re*pul"sive*ly, adv. -- Re*pul"sive*ness, n.

Re*pul"so*ry (-s?-r?), a. [L. repulsorius.] Repulsive; driving back.

Re*pur"chase (r?*p?r"ch?s; 48), v. t. To buy back or again; to regain by purchase. Sir M. Hale.

Re*pur"chase, n. The act of repurchasing.

Re*pu"ri*fy (r?-p?"r?-f?), v. t. To purify again.

Rep"u*ta*ble (r?p"?-t?-b'l), a. [From Repute.] Having, or worthy of, good repute; held in esteem; honorable; praiseworthy; as, a reputable man or character; reputable conduct.

In the article of danger, it is as reputable to elude an enemy as defeat one.

Broome.

Syn. -- Respectable; creditable; estimable.

-- Rep"u ta*ble*ness, n. -- Rep"u*ta*bly, adv.

Rep`u*ta"tion (-t?"sh?n), n. [F. réputation, L. reputatio a reckoning, consideration. See Repute, v. t.]

1. The estimation in which one is held; character in public opinion; the character attributed to a person, thing, or action; repute.

The best evidence of reputation is a man's whole life.

Ames.

2. (Law) The character imputed to a person in the community in which he lives. It is admissible in evidence when he puts his character in issue, or when such reputation is otherwise part of the issue of a case.

3. Specifically: Good reputation; favorable regard; public esteem; general credit; good name.

I see my reputation is at stake.

Shak.

The security of his reputation or good name.

Blackstone.

4. Account; value. [Obs.] Chaucer.

[/Christ] made himself of no reputation.

Phil. ii. 7.

Syn. -- Credit; repute; regard; estimation; esteem; honor; fame. See the Note under Character.

Re*put"a*tive*ly (r?-p?t"?-t?v-l?), adv. By repute.

Re*pute" (r?-p?t"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reputed; p. pr. & vb. n. Reputing.] [F. réputer, L. reputare to count over, think over; pref. re- re- + putare to count, think. See Putative.] To hold in thought; to account; to estimate; to hold; to think; to reckon.

Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?

Job xviii. 3.

The king your father was reputed for A prince most prudent.

Shak.

Re*pute", n. 1. Character reputed or attributed; reputation, whether good or bad; established opinion; public estimate.

He who regns Monarch in heaven, till then as one secure Sat on his throne, upheld by old repute.

Milton.

2. Specifically: Good character or reputation; credit or honor derived from common or public opinion; -- opposed to disrepute. "Dead stocks, which have been of repute." F. Beaumont.

Re*put"ed*ly (r?-p?t"?d-l?), adv. In common opinion or estimation; by repute.

Re*pute"less, a. Not having good repute; disreputable; disgraceful; inglorius. [R.] Shak.

Re*quere" (r?--kw?r"), v. t. To require. [Obs.]

Re*quest" (r*kwst"), n. [OE. requeste, OF. requeste, F. requête, LL. requesta, for requisita, fr. L. requirere, requisitum, to seek again, ask for. See Require, and cf. Quest.] 1. The act of asking for anything desired; expression of desire or demand; solicitation; prayer; petition; entreaty.

I will marry her, sir, at your request.

Shak.

2. That which is asked for or requested. "He gave them their request." Ps. cvi. 15.

I will both hear and grant you your requests.

Shak.

3. A state of being desired or held in such estimation as to be sought after or asked for; demand.

Knowledge and fame were in as great request as wealth among us now.

Sir W. Temple.

Court of Requests. (a) A local tribunal, sometimes called Court of Consience, founded by act of Parliament to facilitate the recovery of small debts from any inhabitant or trader in the district defined by the act; -- now mostly abolished. (b) A court of equity for the relief of such persons as addressed the sovereign by supplication; -- now abolished. It was inferior to the Court of Chancery. [Eng.] Brande & C.

Syn. -- Asking; solicitation; petition; prayer; supplication; entreaty; suit.

Re*quest" (r?-kw?st"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Requested; p. pr. & vb. n. Requesting.] [Cf. OF. requester, F. requêter.] 1. To ask for (something); to express desire ffor; to solicit; as, to request his presence, or a favor.

2. To address with a request; to ask.

I request you To give my poor host freedom.

Shak.

Syn. -- To ask; solicit; entreat; beseech. See Beg.

Re*quest"er (-?r), n. One who requests; a petitioner.

Re*quick"en (r?-kw?k"'n), v. t. To quicken anew; to reanimate; to give new life to. Shak.

Re"qui*em (r?"kw?-?m;277), n. [Acc. of L. requies rest, the first words of the Mass being "Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine," give eternal rest to them, O lord; pref. re- re + quies quiet. See Quiet, n., and cf. Requin.] 1. (R. C. Ch.) A mass said or sung for the repose of a departed soul.

We should profane the service of the dead To sing a requiem and such rest to her As to peace-parted souls.

Shak.

2. Any grand musical composition, performed in honor of a deceased person.

3. Rest; quiet; peace. [Obs.]

Else had I an eternal requiem kept, And in the arms of peace forever slept.

Sandys.

Re*qui"e*to*ry (r?-kw?"?-t?-r?), n. [L. requietorium, fr. requiescere, requietum, to rest. See Re-, and Quiesce.] A sepulcher. [Obs.] Weever.

Re"quin (r?"kw?n), n. [F., fr. reqiem a Mass sung for the dead. See Requiem.] (Zoöl.) The man-eater, or white shark (Carcharodon carcharias); -- so called on account of its causing requiems to be sung.

Re*quir"a*ble (r?-kw?r"?-b'l), a. Capable of being required; proper to be required. Sir M. Hale.

Re*quire" (r?-kw?r"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Required (-kw?rd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Requiring.] [OE. requeren, requiren, OF. requerre, F. requ&?;rir; L. pref. re- re- + quaerere to ask; cf. L. requirere. See Query, and cf. Request, Requisite.] 1. To demand; to insist upon having; to claim as by right and authority; to exact; as, to require the surrender of property.

Shall I say to Cæsar What you require of him?

Shak.

By nature did what was by law required.

Dryden.

2. To demand or exact as indispensable; to need.

Just gave what life required, and gave no more.

Goldsmith.

The two last [biographies] require to be particularly noticed.

J. A. Symonds.

3. To ask as a favor; to request.

I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way.

Ezra viii. 22.

Syn. -- To claim; exact; enjoin; prescribe; direct; order; demand; need.

Re*quire"ment (-ment), n. 1. The act of requiring; demand; requisition.

2. That which is required; an imperative or authoritative command; an essential condition; something needed or necessary; a need.

One of those who believe that they can fill up every requirement contained in the rule of righteousness.

J. M. Mason.

God gave her the child, and gave her too an instinctive knowledge of its nature and requirements.

Hawthorne.

Re*quir"er (-kw?r"?r), n. One who requires.

Req"ui*site (r?k"w?-z?t), n. That which is required, or is necessary; something indispensable.

God, on his part, has declared the requisites on ours; what we must do to obtain blessings, is the great business of us all to know.

Wake.

Req"ui*site, a. [L. requisitus, p. p. requirere; pref. re- re- + quaerere to ask. See Require.] Required by the nature of things, or by circumstances; so needful that it can not be dispensed with; necessary; indispensable.

All truth requisite for men to know.

Milton.

Syn. -- Necessary; needful; indispensable; essential.

-- Req"ui*site*ly, adv. -- Req"ui*site*ness, n.

Req`ui*si"tion (r?k`w?-z?sh"?n), n.[Cf. F. réquisition, L. requisitio a searching.] 1. The act of requiring, as of right; a demand or application made as by authority. Specifically: (a) (International Law) A formal demand made by one state or government upon another for the surrender or extradition of a fugitive from justice. Kent. (b) (Law) A notarial demand of a debt. Wharton. (c) (Mil.) A demand by the invader upon the people of an invaded country for supplies, as of provision, forage, transportation, etc. Farrow. (d) A formal application by one officer to another for things needed in the public service; as, a requisition for clothing, troops, or money.

2. That which is required by authority; especially, a quota of supplies or necessaries.

3. A written or normal call; an invitation; a summons; as, a reqisition for a public meeting. [Eng.]

Req`ui*si"tion, v. t. 1. To make a reqisition on or for; as, to requisition a district for forage; to requisition troops.

2. To present a requisition to; to summon request; as, to requisition a person to be a candidate. [Eng.]

Req`ui*si"tion*ist, n. One who makes or signs a requisition.

Re*quis"i*tive (r?-kw?z"?-t?v), a. Expressing or implying demand. [R.] Harris.

Re*quis"i*tive, n. One who, or that which, makes requisition; a requisitionist. [R.]

Re*quis"i*tor (-t?r), n. One who makes reqisition; esp., one authorized by a requisition to investigate facts.

Re*quis"i*to*ry (-t?-r?), a. Sought for; demanded. [R.] Summary on Du Bartas (1621).

Re*quit"a*ble (-kw?t"?-b'l), a. That may be requited.

Re*quit"al (-al), n. [From Requite.] The act of requiting; also, that which requites; return, good or bad, for anything done; in a good sense, compensation; recompense; as, the requital of services; in a bad sense, retaliation, or punishment; as, the requital of evil deeds.

No merit their aversion can remove, Nor ill requital can efface their love.

Waller.

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Syn. -- Compensation; recompense; remuneration; reward; satisfaction; payment; retribution; retaliation; reprisal; punishment.

Re"quite" (r?-kw?t"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Requited; p. pr. & vb. n. Requiting.] [Pref. re- + quit.] To repay; in a good sense, to recompense; to return (an equivalent) in good; to reward; in a bad sense, to retaliate; to return (evil) for evil; to punish.

He can requite thee; for he knows the charma That call fame on such gentle acts as these.

Milton.

Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand.

Ps. x. 14.

Syn. -- To repay; reward; pay; compensate; remunerate; satisfy; recompense; punish; revenge.

Re*quite"ment (-ment), n. Requital [Obs.] E. Hall.

Re*quit"er (-kw?t"?r), n. One who requites.

Rere"brace` (r?r"br?s"), n. [F. arrière-bras.] (Anc. Armor) Armor for the upper part of the arm. Fairholt.

Rere`de*main" (-d?-m?n"), n. [F. arrière back + de of + main hand.] A backward stroke. [Obs.]

Rere"dos (r?r"d?s), n. [From rear + F. dos back, L. dorsum. Cf. Dorsal.] (Arch.) (a) A screen or partition wall behind an altar. (b) The back of a fireplace. (c) The open hearth, upon which fires were lighted, immediately under the louver, in the center of ancient halls. [Also spelt reredosse.] Fairholt.

Rere"fief` (r?r"f?f`), n. [F. arrière-fief. See Rear hinder, and Fief.] (Scots Law) A fief held of a superior feudatory; a fief held by an under tenant. Blackstone.

Re*reign" (r?-r?n"), v. i. To reign again.

Re`-re*it"er*ate (r?`r?-?t"?r-?t), v. t. To reiterate many times. [R.] "My re-reiterated wish." Tennyson.

Rere"mouse` (r?r"mous`), n. (Zoöl.) A rearmouse.

Re`-re*solve" (r?`r?-z?lv"), v. t. & i. To resolve again.

Resolves, and re-resolves, then dies the same.

Young.

Rere"ward` (r?r"w?rd`), n. [See Rearward.] The rear guard of an army. [Obs.]

||Res (r?z), n.; pl. Res. [L.] A thing; the particular thing; a matter; ||a point.

||Res gestæ [L., things done] (Law), the facts which form the ||environment of a litigated issue. Wharton. -- ||Res judicata [L.] ||(Law), a thing adjudicated; a matter no longer open to controversy.

Re*sail" (r?-s?l"), v. t. & i. To sail again; also, to sail back, as to a former port.

Re*sale" (r?-s?l" or r?"s?l), n. A sale at second hand, or at retail; also, a second sale. Bacon.

Re*sal"gar (r?-s?l"g?r), n. Realgar. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Re`sa*lute" (r?`s?-l?t"), v. t. To salute again.

Re*saw" (r&?;-s&?;"), v. t. To saw again; specifically, to saw a balk, or a timber, which has already been squared, into dimension lumber, as joists, boards, etc.

Res"cat (r?s"k?t), v. t. [Sp. rescattar.] To ransom; to release; to rescue. [Obs.] Howell.

Res"cat, n. [Sp. rescate.] Ransom; release. [Obs.]

Re*scind" (r?-s?nd"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rescinded; p. pr. & vb. n. Rescinding.] [L. rescindere, rescissum; pref re- re- + scindere to cut, split: cf. F. rescinder. See Shism.] 1. To cut off; to abrogate; to annul.

The blessed Jesus . . . did sacramentally rescind the impure relics of Adam and the contraction of evil customs.

Jer. Taylor.

2. Specifically, to vacate or make void, as an act, by the enacting authority or by superior authority; to repeal; as, to rescind a law, a resolution, or a vote; to rescind a decree or a judgment.

Syn. -- To revoke; repeal; abrogate; annul; recall; reverse; vacate; void.

Re*scind"a*ble (-?-b'l), a. Capable of being rescinded.

Re*scind"ment (-ment), n. The act of rescinding; rescission.

Re*scis"sion (r?-s?zh"?n), n. [L. rescissio: cf. F. rescission. See Rescind.] The act of rescinding, abrogating, annulling, or vacating; as, the rescission of a law, decree, or judgment.

Re*scis"so*ry (r?-s?z"?-r? or r?-s?s"-), a. [L. rescissorius: cf. F. rescisoire.] Tending to rescind; rescinding.

To pass a general act rescissory (as it was called), annulling all the Parliaments that had been held since the year 1633.

Bp. Burnet.

Res"cous (r?s"k?s), n. [OE., fr. OF. rescousse, fr. rescourre, p. p. rescous, to rescue. See Rescue.] 1. Rescue; deliverance. [Obs.] Chaucer.

2. (Law) See Rescue, 2. [Obs.]

Res"cowe (r?s"kou), v. t. To rescue. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Re*scribe" (r?-skr?b"), v. t. [L. rescribere; pref. re- re- + scribere to write. See Scribe.] 1. To write back; to write in reply. Ayliffe.

2. To write over again. Howell.

Re"script (r?"skr?pt), n. [L. rescriptum: cf. F. rescrit, formerly also spelt rescript. See Rescribe,v. t.]

1. (Rom.Antiq.) The answer of an emperor when formallyconsulted by particular persons on some difficult question; hence, an edict or decree.

In their rescripts and other ordinances, the Roman emperors spoke in the plural number.

Hare.

2. (R.C.Ch.) The official written answer of the pope upon a question of canon law, or morals.

3. A counterpart. Bouvier.

Re*scrip"tion (r?-skr?p"sh?n), n. [L. rescriptio: cf. F. rescription. See Rescribe.] A writing back; the answering of a letter. Loveday.

Re*scrip"tive (-t?v), a. Pertaining to, or answering the purpose of, a rescript; hence, deciding; settling; determining.

Re*scrip"tive*ly, adv. By rescript. Burke.

Res"cu*a*ble (r?s"k?-?-b'l), a. That may be rescued.

Res"cue (r?s"k?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rescued (-k?d);p. pr. & vb. n. Rescuing.] [OE. rescopuen, OF. rescourre, rescurre, rescorre; L. pref. re- re- + excutere to shake or drive out; ex out + quatere to shake. See Qtash to crush, Rercussion.] To free or deliver from any confinement, violence, danger, or evil; to liberate from actual restraint; to remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil; as, to rescue a prisoner from the enemy; to rescue seamen from destruction.

Had I been seized by a hungry lion, I would have been a breakfast to the best, Rather than have false Proteus rescue me.

Shak.

Syn. -- To retake; recapture; free; deliver; liberate; release; save.

Res"cue (r?s"k?), n. [From Rescue, v.; cf. Rescous.]

1. The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence, or danger; liberation.

Spur to the rescue of the noble Talbot.

Shak.

2. (Law) (a) The forcible retaking, or taking away, against law, of things lawfully distrained. (b) The forcible liberation of a person from an arrest or imprisonment. (c) The retaking by a party captured of a prize made by the enemy. Bouvier.

The rescue of a prisoner from the court is punished with perpetual imprisonment and forfeiture of goods.

Blackstone.

Rescue grass. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Bot.) A tall grass (Ceratochloa unioloides) somewhat resembling chess, cultivated for hay and forage in the Southern States.

Res"cue*less, a. Without rescue or release.

Res"cu*er (-k?-?r), n. One who rescues.

Res`cus*see" (r?s`k?s-s?"), n. (O.Eng. Law) The party in whose favor a rescue is made. Crabb.

Res*cus"sor (r?s-k?s"s?r), n. [LL.] (O.Eng.Law) One who makes an unlawful rescue; a rescuer. Burril.

Rese (r?z), v. i. To shake; to quake; to tremble. [Obs.] "It made all the gates for to rese." Chaucer.

Re-search" (r?-s?rch"), v. t. [Pref. re- + search.] To search again; to examine anew.

Re*search" (r?-s?rch"), n. [Pref. re- + search: cf OF. recerche, F. recherche.] Diligent inquiry or examination in seeking facts or principles; laborious or continued search after truth; as, researches of human wisdom.

The dearest interests of parties have frequently been staked on the results of the researches of antiquaries.

Macaulay.

Syn. -- Investigation; examination; inquiry; scrutiny.

Re*search", v. t. [Pref. re- + search: cf. OF. recerchier, F. rechercher.] To search or examine with continued care; to seek diligently.

Re*search"er (-?r), n. One who researches.

Re*search"ful (-f?l), a. Making researches; inquisitive. [R.] Coleridge.

Re*seat" (r?-s?t"), v. t. 1. To seat or set again, as on a chair, throne, etc. Dryden.

2. To put a new seat, or new seats, in; as, to reseat a theater; to reseat a chair or trousers.

Re*sect" (r?-s?kt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Resected;p. pr. & vb. n. Resecting.] [L. resectus, p. p. of resecare to cut off; pref. re- re- + secare to cut.] To cut or pare off; to remove by cutting.

Re*sec"tion (r?-s?k"sh?n), n. [L. resectio: cf. F. résection.] 1. The act of cutting or paring off. Cotgrave.

2. (Surg.) The removal of the articular extremity of a bone, or of the ends of the bones in a false articulation.

Re*se"da (r?-s?"d?), n. [L. , a kind of plant.] 1. (Bot.) A genus of plants, the type of which is mignonette.

2. A grayish green color, like that of the flowers of mignonette.

Re*seek" (r?-s?k"), v. t. To seek again. J. Barlow.

Re*seize" (r?-s?z"), v. t. [Pref. re- + seize: cf. F. ressaisir.] 1. To seize again, or a second time.

2. To put in possession again; to reinstate.

And then therein [in his kingdom] reseized was again.

Spenser.

3. (Law) To take possession of, as lands and tenements which have been disseized.

The sheriff is commanded to reseize the land and all the chattels thereon, and keep the same in his custody till the arrival of the justices of assize.

Blackstone.

Re*seiz"er (-s?z"?r), n. 1. One who seizes again.

2. (Eng. Law) The taking of lands into the hands of the king where a general livery, or oustre le main, was formerly mis-sued, contrary to the form and order of law.

Re*sei"zure (r&?;-s&?;"zh&?;r; 135), n. A second seizure; the act of seizing again. Bacon.

Re*sell" (r?-s?l"), v. t. To sell again; to sell what has been bought or sold; to retail.

Re*sem"bla*ble (r?-z?m"bl?-b'l), a. [See Resemble.] Admitting of being compared; like. [Obs.] Gower.

Re*sem"blance (-blans), n. [Cf. F. ressemblance. See Resemble.] 1. The quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity.

One main end of poetry and painting is to please; they bear a great resemblance to each other.

Dryden.

2. That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness.

These sensible things, which religion hath allowed, are resemblances formed according to things spiritual.

Hooker.

3. A comparison; a simile. [Obs.] Chaucer.

4. Probability; verisimilitude. [Obs.] Shak.

Syn. -- Likeness; similarity; similitude; semblance; representation; image.

Re*sem"blant (-blant), a. [F., a . and p. pr. fr. ressembler to resemble. See Resemble.] Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. [R.] Gower.

Re*sem"ble (r?-z?m"b'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Resembled (-b'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Resembling (-bl?ng).] [F. ressembler; pref. re- re- + sembler to seem, resemble, fr. L. similare, simulare, to imitate, fr. similis like, similar. See Similar.] 1. To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other.

We will resemble you in that.

Shak.

2. To liken; to compare; to represent as like. [Obs.]

The other . . . He did resemble to his lady bright.

Spenser.

3. To counterfeit; to imitate. [Obs.] "They can so well resemble man's speech." Holland.

4. To cause to imitate or be like. [R.] H. Bushnell.

Re*sem"bler (r?-z?m"bl?r), n. One who resembles.

Re*sem"bling*ly (-bl?ng-l?), adv. So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.

Re*sem"i*nate (-s?m"?-n?t), v. t. [L. pref. re- again + seminatus, p. p. of seminare to sow.] To produce again by means of seed. [Obs.] Sir. T. Browne.

Re*send" (r?-s?nd"), v. t. 1. To send again; as, to resend a message.

2. To send back; as, to resend a gift. [Obs.] Shak.

3. (Telegraphy) To send on from an intermediate station by means of a repeater.

Re*sent" (r?-z?nt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Resented; p. pr. & vb. n. Resenting.] [F. ressentir; L. pref. re- re- + sentire to feel. See Sense.] 1. To be sensible of; to feel; as: (a) In a good sense, to take well; to receive with satisfaction. [Obs.]

Which makes the tragical ends of noble persons more favorably resented by compassionate readers.

Sir T. Browne.

(b) In a bad sense, to take ill; to consider as an injury or affront; to be indignant at.

2. To express or exhibit displeasure or indignation at, as by words or acts.

The good prince King James . . . bore dishonorably what he might have resented safely.

Bolingbroke.

3. To recognize; to perceive, especially as if by smelling; -- associated in meaning with sent, the older spelling of scent to smell. See Resent, v. i. [Obs.]

This bird of prey resented a worse than earthly savor in the soul of Saul.

Fuller.

Our King Henry the Seventh quickly resented his drift.

Fuller.

Re*sent", v. i. 1. To feel resentment. Swift.

2. To give forth an odor; to smell; to savor. [Obs.]

The judicious prelate will prefer a drop of the sincere milk of the word before vessels full of traditionary pottage resenting of the wild gourd of human invention.

Fuller.

Re*sent"er (-?r), n. One who resents. Sir H. Wotton.

Re*sent"ful (-f?l), a. Inclined to resent; easily provoked to anger; irritable. -- Re*sent"ful*ly, adv.

Re*sent"i*ment (-?-ment), n. Resentment. [Obs.]

Re*sent"ing*ly, adv. 1. With deep sense or strong perception. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

2. With a sense of wrong or affront; with resentment.

Re*sent"ive (-?v), a. Resentful. [R.] Thomson.

Re*sent"ment (-ment), n. [F. ressentiment.] 1. The act of resenting.

2. The state of holding something in the mind as a subject of contemplation, or of being inclined to reflect upon something; a state of consciousness; conviction; feeling; impression. [Obs.]

He retains vivid resentments of the more solid morality.

Dr. H. More.

It is a greater wonder that so many of them die, with so little resentment of their danger.

Jer. Taylor.

3. In a good sense, satisfaction; gratitude. [Obs.]

The Council taking notice of the many good services performed by Mr. John Milton, . . . have thought fit to declare their resentment and good acceptance of the same.

The Council Book (1651).

4. In a bad sense, strong displeasure; anger; hostility provoked by a wrong or injury experienced.

Resentment . . . is a deep, reflective displeasure against the conduct of the offender.

Cogan.

Syn. -- Anger; irritation; vexation; displeasure; grudge; indignation; choler; gall; ire; wrath; rage; fury. -- Resentment, Anger. Anger is the broader term, denoting a keen sense of disapprobation (usually with a desire to punish) for whatever we feel to be wrong, whether directed toward ourselves or others. Resentment is anger exicted by a sense of personal injury. It is, etymologically, that reaction of the mind which we instinctively feel when we think ourselves wronged. Pride and selfishness are apt to aggravate this feeling until it changes into a criminal animosity; and this is now the more common signification of the term. Being founded in a sense of injury, this feeling is hard to be removed; and hence the expressions bitter or implacable resentment. See Anger.

Anger is like A full-hot horse, who being allowed his way, Self-mettle tires him.

Shak.

Can heavently minds such high resentment show, Or exercise their spite in human woe?

Dryden.

Res"er*ate (r?s"?r-?t), v. t. [L. reseratus, p. p. of reserare to unlock.] To unlock; to open. [Obs.] Boyle.

Re*serv"ance (r?-z?rv"ans), n. Reservation. [R.]

Res`er*va"tion (r?z`?r-v?"sh?n), n. [Cf. F. réservation, LL. reservatio. See Reserve.] 1. The act of reserving, or keeping back; concealment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve. A. Smith.

With reservation of an hundred knights.

Shak.

Make some reservation of your wrongs.

Shak.

2. Something withheld, either not expressed or disclosed, or not given up or brought forward. Dryden.

3. A tract of the public land reserved for some special use, as for schools, for the use of Indians, etc. [U.S.]

4. The state of being reserved, or kept in store. Shak.

5. (Law) (a) A clause in an instrument by which some new thing is reserved out of the thing granted, and not in esse before. (b) A proviso. Kent.

This term is often used in the same sense with exception, the technical distinction being disregarded.

6. (Eccl.) (a) The portion of the sacramental elements reserved for purposes of devotion and for the communion of the absent and sick. (b) A term of canon law, which signifies that the pope reserves to himself appointment to certain benefices.

Mental reservation, the withholding, or failing to disclose, something that affects a statement, promise, etc., and which, if disclosed, would materially change its import.

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Re*serv"a*tive (r?-z?rv"?-t?v), a. Tending to reserve or keep; keeping; reserving.

Re*serv"a*to*ry (-t?-r?), n. [LL. reservatorium,fr. L. resservare. See Reserve, v. t., and cf. Reservior.] A place in which things are reserved or kept. Woodward.

Re*serve" (r?-z?rv"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reserved. (z&?;rvd");p. pr. & vb. n. Reserving.] [F. réserver, L. reservare, reservatum; pref. re- re- + servare to keep. See Serve.] 1. To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. "I have reserved to myself nothing." Shak.

2. Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain. Gen. xxvii. 35.

Hast thou seen the treasures of the hail, which I have reserved against the time of trouble?

Job xxxviii. 22,23.

Reserve your kind looks and language for private hours.

Swift.

3. To make an exception of; to except. [R.]

Re*serve", n. [F. réserve.] 1. The act of reserving, or keeping back; reservation.

However any one may concur in the general scheme, it is still with certain reserves and deviations.

Addison.

2. That which is reserved, or kept back, as for future use.

The virgins, besides the oil in their lamps, carried likewise a reserve in some other vessel for a continual supply.

Tillotson.

3. That which is excepted; exception.

Each has some darling lust, which pleads for a reserve.

Rogers.

4. Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior.

My soul, surprised, and from her sex disjoined, Left all reserve, and all the sex, behind.

Prior.

The clergyman's shy and sensitive reserve had balked this scheme.

Hawthorne.

5. A tract of land reserved, or set apart, for a particular purpose; as, the Connecticut Reserve in Ohio, originally set apart for the school fund of Connecticut; the Clergy Reserves in Canada, for the support of the clergy.

6. (Mil.) A body of troops in the rear of an army drawn up for battle, reserved to support the other lines as occasion may require; a force or body of troops kept for an exigency.

7. (Banking) Funds kept on hand to meet liabilities.

In reserve, in keeping for other or future use; in store; as, he has large quantities of wheat in reserve; he has evidence or arguments in reserve. -- Reserve air. (Physiol.) Same as Supplemental air, under Supplemental.

Syn. -- Reservation; retention; limitation; backwardness; reservedness; coldness; restraint; shyness; coyness; modesty.

Re*served" (-z?rvd"), a. 1. Kept for future or special use, or for an exigency; as, reserved troops; a reserved seat in a theater.

2. Restrained from freedom in words or actions; backward, or cautious, in communicating one's thoughts and feelings; not free or frank.

To all obliging, yet reserved to all.

Walsh.

Nothing reserved or sullen was to see.

Dryden.

-- Re*serv"ed*ly (r&?;-z&?;rv"&?;d-l&?;), adv. -- Re*serv"ed*ness, n.

Res`er*vee" (rz`r*v"), n. One to, or for, whom anything is reserved; - - contrasted with reservor.

Re*serv"er (r*zrv"r), n. One who reserves.

Re*serv"ist, n. A member of a reserve force of soldiers or militia. [Eng.]

Res"er*voir` (rz"r*vwôr`; 277), n. [F. réservoir, fr. LL. reservatorium. See Reservatory.] 1. A place where anything is kept in store; especially, a place where water is collected and kept for use when wanted, as to supply a fountain, a canal, or a city by means of aqueducts, or to drive a mill wheel, or the like.

2. (Bot.) A small intercellular space, often containing resin, essential oil, or some other secreted matter.

Receiving reservoir (Water Works), a principal reservoir into which an aqueduct or rising main delivers water, and from which a distributing reservoir draws its supply.

Re*serv"or (r?-z?rv"?r or r?z`?r-v?r), n. One who reserves; a reserver.

Re*set" (r?-s?t"), v. t. To set again; as, to reset type; to reset copy; to reset a diamond.

Re"set (r?"s?t), n. 1. The act of resetting.

2. (Print.) That which is reset; matter set up again.

Re*set" (r?-s?t"), n. [OF. recete, recepte, a receiving. Cf. Receipt.] (Scots Law) The receiving of stolen goods, or harboring an outlaw. Jamieson.

Re*set", v. t. (Scots Law) To harbor or secrete; to hide, as stolen goods or a criminal.

We shall see if an English hound is to harbor and reset the Southrons here.

Sir. W. Scott.

Re*set"ter (-t?r), n. (Scots Law) One who receives or conceals, as stolen goods or criminal.

Re*set"ter (r?-S?t"t?r), n. One who resets, or sets again.

Re*set"tle (r?-s?t"t'l), v. t. To settle again. Swift.

Re*set"tle, v. i. To settle again, or a second time.

Re*set"tle*ment (-ment), n. Act of settling again, or state of being settled again; as, the resettlement of lees.

The resettlement of my discomposed soul.

Norris.

Re*shape" (r?-sh?p"), v. t. To shape again.

Re*ship" (r?-sh?p"), v. t. To ship again; to put on board of a vessel a second time; to send on a second voyage; as, to reship bonded merchandise.

Re*ship", v. i. To engage one's self again for service on board of a vessel after having been discharged.

Re*ship"ment (-ment), n. The act of reshipping; also, that which is reshippped.

Re*ship"per (-p?r), n. One who reships.

Res`i*ance (r?z"?-ans), n. [LL. reseantia, &?;&?; OF. reseance.] Residence; abode. [Obs.] Bacon.

Res"i*ant (-ant), a. [OF. reseant, resseant, L. residens. See Resident.] Resident; present in a place. [Obs.]

In which her kingdom's throne is chiefly resiant.

Spenser.

Res"i*ant, n. A resident. [Obs.] Sir T. More.

Re*side" (r?-z?d"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Resided; p. pr. & vb. n. Residing.] [F. résider, L. residere; pref. re- re- + sedere to sit. See Sit. ] 1. To dwell permanently or for a considerable time; to have a settled abode for a time; to abide continuosly; to have one's domicile of home; to remain for a long time.

At the moated grange, resides this dejected Mariana.

Shak.

In no fixed place the happy souls reside.

Dryden.

2. To have a seat or fixed position; to inhere; to lie or be as in attribute or element.

In such like acts, the duty and virtue of contentedness doth especially reside.

Barrow.

3. To sink; to settle, as sediment. [Obs.] Boyle.

Syn. -- To dwell; inhabit; sojourn; abide; remain; live; domiciliate; domicile.

