# Dictionary

Topic: Quackery
Definition:
QUACK'ERY, n.  The boastful pretensions or mean practice of an ignoramus, particularly in medicine; empiricism.


Topic: Quadragesima
Definition:
QUADRAGES'IMA, n.  [L. quadragesimus, fortieth, from quatuor, four.]
Lent; so called because it consists of forty days.


Topic: Quadragesimals
Definition:
QUADRAGES'IMALS, n. plu.  [supra.]  Offerings formerly made to the mother church on mid-lent Sunday.


Topic: Quadrangle
Definition:
QUAD'RANGLE, n.  [L. quadratus, square, from quatuor, four, and angulus, angle.]
In geometry, a quadrilateral figure; a square; a figure consisting of four sides and four angles.


Topic: Quadrangular
Definition:
QUADRAN'GULAR, a.  [supra.]  
1.  Square; having four sides and four angles.
2.  In botany, having four prominent angles, as a stem or leaf.


Topic: Quadrant
Definition:
QUAD'RANT, n.  [L. quadrans, a fourth.]
1.  The fourth part; the quarter.
2.  In geometry, the quarter of a circle; the arc of a circle containing ninety degrees; also, the space or area included between this arc and two radii drawn from the center to each extremity.
3.  An instrument for taking the altitudes of the sun or stars, of great use in astronomy and navigation.  Quadrants are variously made, but they all consist of the quarter of a circle whose limb is divided into ninety degrees; or, as in Hadley's reflecting quadrant, an arc of forty five degrees is made to serve the same purpose as an arc of ninety degrees.
Quadrant of altitude, an appendage of the artificial globe, consisting of a slip of brass of the length of a quadrant of one of the great circles of the globe, and graduated.  It is filled to the meridian and movable round to all points of the horizon.  It serves as a scale in measuring altitudes, azimuths, &c.


Topic: Quadrantal
Definition:
QUADRANT'AL, a.  [supra.]  Pertaining to a quadrant; also, included in the fourth part of a circle; as quadrantal space.
QUADRANT'AL, n.  [supra.]  A vessel used by the Romans; originally called amphora.  It was square and contained 80 pounds of water.


Topic: Quadrat
Definition:
QUAD'RAT, n.  [L. quadratus, squared.]
1.  In printing, a piece of metal used to fill the void spaces between words, &c. Quadrats are of different sizes; as m-quadrats, &c.
2.  A mathematical instrument, called also a geometrical square, and line of shadows.


Topic: Quadrate
Definition:
QUAD'RATE, a.
1.  Square; having four equal and parallel sides.
2.  Divisible into four equal parts.
3.  Square; equal; exact.
4.  Suited; fitted; applicable; correspondent.
QUAD'RATE, n.  
1.  A square; a surface with four equal and parallel sides.
2.  In astrology, an aspect of the heavenly bodies, in which they are distant from each other ninety degrees, or the quarter of a circle; the same as quartile.
QUAD'RATE, v.i.  [L. quadro.]
To suit; to correspond; to agree with; to be accommodated; followed by with.
Aristotle's rules for epic poetry - cannot be supposed to quadrate exactly with modern heroic poems.


Topic: Quadratic
Definition:
QUADRAT'IC, a.  Square; denoting a square or pertaining to it.
Quadratic equation, in algebra, an equation in which the unknown quantity is of two dimensions, or raised to the second power; or one in which the highest power of the unknown quantity is a square.


Topic: Quadratrix
Definition:
QUAD'RATRIX, n.
1.  A square or squared figure.
2.  In geometry, a mechanical line by means of which we can find right lines equal to the circumference of circles or other curves and their several parts.


Topic: Quadrature
Definition:
QUAD'RATURE, n.  [L. quadratura.]
1.  The act of squaring; the reducing of a figure to a square.  Thus the finding of a square which shall contain just as much area as a circle or a triangle, is the quadrature of that circle or triangle.
2.  A quadrate; a square.
3.  In astronomy, the aspect of the moon when distant from the sun 90 degrees or a quarter of the circle; or when the moon is at an equal distance from the points of conjunction and opposition.
Quadrature of curves, in mathematics, the finding of rectilineal figures containing the same areas as figures bounded by curved lines.


