Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (part 44 of 60)
Defn: A reserve force in the Turkish army, or a soldier of the reserve. See Army organization, above.
REDIGEST Re`di*gest" (r`d*jst"), v. t.
Defn: To digest, or reduce to form, a second time. Kent.
REDIMINISH Re`di*min"ish (-mn"sh), v. t.
Defn: To diminish again.
REDINGOTE Red"in*gote (rd"n*gt), n. Etym: [F., corrupted from E. reding coat.]
Defn: A long plain double-breasted outside coat for women.
REDINTEGRATE Re*din"te*grate (r*dn"t*grt), a. Etym: [L. redintegratus, p.p. of redintegrare to restore; pref. red-, re-, re- + integrare to make whole, to renew, fr. integer whole. See Integer.]
Defn: Restored to wholeness or a perfect state; renewed. Bacon.
REDINTEGRATE Re*din"te*grate (-grt), v. t.
Defn: To make whole again; a renew; to restore to integrity or soundness. The English nation seems obliterated. What could redintegrate us again Coleridge.
REDINTEGRATION Re*din`te*gra"tion (-gr"shn), n. Etym: [L. redintegratio.]
1. Restoration to a whole or sound state; renewal; renovation. Dr. H. More.
2. (Chem.)
Defn: Restoration of a mixed body or matter to its former nature and state. [Achaic.] Coxe.
3. (Psychology)
Defn: The law that objects which have been previously combined as part of a single mental state tend to recall or suggest one another; -- adopted by many philosophers to explain the phenomena of the association of ideas.
REDIRECT Re`di*rect" (r`d*rkt"), a. (Law)
Defn: Applied to the examination of a witness, by the party calling him, after the cross-examination.
REDISBURSE Re`dis*burse" (r`ds*brs"), v. t.
Defn: To disburse anew; to give, or pay, back. Spenser.
REDISCOVER Re`dis*cov"er (-kv"r), v. t.
Defn: To discover again.
REDISPOSE Re`dis*pose" (-pz"), v. t.
Defn: To dispose anew or again; to readjust; to rearrange. A. Baxter.
REDISSEIZE Re`dis*seize" (-sz"), v. t. (Law)
Defn: To disseize anew, or a second time. [Written also redisseise.]
REDISSEIZIN Re`dis*sei"zin (-s"zn), n. (Law)
Defn: A disseizin by one who once before was adjudged to have dassezed the same person of the same lands, etc.; also, a writ which lay in such a case. Blackstone.
REDISSEIZOR Re`dis*sei"zor (-zr), n. (Law)
Defn: One who redisseizes.
REDISSOLVE Re`dis*solve" (r`dz*zlv"), v. t.
Defn: To dissolve again.
REDISTILL Re`dis*till" (r`ds*tl"), v. t.
Defn: To distill again.
REDISTRAINER Re`dis*train"er (-trn"r), n.
Defn: One who distrains again.
REDISTRIBUTE Re`dis*trib"ute (-trb"t), v. t.
Defn: To distribute again. -- Re*dis`tri*bu"tion (-tr, n.
REDISTRICT Re*dis"trict (-trkt), v. t.
Defn: To divide into new districts.
REDITION Re*di"tion (r*dsh"n), n. Etym: [L. reditio, fr. redire. See Redient.]
Defn: Act of returning; return. [Obs.] Chapman.
REDIVIDE Re`di*vide" (r`d*vd"), v. t.
Defn: To divide anew.
REDIVIVUS Red`i*vi"vus, a. [L., fr. pref. red-, re-, re- + vivus alive.]
Defn: Living again; revived; restored.
REDLEG; REDLEGS Red"leg` (rd"lg`), Red`legs` (-lgz`), n. (Zoöl.) (a) The redshank. (b) The turnstone.
RED-LETTER Red"-let`ter (-lt`tr), a.
Defn: Of or pertaining to a red letter; marked by red letters. Red- letter day, a day that is fortunate or auspicious; -- so called in allusion to the custom of marking holy days, or saints' days, in the old calendars with red letters.
RED-LIGHT DISTRICT Red-light district.
Defn: A district or neighborhood in which disorderly resorts are frequent; -- so called in allusion to the red light kept in front of many such resorts at night. [Colloq. or Cant]
REDLY Red"ly, adv.
Defn: In a red manner; with redness.
REDMOUTH Red"mouth` (-mouth`), n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Any one of several species of marine food fishes of the genus Diabasis, or Hæmulon, of the Southern United States, having the inside of the mouth bright red. Called also flannelmouth, and grunt.
REDNESS Red"ness, n. Etym: [AS. r. See Red.]
Defn: The quality or state of being red; red color.
REDOLENCE; REDOLENCY Red"o*lence, Red"o*len*cy, n.
Defn: The quality of being redolent; sweetness of scent; pleasant odor; fragrance.
REDOLENT Red"o*lent (-lent), a. Etym: [L. redolens, -entis, p. pr. of redolere to emit a scent, diffuse an odor; pref. red-, re-, re- + olere to emit a smell. See Odor.]
Defn: Diffusing odor or fragrance; spreading sweet scent; scented; odorous; smelling; -- usually followed by of. "Honey redolent of spring." Dryden. -- Red"o*lent*ly, adv. Gales . . . redolent of joy and youth. Gray.
REDOUBLE Re*dou"ble (r*db"'l), v. t. Etym: [Pref. re- + double: cf. F. redoubler. Cf. Reduplicate.]
Defn: To double again or repeatedly; to increase by continued or repeated additions; to augment greatly; to multiply. So they Doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe. Shak. n. An optional bid made by the side currently holding the highest bid for the contract, after the opposing side has doubled. This bid increases the score for successfully making the contract, and increases the penalties for failing. The score or penalty depends on the number of tricks over or under the contract, according to a defined schedule, and depending on the vulnerability of the side attempting the contract.
REDOUBLE Re*dou"ble, v. i.
Defn: To become greatly or repeatedly increased; to be multiplied; to be greatly augmented; as, the noise redoubles.
REDOUBT Re*doubt" (r*dout"), n. Etym: [F. redoute, fem., It. ridotto, LL. reductus, literally, a retreat, from L. reductus drawn back, retired, p. p. of reducere to lead or draw back; cf. F. réduit, also fr. LL. reductus. See Reduce, and cf. Reduct, R, Ridotto.] (Fort.) (a) A small, and usually a roughly constructed, fort or outwork of varying shape, commonly erected for a temporary purpose, and without flanking defenses, -- used esp. in fortifying tops of hills and passes, and positions in hostile territory. (b) In permanent works, an outwork placed within another outwork. See F and i in Illust. of Ravelin. [Written also redout.]
REDOUBT Re*doubt", v. t. Etym: [F. redouter, formerly also spelt redoubter; fr. L. pref. re- re- + dubitare to doubt, in LL., to fear. See Doubt.]
Defn: To stand in dread of; to regard with fear; to dread. [R.]
REDOUBTABLE Re*doubt"a*ble (-*b'l), a. Etym: [F. redoutable, formerly also spelt redoubtable.]
Defn: Formidable; dread; terrible to foes; as, a redoubtable hero; hence, valiant; -- often in contempt or burlesque. [Written also redoutable.]
REDOUBTED Re*doubt"ed, a.
Defn: Formidable; dread. "Some redoubled knight." Spenser. Lord regent, and redoubted Burgandy. Shak.
REDOUBTING Re*doubt"ing, n.
Defn: Reverence; honor. [Obs.] In redoutyng of Mars and of his glory. Chaucer.
REDOUND Re*dound" (r*dound"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Redounded; p. pr. & vb. n. Redounding.] Etym: [F. redonder, L. redundare; pref. red-, re-, re- + undare to rise in waves or surges, fr. unda a wave. See Undulate, and cf. Redundant.]
1. To roll back, as a wave or flood; to be sent or driven back; to flow back, as a consequence or effect; to conduce; to contribute; to result. The evil, soon Driven back, redounded as a flood on those From whom it sprung. Milton. The honor done to our religion ultimately redounds to God, the author of it. Rogers. both . . . will devour great quantities of paper, there will no small use redound from them to that manufacture. Addison.
2. To be in excess; to remain over and above; to be redundant; to overflow. For every dram of honey therein found, A pound of gall doth over it redound. Spenser.
REDOUND Re*dound", n.
1. The coming back, as of consequence or effect; result; return; requital. We give you welcome; not without redound Of use and glory to yourselves ye come. Tennyson.
2. Rebound; reverberation. [R.] Codrington.
REDOWA Red"ow*a (rd"*), n. Etym: [F., fr. Bohemian.]
Defn: A Bohemian dance of two kinds, one in triple time, like a waltz, the other in two-four time, like a polka. The former is most in use.
REDPOLE Red"pole` (rd"pl`), n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Same as Redpoll.
REDPOLL Red"poll` (-pl`), n. (Zoöl.) (a) Any one of several species of small northern finches of the genus Acanthis (formerly Ægiothus), native of Europe and America. The adults have the crown red or rosy. The male of the most common species (A. linarius) has also the breast and rump rosy. Called also redpoll linnet. See Illust. under Linnet. (b) The common European linnet. (c) The American redpoll warbler (Dendroica palmarum).
REDRAFT Re*draft" (re*draft"), v. t.
Defn: To draft or draw anew.
REDRAFT Re*draft", n.
1. A second draft or copy.
2. (Com.)
Defn: A new bill of exchange which the holder of a protected bill draws on the drawer or indorsers, in order to recover the amount of the protested bill with costs and charges.
REDRAW Re*draw" (r*dr"), v. t. [imp. Redrew (-dr");p. p. Redrawn (-dr*n"); p. pr. & vb. n. Redrawing.]
Defn: To draw again; to make a second draft or copy of; to redraft.
REDRAW Re*draw", v. i. (Com.)
Defn: To draw a new bill of exchange, as the holder of a protested bill, on the drawer or indorsers.
REDRESS Re*dress" (r*drs"), v. t. Etym: [Pref. re- + dress.]
Defn: To dress again.
REDRESS Re*dress" (r*drs"), v. t. Etym: [F. redresser to straighten; pref. re- re- + dresser to raise, arrange. See Dress.]
1. To put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise. [R.] The common profit could she redress. Chaucer. In yonder spring of roses intermixed With myrtle, find what to redress till noon. Milton. Your wish that I should redress a certain paper which you had prepared. A. Hamilton.
2. To set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an injury; to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from. Those wrongs, those bitter injuries, . . . I doubt not but with honor to redress. Shak.
3. To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon. "'T is thine, O king! the afflicted to redress." Dryden. Will Gaul or Muscovite redress ye Byron.
REDRESS Re*dress", n.
1. The act of redressing; a making right; reformation; correction; amendment. [R.] Reformation of evil laws is commendable, but for us the more necessary is a speedy redress of ourselves. Hooker.
2. A setting right, as of wrong, injury, or opression; as, the redress of grievances; hence, relief; remedy; reparation; indemnification. Shak. A few may complain without reason; but there is occasion for redress when the cry is universal. Davenant.
3. One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser. Fair majesty, the refuge and redress Of those whom fate pursues and wants oppress. Dryden.
REDRESSAL Re*dress"al (r*drs"al), n.
Defn: Redress.
REDRESSER Re*dress"er (-r), n.
Defn: One who redresses.
REDRESSIBLE Re*dress"i*ble (-*b'l), a.
Defn: Such as may be redressed.
REDRESSIVE Re*dress"ive (-v), a.
Defn: Tending to redress. Thomson.
REDRESSLESS Re*dress"less, a.
Defn: Not having redress; such as can not be redressed; irremediable. Sherwood.
REDRESSMENT Re*dress"ment (-ment), n. Etym: [Cf. F. redressement.]
Defn: The act of redressing; redress. Jefferson.
RED-RIBAND Red"-rib`and (rd"rb`and), n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The European red band fish, or fireflame. See Rend fish.
REDROOT Red"root` (rd"rt`), n. (Bot.)
Defn: A name of several plants having red roots, as the New Jersey tea (see under Tea), the gromwell, the bloodroot, and the Lachnanthes tinctoria, an endogenous plant found in sandy swamps from Rhode Island to Florida.
REDSEAR Red`sear" (rd`sr"), v. i.
Defn: To be brittle when red-hot; to be red-short. Moxon.
REDSHANK Red"shank` (rd"shnk`), n.
1. (Zoöl.) (a) A common Old World limicoline bird (Totanus calidris), having the legs and feet pale red. The spotted redshank (T. fuscus) is larger, and has orange-red legs. Called also redshanks, redleg, and clee. (b) The fieldfare.
2. A bare-legged person; -- a contemptuous appellation formerly given to the Scotch Highlanders, in allusion to their bare legs. Spenser.
RED-SHORT Red"-short` (-shrt`), a. (Metal.)
Defn: Hot-short; brittle when red-hot; -- said of certain kinds of iron. -- Red"-short`ness, n.
REDSKIN Red"skin` (-skn`), n.
Defn: A common appellation for a North American Indian; -- so called from the color of the skin. Cooper.
REDSTART Red"start` (-strt`), n. Etym: [Red + start tail.] (Zoöl.) (a) A small, handsome European singing bird (Ruticilla phoenicurus), allied to the nightingale; -- called also redtail, brantail, fireflirt, firetail. The black redstart is P.tithys. The name is also applied to several other species of Ruticilla amnd allied genera, native of India. (b) An American fly-catching warbler (Setophaga ruticilla). The male is black, with large patches of orange-red on the sides, wings, and tail. The female is olive, with yellow patches.
REDSTREAK Red"streak` (-strk`), n.
1. A kind of apple having the skin streaked with red and yellow, -- a favorite English cider apple. Mortimer.
2. Cider pressed from redstreak apples.
REDTAIL Red"tail` (-tl`), n. (Zoöl.) (a) The red-tailed hawk. (b) The European redstart.
RED-TAILED Red"-tailed` (-tld`), a.
Defn: Having a red tail. Red-tailed hawk (Zoöl.), a large North American hawk (Buteo borealis). When adult its tail is chestnut red. Called also hen hawck, and red-tailed buzzard.
RED-TAPE Red"-tape` (-tp`), a.
Defn: Pertaining to, or characterized by, official formality. See Red tape, under Red, a.
RED-TAPISM Red`-tap"ism (rd`tp"z'm), n.
Defn: Strict adherence to official formalities. J. C. Shairp.
RED-TAPIST Red`-tap"ist, n.
Defn: One who is tenacious of a strict adherence to official formalities. Ld. Lytton.
REDTHROAT Red"throat` (rd"thrt`), n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A small Australian singing bird (Phyrrholæmus brunneus). The upper parts are brown, the center of the throat red.
REDTOP Red"top` (-tp`), n. (Bot.)
Defn: A kind of grass (Agrostis vulgaris) highly valued in the United States for pasturage and hay for cattle; -- called also English grass, and in some localities herd's grass. See Illustration in Appendix. The tall redtop is Triodia seslerioides.
REDUB Re*dub" (r*db"), v. t. Etym: [F. radouber to refit or repair.]
Defn: To refit; to repair, or make reparation for; hence, to repay or requite. [Obs.] It shall be good that you redub that negligence. Wyatt. God shall give power to redub it with some like requital to the French. Grafton.
REDUCE Re*duce" (re*dus"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reduced (-dust"),; p. pr. & vb. n. Reducing (-du"sîng).] Etym: [L. reducere, reductum; pref. red- . re-, re- + ducere to lead. See Duke, and cf. Redoubt, n.]
1. To bring or lead back to any former place or condition. [Obs.] And to his brother's house reduced his wife. Chapman. The sheep must of necessity be scattered, unless the great Shephered of souls oppose, or some of his delegates reduce and direct us. Evelyn.
2. To bring to any inferior state, with respect to rank, size, quantity, quality, value, etc.; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; to impair; as, to reduce a sergeant to the ranks; to reduce a drawing; to reduce expenses; to reduce the intensity of heat. "An ancient but reduced family." Sir W. Scott. Nothing so excellent but a man may fasten upon something belonging to it, to reduce it. Tillotson. Having reduced Their foe to misery beneath their fears. Milton. Hester Prynne was shocked at the condition to which she found the clergyman reduced. Hawthorne.
3. To bring to terms; to humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture; as, to reduce a province or a fort.
4. To bring to a certain state or condition by grinding, pounding, kneading, rubbing, etc.; as, to reduce a substance to powder, or to a pasty mass; to reduce fruit, wood, or paper rags, to pulp. It were but right And equal to reduce me to my dust. Milton.
5. To bring into a certain order, arrangement, classification, etc.; to bring under rules or within certain limits of descriptions and terms adapted to use in computation; as, to reduce animals or vegetables to a class or classes; to reduce a series of observations in astronomy; to reduce language to rules.
6. (Arith.) (a) To change, as numbers, from one denomination into another without altering their value, or from one denomination into others of the same value; as, to reduce pounds, shillings, and pence to pence, or to reduce pence to pounds; to reduce days and hours to minutes, or minutes to days and hours. (b) To change the form of a quantity or expression without altering its value; as, to reduce fractions to their lowest terms, to a common denominator, etc.
7. (Chem.)
Defn: To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from their ores; -- opposed to Ant: oxidize.
8. (Med.)
Defn: To restore to its proper place or condition, as a displaced organ or part; as, to reduce a dislocation, a fracture, or a hernia. Reduced iron (Chem.), metallic iron obtained through deoxidation of an oxide of iron by exposure to a current of hydrogen or other reducing agent. When hydrogen is used the product is called also iron by hydrogen. -- To reduce an equation (Alg.), to bring the unknown quantity by itself on one side, and all the known quantities on the other side, without destroying the equation. -- To reduce an expression (Alg.), to obtain an equivalent expression of simpler form. -- To reduce a square (Mil.), to reform the line or column from the square.
Syn. -- To diminish; lessen; decrease; abate; shorten; curtail; impair; lower; subject; subdue; subjugate; conquer.
REDUCEMENT Re*duce"ment (r*ds"ment), n.
Defn: Reduction. Milton.
REDUCENT Re*du"cent (r*d"sent), a. Etym: [L. reducens, p. pr. of reducere.]
Defn: Tending to reduce. -- n.
Defn: A reducent agent.
REDUCER Re*du"cer (-sr), n.
Defn: One who, or that which, reduces.
REDUCIBLE Re*du"ci*ble (-s*b'll), a.
Defn: Capable of being reduced.
REDUCIBLENESS Re*du"ci*ble*ness, n.
Defn: Quality of being reducible.
REDUCING Re*du"cing (r*d"sng),
Defn: a & n. from Reduce. Reducing furnace (Metal.), a furnace for reducing ores. -- Reducing pipe fitting, a pipe fitting, as a coupling, an elbow, a tee, etc., for connecting a large pipe with a smaller one. -- Reducing valve, a device for automatically maintaining a diminished pressure of steam, air, gas, etc., in a pipe, or other receiver, which is fed from a boiler or pipe in which the pressure is higher than is desired in the receiver.
REDUCT Re*duct" (r*dkt"), v. t.. Etym: [L.reductus, p. p. of reducere. See Reduce.]
Defn: To reduce. [Obs.] W. Warde.
REDUCTIBILITY Re*duc`ti*bil"i*ty (r*dk`t*bl"*t), n.
Defn: The quality of being reducible; reducibleness.
REDUCTION Re*duc"tion (r*dk"shn), n. Etym: [F. réduction, L. reductio. See Reduce.]
1. The act of reducing, or state of being reduced; conversion to a given state or condition; diminution; conquest; as, the reduction of a body to powder; the reduction of things to order; the reduction of the expenses of government; the reduction of a rebellious province.
2. (Arith. & Alq.)
Defn: The act or process of reducing. See Reduce, v. t., 6. and To reduce an equation, To reduce an expression, under Reduce, v. t.
3. (Astron.) (a) The correction of observations for known errors of instruments, etc. (b) The preparation of the facts and measurements of observations in order to deduce a general result.
4. The process of making a copy of something, as a figure, design, or draught, on a smaller scale, preserving the proper proportions. Fairholt.
5. (Logic)
Defn: The bringing of a syllogism in one of the so-called imperfect modes into a mode in the first figure.
6. (Chem. & Metal.)
Defn: The act, process, or result of reducing; as, the reduction of iron from its ores; the reduction of aldehyde from alcohol.
7. (Med.)
Defn: The operation of restoring a dislocated or fractured part to its former place. Reduction ascending (Arith.), the operation of changing numbers of a lower into others of a higher denomination, as cents to dollars. -- Reduction descending (Arith.), the operation of changing numbers of a higher into others of a lower denomination, as dollars to cents.
Syn. -- Diminution; decrease; abatement; curtailment; subjugation; conquest; subjection.
REDUCTIVE Re*duc"tive (-tv), a. Etym: [Cf. F. réductif.]
Defn: Tending to reduce; having the power or effect of reducing. -- n.
Defn: A reductive agent. Sir M. Hale.
REDUCTIVELY Re*duc"tive*ly, adv.
Defn: By reduction; by consequence.
REDUIT Ré`duit" (r`dw"), n. Etym: [F. See Redoubt, n. ] (Fort.)
Defn: A central or retired work within any other work.
REDUNDANCE; REDUNDANCY Re*dun"dance, Re*dun"dan*cy, n. Etym: [L. redundantia: cf. F. redondance.]
1. The quality or state of being redundant; superfluity; superabundance; excess.
2. That which is redundant or in excess; anything superfluous or superabundant. Labor . . . throws off redundacies. Addison.
3. (Law)
Defn: Surplusage inserted in a pleading which may be rejected by the court without impairing the validity of what remains.
REDUNDANT Re*dun"dant (-dant), a. Etym: [L. redundans, -antis, p. pr. of redundare: cf. F. redondant. See Redound.]
1. Exceeding what is natural or necessary; superabundant; exuberant; as, a redundant quantity of bile or food. Notwithstanding the redundant oil in fishes, they do not increase fat so much as flesh. Arbuthnot.
2. Using more worrds or images than are necessary or useful; pleonastic. Where an suthor is redundant, mark those paragraphs to be retrenched. I. Watts.
Syn. -- Superfluous; superabundant; excessive; exuberant; overflowing; plentiful; copious.
REDUNDANTLY Re*dun"dant*ly (r*dn"dant*l), adv.
Defn: In a refundant manner.
REDUPLICATE Re*du"pli*cate (r*d"pl*kt), a. Etym: [Pref. re- + duplicate: cf. L. reduplicatus. Cf. Redouble.]
1. Double; doubled; reduplicative; repeated.
2. (Bot.)
Defn: Valvate with the margins curved outwardly; -- said of the
REDUPLICATE Re*du"pli*cate (-kt), v. t. Etym: [Cf. LL. reduplicare.]
1. To redouble; to multiply; to repeat.
2. (Gram.)
Defn: To repeat the first letter or letters of (a word). See Reduplication,3.
REDUPLICATION Re*du`pli*ca"tion (-kshn), n. Etym: [Cf. F. réduplication, L. reduplicatio repetition.]
1. The act of doubling, or the state of being doubled.
2. (Pros.) A figure in which the first word of a verse is the same as the last word of the preceding verse.
3. (Philol.)
Defn: The doubling of a stem or syllable (more or less modified), with the effect of changing the time expressed, intensifying the meaning, or making the word more imitative; also, the syllable thus added; as, L. tetuli; poposci.
REDUPLICATIVE Re*du"pli*ca*tive (-k*tv), a. Etym: [Cf. F. réduplicatif.]
Defn: Double; formed by reduplication; reduplicate. I. Watts.
REDUVID Red"u*vid (rd"*vd), n. Etym: [L. reduvia a hangnail.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: Any hemipterous insect of the genus Redivius, or family Reduvidæ. They live by sucking the blood of other insects, and some species also attack man.
REDWEED Red"weed` (rêd"wed`), n. (Bot.)
Defn: The red poppy (Papaver Rhoeas). Dr. Prior.
REDWING Red"wing` (-wng`), n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A European thrush (Turdus iliacus). Its under wing coverts are orange red. Called also redwinged thrush. (b) A North American passerine bird (Agelarius phoeniceus) of the family Icteridæ. The male is black, with a conspicuous patch of bright red, bordered with orange, on each wing. Called also redwinged blackbird, red-winged troupial, marsh blackbird, and swamp blackbird.
REDWITHE Red"withe` (rd"wth`), n. (Bot.)
Defn: A west Indian climbing shrub (Combretum Jacquini) with slender reddish branchlets.
REDWOOD Red"wood` (-wood`), n. (Bot.) (a) A gigantic coniferous tree (Sequoia sempervirens) of California, and its light and durable reddish timber. See Sequoia. (b) An East Indian dyewood, obtained from Pterocarpus santalinus, Cæsalpinia Sappan, and several other trees.
Note: The redwood of Andaman is Pterocarpus dalbergioides; that of some parts of tropical America, several species of Erythoxylum; that of Brazil, the species of Humirium.
REE Ree (re), n. Etym: [Pg. real, pl. reis. See Real the money.]
Defn: See Rei.
REE Ree, v. t. Etym: [Cf. Prov. G. r, raden, raiten. Cf. Riddle a sieve.]
Defn: To riddle; to sift; to separate or throw off. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Mortimer.
REEBOK Ree"bok` (r"bk`), n. Etym: [D., literally, roebuck.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: The peele. [Written also rehboc and rheeboc.]
REECHO; RE-ECHO Re*ech"o, v. t.
Defn: To echo back; to reverberate again; as, the hills reëcho the roar of cannon.
REECHO Re*ëch"o, v. i.
Defn: To give echoes; to return back, or be reverberated, as an echo; to resound; to be resonant. And a loud groan reëchoes from the main. Pope.
REECHO Re*ëch"o, n.
Defn: The echo of an echo; a repeated or second echo.
REECHY Reech"y (rch"), a. Etym: [See Reeky.]
Defn: Smoky; reeky; hence, begrimed with dirt. [Obs.]
REED Reed (rd), a.
Defn: Red. [Obs.] Chaucer.
REED Reed, v. & n.
Defn: Same as Rede. [Obs.] Chaucer.
REED Reed, n.
Defn: The fourth stomach of a ruminant; rennet. [Prov. Eng. or Scot.]
REED Reed, n. Etym: [AS. hre; akin to D. riet, G. riet, ried, OHG. kriot, riot.]
1. (Bot.)
Defn: A name given to many tall and coarse grasses or grasslike plants, and their slender, often jointed, stems, such as the various kinds of bamboo, and especially the common reed of Europe and North America (Phragmites communis).
2. A musical instrument made of the hollow joint of some plant; a rustic or pastoral pipe. Arcadian pipe, the pastoral reed Of Hermes. Milton.
3. An arrow, as made of a reed. Prior.
4. Straw prepared for thatching a roof. [Prov. Eng.]
5. (Mus.) (a) A small piece of cane or wood attached to the mouthpiece of certain instruments, and set in vibration by the breath. In the clarinet it is a single fiat reed; in the oboe and bassoon it is double, forming a compressed tube. (b) One of the thin pieces of metal, the vibration of which produce the tones of a melodeon, accordeon, harmonium, or seraphine; also attached to certain sets or registers of pipes in an organ.
6. (Weaving)
Defn: A frame having parallel flat stripe of metal or reed, between which the warp threads pass, set in the swinging lathe or batten of a loom for beating up the weft; a sley. See Batten.
7. (Mining)
Defn: A tube containing the train of powder for igniting the charge in blasting.
8. (Arch.)
Defn: Same as Reeding. Egyptian reed (Bot.), the papyrus. -- Free reed (Mus.), a reed whose edges do not overlap the wind passage, -- used in the harmonium, concertina, etc. It is distinguished from the beating or striking reed of the organ and clarinet. -- Meadow reed grass (Bot.), the Glyceria aquatica, a tall grass found in wet places. -- Reed babbler. See Reedbird. -- Reed bunting (Zoöl.) A European sparrow (Emberiza schoeniclus) which frequents marshy places; -- called also reed sparrow, ring bunting. (b) Reedling. -- Reed canary grass (Bot.), a tall wild grass (Phalaris arundinacea). -- Reed grass. (Bot.) (a) The common reed. See Reed, 1. (b) A plant of the genus Sparganium; bur reed. See under Bur. -- Reed organ (Mus.), an organ in which the wind acts on a set of free reeds, as the harmonium, melodeon, concertina, etc. -- Reed pipe (Mus.), a pipe of an organ furnished with a reed. -- Reed sparrow. (Zoöl.) See Reed bunting, above. -- Reed stop (Mus.), a set of pipes in an organ furnished with reeds. -- Reed warbler. (Zoöl.) (a) A small European warbler (Acrocephalus streperus); -- called also reed wren. (b) Any one of several species of Indian and Australian warblers of the genera Acrocephalus, Calamoherpe, and Arundinax. They are excellent singers. -- Sea-sand reed (Bot.), a kind of coarse grass (Ammophila arundinacea). See Beach grass, under Beach. -- Wood reed grass (Bot.), a tall, elegant grass (Cinna arundinacea), common in moist woods.
REEDBIRD Reed"bird` (rd"brd`), n. (Zoöl.) (a) The bobolink. (b) One of several small Asiatic singing birds of the genera Schoenicola and Eurycercus; -- called also reed babbler.
REEDBUCK Reed"buck" (-bk`), n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: See Rietboc.
REEDED Reed"ed, a.
1. Civered with reeds; reedy. Tusser.
2. Formed with channels and ridges like reeds.
REEDEN Reed"en (rd"'n), a.
Defn: Consisting of a reed or reeds. Through reeden pipes convey the golden flood. Dryden.
REEDIFICATION Re*ëd`i*fi*ca"tion (r*d`*f*k"shn), n. Etym: [Cf. F. ré\'82dification. See Reëdify.]
Defn: The act reëdifying; the state of being reëdified.
REEDIFY Re*ëd"i*fy (r*d"*ff), v. t. Etym: [Pref. re- + edify: cf. F. ré\'82difier, L. reaedificare.]
Defn: To edify anew; to build again after destruction. [R.] Milton.
REEDING Reed"ing (rd"ng), n. Etym: [From 4th Reed.]
1. (Arch.)
Defn: A small convex molding; a reed (see Illust. (i) of Molding); one of several set close together to decorate a surface; also, decoration by means of reedings; -- the reverse of fluting.
Note: Several reedings are often placed together, parallel to each other, either projecting from, or inserted into, the adjining surface. The decoration so produced is then called, in general, reeding.
2. The nurling on the edge of a coin; -- commonly called milling.
REEDLESS Reed"less, a.
Defn: Destitute of reeds; as, reedless banks.
REEDLING Reed"ling (-lng), n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The European bearded titmouse (Panurus biarmicus); -- called also reed bunting, bearded pinnock, and lesser butcher bird.
Note: It is orange brown, marked with black, white, and yellow on the wings. The male has a tuft of black feathers on each side of the face.
REED-MACE Reed"-mace` (-ms`), n. (Bot.)
Defn: The cat-tail.
REEDWORK Reed"work` (-wrk`), n. (Mus.)
Defn: A collective name for the reed stops of an organ.
REEDY Reed"y (-), a.
1. Abounding with reeds; covered with reeds. "A reedy pool." Thomson .
2. Having the quality of reed in tone, that is,
REEF Reef (rf), n. Etym: [Akin to D. rif, G. riff, Icel. rif, Dan. rev; cf. Icel. rifa rift, rent, fissure, rifa to rive, bear. Cf. Rift, Rive.]
1. A chain or range of rocks lying at or near the surface of the water. See Coral reefs, under Coral.
2. (Mining.)
Defn: A large vein of auriferous quartz; -- so called in Australia. Hence, any body of rock yielding valuable ore. Reef builder (Zoöl.), any stony coral which contributes material to the formation of coral reefs. -- Reef heron (Zoöl.), any heron of the genus Demigretta; as, the blue reef heron (D.jugularis) of Australia.
REEF Reef, n. Etym: [Akin to D. reef, G. reff, Sw. ref; cf. Icel. rif reef, rifa to basten together. Cf. Reeve, v. t., River.] (Naut.)
Defn: That part of a sail which is taken in or let out by means of the reef points, in order to adapt the size of the sail to the force of the wind.
Note: From the head to the first reef-band, in square sails, is termed the first reef; from this to the next is the second reef; and so on. In fore-and-aft sails, which reef on the foot, the first reef is the lowest part. Totten. Close reef, the last reef that can be put in. -- Reef band. See Reef-band in the Vocabulary. -- Reef knot, the knot which is used in tying reef pointss. See Illust. under Knot. -- Reef line, a small rope formerly used to reef the courses by being passed spirally round the yard and through the holes of the reef. Totten. -- Reef pioints, pieces of small rope passing through the eyelet holes of a reef-band, and used reefing the sail. -- Reef tackle, a tackle by which the reef cringles, or rings, of a sail are hauled up to the yard for reefing. Totten. -- To take a reef in, to reduce the size of (a sail) by folding or rolling up a reef, and lashing it to the spar.
REEF Reef, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reefed (reft); p. pr. & vb. n. Reefing.] (Naut.)
Defn: To reduce the extent of (as a sail) by roiling or folding a certain portion of it and making it fast to the yard or spar. Totten. To reef the paddles, to move the floats of a paddle wheel toward its center so that they will not dip so deeply.
REEF-BAND Reef"-band` (rf"bnd`), n. (Naut.)
Defn: A piece of canvas sewed across a sail to strengthen it in the part where the eyelet holes for reefing are made. Totten.
REEFER Reef"er (-r), n.
1. (Naut.)
Defn: One who reefs; -- a name often given to midshipmen. Marryat.
2. A close-fitting lacket or short coat of thick cloth.
REEFING Reef"ing, n. (Naut.)
Defn: The process of taking in a reef. Reefing bowsprit, a bowsprit so rigged that it can easily be run in or shortened by sliding inboard, as in cutters.
REEFY Reef"y (-), a.
Defn: Full of reefs or rocks.
REEK Reek (rek), n.
Defn: A rick. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
REEK Reek, n. Etym: [AS. r; akin to OFries. r, LG. & D. rook, G. rauch, OHG. rouh, Dan. rr, Icel. reykr, and to AS. re to reek, smoke, Icel. rj, G. riechen to smell.]
Defn: Vapor; steam; smoke; fume. As hateful to me as the reek of a limekiln. Shak.
REEK Reek, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Reeked (rkt); p. pr. & vb. n. Reeking.] Etym: [As. r. See Reek vapor..]
Defn: To emit vapor, usually that which is warm and moist; to be full of fumes; to steam; to smoke; to exhale. Few chimneys reeking you shall espy. Spenser. I found me laid In balmy sweat, which with his beams the sun Soon dried, and on the reeking moisture fed. Milton. The coffee rooms reeked with tobacco. Macualay.
REEKY Reek"y (-), a. Etym: [From 2d Reek; cf. Reechy.]
1. Soiled with smoke or steam; smoky; foul. Shak.
2. Emitting reek. "Reeky fen." Sir W. Scott.
REEL Reel (rl), n. Etym: [Gael. righil.]
Defn: A lively dance of the Highlanders of Scotland; also, the music to the dance; -- often called Scotch reel. Virginia reel, the common name throughout the United States for the old English "country dance," or contradance (contredanse). Bartlett.
REEL Reel, n. Etym: [AS. kre: cf. Icel. kr a weaver's reed or sley.]
1. A frame with radial arms, or a kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound; as, a log reel, used by seamen; an angler's reel; a garden reel.
2. A machine on which yarn is wound and measured into lays and hanks, -- for cotton or linen it is fifty-four inches in circuit; for worsted, thirty inches. McElrath.
3. (Agric.)
Defn: A device consisting of radial arms with horizontal stats, connected with a harvesting machine, for holding the stalks of grain in position to be cut by the knives. Reel oven, a baker's oven in which bread pans hang suspended from the arms of a kind of reel revolving on a horizontal axis. Knight.
REEL Reel, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reeled (rld); p. pr. & vb. n. Reeling. ]
1. To roll. [Obs.] And Sisyphus an huge round stone did reel. Spenser.
2. To wind upon a reel, as yarn or thread.
REEL Reel, v. i. Etym: [Cf. Sw. ragla. See 2d Reel.]
1. To incline, in walking, from one side to the other; to stagger. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man. Ps. cvii. 27. He, with heavy fumes oppressed, Reeled from the palace, and retired to rest. Pope. The wagons reeling under the yellow sheaves. Macualay.
2. To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy. In these lengthened vigils his brain often reeled. Hawthorne.
REEL Reel, n.
Defn: The act or motion of reeling or staggering; as, a drunken reel. Shak.
REELECT Re`ë*lect" (r`*lkt"), v. t.
Defn: To elect again; as, to reëlect the former governor.
REELECTION Re`ë*lec"tion (-lk"shn), n.
Defn: Election a second time, or anew; as, the reëlection of a former chief.
REELER Reel"er (rl"r), n.
1. One who reels.
2. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The grasshopper warbler; -- so called from its note. [Prov. Eng.]
REELIGIBLE Re*ël"i*gi*ble (r*l"*b'l), a.
Defn: Eligble again; capable of reëlection; as, reëligible to the same office. -- Re*ël`i*gi*bil"i*ty (r, n.
REEM Reem (rm), n. Etym: [Heb.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: The Hebrew name of a horned wild animal, probably the Urus.
Note: In King James's Version it is called unicorn; in the Revised Version,wild ox. Job xxxix. 9.
REEM Reem, v. t. Etym: [Cf. Ream to make a hole in.] (Naut.)
Defn: To open (the seams of a vessel's planking) for the purpose of calking them. Reeming iron (Naut.), an iron chisel for reeming the seams of planks in calking ships.
REEMBARK Re`ëm*bark" (r`m*brk"), v. t. & i.
Defn: To put, or go, on board a vessel again; to embark again.
REEMBARKATION Re*ëm`bar*ka"tion (r*m`br*k"shn), n.
Defn: A putting, or going, on board a vessel again.
REEMBODY Re`ëm*bod"y (r`m*bd"), v. t.
Defn: To embody again.
REEMBRACE Re`ëm*brace" (-brs"), v. i.
Defn: To embrace again.
REEMERGE Re`ë*merge" (r`*mrj"), v. i.
Defn: To emerge again.
REEMERGENCE Re`ë*mer"gence (-mr"jens), n.
Defn: Act of re
REENACT Re`ën*act" (r`n*kt") v. t.
Defn: To enact again.