Res"i*dence (r?z"?-dens), n. [F. résidence. See Resident.] 1. The act or fact of residing, abiding, or dwelling in a place for some continuance of time; as, the residence of an American in France or Italy for a year.

The confessor had often made considerable residences in Normandy.

Sir M. Hale.

2. The place where one resides; an abode; a dwelling or habitation; esp., a settled or permanent home or domicile. "Near the residence of Posthumus." Shak.

Johnson took up his residence in London.

Macaulay.

3. (Eng.Eccl.Law) The residing of an incumbent on his benefice; -- opposed to nonresidence.

4. The place where anything rests permanently.

But when a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all his regal power, he then, . . . fights against his own majesty and kingship.

Milton.

5. Subsidence, as of a sediment. [Obs.] Bacon.

6. That which falls to the bottom of liquors; sediment; also, refuse; residuum. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

Syn. -- Domiciliation; sojourn; stay; abode; home; dwelling; habitation; domicile; mansion.

Res"i*den*cy (-den-s?), n. 1. Residence. [Obsoles.]

2. A political agency at a native court in British India, held by an officer styled the Resident; also, a Dutch commercial colony or province in the East Indies.

Res"i*dent (-dent), a. [F. résident, L. residens, -entis, p. pr. of residere. See Reside.] 1. Dwelling, or having an abode, in a place for a continued length of time; residing on one's own estate; -- opposed to nonresident; as, resident in the city or in the country.

2. Fixed; stable; certain. [Obs.] "Stable and resident like a rock." Jer. TAylor.

One there still resident as day and night.

Davenant.

Res"i*dent, n. 1. One who resides or dwells in a place for some time.

2. A diplomatic representative who resides at a foreign court; -- a term usualy applied to ministers of a rank inferior to that of ambassadors. See the Note under Minister, 4.

Res"i*dent*er (-r), n. A resident. [Obs. or Colloq.]

Res`i*den""tial (-d?n"shal), a. 1. Of or pertaining to a residence or residents; as, residential trade.

2. Residing; residentiary. [R.]

Res`i*den"tia*ry (-d?n"sh?-r?; 277), a. [LL. residentiaris.] Having residence; as, a canon residentary; a residentiary guardian. Dr. H. More.

Res`i*den"tia*ry, n. 1. One who is resident.

The residentiary, or the frequent visitor of the favored spot, . . . will discover that both have been there.

Coleridge.

2. An ecclesiastic who keeps a certain residence.

Syn. -- Inhabitant; inhabiter; dweller; sojourner.

Res`i*den"tia*ry*ship, n. The office or condition of a residentiary.

Res"i*dent*ship (r?z"?-dent-sh?p), n. The office or condition of a resident.

Re*sid"er (r?-z?d"?r), n. One who resides in a place.

Re*sid"u*al (r?-z?d"?-al), a. [See Residue.] Pertaining to a residue; remaining after a part is taken.

Residual air (Physiol.), that portion of air contained in the lungs which can not be expelled even by the most violent expiratory effort. It amounts to from 75 to 100 cubic inches. Cf. Supplemental air, under Supplemental. -- Residual error. (Mensuration) See Error, 6 (b). -- Residual figure (Geom.), the figure which remains after a less figure has been taken from a greater one. -- Residual magnetism (Physics), remanent magnetism. See under Remanent. -- Residual product, a by product, as cotton waste from a cotton mill, coke and coal tar from gas works, etc. -- Residual quantity (Alg.), a binomial quantity the two parts of which are connected by the negative sign, as a-b. -- Residual root (Alg.), the root of a residual quantity, as &radic;(a-b).

Re*sid"u*al, n. (Math.) (a) The difference of the results obtained by observation, and by computation from a formula. (b) The difference between the mean of several observations and any one of them.

Re*sid"u*a*ry (-?-r?), a. [See Residue.] Consisting of residue; as, residuary matter; pertaining to the residue, or part remaining; as, the residuary advantage of an estate. Ayliffe.

Residuary clause (Law), that part of the testator's will in which the residue of his estate is disposed of. -- Residuary devise (Law), the person to whom the residue of real estate is devised by a will. - - Residuary legatee (Law), the person to whom the residue of personal estate is bequeathed.

Res"i*due (r?z"?-d?), n. [F. résidu, L. residuum, fr. residuus that is left behind, remaining, fr. residere to remain behind. See Reside, and cf. Residuum.] 1. That which remains after a part is taken, separated, removed, or designated; remnant; remainder.

The residue of them will I deliver to the sword.

Jer. xv. 9.

If church power had then prevailed over its victims, not a residue of English liberty would have been saved.

I. Taylor.

2. (Law) That part of a testeator's estate wwhich is not disposed of in his will by particular and special legacies and devises, and which remains after payment of debts and legacies.

3. (Chem.) That which remains of a molecule after the removal of a portion of its constituents; hence, an atom or group regarded as a portion of a molecule; -- used as nearly equivalent to radical, but in a more general sense.

The term radical is sometimes restricted to groups containing carbon, the term residue being applied to the others.

4. (Theory of Numbers) Any positive or negative number that differs from a given number by a multiple of a given modulus; thus, if 7 is the modulus, and 9 the given number, the numbers -5, 2, 16, 23, etc., are residues.

Syn. -- Rest; remainder; remnant; balance; residuum; remains; leavings; relics.

Re*sid"u*ous (r?-z?d"?-?s), a. [L. residuus.] Remaining; residual. Landor.

Re*sid"u*um (-?m), n. [L. See Residue.] That which is left after any process of separation or purification; that which remains after certain specified deductions are made; residue.

"I think so," is the whole residuum . . . after evaporating the prodigious pretensions of the zealot demagogue.

L. Taylor.

Re*siege" (r?-s?j"), v. t. [Pref. re- + siege a seat.] To seat again; to reinstate. [Obs.] Spenser.

Re-sign" (r?-s?n"), v. t. [Pref. re- + sign.] To affix one's signature to, a second time; to sign again.

Re*sign" (r?-z?n"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Resigned (-z?nd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Resigning.] [F. résigner, L. resignare to unseal, annul, assign, resign; pref. re- re- + signare to seal, stamp. See Sign, and cf. Resignation.]

1. To sign back; to return by a formal act; to yield to another; to surrender; -- said especially of office or emolument. Hence, to give up; to yield; to submit; -- said of the wishes or will, or of something valued; -- also often used reflexively.

I here resign my government to thee.

Shak.

Lament not, Eve, but patiently resign What justly thou hast lost.

Milton.

What more reasonable, than that we should in all things resign up ourselves to the will of God?

Tiilotson.

2. To relinquish; to abandon.

He soon resigned his former suit.

Spenser.

3. To commit to the care of; to consign. [Obs.]

Gentlement of quality have been sent beyong the seas, resigned and concredited to the conduct of such as they call governors.

Evelyn.

Syn. -- To abdicate; surrender; submit; leave; relinquish; forego; quit; forsake; abandon; renounce. -- Resign, Relinquish. To resign is to give up, as if breaking a seal and yielding all it had secured; hence, it marks a formal and deliberate surrender. To relinquish is less formal, but always implies abandonment and that the thing given up has been long an object of pursuit, and, usually, that it has been prized and desired. We resign what we once held or considered as our own, as an office, employment, etc. We speak of relinquishing a claim, of relinquishing some advantage we had sought or enjoyed, of relinquishing seme right, privilege, etc. "Men are weary with the toil which they bear, but can not find it in their hearts to relinquish it." Steele. See Abdicate.

Re sign", n. Resignation. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Res`ig*na"tion (r?z`?g-n?"sh?n), n. [F. résignation. See Resign.] 1. The act of resigning or giving up, as a claim, possession, office, or the like; surrender; as, the resignation of a crown or comission.

2. The state of being resigned or submissive; quiet or patient submission; unresisting acquiescence; as, resignation to the will and providence of God.

Syn. -- Patience; surrender; relinquisment; forsaking; abandonment; abdication; renunciation; submission; acquiescence; endurance. See Patience.

Re*signed" (r?-z?nd"), a. Submissive; yielding; not disposed to resist or murmur.

A firm, yet cautious mind; Sincere, thought prudent; constant, yet resigned.

Pope.

Re*sign"ed*ly (r?-z?n"?d-l?), adv. With submission.

Res`ign*ee" (r?z`?-n?"), n. One to whom anything is resigned, or in whose favor a resignation is made.

Re*sign"er (r?-z?n"?r), n. One who resigns.

Re*sign"ment (-ment), n. The act of resigning.

Re*sile" (r?-z?l"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Resiled (-z?ld"); p. pr. & vb. n. Resiling.] [L. resilire to leap or spring back; pref. re- re- + salire to leap, spring. See Salient.] To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose. J. Ellis.

{ Re*sil"i*ence (r?-z?l"?-ens), Re*sil"i*en*cy (-en-s?), } n. 1. The act of resiling, springing back, or rebounding; as, the resilience of a ball or of sound.

2. (Mech. & Engyn.) The mechanical work required to strain an elastic body, as a deflected beam, stretched spring, etc., to the elastic limit; also, the work performed by the body in recovering from such strain.

Re*sil"i*ent (-ent), a. [L. resiliens, p. pr.] Leaping back; rebounding; recoiling.

Res`i*li"tion (r?z`?-l?sh"?n), n. Resilience. [R.]

Res"in (r?z"?n), n. [F. résine, L. resina; cf. Gr. "rhti`nh Cf. Rosin.] Any one of a class of yellowish brown solid inflammable substances, of vegetable origin, which are nonconductors of electricity, have a vitreous fracture, and are soluble in ether, alcohol, and essential oils, but not in water; specif., pine resin (see Rosin).

Resins exude from trees in combination with essential oils, gums, etc., and in a liquid or semiliquid state. They are composed of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, and are supposed to be formed by the oxidation of the essential oils. Copal, mastic, guaiacum, and colophony or pine resin, are some of them. When mixed with gum, they form the gum resins, like asafetida and gamboge; mixed with essential oils, they form balsams, or oleoresins.

Highgate resin (Min.), a fossil resin resembling copal, occuring in blue clay at Highgate, near London. -- Resin bush (Bot.), a low composite shrub (Euryops speciosissimus) of South Africa, having smooth pinnately parted leaves and abounding in resin.

Res`in*a"ceous (-?"sh?s), a. Having the quality of resin; resinous.

Res"in*ate (r?z"?n-?t), n. (Chem.) Any one of the salts the resinic acids.

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Re*sin"ic (r?-z?n"?k), a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, resin; as, the resinic acids.

Res`in*if"er*ous (r?z`?n-?f"?r-?s), a. [Resin + -ferous: cf. F. résinifère.] Yielding resin; as, a resiniferous tree or vessel.

Res"in*i*form (r?z"?n-?-f?rm), a. [Resin + -form: cf. F. résiniforme.] Having the form of resin.

Res`in*o-e*lec"tric (-?-?-l?k"tr?k), a. (Elec.) Containing or exhibiting resinous electricity.

Res"in*oid (r?z"?n-oid), a. Somewhat like resin.

Res"in*ous (-?s), a. [L. resinous: cf. F. résineux. See Resin.] Of or pertaining to resin; of the nature of resin; resembling or obtained from resin.

Resinous electricity (Elec.), electricity which is exited by rubbing bodies of the resinous kind. See Negative electricity, under Negative.

Res"in*ous*ly, adv. By means, or in the manner, of resin.

Res"in*ous*ness, n. The quality of being resinous.

Res"in*y (-?), a. Like resin; resinous.

Res`i*pis"cence (r?s`?-p?s"sens), n. [L. resipiscentia, from resipiscere to recover one's senses: cf. F. résipiscence.] Wisdom derived from severe experience; hence, repentance. [R.] Bp. Montagu.

Re*sist" (r?-z?st"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Resisted; p. pr. & vb. n. Resisting.] [F. résister, L. resistere, pref. re- re- + sistere to stand, cause to stand, v. causative of stare to stand. See Stand.] 1. To stand against; to withstand; to obstruct.

That mortal dint, Save He who reigns above, none can resist.

Milton.

2. To strive against; to endeavor to counteract, defeat, or frustrate; to act in opposition to; to oppose.

God resisteth the proud.

James iv. 6.

Contrary to his high will Whom we resist.

Milton.

3. To counteract, as a force, by inertia or reaction.

4. To be distasteful to. [Obs.] Shak.

Syn. -- To withstand; oppose; hinder; obstruct; counteract; check; thwart; baffle; disappoint.

Re*sist", v. i. To make opposition. Shak.

Re*sist", n. (Calico Printing) A substance used to prevent a color or mordant from fixing on those parts to which it has been applied, either by acting machanically in preventing the color, etc., from reaching the cloth, or chemically in changing the color so as to render it incapable of fixing itself in the fibers.. The pastes prepared for this purpose are called resist pastes. F. C. Calvert.

Re*sist"ance (-ans), n. [F. résistance, LL. resistentia, fr. resistens, - entis, p. pr. See Resist.] 1. The act of resisting; opposition, passive or active.

When King Demetrius saw that . . . no resistance was made against him, he sent away all his forces.

1. Macc. xi. 38.

2. (Physics) The quality of not yielding to force or external pressure; that power of a body which acts in opposition to the impulse or pressure of another, or which prevents the effect of another power; as, the resistance of the air to a body passing through it; the resistance of a target to projectiles.

3. A means or method of resisting; that which resists.

Unfold to us some warlike resistance.

Shak.

4. (Elec.) A certain hindrance or opposition to the passage of an electrical current or discharge offered by conducting bodies. It bears an inverse relation to the conductivity, -- good conductors having a small resistance, while poor conductors or insulators have a very high resistance. The unit of resistance is the ohm.

Resistance box (Elec.), a rheostat consisting of a box or case containing a number of resistance coils of standard values so arranged that they can be combined in various ways to afford more or less resistance. -- Resistance coil (Elec.), a coil of wire introduced into an electric circuit to increase the resistance. -- Solid of least resistance (Mech.), a solid of such a form as to experience, in moving in a fluid, less resistance than any other solid having the same base, height, and volume.

Re*sist"ant (-ant), a. [F. résistant: cf. L. resistens. See Resist.] Making resistance; resisting. -- n. One who, or that which, resists. Bp. Pearson.

Re*sist"er (-?r), n. One who resists.

Re*sist"ful (-f?l), a. Making much resistance.

Re*sist`i*bil"i*ty (-?-b?l"?-t?), n.. 1. The quality of being resistible; resistibleness.

2. The quality of being resistant; resitstance.

The name "body" being the complex idea of extension and resistibility together in the same subject.

Locke.

Re*sist"i*ble (r?-z?st"?-b'l), a. [Cf. F. résistible.] Capable of being resisted; as, a resistible force. Sir M. Hale. -- Re*sist"i*ble*ness, n. -- Re*sist"i*bly, adv.

Re*sist"ing, a. Making resistance; opposing; as, a resisting medium. -- Re*sist"ing ly, adv.

Re*sist"ive (-?v), a. Serving to resist. B. Jonsosn.

Re*sist"less, a. 1. Having no power to resist; making no opposition. [Obs. or R.] Spenser.

2. Incapable of being resisted; irresistible.

Masters' commands come with a power resistless To such as owe them absolute subjection.

Milton.

-- Re*sist"less*ly, adv. -- Re*sist"less*ness, n.

Res"o*lu*ble (r?z"?-l?-b'l), a.[L. resolubolis: cf. F. résoluble. See Resolve, and cf. Resolvable.] Admitting of being resolved; resolvable; as, bodies resoluble by fire. Boyle. -- Res"o*lu*ble*ness, n.

Res"o*lute (r?z"?-l?t), a. [Cf. F. résolu. The L. resolutus (p. p. of resolvere) means, relaxed, enervated, effeminate. See Resolve, v. t. & i.] 1. Having a decided purpose; determined; resolved; fixed in a determination; hence, bold; firm; steady.

Edward is at hand, Ready to fight; therefore be resolute.

Shak.

2. Convinced; satisfied; sure. [Obs.]

3. Resolving, or explaining; as, the Resolute Doctor Durand. [Obs.]

Syn. -- Determined; decided; fixed; steadfast; steady; constant; persevering; firm; bold; unshaken.

Res"o*lute (r?z"?-l?t), n. 1. One who is resolute; hence, a desperado. [Obs.] Shak.

2. Redelivery; repayment. [Obs.] "Yearly resolutes, deductions, and payments." Bp. Burnet.

Res"o*lute*ly, adv. In a resolute manner; with fixed purpose; boldly; firmly; steadily; with perseverance.

Some . . . facts he examines, some he resolutely denies.

Swift.

Res"o*lute*ness, n. The quality of being resolute.

Res`o*lu"tion (-l?"sh?n), n. [F. résolution. L. resolutio a loosening, solution. See Resolve.] 1. The act, operation, or process of resolving. Specifically: (a) The act of separating a compound into its elements or component parts. (b) The act of analyzing a complex notion, or solving a vexed question or difficult problem.

The unraveling and resolution of the difficulties that are met with in the execution of the design are the end of an action.

Dryden.

2. The state of being relaxed; relaxation. [Obs.]

3. The state of being resolved, settled, or determined; firmness; steadiness; constancy; determination.

Be it with resolution then to fight.

Shak.

4. That which is resolved or determined; a settled purpose; determination. Specifically: A formal expression of the opinion or will of an official body or a public assembly, adopted by vote; as, a legislative resolution; the resolutions of a public meeting.

5. The state of being resolved or firm in opinion or thought; conviction; assurance. [Obs.]

Little resolution and certainty there is as touching the islands of Mauritania.

Holland.

6. (Math.) The act or process of solving; solution; as, the resolution of an equation or problem.

7. (Med.) A breaking up, disappearance; or termination, as of a fever, a tumor, or the like.

8. (Mus.) The passing of a dissonant into a consonant chord by the rising or falling of the note which makes the discord.

Joint resolution. See under Joint, a. -- Resolution of a force or motion (Mech.), the separation of a single force or motion into two or more which have different directions, and, taken together, are an equivalent for the single one; -- the opposite of composition of a force. -- Resolution of a nebula (Astron.), the exhibition of it to the eye by a telescope of such power as to show it to be composed of small stars.

Syn. -- Decision; analysis; separation; disentanglement; dissolution; resolvedness; resoluteness; firmness; constancy; perseverance; steadfastness; fortitude; boldness; purpose; resolve. See Decision.

Res`o*lu"tion*er (-?r), n. One who makes a resolution; one who joins with others in a declaration or resolution; specifically, one of a party in the Scottish Church in the 17th century.

He was sequestrated afterwards as a Resolutioner.

Sir W. Scott.

Res`o*lu"tion*ist, n. One who makes a resolution.

Res"o*lu`tive (r?z"?-lu`t?v), a. [Cf.F. résolutif.] Serving to dissolve or relax. [R.] Johnson.

Res"o*lu*to*ry (r?z"?-l?-t?-r?), a. Resolutive. [R.]

Re*solv`a*bil"i*ty (r?-z?lv`?-b?l"?-t?), n. The quality or condition of being resolvable; resolvableness.

Re*solv"a*ble (r?-z?lv"?-b'l), a. [See Resolve, and cf. Resoluble.] Admitting of being resolved; admitting separation into constituent parts, or reduction to first principles; admitting solution or explanation; as, resolvable compounds; resolvable ideas or difficulties.

Re*solv"a*ble*ness, n. The quality of being resolvable; resolvability.

Re*solve" (r?*z?lv"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Resolved (-z?lvd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Resolving.] [L. resolvere, resolutum, to untie, loosen, relax, enfeeble; pref. re- re- + solvere to loosen, dissolve: cf. F. résoudare to resolve. See Solve, and cf. Resolve, v. i., Resolute, Resolution.] 1. To separate the component parts of; to reduce to the constituent elements; -- said of compound substances; hence, sometimes, to melt, or dissolve.

O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!

Shak.

Ye immortal souls, who once were men, And now resolved to elements again.

Dryden.

2. To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; -- said of complex ideas or obscure questions; to make clear or certain; to free from doubt; to disentangle; to unravel; to explain; hence, to clear up, or dispel, as doubt; as, to resolve a riddle. "Resolve my doubt." Shak.

To the resolving whereof we must first know that the Jews were commanded to divorce an unbelieving Gentile.

Milton.

3. To cause to perceive or understand; to acquaint; to inform; to convince; to assure; to make certain.

Sir, be resolved. I must and will come.

Beau. & Fl.

Resolve me, Reason, which of these is worse, Want with a full, or with an empty purse?

Pope.

In health, good air, pleasure, riches, I am resolved it can not be equaled by any region.

Sir W. Raleigh.

We must be resolved how the law can be pure and perspicuous, and yet throw a polluted skirt over these Eleusinian mysteries.

Milton.

4. To determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind; to fix; to settle; as, he was resolved by an unexpected event.

5. To express, as an opinion or determination, by resolution and vote; to declare or decide by a formal vote; -- followed by a clause; as, the house resolved (or, it was resolved by the house) that no money should be apropriated (or, to appropriate no money).

6. To change or convert by resolution or formal vote; -- used only reflexively; as, the house resolved itself into a committee of the whole.

7. (Math.) To solve, as a problem, by enumerating the several things to be done, in order to obtain what is required; to find the answer to, or the result of. Hutton.

8. (Med.) To dispere or scatter; to discuss, as an inflammation or a tumor.

9. (Mus.) To let the tones (as of a discord) follow their several tendencies, resulting in a concord.

10. To relax; to lay at ease. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

To resolve a nebula.(Astron.) See Resolution of a nebula, under Resolution.

Syn. -- To solve; analyze; unravel; disentangle.

Re*solve" (r?-z?lv"), v. i. [The sense "to be convinced, to determine" comes from the idea of loosening, breaking up into parts, analyzing, hence, determining.]

1. To be separated into its component parts or distinct principles; to undergo resolution.

2. To melt; to dissolve; to become fluid.

When the blood stagnates in any part, it first coagulates, then resolves, and turns alkaline.

Arbuthhnot.

3. To be settled in opinion; to be convinced. [R.]

Let men resolve of that as they plaease.

Locke.

4. To form a purpose; to make a decision; especially, to determine after reflection; as, to resolve on a better course of life.

Syn. -- To determine; decide; conclude; purpose.

Re*solve", n. 1. The act of resolving or making clear; resolution; solution. "To give a full resolve of that which is so much controverted." Milton.

2. That which has been resolved on or determined; decisive conclusion; fixed purpose; determination; also, legal or official determination; a legislative declaration; a resolution.

Nor is your firm resolve unknown.

Shak.

Cæsar's approach has summoned us together, And Rome attends her fate from our resolves.

Addison.

Re*solved" (r?-z?lvd"), p. p. & a. Having a fixed purpose; determined; resolute; -- usually placed after its noun; as, a man resolved to be rich.

That makes him a resolved enemy.

Jer. Taylor.

I am resolved she shall not settle here.

Fielding.

Re*solv"ed*ly (r?z?lv"?d-l?), adv. 1. So as to resolve or clear up difficulties; clearly. [Obs.]

Of that, and all the progress, more or less, Resolvedly more leisure shall express.

Shak.

2. Resolutely; decidedly; firmly. Grew.

Re*solv"ed*ness, n. Fixedness of purpose; firmness; resolution. Dr. H. More.

Re*solv"ent (-ent), a. Having power to resolve; causing solution; solvent.

Re*solv"ent, n. [L. resolvens, p. pr. of resolvere: cf. F. résolvant. See Resolve.] 1. That which has the power of resolving, or causing solution; a solvent.

2. (Med.) That which has power to disperse inflammatory or other tumors; a discutient; anything which aids the absorption of effused products. Coxe.

3. (Math.) An equation upon whose solution the solution of a given pproblem depends.

Re*solv"er (r?-z?lv"?r), n. 1. That which decomposes, or dissolves. Boyle.

2. That which clears up and removes difficulties, and makes the mind certain or determined. Bp. Burnet.

3. One who resolves, or formal a firm purpose.

Res"o*nance (r?z"?-nans), n. [Cf. F. résonance, L. resonantia an echo.] 1. The act of resounding; the quality or state of being resonant.

2. (Acoustics) A prolongation or increase of any sound, either by reflection, as in a cavern or apartment the walls of which are not distant enough to return a distinct echo, or by the production of vibrations in other bodies, as a sounding-board, or the bodies of musical instruments.

Pulmonary resonance (Med.), the sound heard on percussing over the lungs. -- Vocal resonance (Med.), the sound transmitted to the ear when auscultation is made while the patient is speaking.

Res"o*nan*cy (-nan-s?), n. Resonance.

Res"o*nant (-nant), a. [L. resonans, p. pr. of resonare to resound: cf. F. résonnant. See Resound.] Returning, or capable of returning, sound; fitted to resound; resounding; echoing back.

Through every hour of the golden morning, the streets were resonant with female parties of young and old.

De Quincey.

Res"o*nant*ly, adv. In a resonant manner.

Res"o*na`tor (-n?`t?r), n. (Acoustics) Anything which resounds; specifically, a vessel in the form of a cylinder open at one end, or a hollow ball of brass with two apertures, so contrived as to greatly intensify a musical tone by its resonance. It is used for the study and analysis of complex sounds.

Re*sorb" (r?-s?rb"), v. t. [L. reorbere; pref. re- re- + sorbere to suck or drink in.] To swallow up.

Now lifted by the tide, and now resorbed.

Young.

Re*sorb"ent (-ent), a. [L. resorbens, p. pr. of resorbere.] Swallowing up. Wodhull.

Res*or"cin (r?z-?r"s?n), n. [Resin + orcin. So called because in its higher homologue it resembles orcin.] (Chem.) A colorless crystalline substance of the phenol series, obtained by melting certain resins, as galbanum, asafetida, etc., with caustic potash. It is also produced artificially and used in making certain dyestuffs, as phthaleïn, fluoresceïn, and eosin.

Res`or*cyl"ic (r?z`?r-s?l"?k), a. (Chem.) Of, or pertaining to, or producing, resorcin; as, resorcylic acid.

Re*sorp"tion (r?*s?rp"sh?n), n. The act of resorbing; also, the act of absorbing again; reabsorption.

Re*sort" (r?*z?rt"), n. [F. ressort.] Active power or movement; spring. [A Gallicism] [Obs.]

Some . . . know the resorts and falls of business that can not sink into the main of it.

Bacon.

Re*sort", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Resorted; p. pr. & vb. n. Resorting.] [OF. resortir to withdraw, take refuge, F. ressortir to be in the jurisdiction, LL. resortire; pref. re- re- + L. sortiri to draw lots, obtain by lot, from sors lot. See Sort. The meaning is first to reobtain (by lot), then to gain by appeal to a higher court (as a law term), to appeal, go for protection or refuge.] 1. To go; to repair; to betake one's self.

What men name resort to him?

Shak.

2. To fall back; to revert. [Obs.]

The inheritance of the son never resorted to the mother, or to any of her ancestors.

Sir M. Hale.

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3. To have recourse; to apply; to one's self for help, relief, or advantage.

The king thought it time to resort to other counsels.

Clarendon.

Re*sort" (r?*z?rt"), n. [Cf. F. ressort jurisdiction. See Resort, v.] 1. The act of going to, or making application; a betaking one's self; the act of visiting or seeking; recourse; as, a place of popular resort; -- often figuratively; as, to have resort to force.

Join with me to forbid him her resort.

Shak.

2. A place to which one betakes himself habitually; a place of frequent assembly; a haunt.

Far from all resort of mirth.

Milton.

3. That to which one resorts or looks for help; resource; refuge.

Last resort, ultimate means of relief; also, final tribunal; that from which there is no appeal.

Re*sort"er (-?r), n. One who resorts; a frequenter.

Re*soun" (r?*z??n"), n. Reason. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Re*soun", v. i. & t. To resound. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Re-sound" (r?*sound"), v. t. & i. [Pref. re- + sound.] To sound again or anew.

Re*sound" (r?*zound"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Resounded; p. pr. & vb. n. Resounding.] [OE. resounen, OF. resoner, F. résonner, from L. resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See Sound to make a noise.] 1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far.

2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song.

3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame . . . resounds back to them again." South.

4. To be mentioned much and loudly. Milton.

5. To echo or reverberate; to be resonant; as, the earth resounded with his praise.

Re*sound", v. t. 1. To throw back, or return, the sound of; to echo; to reverberate.

Albion's cliffs resound the rur&?;&?;ay.

Pope.

2. To praise or celebrate with the voice, or the sound of instruments; to extol with sounds; to spread the fame of.

The man for wisdom's various arts renowned, Long exercised in woes, O muse, resound.

Pope.

Syn. -- To echo; reëcho; reverberate; sound.

Re*sound", n. Return of sound; echo. Beaumont.

Re*source" (r?*s?rs"), n. [F. ressource, fr. OF. ressourdre, resourdre, to spring forth or up again; pref. re- re- + sourdre to spring forth. See Source.] 1. That to which one resorts orr on which one depends for supply or support; means of overcoming a difficulty; resort; expedient.

Threat'nings mixed with prayers, his last resource.

Dryden.

2. pl. Pecuniary means; funds; money, or any property that can be converted into supplies; available means or capabilities of any kind.

Scotland by no means escaped the fate ordained for every country which is connected, but not incorporated, with another country of greater resources.

Macaulay.

Syn. -- Expedient; resort; means; contrivance.

Re*source"ful (-f?l), a. Full of resources.

Re*source"less, a. Destitute of resources. Burke.

-- Re*source"less*ness, n. R. Browning.

Re*sow" (r?*s?"), v. t. To sow again. Bacon.

Re*sown" (r?*zoun"), v. To resound. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Re*speak" (r?*sp?k"), v. t. 1. To speak or utter again.

2. To answer; to echo. [Obs. or Poetic] Shak.

Re*spect" (r?*sp?kt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Respected; p. pr. & vb. n. Respecting.] [L. respectare, v. intens. from respicere, respectum, to look back, respect; pref. re- re- + specere, spicere, to look, to view: cf. F. respecter. See Spy, and cf. Respite.] 1. To take notice of; to regard with special attention; to regard as worthy of special consideration; hence, to care for; to heed.

Thou respectest not spilling Edward's blood.

Shak.

In orchards and gardens, we do not so much respect beauty as variety of ground for fruits, trees, and herbs.

Bacon.

2. To consider worthy of esteem; to regard with honor. "I do respect thee as my soul." Shak.

3. To look toward; to front upon or toward. [Obs.]

Palladius adviseth the front of his house should so respect the &?;&?;uth.

Sir T. Browne.

4. To regard; to consider; to deem. [Obs.]

To whom my father gave this name of Gaspar, And as his own respected him to death.

B. Jonson.

5. To have regard to; to have reference to; to relate to; as, the treaty particularly respects our commerce.

As respects, as regards; with regard to; as to. Macaulay. -- To respect the person or persons, to favor a person, or persons on corrupt grounds; to show partiality. "Ye shall not respect persons in judgment." Deut. i. 17.

Syn. -- To regard; esteem; honor; revere; venerate.

Re*spect", n. [L. respectus: cf. F. respect. See Respect, v., and cf. Respite.] 1. The act of noticing with attention; the giving particular consideration to; hence, care; caution.

But he it well did ward with wise respect.

Spenser.

2. Esteem; regard; consideration; honor.

Seen without awe, and served without respect.

Prior.

The same men treat the Lord's Day with as little respect.

R. Nelson.

3. pl. An expression of respect of deference; regards; as, to send one's respects to another.

4. Reputation; repute. [Obs.]

Many of the best respect in Rome.

Shak.

5. Relation; reference; regard.

They believed but one Supreme Deity, which, with respect to the various benefits men received from him, had several titles.

Tillotson.

4. Particular; point regarded; point of view; as, in this respect; in any respect; in all respects.

Everything which is imperfect, as the world must be acknowledged in many respects.

Tillotson.

In one respect I'll be thy assistant.

Shak.

7. Consideration; motive; interest. [Obs.] "Whatever secret respects were likely to move them." Hooker.

To the publik good Private respects must yield.

Milton.