Topic: Quadrel
Definition:
QUAD'REL, n.  In architecture, a kind of artificial stone made of chalky earth and dried in the shade for two years; so called from being square.


Topic: Quadrennial
Definition:
QUADREN'NIAL, a.  [L. quadriennium; quadra or quadrans, from quatuor, four, and annus, year.]
1.  Comprising four years; as a quadrennial period.
2.  Occurring once in four years as quadrennial games.


Topic: Quadricapsular
Definition:
QUADRICAP'SULAR,a.  [L. quadra and capsula.]
In botany, having four capsules to a flower; as a quadricapsular pericarp.


Topic: Quadridecimal
Definition:
QUADRIDEC'IMAL, a.  [L. quadra and decem.]
In crystallography, designating a crystal whose prism or the middle part has four faces and two summits, containing together ten faces.


Topic: Quadrifid
Definition:
QUAD'RIFID, a.  [L. quadrifidus; quadra and findo, to divide.]
In botany, four-cleft, as a quadrifid perianth; cut into four segments, with linear sinuses and straight margins, as a quadrifid leaf.


Topic: Quadrijugous
Definition:
QUADRIJU'GOUS, a.  [L. quadra and jugum, yoke.]
In botany, pinnate, with four pairs of leaflets; as a quadrijugous leaf.


Topic: Quadrilateral
Definition:
QUADRILAT'ERAL, a.  [L. quadra, or quatuor, four, and latus, side.]  Having four sides and four angles.
QUADRILAT'ERAL, n.  A figure having four sides and four angles; a quadrangular figure.


Topic: Quadrilateralness
Definition:
QUADRILAT'ERALNESS, n.  The property of having four right lined sides, forming as many right angles.


Topic: Quadrille
Definition:
QUADRILLE, n. quadril', or cadril'.
1.  A game played by four persons with 40 cards, being the remainder of the pack after the four tens, nines and eights are discarded.
2.  A kind of dance.


Topic: Quadrilocular
Definition:
QUADRILOC'ULAR, a.  [L. quadra, quatuor, and loculus, a cell.]
Having four cells; four-celled; as a quadrilocular pericarp.


Topic: Quadrin
Definition:
QUAD'RIN, n.  [L. quadrinus.]  A mite; a small piece of money, in value about a farthing.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Quadrinomial
Definition:
QUADRINO'MIAL, a.  [L. quadra, quatuor, and nomen, name.]
Consisting of four denominations or terms.


Topic: Quadripartite
Definition:
QUADRIP'ARTITE, a.  [L. quadra, quatuor, and partitus, divided.]
Divided into four parts, or consisting of four corresponding parts.


Topic: Quadripartition
Definition:
QUADRIPARTI'TION, n.  A division by four or into four parts; or the taking the fourth part of any quantity or number.


Topic: Quadrireme
Definition:
QUAD'RIREME, n.  [L. quadriremis; quatuor, four, and remus, oar.]
A galley with four benches of oars or rowers.


Topic: Quadrivial
Definition:
QUADRIV'IAL, a.  [L. quadrivium; quatuor, four, and via, way.]  Having four ways meeting in a point.


Topic: Quadroon
Definition:
QUADROON', n.  [L. quadra, quatuor.]  In Spanish America, the offspring of a mulatto woman by a white man; a person quarter-blooded.


Topic: Quadruman
Definition:
QUAD'RUMAN, n.  [L. quadra and manus, hand.]
An animal having four hands or limbs that correspond to the hands of a man, as a monkey.


Topic: Quadruped
Definition:
QUAD'RUPED, a.  [L. quadrupes; quadra, quatuor, four, and pes, foot.]  Having four legs and feet.
QUAD'RUPED, n.  An animal having four legs and feet, as a horse, an ox, a lion, &c.