REENACTION Re`ën*ac"tion (-k"shn), n.
Defn: The act of re
REENACTMENT Re`ën*act"ment (-kt"ment), n.
Defn: The enacting or passing of a law a second time; the renewal of a law.
REENCOURAGE Re`ën*cour"age (-kr"j;), v. t.
Defn: To encourage again.
REENDOW Re`ën*dow" (-dou"), v. t.
Defn: To endow again.
REENFORCE Re`ën*force" (-frs") v. t. Etym: [Pref. re- + enforce: cf. F. renforcer.]
Defn: To strengthen with new force, assistance, material, or support; as, to reënforce an argument; to reënforce a garment; especially, to strengthen with additional troops, as an army or a fort, or with additional ships, as a fleet. [Written also reinforce.]
REENFORCE Re`ën*force", n. Etym: [See Reënforce, v., and cf. Ranforce, Reinforce.]
Defn: Something which reënforces or strengthens. Specifically: (a) That part of a cannon near the breech which is thicker than the rest of the piece, so as better to resist the force of the exploding powder. See Illust. of Cannon. (b) An additional thickness of canvas, cloth, or the like, around an eyelet, buttonhole, etc.
REENFORCED CONCRETE Reënforced concrete.
Defn: Concrete having within its mass a system of strengthening iron or steel supports. = Ferro-concrete.
REENFORCEMENT Re`ën*force"ment (r`n*frs"ment), n.
1. The act of reënforcing, or the state of being reënforced.
2. That which reënforces; additional force; especially, additional troops or force to augment the strength of any army, or ships to strengthen a navy or fleet.
REENGAGE Re`ën*gage" (-gj), v. t. & i.
Defn: To engage a second time or again.
REENGAGEMENT Re`ën*gage"ment (-ment), n.
Defn: A renewed or repeated engagement.
REENGRAVE Re`ën*grave" (-grv"), v. t.
Defn: To engrave anew.
REENJOY Re`ën*joy" (-joi"), v. i.
Defn: To enjoi anew. Pope.
REENJOYMENT Re`ën*joy"ment (-ment), n.
Defn: Renewed enjoiment.
REENKINDLE Re`ën*kin"dle (-kn"d'l), v. t.
Defn: To enkindle again.
REENLIST Re`ën*list" (-lst"), v. t. & i.
Defn: To enlist again.
REENLISTMENT Re`ën*list"ment (-ment), n.
Defn: A renewed enlistment.
REENSLAVE Re`ën*slave" (-slv") v. t.
Defn: To enslave again.
REENTER Re*ën"ter (r*n"tr), v. t.
1. To enter again.
2. (Engraving)
Defn: To cut deeper, as engraved lines on a plate of metal, when the engraving has not been deep enough, or the plate has become worn in printing.
REENTER Re*ën"ter, v. i.
Defn: To enter anew or again. Reëntering angle, an angle of a polygon pointing inward, as a, in the cut. -- Reëntering polygon, a polygon having one or more reëntering angles.
REENTERING Re*ën"ter*ing, n. (Calico Printing.)
Defn: The process of applying additional colors, by applications of printing blocks, to patterns already partly colored.
REENTHRONE Re`ën*throne" (-thrn"), v. t.
Defn: To enthrone again; to replace on a throne.
REENTHRONEMENT Re`ën*throne"ment (-ment), n.
Defn: A second enthroning.
REENTRANCE Re*ën"trance (r*n"trans), n.
Defn: The act entereing again; re Hooker.
REENTRANT Re*ën"trant (-trant), a.
Defn: Reëntering; pointing or directed inwardds; as, a re angle.
REENTRY Re*ën"try (-tr), n.
1. A second or new entry; as, a reëntry into public life.
2. (Law)
Defn: A resuming or retaking possession of what one has lately foregone; -- applied especially to land; the entry by a lessor upon the premises leased, on failure of the tenant to pay rent or perform the covenants in the lease. Burrill. Card of reëtry, (Whist), a card that by winning a trick will bring one the lead at an advanced period of the hand.
REERECT Re`ë*rect" (r`*rkt"), v. t.
Defn: To erect again.
REERMOUSE Reer"mouse` (rr"mous`), n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: See Rearmouse.
REESTABLISH Re`ës*tab"lish (r`s*tb"lsh), v. t.
Defn: To establish anew; to fix or confirm again; to restore; as, to reëstablish a covenant; to reëstablish health.
REESTABLISHER Re`ës*tab"lish*er (-r), n.
Defn: One who establishes again.
REESTABLISHMENT Re`ës*tab"lish*ment (-mnt), n.
Defn: The act reëstablishing; the state of being reëstablished. Addison.
REESTATE Re`ës*tate" (-tt), v. t.
Defn: To reëstablish. [Obs.] Walis.
REEVE Reeve (rv), n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The female of the ruff.
REEVE Reeve, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rove (rv); p. pr. & vb. n. Reeving.] Etym: [Cf. D. reven. See Reef, n. & v. t.] (Naut.)
Defn: To pass, as the end of a pope, through any hole in a block, thimble, cleat, ringbolt, cringle, or the like.
REEVE Reeve, n. Etym: [OE. reve, AS. ger. Cf. Sheriff.]
Defn: an officer, steward, bailiff, or governor; -- used chiefly in compounds; as, shirereeve, now written sheriff; portreeve, etc. Chaucer. Piers Plowman.
REEXAMINABLE Re`ëx*am"i*na*ble (r`gz*m"*n*b'l), a.
Defn: Admitting of being reëxamined or reconsidered. Story.
REEXAMINATION Re`ëx*am`i*na"tion (-*n"shn), n.
Defn: A repeated examination. See under Examination.
REEXAMINE Re`ëx*am"ine (--n), v. t.
Defn: To examine anew. Hooker.
REEXCHANGE Re`ëx*change" (r`ks*chnj"), v. t.
Defn: To exchange anew; to reverse (a previous exchange).
REEXCHANGE Re`ëx*change" n.
1. A renewed exchange; a reversal of an exchange.
2. (Com.)
Defn: The expense chargeable on a bill of exchange or draft which has been dishonored in a foreign country, and returned to the country in which it was made or indorsed, and then taken up. Bouvier. The rate of reëxchange is regulated with respect to the drawer, at the course of exchange between the place where the bill of exchange was payable, and the place where it was drawn. Reëxchange can not be cumulated. Walsh.
REEXHIBIT Re`ëx*hib"it (r`gz*b"t or -ks*hb"t) v. t.
Defn: To exhibit again.
REEXPEL Re`ëx*pel" (r`ks*pl"), v. t.
Defn: To expel again.
REEXPERIENCE Re`ëx*pe"ri*ence (-p`r-ens), n.
Defn: A renewed or repeated experience.
REEXPORT Re`ëx*port" (-prt"), v. t.
Defn: To export again, as what has been imported.
REEXPORT Re*ëx"port (r*ks"prt), n/
Defn: Any commodity reëxported; -- chiefly in the ptural.
REEXPORTATION Re*ëx`por*ta"tion (-pr*t"shn), n.
Defn: The act of reëxporting, or of exporting an import. A. Smith.
REEXPULSION Re`ëx*pul"sion (r`ks*pl"shn), n.
Defn: Renewed or repeated expulsion. Fuller.
REEXPULSION Re`ëx*pul"sion (r`ks*pl"shn), n.
Defn: Renewed or repeated expulsion. Fuller.
REEZED Reezed (rzd), a.
Defn: Grown rank; rancid; rusty. [Obs.] "Reezed bacon." Marston.
REFACTION Re*fac"tion (r*fk"shn), n. Etym: [See Refection.]
Defn: Recompense; atonemet; retribution. [Obs.] Howell.
REFAIT Re*fait", n. [F.] (Card Playing)
Defn: A drawn game; specif. (Trente et quarante),
Defn: a state of the game in which the aggregate pip value of cards dealt to red equals that of those dealt to black. All bets are then off; unless the value is 31, in which case the banker wins half the stakes.
REFAR Re*far" (r*fr"), v. t. Etym: [Cf. F. refaire to do over again.]
Defn: To go over again; to repeat. [Obs.] To him therefore this wonder done refar. Fairfax.
REFASHION Re*fash"ion (r*fsh"n), v. t.
Defn: To fashion anew; to form or mold into shape a second time. MacKnight.
REFASHIONMENT Re*fash"ion*ment (-ment), n.
Defn: The act of refashioning, or the state of being refashioned. [R.] Leigh Hunt.
REFASTEN Re*fas"ten (r*fs"'n), v. t.
Defn: To fasten again.
REFECT Re*fect" (r*fkt), v. t. Etym: [L. refectus, p. p. of reficere; pref. re- re- + facere to make.]
Defn: To restore after hunger or fatique; to refresh. [Archaic] Sir T. Browne.
REFECTION Re*fec"tion (r*fk"shn), n. Etym: [L. refectio: cf. F. réfection. See Refect, Fact.]
Defn: Refreshment after hunger or fatique; a repast; a lunch. [His] feeble spirit inly felt refection. Spenser. Those Attic nights, and those refections of the gods. Curran.
REFECTIVE Re*fec"tive (r*fk"tv), a.
Defn: Refreshing; restoring.
REFECTIVE Re*fec"tive, n.
Defn: That which refreshes.
REFECTORY Re*fec"to*ry (-t*r), n.; pl.; Refectories (-r. Etym: [LL. refectorium: cf. F. réfectoire. See Refection.]
Defn: A room for refreshment; originally, a dining hall in monasteries or convents.
Note: Sometimes pronounced r, especially when signifying the eating room in monasteries.
REFEL Re*fel" (r*fl"), v. t. Etym: [L. refellere; pref. re- re- + fallere to deceive.]
Defn: To refute; to disprove; as, to refel the tricks of a sophister. [Obs.] How he refelled me, and how I replied. Shak.
REFER Re*fer" (r*fr"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Referred (-frd); p. pr. & vb. n. Referring.] Etym: [F. référer, L. referre; pref. re- re- + ferre to bear. See Bear to carry.]
1. To carry or send back. [Obs.] Chaucer.
2. Hence: To send or direct away; to send or direct elsewhere, as for treatment, aid, infirmation, decision, etc.; to make over, or pass over, to another; as, to refer a student to an author; to refer a beggar to an officer; to refer a bill to a committee; a court refers a matter of fact to a commissioner for investigation, or refers a question of law to a superior tribunal.
3. To place in or under by a mental or rational process; to assign to, as a class, a cause, source, a motive, reason, or ground of explanation; as, he referred the phenomena to electrical disturbances. To refer one's self, to have recourse; to betake one's self; to make application; to appeal. [Obs.] I'll refer me to all things sense. Shak.
REFER Re*fer", v. i.
1. To have recourse; to apply; to appeal; to betake one's self; as, to refer to a dictionary. In suits . . . it is to refer to some friend of trust. Bacon.
2. To have relation or reference; to relate; to point; as, the figure refers to a footnote. Of those places that refer to the shutting and opening the abyss, I take notice of that in Job. Bp. Burnet.
3. To carry the mind or throught; to direct attention; as, the preacher referrd to the late election.
4. To direct inquiry for information or a quarantes of any kind, as in respect to one's integrity, capacity, pecuniary ability, and the like; as, I referred to his employer for the truth of his story.
Syn. -- To allude; advert; suggest; appeal. Refer, Allude, Advert. We refer to a thing by specifically and distinctly introducing it into our discourse. We allude to it by introducing it indirectly or indefinitely, as by something collaterally allied to it. We advert to it by turning off somewhat abruptly to consider it more at large. Thus, Macaulay refers to the early condition of England at the opening of his history; he alludes to these statements from time to time; and adverts, in the progress of his work, to various circumstances of pecullar interest, on which for a time he dwells. "But to do good is . . . that that Solomon chiefly refers to in the text." Sharp. "This, I doubt not, was that artificial structure here alluded to." T. Burnet. Now to the universal whole advert: The earth regard as of that whole a part. Blackmore.
REFERABLE Ref"er*a*ble (rf"r**b'l), a.
Defn: Capable of being referred, or considered in relation to something else; assignable; ascribable. [Written also referrible.] It is a question among philosophers, whether all the attractions which obtain between bodies are referable to one general cause. W. Nicholson.
REFEREE Ref`er*ee" (-, n.
Defn: One to whom a thing is referred; a person to whom a matter in dispute has been referred, in order that he may settle it.
Syn. -- Judge; arbitrator; umpire. See Judge.
REFERENCE Ref"er*ence (rf"r-ens), n. Etym: [See Refer.]
1. The act of referring, or the state of being referred; as, reference to a chart for quidance.
2. That which refers to something; a specific direction of the attention; as, a reference in a text-book.
3. Relation; regard; respect. Something that hath a reference to my state. Shak.
4. One who, or that which, is referred to. Specifically; (a) One of whom inquires can be made as to the integrity, capacity, and the like, of another. (b) A work, or a passage in a work, to which one is referred.
5. (Law) (a) The act of submitting a matter in dispute to the judgment of one or more persons for decision. (b) (Equity)
Defn: The process of sending any matter, for inquiry in a cause, to a master or other officer, in order that he may ascertain facts and report to the court.
6. Appeal. [R.] "Make your full reference." Shak. Reference Bible, a Bible in which brief explanations, and references to parallel passages, are printed in the margin of the text.
REFERENDARY Ref`er*en"da*ry (rf`r*n"d*r), n. Etym: [LL. referendarius, fr. L. referendus to be referred, gerundive of referre: cf. F. référendaire. See Refer.]
1. One to whose decision a cause is referred; a referee. [Obs.] Bacon.
2. An officer who delivered the royal answer to petitions. "Referendaries, or masters of request." Harmar.
3. Formerly, an officer of state charged with the duty of procuring and dispatching diplomas and decrees.
REFERENDUM Ref`er*en"dum (rf`r*n"dm), n. Etym: [Gerundive fr. L. referre. See Refer.]
1. A diplomatic agent's note asking for instructions from his government concerning a particular matter or point.
2. The right to approve or reject by popular vote a meassure passed upon by a legislature.
REFERENTIAL Ref`er*en"tial (-shal), a.
Defn: Containing a reference; pointing to something out of itself; as, notes for referential use. -- Ref`er*en"tial*ly, adv.
REFERMENT Re*fer"ment (r*fr"ment), n.
Defn: The act of referring; reference. Laud.
REFERMENT Re`*fer*ment" (r, v. t. & i.
Defn: To ferment, or cause to ferment, again. Blackmore.
RE-FERMENT Re`-fer*ment" (r`fr*mnt"), v. t. & i.
Defn: To ferment, or cause to ferment, again. Blackmore.
REFERRER Re*fer"rer (r*fr"rr), n.
Defn: One who refers.
REFERRIBLE Re*fer"ri*ble (-r*b'l), a.
Defn: Referable. Hallam.
REFIGURE Re*fig"ure (r*fg"r), v. t.
Defn: To figure again. Shak.
REFILL Re*fill" (r*fl"), v. t. & i.
Defn: To fill, or become full, again.
REFIND Re*find" (r*fnd), v. t.
Defn: To find again; to get or experience again. Sandys.
REFINE Re*fine" (r*fn"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Refined (-find"); p. pr. & vb. n. Refining.] Etym: [Pref. re- + fine to make fine: cf. F. raffiner.]
1. To reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities; to free from dross or alloy; to separate from extraneous matter; to purify; to defecate; as, to refine gold or silver; to refine iron; to refine wine or sugar. I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined. Zech. xiii. 9.
2. To purify from what is gross, coarse, vulgar, inelegant, low, and the like; to make elegant or exellent; to polish; as, to refine the manners, the language, the style, the taste, the intellect, or the moral feelings. Love refines The thoughts, and heart enlarges. Milton.
Syn. -- To purify; clarify; polish; ennoble.
REFINE Re*fine", v. i.
1. To become pure; to be cleared of feculent matter. So the pure, limpid stream, when foul with stains, Works itself clear, and, as it runs, refines. Addison.
2. To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence. Chaucer refined on Boccace, and mended his stories. Dryden. But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! How the style refines! Pope.
3. To affect nicety or subtilty in thought or language. "He makes another paragraph about our refining in controversy." Atterbury.
REFINED Re*fined" (-fnd"), a.
Defn: Freed from impurities or alloy; purifed; polished; cultured; delicate; as; refined gold; refined language; refined sentiments. Refined wits who honored poesy with their pens. Peacham. -- Re*fin"ed*ly (r, adv. -- Re*fin"ed*ness, n.
REFINEMENT Re*fine"ment (r*fn"ment), n. Etym: [Cf. F. raffinement.]
1. The act of refining, or the state of being refined; as, the refinement or metals; refinement of ideas. The more bodies are of kin to spirit in subtilty and refinement, the more diffusive are they. Norris. From the civil war to this time, I doubt whether the corruptions in our language have not equaled its refinements. Swift.
2. That which is refined, elaborated, or polished to excess; an affected subtilty; as, refinements of logic. "The refinements of irregular cunning." Rogers.
Syn. -- Purification; polish; politeness; gentility; elegance; cultivation; civilization.
REFINER Re*fin"er (-fn"r), n.
Defn: One who, or that which, refines.
REFINERY Re*fin"er*y (-), n.; pl. Refineries (-. Etym: [Cf. F. raffinerie.]
1. The building and apparatus for refining or purifying, esp. metals and sugar.
2. A furnace in which cast iron is refined by the action of a blast on the molten metal.
REFIT Re*fit" (r*ft"), v. t.
1. To fit or prepare for use again; to repair; to restore after damage or decay; as, to refit a garment; to refit ships of war. Macaulay.
2. To fit out or supply a second time.
REFIT Re*fit", v. i.
Defn: To obtain repairs or supplies; as, the fleet returned to refit.
REFITMENT Re*fit"ment (-ment), n.
Defn: The act of refitting, or the state of being refitted.
REFIX Re*fix" (r*fks"), v. t.
Defn: To fix again or anew; to establish anew. Fuller.
REFLAME Re*flame" (r*flm"), v. i.
Defn: To kindle again into flame.
REFLECT Re*flect" (r*flkt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reflected; p. pr. & vb. n. Reflecting.] Etym: [L. reflectere, reflexum; pref. re- re- + flectere to bend or turn. See Flexible, and cf. Reflex, v.]
1. To bend back; to give a backwaas, a mirror reflects rays of light; polished metals reflect heat. Let me mind the reader to reflect his eye on our quotations. Fuller. Bodies close together reflect their own color. Dryden.
2. To give back an image or likeness of; to mirror. Nature is the glass reflecting God, As by the sea reflected is the sun. Young.
REFLECT Re*flect" v. i.
1. To throw back light, heat, or the like; to return rays or beams.
2. To be sent back; to rebound as from a surface; to revert; to return. Whose virtues will, I hope, Reflect on Rome, as Titan's rays on earth. Shak.
3. To throw or turn back the thoughts upon anything; to contemplate. Specifically: To attend earnestly to what passes within the mind; to attend to the facts or phenomena of consciousness; to use attention or earnest thought; to meditate; especially, to think in relation to moral truth or rules. We can not be said to reflect upon any external object, except so far as that object has been previously perceived, and its image become part and parcel of our intellectual furniture. Sir W. Hamilton. All men are concious of the operations of their own minds, at all times, while they are awake, but there few who reflect upon them, or make them objects of thought. Reid. As I much reflected, much I mourned. Prior.
4. To cast reproach; to cause censure or dishonor. Errors of wives reflect on husbands still. Dryden. Neither do I reflect in the least upon the memory of his late majesty. Swift.
Syn. -- To consider; think; cogitate; mediate; contemplate; ponder; muse; ruminate.
REFLECTED Re*flect"ed, a.
1. Thrown back after striking a surface; as, reflected light, heat, sound, etc.
2. Hence: Not one's own; received from another; as, his glory was reflected glory.
3. Bent backward or outward; reflexed.
REFLECTENT Re*flect"ent (r*flkt"ent), a. Etym: [L. reflectens, p. pr. of reflectere. See Reflect.]
1. Bending or flying back; reflected. "The ray descendent, and the ray reflectent flying with so great a speed." Sir K. Digby.
2. Reflecting; as, a reflectent body. Sir K. Digby.
REFLECTIBLE Re*flect"i*ble (-*b'l), a.
Defn: Capable of being reflected, or thrown back; reflexible.
REFLECTING Re*flect"ing, a.
1. Throwing back light, heat, etc., as a mirror or other surface.
2. Given to reflection or serious consideration; reflective; contemplative; as, a reflecting mind. Reflecting circle, an astronomical instrument for measuring angless, like the sextant or Hadley's quadrant, by the reflection of light from two plane mirrors which it carries, and differing from the sextant chiefly in having an entire circle. -- Reflecting galvanometer, a galvanometer in which the deflections of the needle are read by means of a mirror attached to it, which reflects a ray of light or the image of a scale; -- called also mirror galvanometer. -- Reflecting goniometer. See under Goniometer. -- Reflecting telescope. See under Telescope.
REFLECTINGLY Re*flect"ing*ly, adv.
Defn: With reflection; also, with censure; reproachfully. Swift.
REFLECTION Re*flec"tion (r*flk"shn), n. Etym: [L. reflexio: cf. F. réflexion. See Riflect.] [Written also reflexion.]
1. The act of reflecting, or turning or sending back, or the state of being reflected. Specifically: (a) The return of rays, beams, sound, or the like, from a surface. See Angle of reflection, below. The eye sees not itself, But by reflection, by some other things. Shak.
(b) The reverting of the mind to that which has already occupied it; continued consideration; meditation; contemplation; hence, also, that operation or power of the mind by which it is conscious of its own acts or states; the capacity for judging rationally, especially in view of a moral rule or standard. By reflection, . . . I would be understood to mean, that notice which the mind takes of its own operations, and the manner of them, by reason whereof there come to be ideas of these operations in the understanding. Locke. This delight grows and improves under thought and reflection. South.
2. Shining; brightness, as of the sun. [Obs.] Shak.
3. That which is produced by reflection. Specifically: (a) An image given back from a reflecting surface; a reflected counterpart. As the sun water we can bear, Yet not the sun, but his reflection, there. Dryden.
(b) A part reflected, or turned back, at an angle; as, the reflection of a membrane. (c) Result of meditation; thought or opinion after attentive consideration or contemplation; especially, thoughts suggested by truth. Job's reflections on his once flourishing estate did at the same time afflict and encourage him. Atterbury.
4. Censure; reproach cast. He died; and oh! may no reflection shed Its poisonous venom on the royal dead. Prior.
5. (Physiol.)
Defn: The transference of an excitement from one nerve fiber to another by means of the nerve cells, as in reflex action. See Reflex action, under Reflex. Angle of reflection, the angle which anything, as a ray of light, on leaving a reflecting surface, makes with the perpendicular to the surface. -- Angle of total reflection. (Opt.) Same as Critical angle, under Critical.
Syn. -- Meditation; contemplation; rumination; cogitation; consideration; musing; thinking.
REFLECTIVE Re*flect"ive (r*flkt"v), a. Etym: [Cf. F. réflectif. Cf. Reflexive.]
1. Throwing back images; as, a reflective mirror. In the reflective stream the sighing bride, viewing her charms. Prior.
2. Capable of exercising thought or judgment; as, reflective reason. Prior. His perceptive and reflective faculties . . . thus acquired a precocious and extraordinary development. Motley.
3. Addicted to introspective or meditative habits; as, a reflective person.
4. (Gram.)
Defn: Reflexive; reciprocal. -- Re*flect"ive*ly, adv. -- Re*flect"ive*ness, n. "Reflectiveness of manner." J. C. Shairp.
REFLECTOR Re*flect"or (-er), n. Etym: [Cf. F. réflecteur.]
1. One who, or that which, reflects. Boyle.
2. (Physics) (a) Something having a polished surface for reflecting light or heat, as a mirror, a speculum, etc. (b) A reflecting telescope. (c) A device for reflecting sound.
REFLET Re*flet" (re*fle"), n. [F., reflection. See Reflect.]
Defn: Luster; special brilliancy of surface; -- used esp. in ceramics to denote the peculiar metallic brilliancy seen in lustered pottery such as majolica; as, silver reflet; gold reflet.
REFLEX Re"flex (r"flks), a. Etym: [L. reflexus, p. p. of reflectere: cf. F. réflexe. See Reflect.]
1. Directed back; attended by reflection; retroactive; introspective. The reflex act of the soul, or the turning of the intellectual eye inward upon its own actions. Sir M. Hale.
2. Produced in reaction, in resistance, or in return.
3. (Physiol.)
Defn: Of, pertaining to, or produced by, stimulus or excitation without the necessary intervention of consciousness. Reflex action (Physiol.), any action performed involuntarily in consequence of an impulse or impression transmitted along afferent nerves to a nerve center, from which it is reflected to an efferent nerve, and so calls into action certain muscles, organs, or cells. -- Reflex nerve (Physiol.), an excito-motory nerve. See Exito- motory.
REFLEX Re"flex (r"flks; formerly r*flks"), n. Etym: [L. reflexus a bending back. See Reflect.]
1. Reflection; the light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade. Yon gray is not the morning's eye, 'Tis but the pale reflex of Cynthia's brow. Shak. On the depths of death there swims The reflex of a human face. Tennyson.
2. (Physiol.)
Defn: An involuntary movement produced by reflex action. Patellar reflex. See Knee jerk, under Knee.
REFLEX Re*flex" (r*flks"), v. t. Etym: [L. reflexus, p. p. of reflectere. See Reflect.]
1. To reflect. [Obs.] Shak.
2. To bend back; to turn back. J. Gregory.
REFLEXED Re*flexed" (r*flkst"), a.
Defn: Bent backward or outward.
REFLEXIBILITY Re*flex`i*bil"i*ty (r*flks`*bl"*t), n. Etym: [Cf. F. réflexibilité.]
Defn: The quality or capability of being reflexible; as, the reflexibility of the rays of light. Sir I. Newton.
REFLEXIBLE Re*flex"i*ble (r*flks"*b'l), a. Etym: [CF. F. réflexible.]
Defn: Capable of being reflected, or thrown back. The light of the sun consists of rays differently refrangible and reflexible. Cheyne.
REFLEXION Re*flex"ion (-flk"shn), n.
Defn: See Reflection. Chaucer.
REFLEXITY Re*flex"i*ty (r*flks"*t), n.
Defn: The state or condition of being reflected. [R.]
REFLEXIVE Re*flex"ive (-v), a.
1. Etym: [Cf. F. réflexif.]
Defn: Bending or turned backward; reflective; having respect to something past. Assurance reflexive can not be a divine faith. Hammond.
2. Implying censure. [Obs.] "What man does not resent an ugly reflexive word" South.
3. (Gram.)
Defn: Having for its direct object a pronoun which refers to the agent or subject as its antecedent; -- said of certain verbs; as, the witness perjured himself; I bethought myself. Applied also to pronouns of this class; reciprocal; reflective. -- Re*flex"ive*ly, adv. -- Re*flex"ive*ness, n.
REFLEXIVE Re*flex"ive, adv.
Defn: In a reflex manner; reflectively.
REFLEXLY Re*flex"ly, adv.
Defn: In a reflex manner; reflectively.
REFLOAT Re"float (r"flt), n.
Defn: Reflux; ebb. [Obs.] Bacon.
REFLORESCENCE Re`flo*res"cence (r`fl*rs"sens), n. (Bot.)
Defn: A blossoming anew of a plant after it has apparently ceased blossoming for the season.
REFLOURISH Re*flour"ish (r*flr"sh), v. t. & i.
Defn: To flourish again.
REFLOW Re*flow" (r*fl"), v. i.
Defn: To flow back; to ebb.
REFLOWER Re*flow"er (re*flou"er), v. i. & t.
Defn: To flower, or cause to flower, again. Sylvester.
REFLUCTUATION Re*fluc`tu*a"tion (r*flk`t*"shn; 135), n.
Defn: A flowing back; refluence.
REFLUENCE; REFLUENCY Ref"lu*ence, Ref"lu*en*cy, n.
Defn: The quality of being refluent; a flowing back.
REFLUENT Ref"lu*ent (-ent), a. Etym: [L. refluens, p. pr. of refluere to flow back; pref. re- re- + fluere to flow. See Flurent.]
Defn: Flowing back; returning; ebbing. Cowper. And refluent through the pass of fear The battle's tide was poured. Sir W. Scott.
REFLUEUS Ref"lu*eus (-s), a. Etym: [L. refluus.]
Defn: Refluent. [Obs.]
REFLUX Re"flux` (r"flks`), a.
Defn: Returning, or flowing back; reflex; as, reflux action.
REFLUX Re"flux`, n. Etym: [F. reflux. See Refluent, Flux.]
Defn: A flowing back, as the return of a fluid; ebb; reaction; as, the flux and reflux of the tides. All from me Shall with a fierce reflux on me redound. Milton.
REFOCILLATE Re*foc"il*late (r*fs"l*lt), v. t. Etym: [L. refocillatus, p. p. of refocillare; pref. re- re- + focillare to revive by warmth.]
Defn: To refresh; to revive. [Obs.] Aubrey.
REFOCILLATION Re*foc`il*la"tion (-l"shn), n.
Defn: Restoration of strength by refreshment. [Obs.] Middleton.
REFOLD Re*fold" (r*fld"), v. t.
Defn: To fold again.
REFOMENT Re`fo*ment" (r`f*mnt"), v. t.
Defn: To foment anew.
REFOREST Re*for"est, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reforested; p. pr. & vb. n. Reforesting.]
Defn: To replant with trees; to reafforest; to reforestize.
REFORESTIZATION Re*for`est*i*za`tion (r*fr`st**z"shn), n.
Defn: The act or process of reforestizing.
REFORESTIZE Re*for"est*ize (r*fr"st*z), v. t.
Defn: To convert again into a forest; to plant again with trees.
REFORGE Re*forge" (r*frj"), v. t. Etym: [Pref. re- + forge: cf. F. reforger.]
Defn: To forge again or anew; hence, to fashion or fabricate anew; to make over. Udall.
REFORGER Re*for"ger (r*fr"jr), n.
Defn: One who reforges.
REFORM Re*form" (r*frm"), v. t. Etym: [F. réformer, L. reformare; pref. re- re- + formare to form, from forma form. See Form.]
Defn: To put into a new and improved form or condition; to restore to a former good state, or bring from bad to good; to change from worse to better; to amend; to correct; as, to reform a profligate man; to reform corrupt manners or morals. The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one will not reform it. Swift.
Syn. -- To amend; correct; emend; rectify; mend; repair; better; improve; restore; reclaim.
REFORM Re*form", v. i.
Defn: To return to a good state; to amend or correct one's own character or habits; as, a man of settled habits of vice will seldom reform.
REFORM Re*form", n. Etym: [F. réforme.]
Defn: Amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt, or depraved; reformation; as, reform of elections; reform of government. Civil service reform. See under Civil. -- Reform acts (Eng. Politics), acts of Parliament passed in 1832, 1867, 1884, 1885, extending and equalizing popular representation in Parliament. -- Reform school, a school established by a state or city government, for the confinement, instruction, and reformation of juvenile offenders, and of young persons of idle, vicious, and vagrant habits. [U. S.]
Syn. -- Reformation; amendment; rectification; correction. See Reformation.
RE-FORM Re-form" (r*frm"), v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Re-formed (-frmd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Re-forming.]
Defn: To give a new form to; to form anew; to take form again, or to take a new form; as, to re-form the line after a charge.
REFORMABLE Re*form"a*ble (r*frm"*b'l), a.
Defn: Capable of being reformed. Foxe.
REFORMADE Ref`or*made" (rf`r*md"), n.
Defn: A reformado. [Obs.]
REFORMADO Ref`or*ma"do (-m"d), n. Etym: [Sp., fr. reformar, L. reformare. SEe Reform, v. t.]
1. A monk of a reformed order. [Obs.] Weever.
2. An officer who, in disgrace, is deprived of his command, but retains his rank, and sometimes his pay. [Obs.]
REFORMALIZE Re*form"al*ize (r*frm"al*z), v. i.
Defn: To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness. [R.]
REFORMATION Ref`or*ma"tion (rf`r*m"shn), n. Etym: [F. réformation, L. reformatio.]
1. The act of reforming, or the state of being reformed; change from worse to better; correction or amendment of life, manners, or of anything vicious or corrupt; as, the reformation of manners; reformation of the age; reformation of abuses. Satire lashes vice into reformation. Dryden.
2. Specifically (Eccl. Hist.), the important religious movement commenced by Luther early in the sixteenth century, which resulted in the formation of the various Protestant churches.
Syn. -- Reform; amendment; correction; rectification. -- Reformation, Reform. Reformation is a more thorough and comprehensive change than reform. It is applied to subjects that are more important, and results in changes which are more lasting. A reformation involves, and is followed by, many particular reforms. "The pagan converts mention this great reformation of those who had been the greatest sinners, with that sudden and surprising change which the Christian religion made in the lives of the most profligate." Addison. "A variety of schemes, founded in visionary and impracticable ideas of reform, were suddenly produced." Pitt.
RE-FORMATION Re`-for*ma"tion (r`fr*m"shn), n.
Defn: The act of forming anew; a second forming in order; as, the reformation of a column of troops into a hollow square.
REFORMATIVE Re*form"a*tive (r*frm"*tv), a.
Defn: Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory. Good.
REFORMATORY Re*form"a*to*ry (-t*r), a.
Defn: Tending to produce reformation; reformative.
REFORMATORY Re*form"a*to*ry, n.; pl. -ries (-r.
Defn: An institution for promoting the reformation of offenders. Magistrates may send juvenile offenders to reformatories instead of to prisons. Eng. Cyc.
REFORMED Re*formed" (r*frmd"), a.
1. Corrected; amended; restored to purity or excellence; said, specifically, of the whole body of Protestant churches originating in the Reformation. Also, in a more restricted sense, of those who separated from Luther on the doctrine of consubstantiation, etc., and carried the Reformation, as they claimed, to a higher point. The Protestant churches founded by them in Switzerland, France, Holland, and part of Germany, were called the Reformed churches. The town was one of the strongholds of the Reformed faith. Macaulay.
2. Amended in character and life; as, a reformed gambler or drunkard.
3. (Mil.)
Defn: Retained in service on half or full pay after the disbandment of the company or troop; -- said of an officer. [Eng.]
REFORMER Re*form"er (r*frm"r), n.
1. One who effects a reformation or amendment; one who labors for, or urges, reform; as, a reformer of manners, or of abuses.
2. (Eccl.Hist.)
Defn: One of those who commenced the reformation of religion in the sixteenth century, as Luther, Melanchthon, Zwingli, and Calvin.
REFORMIST Re*form"ist, n. Etym: [Cf. F. réformiste.]
Defn: A reformer.
REFORMLY Re*form"ly, adv.
Defn: In the manner of a reform; for the purpose of reform. [Obs.] Milton.
REFORTIFICATION Re*for`ti*fi*ca"tion (r*fr`t*f*k"shn), n.
Defn: A fortifying anew, or a second time. Mitford.
REFORTIFY Re*for"ti*fy (r*fr"t*f), v. t.
Defn: To fortify anew.
REFOSSION Re*fos"sion (r*fsh"n), n. Etym: [L. refodere, refossum, to dig up again. See Fosse.]
Defn: The act of digging up again. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
REFOUND Re*found" (r*found"), v. t. Etym: [Pref. re- + found to cast; cf. F. refondare. Cf. Refund.]
1. To found or cast anew. "Ancient bells refounded." T. Warton.
2. To found or establish again; to re
REFOUND Re*found",
Defn: imp. & p. p. of Refind, v. t.
REFOUNDER Re*found"er (-r), n.
Defn: One who refounds.
REFRACT Re*fract" (r*fr$kt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Refracted; p. pr. & vb. n. Refracting.] Etym: [L. refractus, p. p. of refringere; pref. re- re- + frangere to break: cf. F. réfracter. SEe FRacture, and cf. Refrain, n.]
1. To bend sharply and abruptly back; to break off.
2. To break the natural course of, as rays of light orr heat, when passing from one transparent medium to another of different density; to cause to deviate from a direct course by an action distinct from reflection; as, a dense medium refrcts the rays of light as they pass into it from a rare medium.
REFRACTABLE Re*fract"a*ble (-*b'l), a.
Defn: Capable of being refracted.
REFRACTED Re*fract"ed, a.
1. (Bot. & Zoöl.)
Defn: Bent backward angularly, as if half-broken; as, a refracted stem or leaf.
2. Turned from a direct course by refraction; as, refracted rays of light.
REFRACTING Re*fract"ing, a.
Defn: Serving or tending to refract; as, a refracting medium. Refracting angle of a prism (Opt.), the angle of a triangular prism included between the two sides through which the refracted beam passes in the decomposition of light. -- Refracting telescope. (Opt.) See under Telescope.
REFRACTION Re*frac"tion (r*frk"shn), n. Etym: [F. réfraction.]
1. The act of refracting, or the state of being refracted.
2. The change in the direction of ray of light, heat, or the like, when it enters obliquely a medium of a different density from that through which it has previously moved. Refraction out of the rarer medium into the denser, is made towards the perpendicular. Sir I. Newton.
3. (Astron.) (a) The change in the direction of a ray of light, and, consequently, in the apparent position of a heavenly body from which it emanates, arising from its passage through the earth's atmosphere; -- hence distinguished as atmospheric refraction, or astronomical refraction. (b) The correction which is to be deducted from the apparent altitude of a heavenly body on account of atmospheric refraction, in order to obtain the true altitude. Angle of refraction (Opt.), the angle which a refracted ray makes with the perpendicular to the surface separating the two media traversed by the ray. -- Conical refraction (Opt.), the refraction of a ray of light into an infinite number of rays, forming a hollow cone. This occurs when a ray of light is passed through crystals of some substances, under certain circumstances. Conical refraction is of two kinds; external conical refraction, in which the ray issues from the crystal in the form of a cone, the vertex of which is at the point of emergence; and internal conical refraction, in which the ray is changed into the form of a cone on entering the crystal, from which it issues in the form of a hollow cylinder. This singular phenomenon was first discovered by Sir W. R. Hamilton by mathematical reasoning alone, unaided by experiment. -- Differential refraction (Astron.), the change of the apparent place of one object relative to a second object near it, due to refraction; also, the correction required to be made to the observed relative places of the two bodies. -- Double refraction (Opt.), the refraction of light in two directions, which produces two distinct images. The power of double refraction is possessed by all crystals except those of the isometric system. A uniaxial crystal is said to be optically positive (like quartz), or optically negative (like calcite), or to have positive, or negative, double refraction, according as the optic axis is the axis of least or greatest elasticity for light; a biaxial crystal is similarly designated when the same relation holds for the acute bisectrix. -- Index of refraction. See under Index. -- Refraction circle (Opt.), an instrument provided with a graduated circle for the measurement of refraction. -- Refraction of latitude, longitude, declination, right ascension, etc., the change in the apparent latitude, longitude, etc., of a heavenly body, due to the effect of atmospheric refraction. -- Terrestrial refraction, the change in the apparent altitude of a distant point on or near the earth's surface, as the top of a mountain, arising from the passage of light from it to the eye through atmospheric strata of varying density.