In respect, in comparison. [Obs.] Shak. -- In respect of. (a) In comparison with. [Obs.] Shak. (b) As to; in regard to. [Archaic] "Monsters in respect of their bodies." Bp. Wilkins. "In respect of these matters." Jowett. (Thucyd.) -- In, or With, respect to, in relation to; with regard to; as respects. Tillotson. -- To have respect of persons, to regard persons with partiality or undue bias, especially on account of friendship, power, wealth, etc. "It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment." Prov. xxiv. 23.

Syn. -- Deference; attention; regard; consideration; estimation. See Deference.

Re*spect`a*bil"i*ty (r?*sp?kt`?*b?l"?*t?), n. The state or quality of being respectable; the state or quality which deserves or commands respect.

Re*spect"a*ble (-&?;-b'l), a. [F. respectable, LL. respectabilis.] 1. Worthy of respect; fitted to awaken esteem; deserving regard; hence, of good repute; not mean; as, a respectable citizen. "The respectable quarter of Sicca." J. H. Newman.

No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected, without being truly respectable.

Madison.

2. Moderate in degree of excellence or in number; as, a respectable performance; a respectable audience.

--Re*spect"a*ble*ness,n. -- Re*spect"a*bly, adv.

Re*spect"ant (-ant), a. [F., p. pr. of respecter. See Respect.] (Her.) Placed so as to face one another; -- said of animals.

Re*spect"er (-?r), n. One who respects.

A respecter of persons, one who regards or judges with partiality.

Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons.

Acts x. 34.

Re*spect"ful (-f?l), a. Marked or characterized by respect; as, respectful deportment.

With humble joi and with respectful fear.

Prior.

-- Re*spect"ful*ly, adv. -- Re*spect"ful*ness, n.

Re*spect"ing, prep. With regard or relation to; regarding; concerning; as, respecting his conduct there is but one opinion.

Re*spec"tion (r?*sp?k"sh?n), n. [Cf.LL. respectio.] The act of respecting; respect; regard. [Obs.]

Without difference or respection of persons.

Tyndale.

Re*spec"tive (r?*sp?k"t?v), a. [Cf. F. respectif, LL. respectivus. See Respect.] 1. Noticing with attention; hence, careful; wary; considerate. [Obs.]

If you look upon the church of England with a respective eye, you can not . . . refuse this charge.

A&?;p. Sandys.

2. Looking towardl having reference to; relative, not absolute; as, the respective connections of society.

3. Relating to particular persons or things, each to each; particular; own; as, they returned to their respective places of abode.

4. Fitted to awaken respect. [Obs.] Shak.

5. Rendering respect; respectful; regardful. [Obs.]

With respective shame, rose, took us by the hands.

Chapman.

With thy equals familiar, yet respective.

Lord Burleigh.

Re*spec"tive*ly, adv. 1. As relating to each; particularly; as each belongs to each; as each refers to each in order; as, let each man respectively perform his duty.

The impressions from the objects or the senses do mingle respectively every one with its kind.

Bacon.

2. Relatively; not absolutely. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

3. Partially; with respect to private views. [Obs.]

4. With respect; regardfully. [Obs.] Shak.

Re*spect"less (r?*sp?kt"l?s), a. Having no respect; without regard; regardless.

Rather than again Endure, respectless, their so moving c&?;ies.

Chapman.

-- Re*spect"less*ness, n. [R.] Shelton.

Re*spec"tu*ous (r?*sp?k"t?*?s;135), a. 1. Respectful; as, a respectuous silence. [Obs.] Boyle.

2. Respectable. [Obs.] Knolles.

Re*spell" (r?*sp?l"), v. t. To spell again.

Re*sperse" (r?*sp?rs"), v. t. [L. respersus, p. p. of respergere; pref. re- re- + spargere to srew, sprinkle.] To sprinkle; to scatter. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

Re*sper"sion (r?*sp?r"sh?n), n. [L. respersio.] The act of sprinkling or scattering. [Obs.]

Re*spir`a*bil"i*ty (r?*sp?r`?*b?l"?*t? or r?s`p?*r?-), n. [Cf. F. respirabilit&?;.] The quality or state of being respirable; respirableness.

Re*spir"a*ble (r?*sp?r"?*b'l or r?s"p?*r?*b'l), a. [Cf. F. respirable.] Suitable for being breathed; adapted for respiration. -- Re*spir"a*ble*ness, n.

Res`pi*ra"tion (r?s`p?*r?"sh?n), n. [L. respiratio: cf. F. respiration. See Respire.] 1. The act of respiring or breathing again, or catching one's breath.

2. Relief from toil or suffering: rest. [Obs.]

Till the day Appear of respiration to the just And vengeance to the wicked.

Milton.

3. Interval; intermission. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

4. (Physiol.) The act of resping or breathing; the act of taking in and giving out air; the aggregate of those processes bu which oxygen is introduced into the system, and carbon dioxide, or carbonic acid, removed.

Respiration in the higher animals is divided into: (a) Internal respiration, or the interchange of oxygen and carbonic acid between the cells of the body and the bathing them, which in one sense is a process of nutrition. (b) External respiration, or the gaseous interchange taking place in the special respiratory organs, the lungs. This constitutes respiration proper. Gamgee.

In the respiration of plants oxygen is likewise absorbed and carbonic acid exhaled, but in the light this process is obscured by another process which goes on with more vigor, in which the plant inhales and absorbs carbonic acid and exhales free oxygen.

Res`pi*ra"tion*al (r?s`p?*r?"sh?n-al), a. Of or pertaining to respiration; as, respirational difficulties.

Re*spir"a*tive (r?*sp?*r?*t?v), a. Of or pertaining to respiration; as, respirative organs.

Res"pi*ra`tor (r?s"p?*r?`t?r), n. [Cf. F. respirateur.] A divice of gauze or wire, covering the mouth or nose, to prevent the inhalation of noxious substances, as dust or smoke. Being warmed by the breath, it tempers cold air passing through it, and may also be used for the inhalation of medicated vapors.

Re*spir"a*to*ry (r?*sp?r"?*t?*r? or r?s"p?*r?-), a. (Physiol.) Of or pertaining to respiration; serving for respiration; as, the respiratory organs; respiratory nerves; the respiratory function; respiratory changes.

Respiratory foods. (Physiol.) See 2d Note under Food, n., 1. -- Respiratory tree (Zoöl.), the branched internal gill of certain holothurians.

Re*spire" (r?*sp?r), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Respired (-sp?rd"); p. pr. & vvb. n. Respiring.] [L. respirare, respiratum; pref. re- re- + spirare to breathe: cf. F. respirer. See Spirit.] 1. To take breath again; hence, to take rest or refreshment. Spenser.

Here leave me to respire.

Milton.

From the mountains where I now respire.

Byron.

2. (Physiol.) To breathe; to inhale air into the lungs, and exhale it from them, successively, for the purpose of maintaining the vitality of the blood.

Re*spire", v. t. 1. To breathe in and out; to inspire and expire,, as air; to breathe.

A native of the land where I respire The clear air for a while.

Byron.

2. To breathe out; to exhale. [R.] B. Jonson.

Res"pite (r?s"p?t), n. [OF. respit, F. répit, from L. respectus respect, regard, delay, in LL., the deferring of a day. See Respect.] 1. A putting off of that which was appointed; a postponement or delay.

I crave but four day's respite.

Shak.

2. Temporary intermission of labor, or of any process or operation; interval of rest; pause; delay. "Without more respite." Chaucer.

Some pause and respite only I require.

Denham.

3. (Law) (a) Temporary suspension of the execution of a capital offender; reprieve. (b) The delay of appearance at court granted to a jury beyond the proper term.

Syn. -- Pause; interval; stop; cessation; delay; postponement; stay; reprieve.

Res"pite, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Respited; p. pr. & vb. n. Respiting.] [OF. respiter, LL. respectare. See Respite, n.] To give or grant a respite to. Specifically: (a) To delay or postpone; to put off. (b) To keep back from execution; to reprieve.

Forty days longer we do respite you.

Shak.

(c) To relieve by a pause or interval of rest. "To respite his day labor with repast." Milton.

Res"pite*less, a. Without respite. Baxter.

{ Re*splen"dence (r?*spl?n"dens), Re*splen"den*cy (-den*s?), } n. [L. resplendentia.] The quality or state of being resplendent; brilliant luster; vivid brightness; splendor.

Son! thou in whom my glory I behold In full resplendence, heir of all my might.

Milton.

The resplendency of his own almighty goodness.

Dr. J. Scott.

Re*splen"dent (-dent), a. [L. resplendens, -entis, p. pr. of resplendere to shine brightly; pref. re- re- + splendere to shine. See Splendid.] Shining with brilliant luster; very bright. -- Re*splen"dent*ly, adv.

With royal arras and resplendent gold.

Spenser.

Re*splen"dish*ant (-d?sh*ant), a. Resplendent; brilliant. [R. & Obs.] Fabyan.

Re*splen"dish*ing, a. Resplendent. [Obs.]

Re*split" (r?*spl?t"), v. t. & i. To split again.

Re*spond" (r?*sp?nd"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Responded; p. pr. & vb. n. Responding.] [OF. respondre, F. répondre, fr. L. respondere, responsum; pref. re- re- + spondere to promise. See Sponsor.] 1. To say somethin in return; to answer; to reply; as, to respond to a question or an argument.

2. To show some effect in return to a force; to act in response; to accord; to correspond; to suit.

A new affliction strings a new cord in the heart, which responds to some new note of complaint within the wide scale of human woe.

Buckminster.

To every theme responds thy various lay.

Broome.

3. To render satisfaction; to be answerable; as, the defendant is held to respond in damages. [U.S.]

Syn. -- To answer; reply; rejoin. See Reply.

Re*spond", v. t. 1. To answer; to reply.

2. To suit or accord with; to correspond to. [R.]

For his great deeds respond his speeches great.

Fairfax.

Re*spond", n. 1. An answer; a response. [R.]

2. (Eccl.) A short anthem sung at intervals during the reading of a chapter.

3. (Arch.) A half pier or pillar attached to a wall to support an arch. Oxf. Gloss.

{ Re*spond"ence (-?ns), Re*spond"en*cy (- en*s?), } n. The act of responding; the state of being respondent; an answering. A. Chalmers.

The angelical soft trembling voice made To the instruments divine respondence meet.

Spenser.

Re*spond"ent (-ent), a. [L. respondens, p. pr. of respondere.] Disposed or expected to respond; answering; according; corresponding.

Wealth respondent to payment and contributions.

Bacon.

Re*spond"ent, n. [Cf. F. répondant.] One who responds. It corresponds in general to defendant. Specifically: (a) (Law) One who answers in certain suits or proceedings, generally those which are not according to the course of the common law, as in equity and admiralty causes, in petitions for partition, and the like; -- distinquished from appellant. (b) One who maintains a thesis in reply, and whose province it is to refute objections, or overthrow arguments; -- distinguished from opponent. I. Watts.

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||Re`spon*den"ti*a (r?`sp?n*d?n"sh?*?), n. [NL. See Respondence.] ||(Commercial Law) A loan upon goods laden on board a ship. It differs ||from bottomry, which is a loan on the ship itself. Bouvier.

Re*spon"sal (r?*sp?n"sal), a. Answerable. [Obs.]

Re*spon"sal, n. [Cf.LL. resposalis.] 1. One who is answerable or responsible. [Obs.] Barrow.

2. Response. [Obs.] Brevint.

Re*sponse" (r?*sp?ns"), n. [OF. response, respons, F. réponse, from L. responsum, from respondere. See Respond.] 1. The act of responding.

2. An answer or reply. Specifically: (a) Reply to an objection in formal disputation. I. Watts. (b) (Eccl.) The answer of the people or congregation to the priest or clergyman, in the litany and other parts of divine service. (c) (R.C.Ch.) A kind of anthem sung after the lessons of matins and some other parts of the office. (d) (Mus.) A repetition of the given subject in a fugue by another part on the fifth above or fourth below. Busby.

Re*sponse"less, a. Giving no response.

Re*spon`si*bil"i*ty (r?*sp?n`s?*b?l"?*t?), n.; pl. -ties (-t&?;z). [Cf. F. responsabilité.] 1. The state of being responsible, accountable, or answerable, as for a trust, debt, or obligation.

2. That for which anyone is responsible or accountable; as, the resonsibilities of power.

3. Ability to answer in payment; means of paying.

Re*spon"si*ble (r?*sp?n"s?*b'l), a. [Cf. F. responsable. See Respond.] 1. Liable to respond; likely to be called upon to answer; accountable; answerable; amenable; as, a guardian is responsible to the court for his conduct in the office.

2. Able to respond or answer for one's conduct and obligations; trustworthy, financially or otherwise; as, to have a responsible man for surety.

3. Involving responsibility; involving a degree of accountability on the part of the person concerned; as, a responsible office.

Syn. -- Accountable; answerable; amenable.

-- Re*spon"si*ble*ness, n. -- Re*spon"si*bly, adv.

Re*spon"sion (-sh?n), n. [L. responsio. See Respond.] 1. The act of answering. [Obs.]

2. (University of Oxford) The first university examination; -- called also little go. See under Little, a.

Re*spon"sive (-s?v), a. [Cf. F. resposif.] 1. That responds; ready or inclined to respond.

2. Suited to something else; correspondent.

The vocal lay responsive to the strings.

Pope.

3. Responsible. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

-- Re*spon"sive*ly, adv. -- Re*spon"sive*ness, n.

Re`spon*so"ri*al (r?`sp?n*s?"r?-al), a. Responsory; antiphonal. J. H. Newman.

Re*spon"so*ry (r?*sp?n"s?*r?), a. Containing or making answer; answering. Johnson.

Re*spon"so*ry, n.; pl. - ries (-r&?;z). [LL. responsorium.] 1. (Eccl.) (a) The answer of the people to the priest in alternate speaking, in church service. (b) A versicle sung in answer to the priest, or as a refrain.

Which, if should repeat again, would turn my answers into responsories, and beget another liturgy.

Milton.

2. (Eccl.) An antiphonary; a response book.

Rest (r?st), v. t. [For arrest.] To arrest. [Obs.]

Rest, n. [AS. rest, ræst, rest; akin to D. rust, G. rast. OHG. rasta, Dan. & Sw. rast rest, repose, Icel. röst the distance between two resting places, a mole, Goth. rasta a mile, also to Goth. razn house, Icel. rann, and perhaps to G. ruhe rest, repose, AS. rw, Gr. 'erwh`. Cf. Ransack.] 1. A state of quiet or repose; a cessation from motion or labor; tranquillity; as, rest from mental exertion; rest of body or mind. Chaucer.

Sleep give thee all his rest!

Shak.

2. Hence, freedom from everything which wearies or disturbs; peace; security.

And the land had rest fourscore years.

Judges iii. 30.

3. Sleep; slumber; hence, poetically, death.

How sleep the brave who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest.

Collins.

4. That on which anything rests or leans for support; as, a rest in a lathe, for supporting the cutting tool or steadying the work.

He made narrowed rests round about, that the beams should not be fastened in the walls of the house.

1 Kings vi. 6.

5. (Anc. Armor) A projection from the right side of the cuirass, serving to support the lance.

Their visors closed, their lances in the rest.

Dryden.

6. A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode. "Halfway houses and travelers' rests." J. H. Newman.

In dust our final rest, and native home.

Milton.

Ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance which the Lord your God giveth you.

Deut. xii. 9.

7. (Pros.) A short pause in reading verse; a cæsura.

8. The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account. "An account is said to be taken with annual or semiannual rests." Abbott.

9. A set or game at tennis. [Obs.]

10. (Mus.) Silence in music or in one of its parts; the name of the character that stands for such silence. They are named as notes are, whole, half, quarter,etc.

Rest house, an empty house for the accomodation of travelers; a caravansary. [India] -- To set, or To set up, one's rest, to have a settled determination; -- from an old game of cards, when one so expressed his intention to stand or rest upon his hand. [Obs.] Shak. Bacon.

Syn. -- Cessation; pause; intermission; stop; stay; repose; slumber; quiet; ease; quietness; stillness; tranquillity; peacefulness; peace. -- Rest, Repose. Rest is a ceasing from labor or exertion; repose is a mode of resting which gives relief and refreshment after toil and labor. The words are commonly interchangeable.

Rest (rst), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Rested; p. pr. & vb. n. Resting.] [AS. restan. See Rest, n.] 1. To cease from action or motion, especially from action which has caused weariness; to desist from labor or exertion.

God . . . rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

Gen. ii. 2.

Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest.

Ex. xxiii. 12.

2. To be free from whanever wearies or disturbs; to be quiet or still.

There rest, if any rest can harbor there.

Milton.

3. To lie; to repose; to recline; to lan; as, to rest on a couch.

4. To stand firm; to be fixed; to be supported; as, a column rests on its pedestal.

5. To sleep; to slumber; hence, poetically, to be dead.

Fancy . . . then retries Into her private cell when Nature rests.

Milton.

6. To lean in confidence; to trust; to rely; to repose without anxiety; as, to rest on a man's promise.

On him I rested, after long debate, And not without considering, fixed &?;&?; fate.

Dryden.

7. To be satisfied; to acquiesce.

To rest in Heaven's determination.

Addison.

To rest with, to be in the power of; to depend upon; as, it rests with him to decide.

Rest, v. t. 1. To lay or place at rest; to quiet.

Your piety has paid All needful rites, to rest my wandering shade.

Dryden.

2. To place, as on a support; to cause to lean.

Her weary head upon your bosom rest.

Waller.

Rest, n. [F. reste, fr. rester to remain, L. restare to stay back, remain; pref. re- re- + stare to stand, stay. See Stand, and cf. Arrest, Restive.] (With the definite article.) 1. That which is left, or which remains after the separation of a part, either in fact or in contemplation; remainder; residue.

Religion gives part of its reward in hand, the present comfort of having done our duty, and, for the rest, it offers us the best security that Heaven can give.

Tillotson.

2. Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others. "Plato and the rest of the philosophers." Bp. Stillingfleet.

Armed like the rest, the Trojan prince appears.

DRyden.

3. (Com.) A surplus held as a reserved fund by a bank to equalize its dividends, etc.; in the Bank of England, the balance of assets above liabilities. [Eng.]

Syn. -- Remainder; overplus; surplus; remnant; residue; reserve; others.

Rest, v. i. [F. rester. See Rest remainder.] To be left; to remain; to continue to be.

The affairs of men rest still uncertain.

Shak.

Re*stag"nant (r?*st?g"nant), a. [L. restagnans, p. pr. ] Stagnant; motionless. [Obs.] Boyle.

Re*stag"nate (-n?t), v. i. [L. restagnare to overflow.] To stagnate; to cease to flow. [Obs.] Wiseman.

Re`stag*na"tion (-n?"sh?n), n. [L. restagnatio aninundation.] Stagnation. [Obs.]

Res"tant (r?s"tant), a. [L. restans, p. pr. of restare: cf. F. restant. See Rest remainder.] (Bot.) Persistent.

Re*state" (r?*st?t"), v. t. To state anew. Palfrey.

Res"tau*rant (r?s"t?*r?nt;277), n. [F., fr. restaurer. See Restore.] An eating house.

Res"tau*rate (r?s"t?*r?t), v. t. [L. restauratus, p. p. of restaurare. See Restore.] To restore. [Obs.]

||Re`stau`ra`teur" (r?`st?`r?`t?r"), n. [F.] The keeper of an eathing ||house or a restaurant.

Res`tau*ra"tion (r?s`t?*r?"sh?n), n. [LL. restauratio: cf. F. restauration.] Restoration. [Obs.] Cower.

Re*stem" (r?*st?m"), v. t. 1. To force back against the current; as, to restem their backward course. Shak.

2. To stem, or move against; as, to restem a current.

Rest"ful (r?st"f?l), a. 1. Being at rest; quiet. Shak.

2. Giving rest; freeing from toil, trouble, etc.

Tired with all these, for restful death I cry.

Shak.

-- Rest"ful*ly, adv. -- Rest"ful*ness, n.

Rest"-har`row (-h?r`r?), n. (Bot.) A European leguminous plant (Ononis arvensis) with long, tough roots.

Rest"iff, a. Restive. [Obs.]

Rest"iff, n. A restive or stubborn horse. [Obs.]

Rest"iff*ness, n. Restiveness. [Obs.]

Res"ti*form (r?s"t?*f?rm), a.[L. restis rope + -form.] (Anat.) Formed like a rope; -- applied especially to several ropelike bundles or masses of fibers on the dorsal side of the medulla oblongata.

Rest"i*ly (r?st"?*l?), adv. In a resty manner. [Obs.]

Re*stinc"tion (r?*st?nk"sh?n), n.[L. restinctio. See Restinguish.] Act of quenching or extingishing. [Obs.]

Rest"i*ness (r?st`*n?s), n. The quality or state of being resty; sluggishness. [Obs.]

The snake by restiness and lying still all winter.

Holland.

Rest"ing, a. & n. from Rest, v. t. & i.

Resting spore (Bot.), a spore in certain orders of algæ, which remains quiescent, retaining its vitality, for long periods of time. C. E. Bessey.

Re*stin"guish (r?*st?n"gw?sh), v. t. [L. restinquere, restinctum; pref. re- re- + stinquere to quench.] To quench or extinguish. [Obs.] R. Field.

Res"ti*tute (r?s"t?*t?t), v. t. [L. restitutus, p. p. of restituere; pref. re- re- + statuere to put, place. See Statute.] To restore to a former state. [R.] Dyer.

Res"ti*tute, n. That which is restored or offered in place of something; a substitute. [R.]

Res`ti*tu"tion (r?s`t?*t?"sh?n), n. [F. restitution, L. restitutio. See Restitute, v.] 1. The act of restoring anything to its rightful owner, or of making good, or of giving an equivalent for any loss, damage, or injury; indemnification.

A restitution of ancient rights unto the crown.

Spenser.

He restitution to the value makes.

Sandys.

2. That which is offered or given in return for what has been lost, injured, or destroved; compensation.

3. (Physics) The act of returning to, or recovering, a former state; as, the restitution of an elastic body.

4. (Med.) The movement of rotetion which usually occurs in childbirth after the head has been delivered, and which causes the latter to point towards the side to which it was directed at the beginning of labor.

Syn. -- Restoration; return; indemnification; reparation; compensation; amends; remuneration.

Res"ti*tu`tor (r?s"t?*t?`t?r), n. [L.: cf. F. restituteur.] One who makes restitution. [R].

Rest"ive (r?st"?v), a. [OF. restif, F. rétif, fr. L. restare to stay back, withstand, resist. See Rest remainder, and cf. Restiff.] . Unwilling to go on; obstinate in refusing to move forward; stubborn; drawing back.

Restive or resty, drawing back, instead of going forward, as some horses do.

E. Philips (1658).

The people remarked with awe and wonder that the beasts which were to drag him [Abraham Holmes] to the gallows became restive, and went back.

Macaulay.

2. Inactive; sluggish. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

3. Impatient under coercion, chastisement, or opposition; refractory.

4. Uneasy; restless; averse to standing still; fidgeting about; -- applied especially to horses. Trench.

-- Rest"ive, adv. -- Rest"ive*ness, n.

Rest"less, a. [AS. restleás.] 1. Never resting; unquiet; uneasy; continually moving; as, a restless child. Chaucer. "Restless revolution day by day." Milton.

2. Not satisfied to be at rest or in peace; averse to repose or quiet; eager for change; discontented; as, restless schemers; restless ambition; restless subjects. "Restless at home , and ever prone to range." Dryden.

3. Deprived of rest or sleep.

Restless he passed the remnants of the night.

Dryden.

4. Passed in unquietness; as, the patient has had a restless night.

5. Not affording rest; as, a restless chair. Cowper.

Restless thrush. (Zoöl.) See Grinder, 3.

Syn. -- Unquiet; uneasy; disturbed; disquieted; sleepless; agitated; unsettled; roving; wandering.

-- Rest"less*ly, adv.- Rest"less*ness, n.

Re*stor"a*ble (r?*st?r"?*b'l), a. Admitting of being restored; capable of being reclaimed; as, restorable land. Swift. -- Re*stor"a*ble*ness, n.

Re*stor"al (-al), n. Restoration. [Obs.] Barrow.

Res`to*ra"tion (r?s`t?*r?"sh?n), n. [OE. restauracion, F. restauration, fr. L. restauratio. See Restore.] 1. The act of restoring or bringing back to a former place, station, or condition; the fact of being restored; renewal; reëstablishment; as, the restoration of friendship between enemies; the restoration of peace after war.

Behold the different climes agree, Rejoicing in thy restoration.

Dryden.

2. The state of being restored; recovery of health, strength, etc.; as, restoration from sickness.

3. That which is restored or renewed.

The restoration (Eng. Hist.), the return of King Charles II. in 1660, and the reëstablishment of monarchy. -- Universal restoration (Theol.), the final recovery of all men from sin and alienation from God to a state of happiness; universal salvation.

Syn. -- Recovery; replacement; renewal; renovation; redintegration; reinstatement; reëstablishment; return; revival; restitution; reparation.

Res`to*ra"tion*er (-?r), n. A Restorationist.

Res`to*ra"tion*ism (-?z'm), n. The belief or doctrines of the Restorationists.

Res`to*ra"tion*ist, n. One who believes in a temporary future punishment and a final restoration of all to the favor and presence of God; a Universalist.

Re*stor"a*tive (r?*st?r"?*t?v), a. [Cf. F. restoratif.] Of or pertaining to restoration; having power to restore.

Destroys life's enemy, Hunger, with sweet restorative delight.

Milton.

Re*stor"a*tive, n. Something which serves to restore; especially, a restorative medicine. Arbuthnot.

Re*stor"a*tive*ly, adv. In a restorative manner.

Res"to*ra`tor (r?s"t?*r?`t?r), n. A restaurateur.

Re*stor"a*to*ry (r?*st?r"?*t?*r?), a. Restorative. [R.]

Re-store" (r?*st?r"), v. t. [Pref. re- + store.] To store again; as, the goods taken out were re-stored.

Re*store" (r?*st?r"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Restored (r?-st?rd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Restoring.] [OE. restoren, OF. restorer, F. restaurer, fr. L. restaurare; pref. re- re- + an unused word; cf. Gr. &?;&?;&?;&?; an upright pale or stake, Skr. sth&?;vara fixed, firm. Cf. Restaurant, Store.] To bring back to its former state; to bring back from a state of ruin, decay, disease, or the like; to repair; to renew; to recover. "To restore and to build Jerusalem." Dan. ix. 25.

Our fortune restored after the severest afflictions.

Prior.

And his hand was restored whole as the other.

Mark iii. 5.

2. To give or bring back, as that which has been lost., or taken away; to bring back to the owner; to replace.

Now therefore restore the man his wife.

Gen. xx. 7.

Loss of Eden, till one greater man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat.

Milton.

The father banished virtue shall restore.

Dryden.

3. To renew; to reëstablish; as, to restore harmony among those who are variance.

4. To give in place of, or as satisfaction for.

He shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.

Ex. xxii. 1.

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5. To make good; to make amends for.

But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored, and sorrows end.

Shak.

6. (Fine Arts) (a) To bring back from a state of injury or decay, or from a changed condition; as, to restore a painting, statue, etc. (b) To form a picture or model of, as of something lost or mutilated; as, to restore a ruined building, city, or the like.

Syn. -- To return; replace; refund; repay; reinstate; rebuild; reëstablish; renew; repair; revive; recover; heal; cure.

Re*store" (?), n. Restoration. [Obs.] Spenser.

Re*store"ment (?), n. Restoration. [Obs.]

Re*stor"er (?), n. One who, or that which, restores.

Re*strain" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Restrained (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Restraining.] [OE. restreinen, F. restreindre, fr. L. restringere, restrictum; pref. re- re- + stringere to draw, bind, or press together. See Strain, v. t., and cf. Restrict.] 1. To draw back again; to hold back from acting, proceeding, or advancing, either by physical or moral force, or by any interposing obstacle; to repress or suppress; to keep down; to curb.

Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature Gives way to in repose!

Shak.

2. To draw back toghtly, as a rein. [Obs.] Shak.

3. To hinder from unlimited enjoiment; to abridge.

Though they two were committed, at least restrained of their liberty.

Clarendon.

4. To limit; to confine; to restrict. Trench.

Not only a metaphysical or natural, but a moral, universality also is to be restrained by a part of the predicate.

I. Watts.

5. To withhold; to forbear.

Thou restrained prayer before God.

Job. xv. 4.

Syn. -- To check; hinder; stop; withhold; repress; curb; suppress; coerce; restrict; limit; confine.

Re*strain"a*ble (?), a. Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.

Re*strain"ed*ly, adv. With restraint. Hammond.

Re*strain"er (?), n. One who, or that which, restrains.

Re*strain"ment (?), n. The act of restraining.

Re*straint" (?), n. [OF. restraincte, fr. restrainct, F. restreint, p. p. of restraindre, restrendre. See Restrain.] 1. The act or process of restraining, or of holding back or hindering from motion or action, in any manner; hindrance of the will, or of any action, physical or mental.

No man was altogether above the restrains of law, and no man altogether below its protection.

Macaulay.

2. The state of being restrained.

3. That which restrains, as a law, a prohibition, or the like; limitation; restriction.

For one restraint, lords of the world besides.

Milton.

Syn. -- Repression; hindrance; check; stop; curb;&?;oercion; confinement; limitation; restriction.

Re*strength"en (?), v. t. To strengthen again; to fortify anew.

Re*strict" (?), a. [L. restrictus, p. p. of restringere. See Restrain.] Restricted. [Obs.]

Re*strict", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Restricted; p. pr. & vb. n. Restricting.] To restrain within bounds; to limit; to confine; as, to restrict worlds to a particular meaning; to restrict a patient to a certain diet.

Syn. -- To limit; bound; circumscribe; restrain; repress; curb; coerce.

Re*stric"tion (?), n. [F. restriction, L. restrictio.] 1. The act of restricting, or state of being restricted; confinement within limits or bounds.

This is to have the same restriction with all other recreations,that it be made a divertisement.

Giv. of Tonque.

2. That which restricts; limitation; restraint; as, restrictions on trade.

Re*stric"tion*a*ry (?), a. Restrictive. [R.]

Re*strict"ive (?), a. [Cf. F. restrictif.]

1. Serving or tending to restrict; limiting; as, a restrictive particle; restrictive laws of trade.

2. Astringent or styptic in effect. [Obs.] Wiseman.

--Re*strict"ive*ly, adv. -- Re*strict"ive*ness, n.

Re*stringe" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Restringed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Restringing (?).] [L. restringere. See Restrain.] To confine; to contract; to stringe. [Obs.]

Re*strin"gen*cy (?), n. Quality or state of being restringent; astringency. [Obs.] Sir W. Petty.

Re*strin"gent (?), a. [L. restringens, p. pr.: cf. F. restringent.] Restringing; astringent; styptic. [Obs.] -- n. A restringent medicine. [Obs.] Harvey.

Re*strive" (?), v. i. To strive anew.

Rest"y (?), a. Disposed to rest; indisposed toexercton; sluggish; also, restive. [Obs.] Burton.

Where the master is too resty or too rich to say his own prayers.

Milton.

Re`sub*jec"tion, n. A second subjection.

Re`sub*lime" (?), v. t. To sublime again. Newton. -- Re*sub`li*ma"tion (#), n.

Re`su*da"tion (?), n. [L. resudare to sweat again. See Sudation.] Act of sweating again.

Re*sult" (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Resulted; p. pr. & vb. n. Resulting.] [F. résulter, fr. L. resultare, resultarum, to spring or leap back, v. intens. fr. resilire. See Resile.] 1. To leap back; to rebound. [Obs.]

The huge round stone, resulting with a bound.

Pope.

2. To come out, or have an issue; to terminate; to have consequences; -- followed by in; as, this measure will result in good or in evil.

3. To proceed, spring, or rise, as a consequence, from facts, arguments, premises, combination of circumstances, consultation, thought, or endeavor.

Pleasure and peace do naturally result from a holy and good life.

Tillotson.