Topic: Quadruple
Definition:
QUAD'RUPLE, a.  [L. quadruplus; quadra, quatuor, and plico, to fold.]
Fourfold; four times told; as, to make quadruple restitution for trespass or theft.
QUAD'RUPLE, n.  Four times the sum or number; as, to receive quadruple the amount in damages or profits.


Topic: Quadruplicate
Definition:
QUADRU'PLICATE, a.  Fourfold; four times repeated; as a quadruplicate ratio or proportion.
QUADRU'PLICATE, v.t.  [L. quadruplico; quatuor and plico, to fold.]  To make fourfold; to double twice.


Topic: Quaff
Definition:
QU'AFF, v.t.
To drink; to swallow in large draughts.
He quaffs the muscadel.  
They in communion sweet quaff immortality and joy.
QU'AFF, v.i.  To drink largely or luxuriously.


Topic: Quaggy
Definition:
QUAG'GY, a.  [supposed to be from the root of quake.]
Yielding to the feet or trembling under the foot, as soft wet earth.


Topic: Quagmire
Definition:
QUAG'MIRE, n.  [that is, quake-mire.]  Soft wet land, which has a surface firm enough to bear a person, but which shakes or yields under the feet.


Topic: Quahaug
Definition:
QUAHAUG, n. quaw'hog.  In New England, the popular name of a large species of clams or bivalvular shells.  [This name is probably derived from the natives.]


Topic: Quail
Definition:
QUAIL, v.i.  [Quail, in English, signifies to sink or languish, to curdle, and to crush or quell.]
1.  To sink into dejection; to languish; to fail in spirits.  [Little used.]
2.  To fade; to wither.  Obs.
QUAIL, v.i.
To curdle; to coagulate; as milk.
QUAIL, v.t.  To crush; to depress; to sink; to subdue.  [This orthography is obsolete.  The word is now written quell.]
QUAIL, n.
A bird of the genus Tetrao or grouse kind, or according to Latham's arrangement, of the genus Perdix, in which he comprehends the partridge and quail.  In New England, the name is applied to a peculiar species of the perdix, which is called partridge in the middle states, but it is neither the partridge nor quail of Europe.


Topic: Quail-pipe
Definition:
QUA'IL-PIPE, n.  A pipe or call for alluring quails into a net; a kind of leathern purse in the shape of a pear, partly filled with horse hair, with a whistle at the end.


Topic: Quailing
Definition:
QUA'ILING, ppr.  Failing; languishing.  Obs.
QUA'ILING, n.  The act of failing in spirit or resolution; decay.  Obs.


Topic: Quaint
Definition:
QUAINT, a.  [The latter word would lead us to refer quaint to the Latin accinctus, ready, but Skinner thinks it more probably from comptus, neat, well dressed.]
1.  Nice; scrupulously and superfluously exact; having petty elegance; as a quaint phrase; a quaint fashion.
To show how quaint an orator you are.
2.  Subtle; artful.  Obs.
3.  Fine-spun; artfully framed.
4.  Affected; as quaint fopperies.
5.  In common use, odd; fanciful; singular; and so used by Chaucer.


Topic: Quaintly
Definition:
QUA'INTLY, adv.
1.  Nicely; exactly; with petty neatness or spruceness; as hair more quaintly curled.
2.  Artfully.
Breathe his faults so quaintly.
3.  Ingeniously; with dexterity.
I quaintly stole a kiss.


Topic: Quaintness
Definition:
QUA'INTNESS, n.
1.  Niceness; petty neatness or elegance.
There is a majesty in simplicity, which is far above the quaintness of wit.
2.  Oddness; peculiarity.


Topic: Quake
Definition:
QUAKE, v.i.
1.  To shake; to tremble; to be agitated with quick but short motions continually repeated; to shudder.  Thus we say, a person quakes with fear or terror, or with cold.  Heb. 12.
2.  To shake with violent convulsions, as well as with trembling; as, the earth quakes; the mountains quake.  Neh. 1.
3.  To shake, tremble or move, as the earth under the feet; as the quaking mud.
QUAKE, v.t.  To frighten; to throw into agitation.  [Not used.]
QUAKE, n.  A shake; a trembling; a shudder; a tremulous agitation.