REFRACTIVE Re*fract"ive (r*frkt"v), a. Etym: [Cf. F. réfractif. See Refract.]
Defn: Serving or having power to refract, or turn from a direct course; pertaining to refraction; as, refractive surfaces; refractive powers. Refractive index. (Opt.) See Index of refraction, under Index. -- Absolute refractive index (Opt.), the index of refraction of a substances when the ray passes into it from a vacuum. -- Relative refractive index (of two media) (Opt.), the ratio of the sine of the angle of incidence to the sine of the angle of refraction for a ray passing out of one of the media into the other.
REFRACTIVENESS Re*fract"ive*ness, n.
Defn: The quality or condition of being refractive.
REFRACTOMETER Re`frac*tom"e*ter (r`frk*tm"*tr), n. Etym: [Refraction + -meter.] (Opt.)
Defn: A contrivance for exhibiting and measuring the refraction of light.
REFRACTOR Re*fract"or (r, n.
Defn: Anything that refracts; specifically: (Opt.)
Defn: A refracting telescope, in which the image to be viewed is formed by the refraction of light in passing through a convex lens.
REFRACTORILY Re*frac"to*ri*ly (r*frk"t*r*l), adv.
Defn: In a refractory manner; perversely; obstinately.
REFRACTORINESS Re*frac"to*ri*ness, n.
Defn: The quality or condition of being refractory.
REFRACTORY Re*frac"to*ry (-r), a. Etym: [L. refractorius, fr. refringere: cf. F. refractaire. See Refract.]
1. Obstinate in disobedience; contumacious; stubborn; unmanageable; as, a refractory child; a refractory beast. Raging appetites that are Most disobedient and refractory. Shak.
2. Resisting ordinary treatment; difficult of fusion, reduction, or the like; -- said especially of metals and the like, which do not readily yield to heat, or to the hammer; as, a refractory ore.
Syn. -- Perverse; contumacious; unruly; stubborn; obstinate; unyielding; ungovernable; unmanageable.
REFRACTORY Re*frac"to*ry, n.
1. A refractory person. Bp. Hall.
2. Refractoriness. [Obs.] Jer. TAylor.
3. OPottery) A piece of ware covered with a vaporable flux and placed in a kiln, to communicate a glaze to the other articles. Knight.
REFRACTURE Re*frac"ture (r*frk"tr;135), n. (Surg.)
Defn: A second breaking (as of a badly set bone) by the surgeon.
REFRACTURE Re*frac"ture, v. t. (Surg.)
Defn: To break again, as a bone.
REFRAGABLE Ref"ra*ga*ble (rf"r*g*b'l), a. Etym: [LL. refragabilis, fr. L. refragari to oppose.]
Defn: Capable of being refuted; refutable. [R.] -- Ref"ra*ga*ble*ness, n. [R.] -- Ref`*ra*ga*bil"i*ty (-b, n. [R.]
REFRAGATE Ref"ra*gate (-gt), v. i. Etym: [L. refragatus, p. p. of refragor.]
Defn: To oppose. [R.] Glanvill.
REFRAIN Re*frain" (r*frn"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Refrained (-frnd"); p. pr. & vb/ n. Refraining.] Etym: [OE. refreinen, OF. refrener, F. refr, fr. L. refrenare; influenced by OF. refraindre to restrain, moderate, fr. LL. refrangere, for L. refringere to break up, break (see Refract). L. refrenare is fr. pref. re- back + frenum bridle; cf. Skr. dh to hold.]
1. To hold back; to restrain; to keep within prescribed bounds; to curb; to govern. His reson refraineth not his foul delight or talent. Chaucer. Refrain thy foot from their path. Prov. i. 15.
2. To abstain from [Obs.] Who, requiring a remedy for his gout, received no other counsel than to refrain cold drink. Sir T. Browne.
REFRAIN Re*frain", v. i.
Defn: To keep one's self from action or interference; to hold aloof; to forbear; to abstain. Refrain from these men, and let them alone. Acts v. 38. They refrained therefrom [eating flesh] some time after. Sir T. Browne.
Syn. -- To hold back; forbear; abstain; withhold.
REFRAIN Re*frain", n. Etym: [F. refrain, fr. OF. refraindre; cf. Pr. refranhs a refrain, refranher to repeat. See Refract,Refrain, v.]
Defn: The burden of a song; a phrase or verse which recurs at the end of each of the separate stanzas or divisions of a poetic composition. We hear the wild refrain. Whittier.
REFRAINER Re*frain"er (r*frn"r), n.
Defn: One who refrains.
REFRAINMENT Re*frain"ment (-ment), n.
Defn: Act of refraining. [R.]
REFRAME Re*frame" (r*frm), v. t.
Defn: To frame again or anew.
REFRANGIBILITY Re*fran`gi*bil"i*ty (r*frn`j*bl"*t), n. Etym: [Cf. F. réfrangibilité.]
Defn: The quality of being refrangible.
REFRANGIBLE Re*fran"gi*ble (-frn"j*b'l), a. Etym: [Cf. F. réfrangible. See Refract.]
Defn: Capable of being refracted, or turned out of a direct course, in passing from one medium to another, as rays of light. -- Re*fran"gi*ble*ness, n.
REFRENATION Ref`re*na"tion (rf`r*n"shn), n. Etym: [L. refrenatio. See Refrain, v. t.]
Defn: The act of refraining. [Obs.]
REFRESH Re*fresh" (r*frsh"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Refreshed (-frsht"); p. pr. & vb. n. Refreshing.] Etym: [OE. refreshen, refreschen, OF. refreschir (cf. OF. rafraischir, rafreschir, F. rafra); pref. re- re- + fres fresh. F. frais. See Fresh, a.]
1. To make fresh again; to restore strength, spirit, animation, or the like, to; to relieve from fatigue or depression; to reinvigorate; to enliven anew; to reanimate; as, sleep refreshes the body and the mind. Chaucer. Foer they have refreshed my spirit and yours. 1 Cor. xvi. 18. And labor shall refresh itself with hope. Shak.
2. To make as if new; to repair; to restore. The rest refresh the scaly snakes that folDryden. To refresh the memory, to quicken or strengthen it, as by a reference, review, memorandum, or suggestion.
Syn. -- To cool; refrigerate; invigorate; revive; reanimate; renovate; renew; restore; recreate; enliven; cheer.
REFRESH Re*fresh", n.
Defn: The act of refreshing. [Obs.] Daniel.
REFRESHER Re*fresh"er (-r), n.
1. One who, or that which, refreshes.
2. (Law)
Defn: An extra fee paid to counsel in a case that has been adjourned from one term to another, or that is unusually protracted. Ten guineas a day is the highest refresher which a counsel can charge. London Truth.
REFRESHFUL Re*fresh"ful (-fl), a.
Defn: Full of power to refresh; refreshing. -- Re*fresh"ful*ly, adv.
REFRESHING Re*fresh"ing, a.
Defn: Reviving; reanimating. -- Re*fresh"ing*ly, adv. -- Re*fresh"ing*ness, n.
REFRESHMENT Re*fresh"ment (-ment), n. Etym: [CF. OF. refreschissement, F. rafraîchissement.]
1. The act of refreshing, or the state of being refreshed; restoration of strength, spirit, vigor, or liveliness; relief after suffering; new life or animation after depression.
2. That which refreshes; means of restoration or reanimation; especially, an article of food or drink.
REFRET Re*fret" (r*frt"), n. Etym: [OF. refret, L. refractus, p. p. See Refrain, n., Refract.]
Defn: Refrain. [Obs.] Bailey.
REFREYD Re*freyd" (r*frd"), v. t. Etym: [OF. refreidier.]
Defn: To chill; to cool. [Obs.] Refreyded by sickness . . . or by cold drinks. Chaucer.
REFRICATION Ref`ri*ca"tion (rf`r*k"shn), n. Etym: [L. refricare to rub again.]
Defn: A rubbing up afresh; a brightening. [Obs.] A continual refrication of the memory. Bp. Hall.
REFRIGERANT Re*frig"er*ant (r*frj"r-ant), a. Etym: [L. refrigerans, p. pr. of refrigerare: cf. F. réfrigérant. See Refrigerate.]
Defn: Cooling; allaying heat or fever. Bacon.
REFRIGERANT Re*frig"er*ant, n.
Defn: That which makes to be cool or cold; specifically, a medicine or an application for allaying fever, or the symptoms of fever; -- used also figuratively. Holland. "A refrigerant to passion." Blair.
REFRIGERATE Re*frig"er*ate (-t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Refrigerated (-`td); p. pr. & vb. n. Refrigerating.] Etym: [L. refrigeratus, p. p. cf. refrigerare; pref. re- re- + grigerare to make cool, fr. fragus, frigoris, coolness. See Frigid.]
Defn: To cause to become cool; to make or keep cold or cool.
REFRIGERATION Re*frig`er*a"tion (-"shn), n. Etym: [Cf. F. réfrigération, L. refrigeratio.]
Defn: The act or process of refrigerating or cooling, or the state of being cooled.
REFRIGERATIVE Re*frig"er*a*tive (r*frj"r**tv), a. Etym: [Cf. F. réfrigératif.]
Defn: Cooling; allaying heat. -- n.
Defn: A refrigerant. Crazed brains should come under a refrigerative treatment. I. Taylor.
REFRIGERATOR Re*frig"er*a`tor (-`tr), n.
Defn: That which refrigerates or makes cold; that which keeps cool. Specifically: (a) A box or room for keeping food or other articles cool, usually by means of ice. (b) An apparatus for rapidly cooling heated liquids or vapors, connected with a still, etc. Refrigerator car (Railroad), a freight car constructed as a refrigerator, for the transportation of fresh meats, fish, etc., in a temperature kept cool by ice.
REFRIGERATORY Re*frig"er*a*to*ry (-*t*r), a. Etym: [L. refrigeratorius.]
Defn: Mitigating heat; cooling.
REFRIGERATORY Re*frig"er*a*to*ry, n.; pl. -ries (-fr. Etym: [CF. F. réfrigératoire.]
Defn: That which refrigerates or cools. Specifically: (a) In distillation, a vessel filled with cold water, surrounding the worm, the vapor in which is thereby condensed. (b) The chamber, or tank, in which ice is formed, in an ice machine.
REFRIGERIUM Ref`ri*ge"ri*um (rf`r*j"r*m), n. Etym: [L.]
Defn: Cooling refreshment; refrigeration. [Obs.] South.
REFRINGENCY Re*frin"gen*cy (r*frn"jen*s), n.
Defn: The power possessed by a substance to refract a ray; as, different substances have different refringencies. Nichol.
REFRINGENT Re*frin"gent (-jent), a. Etym: [L. refringens, p. pr. of refringere. See Refract.]
Defn: Pertaining to, or possessing, refringency; refractive; refracting; as, a refringent prism of spar. Nichol.
REFT Reft (rft), imp. & p. p. of Reave.
Defn: Bereft. Reft of thy sons, amid thy foes forlorn. Heber.
REFT Reft, n.
Defn: A chink; a rift. See Rift. Rom. of R.
REFUGE Ref"uge (rf"j), n. Etym: [F. réfuge, L. refugium, fr. refugere to flee back; pref. re- + figere. SEe Fugitive.]
1. Shelter or protection from danger or distress. Rocks, dens, and caves! But I in none of these Find place or refuge. Milton. We might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us. Heb. vi. 18.
2. That which shelters or protects from danger, or from distress or calamity; a stronghold which protects by its strength, or a sanctuary which secures safety by its sacredness; a place inaccessible to an enemy. The high hills are a refuger the wild goats. Ps. civ. 18. The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed. Ps. ix. 9.
3. An expedient to secure protection or defense; a device or contrivance. Their latest refuge Was to send him. Shak. Light must be supplied, among gracefulrefuges, by terracing Sir H. Wotton. Cities of refuge (Jewish Antiq.), certain cities appointed as places of safe refuge for persons who had committed homicide without design. Of these there were three on each side of Jordan. Josh. xx. -- House of refuge, a charitable institution for giving shelter and protection to the homeless, destitute, or tempted.
Syn. -- Shelter; asylum; retreat; covert.
REFUGE Ref"uge (rf"j), v. t.
Defn: To shelter; to protect. [Obs.]
REFUGEE Ref`u*gee" (rf`*j"), n. Etym: [F. réfugié, fr. se réfugier to take refuge. See Refuge, n.]
1. One who flees to a shelter, or place of safety.
2. Especially, one who, in times of persecution or political commotion, flees to a foreign power or country for safety; as, the French refugees who left France after the revocation of the edict of Nantes.
REFULGENCE; REFULGENCY Re*ful"gence, Re*ful"gen*cy, n. Etym: [L. refulgentia. See Refulgent.]
Defn: The quality of being refulgent; brilliancy; splender; radiance.
REFULGENT Re*ful"gent (r*fl"jent), a. Etym: [L. refulgens, p. pr. of refulgere to flash back, to shine bright; pref. re- re- + fulgere to shine. See Fulgent.]
Defn: Casting a bright light; radiant; brilliant; resplendent; shining; splendid; as, refulgent beams. -- Re*ful"gent*ly, adv. So conspicuous and refulgent a truth. Boyle.
REFUND Re*fund" (r*fnd"), v. t. Etym: [Pref. re- + fund.]
Defn: To fund again or anew; to replace (a fund or loan) by a new fund; as, to refund a railroad loan.
REFUND Re*fund" (r*fnd"), v. t. Etym: [L. refundere; pref. re- re- + fundere to pour: cf. F. refondre, refonder. See Fuse to melt, and cf. Refound to cast again, 1st Refuse.]
1. To pour back. [R. & Obs.] Were the humors of the eye tinctured with any color, they would refund that color upon the object. Ray.
2. To give back; to repay; to restore. A governor, that had pillaged the people, was . . . sentenced to refund what he had wrongfully taken. L'Estrange.
3. To supply again with funds; to reimburse. [Obs.]
REFUNDER Re*fund"er (-r), n.
Defn: One who refunds.
REFUNDMENT Re*fund"ment (-ment), n.
Defn: The act of refunding; also, that which is refunded. [R.] Lamb.
REFURBISH Re*fur"bish (r*fr"bsh), v. t.
Defn: To furbish anew.
REFURNISH Re*fur"nish (-nsh), v. t.
Defn: To furnish again.
REFURNISHMENT Re*fur"nish*ment (-ment), n.
Defn: The act of refurnishing, or state of being refurnished. The refurnishment was in a style richer than before. L. Wallace.
REFUSABLE Re*fus"a*ble (r*fz"*b'l), a. Etym: [Cf. F. refusable. See Refuse.]
Defn: Capable of being refused; admitting of refusal.
REFUSAL Re*fus"al (-al), n.
1. The act of refusing; denial of anything demanded, solicited, or offered for acceptance. Do they not seek occasion of new quarrels, On my refusal, to distress me more Milton.
2. The right of taking in preference to others; the choice of taking or refusing; option; as, to give one the refusal of a farm; to have the refusal of an employment.
REFUSE Re*fuse" (r*fz"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Refused (-fzd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Refusing.] Etym: [F. refuser, either from (assumed) LL. refusare to refuse, v. freq. of L. refundere to pour back, give back, restore (see Refund to repay), or. fr. L. recusare to decline, refuse cf. Accuse, Ruse), influenced by L. refutare to drive back, repel, refute. Cf. Refute.]
1. To deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant. That never yet refused your hest. Chaucer.
2. (Mil.)
Defn: To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the center, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular aligment when troops aras, to refuse the right wing while the left wing attacks.
3. To decline to accept; to reject; to deny the request or petition of; as, to refuse a suitor. The cunning workman never doth refuse The meanest tool that he may chance to use. Herbert.
4. To disown. [Obs.] "Refuse thy name." Shak.
REFUSE Re*fuse", v. i.
Defn: To deny compliance; not to comply. Too proud to ask, too humble to refuse. Garth. If ye refuse . . . ye shall be devoured with the sword. Isa. i. 20.
REFUSE Re*fuse", n.
Defn: Refusal. [Obs.] Fairfax.
REFUSE Ref`use (rf"s;277), n. Etym: [F. refus refusal, also, that which is refused. See Refuse to deny.]
Defn: That which is refused or rejected as useless; waste or worthless matter.
Syn. -- Dregs; sediment; scum; recrement; dross.
REFUSE Ref"use, a.
Defn: Refused; rejected; hence; left as unworthy of acceptance; of no value; worthless. Everything that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly. 1. Sam. xv. 9.
REFUSER Re*fus"er (r*fz"r), n.
Defn: One who refuses or rejects.
REFUSION Re*fu"sion (r*f"zhn), n. Etym: [Pref. re-+ fusion.]
1. New or repeated melting, as of metals.
2. Restoration. "This doctrine of the refusion of the soul." Bp. Warbuton.
REFUT Ref"ut (rf"t), n. Etym: [OF. refuite.]
Defn: Refuge. "Thou haven of refut." [Obs.] Chaucer.
REFUTABILITY Re*fut`a*bil"i*ty (r*ft`*bl"*t), n.
Defn: The quality of being refutable.
REFUTABLE Re*fut"a*ble (r*ft"*b'l;277), a. Etym: [Cf. F. réfutable.]
Defn: Admitting of being refuted or disproved; capable of being proved false or erroneous.
REFUTAL Re*fut"al (r*ft"al), n.
Defn: Act of refuting; refutation.
REFUTATION Ref`u*ta"tion (rf`*t"shn), n. Etym: [L. refutatio: cf. F. réfutation.]
Defn: The act or process of refuting or disproving, or the state of being refuted; proof of falsehood or error; the overthrowing of an argument, opinion, testimony, doctrine, or theory, by argument or countervailing proof. Same of his blunders seem rather to deserve a flogging than a refutation. Macaulay.
REFUTATORY Re*fut"a*to*ry (r*ft"*t*r), a. Etym: [L. refutatorius: cf. F. réfutatoire.]
Defn: Tending tu refute; refuting.
REFUTE Re*fute" (r*F3t"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Refuted; p. pr. & vb. n. Refuting.] Etym: [F. réfuter, L. refuteare to repel, refute. Cf. Confute, Refuse to deny.]
Defn: To disprove and overthrow by argument, evidence, or countervailing proof; to prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; as, to refute arguments; to refute testimony; to refute opinions or theories; to refute a disputant. There were so many witnesses in these two miracles that it is impossible to refute such multitudes. Addison.
Syn. -- To confute; disprove. See Confute.
REFUTER Re*fut"er (-ft"r), n.
Defn: One who, or that which, refutes.
REGAIN Re*gain" (r*gn"), v. t. Etym: [Pref. re- + gain: cf. F. regagner.]
Defn: To gain anew; to get again; to recover, as what has escaped or been lost; to reach again.
Syn. -- To recover; reobtain; repossess; retrieve.
REGAL Re"gal (r"gal), a. Etym: [L. regalis, fr. rex, regis, a king. See Royal, and cf. Rajah, Realm, Regalia.]
Defn: Of or pertaining to a king; kingly; royal; as, regal authority, pomp, or sway. "The regal title." Shak. He made a scorn of his regal oath. Milton.
Syn. -- Kingly; royal. See Kingly.
REGAL Re"gal, n. Etym: [F. régale, It. regale. CF. Rigoll.] (Mus.)
Defn: A small portable organ, played with one hand, the bellows being worked with the other, -- used in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
REGALE Re*ga"le (r*g"l), n. Etym: [LL. regale, pl. regalia, fr. L. regalis: cf. F. régale. See Regal.]
Defn: A prerogative of royalty. [R.] Johnson.
REGALE Re*gale" (r*gl), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Regaled (-gld"); p. pr. & vb. n. Regaling.] Etym: [F. régaler, Sp. regalar to regale, to caress, to melt, perhaps fr. L. regalare to thaw (cff. Gelatin), or cf. Sp. gala graceful, pleasing address, choicest part of a thing (cf. Gala), or most likely from OF. galer to rejoice, gale pleasure.]
Defn: To enertaas, to regale the taste, the eye, or the ear.
REGALE Re*gale", v. i.
Defn: To feast; t
REGALE Re*gale", n. Etym: [F. régal. See Regale, v. t.]
Defn: A sumptuous repast; a banquet. Johnson. Cowper. Two baked custards were produced as additions to the regale. E. E. Hale.
REGALEMENT Re*gale"ment (-ment), n.
Defn: The act of regaling; anything which regales; refreshment; entertainment.
REGALER Re*gal"er (-gl"r), n.
Defn: One who regales.
REGALIA Re*ga"li*a (r*g"l*), n. pl. Etym: [LL., from L. regalisregal. See Regal.]
1. That which belongs to royalty. Specifically: (a) The rights and prerogatives of a king. (b) Royal estates and revenues. (c) Ensings, symbols, or paraphernalia of royalty.
2. Hence, decorations or insignia of an office or order, as of Freemasons, Odd Fellows,etc.
3. Sumptuous food; delicacies. [Obs.] Cotton. Regalia of a church, the privileges granted to it by kings; sometimes, its patrimony. Brande & C.
REGALIA Re*ga"li*a, n.
Defn: A kind of cigar of large size and superior quality; also, the size in which such cigars are classed.
REGALIAN Re*ga"li*an (-an), a.
Defn: Pertaining to regalia; pertaining to the royal insignia or prerogatives. Hallam.
REGALISM Re"gal*ism (r"gal*z'm), n.
Defn: The doctrine of royal prerogative or supremacy. [R.] Cardinal Manning.
REGALITY Re*gal"i*ty (r*gl"*t), n. Etym: [LL. regalitas, from L. regalis regal, royal. See Regal, and cf. Royality.]
1. Royalty; ssovereignty; sovereign jurisdiction. [Passion] robs reason of her due regalitie. Spenser. He came partly in by the sword, and had high courage in all points of regality. Bacon.
2. An ensign or badge of royalty. [Obs.]
REGALLY Re"gal*ly (r"gal*l), adv.
Defn: In a regal or royal manner.
REGARD Re*gard" (r*grd"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Regarded; p. pr. & vb. n. Regarding.] Etym: [F. regarder; pref. re- re + garder to guard, heed, keep. See Guard, and cf. Reward.]
1. To keep in view; to behold; to look at; to view; to gaze upon. Your niece regards me with an eye of favor. Shak.
2. Hence, to look or front toward; to face. [Obs.] It is peninsula which regardeth the mainland. Sandys. That exceedingly beatiful seat, on the assregarding the river. Evelyn.
3. To look closely at; to observe attentively; to pay attention to; to notice or remark particularly. If much you note him, You offened him; . . . feed, and regard him not. Shak.
4. To look upon, as in a certain relation; to hold as an popinion; to consider; as, to regard abstinence from wine as a duty; to regard another as a friend or enemy.
5. To consider and treat; to have a certain feeling toward; as, to regard one with favor or dislike. His associates seem to have regarded him with kindness. Macaulay.
6. To pay respect to; to treat as something of peculiar value, sanctity, or the like; to care for; to esteem. He that regardeth thae day, regardeth it into the LOrd. Rom. xiv. 6. Here's Beaufort, that regards nor God nor king. Shak.
7. To take into consideration; to take account of, as a fact or condition. "Nether regarding that she is my child, nor fearing me as if II were her father." Shak.
8. To have relation to, as bearing upon; to respect; to relate to; to touch; as, an argument does not regard the question; -- often used impersonally; as, I agree with you as regards this or that.
Syn. -- To consider; observe; remark; heed; mind; respect; esteem; estimate; value. See Attend.
REGARD Re*gard" (r*grd"), v. i.
Defn: To look attentively; to consider; to notice. [Obs.] Shak.
REGARD Re*gard", n. Etym: [F. regard See Regard, v. t.]
1. A look; aspect directed to another; view; gaze. But her, with stern regard, he thus repelled. Milton.
2. Attention of the mind with a feeling of interest; observation; heed; notice. Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard. Shak.
3. That view of the mind which springs from perception of value, estimable qualities, or anything that excites admiration; respect; esteem; reverence; affection; as, to have a high regard for a person; -- often in the plural. He has rendered himself worthy of their most favorable regards. A. Smith. Save the long-sought regards of woman, nothing is sweeter than those marks of childish preference. Hawthorne.
4. State of being regarded, whether favorably or otherwise; estimation; repute; note; account. A man of meanest regard amongst them, neither having wealth or power. Spenser.
5. Consideration; thought; reflection; heed. Sad pause and deep regard become the sage. Shak.
6. Matter for conssideration; account; condition. [Obs.] "Reason full of good regard." Shak.
7. Respect; relation; reference. Persuade them to pursue and persevere in virtue, with regard to themselves; in justice and goodness with regard to their neighbors; and piefy toward God. I. Watts.
Note: The phrase in regard of was formerly used as equivalent in meaning to on account of, but in modern usage is often improperly substituted for in respect to, or in regard to. G. P. Marsh. Change was thought necessary in regard of the injury the church did receive by a number of things then in use. Hooker. In regard of its security, it had a great advantage over the bandboxes. Dickens.
8. Object of sight; scene; view; aspect. [R.] Throw out our eyes for brave Othello, Even till we make the main and the aërial blue An indistinct regard. Shak.
9. (O.Eng.Law)
Defn: Supervision; inspection. At regard of, in consideration of; in comparison with. [Obs.] "Bodily penance is but short and little at regard of the pains of hell." Chaucer. -- Court of regard, a forest court formerly held in England every third year for the lawing, or expeditation, of dogs, to prevent them from running after deer; -- called also survey of dogs. Blackstone.
Syn. -- Respect; consideration; notice; observance; heed; care; concern; estimation; esteem; attachment; reverence.
REGARDABLE Re*gard"a*ble (-*b'l), a.
Defn: Worthy of regard or notice; to be regarded; observable. [R.] Sir T. Browne.
REGARDANT Re*gard"ant (-ant), a. Etym: [F. regardant, fr. regarder. See Regard, v. t.] [Written also regardant.]
1. Looking behind; looking backward watchfully. [He] turns thither his regardant eye. Southey.
2. (Her.)
Defn: Looking behind or backward; as, a lion regardant.
3. (O.Eng.Law)
Defn: Annexed to the land or manor; as, a villain regardant.
REGARDER Re*gard"er (r*grd"r), n.
1. One who regards.
2. (Eng. Forest law)
Defn: An officer appointed to supervise the forest. Cowell.
REGARDFUL Re*gard"ful (-fl), a.
Defn: Heedful; attentive; observant. -- Re*gard"ful*ly, adv. Let a man be very tender and regardful of every pious motion made by the Spirit of God to his heart. South.
Syn. -- Mindful; heedful; attentive; observant.
REGARDING Re*gard"ing, prep.
Defn: Concerning; respecting.
REGARDLESS Re*gard"less, a.
1. Having no regard; heedless; careless; as, regardless of life, consequences, dignity. Regardless of the bliss wherein he sat. Milton.
2. Not regarded; slighted. [R.] Spectator.
Syn. -- Heedless; negligent; careless; indifferent; unconcerned; inattentive; unobservant; neglectful. -- Re*gard"less*ly, adv. -- Re*gard"less*ness, n.
REGATHER Re*gath"er (r*gth"r), v. t.
Defn: To gather again.
REGATTA Re*gat"ta (r*gt"t), n.; pl. Regattas (-t. Etym: [It. regatta, regata.]
Defn: Originally, a gondola race in Venice; now, a rowing or sailing race, or a series of such races.
REGEL Re"gel (r"gl), n. (Astron.)
Defn: See Rigel.
REGELATE Re"ge*late (r"j*lt or rj"-), v. i. (Physics)
Defn: To freeze together again; to undergo regelation, as ice.
REGELATION Re`ge*la"tion (-l"shn), n. Etym: [Pref. re- + L. gelatio a freezing.] (Physics)
Defn: The act or process of freezing anew, or together,as two pieces of ice.
Note: Two pieces of ice at (or even) 32regelation. Faraday.
REGENCE Re"gence (r"jens), n.
Defn: Rule. [Obs.] Hudibras.
REGENCY Re"gen*cy (r*jen*s), n.; pl. Regencies (-s. Etym: [CF. F. régence, LL. regentia. See Regent, a.]
1. The office of ruler; rule; authority; government.
2. Especially, the office, jurisdiction, or dominion of a regent or vicarious ruler, or of a body of regents; deputed or vicarious government. Sir W. Temple.
3. A body of men intrusted with vicarious government; as, a regency constituted during a king's minority, absence from the kingdom, or other disability. A council or regency consisting of twelve persons. Lowth.
REGENERACY Re*gen"er*a*cy (r*jn"r**s), n. Etym: [See Regenerate.]
Defn: The state of being regenerated. Hammond.
REGENERATE Re*gen"er*ate (-t), a. Etym: [L. regeneratus, p. p. of regenerare to regenerate; pref. re- re- + generare to beget. See Generate.]
1. Reproduced. The earthly author of my blood, Whose youthful spirit, in me regenerate, Doth with a twofold vigor lift me up. Shak.
2. (Theol.)
Defn: Born anew; become Christian; renovated in heart; changed from a natural to a spiritual state.
REGENERATE Re*gen"er*ate (r*jn"r*t), v. t.
1. To generate or produce anew; to reproduce; to give new life, strength, or vigor to. Through all the soil a genial fferment spreads. Regenerates the plauts, and new adorns the meads. Blackmore.
2. (Theol.)
Defn: To cause to be spiritually born anew; to cause to become a Christian; to convert from sin to holiness; to implant holy affections in the heart of.
3. Hence, to make a radical change for the better in the character or condition of; as, to regenerate society.
REGENERATENESS Re*gen"er*ate*ness (-t*ns), n.
Defn: The quality or state of being rgenerate.
REGENERATION Re*gen`er*a"tion (-"shn), n. Etym: [L. regeneratio: cf. F. régéneration.]
1. The act of regenerating, or the state of being regenerated.
2. (Theol.)
Defn: The entering into a new spiritual life; the act of becoming, or of being made, Christian; that change by which holy affectations and purposes are substituted for the opposite motives in the heart. He saved us by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Chost. Tit. iii. 5.
3. (Biol.)
Defn: The reproduction of a part which has been removed or destroyed; re-formation; -- a process especially characteristic of a many of the lower animals; as, the regeneration of lost feelers, limbs, and claws by spiders and crabs.
4. (Physiol.) (a) The reproduction or renewal of tissues, cells, etc., which have been used up and destroyed by the ordinary processes of life; as, the continual regeneration of the epithelial cells of the body, or the regeneration of the contractile substance of muscle. (b) The union of parts which have been severed, so that they become anatomically perfect; as, the regeneration of a nerve.
REGENERATIVE Re*gen"er*a*tive (r*jn"r**tv), a.
Defn: Of or pertaining to regeneration; tending to regenerate; as, regenerative influences. H. Bushnell. Regenerative furnace (Metal.), a furnace having a regenerator in which gas used for fuel, and air for supporting combustion, are heated; a Siemens furnace.
REGENERATIVELY Re*gen"er*a*tive*ly, adv.
Defn: So as to regenerate.
REGENERATOR Re*gen"er*a`tor (-`tr), n.
1. One who, or that which, regenerates.
2. (Mech.)
Defn: A device used in connection with hot-air engines, gas-burning furnaces, etc., in which the incoming air or gas is heated by being brought into contact with masses of iron, brick, etc., which have been previously heated by the outgoing, or escaping, hot air or gas.
REGENERATORY Re*gen"er*a*to*ry (-*t*r), a.
Defn: Having power to renew; tending to reproduce; regenerating. G. S. Faber.
REGENESIS Re*gen"e*sis (-*ss), n.
Defn: New birth; renewal. A continued regenesis of dissenting sects. H. Spenser.
REGENT Re"gent (r"jent), a. Etym: [L. regens, -entis, p. pr. of regere to rule: cf. F. régent. See Regiment.]
1. Ruling; governing; regnant. "Some other active regent principle . . . which we call the soul." Sir M. Hale.
2. Exercising vicarious authority. Milton. Queen regent. See under Queen, n.
REGENT Re"gent, n. Etym: [F. régent. See Regent, a.]
1. One who rules or reigns; a governor; a ruler. Milton.
2. Especially, one invested with vicarious authority; one who governs a kingdom in the minority, absence, or disability of the sovereign.
3. One of a governing board; a trustee or overseer; a superintendent; a curator; as, the regents of the Smithsonian Institution.
4. (Eng.Univ.)
Defn: A resident master of arts of less than five years' standing, or a doctor of less than twwo. They were formerly privileged to lecture in the schools. Regent bird (Zoöl.), a beautiful Australian bower bird (Sericulus melinus). The male has the head, neck, and large patches on the wings, bright golden yellow, and the rest of the plumage deep velvety black; -- so called in honor of the Prince of Wales (afterward George IV.), who was Prince Regent in the reign of George III. -- The Regents of the University of the State of New York, the members of a corporate body called the University of New York. They have a certain supervisory power over the incorporated institution for Academic and higher education in the State.
REGENT DIAMOND Re"gent di"a*mond.
Defn: A famous diamond of fine quality, which weighs about 137 carats and is among the state jewels of France. It is so called from the Duke of Orleans, Regent of France, to whom it was sold in 1717 by Pitt the English Governor of Madras (whence also called the Pitt diamond), who bought it of an Indian merchant in 1701.
REGENTESS Re"gent*ess, n.
Defn: A female regent. [R.] Cotgrave.
REGENTSHIP Re"gent*ship, n.
Defn: The office of a regent; regency.
REGERMINATE Re*ger"mi*nate (r*jr"m*nt), v. i. Etym: [Pref. re- + germinate: cf. L. regerminare.]
Defn: To germinate again. Perennial plants regerminate several years successively. J. Lee.
REGERMINATION Re*ger`mi*na"tion (-n"shn), n. Etym: [L. regerminatio.]
Defn: A germinating again or anew.
REGEST Re*gest" (r*jst"), n. Etym: [L. regesta, pl.: cf. OF. regestes, pl. See Register.]
Defn: A register. [Obs.] Milton.
REGET Re*get" (r*gt"), v. t.
Defn: To get again.
REGIAN Re"gi*an (r"j-an), n. Etym: [L. regius regal.]
Defn: An upholder of kingly authority; a royalist. [Obs.] Fuller.
REGIBLE Reg"i*ble (rj"*b'l), a. Etym: [L. regibilis, from regere to rule.]
Defn: Governable; tractable. [Obs.]
REGICIDAL Reg"i*ci`dal (rj"*s`dal), a.
Defn: Pertaining to regicide, or to one committing it; having the nature of, or resembling, regicide. Bp. Warburton.
REGICIDE Reg"i*cide (rj"*sd), n. Etym: [F. régicide; L. rex, regis, a king + caedere to kill. Cf. Homicide.]
1. One who kills or who murders a king; specifically (Eng.Hist.), one of the judges who condemned Charles I. to death.
2. The killing or the murder of a king.
REGIDOR Re`gi*dor", n.; pl. -dores (#). [Sp., fr. regir to rule, L. regere.]
Defn: One of a body of officers charged with the government of Spanish municipalities, corresponding to the English alderman.
REGIE Ré`gie", n. [F.]
1. Direct management of public finance or public works by agents of the government for government account; -- opposed to the contract system.
2. Specif.: The system of collecting taxes by officials who have either no interest or a very small interest in the proceeds, as distinguished from the ancient system of farming them out.
3. Any kind of government monopoly (tobacco, salt, etc.) used chiefly as a means of taxation. Such monopolies are largely employed in Austria, Italy, France, and Spain.
REGILD Re*gild" (r*gld"), v. t.
Defn: To gild anew.
REGIME Ré`gime" (r`zhm"), n. Etym: [F. See Regimen.]
1. Mode or system of rule or management; character of government, or of the prevailing social system. I dream . . . of the new régime which is to come. H. Kingsley.
2. (Hydraul.)
Defn: The condition of a river with respect to the rate of its flow, as measured by the volume of water passing different cross sections in a given time, uniform régime being the condition when the flow is equal and uniform at all the cross sections. The ancient régime, or Ancien régime Etym: [F.], the former political and social system, as distinguished from the modern; especially, the political and social system existing in France before the Revolution of 1789.
REGIMEN Reg"i*men (rj"*mn), n. Etym: [L. regimen, -inis, fr. regere to guide, to rule. See Right, and cf. Regal, Régime, Regiment.]
1. Orderly government; system of order; adminisration. Hallam.
2. Any regulation or remedy which is intended to produce beneficial effects by gradual operation; esp. (Med.),
Defn: a systematic course of diet, etc., pursed with a view to improving or preserving the health, or for the purpose of attaining some particular effect, as a reduction of flesh; -- sometimes used synonymously with hygiene.
3. (Gram.) (a) A syntactical relation between words, as when one depends on another and is regulated by it in respect to case or mood; government. (b) The word or words governed.
REGIMENT Reg"i*ment (-ment), n. Etym: [F. régiment a regiment of men, OF. also government, L. regimentum government, fr. regere to guide, rule. See Regimen.]
1. Government; mode of ruling; rule; authority; regimen. [Obs.] Spenser. "Regiment of health." Bacon. But what are kings, when regiment is gone, But perfect shadows in a sunshine day Marlowe. The law of nature doth now require of necessity some kind of regiment. Hocker.
2. A region or district governed. [Obs.] Spenser.
3. (Mil.)
Defn: A body of men, either horse, foot, or artillery, commanded by a colonel, and consisting of a number of companies, usually ten.
Note: In the British army all the artillery are included in one regiment, which (reversing the usual practice) is divided into brigades. Regiment of the line (Mil.), a regiment organized for general service; -- in distinction from those (as the Life Guards) whose duties are usually special. [Eng.]