Resulting trust (Law), a trust raised by implication for the benefit of a party granting an estate. The phrase is also applied to a trust raised by implication for the benefit of a party who advances the purchase money of an estate, etc. Bouvier. -- Resulting use (Law), a use which, being limited by the deed, expires or can not vest, and thence returns to him who raised it. Bouvier.

Syn. -- To proceed; spring; rise; arise; ensue; terminate.

Re*sult" (?), n. 1. A flying back; resilience. [Obs.]

Sound is produced between the string and the air by the return or the result of the string.

Bacon.

2. That which results; the conclusion or end to which any course or condition of things leads, or which is obtained by any process or operation; consequence or effect; as, the result of a course of action; the result of a mathematical operation.

If our proposals once again were heard, We should compel them to a quick result.

Milton.

3. The decision or determination of a council or deliberative assembly; a resolve; a decree.

Then of their session ended they bid cry With trumpet's regal sound the great result.

Milton.

Syn. -- Effect; consequence; conclusion; inference; issue; event. See Effect.

Re*sult"ance (?), n. The act of resulting; that which results; a result. Donne.

Re*sult"ant (?), a. [L. resultans, p. pr. : cf. F. résultant.] Resulting or issuing from a combination; existing or following as a result or consequence.

Resultant force or motion (Mech.), a force which is the result of two or more forces acting conjointly, or a motion which is the result of two or more motions combined. See Composition of forces, under Composition.

Re*sult"ant, n. That which results. Specifically: (a) (Mech.) A reultant force or motion. (b) (Math.) An eliminant.

The resultant of homogeneous general functions of n variables is that function of their coefficients which, equaled to zero, expresses in the simplest terms the condition of the possibility of their existence.

Sylvester.

Re*sult"ate (?), n. [L. resultatus, p. p. ] A result. [Obs.] "The resultate of their counsil." BAcon.

Re*sult"ful (?), a. HAving results or effects.

Re*sult"ive (?), a. Resultant. [Obs.] Fuller.

Re*sult"less, a. Being without result; as, resultless investigations.

Re*sum"a*ble (?), a. Capable of, or admitting of, being resumed. Sir M. HAle.

||Re`su"mé" (?), n. [F. See Resume.] A summing up; a condensed ||statement; an abridgment or brief recapitulation.

The exellent little résumé thereof in Dr. Landsborough's book.

C. Kingsley.

Re*sume" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Resumed (?);p. pr. & vb. n. Resuming.] [L. resumere, resumptum; pref. re- re- + sumere to take: cf. F. résumer. See Assume, Redeem.] 1. To take back.

The sun, like this, from which our sight we have, Gazed on too long, resumes the light he gave.

Denham.

Perhaps God will resume the blessing he has bestowed ere he attains the age of manhood.

Sir W. Scott.

2. To enter upon, or take up again.

Reason resumed her place, and Passion fled.

Dryden.

3. To begin again; to recommence, as something which has been interrupted; as, to resume an argument or discourse.

Re*sum"mon (?), v. t. To summon again.

Re*sum"mons (?), n. A second summons.

Re*sump"tion (?), n. [cf. F. résumption, L. resumptio restoration, recovery, fr. resumere. See Resume.] 1. The act of resuming; as, the resumption of a grant, of delegated powers, of an argument, of specie payments, etc.

2. (Eng.Law) The taking again into the king's hands of such lands or tenements as he had granted to any man on false suggestions or other error.

Re*sump"tive (?), a. [cf. L. resumptivus restorative.] Taking back; resuming, or tending toward resumption; as, resumptive measures.

Re*su"pi*nate (?), a. [L. resupinatus, p. p. of resupinare to bend back. See Resupine.] Inverted in position; appearing to be upside down or reversed, as the flowers of the orchis and the leaves of some plants.

Re*su"pi*na`ted (?), a. Resupinate.

Re*su`pi*na"tion (?), n. The state of luing on the back; the state of being resupinate, or reversed.

Our Vitruvius calleth this affection in the eye a resupination of the figure.

Sir H. Wotton.

Re`su*pine" (?), a. [L. resupinus; pref. re- re- + supinus bent backward, supine.] Lying on the back; supine; hence, careless. Sir K. Digby.

He spake, and, downward swayed, fell resupine, With his huge neck aslant.

Cowper.

Re`sup*ply" (?), v. t. To supply again.

Re*sur"gence (?), n. The act of rising again; resurrection.

Re*sur"gent (?), a. [L. resurgens, -entis, p. pr. of resurgere. See Resurrection.] Rising again, as from the dead. Coleridge.

Re*sur"gent, n. One who rises again, as from the dead. [R.] Sydney Smith.

Res`ur*rect" (?), v. t. [See Resurrection.] 1. To take from the grave; to disinter. [Slang]

2. To reanimate; to restore to life; to bring to view (that which was forgotten or lost). [Slang]

Res`ur*rec"tion (?), n. [F. résurrection, L. resurrectio, fr. resurgere, resurrectum, to rise again; pref. re- re- + surgere to rise. See Source.] 1. A rising again; the resumption of vigor.

2. Especially, the rising again from the dead; the resumption of life by the dead; as, the resurrection of Jesus Christ; the general resurrection of all the dead at the Day of Judgment.

Nor after resurrection shall he stay Longer on earth.

Milton.

3. State of being risen from the dead; future state.

In the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage.

Matt. xxii. 30.

4. The cause or exemplar of a rising from the dead.

I am the resurrection, and the life.

John xi. 25.

Cross of the resurrection, a slender cross with a pennant floating from the junction of the bars. -- Resurrection plant (Bot.), a name given to several species of Selaginella (as S. convoluta and S. lepidophylla), flowerless plants which, when dry, close up so as to resemble a bird's nest, but revive and expand again when moistened. The name is sometimes also given to the rose of Jericho. See under Rose.

Res`ur*rec"tion*ist (?), n. One who steals bodies from the grave, as for dissection. [Slang]

Res`ur*rec"tion*ize (?), v. t. To raise from the dead. [R.] Southey.

Re`sur*vey" (?), v. t. To survey again or anew; to review. Shak.

Re*sur"vey (?), n. A second or new survey.

Re*sus"ci*ta*ble (?), a. Capable of resuscitation; as, resuscitable plants. Boyle.

Re*sus"ci*tant (?), n. One who, or that which resuscitates. Also used adjectively.

Re*sus"ci*tate (?), a. [L. resuscitatus, p. p. of resuscitare; pref. re- re- + suscitare to raise, rouse. See Suscitate.] Restored to life. [R.] Bp. Gardiner.

Re*sus"ci*tate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Resuscitated (?);p. pr. & vb. n. Resuscitating.] To revivify; to revive; especially, to recover or restore from apparent death; as, to resuscitate a drowned person; to resuscitate withered plants.

Re*sus"ci*tate, v. i. To come to life again; to revive.

These projects, however often slain, always resuscitate.

J. S. Mill.

Re*sus`ci*ta"tion (?), n. [L. resuscitatio.] The act of resuscitating, or state of being resuscitated.

The subject of resuscitation by his sorceries.

Sir W. Scott.

Re*sus"ci*ta*tive (?), a. Tending to resuscitate; reviving; revivifying.

Re*sus"ci*ta`tor (?), n. [L.] One who, or that which, resuscitates.

Ret (?), v. t. See Aret. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Ret, v. t. [Akin to rot.] To prepare for use, as flax, by separating the fibers from the woody part by process of soaking, macerating, and other treatment. Ure.

Re*ta"ble (?), n. (Eccl.) A shelf behind the altar, for display of lights, vases of wlowers, etc.

Re"tail (?), n. [F. retaille piece cut off, shred, paring, or OF. retail, from retailler. See Retail, v.] The sale of commodities in small quantities or parcels; -- opposed to wholesale; sometimes, the sale of commodities at second hand.

Re"tail, a. Done at retail; engaged in retailing commodities; as a retail trade; a retail grocer.

Re*tail" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Retailed (?);p. pr. & vb. n. Retailing.] [Cf. F. retailler to cut again; pref. re- re + tailler to cut. See Retail, n., Tailor, and cf. Detail.] 1. To sell in small quantities, as by the single yard, pound, gallon, etc.; to sell directly to the consumer; as, to retail cloth or groceries.

2. To sell at second hand. [Obs. or R.] Pope.

3. To distribute in small portions or at second hand; to tell again or to many (what has been told or done); to report; as, to retail slander. "To whom I will retail my conquest won." Shak.

He is wit's peddler, and retails his wares At wakes and wassails.

Shak.

Re*tail"er (?), n. One who retails anything; as, a retailer of merchandise; a retailer of gossip.

Re*tail"ment (?), n. The act of retailing.

Re*tain" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Retained (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Retaining.] [F. retainir, L. retinere; pref. re- re- + tenere to hold, keep. See Tenable, and cf. Rein of a bridle, Retention, Retinue.] 1. To continue to hold; to keep in possession; not to lose, part with, or dismiss; to retrain from departure, escape, or the like. "Thy shape invisibleretain." Shak.

Be obedient, and retain Unalterably firm his love entire.

Milton.

An executor may retain a debt due to him from the testator.

Blackstone.

2. To keep in pay; to employ by a preliminary fee paid; to hire; to engage; as, to retain a counselor.

A Benedictine convent has now retained the most learned father of their order to write in its defense.

Addison.

3. To restrain; to prevent. [Obs.] Sir W. Temple.

Retaining wall (Arch. & Engin.), a wall built to keep any movable backing, or a bank of sand or earth, in its place; -- called also retain wall.

Syn. -- To keep; hold; retrain. See Keep.

Re*tain", v. i. 1. To belong; to pertain. [Obs.]

A somewhat languid relish, retaining to bitterness.

Boyle.

2. To keep; to continue; to remain. [Obs.] Donne.

Re*tain"a*ble (?), a. Capable of being retained.

Re*tain"al (?), n. The act of retaining; retention.

Re*tain"er (?), n. 1. One who, or that which, retains.

2. One who is retained or kept in service; an attendant; an adherent; a hanger-on.

3. Hence, a servant, not a domestic, but occasionally attending and wearing his master's livery. Cowell.

4. (Law) (a) The act of a client by which he engages a lawyer or counselor to manage his cause. (b) The act of withholding what one has in his hands by virtue of some right. (c) A fee paid to engage a lawyer or counselor to maintain a cause, or to prevent his being employed by the opposing party in the case; -- called also retaining fee. Bouvier. Blackstone.

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5. The act of keeping dependents, or the state of being in dependence. Bacon.

Re*tain"ment (?), n. The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.

Re*take" (?), v. t. 1. To take or receive again.

2. To take from a captor; to recapture; as, to retake a ship or prisoners.

Re*tak"er (?), n. One who takes again what has been taken; a recaptor. Kent.

Re*tal"i*ate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Retaliated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Retaliating.] [L. retaliatus, p. p. of retaliare to retaliate; pref. re- re- + a word akin to talio talion, retaliation. Cf. Talion.] To return the like for; to repay or requite by an act of the same kind; to return evil for (evil). [Now seldom used except in a bad sense.]

One ambassador sent word to the duke's son that his visit should be retaliated.

Sir T. Herbert.

It is unlucky to be obliged to retaliate the injuries of authors, whose works are so soon forgotten that we are in danger of appearing the first aggressors.

Swift.

Re*tal"i*ate, v. i. To return like for like; specifically, to return evil for evil; as, to retaliate upon an enemy.

Re*tal`i*a"tion (?), n. The act of retaliating, or of returning like for like; retribution; now, specifically, the return of evil for evil; e.g., an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.

God . . . takes what is done to others as done to himself, and by promise obloges himself to full retaliation.

Calamy.

Syn. -- Requital; reprisal; retribution; punishment.

Re*tal"i*a*tive (?), a. Same as Retaliatory.

Re*tal"i*a*to*ry (?), a. Tending to, or involving, retaliation; retaliative; as retaliatory measures.

Re*tard" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Retarded; p. pr. & vb. n. Retarding.] [L. retardare, retardatum; pref. re- re- + tardare to make slow, to delay, fr. tardus slow: cf. F. retarder. See Tardy.] 1. To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progress; to render more slow in progress; to impede; to hinder; as, to retard the march of an army; to retard the motion of a ship; -- opposed to accelerate.

2. To put off; to postpone; as, to retard the attacks of old age; to retard a rupture between nations.

Syn. -- To impede; hinder; obstruct; detain; delay; procrastinate; postpone; defer.

Re*tard", v. i. To stay back. [Obs.] Sir. T. Browne.

Re*tard", n. Retardation; delay.

Retard, or Age, of the tide, the interval between the transit of the moon at which a tide originates and the appearance of the tide itself. It is found, in general, that any particular tide is not principally due to the moon's transit immediately proceeding, but to a transit which has occured some time before, and which is said to correspond to it. The retard of the tide is thus distinguished from the lunitidal interval. See under Retardation. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

Re`tar*da"tion (?), n. [L. retardatio: cf. F. retardation.] 1. The act of retarding; hindrance; the act of delaying; as, the retardation of the motion of a ship; -- opposed to acceleration.

The retardations of our fluent motion.

De Quinsey.

2. That which retards; an obstacle; an obstruction.

Hills, sloughs, and other terrestrial retardations.

Sir W. Scott.

3. (Mus.) The keeping back of an approaching consonant chord by prolonging one or more tones of a previous chord into the intermediate chord which follows; -- differing from suspension by resolving upwards instead of downwards.

4. The extent to which anything is retarded; the amount of retarding or delay.

Retardation of the tide. (a) The lunitidal interval, or the hour angle of the moon at the time of high tide any port; the interval between the transit of the moon and the time of high tide next following. (b) The age of the tide; the retard of the tide. See under Retard, n.

Re*tard"a*tive (?), a. [Cf. F. retardatif.] Tending, or serving, to retard.

Re*tard"er (?), n. One who, or that which, retards.

Re*tard"ment (?), n. [Cf. F. retardement.] The act of retarding; retardation. Cowley.

Retch (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Retched (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Retching.] [AS. hr&?;can to clear the throat, hawk, fr. hraca throat; akin to G. rachen, and perhaps to E. rack neck.] To make an effort to vomit; to strain, as in vomiting. [Written also reach.]

Beloved Julia, hear me still beseeching! (Here he grew inarticulate with retching.)

Byron.

Retch, v. t. & i. [See Reck.] To care for; to heed; to reck. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Retch"less, a. Careless; reckless. [Obs.] Dryden.

--- Retch"less*ly, adv. -- Retch"less*ness, n. [Obs.]

||Re"te (?), n. [L., a net.] (Anat.) A net or network; a plexus; ||particularly, a network of blood vessels or nerves, or a part ||resembling a network.

Re*te"cious (?), a. [L. rete a net.] Resembling network; retiform.

Re*tec"tion (?), n. [L. retegere, retectum, to uncover; pref. re- + tegere to cover.] Act of disclosing or uncovering something concealed. [Obs.] Boyle.

Re*tell (?), v. t. To tell again.

Ret"ene (?), n. [Gr. &?;&?;&?; pine resin.] (Chem.) A white crystalline hydrocarbon, polymeric with benzene. It is extracted from pine tar, and is also found in certain fossil resins.

Re*tent" (?), n. [L. retentum, fr. retentus, p. p. See Retain.] That which is retained. Hickok.

Re*ten"tion (?), n. [L. retentio: cf. F. rétention. See Retain.] 1. The act of retaining, or the state of being ratined.

2. The power of retaining; retentiveness.

No woman's heart So big, to hold so much; they lack retention.

Shak.

3. That which contains something, as a tablet; a &?;&?;&?;&?; of preserving impressions. [R.] Shak.

4. The act of withholding; retraint; reserve. Shak.

5. Place of custody or confinement.

6. (Law) The right of withholding a debt, or of retaining property until a debt due to the person claiming the right be duly paid; a lien. Erskine. Craig.

Retention cyst (Med.), a cyst produced by obstruction of a duct leading from a secreting organ and the consequent retention of the natural secretions.

Re*ten"tive (?), a. [Cf. F. rétentif.] Having power to retain; as, a retentive memory.

Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit.

Shak.

Re*ten"tive, n. That which retains or confines; a restraint. [R.] Bp. Hall.

Re*ten"tive*ly, adv. In a retentive manner.

Re*ten"tive*ness, n. The quality of being retentive.

Re`ten*tiv"i*ty (?), n. The power of retaining; retentive force; as, the retentivity of a magnet.

||Re*ten"tor (?), n. [L., a retainer.] (Zoöl.) A muscle which serves to ||retain an organ or part in place, esp. when retracted. See Illust. of ||Phylactolemata.

Re`te*pore (?), n. [L. rete a net + porus pore.] (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of bryozoans of the genus Retepora. They form delicate calcareous corals, usually composed of thin fenestrated fronds.

Re*tex" (?), v. t. [L. retexere, lit., to unweave; pref. re- re + texere to weave. ] To annual, as orders. [Obs.] Bp. Hacket.

Re*tex"ture (?), n. The act of weaving or forming again. Carlyle.

Reth"or (?), n. [Cf. F. rhéteur. See Rhetor.] A rhetorician; a careful writer. [Obs.]

If a rethor couthe fair endite.

Chaucer.

Reth"o*ryke (?), n. Rhetoric. [Obs.] Chaucer.

||Re`ti*a"ri*us (?), n. [L., fr. rete a net.] (Rom.Antiq.) A gladiator ||armed with a net for entangling his adversary and a trident for ||despatching him.

Re"ti*a*ry (?), n. [See Retiarius.] 1. (Zoöl.) Any spider which spins webs to catch its prey.

2. A retiarius.

Re`ti*a*ry, a. [Cf. LL. retiarius.] 1. Netlike.

This work is in retiary, or hanging textures.

Sir T. Browne.

2. Constructing or using a web, or net, to catch prey; -- said of certain spiders.

3. Armed with a net; hence, skillful to entangle.

Scholastic retiary versatility of logic.

Coleridge.

Ret"i*cence (?), n. [L. reticentia: cf. F. réticence.] 1. The quality or state of being reticent, or keeping silence; the state of holding one's tonque; refraining to speak of that which is suggested; uncommunicativeness.

Such fine reserve and noble reticence.

Tennyson.

2. (Rhet.) A figure by which a person really speaks of a thing while he makes a show as if he would say nothingon the subject.

Ret"i*cen*cy (?), n. Reticence.

Ret"i*cent (?), a. [L. reticens, p. pr. of reticere to keep silence; re- + tacere to be silent. See Tacit.] Inclined to keep silent; reserved; uncommunicative.

Ret"i*cle (?), n. [See Reticule.] 1. A small net.

2. A reticule. See Reticule, 2. [R.]

Re*tic"u*lar (?), a. [Cf. F. réticulaire. See Reticule.] 1. Having the form of a net, or of network; formed with interstices; retiform; as, reticular cartilage; a reticular leaf.

2. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to a reticulum.

||Re*tic`u*la"ri*a (?), n. pl. [NL. See Reticular.] (Zoöl.) An ||extensive division of rhizopods in which the pseudopodia are more or ||less slender and coalesce at certain points, forming irregular ||meshes. It includes the shelled Foraminifera, together with some ||groups which lack a true shell.

Re*tic`u*la"ri*an (?), n. (Zoöl). One of the Reticularia.

Re*tic"u*lar*ly, adv. In a reticular manner.

{ Re*tic"u*late (?), Re*tic"u*la`ted (?) }, a. [L. reticulatus. See Reticule.] 1. Resembling network; having the form or appearance of a net; netted; as, a reticulated structure.

2. Having veins, fibers, or lines crossing like the threads or fibers of a network; as, a reticulate leaf; a reticulated surface; a reticulated wing of an insect.

Reticulated glass, ornamental ware made from glass in which one set of white or colored lines seems to meet and interlace with another set in a different plane. -- Reticulated micrometer, a micrometer for an optical instrument, consisting of a reticule in the focus of an eyepiece. -- Reticulated work (Masonry), work constructed with diamond-shaped stones, or square stones placed diagonally.

Re*tic`u*la"tion (?), n. The quality or state of being reticulated, or netlike; that which is reticulated; network; an organization resembling a net.

The particular net you occupy in the great reticulation.

Carlyle.

Ret"i*cule (?), n.. [F. réticule, L. reticulum, dim. of rete a net. Cf.Retina, Reticle.] 1. A little bag, originally of network; a woman's workbag, or a little bag to be carried in the hand. De Quincey.

2. A system of wires or lines in the focus of a telescope or other instrument; a reticle.

||Re*tic`u*lo"sa (?), n. pl. [NL.] (Zoöl.) Same as Reticularia.

Re*tic"u*lose` (?), a. Forming a network; characterized by a reticulated sructure.

Reticulose rhizopod (Zoöl.), a rhizopod in which the pseudopodia blend together and form irregular meshes.

||Re*tic"u*lum (?), n.;pl. Reticula (#). [L. dim. of rete a net.] ||(Anat.) (a) The second stomach of ruminants, in which folds of the ||mucous membrane form hexagonal cells; -- also called the honeycomb ||stomach. (b) The neuroglia.

Ret"i*form (?), a. [L. rete a net + -form. cf. F. rétiforme.] Composed of crossing lines and interstices; reticular; netlike; as, the retiform coat of the eye.

Ret"i*na (?), n. [NL., from L. rete a net. Cf. Reticule.] (Anat.) The delicate membrane by which the back part of the globe of the eye is lined, and in which the fibers of the optic nerve terminate. See Eye.

The fibers of the optic nerve and the retinal blood vessels spread out upon the front surface of the retina, while the sensory layer (called Jacob's membrane), containing the rods and cones, is on the back side, next the choroid coat.

||Ret`i*nac"u*lum (?), n.; pl. Retinacula (#). [L., a holdfast, a band. ||See Retain.] 1. (Anat.) (a) A connecting band; a frænum; as, the ||retinacula of the ileocæcal and ileocolic valves. (b) One of the ||annular ligaments which hold the tendons close to the bones at the ||larger joints, as at the wrist and ankle.

2. (Zoöl) One of the retractor muscles of the proboscis of certain worms.

3. (Bot.) A small gland or process to which bodies are attached; as, the glandular retinacula to which the pollinia of orchids are attached, or the hooks which support the seeds in many acanthaceous plants.

Ret"i*nal (?), a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the retina.

Retinal purple (Physiol. Chem.), the visual purple.

Re*tin"a*lite (?), n. [Gr. &?;&?;&?;&?; resin + -lite.] (Min.) A translucent variety of serpentine, of a honey yellow or greenish yellow color, having a waxy resinlike luster.

{ Ret`in*as"phalt (?), ||Ret`in*as*phal"tum (?), } n. [Gr. &?;&?;&?;&?; resin + &?;&?;&?;&?;&?; asphalt.] (Min.) Retinite.

Ret"i*nerved` (?), a. [L. rete a net + E. nerve.] (Bot.) Having reticulated veins.

||Ret`i*ne"um (?), n.; pl. Retinea (#). [NL. See Retina.] (Zoöl.) That ||part of the eye of an invertebrate which corresponds in function with ||the retina of a vertebrate.

Re*tin"ic (?), a. [Gr. &?;&?;&?;&?; resin.] (Min. Chem.) Of or pertaining to resin; derived from resin; specifically, designating an acid found in certain fossil resins and hydrocarbons.

Ret"i*nite (?), n. [Gr.&?;&?;&?; resin: cf. F. rétinite.] (Min.) An inflammable mineral resin, usually of a yellowish brown color, found in roundish masses, sometimes with coal.

Ret`i*ni"tis (?), n. [NL., fr. NL. & E. retina + -tis.] (Med.) Inflammation of the retina.

Ret"i*noid (?), a. [Gr. &?;&?;&?; resin + -oid.] Resinlike, or resinform; resembling a resin without being such.

Ret"i*nol (?), n. [Gr. &?;&?;&?; resin + L. oleum oil.] (Chem.) A hydrocarbon oil obtained by the distillation of resin, -- used in printer's ink.

||Ret`i*noph"o*ra (?), n.; pl. Retiniphoræ (#). [NL., fr. NL. & E. ||retina + Gr. &?;&?;&?;&?; to bear.] (Zoöl.) One of group of two to ||four united cells which occupy the axial part of the ocelli, or ||ommatidia, of the eyes of invertebrates, and contain the terminal ||nerve fibrillæ. See Illust. under Ommatidium.

Ret`i*noph"o*ral (?), a. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to retinophoræ.

Ret`i*nos"co*py (?), n. [Retina + -scopy.] (Physiol.) The study of the retina of the eye by means of the ophthalmoscope.

Ret"i*nue (?), n. [OE. retinue, OF. retinue, fr. retenir to retain, engage, hire. See Retain.] The body of retainers who follow a prince or other distinguished person; a train of attendants; a suite.

Others of your insolent retinue.

Shak.

What followers, what retinue canst thou gain?

Milton.

To have at one's retinue, to keep or employ as a retainer; to retain. [Obs.] Chaucer.

||Re*tin"u*la (?), n.; pl. Retinulæ (#). [NL., dim. of NL. & E. ||retina.] (Zoöl.) One of the group of pigmented cells which surround ||the retinophoræ of invertebrates. See Illust. under Ommatidium.

Re*tin"u*late (?), a. (Zoöl.) Having, or characterized by, retinul&?;.

Ret`i*ped (?), n. [L. rete a net + pes, pedis, a foot: cf. F. rétinopède.] (Zoöl.) A bird having small polygonal scales covering the tarsi.

Re*tir"a*cy (?), n. Retirement; -- mostly used in a jocose or burlesque way. [U.S.] Bartlett.

What one of our great men used to call dignified retiracy.

C. A. Bristed.

Ret`i*rade" (?), n. [F.; cf. Sp. retirada retreat. See Retire.] (Fort.) A kind of retrenchment, as in the body of a bastion, which may be disputed inch by inch after the defenses are dismantled. It usually consists of two faces which make a reëntering angle.

Re*tire" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Retired (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Retiring.] [F. retirer; pref. re- re- + tirer to draw. See Tirade.] 1. To withdraw; to take away; -- sometimes used reflexively.

He . . . retired himself, his wife, and children into a forest.

Sir P. Sidney.

As when the sun is present all the year, And never doth retire his golden ray.

Sir J. Davies.

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2. To withdraw from circulation, or from the market; to take up and pay; as, to retire bonds; to retire a note.

3. To cause to retire; specifically, to designate as no longer qualified for active service; to place on the retired list; as, to retire a military or naval officer.

Re*tire" (?), v. i. 1. To go back or return; to draw back or away; to keep aloof; to withdraw or retreat, as from observation; to go into privacy; as, to retire to his home; to retire from the world, or from notice.

To Una back he cast him to retire.

Spenser.

The mind contracts herself, and shrinketh in, And to herself she gladly doth retire.

Sir J. Davies.

2. To retreat from action or danger; to withdraw for safety or pleasure; as, to retire from battle.

Set Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.

2 Sam. xi. 15.

3. To withdraw from a public station, or from business; as, having made a large fortune, he retired.

And from Britannia's public posts retire.

Addison.

4. To recede; to fall or bend back; as, the shore of the sea retires in bays and gulfs.

5. To go to bed; as, he usually retires early.

Syn. -- To withdraw; leave; depart; secede; recede; retreat; retrocede.

Re*tire", n. 1. The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; also, a place to which one retires. [Obs.]

The battle and the retire of the English succors.

Bacon.

[Eve] discover'd soon the place of her retire.

Milton.

2. (Mil.) A call sounded on a bugle, announcing to skirmishers that they are to retire, or fall back.

Re*tired" (?), a. 1. Private; secluded; quiet; as, a retired life; a person of retired habits.

A retired part of the peninsula.

Hawthorne.

2. Withdrawn from active duty or business; as, a retired officer; a retired physician.

Retired flank (Fort.), a flank bent inward toward the rear of the work. -- Retired list (Mil. & Naval), a list of officers, who, by reason of advanced age or other disability, are relieved from active service, but still receive a specified amount of pay from the government.

-- Re*tired"ly, adv. -- Re*tired"ness, n.

Re*tire"ment (?), n. [Cf. F. retirement.] 1. The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; withdrawal; seclusion; as, the retirement of an officer.

O, blest Retirement, friend of life's decline.

Goldsmith.

Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books.

Thomson.

2. A place of seclusion or privacy; a place to which one withdraws or retreats; a private abode. [Archaic]

This coast full of princely retirements for the sumptousness of their buildings and nobleness of the plantations.

Evelyn.

Caprea had been the retirement of Augustus.

Addison.

Syn. -- Solitude; withdrawment; departure; retreat; seclusion; privacy. See Solitude.

Re*tir"er (?), n. One who retires.

Re*tir"ing, a. 1. Reserved; shy; not forward or obtrusive; as, retiring modesty; retiring manners.

2. Of or pertaining to retirement; causing retirement; suited to, or belonging to, retirement.

Retiring board (Mil.), a board of officers who consider and report upon the alleged incapacity of an officer for active service. -- Retiring pension, a pension granted to a public officer on his retirement from office or service.

Ret"i*stene (?), n. (Chem.) A white crystalline hydrocarbon produced indirectly from retene.

||Ret`i*te"læ (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. rete a net + tela a web.] (Zoöl.) A ||group of spiders which spin irregular webs; -- called also ||Retitelariæ.

Re*told" (?), imp. & p. p. of Retell.

Re*tor"sion (?), n. Same as Retortion.

Re*tort" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Retorted; p. pr. & vb. n. Retorting.] [L. retortus, p. p. of retorquere; pref. re- re- + torquere to turn twist. See Torsion, and cf. Retort, n., 2.] 1. To bend or curve back; as, a retorted line.

With retorted head, pruned themselves as they floated.

Southey.

2. To throw back; to reverberate; to reflect.

As when his virtues, shining upon others, Heat them and they retort that heat again To the first giver.

Shak.

3. To return, as an argument, accusation, censure, or incivility; as, to retort the charge of vanity.

And with retorted scorn his back he turned.

Milton.

Re*tort", v. i. To return an argument or a charge; to make a severe reply. Pope.

Re*tort", n. [See Retort, v. t.] 1. The return of, or reply to, an argument, charge, censure, incivility, taunt, or witticism; a quick and witty or severe response.

This is called the retort courteous.

Shak.

2. [F. retorte (cf. Sp. retorta), fr. L. retortus, p. p. of retorquere. So named from its bent shape. See Retort, v. t.] (Chem. & the Arts) A vessel in which substances are subjected to distillation or decomposition by heat. It is made of different forms and materials for different uses, as a bulb of glass with a curved beak to enter a receiver for general chemical operations, or a cylinder or semicylinder of cast iron for the manufacture of gas in gas works.

Tubulated retort (Chem.), a retort having a tubulure for the introduction or removal of the substances which are to be acted upon.

Syn. -- Repartee; answer. -- Retort, Repartee. A retort is a short and pointed reply, turning back on an assailant the arguments, censure, or derision he had thrown out. A repartee is usually a good-natured return to some witty or sportive remark.

Re*tort"er (?), n. One who retorts.

Re*tor"tion (?), n. [Cf. F. rétorsion. See Retort, v. t.] 1. Act of retorting or throwing back; reflection or turning back. [Written also retorsion.]

It was, however, necessary to possess some single term expressive of this intellectual retortion.

Sir W. Hamilton.

2. (Law) Retaliation. Wharton.

Re*tort"ive (?), a. Containing retort.

Re*toss" (?), v. t. To toss back or again.

Re*touch" (?), v. t. [Pref. re- + touch: cf. F. retoucher.] 1. To touch again, or rework, in order to improve; to revise; as, to retouch a picture or an essay.

2. (Photog.) To correct or change, as a negative, by handwork.

Re*touch", n. (Fine Arts) A partial reworking,as of a painting, a sculptor's clay model, or the like.

Re*touch"er (?), n. One who retouches.

Re*trace" (?), v. t. [Pref. re- + trace: cf. F. retracer. Cf. Retract.] 1. To trace back, as a line.

Then if the line of Turnus you retrace, He springs from Inachus of Argive race.

Driden.