Topic: Quaker
Definition:
QUA'KER, n.  One that quakes; but usually, one of the religious sect called friends.  This name, quakers, is said to have been given to the sect in reproach, an account of some agitations which distinguished them; but it is no longer appropriated to them by way of reproach.


Topic: Quaking
Definition:
QUA'KING, ppr.  Shaking; trembling.
QUA'KING, n.  A shaking; tremulous agitation; trepidation.  
Dan. 10.


Topic: Qualification
Definition:
QUALIFICA'TION, n.
1.  Any natural endowment or any acquirement which fits a person for a place, office or employment, or enables him to sustain any character with success.  Integrity and talents should be considered as indispensable qualifications for men entrusted with public affairs; but private interest and party-spirit will often dispense with these and all other qualifications.
There is no qualification for government but virtue and wisdom, actual or presumptive.
2.  Legal power or requisite; as the qualifications of electors.
3.  Abatement; diminution.
4.  Modification; restriction; limitation.  words or expressions may be used in a general sense, without any qualification.


Topic: Qualified
Definition:
QUAL'IFIED, pp.  Fitted by accomplishments or endowments; modified.
Qualified fee, in law, a base fee, or an estate which has a qualification annexed to it, and which ceases with the qualification, as a grant to A and his heirs, tenants of the manor of Dale.
Qualified negative, in legislation, the power of negativing bills which have passed the two houses of the legislature; a power vested in the president, governor or other officer, but subject to be overruled and defeated by a subsequent vote of the two houses, passed in conformity with the provisions of the constitution.
Qualified property, is that which depends on temporary possession, as that in wild animals reclaimed.


Topic: Qualify
Definition:
QUAL'IFY, v.t.  [L. qualis, such, and facio, to make.]
1.  To fit for any place, office, occupation or character; to furnish with the knowledge, skill or other accomplishment necessary for a purpose; as, to qualify a man for a judge, for a minister of state or of the gospel, for a general or admiral.  Holiness alone can qualify men for the society of holy beings.
2.  To make capable of any employment or privilege; to furnish with legal power or capacity; as, in England, to qualify a man to kill game.
3.  To abate; to soften; to diminish; as, to qualify the rigor of a statute.
I do no seek to quench your love's hot fire, but qualify the fire's extreme rage.
4.  To ease; to assuage.
5.  To modify; to restrain; to limit by exceptions; as, to qualify words or expressions, or to qualify the sense of words or phrases.
6.  To modify; to regulate; to vary; as, to qualify sounds.


Topic: Qualifying
Definition:
QUAL'IFYING, ppr.  Furnishing with the necessary qualities, properties or accomplishments for a place, station or business; furnishing with legal power; abating; tempering; modifying; restraining.


Topic: Quality
Definition:
QUAL'ITY, n.  [L. qualitas, from qualis, such.]
1.  Property; that which belongs to a body or substance, or can be predicated of it.  Qualities are natural or accidental.  thus whiteness is a natural quality of snow; softness is a natural quality of wool and fur; hardness is a natural quality of metals and wood; figure and dimension are the natural qualities of solids; but a particular figure, as a cube, a square or a sphere, is an accidental or adventitious quality.  The fluidity of metals is an accidental quality.  Essential qualities are such as are necessary to constitute a thing what it is.  Sensible qualities are such as are perceptible to the senses, as the light of the sun, the color of cloth, the taste of salt or sugar, &c.
2.  Nature, relatively considered; as the quality of an action, in regard to right and wrong.
Other creatures have not judgment to examine the quality of that which is done by them.
3.  Virtue or particular power of producing certain effects; as the qualities of plants or medicines.
4.  Disposition; temper.
Tonight we'll wander through the streets, and note the qualities of people.
5.  Virtue or vice; as good qualities, or bad qualities.
6.  Acquirement; accomplishment; as the qualities of horsemanship, dancing and fencing.
7.  Character.
The attorney partakes of both qualities, that of a judge of the court, and that of attorney general.
8.  Comparative rank; condition in relation to others; as people of every quality.
We obtained acquaintance with many citizens, not of the meanest quality.
9.  Superior rank; superiority of birth or station; as persons of quality; ladies of quality.
10.  Persons of high rank, collectively.
I shall appear at the masquerade dressed up in my feathers, that the quality may see how pretty they will look in their traveling habits.