REGIMENT Reg"i*ment (-mnt), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Regimented; p. pr. & vb. n. Regimenting.]
Defn: To form into a regiment or into regiments. Washington.
REGIMENTAL Reg`i*men"tal (-mn"tal), a.
Defn: Belonging to, or concerning, a regiment; as, regimental officers, clothing. Regimental school, in the British army, a school for the instruction of the private soldiers of a regiment, and their children, in the rudimentary branches of education.
REGIMENTALLY Reg`i*men"tal*ly, adv.
Defn: In or by a regiment or regiments; as, troops classified regimentally.
REGIMENTALS Reg`i*men"tals (-talz), n. pl. (Mil.)
Defn: The uniform worn by the officers and soldiers of a regiment; military dress; -- formerly used in the singular in the same sense. Colman.
REGIMINAL Re*gim"i*nal (r*jm"*nal), a.
Defn: Of or relating to regimen; as, regiminal rules.
REGION Re"gion (r"jn), n. Etym: [F. région, from L. regio a direction, a boundary line, region, fr. regere to guide, direct. See Regimen.]
1. One of the grand districts or quarters into which any space or surface, as of the earth or the heavens, is conceived of as divided; hence, in general, a portion of space or territory of indefinite extent; country; province; district; tract. If thence he 'scappe, into whatever world, Or unknown region. Milton.
2. Tract, part, or space, lying about and including anything; neighborhood; vicinity; sphere. "Though the fork invade the region of my heart." Shak. Philip, tetrarch of .. the region of Trachonitis. Luke iii. 1.
3. The upper air; the sky; the heavens. [Obs.] Anon the dreadful thunder Doth rend the region. Shak.
4. The inhabitants of a district. Matt. iii. 5.
5. Place; rank; station. [Obs. or R.] He is of too high a region. Shak.
REGIONAL Re"gion*al (-al), a.
Defn: Of or pertaining to a particular region; sectional.
REGIOUS Re"gi*ous (-j*s), a. Etym: [L. regius royal, fr. rex, regis, king.]
Defn: Regal; royal. [Obs.] Harrington.
REGISTER Reg"is*ter (rj"s*tr), n. Etym: [OE. registre, F. registre, LL. registrum,regestum, L. regesta, pl., fr. regerere, regestum, to carry back, to register; pref. re- re- + gerere to carry. See Jest, and cf. Regest.]
1. A written account or entry; an official or formal enumeration, description, or record; a memorial record; a list or roll; a schedule. As you have one eye upon my follies, . . . turn another into the register of your own. Shak.
2. (Com.) (a) A record containing a list and description of the merchant vessels belonging to a port or customs district. (b) A certificate issued by the collector of customs of a port or district to the owner of a vessel, containing the description of a vessel, its name, ownership, and other material facts. It is kept on board the vessel, to be used as an evidence of nationality or as a muniment of title.
3. Etym: [Cf. LL. registrarius. Cf. Regisrar.]
Defn: One who registers or records; a registrar; a recorder; especially, a public officer charged with the duty of recording certain transactions or events; as, a register of deeds.
4. That which registers or records. Specifically: (a) (Mech.) A contrivance for automatically noting the performance of a machine or the rapidity of a process. (b) (Teleg.) The part of a telegraphic apparatus which records automatically the message received. (c) A machine for registering automatically the number of persons passing through a gateway, fares taken, etc.; a telltale.
5. A lid, stopper, or sliding plate, in a furnace, stove, etc., for regulating the admission of air to the fuel; also, an arrangement containing dampers or shutters, as in the floor or wall of a room or passage, or in a chimney, for admitting or excluding heated air, or for regulating ventilation.
6. (Print.) (a) The inner part of the mold in which types are cast. (b) The correspondence of pages, columns, or lines on the opposite or reverse sides of the sheet. (c) The correspondence or adjustment of the several impressions in a design which is printed in parts, as in chromolithographic printing, or in the manufacture of paper hangings. See Register, v. i. 2.
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.
Note: 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.
REGISTER Reg"is*ter (rj"s*tr), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Registere (-trd); p. pr. & vb. n. Registering.] Etym: [Cf. F. regisrer, exregistrer, LL. registrare. See Register, n.]
1. T
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.
REGISTER Reg"is*ter, v. i.
1. To enroll one's name in a register.
2. (Print.)
Defn: To correspond in ralative 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.
REGISTERING Reg"is*ter*ing, a.
Defn: Recording; -- applied to instruments; having an apparatus which registers; as, a registering thermometer. See Recording.
REGISTERSHIP Reg"is*ter*ship, n.
Defn: The office of a register.
REGISTRANT Reg"is*trant (-trant), n. Etym: [L. registrans, p. pr.]
Defn: 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.
REGISTRAR Reg"is*trar (-trr), n. Etym: [LL. registrarius, or F. régistraire. See Register.]
Defn: One who registers; a recorder; a keeper of records; as, a registrar of births, deaths, and marriages. See Register, n., 3.
REGISTRARSHIP Reg"is*trar*ship, n.
Defn: The office of a registrar.
REGISTRARY Reg"is*tra*ry (- tr*r), n.
Defn: A registrar. [Obs.]
REGISTRATE Reg"is*trate (-trt), v. t.
Defn: To register. [R.]
REGISTRATION Reg`is*tra"tion (-tr"shn), n. Etym: [LL. registratio, or F. régistration. See Register, v.]
1. The act of registering; registry; enrollment.
2. (Mus.)
Defn: The art of selecting and combining the stops or registers of an organ.
REGISTRY Reg"is*try (rj"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.
REGIUS Re"gi*us (rl"*s), a. Etym: [L. regius, from rex, regis, a king.]
Defn: Of or pertaining to a king; royal. Regius professor, an incumbent of a professorship founded by royal bounty, as in an English university.
REGIVE Re*give" (r*gv"), v. t.
Defn: To give again; to give back.
REGLE Re"gle (rg"'l) v. t. Etym: [See Reglement.]
Defn: To rule; to govern. [Obs.] "To regle their lives." Fuller.
REGLEMENT Re"gle*ment (rg"'l*ment), n. Etym: [F. réglement, fr. régler, L. regulare. See Regulate.]
Defn: Regulation. [Obs.] The reformation and reglement of usuary. Bacon.
REGLEMENTARY Reg`le*men"ta*ry (-l*mn"t*r), a. Etym: [F. réglementaire, fr. réglement.]
Defn: Regulative. [R.]
REGLET Reg"let (rg"lt), n. Etym: [F. réglet, dim. of règle a rule, L. regula. See Rule.]
1. (Arch.)
Defn: 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.)
Defn: 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.
REGMA Reg"ma (rg"m), n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Bot.)
Defn: A kind of dry fruit, consisting of three or more cells, each which at length breaks open at the inner angle.
REGMACARP Reg"ma*carp (-krp), n Etym: [Regma + Gr. (Bot.)
Defn: Any dry dehiscent fruit.
REGNAL Reg"nal (rg"nal), a. Etym: [L. regnum reign.]
Defn: Of or pertaining to the reign of a monarch; as, regnal years.
REGNANCY Reg"nan*cy (-nan*s), n.
Defn: The condition or quality of being regnant; sovereignty; rule. Coleridge.
REGNANT Reg"nant (-nant), a. Etym: [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.
REGNATIVE Reg"na*tive (-n*tv), a.
Defn: Ruling; governing. [Obs.]
REGNE Regne (rn), n. & v.
Defn: See Reign. [Obs.] Chaucer.
REGORGE Re*gorge" (r*grj"), v. t. Etym: [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.
REGRADE Re*grade" (r*grd"), v. i. Etym: [L. re- re- + gradi to go. Cf. Regrede. ]
Defn: To retire; to go back. [Obs.] W. Hales.
REGRAFT Re*graft" (r*grft"), v. t.
Defn: To graft again.
REGRANT Re*grant" (r*grnt"), v. t.
Defn: To grant back; to grant again or anew. Ayliffe.
REGRANT 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.
REGRATE Re*grate" (r*grt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Regrated; p. pr. & vb. n. Regrating.] Etym: [F. regratter, literally, to scrape again. See Re-, and Grate, v. t.]
1. (Masonry)
Defn: 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.
REGRATE Re*grate", v. t. Etym: [F. regratter to regrate provisions; of uncertain origin.] (Eng.Law)
Defn: 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.
REGRATER Re*grat"er (-r), n. Etym: [F. regrattier.]
Defn: One who regrates.
REGRATERY Re*grat"er*y, n.
Defn: The act or practice of regrating.
REGRATIATORY Re*gra"ti*a*to*ry (r*gr"sh**t*r), n.
Defn: A returning or giving of thanks. [Obs.] Skelton.
REGRATOR Re*grat"or (r*grt"r), n.
Defn: One guilty of regrating.
REGREDE Re*grede" (r*grd"), v. i. Etym: [L. regredi to go back. Cf. Regrade, Regress.]
Defn: To go back; to retrograde, as the apsis of a planet's orbit. [R.] Todhunter.
REGREDIENCE Re*gre"di*ence (r*gr"d-ens), n.
Defn: A going back; a retrogression; a return. [R.] Herrick.
REGREET Re*greet" (r*grt"), v. t.
Defn: To greet again; to resalute; to return a salutation to; to greet. Shak.
REGREET Re*greet", n.
Defn: A return or exchange of salutation.
REGRESS Re"gress (r"grs), n. Etym: [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.
REGRESS Re*gress" (r*grs"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Regressed (-grst"); p. pr. & vb. n. Regressing.]
Defn: To go back; to return to a former place or state. Sir T. Browne.
REGRESSION Re*gres"sion (r*grsh"n), n. Etym: [L. regressio: cf. F. régression.]
Defn: 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.
REGRESSIVE Re*gress"ive (r*grs"v), a. Etym: [Cf. F. régressif.]
1. Passing back; returning.
2. Characterized by retrogression; retrogressive. Regressive metamorphism. (a) (Biol.) See Retrogression. (b) (Physiol.) See Katabolism.
REGRESSIVELY Re*gress"ive*ly, adv.
Defn: In a regressive manner.
REGRET Re*gret" (r*grt"), n Etym: [F., fr. regretter. See Regret, ]
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.
REGRET Re*gret", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Regretted (-td); p. pr. & vb. n. Regretting.] Etym: [F. regretter, OF. regreter; L. pref. re- re- + a word of Teutonic origin; cf. Goth. gr to weep, Icel. gr. See Greet to lament.]
Defn: 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.
REGRETFUL Re*gret"ful (-fl), a.
Defn: Full of regret; indulging in regrets; repining. -- Re*gret"ful*ly, adv.
REGROW Re*grow" (r*gr"), v. i. & t.
Defn: To grow again. The snail had power to regrow them all [horns, tongue, etc.] A. B. Buckley.
REGROWTH Re*growth" (r*grth"), n.
Defn: The act of regrowing; a second or new growth. Darwin. The regrowth of limbs which had been cut off. A. B. Buckley.
REGUARDANT Re*guard"ant (r*grd"ant), a. (Her.)
Defn: Same as Regardant.
REGUERDON Re*guer"don (r*gr"dn), v. t. Etym: [Pref. re- re- + guerdon: cf. OF. reguerdonner.]
Defn: To reward. [Obs.] Shak.
REGULABLE Reg"u*la*ble (rg"*l*b'l), a.
Defn: Capable of being regulated. [R.]
REGULAR Reg"u*lar (-lr), a. Etym: [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.)
Defn: Having all the parts of the same kind alike in size and shape; as, a regular flower; a regular sea urchin.
7. (Crystallog.)
Defn: 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.
REGULAR Reg"u*lar (rg"*lr), n. Etym: [LL. regularis: cf. F. régulier. See Regular, a.]
1. (R. C. Ch.)
Defn: 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.)
Defn: A soldier belonging to a permanent or standing army; -- chiefly used in the plural.
REGULARIA Reg`u*la"ri*a (rg`*l"r*), n.pl. Etym: [NL.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: A division of Echini which includes the circular, or regular, sea urchins.
REGULARITY Reg`u*lar"i*ty (-lr"*t), n. Etym: [Cf. F. régularité.]
Defn: The condition or quality of being regular; as, regularity of outline; the regularity of motion.
REGULARIZE Reg"u*lar*ize (rg"*lr*z), v. t.
Defn: To cause to become regular; to regulate. [R.]
REGULARLY Reg"u*lar*ly, adv.
Defn: In a regular manner; in uniform order; methodically; in due order or time.
REGULARNESS Reg"u*lar*ness, n.
Defn: Regularity. Boyle.
REGULATE Reg"u*late (-lt), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Regulated (-l`td); p. pr. & vb. n. Regulating.] Etym: [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.
REGULATION Reg`u*la"tion (-l"shn), 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.
REGULATIVE Reg"u*la*tive (rg"*l*tv), a.
1. Tending to regulate; regulating. Whewell.
2. (Metaph.)
Defn: 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.
Note: 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.
REGULATOR Reg"u*la`tor (-l`tr), n.
1. One who, or that which, regulates.
2. (Mach.)
Defn: 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.
REGULINE Reg"u*line (rg"*ln), a. Etym: [Cf. F. régulin. See Regulus.] (Chem. & Metal.)
Defn: Of or pertaining to regulus.
REGULIZE Reg"u*lize (-lz), v. t. (Old Chem.)
Defn: To reduce to regulus; to separate, as a metal from extraneous matter; as, to regulize antimony. [Archaic]
REGULUS Reg"u*lus (-ls), n.; pl. E. Reguluses (-Reguli (-l. Etym: [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.)
Defn: 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.
Note: The name was introduced by the alchemists, and applied by them in the first instance to antimony. Ilittle 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.)
Defn: A star of the first magnitude in the constellation Leo; -- called also the Lion's Heart.
REGURGITATE Re*gur"gi*tate (r*gr"j*tt), v. t. Etym: [LL. regurgitare, regurgitatum; L. pref. re- re- + gurges, -itis, a gulf. Cf. Regorge.]
Defn: To throw or pour back, as from a deep or hollow place; to pour or throw back in great quantity.
REGURGITATE Re*gur"gi*tate, v. i.
Defn: To be thrown or poured back; to rush or surge back. The food may regurgitatem the stomach into the esophagus and mouth. Quain.
REGURGITATION Re*gur`gi*ta"tion (-t"shn), n. Etym: [Cf. F. régurgitation.]
1. The act of flowing or pouring back by the orifice of entrance; specifically (Med.),
Defn: 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.
REHABILITATE Re`ha*bil"i*tate (r`h*bl"*tt), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rehabilitated (- t`td); p. pr. & vb. n. Rehabilitating.] Etym: [Pref. re- re- + habilitate: cf. LL. rehabilitare, F. réhabiliter.]
Defn: 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.
REHABILITATION Re`ha*bil`i*ta"tion (-t"shn), n. Etym: [Cf. LL. rehabilitatio, F. Réhabilitation.]
Defn: The act of rehabilitating, or the state of being rehabilitated. Bouvier. Walsh.
REHASH Re*hash" (r*hsh"), v. t.
Defn: To hash over again; to prepare or use again; as, to rehash old arguments.
REHASH Re*hash", n.
Defn: Something hashed over, or made up from old materials.
REHEAR Re*hear" (r*hr"), v. t.
Defn: To hear again; to try a second time; as, to rehear a cause in Chancery.
REHEARSAL Re*hears"al (r*hrs"a), n.
Defn: 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.
REHEARSE Re*hearse" (r*hrs"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rehearsed (-hrst"); p. pr. & vb. n. Rehearsing.] Etym: [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.
REHEARSE Re*hearse", v. i.
Defn: To recite or repeat something for practice. "There will we rehearse." Shak.
REHEARSER Re*hears"er (-r), n.
Defn: One who rehearses.
REHEAT Re*heat" (r*ht"), v. t.
1. To heat again.
2. To revive; to cheer; to cherish. [Obs.] Rom. of R.
REHIBITION Re`hi*bi"tion (r`h*bsh"n), n. Etym: [Pref. re- + L. habere to have.] (Law)
Defn: The returning of a thing purchased to the seller, on the ground of defect or frand.
REHIBITORY Re*hib"i*to*ry (r*hb"*t*r), a. (Law)
Defn: Of or relating to rehibition; as, a rehibitory action.
REHIRE Re*hire" (r*hr"), v. t.
Defn: To hire again.
REHYPOTHECATE Re`hy*poth"e*cate (r`h*pth"*kt), v. t. (Law)
Defn: To hypothecate again. -- Re`hy*poth`e*ca"tion, n.
REI Rei (r), n.;pl. Reis (ror r. Etym: [Pg. real, pl. reis. See Real a coin.]
Defn: A portuguese money of account, in value about one tenth of a cent. [Spelt also ree.]
REICHSRATH Reichs"rath` (rks"rt), n. Etym: [G]
Defn: 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.
REICHSSTAND Reichs"stand` (rks"stt`), n. Etym: [G.]
Defn: A free city of the former German empire.
REICHSTAG Reichs"tag` (rks"tg`), n. Etym: [G.]
Defn: 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 Reif (rf), n. Etym: [AS. re.]
Defn: Robbery; spoil. [Obs.]
REIGLE Rei"gle (r"g'l), n. Etym: [F. règle a rule, fr. L. regula. See Rule.]
Defn: A hollow cut or channel for quiding anything; as, the reigle of a side post for a flood gate. Carew.
REIGLE Rei"gle, v. t.
Defn: To regulate; to govern. [Obs.]
REIGLEMENT Rei"gle*ment (-ment), n. Etym: [See Reglement.]
Defn: Rule; regulation. [Obs.] Bacon. Jer. Taylor.
REIGN Reign (rn), n. Etym: [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.
REIGN Reign (rn), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Reigned (rnd); p. pr. & vb. n. Reigning.] Etym: [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.
REIGNER Reign"er (rn"r), n.
Defn: One who reigns. [R.]
REILLUME Re`il*lume" (r`l*lm"), v. t.
Defn: To light again; to cause to shine anew; to relume; to reillumine. "Thou must reillume its spark." J. R. Drake.
REILLUMINATE Re`il*lu"mi*nate (-l"m*nt), v. t.
Defn: To enlighten again; to reillumine.
REILLUMINATION Re`il*lu`mi*na"tion (-n"shn), n.
Defn: The act or process of enlightening again.
REILLUMINE Re`il*lu"mine (-l"mn), v. t.
Defn: To illumine again or anew; to reillume.
REIM Reim (rm), n. Etym: [D. riem, akin to G riemen; CF. Gr.
Defn: A strip of oxhide, deprived of hair, and rendered pliable, -- used for twisting into ropes, etc. [South Africa] Simmonds.
REIMBARK Re`im*bark" (r`m*brk"), v. t. & i.
Defn: See Re.
REIMBODY Re`im*bod"y (-bd"), v. t. & i. Etym: [See Re.]
Defn: To imbody again. Boyle.
REIMBURSABLE Re`im*burs"a*ble (r`m*brs"*b'l), a. Etym: [CF. F. remboursable.]
Defn: Capable of being repaid; repayable. A loan has been made of two millions of dollars, reimbursable in ten years. A. Hamilton.
REIMBURSE Re`im*burse" (-brs"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reimbursed (-brst"); p. pr. & vb. n. Reimbursing.] Etym: [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.
REIMBURSEMENT Re`im*burse"ment (-brs"ment), n. Etym: [Cf. F. rembursement.]
Defn: The act reimbursing. A. Hamilton.
REIMBURSER Re`im*burs"er (-brs"r), n.
Defn: One who reimburses.
REIMPLANT Re`im*plant" (-plnt"), v. t.
Defn: To implant again.
REIMPORT Re`im*port" (-prt"), v. t. Etym: [Pref. re- + import: cf. F. remporter.]
Defn: To import again; to import what has been exported; to bring back. Young.
REIMPORTATION Re*im`por*ta"tion (r*m`pr*t"shn), n.
Defn: The act of reimporting; also, that which is reimported.
REIMPORTUNE Re*im`por*tune" (-pr*tn"), v. t.
Defn: To importune again.
REIMPOSE Re`im*pose" (r`m*pz), v. t.
Defn: To impose anew.
REIMPREGNATE Re`im*preg"nate (-prg"nt), v. t.
Defn: To impregnate again or anew. Sir T. Browne.
REIMPRESS Re`im*press" (-prs"), v. t.
Defn: To impress anew.
REIMPRESSION Re`im*pres"sion (-prsh"n), n.
Defn: A second or repeated impression; a reprint.
REIMPRINT Re`im*print" (-prnt"), v. t.
Defn: To imprint again.
REIMPRISON Re`im*pris"on (-prz'n), v. t.
Defn: To imprison again.
REIMPRISONMENT Re`im*pris"on*ment (-ment), n.
Defn: The act of reimprisoning, or the state of being reimprisoned.
REIN Rein (rn), n. Etym: [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 Rein, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reined (rnd); 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 Rein, v. i.
Defn: To be guided by reins. [R.] Shak.
REINAUGURATE Re`in*au"gu*rate, v. t.
Defn: To inaugurate anew.
REINCIT Re"in*cit" (-st"), v. t.
Defn: To incite again.
REINCORPORATE Re`in*cor"po*rate, v. t.
Defn: To incorporate again.
REINCREASE Re`in*crease" (-krs"), v. t.
Defn: To increase again.
REINCUR Re`in*cur" (-kr"), v. t.
Defn: To incur again.
REINDEER Rein"deer` (rn"dr), n. Etym: [Icel. hreinn reindeer + E. deer. Icel. hreinn is of Lapp or Finnish origin; cf. Lappish reino pasturage.] [Formerly written also raindeer, and ranedeer.] (Zool.)
Defn: 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.
Note: 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. Groelandicus), 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.
REINDUCE Re`in*duce" (r`n*ds"), v. t.
Defn: To induce again.
REINETTE Rei*nette" (r*nt"), n. Etym: [F. See 1st Rennet.] (Bot.)
Defn: A name given to many different kinds of apples, mostly of French origin.
REINFECT Re`in*fect" (r`n*fkt), v. t. Etym: [Pref. re- + infect: cf. F. réinfecter.]
Defn: To infect again.
REINFECTIOUS Re`in*fec"tious (-fk"shs), a.
Defn: Capable of reinfecting.
REINFORCE Re`in*force" (-frs"), v. t.
Defn: See Reënforce, v. t.
REINFORCE Re`in*force", n.
Defn: See Reënforce, n.
REINFORCEMENT Re`in*force"ment (-ment), n.
Defn: See Reënforcement.
REINFUND Re`in*fund" (-fnd"), v. i. Etym: [Pref. re- + L. infundere to pour in.]
Defn: To flow in anew. [Obs.] Swift.
REINGRATIATE Re`in*gra"ti*ate (-gr"sh*t), v. t.
Defn: To ingratiate again or anew. Sir. T. Herbert.
REINHABIT Re`in*hab"it (-hb"t), v. t.
Defn: To inhabit again. Mede.
REINLESS Rein"less (rn"ls), a.
Defn: Not having, or not governed by, reins; hence, not checked or restrained.
REINS Reins (rnz), n. pl. Etym: [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 andd 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.
REINSERT Re`in*sert" (r`n*srt"), v. t.
Defn: To insert again.
REINSERTION Re`in*ser"tion (-sr"shn), n.
Defn: The act of reinserting.
REINSPECT Re`in*spect" (-spkt"), v. t.
Defn: To inspect again.
REINSPECTION Re`in*spec"tion (-spk"shn), n.
Defn: The act of reinspecting.
REINSPIRE Re`in*spire" (-spr"), v. t.
Defn: To inspire anew. Milton.
REINSPIRIT Re`in*spir"it (-sp`r"t), v. t.
Defn: To give fresh spirit to.
REINSTALL Re`in*stall" (-stl"), v. t. Etym: [Pref. re- + install: cf. F. réinstaller.]
Defn: To install again. Milton.
REINSTALLMENT Re`in*stall"ment (ment), n.
Defn: A renewed installment.
REINSTATE Re`in*state" (-stt"), v. t.
Defn: 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.
REINSTATEMENT Re`in*state"ment (-ment), n.
Defn: The act of reinstating; the state of being reinstated; re
REINSTATION Re`in*sta"tion (-st"shn), n.
Defn: Reinstatement. [R.]
REINSTRUCT Re`in*struct" (-strkt"), v. t.
Defn: To instruct anew.
REINSURANCE Re`in*sur"ance (-shr"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.
REINSURE Re`in*sure" (-shr"), 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 inssurance risk upon it. The innsurer may cause the property insured to be reinsured by other persons. Walsh.
REINSURER Re`in*sur"er (-shr"r), n.
Defn: One who gives reinsurance.
REINTEGRATE Re*in"te*grate (r*n"t*grt), v. t. Etym: [Pref. re- + integrate. Cf. Redintegrate.]
Defn: To renew with regard to any state or quality; to restore; to bring again together into a whole, as the parts off anything; to reas, to reintegrate a nation. Bacon.
REINTEGRATION Re*in`te*gra"tion (-gr"shn), n.
Defn: A renewing, or making whole again. See Redintegration.
REINTER Re`in*ter" (r`n*tr"), v. t.
Defn: To inter again.
REINTERROGATE Re`in*ter"ro*gate (-tr"r*gt), v. t.
Defn: To interrogate again; to question repeatedly. Cotgrave.
REINTHRONE Re`in*throne" (-thrn"), v. t.
Defn: See Reënthrone.
REINTHRONIZE Re`in*thron"ize (-z), v. t.
Defn: To enthrone again.[Obs.]
REINTRODUCE Re*in`tro*duce" (r*n`tr*ds"), v. t.
Defn: To introduce again. -- Re*in`tro*duc"tion (-d, n.
REINVEST Re`in*vest" (r`n*vst"), v. t.
Defn: To invest again or anew.
REINVESTIGATE Re`in*ves"ti*gate (-vs"t*gt), v. t.
Defn: To investigate again. -- Re`in*ves`ti*ga"tion (-g, n.
REINVESTMENT Re`in*vest"ment (-vst"ment), n.
Defn: The act of investing anew; a second or repeated investment.
REINVIGORATE Re`in*vig"or*ate (-vg"r*t), v. t.
Defn: To invigorate anew.
REINVOLVE Re`in*volve" (-vlv"), v. t.
Defn: To involve anew.
REIS Re`is (r"s or rz), n. Etym: [Pg., pl. of real, an ancient Portuguese coin.]
Defn: The word is used as a Portuguese designation of money of account, one hundred reis being about equal in value to eleven cents.
REIS Reis (rs), n. Etym: [Ar. ra head, chief, prince.]
Defn: A common title in the East for a person in authority, especially the captain of a ship. [Written also rais and ras.]
REIS EFFENDI Reis` Ef*fen"di (rs` f*fn"d). Etym: [See 2d Reis, and Effendi.]
Defn: A title formerly given to one of the chief Turkish officers of state. He was chancellor of the empire, etc.
REISSNER'S MEMBRANE Reiss"ner's mem"brane (rs"nrz mm"brn). Etym: [Named from E. Reissner, A German anatomist.] (Anat.)
Defn: The thin membrane which separates the canal of the cochlea from the vestibular scala in the internal ear.
REISSUABLE Re*is"su*a*ble (r*sh"**b'l), a.
Defn: Capable of being reissued.
REISSUE Re*is"sue (r*sh"), v. t. & i.
Defn: To issue a second time.
REISSUE Re*is"sue, n.
Defn: A second or repeated issue.
REIT Reit (rt), n.
Defn: Sedge; seaweed. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
REITER Rei"ter (r"tr), n. Etym: [G., rider.]
Defn: A German cavalry soldier of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
REITERANT Re*it"er*ant (r-t"r-ant), a. Etym: [See Reiterate.]
Defn: Reiterating. [R.] Mrs. Browning.
REITERATE Re*it"er*ate (-at), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reiterated (-a`têd); p. pr. & vb. n. Reiterating.] Etym: [Pref. re- + iterate: cf. F. réitérer, LL. reiterare to question again.]
Defn: 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.
REITERATE Re*it"er*ate (-t), a.
Defn: Reiterated; repeated. [R.]
REITERATEDLY Re*it"er*a`ted*ly (-`td-l), adv.
Defn: Repeatedly.
REITERATION Re*it`er*a"tion (-"shn), n. Etym: [Cf. F. réitération.]
Defn: The act of reiterating; that which is reiterated.
REITERATIVE Re*it"er*a*tive (r-t"r--tv), n.
1. (Gram.)
Defn: A word expressing repeated or reiterated action.
2. A word formed from another, or used to form another, by repetition; as, dillydally.
REIVER Reiv"er (rv"r), n.
Defn: See Reaver. Ruskin.
REJECT Re*ject" (r-jkt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rejected; p. pr. & vb. n. Rejecting.] Etym: [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. Hog. iv. 6.
3. To refuse to grant; as, to reject a prayer or request.
Syn. -- To repel; renounce; discard; rebuff; refuse; decline.
REJECTABLE Re*ject"a*ble (--b'l), a.
Defn: Capable of being, or that ought to be, rejected.
REJECTAMENTA Re*jec`ta*men"ta (r-jk`t-mn"ta), n.pl. Etym: [NL., fr. L. rejectare, v. intens. fr. rejicere. See Reject.]
Defn: Things thrown out or away; especially, things excreted by a living organism. J. Fleming.
REJECTANEOUS Re`jec*ta"ne*ous (r`jk-t"n-s), a. Etym: [L. rejectaneus.]
Defn: Not chosen orr received; rejected. [Obs.] "Profane, rejectaneous, and reprobate people." Barrow.
REJECTER Re*ject"er (r-jkt"r), n.
Defn: One who rejects.
REJECTION Re*jec"tion (r-jk"shn), n. Etym: [L. rejectio: cf. F. réjection.]
Defn: Act of rejecting, or state of being rejected.
REJECTITIOUS Re`jec*ti"tious (r`jk-tsh"s), a.
Defn: Implying or requiring rejection; rejectable. Cudworth.
REJECTIVE Re*ject"ive (r-jkt"v), a.
Defn: Rejecting, or tending to reject.
REJECTMENT Re*ject"ment (-ment), n.
Defn: Act of rejecting; matter rejected, or thrown away. Eaton.
REJOICE Re*joice" (r-jois"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Rejoced (-joist"); p. pr. & vb. n. Rejoicing (-joi"sng).] Etym: [OE.rejoissen, OF. resjouir, resjoir, F. réjouir; pref. re- re- + OF, esjouir, esjoir, F. , to rejoice; pref. es- (L. ex-) + OF. jouir, joir, F. jouir, from L. gaudere to rejoice. See Joy.]
Defn: 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.
REJOICE Re*joice", v. t.
1. To enjoy. [Obs.] Bp. Peacock.
2. To give joi 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.
REJOICE Re*joice", n.
Defn: The act of rejoicing. Sir T. Browne.
REJOICEMENT Re*joice"ment (-ment), n.
Defn: Rejoicing. [Obs.]
REJOICER Re*joi"cer (r-joi"sr), n.
Defn: One who rejoices.
REJOICING Re*joi"cing (-sng), 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.
REJOICINGLY Re*joi"cing*ly, adv.
Defn: With joi or exultation.
REJOIN Re*join" (r-join"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rejoined (-joind"); p. pr. & vb. n. Rejoining.] Etym: [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.
REJOIN Re*join", v. i.
1. To answer to a reply.
2. (Law)
Defn: To answer, as the defendant to the plaintiff's replication.
REJOINDER Re*join"der (-dr), n. Etym: [From F. rejoindre, inf., to join again. See Rejoin.]
1. An answer to a reply; or, in general, an answer or reply.
2. (Law)
Defn: The defendant's answer to the plaintiff's replication.
Syn. -- Reply; ansswer; replication. See Reply.
REJOINDER Re*join"der, v. i.
Defn: To make a rejoinder. [Archaic]
REJOINDURE Re*join"dure (-dr), n.
Defn: Act of joining again. [Obs.] "Beguiles our lips of all rejoindure" (i.e., kisses). Shak.
REJOINT Re*joint" (re-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.
REJOLT Re*jolt" (r-jlt"), n.
Defn: A reacting jolt or shock; a rebound or recoil. [R.] These inward rejolts and recoilings of the mind. South.
REJOLT Re*jolt", v. t.
Defn: To jolt or shake again. Locke.
REJOURN Re*journ" (r-jrn"), v. t. Etym: [Cf. F. réajourner. See Adjourn.]
Defn: To adjourn; to put off. [Obs.] Shak.
REJOURNMENT Re*journ"ment (-ment), n.
Defn: Adjournment. [Obs.]
REJUDGE Re*judge" (r-jj"), v. t.
Defn: To judge again; to re Rejudge his acts, and dignify disgrace. Pope.
REJUVENATE Re*ju"ve*nate (r-j"v-nt), v. t. Etym: [Pref. re- re- + L. juventis young, youthful.]
Defn: To render young again.
REJUVENATED Re*ju"ve*na`ted, p. a. from Rejuvenate.
1. Rendered young again; as, rejuvenated life.
2. (Phys. Geog.) (a) Stimulated by uplift to renewed erosive activity; -- said of streams. (b) Developed with steep slopes inside a district previously worn down nearly to base level; -- said of topography, or features of topography, as valleys, hills, etc.
REJUVENATION Re*ju`ve*na"tion (-n"shn), n.
Defn: Rejuvenescence.
REJUVENESCENCE Re*ju`ve*nes"cence (-ns"sens), n.
1. A renewing of youth; the state of being or growing young again.
2. (Bot.)
Defn: 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 zo
REJUVENESCENCY Re*ju`ve*nes"cen*cy (-sen-s), n.
Defn: Rejuvenescence.
REJUVENESCENT Re*ju`ve*nes"cent (-sent), a.
Defn: Becoming, or causing to become, rejuvenated; rejuvenating.
REJUVENIZE Re*ju`ve*nize (r-j"v-nz), v. t.
Defn: To rejuvenate.
REKINDLE Re*kin"dle (r-kn"d'l), v. t. & i.
Defn: To kindle again.
REKNE Rek"ne (rk"ne), v. t.
Defn: To reckon. [Obs.] Chaucer.
RELADE Re*lade" (r-ld"), v. t.
Defn: To lade or load again.
RELAID Re*laid" (r-ld),
Defn: imp. & p. p. of Relay.
RELAIS Re*lais" (re-l"), n. Etym: [F. See Relay, n.] (Fort.)
Defn: 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.
RELAND Re*land" (r-lnd"), v. t.
Defn: To land again; to put on land, as that which had been shipped or embarked.
RELAND Re*land", v. i.
Defn: To go on shore after having embarked; to land again.
RELAPSE Re*lapse" (r-lps"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Relapsed (-lpst"); p. pr. & vb. n. Relapsing.] Etym: [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 relaps 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.)
Defn: 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.
RELAPSE Re*lapse", n. Etym: [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 backlider; specifically, one who, after recanting error, returns to it again. [Obs.]
RELAPSER Re*laps"er (-lps"r), n.
Defn: One who relapses. Bp. Hall.
RELAPSING Re*laps"ing, a.
Defn: 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.
RELATE Re*late" (r-lt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Related; p. pr. & vb. n. Relating.] Etym: [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.
RELATE 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.
RELATED Re*lat"ed (-lt"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.)
Defn: Same as Relative, 4.
RELATEDNESS Re*lat"ed*ness, n.
Defn: The state or condition of being related; relationship; affinity. [R.] Emerson.
RELATER Re*lat"er (-r), n.
Defn: One who relates or narrates.
RELATION Re*la"tion (r-l"shn), n. Etym: [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. 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.
RELATIONAL Re*la"tion*al (r-l"shn-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.
RELATIONIST Re*la"tion*ist, n.
Defn: A relative; a relation. [Obs.]
RELATIONSHIP Re*la"tion*ship, n.
Defn: The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
RELATIVE Rel"a*tive (rl"-tv), a. Etym: [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.)
Defn: Indicating or expressing relation; refering to an antecedent; as, a relative pronoun.
4. (Mus.)
Defn: 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.
RELATIVE Rel"a*tive, n.
Defn: 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 prnoun; a word which relates to, or represents, another word or phrase, called its antecedent; as, the relatives " who", "which", "that".
RELATIVELY Rel"a*tive*ly, adv.
Defn: 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.
RELATIVENESS Rel"a*tive*ness, n
Defn: The state of being relative, or having relation; relativity.
RELATIVITY Rel`a*tiv"i*ty (-tv"-t), n.
Defn: The state of being relative; as, the relativity of a subject. Coleridge.
RELATOR Re*lat"or (r-lt"r), n. Etym: [ L.: cf. F. relateur. See Relate.]
1. One who relates; a relater. "The several relators of this history." Fuller.
2. (Law)
Defn: 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.
RELATRIX Re*lat"rix (-rks), n. Etym: [L.] (Law)
Defn: A female relator.
RELAX Re*lax" (r-lks"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Relaxed (-lkst"); p. pr. & vb. n. Relaxing.] Etym: [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 rogorous; to abate the stringency of; to remit in respect to strenuousness, esrnestness, or effort; as, to relax discipline; to relax one's attention or endeavors. The stature of mortmain was at several times relaxed by the legilature. 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.
RELAX 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.
RELAX Re*lax", n.
Defn: Relaxation. [Obs.] Feltham.
RELAX Re**lax", a.
Defn: Relaxed; lax; hence, remiss; careless.
RELAXABLE Re*lax"a*ble (--b'l), a.
Defn: Capable of being relaxed.
RELAXANT Re*lax"ant (r-lks"ant), n. Etym: [L. relaxans, p. pr. of relaxare.] (Med.)
Defn: A medicine that relaxes; a laxative.
RELAXATION Re`lax*a"tion (r`lks-"shn;277), n. Etym: [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.
RELAXATIVE Re*lax"a*tive (r-lks"-tv), a.
Defn: Having the quality of relaxing; laxative. -- n.
Defn: A relaxant. B. Jonson.
RELAY Re*lay" (r-l"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Relaid (-ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Relaying.] Etym: [Pref re- + lay, v.]
Defn: To lay again; to lay a second time; as, to relay a pavement.
RELAY Re*lay" (r-l"), n. Etym: [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 continnue 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.)
Defn: In various forms of telegrapfhic apparatus, a megnet 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.
RELAY CYLINDER Relay cylinder.