2. To go back, in or over (a previous course); to go over again in a reverse direction; as, to retrace one's steps; to retrace one's proceedings.

3. To trace over again, or renew the outline of, as a drawing; to draw again.

Re*tract" (r*trkt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Retracted; p. pr. & vb. n. Retracting.] [F. rétracter, L. retractare, retractatum, to handle again, reconsider, retract, fr. retrahere, retractum, to draw back. See Retreat.] 1. To draw back; to draw up or shorten; as, the cat can retract its claws; to retract a muscle.

2. To withdraw; to recall; to disavow; to recant; to take back; as, to retract an accusation or an assertion.

I would as freely have retracted this charge of idolatry as I ever made it.

Bp. Stillingfleet.

3. To take back,, as a grant or favor previously bestowed; to revoke. [Obs.] Woodward.

Syn. -- To recall; withdraw; rescind; revoke; unsay; disavow; recant; abjure; disown.

Re*tract", v. i. 1. To draw back; to draw up; as, muscles retract after amputation.

2. To take back what has been said; to withdraw a concession or a declaration.

She will, and she will not; she grants, denies, Consents, retracts, advances, and then files.

Granville.

Re*tract", n. (Far.) The pricking of a horse's foot in nailing on a shoe.

Re*tract"a*ble (-*b'l), a. [Cf. F. rétractable.] Capable of being retracted; retractile.

Re*tract"ate (?), v. t. [L. retractatus, p. p. of retractare. See Retract.] To retract; to recant. [Obs.]

Re`trac*ta"tion (?), n. [Cf. F. rétractation, L. retractatio a revision, reconsideration. ] The act of retracting what has been said; recantation.

Re*tract"i*ble (?), a. Retractable.

Re*tract"ile (?), a. [Cf. F. - rétractile.] (Physiol.) Capable of retraction; capable of being drawn back or up; as, the claws of a cat are retractile.

Re*trac"tion (r*trk"shn), n. [Cf. F. rétraction, L. retractio a drawing back, hesitation.] 1. The act of retracting, or drawing back; the state of being retracted; as, the retraction of a cat's claws.

2. The act of withdrawing something advanced, stated, claimed, or done; declaration of change of opinion; recantation.

Other men's insatiable desire of revenge hath wholly beguiled both church and state of the benefit of all my either retractions or concessions.

Eikon Basilike.

3. (Physiol.) (a) The act of retracting or shortening; as, the retraction of a severed muscle; the retraction of a sinew. (b) The state or condition of a part when drawn back, or towards the center of the body.

Re*tract"ive (?), a. Serving to retract; of the nature of a retraction. -- Re*tract"ive*ly, adv.

Re*tract"ive, n. That which retracts, or withdraws.

Re*tract"or (-r), n. One who, or that which, retracts. Specifically: (a) In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel. (b) (Surg.) An instrument for holding apart the edges of a wound during amputation. (c) (Surg.) A bandage to protect the soft parts from injury by the saw during amputation. (d) (Anat. & Zoöl.) A muscle serving to draw in any organ or part. See Illust. under Phylactolæmata.

Re*traict" (r*trt"), n. Retreat. [Obs.] Bacon.

Re*trait" (r*trt"), n. [It. ritratto, fr. ritrarre to draw back, draw, fr. L. retrahere. See Retract.] A portrait; a likeness. [Obs.]

Whose fair retrait I in my shield do bear.

Spenser.

Re`trans*form" (?), v. t. To transform anew or back. -- Re`trans*for*ma"tion (#), n.

Re`trans*late" (?), v. t. To translate anew; especially, to translate back into the original language.

||Re*trax"it (?), n. [L., (he) has withdrawn. See Retract.] (O. Eng. ||Law) The withdrawing, or open renunciation, of a suit in court by the ||plaintiff, by which he forever lost his right of action. Blackstone.

Re*tread" (?), v. t. & i. To tread again.

Re*treat" (?), n. [F. retraite, fr. retraire to withdraw, L. retrahere; pref. re- re- + trahere to draw. See Trace, and cf. Retract, Retrace.] 1. The act of retiring or withdrawing one's self, especially from what is dangerous or disagreeable.

In a retreat he o&?;truns any lackey.

Shak.

2. The place to which anyone retires; a place or privacy or safety; a refuge; an asylum.

He built his son a house of pleasure, and spared no cost to make a delicious retreat.

L'Estrange.

That pleasing shade they sought, a soft retreat From sudden April showers, a shelter from the heat.

Dryden.

3. (Mil. & Naval.) (a) The retiring of an army or body of men from the face of an enemy, or from any ground occupied to a greater distance from the enemy, or from an advanced position. (b) The withdrawing of a ship or fleet from an enemy for the purpose of avoiding an engagement or escaping after defeat. (c) A signal given in the army or navy, by the beat of a drum or the sounding of trumpet or bugle, at sunset (when the roll is called), or for retiring from action.

A retreat is properly an orderly march, in which circumstance it differs from a flight.

4. (Eccl.) (a) A special season of solitude and silence to engage in religious exercises. (b) A period of several days of withdrawal from society to a religious house for exclusive occupation in the duties of devotion; as, to appoint or observe a retreat.

Syn. -- Retirement; departure; withdrawment; seclusion; solitude; privacy; asylum; shelter; refuge.

Re*treat" (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Retreated; p. pr. & vb. n. Retreating.] To make a retreat; to retire from any position or place; to withdraw; as, the defeated army retreated from the field.

The rapid currents drive Towards the retreating sea their furious tide.

Milton.

Re*treat"ful (?), a. Furnishing or serving as a retreat. [R.] "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.

Re*treat"ment (?), n. The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira. [R.] D'Urfey.

Re*trench" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Retrenched (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Retrenching.] [OF. retrenchier, F. retrancher; pref. re- re- + OF. trenchier, F. trancher, to cut. See Trench.] 1. To cut off; to pare away.

Thy exuberant parts retrench.

Denham.

2. To lessen; to abridge; to curtail; as, to retrench superfluities or expenses.

But this thy glory shall be soon retrenched.

Milton.

3. To confine; to limit; to restrict. Addison.

These figures, ought they then to receive a retrenched interpretation?

I. Taylor.

4. (Fort.) To furnish with a retrenchment; as, to retrench bastions.

Syn. -- To lesen; diminish; curtail; abridge.

Re*trench", v. i. To cause or suffer retrenchment; specifically, to cut down living expenses; as, it is more reputable to retrench than to live embarrassed.

Re*trench"ment (?), n. [Cf. F. retrenchment.] 1. The act or process of retrenching; as, the retrenchment of words in a writing.

The retrenchment of my expenses will convince you that &?; mean to replace your fortune as far as I can.

Walpole.

2. (Fort.) A work constructed within another, to prolong the defense of the position when the enemy has gained possession of the outer work; or to protect the defenders till they can retreat or obtain terms for a capitulation.

Syn. -- Lessening; curtailment; diminution; reduction; abridgment.

Re*tri"al (?), n. A secdond trial, experiment, or test; a second judicial trial, as of an accused person.

Re*trib"ute (?), v. t. [L. retributus, p. p. ofretribuere to retribute; pref re- + tribuere to bestow, assign, pay. See Tribute.] To pay back; to give in return, as payment, reward, or punishment; to requite; as, to retribute one for his kindness; to retribute just punishment to a criminal. [Obs. or R.] Locke.

Re*trib"u*ter (?), n. One who makes retribution.

Ret`ri*bu"tion (?), n. [L. retributio: cf. F. rétribution.] 1. The act of retributing; repayment.

In good offices and due retributions, we may not be pinching and niggardly.

Bp. Hall.

2. That which is given in repayment or compensation; return suitable to the merits or deserts of, as an action; commonly, condign punishment for evil or wrong.

All who have their reward on earth, . . . Naught seeking but the praise of men, here find Fit retribution, empty as their deeds.

Milton.

3. Specifically, reward and punishment, as distributed at the general judgment.

It is a strong argument for a state of retribution hereafter, that in this world virtuous persons are very often unfortunate, and vicious persons prosperous.

Addison.

Syn. -- Repayment; requital; recompense; payment; retaliation.

{ Re*trib"u*tive (?), Re*trib"u*to*ry }, a. [Cf. LL. retributorius worthy of retribution.] Of or pertaining to retribution; of the nature of retribution; involving retribution or repayment; as, retributive justice; retributory comforts.

Re*triev"a*ble (?), a. [From Retrieve.] That may be retrieved or recovered; admitting of retrieval. -- Re*triev"a*ble*ness, n. -- Re*triev"a*bly, adv.

Re*triev"al (?), n. The act retrieving.

Re*trieve" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Retrieved (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Retrieving.] [OE. retreven, OF. retrover to find again, recover (il retroevee finds again), F. retrouver; pref. re- re- + OF. trover to find, F. trouver. See Trover.] 1. To find again; to recover; to regain; to restore from loss or injury; as, to retrieve one's character; to retrieve independence.

With late repentance now they would retrieve The bodies they forsook, and wish to live.

Dryden

2. To recall; to bring back.

To retrieve them from their cold, trivial conceits.

Berkeley.

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3. To remedy the evil consequence of, to repair, as a loss or damadge.

Accept my sorrow, and retrieve my fall.

Prior.

There is much to be done . . . and much to be retrieved.

Burke.

Syn. -- To recover; regain; recruit; repair; restore.

Re*trieve" (?), v. i. (Sport.) To discover and bring in game that has been killed or wounded; as, a dog naturally inclined to retrieve. Walsh.

Re*trieve", n. 1. A seeking again; a discovery. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

2. The recovery of game once sprung; -- an old sporting term. [Obs.] Nares.

Re*trieve"ment (?), n. Retrieval.

Re*triev"er (?), n. 1. One who retrieves.

2. (Zoöl.) A dor, or a breed of dogs, chiefly employed to retrieve, or to find and recover game birds that have been killed or wounded.

Re*trim" (?), v. t. To trim again.

Ret"ri*ment (?), n. [L. retrimentum.] Refuse; dregs. [R.]

Retro-. [L. retro, adv., backward, back. Cf. Re-.] A prefix or combining form signifying backward, back; as, retroact, to act backward; retrospect, a looking back.

Re`tro*act" (?), v. i. [Pref. retro- + act.] To act backward, or in return; to act in opposition; to be retrospective.

Re`tro*ac"tion (?), n. [Cf. F. rétroaction.] 1. Action returned, or action backward.

2. Operation on something past or preceding.

Re`tro*act"ive (?), a. [Cf. F. rétroactif.] Fitted or designed to retroact; operating by returned action; affecting what is past; retrospective. Beddoes.

Retroactive law or statute (Law), one which operates to make criminal or punishable, or in any way expressly to affect, acts done prior to the passing of the law.

Re`tro*act"ive*ly, adv. In a retroactive manner.

Re"tro*cede (?), v. t. [Pref. retro- + cede: cf. F. rétrocéder.] To cede or grant back; as, to retrocede a territory to a former proprietor.

Re"tro*cede, v. i. [L. retrocedere; retro backward, back + cedere to go. See Cede.] To go back.

Re`tro*ced"ent (?), a. [L. retrocedens, p. pr.] Disposed or likely to retrocede; -- said of diseases which go from one part of the body to another, as the gout.

Re`tro*ces"sion (?), n. [Cf. F. rétrocession. See Retrocede.] 1. The act of retroceding.

2. The state of being retroceded, or granted back.

3. (Med.) Metastasis of an eruption or a tumor from the surface to the interior of the body.

Re"tro*choir (?), n. [Pref. retro- + choir.] (Eccl. Arch.) Any extension of a church behind the high altar, as a chapel; also, in an apsidal church, all the space beyond the line of the back or eastern face of the altar.

Re`tro*cop"u*lant (?), a. [See Retrocopulation.] Copulating backward, or from behind.

Re`tro*cop`u*la"tion (?), n. [Pref. retro- + copulation.] Copulation from behind. Sir T. Browne.

Re`tro*duc"tion (?), n. [L. retroducere, retroductum, to lead or bring back; retro backward + ducere to lead.] A leading or bringing back.

{ Re"tro*flex (?), Re"tro*flexed (?), } a. [Pref. retro- + L. flectere, flexum, to bend, to turn.] Reflexed; bent or turned abruptly backward.

Re`tro*flex"ion (?), n. The act of reflexing; the state of being retroflexed. Cf. Retroversion.

{ Re"tro*fract (?), Re"tro*fract`ed, } a. [Pref. retro- + L. fractus, p. p. of frangere to break.] (Bot.) Refracted; as, a retrofract stem.

Re`tro*gen"er*a*tive (?), a. [Pref. retro- + generative.] Begetting young by retrocopulation.

Re`tro*gra*da"tion (?), n. [F. rétrogradation or L. retrogradatio. See Retrograde.] 1. The act of retrograding, or moving backward.

2. The state of being retrograde; decline.

Re"tro*grade (?), a. [L. retrogradus, from retrogradi, retrogressus, to retrograde; retro back + gradi to step: cf. F. rétrograde. See Grade.] 1. (Astron.) Apparently moving backward, and contrary to the succession of the signs, that is, from east to west, as a planet. Hutton.

And if he be in the west side in that condition, then is he retrograde.

Chaucer.

2. Tending or moving backward; having a backward course; contrary; as, a retrograde motion; -- opposed to progressive. "Progressive and not retrograde." Bacon.

It is most retrograde to our desire.

Shak.

3. Declining from a better to a worse state; as, a retrograde people; retrograde ideas, morals, etc. Bacon.

Re"tro*grade, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Retrograded (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Retrograding.] [L. retrogradare, retrogradi: cf. F. rétrograder.] 1. To go in a retrograde direction; to move, or appear to move, backward, as a planet.

2. Hence, to decline from a better to a worse condition, as in morals or intelligence.

Re"tro*gra`ding*ly (?), adv. By retrograding; so as to retrograde.

Re"tro*gress (?), n. [Cf. L. retrogressus.] Retrogression. [R.] H. Spenser.

Re`tro*gres"sion (?), n. [Cf. F. rétrogression. See Retrograde, and cf. Digression.] 1. The act of retrograding, or going backward; retrogradation.

2. (Biol.) Backward development; a passing from a higher to a lower state of organization or structure, as when an animal, approaching maturity, becomes less highly organized than would be expected from its earlier stages or known relationship. Called also retrograde development, and regressive metamorphism.

Re`tro*gres"sive, a. [Cf. F. rétrogressif.] 1. Tending to retrograde; going or moving backward; declining from a better to a worse state.

2. (Biol.) Passing from a higher to a lower condition; declining from a more perfect state of organization; regressive.

Re`tro*gres"sive*ly, adv. In a retrogressive manner.

Re`tro*min"gen*cy (?), n. The quality or state of being retromingent. Sir T. Browne.

Re`tro*min"gent (?), a. [Pref. retro- + L. mingens, p. pr. of mingere to urinate.] Organized so as to discharge the urine backward. -- n. (Zoöl.) An animal that discharges its urine backward.

Re`tro*pul"sive (?), a. [Pref. retro- + L. pellere, pulsum, to impel.] Driving back; repelling.

Re*trorse" (?), a. [L. retrorsus, retroversus; retro back + vertere, versum, to turn. Cf. Retrovert.] Bent backward or downward. -- Re*trorse"ly, adv.

Re"tro*spect (?), v. i. [L. retrospicere; retro back + specere, spectum, to look. See Spy, and cf. Expect.] To look backward; hence, to affect or concern what is past.

It may be useful to retrospect to an early period.

A. Hamilton.

Re"tro*spect, n. A looking back on things past; view or contemplation of the past. Cowper.

We may introduce a song without retrospect to the old comedy.

Landor.

Re`tro*spec"tion (?), n. The act, or the faculty, of looking back on things past.

Re`tro*spec"tive (?), a. [Cf. F. rétrospectif.] 1. Looking backward; contemplating things past; -- opposed to prospective; as, a retrospective view.

The sage, with retrospective eye.

Pope.

2. Having reference to what is past; affecting things past; retroactive; as, a retrospective law.

Inflicting death by a retrospective enactment.

Macaulay.

Re`tro*spec"tive*ly, adv. By way of retrospect.

||Re*trous`sé" (?), a. [F., p.p. of retrousser to turn up.] Turned up; ||-- said of a pug nose. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

Re`tro*vac`ci*na"tion (?), n. (Med.) The inoculation of a cow with human vaccine virus.

Re`tro*ver"sion (?), n. [Cf. F. rétroversion. See Retrovert.] A turning or bending backward; also, the state of being turned or bent backward; displacement backwards; as, retroversion of the uterus.

In retroversion the bending is gradual or curved; in retroflexion it is abrupt or angular.

Re"tro*vert (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Retroverted; p. pr. & vb. n. Retroverting.] [Pref. retro- + L. vertere, versum, to turn. Cf. Retrorse.] To turn back.

Re"tro*vert*ed, a. In a state of retroversion.

Re*trude" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Retruded; p. pr. & vb. n. Retruding.] [L. retrudere; re- + trudere to thrust.] To thrust back. [R.] Dr. H. More.

Re*truse" (?), a. [L. retrusus concealed, p. p. of retrudere.] Abstruse. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

Re*tru"sion (?), n. The act of retruding, or the state of being retruded.

In virtue of an endless remotion or retrusion of the constituent cause.

Coleridge.

Re*try" (?), v. t. To try (esp. judicially) a second time; as, to retry a case; to retry an accused person.

Rette (?), v. t. See Aret. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Ret"ter*y (?), n. A place or establishment where flax is retted. See Ret. Ure.

Ret"ting (?), n. 1. The act or process of preparing flax for use by soaking, maceration, and kindred processes; -- also called rotting. See Ret. Ure.

2. A place where flax is retted; a rettery. Ure.

Re*tund" (?), v. t. [L. retundere, retusum; pref. re- re- + tundere to beat.] To blunt; to turn, as an edge; figuratively, to cause to be obtuse or dull; as, to retund confidence. Ray. Cudworth.

Re-turn" (?), v. t. & i. To turn again.

Re*turn" (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Returned (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Returning.] [OE. returnen, retournen, F. retourner; pref. re- re- + tourner to turn. See Turn.] 1. To turn back; to go or come again to the same place or condition. "Return to your father's house." Chaucer.

On their embattled ranks the waves return.

Milton.

If they returned out of bondage, it must be into a state of freedom.

Locke.

Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

Gen. iii. 19.

2. To come back, or begin again, after an interval, regular or irregular; to appear again.

With the year Seasons return; but not me returns Day or the sweet approach of even or morn.

Milton.

3. To speak in answer; to reply; to respond.

He said, and thus the queen of heaven returned.

Pope.

4. To revert; to pass back into possession.

And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom return to the house of David.

1Kings xii. 26.

5. To go back in thought, narration, or argument. "But to return to my story." Fielding.

Re*turn", v. t. 1. To bring, carry, send, or turn, back; as, to return a borrowed book, or a hired horse.

Both fled attonce, ne ever back returned eye.

Spenser.

2. To repay; as, to return borrowed money.

3. To give in requital or recompense; to requite.

The Lord shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head.

1 Kings ii. 44.

4. To give back in reply; as, to return an answer; to return thanks.

5. To retort; to throw back; as, to return the lie.

If you are a malicious reader, you return upon me, that I affect to be thought more impartial than I am.

Dryden.

6. To report, or bring back and make known.

And all the people answered together, . . . and Moses returned the words of the people unto the Lord.

Ex. xix. 8.

7. To render, as an account, usually an official account, to a superior; to report officially by a list or statement; as, to return a list of stores, of killed or wounded; to return the result of an election.

8. Hence, to elect according to the official report of the election officers. [Eng.]

9. To bring or send back to a tribunal, or to an office, with a certificate of what has been done; as, to return a writ.

10. To convey into official custody, or to a general depository.

Instead of a ship, he should levy money, and return the same to the treasurer for his majesty's use.

Clarendon.

11. (Tennis) To bat (the ball) back over the net.

12. (Card Playing) To lead in response to the lead of one's partner; as, to return a trump; to return a diamond for a club.

To return a lead (Card Playing), to lead the same suit led by one's partner.

Syn. -- To restore; requite; repay; recompense; render; remit; report.

Re*turn" (?), n. 1. The act of returning (intransitive), or coming back to the same place or condition; as, the return of one long absent; the return of health; the return of the seasons, or of an anniversary.

At the return of the year the king of Syria will come up against thee.

1 Kings xx. 22.

His personal return was most required and necessary.

Shak.

2. The act of returning (transitive), or sending back to the same place or condition; restitution; repayment; requital; retribution; as, the return of anything borrowed, as a book or money; a good return in tennis.

You made my liberty your late request: Is no return due from a grateful breast?

Dryden.

3. That which is returned. Specifically: (a) A payment; a remittance; a requital.

I do expect return Of thrice three times the value of this bond.

Shak.

(b) An answer; as, a return to one's question. (c) An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, and the like; as, election returns; a return of the amount of goods produced or sold; especially, in the plural, a set of tabulated statistics prepared for general information. (d) The profit on, or advantage received from, labor, or an investment, undertaking, adventure, etc.

The fruit from many days of recreation is very little; but from these few hours we spend in prayer, the return is great.

Jer. Taylor.

4. (Arch.) The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building, face of a building, or any member, as a molding or mold; -- applied to the shorter in contradistinction to the longer; thus, a facade of sixty feet east and west has a return of twenty feet north and south.

5. (Law) (a) The rendering back or delivery of writ, precept, or execution, to the proper officer or court. (b) The certificate of an officer stating what he has done in execution of a writ, precept, etc., indorsed on the document. (c) The sending back of a commission with the certificate of the commissioners. (d) A day in bank. See Return day, below. Blackstone.

6. (Mil. & Naval) An official account, report, or statement, rendered to the commander or other superior officer; as, the return of men fit for duty; the return of the number of the sick; the return of provisions, etc.

7. pl. (Fort. & Mining) The turnings and windings of a trench or mine.

Return ball, a ball held by an elastic string so that it returns to the hand from which it is thrown, -- used as a plaything. -- Return bend, a pipe fitting for connecting the contiguous ends of two nearly parallel pipes lying alongside or one above another. -- Return day (Law), the day when the defendant is to appear in court, and the sheriff is to return the writ and his proceedings. -- Return flue, in a steam boiler, a flue which conducts flame or gases of combustion in a direction contrary to their previous movement in another flue. -- Return pipe (Steam Heating), a pipe by which water of condensation from a heater or radiator is conveyed back toward the boiler.

Re*turn"a*ble (?), a. 1. Capable of, or admitting of, being returned.

2. (Law) Legally required to be returned, delivered, given, or rendered; as, a writ or precept returnable at a certain day; a verdict returnable to the court.

Re*turn"er (?), n. One who returns.

Re*turn"less, a. Admitting no return. Chapman.

Re*tuse" (?), a. [L. retusus, p. p. : cf. F. rétus. See Retund.] (Bot. & Zoöl.) Having the end rounded and slightly indented; as, a retuse leaf.

Reule (?), n.& v. Rule. [Obs.]

Reume (?), n. Realm. [Obs.]

Re*un"ion (?), n. [Pref. re- + union: cf. F. réunion.] 1. A second union; union formed anew after separation, secession, or discord; as, a reunion of parts or particles of matter; a reunion of parties or sects.

2. An assembling of persons who have been separated, as of a family, or the members of a disbanded regiment; an assembly so composed.

Re`u*nite" (?), v. t. & i. To unite again; to join after separation or variance. Shak.

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Re`u*nit"ed*ly (?), adv. In a reunited manner.

Re`u*ni"tion (?), n. A second uniting. [R.]

Re*urge" (?), v. t. To urge again.

Re*vac"ci*nate (?), v. t. To vaccinate a second time or again. -- Re*vac`ci*na"tion(#), n.

Rev`a*les"cence (?), n. The act of growing well; the state of being revalescent.

Would this prove that the patient's revalescence had been independent of the medicines given him?

Coleridge.

Rev`a*les"cent (?), a. [L. revalescens, -entis, p. pr. of revalescere; pref. re- re- + valescere, v. incho. fr. valere to be well.] Growing well; recovering strength.

Re*val`u*a"tion (?), n. A second or new valuation.

Re*vamp" (?), v. t. To vamp again; hence, to patch up; to reconstruct.

Reve (?), v. t. To reave. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Reve, n. [See Reeve.] An officer, steward, or governor. [Usually written reeve.] [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

Re*veal" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Revealed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Revealing.] [F. révéler, L. revelare, revelatum, to unveil, reveal; pref. re- re- + velare to veil; fr. velum a veil. See Veil.] 1. To make known (that which has been concealed or kept secret); to unveil; to disclose; to show.

Light was the wound, the prince's care unknown, She might not, would not, yet reveal her own.

Waller.

2. Specifically, to communicate (that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural instruction or agency).

Syn. -- To communicate; disclose; divulge; unveil; uncover; open; discover; impart; show. See Communicate. -- Reveal, Divulge. To reveal is literally to lift the veil, and thus make known what was previously concealed; to divulge is to scatter abroad among the people, or make publicly known. A mystery or hidden doctrine may be revealed; something long confined to the knowledge of a few is at length divulged. "Time, which reveals all things, is itself not to be discovered." Locke. "A tragic history of facts divulged." Wordsworth.

Re*veal", n. 1. A revealing; a disclosure. [Obs.]

2. (Arch.) The side of an opening for a window, doorway, or the like, between the door frame or window frame and the outer surface of the wall; or, where the opening is not filled with a door, etc., the whole thickness of the wall; the jamb. [Written also revel.]

Re*veal`a*bil"i*ty (?), n. The quality or state of being revealable; revealableness.

Re*veal"a*ble (?), a. Capable of being revealed. -- Re*veal"a*ble*ness, n.

Re*veal"er (?), n. One who, or that which, reveals.

Re*veal"ment (?), n. Act of revealing. [R.]

Re*veg"e*tate (?), v. i. To vegetate anew.

Re*veil"le (?), n. [F. réveil, fr. réveiller to awake; pref. re- re- + pref. es- (L. ex) + veiller to awake, watch, L. vigilare to watch. The English form was prob. taken by mistake from the French imper. réveillez,2d pers. pl. See Vigil.] (Mil.) The beat of drum, or bugle blast, about break of day, to give notice that it is time for the soldiers to rise, and for the sentinels to forbear challenging. "Sound a reveille." Dryden.

For at dawning to assail ye Here no bugles sound reveille.

Sir W. Scott.

Rev"el (?), n. (Arch.) See Reveal. [R.]

Rev"el, n. [OF. revel rebellion, disorder, feast, sport. See Revel, v. i.] A feast with loose and noisy jollity; riotous festivity or merrymaking; a carousal.

This day in mirth and revel to dispend.

Chaucer.

Some men ruin . . . their bodies by incessant revels.

Rambler.

Master of the revels, Revel master. Same as Lord of misrule, under Lord.

Rev"el, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Reveled (?) or Revelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Reveling or Revelling.] [OF. reveler to revolt, rebel, make merry, fr. L. rebellare. See Rebel.] 1. To feast in a riotous manner; to carouse; to act the bacchanalian; to make merry. Shak.

2. To move playfully; to indulge without restraint. "Where joy most revels." Shak.

Re*vel" (?), v. t. [L. revellere; re- + vellere to pluck, pull.] To draw back; to retract. [Obs.] Harvey.

Rev"e*late (?), v. t. [L. revelatus, p. p. of revelare to reveal.] To reveal. [Obs.] Frith. Barnes.

Rev`e*la"tion (?), n. [F. révélation, L. revelatio. See Reveal.] 1. The act of revealing, disclosing, or discovering to others what was before unknown to them.

2. That which is revealed.

3. (Theol.) (a) The act of revealing divine truth. (b) That which is revealed by God to man; esp., the Bible.

By revelation he made known unto me the mystery, as I wrote afore in few words.

Eph. iii. 3.

4. Specifically, the last book of the sacred canon, containing the prophecies of St. John; the Apocalypse.

Rev"e*la`tor (?), n. [L.] One who makes a revelation; a revealer. [R.]

Rev"el*er (?), n. [Written also reveller.] One who revels. "Moonshine revelers." Shak.

Re*vel"lent (?), a. [L. revellens, p. pr. of revellere. See Revel, v. t.] Causing revulsion; revulsive. -- n. (Med.) A revulsive medicine.

Rev"el*ment (?), n. The act of reveling.

Rev"el*ous (?), a. [OF. reveleus.] Fond of festivity; given to merrymaking or reveling. [Obs.]

Companionable and revelous was she.

Chaucer.

Rev"el-rout` (?), n. [See Rout.] 1. Tumultuous festivity; revelry. [Obs.] Rowe.

2. A rabble; a riotous assembly; a mob. [Obs.]

Rev"el*ry (?), n. [See Revel, v. i. & n.] The act of engaging in a revel; noisy festivity; reveling.

And pomp and feast and revelry.

Milton.

Re*ven"di*cate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Revendicated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Revendicating.][Cf. F. revendiquer. See Revenge.] To reclaim; to demand the restoration of. [R.] Vattel (Trans.).

Re*ven`di*ca"tion (?), n. [F. revendication.] The act of revendicating. [R.] Vattel (Trans.)

Re*venge" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Revenged (?), p. pr. & vb. n. Revenging (&?;).] [OF. revengier, F. revancher; pref. re- re- + OF. vengier to avenge, revenge, F. venger, L. vindicare. See Vindicate, Vengerance, and cf. Revindicate.] 1. To inflict harm in return for, as an injury, insult, etc.; to exact satisfaction for, under a sense of injury; to avenge; -- followed either by the wrong received, or by the person or thing wronged, as the object, or by the reciprocal pronoun as direct object, and a preposition before the wrong done or the wrongdoer.

To revenge the death of our fathers.

Ld. Berners.

The gods are just, and will revenge our cause.

Dryden.

Come, Antony, and young Octavius, come, Revenge yourselves alone on Cassius.

Shak.

2. To inflict injury for, in a spiteful, wrong, or malignant spirit; to wreak vengeance for maliciously.

Syn. -- To avenge; vindicate. See Avenge.

Re*venge", v. i. To take vengeance; -- with upon. [Obs.] "A bird that will revenge upon you all." Shak.

Re*venge", n. 1. The act of revenging; vengeance; retaliation; a returning of evil for evil.

Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is even with his enemy; but in passing it over he is superior.

Bacon.

2. The disposition to revenge; a malignant wishing of evil to one who has done us an injury.

Revenge now goes To lay a complot to betray thy foes.

Shak.

The indulgence of revenge tends to make men more savage and cruel.

Kames.

Re*venge"a*ble (?), a. Capable of being revenged; as, revengeable wrong. Warner.

Re*venge"ance (?), n. Vengeance; revenge. [Obs.]

Re*venge"ful (?), a. Full of, or prone to, revenge; vindictive; malicious; revenging; wreaking revenge.

If thy revengeful heart can not forgive.

Shak.

May my hands . . . Never brandish more revengeful steel.

Shak.

Syn. -- Vindictive; vengeful; resentful; malicious.

-- Re*venge"ful*ly, adv. -- Re*venge"ful*ness, n.

Re*venge"less, a. Unrevenged. [Obs.] Marston.

Re*venge"ment (?), n. Revenge. [Obs.]

He 'll breed revengement and a scourge for me.

Shak.

Re*ven"ger (?), n. One who revenges. Shak.

Re*ven"ging (?), a. Executing revenge; revengeful. -- Re*ven"ging*ly, adv. Shak.

Rev"e*nue (?), n. [F. revenu, OF. revenue, fr. revenir to return, L. revenire; pref. re- re- + venire to come. See Come.] 1. That which returns, or comes back, from an investment; the annual rents, profits, interest, or issues of any species of property, real or personal; income.

Do not anticipate your revenues and live upon air till you know what you are worth.

Gray.

2. Hence, return; reward; as, a revenue of praise.

3. The annual yield of taxes, excise, customs, duties, rents, etc., which a nation, state, or municipality collects and receives into the treasury for public use.

Revenue cutter, an armed government vessel employed to enforce revenue laws, prevent smuggling, etc.