Topic: Qualm
Definition:
QU'ALM, n. quam.
1.  A rising in the stomach, as it is commonly called; a fit of nausea, or a disposition or effort of the stomach to eject its contents.
2.  A sudden fit or seizure of sickness at the stomach; a sensation of nausea; as qualms of heart-sickagony.
For who, without a qualm, hath ever look'd on holy garbage, though by Homer cook'd?
3.  A scruple of conscience, or uneasiness of conscience.


Topic: Qualmish
Definition:
QU'ALMISH, a. quamish.  [supra.]  Sick at the stomach; inclined to vomit; affected with nausea or sicklylanguor.


Topic: Quandary
Definition:
QUAN'DARY, n.  Doubt; uncertainty; a state of difficulty or perplexity.
QUAN'DARY, v.t.  To bring into a state of uncertainty or difficulty.  [Not used.]


Topic: Quantity
Definition:
QUAN'TITY, n.  [L. quantitas, from quantus, how much, or as much as.]
1.  That property of any thing which may be increased or diminished.
This definition is defective, and as applicable to many other properties as to quantity.  A definition strictly philosophical cannot be given.  In common usage, quantity is a mass or collection of matter of indeterminate dimensions, but consisting of particles which cannot be distinguished, or which are not customarily distinguished, or which are considered in the aggregate.  Thus we say, a quantity of earth, a quantity of water, a quantity of air, of light, of heat, of iron, of wood, of timber, of corn, of paper.  But we do not say, a quantity of men, or of horses, or of houses; for as these are considered as separate individuals or beings, we call an assemblage of them, a number of multitude.
2.  An indefinite extent of space.
3.  A portion or part.
If I were sawed into quantities.  [Not in use.]
4.  a large portion; as a medicine taken in quantities, that is, in large quantities.
5.  In mathematics, any thing which can be multiplied, divided or measured.
Thus mathematics is called the science of quantity.  In algebra, quantities are known and unknown.  Known quantities are usually represented by the first letters of the alphabet, as a, b, c, and unknown quantities are expressed by the last letters, x, y, z, &c.  Letters thus used to represent quantities are themselves called quantities.  A simple quantity is expressed by one term, as + a, or - abc; a compound is expressed by more terms than one, connected by the signs, + plus, or -minus, as a + b, or a - b + c.  quantities which have the sign + prefixed, are called positive or affirmative; those which have the sign - prefixed are called negative.
6.  In grammar, the measure of a sullable; that which determines the time in which it is pronounced.
7.  In logic, a category, universal, or predicament; a general conception.
8.  In music, the relative duration of a note or syllable.
Quantity of matter, in a body, is the measure arising from the joint consideration of its magnitude and density.
Quantity of motion, in a body, is the measure arising from the joint consideration of its quantity of matter and its velocity.


Topic: Quantum
Definition:
QUAN'TUM, n.  [L.]  The quantity; the amount.
Quantum meruit, in law, an action grounded on a promise that the defendant would pay to the plaintiff for his service as much as he should deserve.
Quantum valebat, an action to recover of the defendant for goods sold, as much as they were worth.


Topic: Quarantine
Definition:
QUAR'ANTINE, n.  [L. quartus, fourth;  Eng. quart.  See Quart and Square.]
1.  Properly, the space of forty days; appropriately, the term of forty days during which a ship arriving in port and suspected of being infected with a malignant, contagious disease, is obliged to forbear all intercourse with the city or place.  Hence,
2.  Restraint of intercourse to which a ship is subjected on the presumption that she may be infected, either for forty days or for any other limited term.  It is customary for the proper officers to determine the period of restraint at their discretion, according to circumstances.  Hence we hear of a quarantine of five days, of ten, of thirty, &c. as well as of forty.  We say, a ship performs quarantine, or rides at quarantine.  We also apply the word to persons.  The passengers and crew perform quarantine.
3.  In law, the period of forty days, during which the widow of a man dying seized of land, has the privilege of remaining to the mansion house.