Defn: In a variable expansion central-valve engine, a small auxiliary engine for automatically adjusting the steam distribution to the load on the main engine. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
RELAY GOVERNOR Relay governor.
Defn: A speed regulator, as a water-wheel governor, embodying the relay principle. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
RELBUN Rel"bun (rl"bn), n.
Defn: The roots of the Chilian plant Calceolaria arachnoidea, -- used for dyeing crimson.
RELEASABLE Re*leas"a*ble (r-ls"-b'l), a.
Defn: That may be released.
RELEASE Re*lease" (r-ls"), v. t. Etym: [Pref. re + lease to let.]
Defn: To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
RELEASE Re*lease" (r-ls"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Released (r*lst"); p. pr. & vb. n. Releasing.] Etym: [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)
Defn: 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 Spenser.
Syn. -- To free; liberate; loose; discharge; disengage; extracate; let go; quit; acquit.
RELEASE 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)
Defn: 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)
Defn: 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.
RELEASEE Re*leas`ee" (-"), n.
Defn: One to whom a release is given.
RELEASEMENT Re*lease"ment (r-ls"ment), n.
Defn: The act of releasing, as from confinement or obligation. Milton.
RELEASER Re*leas"er (-r), n.
Defn: One who releases, or sets free.
RELEASOR Re*leas"or (-r), n.
Defn: One by whom a release is given.
RELEGATE Rel"e*gate (rl"-gt), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Relegated (-g`td); p. pr. & vb. n. Relegating.] Etym: [L. relegatus, p. p. of relegare; pref. re- re- + legare to send with a commission or charge. See Legate.]
Defn: 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.
RELEGATION Rel`e*ga"tion (-g"shn), n. Etym: [L. relegatio: cf. F. rel.]
Defn: The act of relegating, or the state of being relegated; removal; banishment; exile.
RELENT Re*lent" (r-lnt"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Relented; p. pr. & vb. n. Relenting.] Etym: [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.
RELENT 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.]
RELENT Re*lent" (r-lnt"), n.
Defn: Stay; stop; delay. [Obs.] Nor rested till she came without relent Unto the land of Amazona. Spenser.
RELENTLESS Re*lent"less, a.
Defn: 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.
RELENTMENT Re*lent"ment (-ment), n.
Defn: The act or process of retenting; the state of having relented. Sir T. Browne.
RELESSE Re*lesse" (r-ls"), v. t.
Defn: To release. [Obs.] Chaucer.
RELESSEE Re`les*see" (r`ls-s"), n.
Defn: See Releasee.
RELESSOR Re`les*sor" (-sr"), n.
Defn: See Releasor.
RE-LET Re-let" (r-lt"), v. t.
Defn: To let anew, as a hous.
RELEVANCE; RELEVANCY Rel"e*vance, Rel"e*van*cy, n.
1. The quality or state of being relevant; pertinency; applicability. Its answer little meaning, little relevancy bore. Poe.
2. (Scots Law)
Defn: Sufficiency to infer the conclusion.
RELEVANT Rel"e*vant (-vant), a. Etym: [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. (SScots Law)
Defn: Sufficient to support the cause.
RELEVANTLY Rel"e*vant*ly, adv.
Defn: In a relevant manner.
RELEVATION Rel`e*va"tion (-v"shn), n. Etym: [L. relevatio, fr. relevare. See Relieve.]
Defn: A raising or lifting up. [Obs.]
RELIABILITY Re*li`a*bil"i*ty (r-l`-bl"-t), n.
Defn: The state or quality of being reliable; reliableness.
RELIABLE Re*li"a*ble (r-l"-b'l), a.
Defn: 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.
Note: 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.
RELIANCE Re*li"ance (-ans), n. Etym: [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.
RELIANT Re*li"ant (-ant), a.
Defn: Having, or characterized by, reliance; confident; trusting.
RELIC Rel"ic (rl"k), n. Etym: [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 pearis were split; Some lost, some stolen, some as relics kept. Tennyson.
RELICLY Rel"ic*ly, adv.
Defn: In the manner of relics. [Obs.]
RELICT Rel"ict (-kt), n. Etym: [L. relicta, fr. of relictus, p. p. of relinquere to leave behind. See Relinquish.]
Defn: A woman whose husband is dead; a widow. Eli dying without issue, Jacob was obbliged by law to marry his relict, and so to raise up seed to his brother Eli. South.
RELICTED Re*lict"ed (r-lkt"d), a. Etym: [L. relictus, p. p.] (Law)
Defn: Left uncovered, as land by recession of water. Bouvier.
RELICTION Re*lic"tion (r-lk"shn), n. Etym: [L. relictio a leaving behind.] (Law)
Defn: A leaving dry; a recession of the sea or other water, leaving dry land; land left uncovered by such recession. Burrill.
RELIEF Re*lief" (r-lf"), n. Etym: [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 seec 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 lessenc 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)
Defn: 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.)
Defn: The projection of a figure above the ground or plane on wwhich it is formed.
Note: 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.)
Defn: The appearance of projection given by shading, shadow, etc., to any figure.
7. (Fort.)
Defn: The height to which works are raised above the bottom of the ditch. Wilhelm.
8. (Physical Geog.)
Defn: 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.
RELIEFFUL Re*lief"ful (r-lf"fl), a.
Defn: Giving relief. [Obs.]
RELIEFLESS Re*lief"less, a.
Defn: Destitute of relief; also, remediless.
RELIER Re*li"er (r-l"r), n. Etym: [From Rely.]
Defn: One who relies.
RELIEVABLE Re*liev"a*ble (r-lv"-b'l), a.
Defn: Capable of being relieved; fitted to recieve relief. Sir M. Hale.
RELIEVE Re*lieve" (r-lv"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Relieved (-lvd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Relieving.] Etym: [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 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 cruches; to render less burdensome or afflicting; to allevate; 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.
RELIEVEMENT Re*lieve"ment (-ment), n.
Defn: The act of relieving, or the state of being relieved; relief; release. [Archaic.]
RELIEVER Re*liev"er (-r), n.
Defn: One who, or that which, relieves.
RELIEVING Re*liev"ing, a.
Defn: 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.
RELIEVO Re*lie"vo (r-l"v), n. Etym: [It. rilievo.]
Defn: See Relief, n., 5.
RELIGHT Re*light" (r-lt"), v. t.
Defn: To light or kindle anew.
RELIGIEUSE; RELIGIEUX Re*li`gi`euse", n. f. Re*li`gi`eux", n. m.Etym: [F.]
Defn: A person bound by monastic vows; a nun; a monk.
RELIGION Re*li"gion (r-lj"n), n. Etym: [F., from L. religio; cf. religens pious, revering the gods, Gr. 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 sdivine 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 Pharisce. 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 pleasant and useful companion in every proper place, and every temperate occupation of life. Buckminster.
3. (R.C.CH.)
Defn: 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.
Note: 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 sanciti, 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.
RELIGIONARY Re*li"gion*a*ry (r-lj"n--r), a.
Defn: Relating to religion; pious; as, religionary professions. [Obs.]
RELIGIONARY; RELIGIONER Re*li"gion*a*ry, Re*li"gion*er (-r), n.
Defn: A religionist. [R.]
RELIGIONISM Re*li"gion*ism (-z'm), n.
1. The practice of, or devotion to, religion.
2. Affectation or pretense of religion.
RELIGIONIST Re*li"gion*ist, n.
Defn: 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 heterodoreligionists, was to be scourged out of the town. Hawthorne.
RELIGIONIZE Re*li"gion*ize (-z), v. t.
Defn: To bring under the influence of religion. [R.] Mallock.
RELIGIONLESS Re*li"gion*less, a.
Defn: Destitute of religion.
RELIGIOSITY Re*lig`i*os"i*ty (-lj`-s"-t), n. Etym: [L. religiositas: cf. F. religiosit.]
Defn: The quality of being religious; religious feeling or sentiment; religiousness. [R.] M. Arnold.
RELIGIOUS Re*li"gious (r-lj"s), a. Etym: [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.
RELIGIOUS Re*li"gious, n.
Defn: 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.
RELIGIOUSLY Re*li"gious*ly, adv.
Defn: In a religious manner. Drayton.
RELIGIOUSNESS Re*li"gious*ness, n.
Defn: The quality of being religious.
RELIK Rel"ik (rl"k), n.
Defn: Relic. [Obs.] Chaucer.
RELINQUENT Re*lin"quent (r-ln"kwent), a. Etym: [L. relinquens, p. pr. of relinqquere. See Relinquish.]
Defn: Relinquishing. [R.]
RELINQUENT Re*lin"quent, n.
Defn: One who relinquishes. [R.]
RELINQUISH Re*lin"quish (-kwsh), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Relinquished (-kwsht); p. pr. & vb. n. Relinquishing.] Etym: [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; forbResign.
RELINQUISHER Re*lin"quish*er (-rr), n.
Defn: One who relinquishes.
RELINQUISHMENT Re*lin"quish*ment (-ment), n.
Defn: The act of relinquishing.
RELIQUARY Rel"i*qua*ry (rl"-kw-r), n.; pl. -ries (-rîz). Etym: [LL.reliquiarium, reliquiare: cf. F. reliquaire. See Relic.]
Defn: A depositary, often a small box or casket, in which relics are kept.
RELIQUE Re*lique" (r-lk"), n. Etym: [F.]
Defn: See Relic. Chaucer.
RELIQUIAE Re*liq"ui*æ (r-lk"w-), n.pl. Etym: [L. See Relic.]
1. Remains of the dead; organic remains; relics.
2. (Bot.)
Defn: Same as Induviæ.
RELIQUIAN Re*liq"ui*an (r-lk"w-an), a.
Defn: Of or pertaining to a relic or relics; of the nature of a relic. [R.]
RELIQUIDATE Re*liq"ui*date (r-lk"w-dt), v. t.
Defn: To liquidate anew; to adjust a second time.
RELIQUIDATION Re*liq`ui*da"tion (-d*"shn), n.
Defn: A second or renewed liquidation; a renewed adjustment. A. Hamilton.
RELISH Rel"ish (rl"sh), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Relished (-; p. pr. & vb. n. Relishing.] Etym: [Of. relechier to lick or taste anew; pref. re- re- + lechier to lick, F. l. 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.
RELISH Rel"ish, v. i.
Defn: 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.
RELISH 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 jCowper.
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.
RELISH Rel"ish, n. (Carp.)
Defn: The projection or shoulder at the side of, or around, a tenon, on a tenoned piece. Knight.
RELISHABLE Rel"ish*a*ble (--b'l), a.
Defn: Capable of being relished; agreeable to the taste; gratifying.
RELIVE Re*live" (r-lv"), v. i.
Defn: To live again; to revive.
RELIVE Re*live", v. t.
Defn: To recall to life; to revive. [Obs.]
RELOAD Re*load" (r-ld"), v. t.
Defn: To load again, as a gun.
RELOAN Re*loan" (r-ln"), n.
Defn: A second lending of the same thing; a renewal of a loan.
RELOCATE Re*lo"cate (r-l"kt), v. t.
Defn: To locate again.
RELOCATION Re`lo*ca"tion (r`l*-k"shn), n.
1. A second location.
2. (Roman & Scots Law)
Defn: Renewal of a lease.
RELODGE Re*lodge" (r-lj"), v. t.
Defn: To lodge again.
RELOVE Re*love" (-lv"), v. t.
Defn: To love in return. [Obs.] Boyle.
RELUCENT Re*lu"cent (r-l"sent), a. Etym: [L. relucens, p. pr. relucere. See Lucent.]
Defn: Reflecting light; shining; glittering; glistening; bright; luminous; splendid. Gorgeous banners to the sun expand Their streaming volumes of relucent gold. Glover.
RELUCT Re*luct" (r-lkt"), v. i. Etym: [L. reluctari, p. p. reluctatus, to struggle; pref. re- re- + luctari to struggle, fr. lucia a wresting.]
Defn: 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.
RELUCTANCE; RELUCTANCY Re*luc"tance, Re*luc"tan*cy, n. Etym: [See Reluctant.]
Defn: 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.
RELUCTANT Re*luc"tant (-tant), a. Etym: [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.
RELUCTANTLY Re*luc"tant*ly, adv.
Defn: In a reluctant manner.
RELUCTATE Re*luc"tate (-tt), v. i. Etym: [See Reluct.]
Defn: To struggle against anything; to resist; to oppose. [Obs.] "To delude their reluctating consciences." Dr. H. More.
RELUCTATION Rel`uc*ta"tion (rl`k-t"shn), n.
Defn: Repugnance; resistance; reluctance. [Obs.] Bacon.
RELUCTIVITY Rel`uc*tiv"i*ty, n. (Elec.)
Defn: Specific reluctance.
RELUME Re*lume" (r-lm"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Relumed (-lmd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Reluming.] Etym: [OF. relumer (cf. F. rallumer), L. reluminare; pref. re- re- + luminare to light. Cf. Reillume.]
Defn: 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.
RELUMINE Re*lu"mine (r-l"mn), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Relumined (-mnd); p. pr. & vb. n. Relumining.] Etym: [See Relume.]
1. To light anew; to rekindle. Shak.
2. To illuminate again.
RELY Re*ly" (r-l"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Relied (-ld"); p. pr. & vb. n. Relying.] Etym: [Pref. re- + lie to rest.]
Defn: 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.
REMADE Re*made" (r-md"),
Defn: imp. & p. p. of Remake.
REMAIN Re*main" (r-mn"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Remained (-mnd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Remaining.] Etym: [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.
REMAIN Re*main", v. t.
Defn: To await; to be left to. [Archaic] The easier conquest now remains thee. Milton.
REMAIN 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.
REMAINDER Re*main"der (r-mn"dr), n. Etym: [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.)
Defn: The quantity or sum that is left after subtraction, or after any deduction.
3. (Law)
Defn: 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.
REMAINDER Re*main"der, a.
Defn: Remaining; left; left over; refuse. Which is as dry as the remainder biscuit After a voyage. Shak.
REMAINDER-MAN Re*main"der-man (- mân), n.; pl. Remainder-men (-mên). (Law)
Defn: One who has an estate after a particular estate is determined. See Remainder, n., 3. Blackstone.
REMAKE Re*make" (r-mk"), v. t.
Defn: To make anew.
REMAND Re*mand" (r-mnd"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Remanded; p. pr. & vb. n. Remanding.] Etym: [F. remander to send word again, L. remandare; pref. re- re- + mandare to commit, order, send word. See Mandate.]
Defn: To recommit; to send back. Remand it to its former place. South. Then were they remanded to the cage again. Bunyan.
REMAND Re*mand", n.
Defn: The act of remanding; the order for recommitment.
REMANDMENT Re*mand"ment (-ment), n.
Defn: A remand.
REMANENCE; REMANENCY Rem"a*nence, Rem"a*nen*cy, n. Etym: [Cf. OF. remanence, LL. remanentia, fr. L. remanens. See Remanent, a.]
Defn: The state of being remanent; continuance; permanence. [R.] Jer. Taylor. The remanence of the will in the fallen spirit. Coleridge.
REMANENT Rem"a*nent (-nent), n. Etym: [See Remanent, a.]
Defn: That which remains; a remnant; a residue.
REMANENT Rem"a*nent, a. Etym: [L. remanens, p. pr. of remanere. See Remain, and cf. Remnant.]
Defn: 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.
REMANET Rem"a*net (-nt), n. Etym: [L., it remains.] (Legal Practice)
Defn: A case for trial which can not be tried during the term; a postponed case. [Eng.]
RE-MARK Re-mark" (r-mrk"), v. t. Etym: [Pref. re- + mark.]
Defn: To mark again, or a second time; to mark anew.
REMARK Re*mark" (r-mrk"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Remarked (-mrkt"); p. pr. & vb. n. Remarking.] Etym: [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.
REMARK Re*mark" (r-mrk"), v. i.
Defn: To make a remark or remarks; to comment.
REMARK Re*mark", n. Etym: [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.
REMARKABLE Re*mark"a*ble (--b'l), a. Etym: [F. remarquable.]
Defn: 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.
REMARKER Re*mark"er (-r), n.
Defn: One who remarks.
REMARQUE; REMARK; REMARQUE PROOF Re*marque", n. Also Remark. (Engraving) (a) A small design etched on the margin of a plate and supposed to be removed after the earliest proofs have been taken; also, any feature distinguishing a particular stage of the plate. (b) A print or proof so distinguished; -- commonly called a Remarque proof.
REMARRIAGE Re*mar"riage (r-mr"rj), n.
Defn: A second or repeated marriage.
REMARRY Re*mar"ry (r-mr"rr), v. t. & i.
Defn: To marry again.
REMAST Re*mast" (r-mst"), v. t.
Defn: To furnish with a new mast or set of masts.
REMASTICATE Re*mas"ti*cate (r-ms"t-kt), v. t.
Defn: To chew or masticate again; to chew over and over, as the cud.
REMASTICATION Re*mas`ti*ca"tion (-k"shn), n.
Defn: The act of masticating or chewing again or repeatedly.
REMBERGE Rem"berge (rm"brj), n.
Defn: See Ramberge.
REMBLAI Rem`blai" (rn`bl"), n. Etym: [F., fr. remblayer to fill up an excavation, to embank.] (Fort. & Engin.)
Defn: Earth or materials made into a bank after having been excavated.
REMBLE Rem"ble (r, v. t. Etym: [Cf. OF. embler to steal, fr. L. involare to fly into or at, to carry off.]
Defn: To remove. [Prov.Eng.] Grose. Tennyson.
REME Reme (r, n.
Defn: Realm. [Obs.] Chaucer.
REMEAN Re*mean" (r, v. t.
Defn: To give meaning to; to explain the meaning of; to interpret. [Obs.] Wyclif.
REMEANT Re"me*ant (rant), a. Etym: [L. remeans, -antis, p. pr. of remeare to go or come back.]
Defn: Coming back; returning. [R.] "Like the remeant sun." C. Kingsley.
REMEASURE Re*meas"ure (r-mzh"r; 135), v. t.
Defn: To measure again; to retrace. They followed him . . . The way they came, their steps remeasured right. Fairfax.
REMEDE Re*mede" (r-md"), n.
Defn: Remedy. [Obs.] Chaucer.
REMEDIABLE Re*me"di*a*ble (r-m"d--b'l), a. Etym: [L. remediabilis: cf. F. remédiable.]
Defn: Capable of being remedied or cured. -- Re*me"di*a*ble*ness, n. -Re*me"di*a*bly, adv.
REMEDIAL Re*me"di*al (-al), a. Etym: [L. remedialis.]
Defn: 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.
REMEDIALLY Re*me"di*al*ly, adv.
Defn: In a remedial manner.
REMEDIATE Re*me"di*ate (-t), a.
Defn: Remedial. [R.] Shak.
REMEDILESS Re*med"i*less (r-md"-ls or rm"-d-ls; 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.
REMEDY Rem"e*dy (rm"-d), n.; pl. Remedies (-d. Etym: [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)
Defn: 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.
REMEDY Rem"e*dy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Remedied (-dd); p. pr. & vb. n. Remedying.] Etym: [L. remediare, remediari: cf. F. rem. See Remedy, n.]
Defn: 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.
REMELT Re*melt" (r-mlt"), v. t.
Defn: To melt again.
REMEMBER Re*mem"ber (r-mm"br), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Remembered (-brd); p. pr. & vb. n. Remembering.] Etym: [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 anithing, when the idea of it ariseI. 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.
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.
REMEMBER Re*mem"ber (r-mm"br), v. i.
Defn: To execise or have the power of memory; as, some remember better than others. Shak.
REMEMBERABLE Re*mem"ber*a*ble (--b'l), a.
Defn: Capable or worthy of being remembered. -- Re*mem"ber*a*bly, adv. The whole vale of Keswick is so rememberable. Coleridge.
REMEMBERER Re*mem"ber*er (-r), n.
Defn: One who remembers.
REMEMBRANCE Re*mem"brance (-brans), n. Etym: [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 [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.
REMEMBRANCER Re*mem"bran*cer (-bran-sr), 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.
REMEMORATE Re*mem"o*rate (--rt), v. i. Etym: [L. rememoratus, p. p. of rememorari. See Remember.]
Defn: To recall something by means of memory; to remember. [Obs.] Bryskett.
REMEMORATION Re*mem`o*ra"tion (-r"shn), n. Etym: [F. rem, or L. rememoratio.]
Defn: A recalling by the faculty of memory; remembrance. [Obs. & R.] Bp. Montagu.
REMEMORATIVE Re*mem"o*ra*tive (r-mEm"-r-tv), a.
Defn: Tending or serving to remind. [R.]
REMENANT Rem"e*nant (rm"-nant), n.
Defn: A remnant. [Obs.]
REMERCIE; REMERCY Re*mer"cie, Re*mer"cy, v. t. Etym: [F. remercier; pref. re- re- + OF. mercier to thank, from OF. & F. merci. See Mercy.]
Defn: To thank. [Obs.] She him remercied as the patron of her life. Spenser.
REMERGE Re*merge" (r-mrj"), v. i.
Defn: To merge again. "Remerging in the general Soul." Tennyson.
REMEVE; REMEWE Re*meve" (r-mEv"), Re*mewe" (r-m"), v. t. & i.
Defn: To remove. [Obs.] Chaucer.
REMIFORM Rem"i*form (rm"*frm), a. Etym: [L. remus oar + -form.]
Defn: Shaped like an oar.
REMIGES Rem"i*ges (rm"*jz), n. pl.; sing. Remex. (r. Etym: [L. remex, -igis, an oarsman.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: The quill feathers of the wings of a bird.
REMIGRATE Rem"i*grate (rm"-grt or r-m"grt; 277), v. i. Etym: [L. remigrare. See Re-, and Migrate.]
Defn: To migrate again; to go back; to return. Boyle.
REMIGRATION Rem`i*gra"tion (rm`-gr"shn), n.
Defn: Migration back to the place from which one came. Sir M. Hale.
REMIND Re*mind" (r-mnd"), v. t.
Defn: 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.
REMINDER Re*mind"er (-r), n.
Defn: One who, or that which, reminds; that which serves to awaken remembrance.
REMINDFUL Re**mind"ful (fl), a.
Defn: Tending or adapted to remind; careful to remind. Southey.
REMINISCENCE Rem`i*nis"cence (rm`-ns"sens), n. Etym: [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.
REMINISCENCY Rem`i*nis"cen*cy (-sen-s), n.
Defn: Reminiscence. [Obs.]
REMINISCENT Rem`i*nis"cent (-sent), a. Etym: [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.]
Defn: 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.
REMINISCENT Rem`i*nis"cent (rm`-ns"sent), n.
Defn: One who is addicted to indulging, narrating, or recording reminiscences.
REMINISCENTIAL Rem`i*nis*cen"tial (-ns-sn"shal), a.
Defn: Of or pertaining to reminiscence, or remembrance. Sir T. Browne.
REMIPED Rem"i*ped (rm"-pd), a. Etym: [L. remus oar + pes, pedis, foot: cf. F. rémipède.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: Having feet or legs that are used as oars; -- said of certain crustaceans and insects.
REMIPED 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.
REMISE Re*mise" (r-mz"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Remised (-mzd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Remising.] Etym: [F. remise delivery, surrender, fr. remettre to put back, deliver, L. remittere. See Remit.]
Defn: To send, give, or grant back; torelease a claim to; to resign or surrender by deed; to return. Blackstone.
REMISE Re*mise", n. (Law)
Defn: A giving or granting back; surrender; return; release, as of a claim.
REMISS Re*miss" (r-ms"), a. Etym: [L. remissus, p. p. of remittere to send back, relax. See Remit.]
Defn: 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.
REMISS Re*miss", n.
Defn: The act of being remiss; inefficiency; failure. [Obs.] "Remisses of laws." Puttenham.
REMISSFUL Re*miss"ful (-fl), a.
Defn: Inclined to remit punishment; lenient; clement. Drayton.
REMISSIBILITY Re*mis`si*bil"i*ty (r-ms`s-bl"-t), n.
Defn: The state or quality of being remissible. Jer. Taylor.
REMISSIBLE Re*mis"si*ble (r-ms"s-b'l), a. Etym: [L. remissibilis: cf. F. rémissible. See Remit.]
Defn: Capable of being remitted or forgiven. Feltham.
REMISSION Re*mis"sion (r-msh"n), n. Etym: [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.)
Defn: 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.
REMISSIVE Re*mis"sive (r-ms"sv), a. Etym: [L. remissivus. See Remit.]
Defn: Remitting; forgiving; abating. Bp. Hacket.
REMISSLY Re*miss"ly (r-ms"l), adv.
Defn: In a remiss or negligent manner; carelessly.
REMISSNESS Re*miss"ness, n.
Defn: Quality or state of being remiss.
REMISSORY Re*mis"so*ry (r-ms"s-r), a.
Defn: Serving or tending to remit, or to secure remission; remissive. "A sacrifice expiatory or remissory." Latimer.
REMIT Re*mit" (r-mt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Remitted; p. pr. & vb. n. Remitting.] Etym: [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.)
Defn: 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 Iremit 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.
REMIT 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.
REMITMENT Re*mit"ment (-ment), n.
Defn: The act of remitting, or the state of being remitted; remission. Disavowing the remitment of Claudius. Milton.
REMITTAL Re*mit"tal (-tal), n.
Defn: A remitting; a giving up; surrender; as, the remittal of the first fruits. Swift.
REMITTANCE Re*mit"tance (r-mt"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.
REMITTEE Re*mit`tee" (r-mt`t"), n. (Com.)
Defn: One to whom a remittance is sent.
REMITTENT Re*mit"tent (r-mt"tent), a. Etym: [L. remittens, p. pr. : cf. F. rémittent.]
Defn: 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.
REMITTER Re*mit"ter (-tr), n.
1. One who remits. Specifically: (a) One who pardons. (b) One who makes remittance.
2. (Law)
Defn: 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.
REMITTITUR Re*mit"ti*tur (-t-tr), n. Etym: [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.
REMITTOR Re*mit"tor (-tr), n. (Law)
Defn: One who makes a remittance; a remitter.
REMIX Re*mix" (r-mks"), v. t.
Defn: To mix again or repeatedly.
REMNANT Rem"nant (rm"nant), a. Etym: [OF. remanant, p. pr. of remanoir, remaindre. See Remanent, Remain.]
Defn: 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.
REMNANT Rem"nant, n. Etym: [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.)
Defn: An unsold end of piece goods, as cloth, ribbons, carpets, etc.
Syn. -- Residue; rest; remains; remainder.
REMODEL Re*mod"el (r-md"l), v. t.
Defn: To model or fashion anew; to change the form of. The corporation had been remodeled. Macaulay.
REMODIFICATION Re*mod`i*fi*ca"tion (--f-k"shn), n.
Defn: The act of remodifying; the state of being remodified.
REMODIFY Re*mod"i*fy (r-md"-f), v. t.
Defn: To modify again or anew; to reshape.
REMOLADE; REMOULAD Ré`mo`lade", Ré`mou`lad", n. Etym: [F.]
Defn: A kind of piquant sauce or salad dressing resembling mayonnaise.
REMOLADE; REMOULADE Ré`mo`lade", Ré`mou`lade", n. [F.]
Defn: An ointment used in farriery.
REMOLD; REMOULD Re*mold", Re*mould" (r-mld"), v. t.
Defn: To mold or shape anew or again; to reshape.
REMOLLIENT Re*mol"lient (r-ml"yent or -l-ent), a. Etym: [L. remolliens, p. pr. of remollire to mollify: cf. F. rémollient. See Mollient.]
Defn: Mollifying; softening. [R.]
REMONETIZATION Re*mon`e*ti*za"tion (r-mn`-t-z"shn or -mn`-), n.
Defn: The act of remonetizing.
REMONETIZE Re*mon"e*tize (-tz), v. t.
Defn: To restore to use as money; as, to remonetize silver.
REMONSTRANCE Re*mon"strance (-mn"strans), n. Etym: [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.)
Defn: Same as Monstrance.
REMONSTRANT Re*mon"strant (-strant), a. Etym: [LL. remonstranc, -antis, p. pr. of remonstrare: cf. OF. remonstrant, F.remontrant.]
Defn: Inclined or tending to remonstrate; expostulatory; urging reasons in opposition to something.
REMONSTRANT Re*mon"strant, n.
Defn: One who remonstrates; specifically (Eccl. Hist.),
Defn: 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.
REMONSTRANTLY Re*mon"strant*ly, adv.
Defn: In a remonstrant manner.
REMONSTRATE Re*mon"strate (-strt), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Remonstrated (-str; p. pr. & vb. n. Remonstrating.] Etym: [LL. remonstratus, p. p. of remonstrare to remonstrate; L. pref. re- + monstrare to show. See Monster.]
Defn: 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.
REMONSTRATE Re*mon"strate, v. i.
Defn: 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.
REMONSTRATION Re`mon*stra"tion (r`mn*str"shn), n. Etym: [Cf. OF. remonstration, LL. remonstratio.]
Defn: The act of remonstrating; remonstrance. [R.] Todd.
REMONSTRATIVE Re*mon"stra*tive (r*mn"str*tv), a.
Defn: Having the character of a remonstrance; expressing remonstrance.
REMONSTRATOR Re*mon"stra*tor (r*mn"str*tr), n.
Defn: One who remonstrates; a remonsrant. Bp. Burnet.
REMONTANT Re*mon"tant (-tant), a.Etym: [F.] (Hort.)
Defn: 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.
REMONTOIR Re*mon`toir" (re-mn"twr"; E. r-mn"twr), n. Etym: [F.] (Horology)
Defn: See under Escapement.
REMORA Rem"o*ra (rm"*r), n. Etym: [L.: cf. F. rémora.]
1. Delay; obstacle; hindrance. [Obs.] Milton.
2. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Any one of several species of fishes belonging to Echeneis, Remora, and allied genera. Called also sucking fish.
Note: 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.)
Defn: An instrument formerly in use, intended to retain parts in their places. Dunglison.
REMORATE Rem"o*rate (-rt), v. t. Etym: [L. remoratus, p. p. of remorari; pref. re- re- + morari to delay.]
Defn: To hinder; to delay. [Obs.] Johnson.
REMORD Re*mord" (r-mrd"), v. t. Etym: [L. remordere to bite again, to torment: cf. F. remordre. See Remorse.]
Defn: To excite to remorse; to rebuke. [Obs.] Skelton.
REMORD Re*mord", v. i.
Defn: To feel remorse. [Obs.] Sir T. Elyot.
REMORDENCY Re*mord"en*cy (-en*s), n.
Defn: Remorse; compunction; compassion. [Obs.] Killingbeck.
REMORSE Re*morse" (r*mrs"), n. Etym: [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.
REMORSED Re*morsed" (r-mrst"), a.
Defn: Feeling remorse. [Obs.]
REMORSEFUL Re*morse"ful (-mrs"fl), 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.
REMORSELESS Re*morse"less, a.
Defn: 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.
REMOTE Re*mote" (r-mt"), a. [Compar. Remoter (-r); superl. Remotest.] Etym: [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.)
Defn: Separated by intervals greater than usual. -- Re*mote"ly, adv. -- Re*mote"ness, n.
REMOTION Re*mo"tion (r-m"shn), n. Etym: [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.
REMOULD Re*mould" (r-mld"), v. t.
Defn: See Remold.
REMOUNT Re*mount" (r-mount"), v. t. & i.
Defn: To mount again.
REMOUNT Re*mount", n.
Defn: The opportunity of, or things necessary for, remounting; specifically, a fresh horse, with his equipments; as, to give one a remount.
REMOVABLE Re*mov"a*ble (r-mv"-b'l), a.
Defn: Admitting of being removed. Ayliffe. -- Re*mov`a*bil"i*ty (-, n.
REMOVAL Re*mov"al (-al), n.
Defn: The act of removing, or the state of being removed.
REMOVE Re*move" (r-mv"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Removed (-mvd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Removing.] Etym: [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.
Note: See the Note under Remove, v. i.
REMOVE Re*move" (r-mv"), v. i.
Defn: 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.
Note: 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.
REMOVE 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.)
Defn: The act of resetting a horse's shoe. Swift.
REMOVED Re*moved" (r-mvd"), 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, n. Shak.
REMOVER Re*mov"er (-r), n.
Defn: One who removes; as, a remover of landmarks. Bacon.
REMUABLE Re*mu"a*ble (r-m"-b'l), a. Etym: [F.]
Defn: That may be removed; removable. [Obs.] Gower.
REMUE Re*mue" (r-m"), v. t. Etym: [F. remuer. See Mew to molt.]
Defn: To remove. [Obs.] Chaucer.
REMUGIENT Re*mu"gi*ent (r-m"j-ent), a. Etym: [L. remugiens, p. pr. of remugire. See Mugient.]
Defn: Rebellowing. Dr. H. More.
REMUNERABLE Re**mu"ner*a*ble (r-m"nr--b'l), a. Etym: [See Remunerate.]
Defn: Admitting, or worthy, of remuneration. -- Re*mu`ner*a*bil"i*ty (r, n.
REMUNERATE Re*mu"ner*ate (-t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Remunerated (-"td); p. pr. & vb. n. Remunerating.] Etym: [L. remuneratus, p. p. of remunerare, remunerari; pref. re- re- + munerare, munerari, to give, present, from munus, muneris, a gift, present. Cf. Munificent.]
Defn: 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.
REMUNERATION Re*mu`ner*a"tion (-"shn), n. Etym: [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.
REMUNERATIVE Re*mu"ner*a*tive (r-m"nr--tv), a. Etym: [Cf.F. rémun.]
Defn: 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.
REMUNERATORY Re*mu"ner*a*to*ry (-t-r), a. Etym: [Cf. F. rémun.]
Defn: Remunerative. Johnson.
REMURMUR Re*mur"mur (r-mr"mr), v. t. & i. Etym: [Pref. re- + murmur: cf. F. remurmurare.]
Defn: 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 Ren (rn), v. t. & i.
Defn: See Renne. [Obs.] Chaucer.
REN Ren, n.
Defn: A run. [Obs.] Chaucer.
RENABLE Ren"a*ble (rn"-b'l), a. Etym: [OF. resnable.]
Defn: Reasonable; also, loquacious. [Obs.] "Most renable of tongue." Piers Plowman. -- Ren"a*bly, adv. [Obs.] Chaucer.
RENAISSANCE Re*nais`sance" (F. re-n`sns"; E. r-ns"sans), n. Etym: [F., fr. renaître to be born again. Cf. Renascence.]
Defn: 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. ).
RENAISSANT Re*nais"sant (r-ns"sant), a.
Defn: Of or pertaining to the Renaissance.
RENAL Re"nal (r"nal), a. Etym: [L. renalis, fr. renes the kidneys or reins: cf. F. rénal. See Reins.] (Anat.)
Defn: 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.
RENAL-PORTAL Re"nal-por`tal (r"nal-pr"tal), a. (Anat.)
Defn: Both renal and portal. See Portal.
RENAME Re*name" (r*nm"), v. t.
Defn: To give a new name to.
RENARD Ren"ard (rn"rd), n. Etym: [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.]
Defn: A fox; -- so called in fables or familiar tales, and in poetry. [Written also reynard.]
RENARDINE Ren"ard*ine (-n), a.
Defn: Of or pertaining to Renard, the fox, or the tales in which Renard is mentioned.
RENASCENCE Re*nas"cence (r-ns"sens), n. Etym: [See Renascent, and cf. Renaissance.]
1. The state of being renascent. Read the Phrenascence is varied. Coleridge.
2. Same as Renaissance. The Renascence . . . which in art, in literature, and in physics, produced such splendid fruits. M. Arnold.
RENASCENCY Re*nas"cen*cy (-sen-s), n.
Defn: State of being renascent.
RENASCENT Re*nas"cent (-sent), a. Etym: [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.
RENASCIBLE Re*nas"ci*ble (-s-b'l), a. Etym: [LL. renascibilis, from L. renasci to be born again.]
Defn: Capable of being reproduced; ablle to spring again into being.
RENATE Re*nate" (r-nt"), a. Etym: [L. renatus, p. p. of renasci.]
Defn: Born again; regenerate; renewed. [Obs.] Beau & Fl.
RENAVIGATE Re*nav"i*gate (r-nv"-gt), v. t.
Defn: To navigate again.
RENAY Re*nay" (r-n"), v. t. Etym: [OF. reneier, F. renier, F. renier; L. pref. re- re- + negare to deny. See Renegade.]
Defn: To deny; to disown. [Obs.]
RENCONTRE Ren*con"tre (rn-kn"tr; F. rn`kn"tr'), n. Etym: [F.]
Defn: Same as Rencounter, n.
RENCOUNTER Ren*coun"ter (rn-koun"tr), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rencountered (-trd); p. pr. & vb/ n. Rencountering.] Etym: [F. rencontrer; pref. re- + OF. encontrer to encounter. See Encounter.]
1. To meet unexpectedly; to encounter.
2. To attack hand to hand. [Obs.] Spenser.
RENCOUNTER Ren*coun"ter, v. i.
Defn: To meet unexpectedly; to encounter in a hostile manner; to come in collision; to skirmish.
RENCOUNTER Ren*coun"ter, n. Etym: [F. rencontre, from renconter to meet.]
1. A meeting of two persons or bodies; a collision; especially, a meetingg 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 Rend (rnd), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rent (rnt); p. pr. & vb. n. Rending.] Etym: [AS. rendan, hrendan; cf. OFries. renda, randa, Fries.renne to cut, rend, Icel. hrinda to push, thrust, AS. hrindan; or cf. Icel. r 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 Rend, v. i.
Defn: To be rent or torn; to become parted; to sepparate; to split. Jer. Taylor.
RENDER Rend"er (-r), n. Etym: [From Rend.]
Defn: One who rends.
RENDER Ren"der (rn"dr), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rendered (-drd);p. pr. & vb. n. Rendering.] Etym: [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.
RENDER Ren"der, v. i.
1. To give an account; to make explanation or confession. [Obs.]
2. (Naut.)
Defn: 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.
RENDER 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.
RENDERABLE Ren"der*a*ble (rn"dr--b'l), a.
Defn: Capable of being rendered.
RENDERER Ren"der*er (-r), n.
1. One who renders.
2. A vessel in which lard or tallow, etc., is rendered.
RENDERING Ren"der*ing, n.
Defn: 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.