Re*verb" (?), v. t. To echo. [Obs.] Shak.

Re*ver"ber*ant (?), a. [L. reverberans, p. pr. : cf. F. réverbérant. See Reverberate.] Having the quality of reverberation; reverberating.

Re*ver"ber*ate (?), a. [L. reverberatus, p. p. of reverberare to strike back, repel; pref. re- re- + verberare to lash, whip, beat, fr. verber a lash, whip, rod.] 1. Reverberant. [Obs.] "The reverberate hills." Shak.

2. Driven back, as sound; reflected. [Obs.] Drayton.

Re*ver"ber*ate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reverberated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Reverberating.] 1. To return or send back; to repel or drive back; to echo, as sound; to reflect, as light, as light or heat.

Who, like an arch, reverberates The voice again.

Shak.

2. To send or force back; to repel from side to side; as, flame is reverberated in a furnace.

3. Hence, to fuse by reverberated heat. [Obs.] "Reverberated into glass." Sir T. Browne.

Re*ver"ber*ate, v. i. 1. To resound; to echo.

2. To be driven back; to be reflected or repelled, as rays of light; to be echoed, as sound.

Re*ver`ber*a"tion (?), n. [CF. F. réverbération.] The act of reverberating; especially, the act of reflecting light or heat, or reëchoing sound; as, the reverberation of rays from a mirror; the reverberation of rays from a mirror; the reverberation of voices; the reverberation of heat or flame in a furnace.

Re*ver"ber*a*tive (?), a. Of the nature of reverberation; tending to reverberate; reflective.

This reverberative influence is that which we have intended above, as the influence of the mass upon its centers.

I. Taylor.

Re*ver"ber*a`tor (?), n. One who, or that which, produces reverberation.

Re*ver"ber*a*to*ry (?), a. Producing reverberation; acting by reverberation; reverberative.

Reverberatory furnace. See the Note under Furnace.

Re*ver"ber*a*to*ry, n. A reverberatory furnace.

Re*ver"dure (?), v. t. To cover again with verdure. Ld. Berners.

Re*vere" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Revered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Revering.] [L. revereri; pref. re- re- + vereri to fear, perh. akin to E. wary: cf. F. révérer.] To regard with reverence, or profound respect and affection, mingled with awe or fear; to venerate; to reverence; to honor in estimation.

Marcus Aurelius, whom he rather revered as his father than treated as his partner in the empire.

Addison.

Syn. -- To venerate; adore; reverence.

Rev"er*ence (?), n. [F. révérence, L. reverentia. See Reverent.] 1. Profound respect and esteem mingled with fear and affection, as for a holy being or place; the disposition to revere; veneration.

If thou be poor, farewell thy reverence.

Chaucer.

Reverence, which is the synthesis of love and fear.

Coleridge.

When discords, and quarrels, and factions, are carried openly and audaciously, it is a sign the reverence of government islost.

Bacon.

Formerly, as in Chaucer, reverence denoted "respect" "honor", without awe or fear.

2. The act of revering; a token of respect or veneration; an obeisance.

Make twenty reverences upon receiving . . . about twopence.

Goldsmith.

And each of them doeth all his diligence To do unto the feast reverence.

Chaucer.

3. That which deserves or exacts manifestations of reverence; reverend character; dignity; state.

I am forced to lay my reverence by.

Shak.

4. A person entitled to be revered; -- a title applied to priests or other ministers with the pronouns his or your; sometimes poetically to a father. Shak.

Save your reverence, Saving your reverence, an apologetical phrase for an unseemly expression made in the presence of a priest or clergyman. -- Sir reverence, a contracted form of Save your reverence.

Such a one as a man may not speak of, without he say. "Sir reverence."

Shak.

-- To do reverence, to show reverence or honor; to perform an act of reverence.

Now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence.

Shak.

Syn. -- Awe; honor; veneration; adoration; dread. -- Awe, Reverence, Dread, Veneration. Reverence is a strong sentiment of respect and esteem, sometimes mingled slightly with fear; as, reverence for the divine law. Awe is a mixed feeling of sublimity and dread in view of something great or terrible, sublime or sacred; as, awe at the divine presence. It does not necessarily imply love. Dread is an anxious fear in view of an impending evil; as, dread of punishment. Veneration is reverence in its strongest manifestations. It is the highest emotion we can exercise toward human beings. Exalted and noble objects produce reverence; terrific and threatening objects awaken dread; a sense of the divine presence fills us with awe; a union of wisdom and virtue in one who is advanced in years inspires us with veneration.

Rev"er*ence, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reverenced (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Reverencing (?).] To regard or treat with reverence; to regard with respect and affection mingled with fear; to venerate.

Let . . . the wife see that she reverence her husband.

Eph. v. 33.

Those that I reverence those I fear, the wise.

Shak.

Rev"er*en*cer (?), n. One who regards with reverence. "Reverencers of crowned heads." Swift.

Rev"er*end (?), a. [F. révérend, L. reverendus, fr. revereri. See Revere.] Worthy of reverence; entitled to respect mingled with fear and affection; venerable.

A reverend sire among them came.

Milton.

They must give good example and reverend deportment in the face of their children.

Jer. Taylor.

This word is commonly given as a title of respect to ecclesiastics. A clergyman is styled the reverend; a dean, the very reverend; a bishop, the right reverend; an archbishop, the most reverend.

Rev"er*end*ly, adv. Reverently. [Obs.] Foxe.

Rev"er*ent (?), a. [L. reverens, -entis, p. pr. of revereri. See Revere.] 1. Disposed to revere; impressed with reverence; submissive; humble; respectful; as, reverent disciples. "They . . . prostrate fell before him reverent." Milton.

2. Expressing reverence, veneration, devotion, or submission; as, reverent words; reverent behavior. Joye.

Rev`er*en"tial (?), a. [Cf. F. révérenciel. See Reverence.] Proceeding from, or expressing, reverence; having a reverent quality; reverent; as, reverential fear or awe. "A reverential esteem of things sacred." South.

Rev`er*en"tial*ly, adv. In a reverential manner.

Rev"er*ent*ly, adv. In a reverent manner; in respectful regard.

Re*ver"er (?), n. One who reveres.

{ Rev"er*ie (?), Rev"er*y (?), } n.; pl. Reveries (#). [F. réverie, fr. rêver to dream, rave, be light-headed. Cf. Rave.] 1. A loose or irregular train of thought occurring in musing or mediation; deep musing; daydream. "Rapt in nameless reveries." Tennyson.

When ideas float in our mind without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call revery, our language has scarce a name for it.

Locke.

2. An extravagant conceit of the fancy; a vision. [R.]

There are infinite reveries and numberless extravagancies pass through both [wise and foolish minds].

Addison.

Re*ver"sal (?), a. [See Reverse.] Intended to reverse; implying reversal. [Obs.] Bp. Burnet.

Re*ver"sal, n. [From Reverse.] 1. The act of reversing; the causing to move or face in an opposite direction, or to stand or lie in an inverted position; as, the reversal of a rotating wheel; the reversal of objects by a convex lens.

2. A change or overthrowing; as, the reversal of a judgment, which amounts to an official declaration that it is false; the reversal of an attainder, or of an outlawry, by which the sentence is rendered void. Blackstone.

Re*verse" (?), a. [OE. revers, OF. revers, L. reversus, p. p. of revertere. See Revert.] 1. Turned backward; having a contrary or opposite direction; hence; opposite or contrary in kind; as, the reverse order or method. "A vice reverse unto this." Gower.

2. Turned upside down; greatly disturbed. [Obs.]

He found the sea diverse With many a windy storm reverse.

Gower.

3. (Bot. & Zoöl.) Reversed; as, a reverse shell.

Reverse bearing (Surv.), the bearing of a back station as observed from the station next in advance. - - Reverse curve (Railways), a curve like the letter S, formed of two curves bending in opposite directions. -- Reverse fire (Mil.), a fire in the rear. -- Reverse operation (Math.), an operation the steps of which are taken in a contrary order to that in which the same or similar steps are taken in another operation considered as direct; an operation in which that is sought which in another operation is given, and that given which in the other is sought; as, finding the length of a pendulum from its time of vibration is the reverse operation to finding the time of vibration from the length.

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Re*verse" (r*vrs"), n. [Cf. F. revers. See Reverse, a.] 1. That which appears or is presented when anything, as a lance, a line, a course of conduct, etc., is reverted or turned contrary to its natural direction.

He did so with the reverse of the lance.

Sir W. Scott.

2. That which is directly opposite or contrary to something else; a contrary; an opposite. Chaucer.

And then mistook reverse of wrong for right.

Pope.

To make everything the reverse of what they have seen, is quite as easy as to destroy.

Burke.

3. The act of reversing; complete change; reversal; hence, total change in circumstances or character; especially, a change from better to worse; misfortune; a check or defeat; as, the enemy met with a reverse.

The strange reverse of fate you see; I pitied you, now you may pity me.

Dryden.

By a reverse of fortune, Stephen becomes rich.

Lamb.

4. The back side; as, the reverse of a drum or trench; the reverse of a medal or coin, that is, the side opposite to the obverse. See Obverse.

5. A thrust in fencing made with a backward turn of the hand; a backhanded stroke. [Obs.] Shak.

6. (Surg.) A turn or fold made in bandaging, by which the direction of the bandage is changed.

Re*verse", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reversed (-vrst");p. pr. & vb. n. Reversing.] [See Reverse, a., and cf. Revert.] 1. To turn back; to cause to face in a contrary direction; to cause to depart.

And that old dame said many an idle verse, Out of her daughter's heart fond fancies to reverse.

Spenser.

2. To cause to return; to recall. [Obs.]

And to his fresh remembrance did reverse The ugly view of his deformed crimes.

Spenser.

3. To change totally; to alter to the opposite.

Reverse the doom of death.

Shak.

She reversed the conduct of the celebrated vicar of Bray.

Sir W. Scott.

4. To turn upside down; to invert.

A pyramid reversed may stand upon his point if balanced by admirable skill.

Sir W. Temple.

5. Hence, to overthrow; to subvert.

These can divide, and these reverse, the state.

Pope.

Custom . . . reverses even the distinctions of good and evil.

Rogers.

6. (Law) To overthrow by a contrary decision; to make void; to under or annual for error; as, to reverse a judgment, sentence, or decree.

Reverse arms (Mil.), a position of a soldier in which the piece passes between the right elbow and the body at an angle of 45°, and is held as in the illustration. -- To reverse an engine or a machine, to cause it to perform its revolutions or action in the opposite direction.

Syn. -- To overturn; overset; invert; overthrow; subvert; repeal; annul; revoke; undo.

Re*verse", v. i. 1. To return; to revert. [Obs.] Spenser.

2. To become or be reversed.

Re*versed" (?), a. 1. Turned side for side, or end for end; changed to the contrary; specifically (Bot. & Zoöl.), sinistrorse or sinistral; as, a reversed, or sinistral, spiral or shell.

2. (Law) Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree.

Reversed positive or negative (Photog.), a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left. Abney.

Re*vers"ed*ly (?), adv. In a reversed way.

Re*verse"less, a. Irreversible. [R.] A. Seward.

Re*verse"ly, adv. In a reverse manner; on the other hand; on the opposite. Bp. Pearson.

Re*vers"er (?), n. One who reverses.

Re*vers`i*bil"i*ty (?), n. The quality of being reversible. Tyndall.

Re*vers"i*ble (?), a. [Cf. F. réversible revertible, reversionary.] 1. Capable of being reversed; as, a chair or seat having a reversible back; a reversible judgment or sentence.

2. Hence, having a pattern or finished surface on both sides, so that either may be used; -- said of fabrics.

Reversible lock, a lock that may be applied to a door opening in either direction, or hinged to either jamb. -- Reversible process. See under Process.

Re*vers"i*bly, adv. In a reversible manner.

Re*vers"ing, a. Serving to effect reversal, as of motion; capable of being reversed.

Reversing engine, a steam engine having a reversing gear by means of which it can be made to run in either direction at will. -- Reversing gear (Mach.), gear for reversing the direction of rotation at will.

Re*ver"sion (r*vr"shn), n. [F. réversion, L. reversio a turning back. See Revert.] 1. The act of returning, or coming back; return. [Obs.]

After his reversion home, [he] was spoiled, also, of all that he brought with him.

Foxe.

2. That which reverts or returns; residue. [Obs.]

The small reversion of this great navy which came home might be looked upon by religious eyes as relics.

Fuller.

3. (Law) The returning of an estate to the grantor or his heirs, by operation of law, after the grant has terminated; hence, the residue of an estate left in the proprietor or owner thereof, to take effect in possession, by operation of law, after the termination of a limited or less estate carved out of it and conveyed by him. Kent.

4. Hence, a right to future possession or enjoyment; succession.

For even reversions are all begged before.

Dryden.

5. (Annuities) A payment which is not to be received, or a benefit which does not begin, until the happening of some event, as the death of a living person. Brande & C.

6. (Biol.) A return towards some ancestral type or character; atavism.

Reversion of series (Alg.), the act of reverting a series. See To revert a series, under Revert, v. t.

Re*ver"sion*a*ry (?), a. (Law) Of or pertaining to a reversion; involving a reversion; to be enjoyed in succession, or after the termination of a particular estate; as, a reversionary interest or right.

Re*ver"sion*a*ry, n. (Law) That which is to be received in reversion.

Re*ver"sion*er (?), n. (Law) One who has a reversion, or who is entitled to lands or tenements, after a particular estate granted is terminated. Blackstone.

Re*ver"sis (?), n. [F.] A certain game at cards.

Re*vert" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reverted; p. pr. & vb. n. Reverting.] [L. revertere, reversum; pref. re- re- + vertere to turn: cf. OF. revertir. See Verse, and cf. Reverse.] 1. To turn back, or to the contrary; to reverse.

Till happy chance revert the cruel scence.

Prior.

The tumbling stream . . . Reverted, plays in undulating flow.

Thomson.

2. To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.

3. (Chem.) To change back. See Revert, v. i.

To revert a series (Alg.), to treat a series, as y = a + bx + cx2 + etc., where one variable y is expressed in powers of a second variable x, so as to find therefrom the second variable x, expressed in a series arranged in powers of y.

Re*vert", v. i. 1. To return; to come back.

So that my arrows Would have reverted to my bow again.

Shak.

2. (Law) To return to the proprietor after the termination of a particular estate granted by him.

3. (Biol.) To return, wholly or in part, towards some preëxistent form; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.

4. (Chem.) To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse; thus, phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts.

Re*vert", n. One who, or that which, reverts.

An active promoter in making the East Saxons converts, or rather reverts, to the faith.

Fuller.

Re*vert"ed, a. Turned back; reversed. Specifically: (Her.) Bent or curved twice, in opposite directions, or in the form of an S.

Re*vert"ent (?), n. (Med.) A remedy which restores the natural order of the inverted irritative motions in the animal system. [Obs.] E. Darwin.

Re*vert"er (?), n. 1. One who, or that which, reverts.

2. (Law) Reversion. Burrill.

Re*vert"i*ble (?), a. Capable of, or admitting of, reverting or being reverted; as, a revertible estate.

Re*vert"ive (?), a. Reverting, or tending to revert; returning. -- Re*vert"ive*ly, adv.

The tide revertive, unattracted, leaves A yellow waste of idle sands behind.

Thomson.

Rev"er*y (?), n. Same as Reverie.

Re*vest" (r*vst"), v. t. [OF reverstir, F. revêtir, L. revestire; pref. re- re- + vestire to clothe, fr. vestis a garment. See Vestry, and cf. Revet.] 1. To clothe again; to cover, as with a robe; to robe.

Her, nathless, . . . the enchanter Did thus revest and decked with due habiliments.

Spenser.

2. To vest again with possession or office; as, to revest a magistrate with authority.

Re*vest", v. i. To take effect or vest again, as a title; to revert to former owner; as, the title or right revests in A after alienation.

Re*ves"ti*a*ry (?), n. [LL. revestiarium: cf. F. revestiaire. See Revest.] The apartment, in a church or temple, where the vestments, etc., are kept; -- now contracted into vestry.

Re*ves"try (?), n. Same as Revestiary. [Obs.]

Re*vest"ture (?), n. Vesture. [Obs.]

Richrevesture of cloth of gold.

E. Hall.

Re*vet" (r*vt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Revetted;p. pr. & vb. n. Revetting.] [See Revetment.] (Mil. & Civil Engineering) To face, as an embankment, with masonry, wood, or other material.

Re*vet"ment (?), n. [F. revêtement the lining of a ditch, fr. revêtir to clothe, L. revestire. See Revest, v. t.] (Fort. & Engin.) A facing of wood, stone, or any other material, to sustain an embankment when it receives a slope steeper than the natural slope; also, a retaining wall. [Written also revêtement (&?;).]

Re*vi"brate (?), v. i. To vibrate back or in return. -- Re`vi*bra"tion (#), n.

Re*vict" (?), v. t. [L. revictus, p. p. of revincere to conquer.] To reconquer. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Re*vic"tion (?), n. [From L. revivere, revictum, to live again; pref. re- re- + vivere to live.] Return to life. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Re*vict"ual (?), v. t. To victual again.

Re*vie" (?), v. t. 1. To vie with, or rival, in return.

2. (Card Playing) To meet a wager on, as on the taking of a trick, with a higher wager. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Re*vie", v. i. 1. To exceed an adversary's wager in card playing. [Obs.]

2. To make a retort; to bandy words. [Obs.]

Re*view" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Review&?;d (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Reveiwing.] [Pref. re- + view. Cf. Review, n. ] 1. To view or see again; to look back on. [R.] "I shall review Sicilia." Shak.

2. To go over and examine critically or deliberately. Specifically: (a) To reconsider; to revise, as a manuscript before printing it, or a book for a new edition. (b) To go over with critical examination, in order to discover exellences or defects; hence, to write a critical notice of; as, to review a new novel. (c) To make a formal or official examination of the state of, as troops, and the like; as, to review a regiment. (d) (Law) To reëxamine judically; as, a higher court may review the proceedings and judgments of a lower one.

3. To retrace; to go over again.

Shall I the long, laborious scene review?

Pope.

Re*view", v. i. To look back; to make a review.

Re*view", n. [F. revue, fr. revu, p. p. of revoir to see again, L. revidere; pref. re- re- + videre to see. See View, and cf. Revise.] 1. A second or repeated view; a reëxamination; a retrospective survey; a looking over again; as, a review of one's studies; a review of life.

2. An examination with a view to amendment or improvement; revision; as, an author's review of his works.

3. A critical examination of a publication, with remarks; a criticism; a critique.

4. A periodical containing critical essays upon matters of interest, as new productions in literature, art, etc.

5. An inspection, as of troops under arms or of a naval force, by a high officer, for the purpose of ascertaining the state of discipline, equipments, etc.

6. (Law) The judicial examination of the proceedings of a lower court by a higher.

7. A lesson studied or recited for a second time.

Bill of review (Equity), a bill, in the nature of proceedings in error, filed to procure an examination and alteration or reversal of a final decree which has been duly signed and enrolled. Wharton. -- Commission of review (Eng. Eccl. Law), a commission formerly granted by the crown to revise the sentence of the court of delegates.

Syn. -- Reëxamination; resurvey; retrospect; survey; reconsideration; revisal; revise; revision.

Re*view"a*ble (?), a. Capable of being reviewed.

Re*view"al (?), n. A review. [R.] Southey.

Re*view"er (?), n. One who reviews or reëxamines; an inspector; one who examines publications critically, and publishes his opinion upon their merits; a professional critic of books.

Re*vig"or*ate (?), a. [LL. revigoratus, p. p. of revigorare; L. re- + vigor vigor.] Having new vigor or strength; invigorated anew. [R.] Southey.

Re*vig"or*ate (?), v. t. To give new vigor to. [Obs.]

Re*vile" (?), v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Reviled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Reviling.] [Pref. re- + OF. aviler to make vile, depreciate, F. avilir; à (L. ad.) + vil vile. See Vile.] To address or abuse with opprobrious and contemptuous language; to reproach. "And did not she herself revile me there?" Shak.

Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again.

1 Pet. ii. 23.

Syn. -- To reproach; vilify; upbraid; calumniate.

Re*vile", n. Reproach; reviling. [Obs.]

The gracious Judge, without revile, replied.

Milton.

Re*vile"ment (?), n. The act of reviling; also, contemptuous language; reproach; abuse. Spenser.

Re*vil"er (?), n. One who reviles. 1. Cor. vi. 10.

Re*vil"ing, n. Reproach; abuse; vilification.

Neither be ye afraid of their revilings.

Isa. li. 7.

Re*vil"ing, a. Uttering reproaches; containing reproaches. -- Re*vil"ing*ly, adv.

Re*vince" (?), v. t. [See Revict.] To overcome; to refute, as error. [Obs.] Foxe.

Re*vin"di*cate (?), v. t. [Pref. re- + vindicate. Cf. Revindicate, Revenge.] To vindicate again; to reclaim; to demand and take back. Mitford.

Rev`i*res"cence (?), n. [L. revirescens, p. pr. of revirescere to grow green again.] A growing green or fresh again; renewal of youth or vigor. [Obs.]

Re*vis"a*ble (?), a. That may be revised.

Re*vis"al (?), n. [From Revise.] The act of revising, or reviewing and reëxamining for correction and improvement; revision; as, the revisal of a manuscript; the revisal of a proof sheet; the revisal of a treaty.

Re*vise" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Revised (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Revising.] [F. reviser, fr. L. revidere, revisum, to see again; pref. re- re- + videre, visum, to see. See Review, View.] 1. To look at again for the detection of errors; to reëxamine; to review; to look over with care for correction; as, to revise a writing; to revise a translation.

2. (Print.) To compare (a proof) with a previous proof of the same matter, and mark again such errors as have not been corrected in the type.

3. To review, alter, and amend; as, to revise statutes; to revise an agreement; to revise a dictionary.

The Revised Version of the Bible, a version prepared in accordance with a resolution passed, in 1870, by both houses of the Convocation of the Province of Canterbury, England. Both English and American revisers were employed on the work. It was first published in a complete form in 1885, and is a revised form of the Authorized Version. See Authorized Version, under Authorized.

Re*vise", n. 1. A review; a revision. Boyle.

2. (Print.) A second proof sheet; a proof sheet taken after the first or a subsequent correction.

Re*vis"er (?), n. One who revises.

Re*vi"sion (?), n. [F. révision, L. revisio.] 1. The act of revising; reëxamination for correction; review; as, the revision of a book or writing, or of a proof sheet; a revision of statutes.

2. That which is made by revising.

Syn. -- Reëxamination; revisal; revise; review.

{ Re*vi"sion*al (?), Re*vi"sion*a*ry (?), } a. Of or pertaining to revision; revisory.

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Re*vis"it (?), v. t. 1. To visit again. Milton.

2. To revise. [Obs.] Ld. Berners.

Re*vis`it*a"tion (?), n. The act of revisiting.

Re*vi"so*ry (?), a. Having the power or purpose to revise; revising. Story.

Re*vi"tal*ize (?), v. t. To restore vitality to; to bring back to life. L. S. Beale.

Re*viv"a*ble (?), a. That may be revived.

Re*viv"al (?), n. [From Revive.] The act of reviving, or the state of being revived. Specifically: (a) Renewed attention to something, as to letters or literature. (b) Renewed performance of, or interest in, something, as the drama and literature. (c) Renewed interest in religion, after indifference and decline; a period of religious awakening; special religious interest. (d) Reanimation from a state of langour or depression; -- applied to the health, spirits, and the like. (e) Renewed pursuit, or cultivation, or flourishing state of something, as of commerce, arts, agriculture. (f) Renewed prevalence of something, as a practice or a fashion. (g) (Law) Restoration of force, validity, or effect; renewal; as, the revival of a debt barred by limitation; the revival of a revoked will, etc. (h) Revivification, as of a metal. See Revivification, 2.

Re*viv"al*ism (?), n. The spirit of religious revivals; the methods of revivalists.

Re*viv"al*ist, n. A clergyman or layman who promotes revivals of religion; an advocate for religious revivals; sometimes, specifically, a clergyman, without a particular charge, who goes about to promote revivals. Also used adjectively.

Re*viv`al*is"tic (?), a. Pertaining to revivals.

Re*vive" (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Revived (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Reviving.] [F. revivere, L. revivere; pref. re- re- + vivere to live. See Vivid.] 1. To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated. Shak.

The Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into again, and he revived.

1 Kings xvii. 22.

2. Hence, to recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression; as, classical learning revived in the fifteenth century.

3. (Old Chem.) To recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal.

Re*vive", v. t. [Cf. F. reviver. See Revive, v. i.] 1. To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate.

Those bodies, by reason of whose mortality we died, shall be revived.

Bp. Pearson.

2. To raise from coma, languor, depression, or discouragement; to bring into action after a suspension.

Those gracious words revive my drooping thoughts.

Shak.

Your coming, friends, revives me.

Milton.

3. Hence, to recover from a state of neglect or disuse; as, to revive letters or learning.

4. To renew in the mind or memory; to bring to recollection; to recall attention to; to reawaken. "Revive the libels born to die." Swift.

The mind has a power in many cases to revive perceptions which it has once had.

Locke.

5. (Old Chem.) To restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state; as, to revive a metal after calcination.

Re*vive"ment (?), n. Revival. [R.]

Re*viv"er (?), n. One who, or that which, revives.

Re`vi*vif"i*cate (?), v. t. [Pref. re- + vivificate: cf. L. revivificare, revivificatum. Cf. Revivify.] To revive; to recall or restore to life. [R.]

Re*viv`i*fi*ca"tion (?), n. [Cf. F. révivification.] 1. Renewal of life; restoration of life; the act of recalling, or the state of being recalled, to life.

2. (Old Chem.) The reduction of a metal from a state of combination to its metallic state.

Re*viv"i*fy (?), v. t. [Cf. F. révivifier, L. revivificare. See Vivify.] To cause to revive.

Some association may revivify it enough to make it flash, after a long oblivion, into consciousness.

Sir W. Hamilton.

Re*viv"ing (?), a. & n. Returning or restoring to life or vigor; reanimating. Milton. -- Re*viv"ing*ly, adv.

{ Rev`i*vis"cence (?), Rev`i*vis"cen*cy (?), } n. The act of reviving, or the state of being revived; renewal of life.

In this age we have a sort of reviviscence, not, I fear, of the power, but of a taste for the power, of the early times.

Coleridge.

Rev`i*vis"cent (?), a. [L. reviviscens, p. pr. ofreviviscere to revive; pref. re- re- + viviscere, v. incho. fr. vivere to live.] Able or disposed to revive; reviving. E. Darwin.

Re*viv"or (?), n. (Eng. Law) Revival of a suit which is abated by the death or marriage of any of the parties, -- done by a bill of revivor. Blackstone.

Rev`o*ca*bil"i*ty (?), n. The quality of being revocable; as, the revocability of a law.

Rev"o*ca*ble (?), a. [L. revocabilis: cf. F. révocable. See Revoke.] Capable of being revoked; as, a revocable edict or grant; a revocable covenant.

-- Rev"o*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Rev"o*ca*bly, adv.

Rev"o*cate (?), v. t. [L. revocatus, p. p. of revocare. See Revoke.] To recall; to call back. [Obs.]

Rev`o*ca"tion (?), n. [L. revocatio: cf. F. révocation.] 1. The act of calling back, or the state of being recalled; recall.

One that saw the people bent for the revocation of Calvin, gave him notice of their affection.

Hooker.

2. The act by which one, having the right, annuls an act done, a power or authority given, or a license, gift, or benefit conferred; repeal; reversal; as, the revocation of an edict, a power, a will, or a license.

Rev"o**ca*to*ry (?), a. [L. revocatorius: cf. F. révocatoire.] Of or pertaining to revocation; tending to, or involving, a revocation; revoking; recalling.

Re*voice" (?), v. t. To refurnish with a voice; to refit, as an organ pipe, so as to restore its tone.

Re*voke" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Revoked (?);p. pr. & vb. n. Revoking.] [F. révoquer, L. revocare; pref. re- re- + vocare to call, fr. vox, vocis, voice. See Voice, and cf. Revocate.] 1. To call or bring back; to recall. [Obs.]

The faint sprite he did revoke again, To her frail mansion of morality.

Spenser.

2. Hence, to annul, by recalling or taking back; to repeal; to rescind; to cancel; to reverse, as anything granted by a special act; as, , to revoke a will, a license, a grant, a permission, a law, or the like. Shak.

3. To hold back; to repress; to restrain. [Obs.]

[She] still strove their sudden rages to revoke.

Spenser.

4. To draw back; to withdraw. [Obs.] Spenser.

5. To call back to mind; to recollect. [Obs.]

A man, by revoking and recollecting within himself former passages, will be still apt to inculcate these sad memoris to his conscience.

South.

Syn. -- To abolish; recall; repeal; rescind; countermand; annul; abrogate; cancel; reverse. See Abolish.

Re*voke" (?), v. i. (Card Playing) To fail to follow suit when holding a card of the suit led, in violation of the rule of the game; to renege. Hoyle.

Re*voke", n. (Card Playing) The act of revoking.

She [Sarah Battle] never made a revoke.

Lamb.

Re*voke"ment (?), n. Revocation. [R.] Shak.

Re*vok"er (?), n. One who revokes.

Re*vok"ing*ly, adv. By way of revocation.

Re*volt" (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Revolted; p. pr. & vb. n. Revolting.] [Cf. F. révoller, It. rivoltare. See Revolt, n.] 1. To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence.

But this got by casting pearl to hogs, That bawl for freedom in their senseless mood, And still revolt when trith would set them free.

Milton.

HIs clear intelligence revolted from the dominant sophisms of that time.

J. Morley.

2. Hence, to be faithless; to desert one party or leader for another; especially, to renounce allegiance or subjection; to rise against a government; to rebel.

Our discontented counties do revolt.

Shak.

Plant those that have revolted in the van.

Shak.

3. To be disgusted, shocked, or grossly offended; hence, to feel nausea; -- with at; as, the stomach revolts at such food; his nature revolts at cruelty.

Re*volt", v. t. 1. To cause to turn back; to roll or drive back; to put to flight. [Obs.] Spenser.

2. To do violence to; to cause to turn away or shrink with abhorrence; to shock; as, to revolt the feelings.

This abominable medley is made rather to revolt young and ingenuous minds.

Burke.

To derive delight from what inflicts pain on any sentient creatuure revolted his conscience and offended his reason.

J. Morley.

Re*volt", n. [F. révolte, It. rivolta, fr. rivolto, p. p. fr. L. revolvere, revolutum. See Revolve.] 1. The act of revolting; an uprising against legitimate authority; especially, a renunciation of allegiance and subjection to a government; rebellion; as, the revolt of a province of the Roman empire.

Who first seduced them to that foul revolt?

Milton.

2. A revolter. [Obs.] "Ingrate revolts." Shak.

Syn. -- Insurrection; sedition; rebellion; mutiny. See Insurrection.

Re*volt"er (?), n. One who revolts.

Re*volt"ing, a. Causing abhorrence mixed with disgust; exciting extreme repugnance; loathsome; as, revolting cruelty. -- Re*volt"ing*ly, adv.

Rev"o*lu*ble (?), a. [L. revolubilis that may be rolled back. See Revolve.] Capable of revolving; rotatory; revolving. [Obs.]

Us, then, to whom the thrice three year Hath filled his revoluble orb since our arrival here, I blame not.

Chapman.

Rev"o*lute (?), a. [L. revolutus, p. p. of revolvere. See Revolve.] (Bot. & Zoöl.) Rolled backward or downward.

A revolute leaf is coiled downwards, with the lower surface inside the coil. A leaf with revolute margins has the edges rolled under, as in the Andromeda polifilia.

Rev`o*lu"tion (?), n. [F. révolution, L. revolutio. See Revolve.] 1. The act of revolving, or turning round on an axis or a center; the motion of a body round a fixed point or line; rotation; as, the revolution of a wheel, of a top, of the earth on its axis, etc.