Topic: Quarantined
Definition:
QUARANTINED, pp.  Restrained from communication with the shore for a limited period; as a ship or its crew and passengers.


Topic: Quarantining
Definition:
QUARANTINING, ppr.  Prohibiting from intercourse with the port; as a ship or its crew and passengers.


Topic: Quarrel
Definition:
QUAR'REL, n.  [L. queror, to complain, that is, to cry out with a loud voice.  Hence we see the primary sense is the same as brawl.  The L. queror coincides in elements with to call, to bawl, to shout, and gearan, a complaint.  Heb.
1.  A brawl; a petty fight or scuffle; from its noise and uproar.
2.  A dispute; a contest.
On open seas their quarrels they debate.
3.  A breach of friendship or concord; open variance between parties.
4.  Cause of dispute.
The king's quarrel is honorable.
5.  Something that gives a right to mischief, reprisal or action.
He thought he had a good quarrel to attack him.  [Not used.]
6.  Objection; ill will, or reason to complain; ground of objection or dispute.
Herodias had a quarrel against him.  Mark 6.
7.  Something peevish, malicious, or disposed to make trouble.  [Not used.]
QUAR'REL, n.  
1.  An arrow with a square head.  [Not used unless in poetry.]
2.  A pane of glass; a square.  [See Quarry and Square.]
QUAR'REL, v.i.
1.  To dispute violently or with loud and angry words; to wrangle; to scold.  How odious to see husband and wife quarrel!
2.  To fight; to scuffle; to contend; to squabble; used of two persons or of a small number.  It is never used of armies and navies in combat.  Children and servants often quarrel about trifles.  Tavern-haunters sometimes quarrel over their cups.
3.  To fall into variance.
Our people quarrel with obedience.
4.  To find fault; to cavil.
I will not quarrel with a slight mistake.
Men at enmity with their God, quarreling with his attributes - quarreling with the being that made them, and who is constantly doing them good.
5.  To disagree; to be at variance; not to be in accordance in form or essence.
Some things arise of strange and quarr'ling kind, the forepart lion, and a snake behind.
QUAR'REL, v.t.
1.  To quarrel with.
2.  To compel by a quarrel; as, to quarrel a man out of his estate or rights.


Topic: Quarreling
Definition:
QUAR'RELING, ppr.  Disputing with vehemence or loud angry words; scolding; wrangling; fighting; finding fault; disagreeing.
QUAR'RELING, n.  [supra.]  Contention; dispute in angry words; breach of concord; a caviling or finding fault; disagreement.


Topic: Quarrelous
Definition:
QUAR'RELOUS, a.  Apt or disposed to quarrel; petulant; easily provoked to enmity or contention.  [Little used.]


Topic: Quarrelsome
Definition:
QUAR'RELSOME, a.  Apt to quarrel; given to brawls and contention; inclined to petty fighting; easily irritated or provoked to contest; irascible; choleric; petulant.


Topic: Quarry
Definition:
QUAR'RY, n.
1.  A square; as a quarry of glass.  [Not in use.]
2.  An arrow with a square head. [See Quarrel.  Not in use.]
3.  In falconry, the game which a hawk is pursuing or has killed.  [Perhaps from L. quaero.]
4.  Among hunters, a part of the entrails of the beast taken, given to the hounds.
QUAR'RY, n.  [I know not whether the original sense of this word was a pit or mine, from digging, or whether the sense was a place for squaring stone.  L. curro.  If the sense was a pit, it may be referred to the Heb.]
1.  A place, cavern or pit where stones are dug from the earth, or separated from a large mass of rocks.  We generally apply the word mine to the pit from which are taken metals and coal; from quarries are taken stones for building, as marble, freestone, slate, &c.
2.  In Paris, the quarries are a vast cavern under the city, several miles in extent.
QUAR'RY, v.i.  To prey upon, as a vulture or harpy.  [A low word and not much used.]
QUAR'RY, v.t.  To dig or take from a quarry; as, to quarry marble.