RENDEZVOUS Ren"dez*vous (rn"d*voo or rn"-; 277), n.; pl. Rendezvouses (r.
Note: [Rare in the plural.] Etym: [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.
RENDEZVOUS Ren"dez*vous (rn"d-voo or rn"-; 277), v. i. [imp. &. p. p. Rendezvoused (-vood); p. pr. & vb. n. Rendezvousing (-voo*ng).]
Defn: To assemble or meet at a particular place.
RENDEZVOUS Ren"dez*vous, v. t.
Defn: To bring together at a certain place; to cause to be assembled. Echard.
RENDIBLE Rend"i*ble (rnd"-b'l), a. Etym: [From Rend.]
Defn: Capable of being rent or torn.
RENDIBLE Ren"di*ble (rn"d-b'l), a. Etym: [See Render.]
Defn: Capable, or admitting, of being rendered.
RENDITION Ren*di"tion (rn-dsh"n), n. Etym: [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.
RENDROCK Rend"rock` (rnd"rk`), n.
Defn: A kind of dynamite used in blasting. [U.S.]
RENEGADE Ren"e*gade (rn"-gd), n. Etym: [Sp. renegado, LL. renegatus, fr. renegare to deny; L. pref. re- re- + negare to deny. See Negation, and cf. Runagate.]
Defn: 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.
RENEGADO Ren`e*ga"do (rn`-g"d), n. Etym: [Sp.]
Defn: See Renegade.
RENEGAT Ren"e*gat (rn"-gt), n. Etym: [See Runegate.]
Defn: A renegade. [Obs.] Chaucer.
RENEGATION Ren`e*ga"tion (rn`-ga"shn), n.
Defn: A denial. [R.] "Absolute renegation of Christ." Milman.
RENEGE Re*nege" (r-nj" or r-ng"), v. t. Etym: [LL. renegare. See Renegade.]
Defn: To deny; to disown. [Obs.] Shak. All Europe high (all sorts of rights reneged) Against the trith and thee unholy leagued. Sylvester.
RENEGE Re*nege", v. i.
1. To deny. [Obs.] Shak.
2. (Card Playing)
Defn: To revoke. [R.]
RENERVE Re*nerve" (r-nrv"), v. t.
Defn: To nerve again; to give new vigor to; to reinvigorate.
RENEW Re*new" (r-n"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reneved (-nd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Renewing.] Etym: [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 In such a night Medea gathered the enchanted herbs That did renew old 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.)
Defn: To make new spiritually; to regenerate. Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind. Rom. xii. 2.
RENEW Re*new", v. i.
Defn: To become new, or as new; to grow or begin again.
RENEWABILITY Re*new`a*bil"i*ty (--bl"-t), n.
Defn: The quality or state of being renewable. [R.]
RENEWABLE Re*new"a*ble (r-n"-b'l), a.
Defn: Capable of being renewed; as, a lease renewable at pleasure. Swift.
RENEWAL Re*new"al (-al), n.
Defn: The act of renewing, or the state of being renewed; as, the renewal of a treaty.
RENEWEDLY Re*new"ed*ly, adv.
Defn: Again; once more. [U.S.]
RENEWEDNESS Re*new"ed*ness, n.
Defn: The state of being renewed.
RENEWER Re*new"er (-r), n.
Defn: One who, or that which, renews.
RENEYE Re*neye" (r-n"), v. t. Etym: [See Renay.]
Defn: To deney; to reject; to renounce. [Obs.] For he made every man reneye his law. Chaucer.
RENG Reng (rng), n. Etym: [See Rank, n.]
1. A rank; a row. [Obs.] "In two renges fair." Chaucer.
2. A rung or round of a ladder. [Obs.] Chaucer.
RENIDIFICATION Re*nid`i*fi*ca"tion (r-nd`-f-k"shn), n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The act of rebuilding a nest.
RENIFORM Ren"i*form (rn"-frm; 277), a. Etym: [L. renes kidneys + -form: cf. F. réniforme.]
Defn: Having the form or shape of a kidney; as, a reniform mineral; a reniform leaf.
RENITENCE; RENITENCY Re*ni"tence, Re*ni"ten*cy, n. Etym: [Cf. F. rénitence.]
Defn: 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.
RENITENT Re*ni"tent (-tent), a. Etym: [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 impluse by elastic force. "[Muscles] soft and yet renitent." Ray.
2. Persistently opposed.
RENNE Ren"ne (rn"ne), v. t.
Defn: To plunder; -- only in the phrase "to rape and renne." See under Rap, v. t., to snatch. [Obs.] Chaucer.
RENNE Ren"ne, v. i.
Defn: To run. [Obs.] Chaucer.
RENNER Ren"ner (-nr), n.
Defn: A runner. [Obs.] Chaucer.
RENNET Ren"net (rn"nt), n. Etym: [F. rainette, reinette, perhaps fr. raine a tree frog, L. rana, because it is spotted like this kind of frog. Cf. Ranunculus.] (Bot.)
Defn: A name of many different kinds of apples. Cf. Reinette. Mortimer.
RENNET Ren"net, n. Etym: [AS. rinnan, rennan, to run, cf. gerinnan to curdle, coagulate. . See Run, v.]
Defn: The inner, or mucous, membrance 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.
RENNETED Ren"net*ed, a.
Defn: Provided or treated with rennet. [R.] "Pressed milk renneted." Chapman.
RENNETING Ren"net*ing, n. (Bot.)
Defn: Same as 1st Rennet.
RENNING Ren"ning (rn"nng), n.
Defn: See 2d Rennet. [Obs.] Asses' milk is holden for to be thickest, and therefore they use it instead of renning, to turn milk. Holland.
RENOMEE Re`no*mee" (r`n-m"), n. Etym: [F. renomm.]
Defn: Renown. [Obs.] Chaucer.
RENOUNCE Re*nounce" (r-nouns"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Renounced (-nounst"); p. pr. & vb. n. Renouncing (-noun"sng).] Etym: [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)
Defn: 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.
RENOUNCE 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)
Defn: 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.
RENOUNCE Re*nounce", n. (Card Playing)
Defn: Act of renouncing.
RENOUNCEMENT Re*nounce"ment (-ment), n. Etym: [Cf. F. renoncement.]
Defn: The act of disclaiming or rejecting; renunciation. Shak.
RENOUNCER Re*noun"cer (r-noun"sr), n.
Defn: One who renounces.
RENOVATE Ren"o*vate (rn"-vt), v. t. Etym: [L. renovatus, p. p. of renovare;pref. re- re- + novare to make new, fr. novus new. See New, and Renew.]
Defn: To make over again; to restore to freshness or vigor; to renew. All nature feels the reniovating force Of winter. Thomson.
RENOVATION Ren`o**va"tion (-v"shn), n. Etym: [L.renovatio: cf. F. rénovation.]
Defn: 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.
RENOVATOR Ren"o*va`tor (rn"-v`tr), n. Etym: [L.: cf. F. rénovateur.]
Defn: One who, or that which, renovates. Foster.
RENOVEL Re*nov"el (r-nv"el), v. t. Etym: [F. renouveler to renew.]
Defn: To renew; to renovate. [Obs.] Chaucer.
RENOVELANCE Re*nov"el*ance (-ans), n.
Defn: Renewal. [Obs.] Chaucer.
RENOWME Re*nowme" (r-noum"), n.
Defn: Renown. [Obs.] The glory and renowme of the ancectors. Robynson (More's Utopia).
RENOWMED Re*nowmed" (r-noumd"), a.
Defn: Renowned. [Obs.]
RENOWN Re*nown" (r-noun"), n. Etym: [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.
RENOWN Re*nown" (r-noun"), v. t. Etym: [F. renommer to name again, celebrate, make famous; pref. re- re- + nommer to name, L. nominare , fr. nomen a name. See Noun.]
Defn: 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.
RENOWNED Re*nowned" (r-nound"), a.
Defn: 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 renouwned of the congregation. Num. i. 61.
Syn. -- Famous; famed; distinguished; noted; eminent; celebrated; remarkable; wonderful. See Famous.
RENOWNEDLY Re*nown"ed*ly (r-noun"d-l), adv.
Defn: With renown.
RENOWNER Re*nown"er (-r), n.
Defn: One who gives renown. [R.]
RENOWNFUL Re*nown"ful (-fl), a.
Defn: Having great renown; famous. "Renownful Scipio." Marston.
RENOWNLESS Re*nown"less, a.
Defn: Without renown; inglorius.
RENSSELAERITE Rens"se*laer*ite (rns"se-lr-t), n. (Min.)
Defn: A soft, compact variety of talc,, being an altered pyroxene. It is often worked in a lathe into inkstands and other articles.
RENT Rent (rnt), v. i.
Defn: To rant. [R. & Obs.] Hudibras.
RENT Rent,
Defn: imp. & p. p. of Rend.
RENT Rent, n. Etym: [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 schim; a rupture of harmony; a separation; as, a rent in the church.
Syn. -- Fissure; breach; disrupture; rupture; tear; diaceration; break; fracture.
RENT Rent, v. t.
Defn: To tear. See Rend. [Obs.] Chaucer.
RENT Rent, n. Etym: [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. Incone; 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)
Defn: 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.
Note: The term rent is also popularly applied to compensation for the use of certain personal chattles, 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 Statue 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 Rent, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rented; p. pr. & vb. n. Renting.] Etym: [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 Rent, v. i.
Defn: To be leased, or let for rent; as, an estate rents for five hundred dollars a year.
RENTABLE Rent"a*ble (--b'l), a.
Defn: Capable of being rented, or suitable for renting.
RENTAGE Rent"age (-j), n. Etym: [Cf. OF. rentage.]
Defn: Rent. [Obs.]
RENTAL Rent"al (-al), n. Etym: [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 Rente (rnt), n. Etym: [F. See Rent income.]
Defn: In France, interest payable by government on indebtedness; the bonds, shares, stocks, etc.,, which represent government indebtedness.
RENTER Rent"er (rnt"r), n.
Defn: One who rents or leases an estate; -- usually said of a lessee or tenant.
RENTER Ren"ter (rn"tr), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rentered (-trd); p. pr. & vb. n. Rentering.] Etym: [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.
RENTERER Ren"ter*er (-r), n.
Defn: One who renters.
RENTIER Ren`tier" (rn`ty"), n. Etym: [F. See 5th Rent.]
Defn: One who has a fixed income, as from lands, stocks, or the like.
RENUMERATE Re*nu"mer*ate (r-n"mr-t), v. t. Etym: [L. renumeratus, p. p. of renumerare to count over, count up; pref. re- re- + numerare to count. See Numerate.]
Defn: To recount.
RENUNCIATION Re*nun`ci*a"tion (r-nn`s-"shn or -sh-"shn; 277), n. Etym: [Cf. F. renonciation, L. renuntiatio ann announcement. See Renounce.]
1. The act of renouncing.
2. (Law)
Defn: 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.
RENUNCIATORY Re*nun"ci*a*to*ry (r-nn"sh--t-r), a. Etym: [Cf. LL. renuntiatorius.]
Defn: Pertaining to renunciation; containing or declaring a renunciation; as, renunciatory vows.
RENVERSE Ren*verse" (rn-vErs"), v. t. Etym: [F. renverser; L. pref. re- re- + in in, into + versare, v. intens. fr. vertere to turn.]
Defn: To reverse. [Obs.] Whose shield he bears renverst. Spenser.
RENVERSE; RENVERSE Ren*verse", or; Ren`ver`sé", a. Etym: [F. renversé, p. p. ] (Her.)
Defn: Reversed; set with the head downward; turned contrary to the natural position.
RENVERSEMENT Ren*verse"ment (-ment), n. Etym: [F.]
Defn: A reversing. [Obs.]
RENVOY Ren*voy" (-voi"), v. t. Etym: [F. renvoyer.]
Defn: To send back. [Obs.] "Not dismissing or renvoying her." Bacon.
RENVOY Ren*voy", n. Etym: [F. renvoi.]
Defn: A sending back. [Obs.]
REOBTAIN Re`ob*tain" (r`b-tn"), v. t.
Defn: To obtain again.
REOBTAINABLE Re`ob*tain"a*ble (--b'l), a.
Defn: That may be reobtained.
REOCCUPY Re*oc"cu*py (r-k"k-p), v. t.
Defn: To occupy again.
REOMETER Re*om"e*ter (r-m"-t$r), n.
Defn: Same as Rheometer.
REOPEN Re*o"pen (r-"p'n), v. t. & i.
Defn: To open again.
REOPPOSE Re`op*pose" (r`p-pz"), v. t.
Defn: To oppose again.
REORDAIN Re`or*dain" (r`r-dn"), v. t. Etym: [Pref. re- re- + ordain: cf. F. réordonner.]
Defn: To ordain again, as when the first ordination is considered defective. Bp. Burnet.
REORDER Re*or"der (r-r"dr), v. t.
Defn: To order a second time.
REORDINATION Re*or`di*na"tion, n.
Defn: A second ordination.
REORGANIZATION Re*or`gan*i*za"tion (-gan--z"shn), n.
Defn: The act of reorganizing; a reorganized existence; as, reorganization of the troops.
REORGANIZE Re*or"gan*ize (r-r"gan-z), v. t. & i.
Defn: To organize again or anew; as, to reorganize a society or an army.
REORIENT Re*o"ri*ent (r-"r-ent), a.
Defn: Rising again. [R.] The life reorient out of dust. Tennyson.
REOSTAT Re"o*stat (r"-stt), n. (Physics)
Defn: See Rheostat.
REOTROPE Re"o*trope (-trp), n. (Physics)
Defn: See Rheotrope.
REP Rep (rp), n. Etym: [Prob. a corruption of rib: cf. F. reps.]
Defn: A fabric made of silk or wool, or of silk and wool, and having a transversely corded or ribbed surface.
REP Rep, a.
Defn: Formed with a surface closely corded, or ribbed transversely; - - applied to textile fabrics of silk or wool; as, rep silk.
REPACE Re*pace" (r-ps"), v. t.
Defn: To pace again; to walk over again in a contrary direction.
REPACIFY Re*pac"i*fy (r-ps"-f), v. t.
Defn: To pacify again.
REPACK Re*pack" (r-pk"), v. t.
Defn: To pack a second time or anew; as, to repack beef; to repack a trunk.
REPACKER Re*pack"er (-r), n.
Defn: One who repacks.
REPAGANIZE Re*pa"gan*ize (r-p"gan-z), v. t.
Defn: To paganize anew; to bring back to paganism.
REPAID Re*paid" (r-pd"),
Defn: imp. & p. p. of Repay.
REPAINT Re*paint" (r-pnt"), v. t.
Defn: To paint anew or again; as, to repaint a house; to repaint the ground of a picture.
REPAIR Re*pair" (r-pr"), v. i. Etym: [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.
REPAIR Re*pair", n. Etym: [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.
REPAIR Re*pair", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Repaired (-prd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Repairing.] Etym: [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.
REPAIR 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.
REPAIRABLE Re*pair"a*ble (-*b'l), a.
Defn: Reparable. Gauden.
REPAIRER Re*pair"er (-r), n.
Defn: One who, or that which, repairs, restores, or makes amends.
REPAIRMENT Re*pair"ment, n.
Defn: Act of repairing.
REPAND Re*pand" (r*pnd), a. Etym: [L. repandus bent backward, turned up; pref. re- re- + pandus bent, crooked.] (Bot. & Zool.)
Defn: Having a slightly undulating margin; -- said of leaves.
REPARABILITY Rep`a*ra*bil"i*ty (rp`-r-bl"-t), n.
Defn: The quality or state of being reparable.
REPARABLE Rep"a*ra*ble (rp"-r-b'l), a Etym: [L. reparabilis: cf. F. réparable.]
Defn: Capable of being repaired, restored to a sound or good state, or made good; restorable; as, a reparable injury.
REPARABLY Rep"a*ra*bly, adv.
Defn: In a reparable manner.
REPARATION Rep`a*ra"tion (-r"shn), n. Etym: [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. make reparation or reparations. 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.
REPARATIVE Re*par"a*tive (r-pr"-tv), a.
Defn: Repairing, or tending to repair. Jer. Taylor.
REPARATIVE Re*par"a*tive, n.
Defn: That which repairs. Sir H. Wotton.
REPAREL Re*par"el (-l), n. Etym: [Cf. Reapparel.]
Defn: A change of apparel; a second or different suit. [Obs.] Beau & Fl.
REPARTEE Rep`ar*tee" (rp`3r-t"), n. Etym: [F. repartie, fr. repartir to reply, depart again; pref. re- re- partir to part, depart. See Part.]
Defn: A smart, ready, and witty reply. Cupid was as bad as he; Hear but the youngster's repartee. Prior.
Syn. -- Retort; reply. See Retort.
REPARTEE Rep`ar*tee", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Reparteed (-td"); p. pr. & vb. n. Reparteeing.]
Defn: To make smart and witty replies. [R.] Prior.
REPARTIMIENTO Re`par*ti`mi*en"to (r`pr-t`m-n"t), n. Etym: [Sp., fr. repartir to divide.]
Defn: A partition or distribution, especially of slaves; also, an assessment of taxes. W. Irving.
REPARTOTION Re`par*to"tion (r-pr-tsh"n), n.
Defn: Another, or an additional, separation into parts.
REPASS Re*pass" (r-ps"), v. t. Etym: [Pref. re- + pass: cf. F. repasser. Cf. Repace.]
Defn: 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.
REPASS Re*pass", v. i.
Defn: To pass or go back; to move back; as, troops passing and repassing before our eyes.
REPASSAGE Re*pas"sage (r-ps"sj;48), n.
Defn: The act of repassing; passage back. Hakluyt.
REPASSANT Re*pas"sant (r-ps"sant), a. Etym: [Cf. F. repassant, p. pr.] (Her.)
Defn: Counterpassant.
REPAST Re*past" (r-pst"), n. Etym: [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.
REPAST Re*past", v. t. & i.
Defn: 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.
REPASTER Re*past"er (-r), n.
Defn: One who takes a repast. [Obs.]
REPASTURE Re*pas"ture (-ps"tr;135), n. Etym: [See Repast.]
Defn: Food; entertainment. [Obs.] Food for his rage, repasture for his den. Shak.
REPATRIATE Re*pa"tri*ate (r-p"tr-t), v. t. Etym: [L. repatriare. See 1st Repair.]
Defn: To restore to one's own country.
REPATRIATION Re*pa`tri*a"tion (-"shn), n. Etym: [Cf. LL. repatriatio return to one's country.]
Defn: Restoration to one's country.
REPAY Re*pay" (r-p"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Repaid (-pd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Repaying.] Etym: [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.
REPAYABLE Re*pay"a*ble (--b'l), a.
Defn: Capable of being, or proper to be , repaid; due; as, a loan repayable in ten days; services repayable in kind.
REPAYMENT Re*pay"ment (-ment), n.
1. The act of repaying; reimbursement. Jer. Taylor.
2. The money or other thing repaid.
REPEAL Re*peal" (r-pl"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Repealed (-pld"); p. pr. & vb. n. Repealing.] Etym: [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.
REPEAL 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 hassty To expel him thence. Shak.
2. Revocation; abrogation; as, the repeal of a statute; the repeal of a law or a usage.
REPEALABILITY Re*peal`a*bil"i*ty (--bl"-t), n.
Defn: The quality or state of being repealable.
REPEALABLE Re*peal"a*ble (r-pl"-b'l), a.
Defn: Capable of being repealed. -- Re*peal"a*ble*ness, n.
Syn. -- Revocable; abrogable; voidable; reversible.
REPEALER Re*peal"er (-r), n.
Defn: One who repeals; one who seeks a repeal; specifically, an advocate for the repeal of the Articles of Union between Great Britain and Ireland.
REPEALMENT Re*peal"ment (-ment), n.
Defn: Recall, as from banishment. [Obs.]
REPEAT Re*peat" (-pt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Repeated; p. pr. & vb. n. Repeating.] Etym: [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)
Defn: 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.
REPEAT Re*peat" (r-pt"), 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.)
Defn: A mark, or series of dots, placed before and after, or often only at the end of, a passage to be repeated in performance.
REPEATEDLY Re*peat"ed*ly, adv.
Defn: More than once; again and again; indefinitely.
REPEATER Re*peat"er (-r), n.
Defn: 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.
REPEATING Re*peat"ing, a.
Defn: 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)
REPEDATION Rep"e*da"tion (rp`-da"shn), n. Etym: [L. repedare to step back; pref. re- re- + pes, pedis, foot.]
Defn: A stepping or going back. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.
REPEL Re**pel" (r-pl"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Repelled (-pld"); p. pr. & vb. n. Repelling.] Etym: [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.
REPEL Re*pel", v. i.
Defn: To act with force in opposition to force impressed; to exercise repulsion.
REPELLENCE; REPELLENCY Re*pel"lence, Re*pel"len*cy, n.
Defn: The principle of repulsion; the quality or capacity of repelling; repulsion.
REPELLENT Re*pel"lent (-lent), a. Etym: [L. repellens, -entis, p. pr. ]
Defn: Driving back; able or tending to repel.
REPELLENT Re*pel"lent, n.
1. That which repels.
2. (Med.)
Defn: A remedy to repel from a tumefied part the fluids which render it tumid. Dunglison.
3. A kind of waterproof cloth. Knight.
REPELLER Re*pel"ler (-lr), n.
Defn: One who, or that which, repels.
REPENT Re"pent (r"pnt), a. Etym: [L. repens, -entis, creeping, p. pr. of repere to creep.]
1. (Bot.)
Defn: Prostrate and rooting; -- said of stems. Gray.
2. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Same as Reptant.
REPENT Re*pent" (r-pnt"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Repented; p. pr. & vb. n. Repenting.] Etym: [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.)
Defn: 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.
REPENT Re*pent", v. t.
1. To feel pain on account of; to remember with sorrow. I do repent it from my very soul. Shak.
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.
REPENTANCE Re*pent"ance (r-pnt"ans), n. Etym: [F. repentance.]
Defn: 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.
REPENTANT Re*pent"ant (-ant), a. Etym: [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.
REPENTANT Re*pent"ant, n.
Defn: One who repents, especially one who repents of sin; a penitent.
REPENTANTLY Re*pent"ant*ly, adv.
Defn: In a repentant manner.
REPENTER Re*pent"er (-r), n.
Defn: One who repents.
REPENTINGLY Re*pent"ing*ly, adv.
Defn: With repentance; penitently.
REPENTLESS Re*pent"less, a.
Defn: Unrepentant. [R.]
REPEOPLE Re*peo"ple (r-p"p'l), v. t. Etym: [Pref. re- + people: cf. F. repeupler.]
Defn: To people anew.
REPERCEPTION Re`per*cep"tion (r`pr-sp"shn), n.
Defn: 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.
REPERCUSS Re`per*cuss" (-ks"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Repercussed (-kst");p. pr. & vb. n. Repercussing.] Etym: [L. repercusus, p. p. of repercutere to drive back; pref. re- re- + percutere. See Percussion.]
Defn: 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.
REPERCUSSION Re`per*cus"sion (-ksh"n), n. Etym: [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.)
Defn: Rapid reiteration of the same sound.
3. (Med.)
Defn: The subsidence of a tumor or eruption by the action of a repellent. Dunglison.
4. (Obstetrics)
Defn: 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.
REPERCUSSIVE Re`per*cuss"ive (-ks"v), a. Etym: [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 repecussive medicines." Bacon.
3. Driven back; rebounding; reverberated. "Rages loud the repercussive roar." Thomson.
REPERCUSSIVE Re`per*cuss"ive, n.
Defn: A repellent. [Obs.] Bacon.
REPERTITIOUS Rep`er*ti"tious (rp`r-tsh"s), a. Etym: [L. reperticius. See Repertory.]
Defn: Found; gained by finding. [Obs.]
REPERTOIRE Re`per`toire", n. Etym: [F. See Repertory.]
Defn: A list of drams, operas, pieces, parts, etc., which a company or a person has rehearsed and is prepared to perform.
REPERTORY Rep"er*to*ry (rp"r-t-r), n. Etym: [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.
REPERUSAL Re`pe*rus"al (r`p-rz"al), n.
Defn: A second or repeated perusal.
REPERUSE Re`pe*ruse" (-rz"), v. t.
Defn: To peruse again. Ld. Lytton.
REPETEND Rep`e*tend (rp`-tnd"), n. Etym: [L. repetendus to be repeated, fr. repetere to repeat.] (Math.)
Defn: That part of a circulating decimal which recurs continually, ad infinitum: -- sometimes indicated by a dot over the first and last repetend is 283.
REPETITION Rep`e*ti"tion (rp`-tsh"n), n. Etym: [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.)
Defn: The act of repeating, singing,
4. (Rhet.)
Defn: 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.)
Defn: The measurement of an angle by successive observations with a repeating instrument.
Syn. -- Iteration; rehearsal. See Tautology.
REPETITIONAL; REPETITIONARY Rep`e*ti"tion*al. Rep`e*ti"tion*a*ry, a.
Defn: Of the nature of, or containing, repetition. [R.]
REPETITIONER Rep`e*ti"tion*er (-r), n.
Defn: One who repeats. [Obs.]
REPETITIOUS Rep`e*ti"tious (-tsh"s), a.
Defn: Repeating; containing repetition. [U.S.] Dr. T. Dwight.
REPETITIVE Re*pet"i*tive (r-pt"-tv), a.
Defn: Containing repetition; repeating. [R.]
REPETITOR Rep"e*ti`tor (rp"-t`tr), n. Etym: [Cf. L. repetitor a reclaimer.] (Ger.Univ.)
Defn: A private instructor.
REPINE Re*pine" (r-pn"), v. i. Etym: [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.
REPINE Re*pine", n.
Defn: Vexation; mortification. [Obs.] Shak.
REPINER Re*pin"er (r-pn"r), n.
Defn: One who repines.
REPININGLY Re*pin"ing*ly, adv.
Defn: With repening or murmuring.
REPKIE Rep"kie (rp"k), n. Etym: [From the native name.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: Any edible sea urchin. [Alaska]
REPLACE Re*place" (r-pls"), v. t. Etym: [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.
Note: 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.
REPLACEABILITY Re*place`a*bil"i*ty (--bl"-t), n.
Defn: The quality, state, or degree of being replaceable.
REPLACEABLE Re*place"a*ble (r-pls"-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.)
Defn: Capable of being replaced (by), or of being exchanged (for); as, the hydrogen of acids is replaceable by metals or by basic radicals.
REPLACEMENT Re*place"ment (-ment), n.
1. The act of replacing.
2. (Crystallog.)
Defn: The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes.
REPLAIT Re*plait" (r-plt"), v. t.
Defn: To plait or fold again; to fold, as one part over another, again and again.
REPLANT Re*plant" (rE-plnt"), v. t.
Defn: To plant again.
REPLANTABLE Re*plant"a*ble (--b'l), a.
Defn: That may be planted again.
REPLANTATION Re`plan*ta"tion (r`pln-t"shn), n.
Defn: The act of planting again; a replanting. [R.] Hallywell.
REPLEAD Re*plead" (r-pld"), v. t. & i.
Defn: To plead again.
REPLEADER Re*plead"er (-r), n. (Law)
Defn: 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.
REPLENISH Re*plen"ish (r-pln"sh), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Replenished (-sht); p. pr. & vb. n. Replenishing.] Etym: [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.
REPLENISH Re*plen"ish, v. i.
Defn: To recover former fullness. [Obs.] The humors will not replenish so soon. Bacon.
REPLENISHER Re*plen"ish*er (-r), n.
Defn: One who replenishes.
REPLENISHMENT Re*plen"ish*ment (-ment), n.
1. The act of replenishing, or the state of being replenished.
2. That which replenishes; supply. Cowper.
REPLETE Re*plete" (r-plt"), a. Etym: [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.]
Defn: 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 repiete with thoughts of other men. Cowper.
REPLETE Re*plete", v. t.
Defn: To fill completely, or to satiety. [R.]
REPLETENESS Re*plete"ness, n.
Defn: The state of being replete.
REPLETION Re*ple"tion (r-pl"shn), n. Etym: [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. Replecioun [overeating] ne made her never sick. Chaucer.
2. (Med.)
Defn: Fullness of blood; plethora.
REPLETIVE Re*ple"tive (-tv), a. Etym: [Cf. F. réplétif.]
Defn: Tending to make replete; filling. -- Re*ple"tive*ly, adv.
REPLETORY Re*ple"to*ry (-t-r), a.
Defn: Repletive. [R.]
REPLEVIABLE Re*plev"i*a*ble (r-plv"--b'l), a. Etym: [See Replevy.] (Law)
Defn: Capable of being replevied.
REPLEVIN Re*plev"in (-n), n. Etym: [LL. replevina. See Replevy, and cf. Plevin.]
1. (Law)
Defn: 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 chattles are replevied.
REPLEVIN Re*plev"in, v. t. (Law)
Defn: To replevy.
REPLEVISABLE Re*plev"i*sa*ble (--s-b'l), a. Etym: [OF. replevisable.]
Defn: Repleviable. Sir M. Hale.
REPLEVY Re*plev"y (-), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Replevied (-d); p. pr. & vb. n. Replevying.] Etym: [OF. replevir, LL. replevire. See Pledge, Replevin.]
1. (Law)
Defn: To take or get back, by a writ for that purpose (goods and chattels wrongfuly 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)
Defn: To bail. Spenser.
REPLEVY Re*plev"y (r-plv"), n.
Defn: Replevin. Mozley & W.
REPLICA Rep"li*ca (rp"l-k), n. Etym: [It. See Reply, v. & n.]
1. (Fine Arts)
Defn: A copy of a work of art, as of a picture or satue, made by the maker of the original.
2. (Mus.)
Defn: Repetition.
REPLICANT Rep"li*cant (rp"l-kant), n.
Defn: One who replies.
REPLICATE Rep"li*cate (--kt), v. t.
Defn: To reply. [Obs.]
REPLICATE; REPLICATED Rep"li*cate (l-kt), Rep"li*ca`ted (-k`td), a. Etym: [L. replicatus, p. p. of replicare. See Reply.]
Defn: Folded over or backward; folded back upon itself; as, a replicate leaf or petal; a replicate margin of a shell.
REPLICATION Rep`li*ca"tion (-k"shn), n. Etym: [L. replicatio. See Reply.]
1. An answer; a reply. Shak. Withouten any repplicacioun. Chaucer.
2. (Law Pleadings)
Defn: 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.
REPLIER Re*pli"er (r-pl"r), n.
Defn: One who replies. Bacon.
REPLUM Re"plum (r"plm), n. Etym: [L., doorcase.] (Bot.)
Defn: The framework of some pods, as the cress, which remains after the valves drop off. Gray.
REPLY Re*ply" (r-pl"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Replied (-pld"); p. pr. & vb. n. Replying.] Etym: [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)
Defn: 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.
REPLY Re*ply", v. t.
Defn: To return for an answer. Milton. Lords, vouchsafe To give me hearing what I shall reply. Shak.
REPLY Re*ply", n.; pl. Replies (-pl. Etym: [See Reply, v. i., and cf. Replica.]
Defn: 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."
REPLYER Re*ply"er (-r), n.
Defn: See Replier. Bacon.
REPOLISH Re*pol"ish (r-pl"sh), v. t.
Defn: To polish again.
REPONE Re*pone" (r-pn"), v. t. Etym: [L. reponere; pref. re- re- + ponere to place.]
Defn: To replace. R. Baillie.
REPOPULATION Re*pop`u*la"tion (r*pp`*l"shn), n.
Defn: The act of repeopling; act of furnishing with a population anew.
REPORT Re*port" (r-prt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reported; p. pr. & vb. n. Reporting.] Etym: [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 reperts the recepts and expenditures.
5. To return or repeat, as sound; to echo. [Obs. or R.] "A church with windowss only form above, that reporteth the voice thirteen times." Bacon.
6. (Parliamentary Practice)
Defn: 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.
REPORT Re*port" (r-prt"), 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.
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.
REPORT Re*port" (r-prt"), n. Etym: [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.
REPORTABLE Re*port"a*ble (--b'l), a.
Defn: Capable or admitting of being reported.
REPORTAGE Re*port"age (-j), n.
Defn: SAme as Report. [Obs.]
REPORTER Re*port"er (-r), n.
Defn: One who reports. Specifically: (a) An officer or person who makees 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.
REPORTINGLY Re*port"ing*ly, adv.
Defn: By report or common fame.
REPORTORIAL Re`por*to"ri*al (r`pr-t"r-al), a.
Defn: Of or pertaining to a reporter or reporters; as, the reportorial staff of a newspaper.
REPOSAL Re*pos"al (r-pz"al), n. Etym: [From Repose.]
1. The act or state of reposing; as, the reposal of a trust. Shak.
2. That on which one reposes. [Obs.] Burton.
REPOSANCE Re*pos"ance (-ans), n.
Defn: Reliance. [Obs.] John Hall.
REPOSE Re*pose" (r-pz") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reposed (-pzd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Reposing.] Etym: [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 archibishop 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.
REPOSE 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.
REPOSE Re*pose", n. Etym: [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)
Defn: A rest; a pause.
4. (Fine Arts)
Defn: That harmony or moderation which affords rest for the eue; -- 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 side 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.
REPOSED Re*posed" (r-pzd"), a.
Defn: Composed; calm; tranquil; at rest. Bacon. -- Re*pos"ed*ly (r, adv. -- Re*pos"ed*ness, n.
REPOSEFUL Re*pose"ful (r-pz"fl), a.
Defn: Full of repose; quiet.
REPOSER Re*pos"er (r-pz"r), n.
Defn: One who reposes.
REPOSIT Re*pos"it (r-pz"t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reposited; p. pr. & vb. n. Repositing.] Etym: [L. repositus, p. p. of reponere to put back; pref. re- re- + ponere to put. See Position.]
Defn: 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.
REPOSITION Re`po*si"tion (r`p*zsh"n), n. Etym: [L. repositio.]
Defn: The act of repositing; a laying up.
REPOSITOR Re*pos"i*tor (r*pz"*tr), n. (Surg.)
Defn: An instrument employed for replacing a displaced organ or part.
REPOSITORY Re*pos"i*to*ry (r*pz"*t$*r), n. Etym: [L. repositorium, repostorium: cf. OF. repositoire.]
Defn: A place where things are or may be reposited, or laid up, for safety or preservation; a depository. Locke.
REPOSSESS Re`pos*sess" (r"pz*zs" or -ps*ss"), v. t.
Defn: To possess again; as, to repossess the land. Pope. To repossess one's self of (something), to acquire again (something lost).
REPOSSESSION Re`pos*ses"sion (r`pz-zsh"n or -ps ssh"n), n.
Defn: The act or the state of possessing again.
REPOSURE Re*po"sure (r-p"shr; 135), n.
Defn: Rest; quiet. In the reposure of most soft content. Marston.
REPOUR Re*pour" (r-pr"), v. t.
Defn: To pour again.
REPOUSSAGE Re*pous`sage", n. [F. See Repoussé.] (Art)
Defn: Art or process of hammering out or pressing thin metal from the reverse side: (1) in producing repoussé work; (2) in leveling up any part of an etched plate that has been worked so as to cause a depression.
REPOUSSE Re*pous`sé" (re -p`s"), a. Etym: [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.
Defn: Repoussé work. Repoussé work, ornamentation of metal in relief by pressing or hammering on the reverse side.
REPREFE Re*prefe" (r-prf"), n.
Defn: Reproof. [Obs.] Chaucer.
REPREHEND Rep`re*hend" (rp`r-hnd"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reprehended; p. pr. & vb. n. Reprehending.] Etym: [L. reprehendere, reprehensum, to hold back, seize, check, blame; pref. re- re- + prehendere to lay hold of. See Prehensile, and cf. Reprisal. ]
Defn: 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.
REPREHENDER Rep`re*hend"er (-r), n.
Defn: One who reprehends.
REPREHENSIBLE Rep`re*hen"si*ble (-hn"s-b'l), a. Etym: [L. reprehensibilis: cf. F. répréhensible.]
Defn: Worthy of reprehension; culpable; censurable; blamable. -- Rep`re*hen"si*ble*ness, n. -- Rep`re*hen"si*bly, adv.
REPREHENSION Rep`re*hen"sion (-shn), n. Etym: [L. reprehensio: cf. F. répréhension.]
Defn: 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.
REPREHENSIVE Rep`re*hen"sive (-hn"sv), a. Etym: [Cf. F. répréhensif.]
Defn: Containing reprehension; conveying reproof. South. -- Rep`re*hen"sive*ly, adv.
REPREHENSORY Rep`re*hen"so*ry (-s-r), a.
Defn: Containing reproof; reprehensive; as, reprehensory complaint. Johnson.
RE-PRESENT Re`-pre*sent" (r`pr-znt"), v. t.
Defn: To present again; as, to re-present the points of an argument.
REPRESENT Rep`re*sent" (rp`r-znt"), v. t. Etym: [F. repr, 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.)
Defn: 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.
REPRESENTABLE Rep`re*sent"a*ble (--b'l), a.
Defn: Capable of being represented.
REPRESENTANCE Rep`re*sent"ance (-ans), n.
Defn: Representation; likeness. [Obs.] Donne.
REPRESENTANT Rep`re*sent"ant (-ant), a. Etym: [Cf. F. repr.]
Defn: Appearing or acting for another; representing.
REPRESENTANT Rep`re*sent"ant, n. Etym: [F. representant.]
Defn: A representative. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.
REPRESENTATION Rep`re*sen*ta"tion (-zn-t"shn), n. Etym: [F. repr, 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-PRESENTATION Re-pres`en*ta"tion (r-prez`n-t"shn), n. Etym: [See Re-present.]
Defn: The act of re-presenting, or the state of being presented again; a new presentation; as, re-presentation of facts previously stated.
REPRESENTATIONARY Rep`re*sen*ta"tion*a*ry (rp`r--zn-t"shn--r), a.
Defn: Implying representation; representative. [R.]
REPRESENTATIVE Rep`re*sent"a*tive (-znt`-tv), a. Etym: [Cf. F. repr.]
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.)
Defn: Giving, or existing as, a transcript of what was originally presentative knowledge; as, representative faculties; representative knowledge. See Presentative, 3 and Represent, 8.
REPRESENTATIVE Rep`re*sent"a*tive, n. Etym: [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)
Defn: One who represents, or stands in the place of, another.