2. Return to a point before occupied, or to a point relatively the same; a rolling back; return; as, revolution in an ellipse or spiral.

That fear Comes thundering back, with dreadful revolution, On my defenseless head.

Milton.

3. The space measured by the regular return of a revolving body; the period made by the regular recurrence of a measure of time, or by a succession of similar events. "The short revolution of a day." Dryden.

4. (Astron.) The motion of any body, as a planet or satellite, in a curved line or orbit, until it returns to the same point again, or to a point relatively the same; -- designated as the annual, anomalistic, nodical, sidereal, or tropical revolution, according as the point of return or completion has a fixed relation to the year, the anomaly, the nodes, the stars, or the tropics; as, the revolution of the earth about the sun; the revolution of the moon about the earth.

The term is sometimes applied in astronomy to the motion of a single body, as a planet, about its own axis, but this motion is usually called rotation.

5. (Geom.) The motion of a point, line, or surface about a point or line as its center or axis, in such a manner that a moving point generates a curve, a moving line a surface (called a surface of revolution), and a moving surface a solid (called a solid of revolution); as, the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of its sides generates a cone; the revolution of a semicircle about the diameter generates a sphere.

6. A total or radical change; as, a revolution in one's circumstances or way of living.

The ability . . . of the great philosopher speedily produced a complete revolution throughout the department.

Macaulay.

7. (Politics) A fundamental change in political organization, or in a government or constitution; the overthrow or renunciation of one government, and the substitution of another, by the governed.

The violence of revolutions is generally proportioned to the degree of the maladministration which has produced them.

Macaulay.

When used without qualifying terms, the word is often applied specifically, by way of eminence, to: (a) The English Revolution in 1689, when William of Orange and Mary became the reigning sovereigns, in place of James II. (b) The American Revolution, beginning in 1775, by which the English colonies, since known as the United States, secured their independence. (c) The revolution in France in 1789, commonly called the French Revolution, the subsequent revolutions in that country being designated by their dates, as the Revolution of 1830, of 1848, etc.

Rev`o*lu"tion*a*ry (?), a. [Cf. F. révolutionnaire.] Of or pertaining to a revolution in government; tending to, or promoting, revolution; as, revolutionary war; revolutionary measures; revolutionary agitators.

Rev`o*lu"tion*a*ry, n. A revolutionist. [R.]

Dumfries was a Tory town, and could not tolerate a revolutionary.

Prof. Wilson.

Rev`o*lu"tion*er (?), n. One who is engaged in effecting a revolution; a revolutionist. Smollett.

Rev`o*lu"tion*ism (?), n. The state of being in revolution; revolutionary doctrines or principles.

Rev`o*lu"tion*ist, n. One engaged in effecting a change of government; a favorer of revolution. Burke.

Rev`o*lu"tion*ize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Revolutioniezed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Revolutionizing(?).] To change completely, as by a revolution; as, to revolutionize a government. Ames.

The gospel . . . has revolutionized his soul.

J. M. Mason.

Re*vol"u*tive (?), a. Inclined to revolve things in the mind; meditative. [Obs.] Feltham.

Re*volv"a*ble (?), a. That may be revolved.

Re*volve" (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Revolved(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Revolving.] [L. revolvere, revolutum; pref. re- re- + volvere to roll, turn round. See Voluble, and cf. Revolt, revolution.] 1. To turn or roll round on, or as on, an axis, like a wheel; to rotate, -- which is the more specific word in this sense.

If the earth revolve thus, each house near the equator must move a thousand miles an hour.

I. Watts.

2. To move in a curved path round a center; as, the planets revolve round the sun.

3. To pass in cycles; as, the centuries revolve.

4. To return; to pass. [R.] Ayliffe.

Re*volve", v. t. 1. To cause to turn, as on an axis.

Then in the east her turn she shines, Revolved on heaven's great axile.

Milton.

2. Hence, to turn over and over in the mind; to reflect repeatedly upon; to consider all aspects of.

This having heard, straight I again revolved The law and prophets.

Milton.

Re*volve"ment (?), n. Act of revolving. [R.]

Re*volv"en*cy (?), n. The act or state of revolving; revolution. [Archaic]

Its own revolvency upholds the world.

Cowper.

Re*volv"er (?), n. One who, or that which, revolves; specifically, a firearm ( commonly a pistol) with several chambers or barrels so arranged as to revolve on an axis, and be discharged in succession by the same lock; a repeater.

Re*volv"ing, a. Making a revolution or revolutions; rotating; -- used also figuratively of time, seasons, etc., depending on the revolution of the earth.

But grief returns with the revolving year.

Shelley.

Revolving seasons, fruitless as they pass.

Cowper.

Revolving firearm. See Revolver. -- Revolving light, a light or lamp in a lighthouse so arranged as to appear and disappear at fixed intervals, either by being turned about an axis so as to show light only at intervals, or by having its light occasionally intercepted by a revolving screen.

Re*vulse" (?), v. t. [L. revulsus, p. p. of revellere.] To pull back with force. [R.] Cowper.

Re*vul"sion (?), n. [F. révulsion, L. revulsio, fr. revellere, revulsum, to pluck or pull away; pref. re- re- + vellere to pull. Cf. Convulse.] 1. A strong pulling or drawing back; withdrawal. "Revulsions and pullbacks." SSir T. Brovne.

2. A sudden reaction; a sudden and complete change; -- applied to the feelings.

A sudden and violent revulsion of feeling, both in the Parliament and the country, followed.

Macaulay.

3. (Med.) The act of turning or diverting any disease from one part of the body to another. It resembles derivation, but is usually applied to a more active form of counter irritation.

Re*vul"sive (?), a. [Cf. F. révulsif.] Causing, or tending to, revulsion.

Re*vul"sive, n. That which causes revulsion; specifically (Med.), a revulsive remedy or agent.

Rew (?), n. [See Row a series.] A row. [Obs.] Chaucer. "A rew of sundry colored stones." Chapman.

Re*wake"" (?), v. t. & i. To wake again.

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Re*ward" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rewarded; p. pr. & vb. n. Rewarding.] [OF. rewarder, another form of regarder, of German origin. The original sense is, to look at, regard, hence, to regard as worthy, give a reward to. See Ward, Regard.] To give in return, whether good or evil; -- commonly in a good sense; to requite; to recompense; to repay; to compensate.

After the deed that is done, one doom shall reward, Mercy or no mercy as truth will accord.

Piers Plowman.

Thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil.

1 Sam. xxiv. 17.

I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.

Deut. xxxii. 41.

God rewards those that have made use of the single talent.

Hammond.

Re*ward" (?), n. [See Reward, v., and cf. Regard, n.] 1. Regard; respect; consideration. [Obs.]

Take reward of thine own value.

Chaucer.

2. That which is given in return for good or evil done or received; esp., that which is offered or given in return for some service or attainment, as for excellence in studies, for the return of something lost, etc.; recompense; requital.

Thou returnest From flight, seditious angel, to receive Thy merited reward.

Milton.

Rewards and punishments do always presuppose something willingly done well or ill.

Hooker.

3. Hence, the fruit of one's labor or works.

The dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward.

Eccl. ix. 5.

4. (Law) Compensation or remuneration for services; a sum of money paid or taken for doing, or forbearing to do, some act. Burrill.

Syn. -- Recompense; compensation; remuneration; pay; requital; retribution; punishment.

Re*ward"a*ble (?), a. Worthy of reward. -- Re*ward"a*ble*ness, n. -- Re*ward"a*bly, adv.

Re*ward"er (?), n. One who rewards.

Re*ward"ful (?), a. Yielding reward. [R.]

Re*ward"less, a. Having, or affording, no reward.

Rewe (r), v. t. & i. To rue. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Rew"el bone` (?). [Perh. from F. rouelle, dim. of roue a wheel, L. rota.] An obsolete phrase of disputed meaning, -- perhaps, smooth or polished bone.

His saddle was of rewel boon.

Chaucer.

Rew"et (r"t), n. [See Rouet.] A gunlock. [R.]

Rew"ful (?), a. Rueful. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Re*win" (?), v. t. To win again, or win back.

The Palatinate was not worth the rewinning.

Fuller.

Rewle (?), n. & v. Rule. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Rewme (?), n. Realm. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

Re*word" (?), v. t. 1. To repeat in the same words; to reëcho. [Obs.] Shak.

2. To alter the wording of; to restate in other words; as, to reword an idea or a passage.

Re*write" (?), v. t. To write again. Young.

Rewth (?), n. Ruth. [Obs.] Chaucer.

||Rex (?), n.; pl. Reges (#). [L.] A king.

To play rex, to play the king; to domineer. [Obs.]

Reyn (?), n. Rain or rein. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Rey"nard (?), n. An appelation applied after the manner of a proper name to the fox. Same as Renard.

Reyse (?), v. t. To raise. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Reyse, v. i. [Cf. G. reisen to travel.] To go on a military expedition. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Rha*bar"ba*rate (?), a. [From NL. rhabarbarum, an old name of rhubarb. See Rhubarb.] Impregnated or tinctured with rhubarb. Floyer.

{ Rha*bar"ba*rin (?), or Rha*bar"ba*rine (?) }, n. (Chem.) Chrysophanic acid.

Rhab"dite (?), n. [Gr. "ra`bdos a rod.] 1. (Zoöl.) A minute smooth rodlike or fusiform structure found in the tissues of many Turbellaria.

2. (Zoöl.) One of the hard parts forming the ovipositor of insects.

||Rhab`do*cœ"la (rb`d*s"l), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. "ra`bdos a rod + ||koi^los hollow.] (Zoöl.) A suborder of Turbellaria including those ||that have a simple cylindrical, or saclike, stomach, without an ||intestine.

Rhab`do*cœ"lous (-ls), a. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Rhabdocœla.

Rhab*doid"al (?), a. See Sagittal.

Rhab"do*lith (?), n. [Gr. "ra`bdos a rod + -lith.] A minute calcareous rodlike structure found both at the surface and the bottom of the ocean; -- supposed by some to be a calcareous alga.

Rhab*dol"o*gy (?), n. Same as Rabdology.

Rhab"dom (rb"dm), n. [Gr. "ra`bdwma a bundle of rods, fr. "ra`bdos a rod.] (Zoöl.) One of numerous minute rodlike structures formed of two or more cells situated behind the retinulæ in the compound eyes of insects, etc. See Illust. under Ommatidium.

Rhab"do*man`cy (?), n. Same as Rabdomancy.

Rhab"do*mere (?), n. [Rhabdom + -mere.] (Zoöl.) One of the several parts composing a rhabdom.

||Rhab*doph"o*ra (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. "ra`bdos a rod + &?;&?;&?; ||to bear.] (Zoöl.) An extinct division of Hydrozoa which includes the ||graptolities.

||Rhab`do*pleu"ra (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. "ra`bdos a rod + &?;&?;&?;&?; ||the side.] (Zoöl.) A genus of marine Bryozoa in which the tubular ||cells have a centralchitinous axis and the tentacles are borne on a ||bilobed lophophore. It is the type of the order Pterobranchia, or ||Podostomata

Rhab"do*sphere (?), n. [Gr. "ra`bdos a rod + E. sphere.] A minute sphere composed of rhabdoliths.

||Rha`chi*al"gi*a (?), n. [NL.] See Rachialgia.

Rha*chid"i*an (?), a. Of or pertaining to the rhachis; as, the rhachidian teeth of a mollusk.

||Rhach`i*glos"sa (?), n. pl. [NL. See Rhachis, and Glossa.] (Zoöl.) A ||division of marine gastropods having a retractile proboscis and three ||longitudinal rows of teeth on the radula. It includes many of the ||large ornamental shells, as the miters, murices, olives, purpuras, ||volutes, and whelks. See Illust. in Append.

||Rha*chil"la (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. "ra`chis the spine.] (Bot.) A ||branch of inflorescence; the zigzag axis on which the florets are ||arranged in the spikelets of grasses.

Rha"chi*o*dont (?), a. [Gr. "ra`chis, -ios, the spine + &?;&?;&?;, &?;&?;&?;, a tooth.] (Zoöl.) Having gular teeth formed by a peculiar modification of the inferior spines of some of the vertebræ, as certain South African snakes (Dasypeltis) which swallow birds' eggs and use these gular teeth to crush them.

||Rha"chis (?), n.; pl. E. Rhachises (#), L. Rhachides (#). [See ||Rachis.] [Written also rechis.] 1. (Anat.) The spine.

2. (Bot.) (a) The continued stem or midrib of a pinnately compound leaf, as in a rose leaf or a fern. (b) The principal axis in a raceme, spike, panicle, or corymb.

3. (Zoöl.) (a) The shaft of a feather. The rhachis of the after-shaft, or plumule, is called the hyporhachis. (b) The central cord in the stem of a crinoid. (c) The median part of the radula of a mollusk. (d) A central cord of the ovary of nematodes.

||Rha*chi"tis (?), n. [NL.] See Rachitis.

Rhad`a*man"thine (?), a. Of or pertaining to Rhadamanthus; rigorously just; as, a Rhadamanthine judgment.

Rhad`a*man"thus (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. &?;&?;&?;.] (Greek Mythol.) One of the three judges of the infernal regions; figuratively, a strictly just judge.

Rhæ"ti*an (?), a & n. Rhetain.

Rhæ"tic (?), a. [L. Rhaeticus Rhetian.] (Geol.) Pertaining to, or of the same horizon as, certain Mesozoic strata of the Rhetian Alps. These strata are regarded as closing the Triassic period. See the Chart of Geology.

Rhæ"ti*zite (?), n. [So called from L. Rhaetia, Raetia, the Rhetian Alps, where it is found.] (Min.) A variety of the mineral cyanite.

||Rham`a*dan" (?), n. See Ramadan.

Rham*na"ceous (?), a. (Bot.) Of or pertaining to a natural order of shrubs and trees (Rhamnaceæ, or Rhamneæ) of which the buckthorn (Rhamnus) is the type. It includes also the New Jersey tea, the supple-jack, and one of the plants called lotus (Zizyphus).

||Rham"nus (?), n. [NL., from Gr. "ra`mnos a kind of prickly shrub; cf. ||L. rhamnos.] (Bot.) A genus of shrubs and small trees; buckthorn. The ||California Rhamnus Purshianus and the European R. catharticus are ||used in medicine. The latter is used for hedges.

||Rham`pho*rhyn"chus (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. "ra`mfos a beak + ||&?;&?;&?;&?; snout.] (Paleon.) A genus of pterodactyls in which the ||elongated tail supported a leathery expansion at the tip.

||Rham`pho*the"ca (?), n.; pl. Rhamphothecæ (#). [NL., fr. Gr "ra`mnos ||a beak + &?;&?; a case.] (Zoöl.) The horny covering of the bill of ||birds.

Rha"phe (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;&?;&?; seam, fr. &?;&?;&?; to sew. ] (Bot.) The continuation of the seed stalk along the side of an anatropous ovule or seed, forming a ridge or seam. [Written also raphe.] Gray.

||Rhaph"i*des (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;&?;&?;, &?;&?;&?;, a needle, ||F. raphides.] (Bot.) Minute transparent, often needle-shaped, ||crystals found in the tissues of plants. [Written also raphides.]

Rha*pon"ti*cine (&?;), n. [L. rhaponticum rhubarb. See Rhubarb.] (Chem.) Chrysophanic acid.

Rhap"sode (rp"sd), n. [Gr. "rapsw,do`s. See Rhapsody.] (Gr. Antiq.) A rhapsodist. [R.] Grote.

Rhap"so*der (?), n. A rhapsodist. [Obs.]

{ Rhap*sod"ic (?), Rhap*sod"ic (?) }, a. [Gr. "rapsw,diko`s: cf. F. rhapsodique.] Of or pertaining to rhapsody; consisting of rhapsody; hence, confused; unconnected. -- Rhap*sod"ic*al*ly, adv.

Rhap"so*dist (?), n. [From Rhapsody.] 1. Anciently, one who recited or composed a rhapsody; especially, one whose profession was to recite the verses of Hormer and other epic poets.

2. Hence, one who recites or sings poems for a livelihood; one who makes and repeats verses extempore.

The same populace sit for hours listening to rhapsodists who recite Ariosto.

Carlyle.

3. One who writes or speaks disconnectedly and with great excitement or affectation of feeling. I. Watts.

Rhap"so*dize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rhapsodized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Rhapsodizing.] To utter as a rhapsody, or in the manner of a rhapsody Sterne.

Rhap"so*dize, v. i. To utter rhapsodies. Jefferson.

Rhap"so*do*man`cy (?), n. [Rhapsody + -mancy.] Divination by means of verses.

Rhap"so*dy (?), n.; pl. Rhapsodies (#). [F. rhapsodie, L. rhapsodia, Gr. "rapsw,di`a, fr. "rapsw,do`s a rhapsodist; "ra`ptein to sew, stitch together, unite + 'w,dh` a song. See Ode.] 1. A recitation or song of a rhapsodist; a portion of an epic poem adapted for recitation, or usually recited, at one time; hence, a division of the Iliad or the Odyssey; -- called also a book.

2. A disconnected series of sentences or statements composed under excitement, and without dependence or natural connection; rambling composition. "A rhapsody of words." Shak. "A rhapsody of tales." Locke.

3. (Mus.) A composition irregular in form, like an improvisation; as, Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsodies."

{ Rhat"a*ny, Rhat"an*hy } (?), n. [Sp. ratania, rataña, Peruv. rataña.] The powerfully astringent root of a half- shrubby Peruvian plant (Krameria triandra). It is used in medicine and to color port wine. [Written also ratany.]

Savanilla rhatany, the root of Krameria Ixina, a native of New Granada.

Rhe"a (?), n. (Bot.) The ramie or grass-cloth plant. See Grass-cloth plant, under Grass.

Rhe"a, n. [L., a proper name.] (Zoöl.) Any one of three species of large South American ostrichlike birds of the genera Rhea and Pterocnemia. Called also the American ostrich.

The common rhea, or nandou (Rhea Americana), ranges from Brazil to Patagonia. Darwin's rhea (Pterocnemia Darwinii), of Patagonia, is smaller, and has the legs feathered below the knee.

||Rhe"æ (?), n. pl. [NL.] (Zoöl.) A suborder of struthious birds ||including the rheas.

Rhee"boc (?), n. [D. reebok roebuck.] (Zoöl.) The peele. [Written also reebok.]

Rhe"ic (?), a. [NL. Rheum rhubarb, Gr. &?;&?;&?; See Rhubarb.] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid (commonly called chrysophanic acid) found in rhubarb (Rheum). [Obsoles.]

Rhe"in (?), n. (Chem.) Chrysophanic acid.

Rhein"ber*ry (?), n. [G. rheinbeere.] (Bot.) One of the berries or drupes of the European buckthorn; also, the buckthorn itself.

Rhe*mat"ic (?), a. [Gr. &?;&?;&?;&?; of or for a verb, fr. &?;&?;&?;, &?;&?;&?;, a sentence. See Rhetoric.] (Gram.) Having a verb for its base; derived from a verb; as, rhematic adjectives. Ftzed. Hall.

Rhe*mat"ic, n. The doctrine of propositions or sentences. Coleridge.

Rhemish (?), a. Of or pertaining to Rheimis, or Reima, in France.

Rhemish Testament, the English version of the New Testament used by Roman Catholics. See Douay Bible.

Rhen"ish (?), a. [L. Rhenus the Rhine. ] Of or pertaining to the river Rhine; as, Rhenish wine. -- n. Rhine wine.

Rhe"o*chord (?), n. [Gr. "rei^n to flow + &?;&?;&?; chord.] (Elec.) A metallic wire used for regulating the resistance of a circuit, or varying the strength of an electric current, by inserting a greater or less length of it in the circuit.

Rhe*om"e*ter (?), n. [Gr. "rei^n to flow + -meter.] [Written also reometer.] 1. (Physics) An instrument for measuring currents, especially the force or intensity of electrical currents; a galvanometer.

2. (Physiol.) An instrument for measuring the velocity of the blood current in the arteries.

Rhe`o*met"ric (?), a. Of or pertaining to a rheometer or rheometry. Lardner.

Rhe*om"e*try (?), n. 1. The measurement of the force or intensity of currents.

2. (Math.) The calculus; fluxions. [R.]

Rhe"o*mo`tor (?), n. [Gr. "rei^n to flow + E. motor.] (Elec.) Any apparatus by which an electrical current is originated. [R.]

Rhe"o*phore (?), n. [Gr. "rei^n to flow + &?;&?;&?; to carry.] (Elec.) (a) A connecting wire of an electric or voltaic apparatus, traversed by a current. (b) One of the poles of a voltaic battery; an electrode.

Rhe"o*scope (?), n. [Gr. "rei^n to flow + -scope.] (Physics) An instrument for detecting the presence or movement of currents, as of electricity.

Rhe"o*stat (?), n. [Gr. "rei^n + stato`s standing still.] (Elec.) A contrivance for adjusting or regulating the strength of electrical currents, operating usually by the intercalation of resistance which can be varied at will. Wheatstone. -- Rhe`o*stat"ic (#), a.

Rhe"o*tome (-tm), n. [Gr. "rei^n to flow + te`mnein to cut.] (Elec.) An instrument which periodically or otherwise interrupts an electric current. Wheatstone.

Rhe"o*trope (?), n. [Gr. "rei^n to flow + &?;&?;&?; to turn.] (Elec.) An instrument for reversing the direction of an electric current. [Written also reotrope.]

||Rhe"sus (?), n. [L. Rhesus, a proper name, Gr. &?;&?;&?;.] (Zoöl.) A ||monkey; the bhunder.

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Rhe"ti*an (?), a. [L. Rhaetius, Raetius: cf. F. rhétien.] Pertaining to the ancient Rhæti, or Rhætians, or to Rhætia, their country; as, the Rhetian Alps, now the country of Tyrol and the Grisons.

Rhe"tic (?), a. (Min.) Same as Rhætic.

Rhe"ti*zite (?), n. (Min.) Same as Rhætizite.

Rhe"tor (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. &?;&?;&?;.] A rhetorician. [Obs.] Hammond.

Rhet"o*ric (?), n. [F. rhétorique, L. rhetorica, Gr. &?;&?;&?;&?; (sc. &?;&?;&?;), fr. &?;&?;&?; rhetorical, oratorical, fr. &?;&?;&?; orator, rhetorician; perhaps akin to E. word; cf. &?;&?;&?; to say.] 1. The art of composition; especially, elegant composition in prose.

2. Oratory; the art of speaking with propriety, elegance, and force. Locke.

3. Hence, artificial eloquence; fine language or declamation without conviction or earnest feeling.

4. Fig. : The power of persuasion or attraction; that which allures or charms.

Sweet, silent rhetoric of persuading eyes.

Daniel.

Rhe*tor"ic*al (?), a. [L. rhetoricus, Gr. &?;&?;&?;&?;. See Rhetoric.] Of or pertaining to rhetoric; according to, or exhibiting, rhetoric; oratorical; as, the rhetorical art; a rhetorical treatise; a rhetorical flourish.

They permit him to leave their poetical taste ungratified, provided that he gratifies their rhetorical sense.

M. Arnold.

-- Rhe*tor"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Rhe*tor"ic*al*ness, n.

Rhe*tor"i*cate (?), v. i. [L. rhetoricari. See Rhetoric.] To play the orator. [Obs.] South.

Rhe*tor`i*ca"tion (?), n. [Cf. F. rhétorication.] Rhetorical amplification. [Obs.] Waterland.

Rhet`o*ri"cian (?), n. [Cf. F. rhétoricien.] 1. One well versed in the rules and principles of rhetoric.

The understanding is that by which a man becomes a mere logician and a mere rhetorician.

F. W. Robertson.

2. A teacher of rhetoric.

The ancient sophists and rhetoricians, which ever had young auditors, lived till they were an hundred years old.

Bacon.

3. An orator; specifically, an artificial orator without genuine eloquence; a declaimer. Macaulay.

Rhet`o*ri"cian, a. Suitable to a master of rhetoric. "With rhetorician pride." Blackmore.

Rhet"o*rize (rt"*rz), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Rhetorized (- rzd); p. pr. & vb. n. Rhetorizing (- r`zng).] To play the orator. Colgrave.

Rhet"o*rize, v. t. To represent by a figure of rhetoric, or by personification. Milton.

||Rhe"um (r"m), n. [NL., from L. Rha the river Volga, on the banks of ||which it grows. See Rhubarb.] (Bot.) A genus of plants. See Rhubarb.

Rheum (rm), n. [OF. reume, rheume, F. rhume a cold,, L. rheuma rheum, from Gr. &?;&?;&?;, fr. "rei^n to flow, akin to E. stream. See Stream, n., and cf. Hemorrhoids.] (Med.) A serous or mucous discharge, especially one from the eves or nose.

I have a rheum in mine eyes too.

Shak.

Salt rheum. (Med.) See Salt rheum, in the Vocab.

Rheu*mat"ic (?), a. [Gr. &?;&?;&?; subject to a discharge or flux: cf. L. rheumaticus, F. rhumatique. See Rheum, Rheumatism.] 1. Derived from, or having the character of, rheum; rheumic. [Obs.]

2. (Med.) Of or pertaining to rheumatism; as, rheumatic pains or affections; affected with rheumatism; as, a rheumatic old man; causing rheumatism; as, a rheumatic day.

That rheumatic diseases do abound.

Shak.

Rheu*mat"ic, n. One affected with rheumatism.

Rheu"ma*tism (?), n. [L. rheumatismus rheum, Gr. &?;&?;&?;&?;, fr.&?;&?;&?; to have or suffer from a flux, fr. &?;&?;&?; rheum: cf. F. rheumatisme. See 2d Rheum.] (Med.) A general disease characterized by painful, often multiple, local inflammations, usually affecting the joints and muscles, but also extending sometimes to the deeper organs, as the heart.

Inflammatory rheumatism (Med.), acute rheumatism attended with fever, and attacking usually the larger joints, which become swollen, hot, and very painful. -- Rheumatism root. (Bot.) See Twinleaf.

Rheu`ma*tis"mal (?), a. (Med.) Of or pertaining to rheumatism.

Rheu`ma*tis"moid (?), a. [Rheumatism + -oid.] (Med.) Of or resembling rheum or rheumatism.

Rheum"ic (?), a. (Med.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, rheum.

Rheumic diathesis. See Dartrous diathesis, under Dartrous.

||Rheu"mi*des (?), n. pl. [NL. See Rheum.] (Med.) The class of skin ||disease developed by the dartrous diathesis. See under Dartrous.

Rheum"y (?), a. Of or pertaining to rheum; abounding in, or causing, rheum; affected with rheum.

His head and rheumy eyes distill in showers.

Dryden.

And tempt the rheumy and unpurged air To add unto his sickness.

Shak.

Rhig"o*lene (?), n. [Gr. &?;&?;&?; cold + L. oleum oil.] (Chem.) A mixture of volatile hydrocarbons intermediate between gsolene and cymogene. It is obtained in the purification of crude petroleum, and is used as a refregerant.

Rhime (?), n. See Rhyme. [Obs.]

Rhi"nal (?), a. [Gr&?;&?;&?;, &?;&?;&?;, the nose.] (Anat.) Og or pertaining to the nose or olfactory organs.

||Rhi*nas"ter (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;&?;&?;, &?;&?;&?;, nose + ||&?;&?;&?; star.] (Zoöl.) The borele.

Rhine (?), n. [AS. ryne. See Run.] A water course; a ditch. [Written also rean.] [Prov. Eng.] Macaulay.

Rhi`nen*ce*phal"ic (?), a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the rhinencephalon.

||Rhi`nen*ceph"a*lon (?), n.; pl. Rhinencephala (#). [NL., fr. Gr. ||&?;&?;&?;, &?;&?;&?;, the nose + &?;&?; the brain.] (Anat.) The ||division of the brain in front of the prosencephalon, consisting of ||the two olfactory lobes from which the olfactory nerves arise.

The term is sometimes used for one of the olfactory lobes, the plural being used for the two taken together.

Rhine"stone` (?), n. [Cf. G. rheinkiesel Rhine quartz.] A colorless stone of high luster, made of paste. It is much used as an inexpensive ornament.

||Rhi*ni"tis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;&?;. &?;&?;&?;, the nose + ||-itis.] (Med.) Infllammation of the nose; esp., inflammation of the ||mucous membrane of the nostrils.

Rhi*no (?), n. [Etymol. uncertain.] Gold and silver, or money. [Cant] W. Wagstaffe.

As long as the rhino lasted.

Marryat.

Rhi"no-. A combining form from Greek &?;&?;, &?;&?;&?;, the nose, as in rhinolith, rhinology.

{ Rhi`no*ce"ri*al (?), Rhi`no*cer"ic*al (?), } a. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the rhinoceros; resembling the rhinoceros, or his horn. Tatler.

Rhi*noc"e*ros (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. &?;&?;&?;, &?;&?;&?;; &?;&?;&?;. &?;&?;&?;, the nose + &?;&?;&?; a horn: cf. F. rhinocéros. See Horn.] (Zoöl.) Any pachyderm belonging to the genera Rhinoceros, Atelodus, and several allied genera of the family Rhinocerotidæ, of which several living, and many extinct, species are known. They are large and powerful, and usually have either one or two stout conical median horns on the snout.

The Indian, or white, and the Javan rhinoceroses (Rhinoceros Indicus and R. Sondaicus) have incisor and canine teeth, but only one horn, and the very thick skin forms shieldlike folds. The two or three African species belong to Atelodus, and have two horns, but lack the dermal folds, and the incisor and canine teeth. The two Malay, or East Indian, two- horned species belong to Ceratohinus, in which incisor and canine teeth are present. See Borele, and Keitloa.

Rhinoceros auk (Zoöl.), an auk of the North Pacific (Cerorhina monocrata) which has a deciduous horn on top of the bill. -- Rhinoceros beetle (Zoöl.), a very large beetle of the genus Dynastes, having a horn on the head. -- Rhinoceros bird. (Zoöl.) (a) A large hornbill (Buceros rhinoceros), native of the East Indies. It has a large hollow hornlike process on the bill. Called also rhinoceros hornbill. See Hornbill. (b) An African beefeater (Buphaga Africana). It alights on the back of the rhinoceros in search of parasitic insects.

Rhi*noc"e*rote (?), n. A rhinoceros. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Rhi*noc`e*rot"ic (?), a. Of or pertaining to the rhinoceros. [R.]

{ Rhi"no*lite (?), Rhi"no*lith (?), } n. [Rhino- + -lite, -lith.] (Med.) A concretion formed within the cavities of the nose.

Rhi`no*log"ic*al (?), a. Of or pertaining to rhinology.

Rhi*nol"o*gist (?), n. One skilled in rhinology.

Rhi*nol"o*gy (?), n. [Rhino- + -logy.] The science which treats of the nose, and its diseases.

Rhi*nol"o*phid (?), n. [Rhino- + Gr. &?;&?;&?; crest.] (Zoöl.) Any species of the genus Rhinilophus, or family Rhinolophidæ, having a horseshoe-shaped nasal crest; a horseshoe bat.

Rhi*nol"o*phine (?), a. (Zoöl.) Like or pertaining to the rhinolophids, or horseshoe bats.

Rhi"no*phore (?), n. [Rhino- + Gr. &?;&?;&?; to bear.] (Zoöl.) One of the two tentacle-like organs on the back of the head or neck of a nudibranch or tectibranch mollusk. They are usually retractile, and often transversely furrowed or plicate, and are regarded as olfactory organs. Called also dorsal tentacles. See Illust. under Pygobranchia, and Opisthobranchia.

Rhi`no*plas"tic (?), a. [Rhino- + -plastic: cf. F. rhinoplastique.] (Surg.) Of or pertaining to rhinoplasty; as, a rhinoplastic operation.

Rhi"no*plas`ty (?), n. [Rhino- + -plasty: cf. F. rhinoplastie.] Plastic surgery of the nose to correct deformity or to replace lost tissue. Tissue may be transplanted from the patient's cheek, forehead, arm, etc., or even from another person.