Note: 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.
REPRESENTATIVELY Rep`re*sent"a*tive*ly, adv.
Defn: In a representative manner; vicariously.
REPRESENTATIVENESS Rep`re*sent"a*tive*ness, n.
Defn: The quality or state of being representative. Dr. Burnet observes, that every thought is attended with conssciousness and representativeness. Spectator.
REPRESENTER Rep`re*sent"er (-r), n.
1. One who shows, exhibits, or describes. Sir T. Browne.
2. A representative. [Obs.] Swift.
REPRESENTMENT Rep`re*sent"ment (-ment), n.
Defn: Representation. [Obs.]
REPRESS Re*press" (r-prs"), v. t. Etym: [Pref. re- + press.]
Defn: To press again.
REPRESS Re*press" (r-prs"), v. t. Etym: [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.
REPRESS Re*press", n.
Defn: The act of repressing. [Obs.]
REPRESSER Re*press"er (-r), n.
Defn: One who, or that which, represses.
REPRESSIBLE Re*press"i*ble (--b'l), a.
Defn: Capable of being repressed.
REPRESSION Re*pres"sion (r-prsh"n), n. Etym: [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.
REPRESSIVE Re*press"ive (r-prs"v), a. Etym: [Cf. F. répressif. LL. repressivus.]
Defn: Having power, or tending, to repress; as, repressive acts or measures. -- Re*press"ive*ly, adv.
REPREVABLE Re*prev"a*ble (r-prv"-b'l), a.
Defn: Reprovable. [Obs.]
REPREVE Re*preve" (r-prv"), v. t. Etym: [See Reprieve, v. t.]
Defn: To reprove. [Obs.] "Repreve him of his vice." Chaucer.
REPREVE Re*preve", n.
Defn: Reproof. [Obs.] Chaucer.
REPRIEFE Re*priefe" (r-prf"), n.
Defn: Repreve. [Obs.] Chaucer.
REPRIEVAL Re*priev"al (r-prv"al), n.
Defn: Reprieve. Overbury.
REPRIEVE Re*prieve (r-prv"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reprieved (-prvd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Reprieving.] Etym: [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.
REPRIEVE Re*prieve" (r-prv"), 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.
REPRIMAND Rep"ri*mand (rp"r-mnd), n. Etym: [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.]
Defn: Severe or formal reproof; reprehension, private or public. Goldsmith gave his landlady a sharp reprimand for her treatment of him. Macaulay.
REPRIMAND Rep"ri*mand, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reprimanded; p. pr. & vb. n. Reprimanding.] Etym: [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.
REPRIMANDER Rep"ri*mand`er (-mnd`r), n.
Defn: One who reprimands.
REPRIMER Re*prim"er (r-prm"r), n. (Firearms)
Defn: A machine or implement for applying fresh primers to spent cartridge shells, so that the shells be used again.
REPRINT Re*print" (r-prnt"), 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.
REPRINT Re"print` (r"prnt`), n.
Defn: 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.
REPRINTER Re*print"er (r-prnt"r), n.
Defn: One who reprints.
REPRISAL Re*pris"al (r-priz"al), n. Etym: [F. repr, 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.
REPRISE Re*prise" (r-prz"), n. Etym: [F. reprise, fr. reprendre, repris, to take back, L. reprehendere. See Reprehend.]
1. A taking by way of retaliation. [Obs.] Dryden.
2. pl. (Law)
Defn: 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.
REPRISE Re*prise", v. t. Etym: [Written also reprize.]
1. To take again; to retake. [Obs.] Spenser.
2. To recompense; to pay. [Obs.]
REPRISTINATE Re*pris"tin*ate (r-prs"tn-t), v. t. Etym: [Pref. re- + pristine.]
Defn: To restore to an original state. [R.] Shedd.
REPRISTINATION Re*pris`ti*na"tion (-t-n"shn), n.
Defn: Restoration to an original state; renewal of purity. [R.] R. Browning.
REPRIVE Re*prive" (r-prv"), v. t. Etym: [Pref. re- + L. privare to deprive.]
Defn: To take back or away. [Obs.] Spenser.
REPRIVE Re*prive", v. t.
Defn: To reprieve. [Obs.] Howell.
REPRIZE Re*prize" (-prz"), v. t.
Defn: See Reprise. [Obs.] Spenser.
REPRIZES Re*priz"es (-prz"z), n.pl. (Law)
Defn: See Repise, n., 2.
REPROACH Re*proach" (r-prch"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reproached (-prcht"); p. pr. & vb. n. Reproaching.] Etym: [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 disgracefull 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.
REPROACH Re*proach", n. Etym: [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.
REPROACHABLR Re*proach"a*blr (--b'l), a. Etym: [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.
REPROACHER Re*proach"er (-r), n.
Defn: One who reproaches.
REPROACHFUL Re*proach"ful (-fl), 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, adv. -- Re*proach"ful*ness, n.
REPROACHLESS Re*proach"less, a.
Defn: Being without reproach.
REPROBACY Rep"ro*ba*cy (rp"r-b-c), n.
Defn: Reprobation. [R.]
REPROBANCE Rep"ro*bance (-bans), n.
Defn: Reprobation. [Obs.] Shak.
REPROBATE Rep"ro*bate (-bt), a. Etym: [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.
REPROBATE Rep"ro*bate, n.
Defn: One morally abandoned and lost. I acknowledge myself for a reprobate, a villain, a traitor to the king. Sir W. Raleigh.
REPROBATE Rep"ro*bate (-bt), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reprobated (-b`td); 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.
REPROBATENESS Rep"ro*bate*ness, n.
Defn: The state of being reprobate.
REPROBATER Rep"ro*ba`ter (-b`tr), n.
Defn: One who reprobates.
REPROBATION Rep`ro*ba"tion (-b`shn), n. Etym: [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.)
Defn: The predestination of a certain number of the human race as reprobates, or objects of condemnation and punishment.
REPROBATIONER Rep`ro*ba"tion*er (-r), n. (Theol.)
Defn: One who believes in reprobation. See Reprobation,2. South.
REPROBATIVE Rep"ro*ba*tive (-b-tv), a.
Defn: Of or pertaining to reprobation; expressing reprobation.
REPROBATORY Rep"ro*ba`to*ry (-b`t-r), a.
Defn: Reprobative.
REPRODUCE Re`pro*duce" (r`pr-ds"), v. t.
Defn: 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.
REPRODUCER Re`pro*du"cer (-d"sr), n.
Defn: One who, or that which, reproduces. Burke.
REPRODUCTION Re`pro*duc"tion (-dk"shn), n. Etym: [Cf. F. reproduction.]
1. The act or process of reproducing; the state of being reproduced; specifically (Biol.),
Defn: the process by which plants and animals give rise to offspring.
Note: 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.
REPRODUCTIVE Re`pro*duc"tive (-tv), a. Etym: [Cf. F. reproductif.]
Defn: Tending, or pertaining, to reproduction; employed in reproduction. Lyell.
REPRODUCTORY Re`pro*duc"to*ry (-t-r), a.
Defn: Reproductive.
REPROOF Re*proof" (r-prf"), n. Etym: [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.
REPROVABLE Re*prov"a*ble (r-prv"-b'l), a. Etym: [Cf. F. r.]
Defn: 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.
REPROVAL Re*prov"al (-al), n.
Defn: Reproof. Sir P. Sidney.
REPROVE Re*prove" (r-prv"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reproved (-prvd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Reproving.] Etym: [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.
REPROVER Re*prov"er (r-prv"r), n.
Defn: One who, or that which, reproves.
REPROVINGLY Re*prov"ing*ly, adv.
Defn: In a reproving manner.
REPRUNE Re*prune" (r-prn"), v. t.
Defn: To prune again or anew. Yet soon reprunes her wing to soar anew. Young.
REP-SILVER Rep"-sil`ver (rp"sl`vr), n. Etym: [See Reap.]
Defn: Money anciently paid by servile tenants to their lord, in lieu of the customary service of reaping his corn or grain.
REPTANT Rep"tant (rp"tant), a. Etym: [L. reptans, -antis, p. pr. of reptare, v. intens. from repere to creep. See Reptile.]
1. (Bot.)
Defn: Same as Repent.
2. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Creeping; crawling; -- said of reptiles, worms, etc.
REPTANTIA Rep*tan"ti*a (rp-tn"sh-), n.pl. Etym: [NL.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: A divisiom of gastropods; the Pectinibranchiata.
REPTATION Rep*ta"tion (rp-t"shn), n. Etym: [L. reptatio, from reptare: cf. F. reptation.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: The act of creeping.
REPTATORY Rep"ta*to*ry (rp"t-t-r), a. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Creeping.
REPTILE Rep"tile (rp"tl;277), a. Etym: [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.
REPTILE Rep"tile, n.
1. (Zoöl.)
Defn: 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.)
Defn: One of the Reptilia, or one of the Amphibia.
Note: 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.
REPTILIA Rep*til"i*a (rp-tl"-), n.pl. Etym: [NL.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: 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.
Note: 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.
REPTILIAN Rep*til"i*an (-an), a.
Defn: 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.
REPTILIAN Rep*til"i*an, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: One of the Reptilia; a reptile.
REPUBLIC Re*pub"lic (r-pb"lk), n. Etym: [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.
Note: 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.
REPUBLICAN Re*pub"lic*an (-l-kan), a. Etym: [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.
REPUBLICAN Re*pub"lic*an (r-pb"l-kan), n.
1. One who favors or prefers a republican form of government.
2. (U.S.Politics)
Defn: 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.
REPUBLICANISM Re*pub"lic*an*ism (-z'm), n. Etym: [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.]
REPUBLICANIZE Re*pub"lic*an*ize (-z), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Republicanized (-zd); p. pr. & vb. n. Republicanizing (-`zng).] Etym: [Cf. F. républicaniser.]
Defn: To change, as a state, into a republic; to republican principles; as, France was republicanized; to republicanize the rising generation. D. Ramsay.
REPUBLICATE Re*pub"li*cate (r*pb"l*kt), v. t. Etym: [Cf. LL. republicare.]
Defn: To make public again; to republish. [Obs.]
REPUBLICATION Re*pub`li*ca"tion (r-pb`l-k"shn), n.
Defn: 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.
REPUBLISH Re*pub"lish (r-pb"lsh), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Republished (-lsht); p. pr. & vb. n. Republishing.]
Defn: To publish anew; specifically, to publish in one country (a work first published in another); also, to revive (a will) by re Subsecquent to the purchase or contract, the devisor republished his will. Blackstone.
REPUBLISHER Re*pub"lish*er (-r), n.
Defn: One who republishes.
REPUDIABLE Re*pu"di*a*ble (r-p"d--b'l), a. Etym: [See Repudilate.]
Defn: Admitting of repudiation; fit or proper to be put away.
REPUDIATE Re*pu"di*ate (-t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Repudiated (-`td); p. pr. & vb. n. Repudiating.] Etym: [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.
REPUDIATION Re*pu`di*a"tion (-*"shn), n. Etym: [Cf.F. répudiation, L. repudiatio.]
Defn: The act of repudiating, or the state of being repuddiated; as, the repudiation of a doctrine, a wife, a debt, etc.
REPUDIATION Re*pu`di*a"tion, n.
Defn: One who favors repudiation, especially of a public debt.
REPUDIATOR Re*pu"di*a`tor (r-p"d-`tr), n. Etym: [L., a rejecter, contemner.]
Defn: One who repudiates.
REPUGN Re*pugn" (r-pn"), v. t. Etym: [F. répugner, L. repugnare, repugnatum; pref. re- + pugnare to fight. See Pugnacious.]
Defn: To fight against; to oppose; to resist. [R.] Stubbornly he did repugn the truth. Shak.
REPUGNABLE Re*pug"na*ble (r-pg"n-b'l), a.
Defn: Capable of being repugned or resisted. [R.] Sir T. North.
REPUGNANCE; REPUGNANCY Re*pug"nance, Re*pug"nan*cy, n. Etym: [F. répugnance, L. repugnantia.]
Defn: 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.
REPUGNANT Re*pug"nant (-nant), a. Etym: [F. répugnant, or L. repugnans, -antis, p. pr. of repugnare. See Repugn.]
Defn: 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.
REPUGNANTLY Re*pug"nant*ly, adv.
Defn: In a repugnant manner.
REPUGNATE Re*pug"nate (-nt), v. t. Etym: [From L. repugnare. See Repugn.]
Defn: To oppose; to fight against. [Obs.]
REPUGNER Re*pugn"er (r-pn"r), n.
Defn: One who repugns.
REPULLULATE Re*pul"lu*late (r-pl"l-lt), v. i. Etym: [L. repullulare, repullulatum. See Pullulate.]
Defn: To bud again. Though tares repullulate, there is wheat still left in the field. Howell.
REPULLULATION Re*pul`lu*la"tion (r-pl`l-l"shn), n.
Defn: The act of budding again; the state of having budded again.
REPULSE Re*pulse" (r-pls"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Repulsed (-plst"); p. pr. & vb. n. Repulsing.] Etym: [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.
REPULSE Re*pulse", n. Etym: [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.
REPULSELESS Re*pulse"less, a.
Defn: Not capable of being repulsed.
REPULSER Re*puls"er (-r), n.
Defn: One who repulses, or drives back.
REPULSION Re*pul"sion (r-pl"shn), n. Etym: [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)
Defn: 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.
REPULSIVE Re*pul"sive (-sv), a. Etym: [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.
REPULSORY Re*pul"so*ry (-s-r), a. Etym: [L. repulsorius.]
Defn: Repulsive; driving back.
REPURCHASE Re*pur"chase (r*pr"chs; 48), v. t.
Defn: To buy back or again; to regain by purchase. Sir M. Hale.
REPURCHASE Re*pur"chase, n.
Defn: The act of repurchasing.
REPURIFY Re*pu"ri*fy (r-p"r-f), v. t.
Defn: To purify again.
REPUTABLE Rep"u*ta*ble (rp"-t-b'l), a. Etym: [From Repute.]
Defn: 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.
REPUTATION Rep`u*ta"tion (-t"shn), n. Etym: [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)
Defn: 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.
REPUTATIVELY Re*put"a*tive*ly (r-pt"-tv-l), adv.
Defn: By repute.
REPUTE Re*pute" (r-pt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reputed; p. pr. & vb. n. Reputing.] Etym: [F. réputer, L. reputare to count over, think over; pref. re- re- + putare to count, think. See Putative.]
Defn: 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.
REPUTE 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.
REPUTEDLY Re*put"ed*ly (r-pt"d-l), adv.
Defn: In common opinion or estimation; by repute.
REPUTELESS Re*pute"less, a.
Defn: Not having good repute; disreputable; disgraceful; inglorius. [R.] Shak.
REQUERE Re*quere" (r--kwr"), v. t.
Defn: To require. [Obs.]
REQUEST Re*quest" (r-kw*st"), n. Etym: [OE. requeste, OF. requeste, F. requ, 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.
REQUEST Re*quest" (r-kwst"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Requested; p. pr. & vb. n. Requesting.] Etym: [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.
REQUESTER Re*quest"er (-r), n.
Defn: One who requests; a petitioner.
REQUICKEN Re*quick"en (r-kwk"'n), v. t.
Defn: To quicken anew; to reanimate; to give new life to. Shak.
REQUIEM Re"qui*em (r"kw-m;277), n. Etym: [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.)
Defn: 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.
REQUIETORY Re*qui"e*to*ry (r-kw"-t-r), n. Etym: [L. requietorium, fr. requiescere, requietum, to rest. See Re-, and Quiesce.]
Defn: A sepulcher. [Obs.] Weever.
REQUIN Re"quin (r"kwn), n. Etym: [F., fr. reqiem a Mass sung for the dead. See Requiem.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: The man-eater, or white shark (Carcharodon carcharias); -- so called on account of its causing requiems to be sung.
REQUIRABLE Re*quir"a*ble (r-kwr"-b'l), a.
Defn: Capable of being required; proper to be required. Sir M. Hale.
REQUIRE Re*quire" (r-kwr"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Required (-kwrd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Requiring.] Etym: [OE. requeren, requiren, OF. requerre, F. requ; 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.
REQUIREMENT 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.
REQUIRER Re*quir"er (-kwr"r), n.
Defn: One who requires.
REQUISITE Req"ui*site (rk"w-zt), n.
Defn: 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.
REQUISITE Req"ui*site, a. Etym: [L. requisitus, p. p. requirere; pref. re- re- + quaerere to ask. See Require.]
Defn: Required by the nature of things, or by circumstances; All truth requisite for men to know. Milton.
Syn. -- Necessary; needful; indispensable; essential. -- Req"ui*site*ly, adv. -- Req"ui*site*ness, n.
REQUISITION Req`ui*si"tion (rk`w-zsh"n), n.Etym: [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)
Defn: 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.]
REQUISITION 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.]
REQUISITIONIST Req`ui*si"tion*ist, n.
Defn: One who makes or signs a requisition.
REQUISITIVE Re*quis"i*tive (r-kwz"-tv), a.
Defn: Expressing or implying demand. [R.] Harris.
REQUISITIVE Re*quis"i*tive, n.
Defn: One who, or that which, makes requisition; a requisitionist. [R.]
REQUISITOR Re*quis"i*tor (-tr), n.
Defn: One who makes reqisition; esp., one authorized by a requisition to investigate facts.
REQUISITORY Re*quis"i*to*ry (-t-r), a.
Defn: Sought for; demanded. [R.] Summary on Du Bartas (1621).
REQUITABLE Re*quit"a*ble (-kwt"-b'l), a.
Defn: That may be requited.
REQUITAL Re*quit"al (-al), n. Etym: [From Requite.]
Defn: 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.
Syn. -- Compensation; recompense; remuneration; reward; satisfaction; payment; retribution; retaliation; reprisal; punishment.
REQUITE Re"quite" (r-kwt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Requited; p. pr. & vb. n. Requiting.] Etym: [Pref. re- + quit.]
Defn: 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.
REQUITEMENT Re*quite"ment (-ment), n.
Defn: Requital [Obs.] E. Hall.
REQUITER Re*quit"er (-kwt"r), n.
Defn: One who requites.
REREBRACE Rere"brace` (rr"brs"), n. Etym: [F. arri.] (Anc. Armor)
Defn: Armor for the upper part of the arm. Fairholt.
REREDEMAIN Rere`de*main" (-d-mn"), n. Etym: [F. arri back + de of + main hand.]
Defn: A backward stroke. [Obs.]
REREDOS Rere"dos (rr"ds), n. Etym: [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.
REREFIEF Rere"fief` (rr"ff`), n. Etym: [F. arrière-fief. See Rear hinder, and Fief.] (Scots Law)
Defn: A fief held of a superior feudatory; a fief held by an under tenant. Blackstone.
REREIGN Re*reign" (r-rn"), v. i.
Defn: To reign again.
RE-REITERATE Re`-re*it"er*ate (r`r-t"r-t), v. t.
Defn: To reiterate many times. [R.] "My re-reiterated wish." Tennyson.
REREMOUSE Rere"mouse` (rr"mous`), n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A rearmouse.
RE-RESOLVE Re`-re*solve" (r`r-zlv"), v. t. & i.
Defn: To resolve again. Resolves, and re-resolves, then dies the same. Young.
REREWARD Rere"ward` (rr"wrd`), n. Etym: [See Rearward.]
Defn: The rear quard of an army. [Obs.]
RES Res (rz), n.; pl. Res. Etym: [L.]
Defn: A thing; the particular thing; a matter; a point. Res gestæ Etym: [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.
RESAIL Re*sail" (r-sl"), v. t. & i.
Defn: To sail again; also, to sail back, as to a former port.
RESALE Re*sale" (r-sl" or r"sl), n.
Defn: A sale at second hand, or at retail; also, a second sale. Bacon.
RESALGAR Re*sal"gar (r-sl"gr), n.
Defn: Realgar. [Obs.] Chaucer.
RESALUTE Re`sa*lute" (r`s-lt"), v. t.
Defn: To salute again.
RESAW Re*saw" (r, v. t.
Defn: To saw again; specifically, to saw a balk, or a timber, which has already been squared, into dimension lumber, as joists, boards, etc.
RESCAT Res"cat (rs"kt), v. t. Etym: [Sp. rescattar.]
Defn: To ransom; to release; to rescue. [Obs.] Howell.
RESCAT Res"cat, n. Etym: [Sp. rescate.]
Defn: Ransom; release. [Obs.]
RESCIND Re*scind" (r-snd"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rescinded; p. pr. & vb. n. Rescinding.] Etym: [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.
RESCINDABLE Re*scind"a*ble (--b'l), a.
Defn: Capable of being rescinded.
RESCINDMENT Re*scind"ment (-ment), n.
Defn: The act of rescinding; rescission.
RESCISSION Re*scis"sion (r-szh"n), n. Etym: [L. rescissio: cf. F. rescission. See Rescind.]
Defn: The act of rescinding, abrogating, annulling, or vacating; as, the rescission of a law, decree, or judgment.
RESCISSORY Re*scis"so*ry (r-sz"-r or r-ss"-), a. Etym: [L. rescissorius: cf. F. rescisoire.]
Defn: 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.
RESCOUS Res"cous (rs"ks), n. Etym: [OE., fr. OF. rescousse, fr. rescourre, p. p. rescous, to rescue. See Rescue.]
1. Rescue; deliverance. [Obs.] Chaucer.
2. (Law)
Defn: See Rescue,2. [Obs.]
RESCOWE Res"cowe (rs"kou), v. t.
Defn: To rescue. [Obs.] Chaucer.
RESCRIBE Re*scribe" (r-skrb"), v. t. Etym: [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.
RESCRIPT Re"script (r"skrpt), n. Etym: [L. rescriptum: cf. F. rescrit, formerly also spelt rescript. See Rescribe,v. t.]
1. (Rom.Antiq.)
Defn: 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.)
Defn: The official written answer of the pope upon a question of canon law, or morals.
3. A counterpart. Bouvier.
RESCRIPTION Re*scrip"tion (r-skrp"shn), n. Etym: [L. rescriptio: cf. F. rescription. See Rescribe.]
Defn: A writing back; the answering of a letter. Loveday.
RESCRIPTIVE Re*scrip"tive (-tv), a.
Defn: Pertaining to, or answering the purpose of, a rescript; hence, deciding; settling; determining.
RESCRIPTIVELY Re*scrip"tive*ly, adv.
Defn: By rescript. Burke.
RESCUABLE Res"cu*a*ble (rs"k--b'l), a.
Defn: That may be rescued.
RESCUE Res"cue (rs"k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rescued (-kd);p. pr. & vb. n. Rescuing.] Etym: [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.]
Defn: 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.
RESCUE Res"cue (rs"k), n. Etym: [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. Etym: [Etymol. uncertain.] (Bot.) A tall grass (Ceratochloa unioloides) somewhat resembling chess, cultivated for hay and forage in the Southern States.
RESCUELESS Res"cue*less, a.
Defn: Without rescue or release.
RESCUER Res"cu*er (-k-r), n.
Defn: One who rescues.
RESCUSSEE Res`cus*see" (rs`ks-s"), n. (O.Eng. Law)
Defn: The party in whose favor a rescue is made. Crabb.
RESCUSSOR Res*cus"sor (rs-ks"sr), n. Etym: [LL.] (O.Eng.Law)
Defn: One who makes an unlawful rescue; a rescuer. Burril.
RESE Rese (rz), v. i.
Defn: To shake; to quake; to tremble. [Obs.] "It made all the gates for to rese." Chaucer.
RE-SEARCH Re-search" (r-srch"), v. t. Etym: [Pref. re- + search.]
Defn: To search again; to examine anew.
RESEARCH Re*search" (r-srch"), n. Etym: [Pref. re- + search: cf OF. recerche, F. recherche.]
Defn: Diligent inquiry or examination in seeking facts or principles; laborius 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.
RESEARCH Re*search", v. t. Etym: [Pref. re- + search: cf. OF. recerchier, F. rechercher.]
Defn: To search or examine with continued care; to seek diligently.
RESEARCHER Re*search"er (-r), n.
Defn: One who researches.
RESEARCHFUL Re*search"ful (-fl), a.
Defn: Making researches; inquisitive. [R.] Coleridge.
RESEAT Re*seat" (r-st"), 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.
RESEAU Ré`seau", n. [F.] A network; specif.: (a) (Astron.)
Defn: A system of lines forming small squares of standard size, which is photographed, by a separate exposure, on the same plate with star images to facilitate measurements, detect changes of the film, etc. (b) In lace, a ground or foundation of regular meshes, like network.
RESECT Re*sect" (r-skt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Resected;p. pr. & vb. n. Resecting.] Etym: [L. resectus, p. p. of resecare to cut off; pref. re- re- + secare to cut.]
Defn: To cut or pare off; to remove by cutting.
RESECTION Re*sec"tion (r-sk"shn), n. Etym: [L. resectio: cf. F. résection.]
1. The act of cutting or paring off. Cotgrave.
2. (Surg.)
Defn: The removal of the articular extremity of a bone, or of the ends of the bones in a false articulation.
RESEDA Re*se"da (r-s"d), n. Etym: [L. , a kind of plant.]
1. (Bot.)
Defn: A genus of plants, the type of which is mignonette.
2. A grayish green color, like that of the flowers of mignonette.
RESEEK Re*seek" (r-sk"), v. t.
Defn: To seek again. J. Barlow.
RESEIZE Re*seize" (r-sz"), v. t. Etym: [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)
Defn: 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.
RESEIZER Re*seiz"er (-sz"r), n.
1. One who seizes again.
2. (Eng. Law)
Defn: 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.
RESEIZURE Re*sei"zure (r, n.
Defn: A second seizure; the act of seizing again. Bacon.
RESELL Re*sell" (r-sl"), v. t.
Defn: To sell again; to sell what has been bought or sold; to retail.
RESEMBLABLE Re*sem"bla*ble (r-zm"bl-b'l), a. Etym: [See Resemble.]
Defn: Admitting of being compared; like. [Obs.] Gower.
RESEMBLANCE Re*sem"blance (-blans), n. Etym: [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.
RESEMBLANT Re*sem"blant (-blant), a. Etym: [F., a . and p. pr. fr. ressembler to resemble. See Resemble.]
Defn: Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. [R.] Gower.
RESEMBLE Re*sem"ble (r-zm"b'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Resembled (-b'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Resembling (-blng).] Etym: [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.
RESEMBLER Re*sem"bler (r-zm"blr), n.
Defn: One who resembles.
RESEMBLINGLY Re*sem"bling*ly (-blng-l), adv.
Defn: So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
RESEMINATE Re*sem"i*nate (-sm"-nt), v. t. Etym: [L. pref. re- again + seminatus, p. p. of seminare to sow.]
Defn: To produce again by means of seed. [Obs.] Sir. T. Browne.
RESEND Re*send" (r-snd"), v. t.
1. To send again; as, to resend a message.
2. To send back; as, to resend a gift. [Obs.] Shak.
3. (Telegraphy)
Defn: To send on from an intermediate station by means of a repeater.
RESENT Re*sent" (r-znt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Resented; p. pr. & vb. n. Resenting.] Etym: [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.
RESENT 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.
RESENTER Re*sent"er (-r), n.
Defn: One who resents. Sir H. Wotton.
RESENTFUL Re*sent"ful (-fl), a.
Defn: Inclined to resent; easily provoked to anger; irritable. -- Re*sent"ful*ly, adv.
RESENTIMENT Re*sent"i*ment (--ment), n.
Defn: Resentment. [Obs.]
RESENTINGLY 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.
RESENTIVE Re*sent"ive (-v), a.
Defn: Resentful. [R.] Thomson.
RESENTMENT Re*sent"ment (-ment), n. Etym: [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 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 watever we feel to be wrong, whether directed toward ourselves or others. Reseniment 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.
RESERATE Res"er*ate (rs"r-t), v. t. Etym: [L. reseratus, p. p. of reserare to unlock.]
Defn: To unlock; to open. [Obs.] Boyle.
RESERVANCE Re*serv"ance (r-zrv"ans), n.
Defn: Reservation. [R.]
RESERVATION Res`er*va"tion (rz`r-v"shn), n. Etym: [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.
Note: 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.
RESERVATIVE Re*serv"a*tive (r-zrv"-tv), a.
Defn: Tending to reserve or keep; keeping; reserving.
RESERVATORY Re*serv"a*to*ry (-t-r), n. Etym: [LL. reservatorium,fr. L. resservare. See Reserve, v. t., and cf. Reservior.]
Defn: A place in which things are reserved or kept. Woodward.
RESERVE Re*serve" (r-zrv"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reserved. (zp. pr. & vb. n. Reserving.] Etym: [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.]
RESERVE Re*serve", n. Etym: [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.)
Defn: 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)
Defn: 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.
RESERVE CITY Reserve city. (Banking)
Defn: In the national banking system of the United States, any of certain cities in which the national banks are required (U. S. Rev. Stat. sec. 5191) to keep a larger reserve (25 per cent) than the minimum (15 per cent) required of all other banks. The banks in certain of the reserve cities (specifically called central reserve cities) are required to keep their reserve on hand in cash; banks in other reserve cities may keep half of their reserve as deposits in these banks (U. S. Rev. Stat. sec. 5195).
RESERVED Re*served" (-zrvd"), 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, adv. -- Re*serv"ed*ness, n.
RESERVEE Res`er*vee" (rz`r-v"), n.
Defn: One to, or for, whom anything is reserved; -- contrasted with reservor.
RESERVER Re*serv"er (r-zrv"r), n.
Defn: One who reserves.
RESERVIST Re*serv"ist, n.
Defn: A member of a reserve force of soldiers or militia. [Eng.]
RESERVOIR Res"er*voir` (rz"r-vwr`;277), n. Etym: [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.)
Defn: A small intercellular space, often containing 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.
RESERVOR Re*serv"or (r-zrv"r or rz`r-vr), n.
Defn: One who reserves; a reserver.
RESET Re*set" (r-st"), v. t.
Defn: To set again; as, to reset type; to reset copy; to reset a diamond.
RESET Re"set (r"st), n.
1. The act of resetting.
2. (Print.)
Defn: That which is reset; matter set up again.
RESET Re*set" (r-st"), n. Etym: [OF. recete, recepte, a receiving. Cf. Receipt.] (Scots Law)
Defn: The receiving of stolen goods, or harboring an outlaw. Jamieson.
RESET Re*set", v. t. (Scots Law)
Defn: 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.
RESETTER Re*set"ter (-tr), n. (Scots Law)
Defn: One who receives or conceals, as stolen goods or criminal.
RESETTER Re*set"ter (r-St"tr), n.
Defn: One who resets, or sets again.
RESETTLE Re*set"tle (r-st"t'l), v. t.
Defn: To settle again. Swift.
RESETTLE Re*set"tle, v. i.
Defn: To settle again, or a second time.
RESETTLEMENT Re*set"tle*ment (-ment), n.
Defn: Act of settling again, or state of being settled again; as, the resettlement of lees. The resettlement of my discomposed soul. Norris.
RESHAPE Re*shape" (r-shp"), v. t.
Defn: To shape again.
RESHIP Re*ship" (r-shp"), v. t.
Defn: To ship again; to put on board of a vessel a second time; to send on a second voyage; as, to reship bonded merchandise.
RESHIP Re*ship", v. i.
Defn: To engage one's self again for service on board of a vessel after having been discharged.
RESHIPMENT Re*ship"ment (-ment), n.
Defn: The act of reshipping; also, that which is reshippped.
RESHIPPER Re*ship"per (-pr), n.
Defn: One who reships.
RESIANCE Res`i*ance (rz"-ans), n. Etym: [LL. reseantia, reseance.]
Defn: Residence; abode. [Obs.] Bacon.
RESIANT Res"i*ant (-ant), a. Etym: [OF. reseant, resseant, L. residens. See Resident.]
Defn: Resident; present in a place. [Obs.] In which her kingdom's throne is chiefly resiant. Spenser.
RESIANT Res"i*ant, n.
Defn: A resident. [Obs.] Sir T. More.
RESIDE Re*side" (r-zd"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Resided; p. pr. & vb. n. Residing.] Etym: [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.
RESIDENCE Res"i*dence (rz"-dens), n. Etym: [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)
Defn: 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.
RESIDENCIA Re`si*den"cia, n. [Sp.]
Defn: In Spanish countries, a court or trial held, sometimes as long as six months, by a newly elected official, as the governor of a province, to examine into the conduct of a predecessor.
RESIDENCY 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 Residentl: also, a Dutch commercial colony or province in the East Indies.
RESIDENT Res"i*dent (-dent), a. Etym: [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.
RESIDENT 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 inferrior to that of ambassadors. See the Note under Minister,4.
RESIDENTER Res"i*dent*er (-$r), n.
Defn: A resident. [Obs. or Colloq.]
RESIDENTIAL Res`i*den""tial (-dn"shal), a.
1. Of or pertaining to a residence or residents; as, residential trade.
2. Residing; residentiary. [R.]
RESIDENTIARY Res`i*den"tia*ry (-dn"sh-r; 277), a. Etym: [LL. residentiaris.]
Defn: Having residence; as, a canon residentary; a residentiary guardian. Dr. H. More.
RESIDENTIARY 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.
RESIDENTIARYSHIP Res`i*den"tia*ry*ship, n.
Defn: The office or condition of a residentiary.
RESIDENTSHIP Res"i*dent*ship (rz"-dent-shp), n.
Defn: The office or condition of a resident.
RESIDER Re*sid"er (r-zd"r), n.
Defn: One who resides in a place.
RESIDUAL Re*sid"u*al (r-zd"-al), a. Etym: [See Residue.]
Defn: 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 sq. root(a-b).
RESIDUAL 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.
RESIDUARY Re*sid"u*a*ry (--r), a. Etym: [See Residue.]
Defn: 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.
RESIDUE Res"i*due (rz"-d), n. Etym: [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)
Defn: 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.)
Defn: 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.
Note: The term radical is sometimes restricted to groups containing carbon, the term residue being applied to the others.
4. (Theory of Numbers)
Defn: 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.
RESIDUOUS Re*sid"u*ous (r-zd"-s), a. Etym: [L. residuus.]
Defn: Remaining; residual. Landor.
RESIDUUM Re*sid"u*um (-m), n. Etym: [L. See Residue.]
Defn: 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.
RESIEGE Re*siege" (r-sj"), v. t. Etym: [Pref. re- + siege a seat.]
Defn: To seat again; to reinstate. [Obs.] Spenser.
RE-SIGN Re-sign" (r-sn"), v. t. Etym: [Pref. re- + sign.]
Defn: To affix one's signature to, a second time; to sign again.
RESIGN Re*sign" (r-zn"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Resigned (-znd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Resigning.] Etym: [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 Re sign", n.
Defn: Resignation. [Obs.] Beau & Fl.
RESIGNATION Res`ig*na"tion (rz`g-n"shn), n. Etym: [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.
RESIGNED Re*signed" (r-znd"), a.
Defn: Submissive; yielding; not disposed to resist or murmur. A firm, yet cautious mind; Sincere, thought prudent; constant, yet resigned. Pope.
RESIGNEDLY Re*sign"ed*ly (r-zn"d-l), adv.
Defn: With submission.
RESIGNEE Res`ign*ee" (rz`-n"), n.
Defn: One to whom anything is resigned, or in whose favor a resignation is made.
RESIGNER Re*sign"er (r-zn"r), n.
Defn: One who resigns.
RESIGNMENT Re*sign"ment (-ment), n.
Defn: The act of resigning.
RESILE Re*sile" (r-zl"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Resiled (-zld"); p. pr. & vb. n. Resiling.] Etym: [L. resilire to leap or spring back; pref. re- re- + salire to leap, spring. See Salient.]
Defn: To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose. J. Ellis.
RESILIENCE; RESILIENCY Re*sil"i*ence, Re*sil"i*en*cy, n.
1. The act of resiling, springing back, or rebounding; as, the resilience of a ball or of sound.
2. (Mech. & Engyn.)
Defn: 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.
RESILIENT Re*sil"i*ent (-ent), a. Etym: [L. resiliens, p. pr.]
Defn: Leaping back; rebounding; recoling.
RESILITION Res`i*li"tion (rz`-lsh"n), n.
Defn: Resilience. [R.]
RESIN Res"in (rz"n), n. Etym: [F. résine, L. resina; cf. Gr. "rhti`nh Cf. Rosin.]
Defn: 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).
Note: 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, quaiacum, 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 frorm 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.
RESINACEOUS Res`in*a"ceous (-"shs), a.
Defn: Having the quality of resin; resinous.
RESINATE Res"in*ate (rz"n-t), n. (Chem.)
Defn: Any one of the salts the resinic acids.
RESINIC Re*sin"ic (r-zn"k), a. (Chem.)
Defn: Pertaining to, or obtained from, resin; as, the resinic acids.
RESINIFEROUS Res`in*if"er*ous (rz`n-f"r-s), a. Etym: [Resin + -ferous: cf. F. résinifère.]
Defn: Yielding resin; as, a resiniferous tree or vessel.
RESINIFORM Res"in*i*form (rz"n--frm), a. Etym: [Resin + -form: cf. F. résiniforme.]
Defn: Having the form of resin.
RESINO-ELECTRIC Res`in*o-e*lec"tric (---lk"trk), a. (Elec.)
Defn: Containing or exhibiting resinous electricity.
RESINOID Res"in*oid (rz"n-oid), a.
Defn: Somewhat like resin.
RESINOUS Res"in*ous (-s), a. Etym: [L. resinous: cf. F. résineux. See Resin.]
Defn: 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.
RESINOUSLY Res"in*ous*ly, adv.
Defn: By means, or in the manner, of resin.
RESINOUSNESS Res"in*ous*ness, n.
Defn: The quality of being resinous.
RESINY Res"in*y (-), a.
Defn: Like resin; resinous.
RESIPISCENCE Res`i*pis"cence (rs`-ps"sens), n. Etym: [L. resipiscentia, from resipiscere to recover one's senses: cf. F. résipiscence.]
Defn: Wisdom derived from severe experience; hence, repentance. [R.] Bp. Montagu.
RESIST Re*sist" (r-zstt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Resisted; p. pr. & vb. n. Resisting.] Etym: [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.
RESIST Re*sist", v. i.
Defn: To make opposition. Shak.
RESIST Re*sist", n. (Calico Printing)
Defn: 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.
RESISTANCE Re*sist"ance (-ans), n. Etym: [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)
Defn: 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.)
Defn: 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.
RESISTANCE FRAME Re*sist"ance frame`. (Elec.)
Defn: A rheostat consisting of an open frame on which are stretched spirals of wire. Being freely exposed to the air, they radiate heat rapidly.
RESISTANT Re*sist"ant (-ant), a. Etym: [F. résistant: cf. L. resistens. See Resist.]
Defn: Making resistance; resisting. -- n.
Defn: One who, or that which, resists. Bp. Pearson.
RESISTER Re*sist"er (-r), n.
Defn: One who resists.
RESISTFUL Re*sist"ful (-fl), a.
Defn: Making much resistance.
RESISTIBILITY Re*sist`i*bil"i*ty (--bl"-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.
RESISTIBLE Re*sist"i*ble (r-zst"-b'l), a. Etym: [Cf. F. résistible.]
Defn: Capable of being resisted; as, a resistible force. Sir M. Hale. -- Re*sist"i*ble*ness, n. -- Re*sist"i*bly, adv.
RESISTING Re*sist"ing, a.
Defn: Making resistance; opposing; as, a resisting medium. -- Re*sist"ing ly, adv.
RESISTIVE Re*sist"ive (-v), a.
Defn: Serving to resist. B. Jonsosn.
RESISTLESS 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.
RESOLUBLE Res"o*lu*ble (rz"-l-b'l), a.Etym: [L. resolubolis: cf. F. résoluble. See Resolve, and cf. Resolvable.]
Defn: Admitting of being resolved; resolvable; as, bodies resoluble by fire. Boyle. -- Res"o*lu*ble*ness, n.
RESOLUTE Res"o*lute (rz"-lt), a. Etym: [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.
RESOLUTE Res"o*lute (rz"-lt), n.
1. One who [Obs.] Shak.
2. Redelivery; repayment. [Obs.] "Yearly resolutes, deductions, and payments." Bp. Burnet.
RESOLUTELY Res"o*lute*ly, adv.
Defn: In a resolute manner; with fixed purpose; boldly; firmly; steadily; with perseverance. Some.. facts he examines, some he resolutely denies. Swift.
RESOLUTENESS Res"o*lute*ness, n.
Defn: The quality of being resolute.
RESOLUTION Res`o*lu"tion (-l"shn), n. Etym: [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.)
Defn: The act or process of solving; solution; as, the resolution of an equation or problem.
7. (Med.)
Defn: A breaking up, disappearance; or termination, as of a fever, a tumor, or the like.
8. (Mus.)
Defn: 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 Ant: 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.
RESOLUTIONER Res`o*lu"tion*er (-r), n.
Defn: 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.
RESOLUTIONIST Res`o*lu"tion*ist, n.
Defn: One who makes a resolution.
RESOLUTIVE Res"o*lu`tive (rz"-lu`tv), a. Etym: [Cf.F. résolutif.]
Defn: Serving to dissolve or relax. [R.] Johnson.
RESOLUTORY Res"o*lu*to*ry (rz"-l-t-r), a.
Defn: Resolutive. [R.]
RESOLVABILITY Re*solv`a*bil"i*ty (r-zlv`-bl"-t), n.
Defn: The quality or condition of being resolvable; resolvableness.
RESOLVABLE Re*solv"a*ble (r-zlv"-b'l), a. Etym: [See Resolve, and cf. Resoluble.]
Defn: 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.
RESOLVABLENESS Re*solv"a*ble*ness, n.
Defn: The quality of being resolvable; resolvability.
RESOLVE Re*solve" (r*zlv"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Resolved (-zlvd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Resolving.] Etym: [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.)
Defn: 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.)
Defn: To dispere or scatter; to discuss, as an inflammation or a tumor.
9. (Mus.)
Defn: 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.
RESOLVE Re*solve" (r-zlv"), v. i. Etym: [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.
RESOLVE 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.
RESOLVED Re*solved" (r-zlvd"), p. p. & a.
Defn: 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.
RESOLVEDLY Re*solv"ed*ly (rzlv"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.
RESOLVEDNESS Re*solv"ed*ness, n.
Defn: Fixedness of purpose; firmness; resolution. Dr. H. More.
RESOLVENT Re*solv"ent (-ent), a.
Defn: Having power to resolve; causing solution; solvent.
RESOLVENT Re*solv"ent, n. Etym: [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.)
Defn: That which has power to disperse inflammatory or other tumors; a discutient; anything which aids the absorption of effused products. Coxe.
3. (Math.)
Defn: An equation upon whose solution the solution of a given pproblem depends.
RESOLVER Re*solv"er (r-zlv"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.
RESONANCE Res"o*nance (rz"-nans), n. Etym: [Cf. F. résonance, L. resonantia an echo.]
1. The act of resounding; the quality or state of being resonant.
2. (Acoustics)
Defn: A prolongation or increase of any sound, eithar 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.
RESONANCY Res"o*nan*cy (-nan-s), n.
Defn: Resonance.
RESONANT Res"o*nant (-nant), a. Etym: [L. resonans, p. pr. of resonare to resound: cf. F. résonnant. See Resound.]
Defn: 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.
RESONANTLY Res"o*nant*ly, adv.
Defn: In a reasonant manner.
RESONATOR Res"o*na`tor (-n`tr), n. (Acoustics)
Defn: 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.
RESORB Re*sorb" (r-srb"), v. t. Etym: [L. reorbere; pref. re- re- + sorbere to suck or drink in.]
Defn: To swallow up. Now lifted by the tide, and now resorbed. Young.
RESORBENT Re*sorb"ent (-ent), a. Etym: [L. resorbens, p. pr. of resorbere.]
Defn: Swallowing up. Wodhull.
RESORCIN Res*or"cin (rz-r"sn), n. Etym: [Resin + orcin. So called because in its higher homologue it resembles orcin.] (Chem.)
Defn: 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.
RESORCYLIC Res`or*cyl"ic (rz`r-sl"k), a. (Chem.)
Defn: Of, or pertaining to, or producing, resorcin; as, resorcylic acid.
RESORPTION Re*sorp"tion (r*srp"shn), n.
Defn: The act of resorbing; also, the act of absorbing again; reabsorption.
RESORT Re*sort" (r*zrt"), n. Etym: [F. ressort.]
Defn: 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.
RESORT Re*sort", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Resorted; p. pr. & vb. n. Resorting.] Etym: [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.
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.
RESORT Re*sort" (r*zrt"), n. Etym: [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.
RESORTER Re*sort"er (-r), n.
Defn: One who resorts; a frequenter.
RESOUN Re*soun" (r*zn"), n.
Defn: Reason. [Obs.] Chaucer.
RESOUN Re*soun", v. i. & t.
Defn: To resound. [Obs.] Chaucer.
RE-SOUND Re-sound" (r*sound"), v. t. & i. Etym: [Pref. re- + sound.]
Defn: To sound again or anew.
RESOUND Re*sound" (r*zound"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Resounded; p. pr. & vb. n. Resounding.] Etym: [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.
RESOUND Re*sound", v. t.
1. To throw back, or return, the sound of; to echo; to reverberate. Albion's cliffs resound the rurPope.
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.
RESOUND Re*sound", n.
Defn: Return of sound; echo. Beaumont.
RESOURCE Re*source" (r*srs"), n. Etym: [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.
Defn: 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.
RESOURCEFUL Re*source"ful (-fl), a.
Defn: Full of resources.
RESOURCELESS Re*source"less, a.
Defn: Destitute of resources. Burke. -- Re*source"less*ness, n. R. Browning.
RESOW Re*sow" (r*s"), v. t.
Defn: To sow again. Bacon.
RESOWN Re*sown" (r*zoun"), v.
Defn: To resound. [Obs.] Chaucer.
RESPEAK Re*speak" (r*spk"), v. t.
1. To speak or utter again.
2. To answer; to echo. [Obs. or Poetic] Shak.
RESPECT Re*spect" (r*spkt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Respected; p. pr. & vb. n. Respecting.] Etym: [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 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 relateto; 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.
RESPECT Re*spect", n. Etym: [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.
Defn: 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.
RESPECTABILITY Re*spect`a*bil"i*ty (r*spkt`*bl"*t), n.
Defn: The state or quality of being respectable; the state or quality which deserves or commands respect.
RESPECTABLE Re*spect"a*ble (-, a. Etym: [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.
RESPECTANT Re*spect"ant (-ant), a. Etym: [F., p. pr. of respecter. See Respect.] (Her.)
Defn: Placed so as to face one another; -- said of animals.
RESPECTER Re*spect"er (-r), n.
Defn: 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.
RESPECTFUL Re*spect"ful (-fl), a.
Defn: 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.
RESPECTING Re*spect"ing, prep.
Defn: With regard or relation to; regarding; concerning; as, respecting his conduct there is but one opinion.
RESPECTION Re*spec"tion (r*spk"shn), n. Etym: [Cf.LL. respectio.]
Defn: The act of respecting; respect; regard. [Obs.] Without difference or respection of persons. Tyndale.
RESPECTIVE Re*spec"tive (r*spk"tv), a. Etym: [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
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.
RESPECTIVELY 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.
RESPECTLESS Re*spect"less (r*spkt"ls), a.
Defn: Having no respect; without regard; regardless. Rather than again Endure, respectless, their so moving cChapman. -- Re*spect"less*ness, n. [R.] Shelton.
RESPECTUOUS Re*spec"tu*ous (r*spk"t*s;135), a.
1. Respectful; as, a respectuous silence. [Obs.] Boyle.
2. Respectable. [Obs.] Knolles.
RESPELL Re*spell" (r*spl"), v. t.
Defn: To spell again.
RESPERSE Re*sperse" (r*sprs"), v. t. Etym: [L. respersus, p. p. of respergere; pref. re- re- + spargere to srew, sprinkle.]
Defn: To sprinkle; to scatter. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.
RESPERSION Re*sper"sion (r*spr"shn), n. Etym: [L. respersio.]
Defn: The act of sprinkling or scattering. [Obs.]
RESPIRABILITY Re*spir`a*bil"i*ty (r*spr`*bl"*t or rs`p*r-), n. Etym: [Cf. F. respirabilit.]
Defn: The quality or state of being respirable; respirableness.
RESPIRABLE Re*spir"a*ble (r*spr"*b'l or rs"p*r*b'l), a. Etym: [Cf. F. respirable.]
Defn: Suitable for being breathed; adapted for respiration. -- Re*spir"a*ble*ness, n.
RESPIRATION Res`pi*ra"tion (rs`p*r"shn), n. Etym: [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.)
Defn: 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.
Note: 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.
RESPIRATIONAL Res`pi*ra"tion*al (rs`p*r"shn-al), a.
Defn: Of or pertaining to respiration; as, respirational difficulties.
RESPIRATIVE Re*spir"a*tive (r*sp*r*tv), a.
Defn: Of or pertaining to respiration; as, respirative organs.
RESPIRATOR Res"pi*ra`tor (rs"p*r`tr), n. Etym: [Cf. F. respirateur.]
Defn: 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.
RESPIRATORY Re*spir"a*to*ry (r*spr"*t*r or rs"p*r-), a. (Physiol.)
Defn: 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.
RESPIRE Re*spire" (r*spr), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Respired (-sprd"); p. pr. & vvb. n. Respiring.] Etym: [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.)
Defn: To breathe; to inhale air into the lungs, and exhale it from them, successively, for the purpose of maintaining the vitality of the blood.
RESPIRE 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.
RESPITE Res"pite (rs"pt), n. Etym: [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.
RESPITE Res"pite, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Respited; p. pr. & vb. n. Respiting.] Etym: [OF. respiter, LL. respectare. See Respite, n.]
Defn: 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.
RESPITELESS Res"pite*less, a.
Defn: Without respite. Baxter.
RESPLENDENCE; RESPLENDENCY Re*splen"dence, Re*splen"den*cy, n. Etym: [L. resplendentia.]
Defn: 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.
RESPLENDENT Re*splen"dent (-dent), a. Etym: [L. resplendens, -entis, p. pr. of resplendere to shine brightly; pref. re- re- + splendere to shine. See Splendid.]
Defn: Shining with brilliant luster; very bright. -- Re*splen"dent*ly, adv. With royal arras and resplendent gold. Spenser.
RESPLENDISHANT Re*splen"dish*ant (-dsh*ant), a.
Defn: Resplendent; brilliant. [R. & Obs.] Fabyan.
RESPLENDISHING Re*splen"dish*ing, a.
Defn: Resplendent. [Obs.]
RESPLIT Re*split" (r*splt"), v. t. & i.
Defn: To split again.
RESPOND Re*spond" (r*spnd"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Responded; p. pr. & vb. n. Responding.] Etym: [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.
RESPOND 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.
RESPOND Re*spond", n.
1. An answer; a response. [R.]
2. (Eccl.)
Defn: A short anthem sung at intervals during the reading of a chapter.
3. (Arch.)
Defn: A half pier or pillar attached to a wall to support an arch. Oxf. Gloss.
RESPONDENCE; RESPONDENCY Re*spond"ence, Re*spond"en*cy, n.
Defn: 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.
RESPONDENT Re*spond"ent (-ent), a. Etym: [L. respondens, p. pr. of respondere.]
Defn: Disposed or expected to respond; answering; according; corresponding. Wealth respondent to payment and contributions. Bacon.
RESPONDENT Re*spond"ent, n. Etym: [Cf. F. répondant.]
Defn: 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.
RESPONDENTIA Re`spon*den"ti*a (r`spn*dn"sh*), n. Etym: [NL. See Respondence.] (Commercial Law)
Defn: A loan upon goods laden on board a ship. It differs from bottomry, which is a loan on the ship itself. Bouvier.
RESPONSAL Re*spon"sal (r*spn"sal), a.
Defn: Answerable. [Obs.]
RESPONSAL Re*spon"sal, n. Etym: [Cf.LL. resposalis.]
1. One who is answerable or responsible. [Obs.] Barrow.
2. Response. [Obs.] Brevint.
RESPONSE Re*sponse" (r*spns"), n. Etym: [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.
RESPONSELESS Re*sponse"less, a.
Defn: Giving no response.
RESPONSIBILITY Re*spon`si*bil"i*ty (r*spn`s*bl"*t), n.; pl. -ties (-t. Etym: [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.
RESPONSIBLE Re*spon"si*ble (r*spn"s*b'l), a. Etym: [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.
RESPONSION Re*spon"sion (-shn), n. Etym: [L. responsio. See Respond.]
1. The act of answering. [Obs.]
2. (University of Oxford)
Defn: The first university examination; -- called also little go. See under Little, a.
RESPONSIVE Re*spon"sive (-sv), a. Etym: [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.
RESPONSORIAL Re`spon*so"ri*al (r`spn*s"r-al), a.
Defn: Responsory; antiphonal. J. H. Newman.
RESPONSORY Re*spon"so*ry (r*spn"s*r), a.
Defn: Containing or making answer; answering. Johnson.
RESPONSORY Re*spon"so*ry, n.; pl. -ries (-r. Etym: [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.)
Defn: An antiphonary; a response book.
RESSALDAR Res"sal*dar (res"sal*där), n. [Hind. risaldar, fr. risala troop of horse + Per. dar holding.] (Mil.)
Defn: In the Anglo-Indian army, a native commander of a ressala.
REST Rest (rst), v. t. Etym: [For arrest.]
Defn: To arrest. [Obs.]
REST Rest, n. Etym: [AS. rest, r, rest; akin to D. rust, G. rast. OHG. rasta, Dan. & Sw. rast rest, repose, Icel. r 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. r, Gr. 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)
Defn: 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.)
Defn: 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.)
Defn: 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; pease. -- 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 Rest (rst), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Rested; p. pr. & vb. n. Resting.] Etym: [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 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 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 Rest, n. Etym: [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.)
Defn: 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 Rest, v. i. Etym: [F. rester. See Rest remainder.]
Defn: To be left; to remain; to continue to be. The affairs of men rest still uncertain. Shak.
RESTAGNANT Re*stag"nant (r*stg"nant), a. Etym: [L. restagnans, p. pr. ]
Defn: Stagnant; motionless. [Obs.] Boyle.
RESTAGNATE Re*stag"nate (-nt), v. i. Etym: [L. restagnare to overflow.]
Defn: To stagnate; to cease to flow. [Obs.] Wiseman.
RESTAGNATION Re`stag*na"tion (-n"shn), n. Etym: [L. restagnatio aninundation.]
Defn: Stagnation. [Obs.]
RESTANT Res"tant (rs"tant), a. Etym: [L. restans, p. pr. of restare: cf. F. restant. See Rest remainder.] (Bot.)
Defn: Persistent.
RESTATE Re*state" (r*stt"), v. t.
Defn: To state anew. Palfrey.
RESTAURANT Res"tau*rant (rs"t*rnt;277), n. Etym: [F., fr. restaurer. See Restore.]
Defn: An eating house.
RESTAURATE Res"tau*rate (rs"t*rt), v. t. Etym: [L. restauratus, p. p. of restaurare. See Restore.]
Defn: To restore. [Obs.]
RESTAURATEUR Re`stau`ra`teur" (r`st`r`tr"), n. Etym: [F.]
Defn: The keeper of an eathing house or a restaurant.
RESTAURATION Res`tau*ra"tion (rs`t*r"shn), n. Etym: [LL. restauratio: cf. F. restauration.]
Defn: Restoration. [Obs.] Cower.
REST CURE Rest cure. (Med.)
Defn: Treatment of severe nervous disorder, as neurasthenia, by rest and isolation with systematic feeding and the use of massage and electricity.
RESTEM Re*stem" (r*stm"), v. t.
1. To force back against the current; as, to restem their backward course. Shak.
2. To stem, or as, to restem a current.
RESTFUL Rest"ful (rst"fl), 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-HARROW Rest"-har`row (-hr`r), n. (Bot.)
Defn: A European leguminous plant (Ononis arvensis) with long, tough roots.
RESTIFF Rest"iff, a.
Defn: Restive. [Obs.]
RESTIFF Rest"iff, n.
Defn: A restive or stubborn horse. [Obs.]
RESTIFFNESS Rest"iff*ness, n.
Defn: Restiveness. [Obs.]
RESTIFORM Res"ti*form (rs"t*frm), a.Etym: [L. restis rope + -form.] (Anat.)
Defn: Formed like a rope; -- applied especially to several ropelike bundles or masses of fibers on the dorsal side of the medulla oblongata.
RESTILY Rest"i*ly (rst"*l), adv.
Defn: In a resty manner. [Obs.]
RESTINCTION Re*stinc"tion (r*stnk"shn), n.Etym: [L. restinctio. See Restinguish.]
Defn: Act of quenching or extingishing. [Obs.]
RESTINESS Rest"i*ness (rst`*ns), n.
Defn: The quality or state of being resty; sluggishness. [Obs.] The snake by restiness and lying still all winter. Holland.
RESTING Rest"ing,
Defn: 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.
RESTINGUISH Re*stin"guish (r*stn"gwsh), v. t. Etym: [L. restinquere, restinctum; pref. re- re- + stinquere to quench.]
Defn: To quench or extinguish. [Obs.] R. Field.
RESTITUTE Res"ti*tute (rs"t*tt), v. t. Etym: [L. restitutus, p. p. of restituere; pref. re- re- + statuere to put, place. See Statute.]
Defn: To restore to a former state. [R.] Dyer.
RESTITUTE Res"ti*tute, n.
Defn: That which is restored or offered in place of something; a substitute. [R.]
RESTITUTION Res`ti*tu"tion (rs`t*t"shn), n. Etym: [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)
Defn: The act of returning to, or recovering, a former state; as, the restitution of an elastic body.
4. (Med.)
Defn: 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.
RESTITUTOR Res"ti*tu`tor (rs"t*t`tr), n. Etym: [L.: cf. F. restituteur.]
Defn: One who makes restitution. [R].
RESTIVE Rest"ive (rst"v), a. Etym: [OF. restif, F. rétif, fr. L. restare to stay back, withstand, resist. See Rest remainder, and cf. Restiff.] .
Defn: 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.
RESTLESS Rest"less, a. Etym: [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.
RESTORABLE Re*stor"a*ble (r*str"*b'l), a.
Defn: Admitting of being restored; capable of being reclaimed; as, restorable land. Swift. -- Re*stor"a*ble*ness, n.
RESTORAL Re*stor"al (-al), n.
Defn: Restoration. [Obs.] Barrow.
RESTORATION Res`to*ra"tion (rs`t*r"shn), n. Etym: [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.
RESTORATIONER Res`to*ra"tion*er (-r), n.
Defn: A Restorationist.
RESTORATIONISM Res`to*ra"tion*ism (-z'm), n.
Defn: The belief or doctrines of the Restorationists.
RESTORATIONIST Res`to*ra"tion*ist, n.
Defn: One who believes in a temporary future punishment and a final restoration of all to the favor and presence of God; a Universalist.
RESTORATIVE Re*stor"a*tive (r*str"*tv), a. Etym: [Cf. F. restoratif.]
Defn: Of or pertaining to restoration; having power to restore. Destroys life's enemy, Hunger, with sweet restorative delight. Milton.
RESTORATIVE Re*stor"a*tive, n.
Defn: Something which serves to restore; especially, a restorative medicine. Arbuthnot.
RESTORATIVELY Re*stor"a*tive*ly, adv.
Defn: In a restorative manner.
RESTORATOR Res"to*ra`tor (rs"t*r`tr), n.
Defn: A restaurateur.
RESTORATORY Re*stor"a*to*ry (r*str"*t*r), a.
Defn: Restorative. [R.]
RE-STORE Re-store" (r*str"), v. t. Etym: [Pref. re- + store.]
Defn: To store again; as, the goods taken out were re-stored.
RESTORE Re*store" (r*str"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Restored (r-strd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Restoring.] Etym: [OE. restoren, OF. restorer, F. restaurer, fr. L. restaurare; pref. re- re- + an unused word; cf. Gr. sth fixed, firm. Cf. Restaurant, Store.]
Defn: 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.
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.
RESTORE Re*store", n.
Defn: Restoration. [Obs.] Spenser.
RESTOREMENT Re*store"ment, n.
Defn: Restoration. [Obs.]
RESTORER Re*stor"er, n.
Defn: One who, or that which, restores.
RESTRAIN Re*strain", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Restrained; p. pr. & vb. n. Restraining.] Etym: [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.
RESTRAINABLE Re*strain"a*ble, a.
Defn: Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
RESTRAINEDLY Re*strain"ed*ly, adv.
Defn: With restraint. Hammond.
RESTRAINER Re*strain"er, n.
Defn: One who, or that which, restrains.
RESTRAINMENT Re*strain"ment, n.
Defn: The act of restraining.
RESTRAINT Re*straint", n. Etym: [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;
RESTRENGTHEN Re*strength"en, v. t.
Defn: To strengthen again; to fortify anew.
RESTRICT Re*strict", a. Etym: [L. restrictus, p. p. of restringere. See Restrain.]
Defn: Restricted. [Obs.]
RESTRICT Re*strict", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Restricted; p. pr. & vb. n. Restricting.]
Defn: 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.
RESTRICTION Re*stric"tion, n. Etym: [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.
RESTRICTIONARY Re*stric"tion*a*ry, a.
Defn: Restrictive. [R.]
RESTRICTIVE Re*strict"ive, a. Etym: [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.
RESTRINGE Re*stringe", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Restringed; p. pr. & vb. n. Restringing.] Etym: [L. restringere. See Restrain.]
Defn: To confine; to contract; to stringe. [Obs.]
RESTRINGENCY Re*strin"gen*cy, n.
Defn: Quality or state of being restringent; astringency. [Obs.] Sir W. Petty.
RESTRINGENT Re*strin"gent, a. Etym: [L. restringens, p. pr.: cf. F. restringent.]
Defn: Restringing; astringent; styptic. [Obs.] -- n.
Defn: A restringent medicine. [Obs.] Harvey.
RESTRIVE Re*strive", v. i.
Defn: To strive anew.
RESTY Rest"y, a.
Defn: 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.
RESUBJECTION Re`sub*jec"tion, n.
Defn: A second subjection.
RESUBLIME Re`sub*lime", v. t.
Defn: To sublime again. Newton. -- Re*sub`li*ma"tion, n.
RESUDATION Re`su*da"tion, n. Etym: [L. resudare to sweat again. See Sudation.]
Defn: Act of sweating again.
RESULT Re*sult", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Resulted; p. pr. & vb. n. Resulting.] Etym: [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.
RESULT 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.
RESULTANCE Re*sult"ance, n.
Defn: The act of resulting; that which results; a result. Donne.
RESULTANT Re*sult"ant, a. Etym: [L. resultans, p. pr. : cf. F. résultant.]
Defn: 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.
RESULTANT Re*sult"ant, n.
Defn: 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.
RESULTATE Re*sult"ate, n. Etym: [L. resultatus, p. p. ]
Defn: A result. [Obs.] "The resultate of their counsil." BAcon.
RESULTFUL Re*sult"ful, a.
Defn: HAving results or effects.
RESULTIVE Re*sult"ive, a.
Defn: Resultant. [Obs.] Fuller.
RESULTLESS Re*sult"less, a.
Defn: Being without result; as, resultless investigations.
RESUMABLE Re*sum"a*ble, a.
Defn: Capable of, or admitting of, being resumed. Sir M. HAle.
RESUME Re`su"mé", n. Etym: [F. See Resume.]
Defn: A summing up; a condensed statement; an abridgment or brief recapitulation. The exellent little résumé thereof in Dr. Landsborough's book. C. Kingsley.
RESUME Re*sume", v. t. [imp & p. p. Resumed;p. pr. & vb. n. Resuming.] Etym: [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.
RESUMMON Re*sum"mon, v. t.
Defn: To summon again.
RESUMMONS Re*sum"mons, n.
Defn: A second summons.
RESUMPTION Re*sump"tion, n. Etym: [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)
Defn: 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.
RESUMPTIVE Re*sump"tive, a. Etym: [cf. L. resumptivus restorative.]
Defn: Taking back; resuming, or tending toward resumption; as, resumptive measures.
RESUPINATE Re*su"pi*nate, a. Etym: [L. resupinatus, p. p. of resupinare to bend back. See Resupine.]
Defn: Inverted in position; appearing to be upside down or reversed, as the flowers of the orchis and the leaves of some plants.
RESUPINATED Re*su"pi*na`ted, a.
Defn: Resupinate.
RESUPINATION Re*su`pi*na"tion, n.
Defn: 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.
RESUPINE Re`su*pine", a. Etym: [L. resupinus; pref.re- re- + supinus bent backward, supine.]
Defn: Lying on the back; supine; hence, careless. Sir K. Digby. He spake, and, downward swayed, fell resupine, With his huge neck aslant. Cowper.
RESUPPLY Re`sup*ply", v. t.
Defn: To supply again.
RESURGENCE Re*sur"gence, n.
Defn: The act of rising again; resurrection.
RESURGENT Re*sur"gent, a. Etym: [L. resurgens, -entis, p. pr. of resurgere. See Resurrection.]
Defn: Rising again, as from the dead. Coleridge.
RESURGENT Re*sur"gent, n.
Defn: One who rises again, as from the dead. [R.] Sydney Smith.
RESURRECT Res`ur*rect", v. t. Etym: [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]
RESURRECTION Res`ur*rec"tion, n. Etym: [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.
RESURRECTIONIST Res`ur*rec"tion*ist, n.
Defn: One who steals bodies from the grave, as for dissection. [Slang]
RESURRECTIONIZE Res`ur*rec"tion*ize, v. t.
Defn: To raise from the dead. [R.] Southey.
RESURVEY Re`sur*vey", v. t.
Defn: To survey again or anew; to review. Shak.
RESURVEY Re*sur"vey, n.
Defn: A second or new survey.
RESUSCITABLE Re*sus"ci*ta*ble, a.
Defn: Capable of resuscitation; as, resuscitable plants. Boyle.
RESUSCITANT Re*sus"ci*tant, n.
Defn: One who, or that which resuscitates. Also used adjectively.
RESUSCITATE Re*sus"ci*tate, a. Etym: [L. resuscitatus, p. p. of resuscitare; pref. re- re- + suscitare to raise, rouse. See Suscitate.]
Defn: Restored to life. [R.] Bp. Gardiner.
RESUSCITATE Re*sus"ci*tate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Resuscitated;p. pr. & vb. n. Resuscitating.]
Defn: To revivify; to revive; especially, to recover or restore from apparent death; as, to resuscitate a drowned person; to resuscitate withered plants.
RESUSCITATE Re*sus"ci*tate, v. i.
Defn: To come to life again; to revive. These projects, however often slain, always resuscitate. J. S. Mill.
RESUSCITATION Re*sus`ci*ta"tion, n. Etym: [L. resuscitatio.]
Defn: The act of resuscitating, or state of being resuscitated. The subject of resuscitation by his sorceries. Sir W. Scott.
RESUSCITATIVE Re*sus"ci*ta*tive, a.
Defn: Tending to resuscitate; reviving; revivifying.
RESUSCITATOR Re*sus"ci*ta`tor, n. Etym: [L.]
Defn: One who, or that which, resuscitates.
RET Ret, v. t.
Defn: See Aret. [Obs.] Chaucer.
RET Ret, v. t. Etym: [Akin to rot.]
Defn: To prepare for use, as flax, by separating the fibers from the woody part by process of soaking, macerating, and other treatment. Ure.
RETABLE Re*ta"ble, n. (Eccl.)
Defn: A shelf behind the altar, for display of lights, vases of wlowers, etc.
RETAIL Re"tail, n. Etym: [F. retaille piece cut off, shred, paring, or OF. retail, from retailler. See Retail, v.]
Defn: The sale of commodities in small quantities or parcels; -- opposed to wholesale; sometimes, the sale of commodities at second hand.
RETAIL Re"tail, a.
Defn: Done at retail; engaged in retailing commodities; as a retail trade; a retail grocer.
RETAIL Re*tail", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Retailed;p. pr. & vb. n. Retailing.] Etym: [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.
RETAILER Re*tail"er, n.
Defn: One who retails anything; as, a retailer of merchandise; a retailer of gossip.
RETAILMENT Re*tail"ment, n.
Defn: The act of retailing.
RETAIN Re*tain", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Retained; p. pr. & vb. n. Retaining.] Etym: [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.
RETAIN 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.
RETAINABLE Re*tain"a*ble, a.
Defn: Capable of being retained.
RETAINAL Re*tain"al, n.
Defn: The act of retaining; retention.
RETAINER 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.
5. The act of keeping dependents, or the state of being in dependence. Bacon.
RETAINMENT Re*tain"ment, n.
Defn: The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
RETAKE 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.
RETAKER Re*tak"er, n.
Defn: One who takes again what has been taken; a recaptor. Kent.
RETALIATE Re*tal"i*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Retaliated; p. pr. & vb. n. Retaliating.] Etym: [L. retaliatus, p. p. of retaliare to retaliate; pref. re- re- + a word akin to talio talion, retaliation. Cf. Talion.]
Defn: 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.
RETALIATE Re*tal"i*ate, v. i.
Defn: To return like for like; specifically, to return evil for evil; as, to retaliate upon an enemy.
RETALIATION Re*tal`i*a"tion, n.
Defn: 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.
RETALIATIVE Re*tal"i*a*tive, a.
Defn: Same as Retaliatory.
RETALIATORY Re*tal"i*a*to*ry, a.
Defn: Tending to, or involving, retaliation; retaliative; as retaliatory measures.
RETARD Re*tard", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Retarded; p. pr. & vb. n. Retarding.] Etym: [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 Ant: 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.
RETARD Re*tard", v. i.
Defn: To stay back. [Obs.] Sir. T. Browne.
RETARD Re*tard", n.
Defn: 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 immediatelly 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. rHam. Nav. Encyc.
RETARDATION Re`tar*da"tion, n. Etym: [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 Ant: 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.)
Defn: 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.
RETARDATIVE Re*tard"a*tive, a. Etym: [Cf. F. retardatif.]
Defn: Tending, or serving, to retard.
RETARDER Re*tard"er, n.
Defn: One who, or that which, retards.
RETARDMENT Re*tard"ment, n. Etym: [Cf. F. retardement.]
Defn: The act of retarding; retardation. Cowley.
RETCH Retch, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Retched; p. pr. & vb. n. Retching.] Etym: [AS. hr to clear the throat, hawk, fr. hraca throat; akin to G. rachen, and perhaps to E. rack neck.]
Defn: 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 Retch, v. t. & i. Etym: [See Reck.]
Defn: To care for; to heed; to reck. [Obs.] Chaucer.
RETCHLESS Retch"less, a.
Defn: Careless; reckless. [Obs.] Dryden. --- Retch"less*ly, adv. -- Retch"less*ness, n. [Obs.]
RETE Re"te, n. Etym: [L., a net.] (Anat.)
Defn: A net or network; a plexus; particularly, a network of blood vessels or nerves, or a part resembling a network.
RETECIOUS Re*te"cious, a. Etym: [L. rete a net.]
Defn: Resembling network; retiform.
RETECTION Re*tec"tion, n. Etym: [L. retegere, retectum, to uncover; pref. re- + tegere to cover.]
Defn: Act of disclosing or uncovering something concealed. [Obs.] Boyle.
RETELL Re*tell, v. t.
Defn: To tell again.
RETENE Ret"ene, n. Etym: [Gr. (Chem.)
Defn: A white crystalline hydrocarbon, polymeric with benzene. It is extracted from pine tar, and is also found in certain fossil resins.
RETENT Re*tent", n. Etym: [L. retentum, fr. retentus, p. p. See Retain.]
Defn: That which is retained. Hickok.
RETENTION Re*ten"tion, n. Etym: [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 [R.] Shak.
4. The act of withholding; retraint; reserve. Shak.
5. Place of custody or confinement.
6. (Law)
Defn: 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.
RETENTIVE Re*ten"tive, a. Etym: [Cf. F. rétentif.]
Defn: 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.
RETENTIVE Re*ten"tive, n.
Defn: That which retains or confines; a restraint. [R.] Bp. Hall.
RETENTIVELY Re*ten"tive*ly, adv.
Defn: In a retentive manner.
RETENTIVENESS Re*ten"tive*ness, n.
Defn: The quality of being retentive.
RETENTIVITY Re`ten*tiv"i*ty, n.
Defn: The power of retaining; retentive force; as, the retentivity of a magnet.
RETENTOR Re*ten"tor, n. Etym: [L., a retainer.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: A muscle which serves to retain an organ or part in place, esp. when retracted. See Illust. of Phylactolemata.
RETEPORE Re`te*pore, n. Etym: [L. rete a net + porus pore.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: Any one of several species of bryozoans of the genus Retepora. They form delicate calcareous corals, usually composed of thin fenestrated fronds.
RETEX Re*tex", v. t. Etym: [L. retexere, lit., to unweave; pref. re- re + texere to weave. ]
Defn: To annual, as orders. [Obs.] Bp. Hacket.
RETEXTURE Re*tex"ture, n.
Defn: The act of weaving or forming again. Carlyle.
RETHOR Reth"or, n. Etym: [Cf. F. rhéteur. See Rhetor.]
Defn: A rhetorician; a careful writer. [Obs.] If a rethor couthe fair endite. Chaucer.
RETHORYKE Reth"o*ryke, n.
Defn: Rhetoric. [Obs.] Chaucer.
RETIARIUS Re`ti*a"ri*us, n. Etym: [L., fr. rete a net.] (Rom.Antiq.)
Defn: A gladiator armed with a net for entangling his adversary and a trident for despatching him.
RETIARY Re"ti*a*ry, n. Etym: [See Retiarius.]
1. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Any spider which spins webs to catch its prey.
2. A retiarius.
RETIARY Re`ti*a*ry, a. Etym: [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.
RETICENCE Ret"i*cence, n. Etym: [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.)
Defn: A figure by which a person really speaks of a thing while he makes a show as if he would say nothingon the subject.
RETICENCY Ret"i*cen*cy, n.
Defn: Reticence.
RETICENT Ret"i*cent, a. Etym: [L. reticens, p. pr. of reticere to keep silence; re- + tacere to be silent. See Tacit.]
Defn: Inclined to keep silent; reserved; uncommunicative.
RETICLE Ret"i*cle, n. Etym: [See Reticule.]
1. A small net.
2. A reticule. See Reticule,2. [R.]
RETICULAR Re*tic"u*lar, a. Etym: [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.)
Defn: Of or pertaining to a reticulum.
RETICULARIA Re*tic`u*la"ri*a, n.pl. Etym: [NL. See Reticular.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: 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.
RETICULARIAN Re*tic`u*la"ri*an, n. (Zoöl).
Defn: One of the Reticularia.
RETICULARLY Re*tic"u*lar*ly, adv.
Defn: In a reticular manner.
RETICULATE; RETICULATED Re*tic"u*late, Re*tic"u*la`ted, a. Etym: [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.
RETICULATION Re*tic`u*la"tion, n.
Defn: 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.
RETICULE Ret"i*cule, n.. Etym: [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.
RETICULOSA Re*tic`u*lo"sa, n.pl. Etym: [NL.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: Same as Reticularia.
RETICULOSE Re*tic"u*lose`, a.
Defn: Forming a network; characterized by a reticulated sructure. Reticulose rhizopod (Zoöl.), a rhizopod in which the pseudopodia blend together and form irregular meshes.
RETICULUM Re*tic"u*lum, n.;pl. Reticula. Etym: [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.
RETIFORM Ret"i*form, a. Etym: [L. rete a net + -form. cf. F. rétiforme.]
Defn: Composed of crossing lines and interstices; reticular; netlike; as, the retiform coat of the eye.
RETINA Ret"i*na, n. Etym: [NL., from L. rete a net. Cf. Reticule.] (Anat.)
Defn: 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.
Note: 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.
RETINACULUM Ret`i*nac"u*lum, n.; pl. Retinacula. Etym: [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)
Defn: One of the retractor muscles of the proboscis of certain worms.
3. (Bot.)
Defn: 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.
RETINAL Ret"i*nal, a. (Anat.)
Defn: Of or pertaining to the retina. Retinal purple (Physiol. Chem.), the visual purple.
RETINALITE Re*tin"a*lite, n. Etym: [Gr. -lite.] (Min.)