Rhi"no*pome (?), n. [Rhino- + Gr. pw^ma a lid. ] (Zoöl.) Any old-world bat of the genus Rhinopoma. The rhinopomes have a long tail extending beyond the web, and inhabit caves and tombs.

||Rhi`no*scle*ro"ma (?), n. [Rhino- + scleroma.] (Med.) A rare disease ||of the skin, characterized by the development of very hard, more or ||less flattened, prominences, appearing first upon the nose and ||subsequently upon the neighboring parts, esp. the lips, palate, and ||throat. J. V. Shoemaker.

Rhi"no*scope (?), n. [Rhino- + -scope.] A small mirror for use in rhinoscopy.

Rhi`no*scop"ic (?), a. (Physiol.) Of or pertaining to rhinoscopy.

Rhi*nos"co*py (?), n. [Rhino- + -scopy.] (Physiol.) The examination or study of the soft palate, posterior nares, etc., by means of a laryngoscopic mirror introduced into the pharynx.

||Rhi`no*the"ca (?), n.; pl. Rhinothecæ (#). [NL., from gr. &?;&?;&?;, ||&?;&?;&?;, the nose + &?;&?;&?; case.] (Zoöl.) The sheath of the ||upper mandible of a bird.

||Rhi*pi`do*glos"sa (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;&?;&?; a fan + ||&?;&?;&?;&?; a tongue.] (Zoöl.) A division of gastropod mollusks ||having a large number of long, divergent, hooklike, lingual teeth in ||each transverse row. It includes the scutibranchs. See Illustration ||in Appendix.

Rhi*pip"ter (?), n. [Gr. &?;&?;&?; a fan + &?;&?;&?; wing.] (Zoöl.) One of the Rhipiptera, a group of insects having wings which fold like a fan; a strepsipter.

Rhi*pip"ter*an (?), n. (Zoöl.) Same as Rhipipter.

Rhi*zan"thous (?), a. [Gr. &?;&?;&?; root + &?;&?;&?; flower.] (Bot.) Producing flowers from a rootstock, or apparently from a root.

Rhi"zine (?), n. [Gr. &?;&?;&?; root.] (Bot.) A rootlike filament or hair growing from the stems of mosses or on lichens; a rhizoid.

Rhi`zo*car"pous (?), a. [Gr. &?;&?;&?; root + &?;&?;&?; fruit.] (Bot.) Having perennial rootstocks or bulbs, but annual flowering stems; -- said of all perennial herbs.

||Rhi`zo*ceph"a*la (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;&?;&?; root + &?;&?;&?; ||head.] (Zoöl.) A division of Pectostraca including saclike parasites ||of Crustacea. They adhere by rootlike extensions of the head. See ||Illusration in Appendix.

Rhiz"o*dont (?), n. [Gr. &?;&?;&?; root + &?;&?;&?;, &?;&?;&?;, a tooth.] (Zoöl.) A reptile whose teeth are rooted in sockets, as the crocodile.

Rhiz"o*gan (?), a. [Gr. &?;&?;&?; root + -gen: cf. F. rhizogène.] (Bot.) Prodicing roots.

Rhiz"o*gen, n. (Bot.) One of a proposed class of flowering plants growning on the roots of other plants and destitute of green foliage.

Rhi"zoid (?), n. [Gr. &?;&?;&?; root + -oid.] (Bot.) A rootlike appendage.

||Rhi*zo"ma (?), n.; pl. Rhizomata (#). [NL.] (Bot.) SAme as Rhizome.

Rhi*zo"ma*tous (?), a. (Bot.) Having the nature or habit of a rhizome or rootstock.

Rhi*zome" (?), n. [Gr. &?;&?;&?; the mass of roots (of a tree), a stem, race, fr. &?;&?;&?; to make to root, pass., to take root, fr. &?;&?;&?; a root: cf. F. rhizome.] (Bot.) A rootstock. See Rootstock.

||Rhi*zoph"a*ga (?), n. pl. [NL.] (Zoöl.) A division of marsupials. The ||wombat is the type.

Rhi*zoph"a*gous (?), a. [Gr. &?;&?;&?;; &?;&?;&?; a root + &?;&?;&?; to eat.] Feeding on roots; root- eating.

||Rhi*zoph"o*ra (?), n. [NL. See Rhizophorous.] (Bot.) A genus of trees ||including the mangrove. See Mangrove.

Rhi*zoph"o*rous (?), a. [Gr. &?;&?;&?; a root + &?;&?;&?;&?; to bear.] (Bot.) Bearing roots.

Rhiz"o*pod (?), n. (Zoöl.) One of the Rhizopoda.

The rhizopods belonging to the Radiolaria and Foraminifera have been of great geological importance, especially in the Cretaceous and Tertiary periods. Chalk is mostly made from the shells of Foraminifera. The nummulites are the principal ingredient of a limestone which is of great extent in Europe and Asia, and is the material of which some of the pyramids of Egypt are made. The shells are abundant in deepsea mud, and are mostly minute, seldom larger than a small grain of sand, except in the case of the nummulities, which are sometimes an inch in diameter.

||Rhi*zop"o*da (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;&?;&?; a root + -poda.] ||(Zoöl.) An extensive class of Protozoa, including those which have ||pseudopodia, by means of which they move about and take their food. ||The principal groups are Lobosa (or Amœbea), Helizoa, Radiolaria, and ||Foraminifera (or Reticularia). See Protozoa.

Rhi*zop"o*dous (?), a. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the rhizopods.

||Rhi`zo*stom"a*ta (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;&?;&?; a root + ||&?;&?;&?;, &?;&?;&?;&?;, a mouth.] (Zoöl.) A suborder of Medusæ which ||includes very large species without marginal tentacles, but having ||large mouth lobes closely united at the edges. See Illust. in ||Appendix.

Rhiz"o*stome (?), n. (Zoöl.) One of the Rhizostomata.

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||Rhi`zo*tax"is (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;&?;&?; a root + &?;&?;&?; ||arrangement.] (Bot.) The arrangement of the roots of plants.

Rhob (rb), n. See 1st Rob.

Rho`dam*mo"ni*um (?), a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, rhodium and ammonia; -- said of certain complex compounds.

Rho"da*nate (?), n. (Chem.) A salt of rhodanic acid; a sulphocyanate. [Obsoles.]

Rho*dan"ic (?), a. [Gr. &?;&?;&?; the rose.] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid (commonly called sulphocyanic acid) which frms a red color with ferric salts. [Obsoles.]

Rho`de*o*re"tin (?), n. [Gr. &?;&?;&?; the rose + &?;&?;&?; resin.] (Chem.) Same as Convolvuln.

Rho"di*an (?), a. [L. Rhodius: cf. F. rhodien.] Of or pertaining to Rhodes, an island of the Mediterranean. -- n. A native or inhabitant of Rhodes.

Rho"dic (?), a. (Chem.) Of or pertaining to rhodium; containing rhodium.

Rho"di*um (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. "ro`don the rose. So called from the rose-red color of certain of its solutions. See Rhododendron.] (Chem.) A rare element of the light platinum group. It is found in platinum ores, and obtained free as a white inert metal which it is very difficult to fuse. Symbol Rh. Atomic weight 104.1. Specific gravity 12.

Rho`di*zon"ic (?), a. [Gr. &?;&?;&?; to be rose-red.] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, a colorless crystalline substance (called rhodizonic acid, and carboxylic acid) obtained from potassium carboxide and from certain quinones. It forms brilliant red, yellow, and purple salts.

Rho`do*chro"site (?), n. [Gr. "ro`don the rose + &?;&?;&?; a coloring.] (Min.) Manganese carbonate, a rose-red mineral sometimes occuring crystallized, but generally massive with rhombohedral cleavage like calcite; -- called also dialogite.

Rho*doc"ri*nite (?), n. [Gr. "ro`don rose + &?;&?;&?; lily.] (Paleon.) A rose encrinite.

Rho`do*den"dron (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. "rodo`dendron, literally, rose tree; "ro`don rose + de`ndron tree. See Rose.] (Bot.) A genus of shrubs or small trees, often having handsome evergreen leaves, and remarkable for the beauty of their flowers; rosebay.

Rhod`o*mon*tade" (?), n. See Rodomontade.

Rhod`o*mon*tad"er (?), n. See Rodomontador.

Rho"don*ite (?), n. [Gr. "ro`don the rose. ] (Min.) Manganese spar, or silicate of manganese, a mineral occuring crystallised and in rose-red masses. It is often used as an ornamental stone.

Rho"do*phane (?), n. [Gr. "ro`don the rose + &?;&?;&?; to show.] (Physiol.) The red pigment contained in the inner segments of the cones of the retina in animals. See Chromophane. W. KÜhne.

Rho*dop"sin (?), n. [Gr. "ro`don rose + "w`ps eye.] (Physiol.) The visual purple. See under Visual.

Rho"do*sperm (?), n. [Gr. "ro`don the rose + spe`rma a seed.] (Bot.) Any seaweed with red spores.

As the name of a subclass, Rhodosperms, or Rhodospermeæ, is synonymous with Florideæ (which see.)

Rhomb (?), n. [L. rhombus, Gr. &?;&?;&?; rhomb, a spinning top, magic wheel, fr. &?;&?;&?; to turn or whirl round, perhaps akin to E. wrench: cf. F. rhombe. Cf. Rhombus, Rhumb.] 1. (Geom.) An equilateral parallelogram, or quadrilateral figure whose sides are equal and the opposite sides parallel. The angles may be unequal, two being obtuse and two acute, as in the cut, or the angles may be equal, in which case it is usually called a square.

2. (Geom.) A rhombohedron.

Fresnel's rhomb (Opt.), a rhomb or oblique parallelopiped of crown or St. Gobain glass so cut that a ray of light entering one of its faces at right angles shall emerge at right angles at the opposite face, after undergoing within the rhomb, at other faces, two reflections. It is used to produce a ray circularly polarized from a plane-polarized ray, or the reverse. Nichol.

Rhom"bic (?), a. 1. Shaped like a rhomb.

2. (Crystallog.) Same as Orthorhombic.

Rhom`bo*ga"noid (?), n. [Rhomb + ganoid.] (Zoöl.) A ganoid fish having rhombic enameled scales; one of the Rhomboganoidei.

||Rhom`bo*ga*noi"de*i (?), n. pl. [NL.] (Zoöl.) Same as Ginglymodi.

Rhom"bo*gene (?), n. [Rhomb + root of Gr. &?;&?;&?; to be born.] (Zoöl.) A dicyemid which produces infusorialike embryos; -- opposed to nematogene. See Dicyemata. [Written also rhombogen.]

Rhom`bo*he"dral (?), a. (Geom. & Crystallog.) Related to the rhombohedron; presenting the form of a rhombohedron, or a form derivable from a rhombohedron; relating to a system of forms including the rhombohedron and scalenohedron.

Rhombohedral iron ore (Min.) See Hematite. -- Rhombohedral system (Crystallog.), a division of the hexagonal system embracing the rhombohedron, scalenohedron, etc.

Rhom`bo*hed"ric (?), a. (Geom. & Crystallog.) Rhombohedral.

Rhom`bo*he"dron (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;&?;&?; rhomb + &?;&?;&?; seat, base.] (Geom. & Crystallog.) A solid contained by six rhomboids; a parallelopiped.

Rhom"boid (rm"boid), n. [Gr. &?;&?;&?; rhomboidal; &?;&?;&?; rhomb + e'i^dos shape: cf. F. rhomboïde.] (Geom.) An oblique-angled parallelogram like a rhomb, but having only the opposite sides equal, the length and with being different.

Rhom"boid (rm"boid), a. Same as Rhomboidal.

Rhom*boid"al (?), a. [Cf. F. rhomboïdal.] Having, or approaching, the shape of a rhomboid.

Rhom*boid"es (?), n. A rhomboid. [R.] Milton.

Rhom`boid-o"vate (?), a. Between rhomboid and ovate, or oval, in shape.

Rhomb" spar` (?). (Min.) A variety of dolomite.

Rhom"bus (?), n. [L.] Same as Rhomb, 1.

Rhon`chal (?), a. (Med.) Rhonchial.

Rhon"chi*al (?), a. (Med.) Of or pertaining to a rhonchus; produced by rhonchi.

Rhonchial fremitus. [L. fremitus a dull roaring or murmuring.] (Med.) A vibration of the chest wall that may be felt by the hand laid upon its surface. It is caused in the production of rhonchi in the bronchial tubes.

Rhon*chis"o*nant (?), a. [L. rhonchus a snoring + sonans, p. pr. of sonare to sound.] Making a snorting noise; snorting. [R.]

||Rhon"chus (?), n.; pl. Rhonchi (#). [L., a snoring, a croaking.] ||(Med.) An adventitious whistling or snoring sound heard on ||auscultation of the chest when the air channels are partially ||obstructed. By some writers the term rhonchus is used as equivalent ||to râle in its widest sense. See Râle.

Rho*pal"ic (?), a. [Gr. &?;&?;&?;&?; club-shaped; fr. &?;&?;&?; a club: cf. F. rhopalique.] (Pros.) Applied to a line or verse in which each successive word has one more syllable than the preceding.

||Rho*pa"li*um (?), n.; pl. Rhopalia (#). [NL.] (Zoöl.) One of the ||marginal sensory bodies of medusæ belonging to the Discophora.

||Rhop`a*loc"e*ra (?), n. pl. [NL., from Gr. &?;&?;&?; a club + ||&?;&?;&?; ahorn.] (Zoöl.) A division of Lepidoptera including all the ||butterflies. They differ from other Lepidoptera in having club-shaped ||antennæ.

Rho"ta*cism (?), n. [Gr. "rwtaki`zein to use the letter r (&rho;) overmuch: cf. F. rhotacisme.] An oversounding, or a misuse, of the letter r; specifically (Phylol.), the tendency, exhibited in the Indo-European languages, to change s to r, as wese to were.

Rhu"barb (?), n. [F. rhubarbe, OF. rubarbe, rheubarbe, reubarbare, reobarbe, LL. rheubarbarum for rheum barbarum, Gr. &?;&?;&?; (and &?;&?;) rhubarb, from the river Rha (the Volga) on whose banks it grew. Originally, therefore, it was the barbarian plant from the Rha. Cf. Barbarous, Rhaponticine.] 1. (Bot.) The name of several large perennial herbs of the genus Rheum and order Polygonaceæ.

2. The large and fleshy leafstalks of Rheum Rhaponticum and other species of the same genus. They are pleasantly acid, and are used in cookery. Called also pieplant.

3. (Med.) The root of several species of Rheum, used much as a cathartic medicine.

Monk's rhubarb. (Bot.) See under Monk. -- Turkey rhubarb (Med.), the roots of Rheum Emodi.

Rhu"barb*y (?), a. Like rhubarb.

Rhumb (?), n. [F. rumb, Sp. rumbo, or Pg. rumbo, rumo, probably fr. Gr. &?;&?;&?; a magic wheel, a whirling motion, hence applied to a point of the compass. See Rhomb.] (Navigation) A line which crosses successive meridians at a constant angle; -- called also rhumb line, and loxodromic curve. See Loxodromic.

To sail on a rhumb, to sail continuously on one course, following a rhumb line.

||Rhus (?), n. [L., sumac, fr. Gr. &?;&?;&?;.] (Bot.) A genus of shrubs ||and small treets. See Sumac.

Rhus"ma (?), n. [See Rusma.] A mixtire of caustic lime and orpiment, or tersulphide of arsenic, -- used in the depilation of hides. Knight.

Rhyme (?), n. [OE. ryme, rime, AS. rm number; akin to OHG. rm number, succession, series, G. reim rhyme. The modern sense is due to the influence of F. rime, which is of German origin, and originally the same word.] [The Old English spelling rime is becoming again common. See Note under Prime.] 1. An expression of thought in numbers, measure, or verse; a composition in verse; a rhymed tale; poetry; harmony of language. "Railing rhymes." Daniel.

A ryme I learned long ago.

Chaucer.

He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rime.

Milton.

2. (Pros.) Correspondence of sound in the terminating words or syllables of two or more verses, one succeeding another immediately or at no great distance. The words or syllables so used must not begin with the same consonant, or if one begins with a vowel the other must begin with a consonant. The vowel sounds and accents must be the same, as also the sounds of the final consonants if there be any.

For rhyme with reason may dispense, And sound has right to govern sense.

Prior.

3. Verses, usually two, having this correspondence with each other; a couplet; a poem containing rhymes.

4. A word answering in sound to another word.

Female rhyme. See under Female. - - Male rhyme. See under Male. -- Rhyme or reason, sound or sense. -- Rhyme royal (Pros.), a stanza of seven decasyllabic verses, of which the first and third, the second, fourth, and fifth, and the sixth and seventh rhyme.

Rhyme (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Rhymed (?);p. pr. & vb. n. Rhyming.] [OE. rimen, rymen, AS. rman to count: cf. F. rimer to rhyme. See Rhyme, n.] 1. To make rhymes, or verses. "Thou shalt no longer ryme." Chaucer.

There marched the bard and blockhead, side by side, Who rhymed for hire, and patronized for pride.

Pope.

2. To accord in rhyme or sound.

And, if they rhymed and rattled, all was well.

Dryden.

Rhyme, v. t. 1. To put into rhyme. Sir T. Wilson.

2. To influence by rhyme.

Hearken to a verser, who may chance Rhyme thee to good.

Herbert.

Rhyme"less, a. Destitute of rhyme. Bp. Hall.

Rhym"er (?), n. One who makes rhymes; a versifier; -- generally in contempt; a poor poet; a poetaster.

This would make them soon perceive what despicaple creatures our common rhymers and playwriters be.

Milton.

Rhym"er*y (?), n. The art or habit of making rhymes; rhyming; -- in contempt.

Rhyme"ster (?), n. A rhymer; a maker of poor poetry. Bp. Hall. Byron.

Rhym"ic (?), a. Pertaining to rhyme.

Rhym"ist, n. A rhymer; a rhymester. Johnston.

||Rhyn`chob*del"le*a (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. "ry`gchos snout + ||&?;&?;&?; a leech.] (Zoöl.) A suborder of leeches including those ||that have a protractile proboscis, without jaws. Clepsine is the ||type.

||Rhyn`cho*ceph"a*la (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. "ry`gchos snout + ||kefalh` head.] (Zoöl.) An order of reptiles having biconcave ||vertebræ, immovable quadrate bones, and many other peculiar ||osteological characters. Hatteria is the only living genus, but ||numerous fossil genera are known, some of which are among the ||earliest of reptiles. See Hatteria. Called also Rhynchocephalia.

||Rhyn`cho*cœ"la (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. "ry`gchos snout + koi`los ||hollow.] (Zoöl.) Same as Nemertina. -- Rhyn`cho*cœ"lous (#), a.

Rhyn"cho*lite (&?;), n. [Gr. "ry`gchos snout, beak + -lie: cf. F. rhyncholithe.] (Paleon.) A fossil cephalopod beak.

||Rhyn`cho*nel"la (&?;), n. [NL., fr. Gr. "ry`gchos snout.] (Zoöl.) A ||genus of brachiopods of which some species are still living, while ||many are found fossil.

||Rhyn*choph"o*ra (&?;), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. "ry`gchos snout + fe`rein ||to carry.] (Zoöl.) A group of Coleoptera having a snoutlike head; the ||snout beetles, curculios, or weevils.

Rhyn"cho*phore (?), n. (Zoöl.) One of the Rhynchophora.

||Rhyn*cho"ta (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. "ry`gchos snout.] (Zoöl.) Same ||as Hemiptera. [Written also Rhyncota.]

Rhy"o*lite (?), n. [Gr. "rei^n to flow + -lite.] (Min.) A quartzose trachyte, an igneous rock often showing a fluidal structure. -- Rhy`o*lit"ic, (#), a.

Rhy`pa*rog"ra*phy (?), n. [Gr. &?;&?;&?;&?; painting foul or mean objects; "ryparo`s filthy, dirty + gra`fein to write, paint.] In ancient art, the painting of genre or still-life pictures.

Rhy*sim"e*ter (?), n. [Gr. &?;&?;&?; flow + -meter.] An instrument, acting on the principle of Pitot's tube, for measuring the velocity of a fluid current, the speed of a ship, etc.

Rhythm (?), n. [F. rhythme, rythme, L. rhythmus, fr. Gr. &?;&?;&?; measured motion, measure, proportion, fr. "rei^n to flow. See Stream.] 1. In the widest sense, a dividing into short portions by a regular succession of motions, impulses, sounds, accents, etc., producing an agreeable effect, as in music poetry, the dance, or the like.

2. (Mus.) Movement in musical time, with periodical recurrence of accent; the measured beat or pulse which marks the character and expression of the music; symmetry of movement and accent. Moore (Encyc.)

3. A division of lines into short portions by a regular succession of arses and theses, or percussions and remissions of voice on words or syllables.

4. The harmonious flow of vocal sounds.

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Rhyth"mer (rth"mr or r"-), n. One who writes in rhythm, esp. in poetic rhythm or meter. [R.]

One now scarce counted a rhythmer, formerly admitted for a poet.

Fuller.

{ Rhyth"mic (-mk), Rhyth"mic*al (- m*kal), } a. [Gr. &?;&?;&?;&?;: cf. L. rhythmicus, F. rhythmique.] Pertaining to, or of the nature of, rhythm

Day and night I worked my rhythmic thought.

Mrs. Browning.

Rhythmical accent. (Mus.) See Accent, n., 6 (c).

Rhyth"mic*al*ly, adv. In a rhythmical manner.

Rhyth"mics (?), n. The department of musical science which treats of the length of sounds.

Rhyth"ming (?), a. Writing rhythm; verse making. "The rhythming monk." Fuller.

Rhythm"less (?), a. Being without rhythm. Coleridge.

Rhyth*mom"e*ter (?), n. [Rhythm + -meter.] An instrument for marking time in musical movements. See Metronome.

||Rhyth"mus (?), n. [L.] Rhythm.

||Rhyt"i*na (?), n. (Zoöl.) See Rytina.

Ri"al (&?;), n. A Spanish coin. See Real. [Obs.]

Ri*al", a. Royal. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Ri"al (?), n. [From Royal.] A gold coin formerly current in England, of the value of ten shillings sterling in the reign of Henry VI., and of fifteen shillings in the reign of Elizabeth. [Spelt also ryal.] Brande & C.

||Ri`ant" (?), a. [F. riant, p. pr. of rire to laugh, L. ridere.] ||Laughing; laughable; exciting gayety; gay; merry; delightful to the ||view, as a landscape.

In such cases the sublimity must be drawn from the other sources, with a strict caution, howewer, against anything light and riant.

Burke.

Rib (?), n. [AS. rib, ribb; akin to D. rib, G. rippe, OHG. rippa, rippi, Dan. ribbe, Icel. rif, Russ. rebro.] 1. (Anat.) One of the curved bones attached to the vertebral column and supporting the lateral walls of the thorax.

In man there are twelve ribs on each side, of which the upper seven are directly connected with the sternum by cartilages, and are called sternal, or true, ribs. The remaining five pairs are called asternal, or false, ribs, and of these each of the three upper pairs is attached to the cartilage of the rib above, while the two lower pairs are free at the ventral ends, and are called floating ribs. See Thorax.

2. That which resembles a rib in form or use. Specifically: (a) (Shipbuilding) One of the timbers, or bars of iron or steel, that branch outward and upward from the keel, to support the skin or planking, and give shape and strength to the vessel. (b) (Mach. & Structures) A ridge, fin, or wing, as on a plate, cylinder, beam, etc., to strengthen or stiffen it. (c) One of the rods on which the cover of an umbrella is extended. (d) A prominent line or ridge, as in cloth. (e) A longitudinal strip of metal uniting the barrels of a double-barreled gun.

3. (Bot.) The chief nerve, or one of the chief nerves, of a leaf. (b) Any longitudinal ridge in a plant.

4. (Arch.) (a) In Gothic vaulting, one of the primary members of the vault. These are strong arches, meeting and crossing one another, dividing the whole space into triangles, which are then filled by vaulted construction of lighter material. Hence, an imitation of one of these in wood, plaster, or the like. (b) A projecting mold, or group of moldings, forming with others a pattern, as on a ceiling, ornamental door, or the like.

5. (Mining) (a) Solid coal on the side of a gallery; solid ore in a vein. (b) An elongated pillar of ore or coal left as a support. Raymond.

6. A wife; -- in allusion to Eve, as made out of Adam's rib. [Familiar & Sportive]

How many have we known whose heads have been broken with their own rib.

Bp. Hall.

Chuck rib, a cut of beef immediately in front of the middle rib. See Chuck. -- Fore ribs, a cut of beef immediately in front of the sirloin. -- Middle rib, a cut of beef between the chuck rib and the fore ribs. -- Rib grass. (Bot.) Same as Ribwort.

Rib, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ribbed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Ribbing.] 1. To furnish with ribs; to form with rising lines and channels; as, to rib cloth.

2. To inclose, as with ribs, and protect; to shut in.

It [lead] were too gross To rib her cerecloth in the obscure grave.

Shak.

To rib land, to leave strips of undisturbed ground between the furrows in plowing.

Rib"ald (?), n./ [OE. ribald, ribaud, F. ribaud, OF. ribald, ribault, LL. ribaldus, of German origin; cf. OHG hrpa prostitute. For the ending -ald cf. E. Herald.] A low, vulgar, brutal, foul-mouthed wretch; a lewd fellow. Spenser. Pope.

Ribald was almost a class name in the feudal system . . . He was his patron's parasite, bulldog, and tool . . . It is not to be wondered at that the word rapidly became a synonym for everything ruffianly and brutal.

Earle.

Rib"ald, a. Low; base; mean; filthy; obscene.

The busy day, Waked by the lark, hath roused the ribald crows.

Shak.

Rib"ald*ish, a. Like a ribald. Bp. Hall.

Rib"ald*rous (?), a. Of a ribald quality. [R.]

Rib"ald*ry (?), n. [OE. ribaldrie, ribaudrie, OF. ribalderie, ribauderie.] The talk of a ribald; low, vulgar language; indecency; obscenity; lewdness; -- now chiefly applied to indecent language, but formerly, as by Chaucer, also to indecent acts or conduct.

The ribaldry of his conversation moved &?;stonishment even in that age.

Macaulay.

Rib"an (?), n. See Ribbon. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

Rib"and (?), n. See Ribbon.

Riband jasper (Min.), a variety of jasper having stripes of different colors, as red and green.

Rib"and, n. (Naut.) See Rib-band. Totten.

Rib"and*ed, a. Ribboned. B. Jonson.

Rib"aud (?), n. A ribald. [Obs.] P. Plowman.

||Ri*bau"de*quin (?), n. [F.] 1. An engine of war used in the Middle ||Ages, consisting of a protected elevated staging on wheels, and armed ||in front with pikes. It was (after the 14th century) furnished with ||small cannon.

2. A huge bow fixed on the wall of a fortified town for casting javelins.

{ Rib"aud*red (?), Rib"aud*rous (?), } a. Filthy; obscene; ribald. [Obs.]

Rib"aud*ry (?), n. Ribaldry. [Obs.] Spenser.

Rib"aud*y (?), n. Ribaldry. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Rib"auld (?), n. A ribald. [Obs.] Spenser.

Rib"band (?), n. A ribbon. Pope.

Rib"band` (?), n. [Rib + band.] [Written also riband, and ribbon.] (Shipbuilding) A long, narrow strip of timber bent and bolted longitudinally to the ribs of a vessel, to hold them in position, and give rigidity to the framework.

Rib-band lines, oblique longitudinal sections of the hull of a vessel. Knight.

Ribbed (?), a. 1. Furnished or formed with ribs; as, a ribbed cylinder; ribbed cloth.

2. (Mining) Intercalated with slate; -- said of a seam of coal. Raymond.

Rib"bing (?), n. An assemblage or arrangement of ribs, as the timberwork for the support of an arch or coved ceiling, the veins in the leaves of some plants, ridges in the fabric of cloth, or the like.

Rib"bon (?), n. [OE. riban, OF. riban, F. ruban, probably of German origin; cf. D. ringband collar, necklace, E. ring circle, and band.] [Written also riband, ribband.] 1. A fillet or narrow woven fabric, commonly of silk, used for trimming some part of a woman's attire, for badges, and other decorative purposes.

2. A narrow strip or shred; as, a steel or magnesium ribbon; sails torn to ribbons.

3. (Shipbuilding) Same as Rib- band.

4. pl. Driving reins. [Cant] London Athenæum.

5. (Her.) A bearing similar to the bend, but only one eighth as wide.

6. (Spinning) A silver.

The blue ribbon, and The red ribbon, are phrases often used to designate the British orders of the Garter and of the Bath, respectively, the badges of which are suspended by ribbons of these colors. See Blue ribbon, under Blue.

Ribbon fish. (Zoöl.) (a) Any elongated, compressed, ribbon-shaped marine fish of the family Trachypteridæ, especially the species of the genus Trachypterus, and the oarfish (Regelecus Banksii) of the North Atlantic, which is sometimes over twenty feet long. (b) The hairtail, or bladefish. (c) A small compressed marine fish of the genus Cepola, having a long, slender, tapering tail. The European species (C. rubescens) is light red throughout. Called also band fish. -- Ribbon grass (Bot.), a variety of reed canary grass having the leaves stripped with green and white; -- called also Lady's garters. See Reed grass, under Reed. -- Ribbon seal (Zoöl.), a North Pacific seal (Histriophoca fasciata). The adult male is dark brown, conspicuously banded and striped with yellowish white. -- Ribbon snake (Zoöl.), a common North American snake (Eutainia saurita). It is conspicuously striped with bright yellow and dark brown. -- Ribbon Society, a society in Ireland, founded in the early part of the 19th century in antagonism to the Orangemen. It afterwards became an organization of tennant farmers banded together to prevent eviction by landlords. It took its name from the green ribbon worn by members as a badge. -- Ribborn worm. (Zoöl.) (a) A tapeworm. (b) A nemertean.

Rib"bon, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ribboned (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Ribboning.] To adorn with, or as with, ribbons; to mark with stripes resembling ribbons.

Rib"bon*ism (?), n. The principles and practices of the Ribbonmen. See Ribbon Society, under Ribbon.

Rib"bon*man (?), n.; pl. -men. A member of the Ribbon Society. See Ribbon Society, under Ribbon.

Rib"bon*wood` (?), n. (Bot.) A malvaceous tree (Hoheria populnea) of New Zealand, the bark of which is used for cordage.

||Ri"bes (?), n.[NL.; cf. Dan. ribs, and Ar. rbs a plant with an acid ||juice.] (Bot.) A genus of shrubs including gooseberries and currants ||of many kinds.

Rib"ibe (?), n. [See Rebec.] 1. A sort of stringed instrument; a rebec. [Obs.] Nares.

2. An old woman; -- in contempt. [Obs.] Chaucer.

3. A bawd; a prostitute. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Rib"i*ble (?), n. [See Ribibe.] A small threestringed viol; a rebec. Moore (Encyc. of Music).

All can be play on gittern or ribible.

Chaucer.

Rib"less, a. Having no ribs.

Rib"roast` (?), v. t. To beat soundly. [Slang]

Rib"wort` (?), n. (Bot.) A species of plantain (Plantago lanceolata) with long, narrow, ribbed leaves; -- called also rib grass, ripple grass, ribwort plantain.

-ric (?). [AS rce kingdom, dominion. See Rich.] A suffix signifying dominion, jurisdiction; as, bishopric, the district over which a bishop exercises authority.

Rice (?), n. [F. riz (cf. Pr. ris, It. riso), L. oryza, Gr. &?;&?;&?;, &?;&?;&?;, probably from the Persian; cf. OPers. brzi, akin to Skr. vrhi; or perh. akin to E. rye. Cf. Rye.] (Bot.) A well-known cereal grass (Oryza sativa) and its seed. This plant is extensively cultivated in warm climates, and the grain forms a large portion of the food of the inhabitants. In America it grows chiefly on low, moist land, which can be overflowed.

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