Topic: Quart
Definition:
QUART, n. quort.  [L. quartus.]
1.  The fourth part; a quarter.  [Not in use.]
2.  The fourth part of a gallon; two pints.
3.  A vessel containing the fourth of a gallon.
4.  A sequence of four cards in the game of picket.


Topic: Quartan
Definition:
QUARTAN, quort'an.  [L. quartanus, the fourth.]
Designating the fourth; occurring every fourth day; as a quartan ague or fever.


Topic: Quartation
Definition:
QUARTA'TION, n.  In chimistry and metallurgy, the operation by which the quantity of one thing is made equal to the fourth part of another thing.


Topic: Quarter
Definition:
QUARTER, n. quort'er.  [L. quartus, the fourth part.]
1.  The fourth part; as the quarter of an hour or of a mile; one quarter of the expense.  Living is a quarter dearer in the city than in the country.
2.  In weight, the fourth part of a hundred pounds avoirdupois, or of 112lb., that is, 28lb.; as a quarter of sugar.
3.  In dry measure, the fourth of a ton in weight, or eight bushels; as a quarter of wheat.
4.  In astronomy, the fourth part of the moon's period or monthly revolution; as the first quarter after the change or full.
5.  A region in the hemisphere or great circle; primarily, one of the four cardinal points; as the four quarters of the globe; but used indifferently for any region or point of compass.  From what quarter does the wind blow?  Hence,
6.  A particular region of a town, city or country; as all quarters of the city; in every quarter of the country or of the continent.  Hence.
7.  Usually in the plural, quarters, the place of lodging or temporary residence; appropriately, the place where officers and soldiers lodge, but applied to the lodgings of any temporary resident.  He called on the general at his quarters; the place furnished good winter quarters for the troops.  I saw the stranger at his quarters.
8.  Proper station.
Swift to their several quarters hasten then -
Bacon uses the word in the singular.  'Make love keep quarter.'
9.  On board of ships, quarters signifies the stations or places where the officers and men are posted in action.  Pipe all hands to quarters.
10.  In military affairs, the remission or sparing of the life of a captive or an enemy when in one's power; mercy granted by a conqueror to his enemy, when no longer able to defend himself.  In desperate encounters, men will sometimes neither ask nor give quarter.  The barbarous practice of giving no quarter to soldiers in a fortress taken by assault, is nearly obsolete.
He magnified his own clemency, now they were at his mercy, to offer them quarter for their lives, if they would give up the castle.
Lambs at the mercy of wolves much expect no quarter.
11.  Treatment shown to an enemy; indulgence.
To the young, if you give tolerable quarter, you indulge them in idleness and ruin them.  [Rarely used.]
12.  Friendship; amity; concord.  [Not in use.]
13.  In the slaughter house, one limb of a quadruped with the adjoining parts; or one fourth part of the carcase of a quadruped, including a limb; as a fore quarter, or hind quarter.
14.  In the menage, the quarters of a horse's foot are the sides of the coffin, between the toe and the heel.  False quarters are a cleft in the horn of the hoof, extending from the coronet to the shoe, or from top to bottom.  When for any disorder, one of the quarters is cut, the horse is said to be quarter-cast.
15.  In a siege, quarters are the encampment on one of the principal passages round the place besieged, to prevent relief and intercept convoys.
16.  In seminaries of learning, a fourth part of the year, or three months.  Tuition and board at twenty five dollars the quarter.  This is a moderate quarter bill.
17.  The quarter of a ship, is the part of a ship's side which lies towards the stern, or the part between the aftmost end of the main-chains and the sides of the stern, where it is terminated by the quarter-pieces.
18.  In heraldry, one of the parts or members of the first division of a coat that is divided into four parts.
On the quarter, in seamen's language, is a point in the horizon considerably abaft the beam, but not in the direction of the stern.
Quarter-bill, among seamen, is a list containing the different stations where the officers and crew are to take post in time of action, and the names of the men assigned to each.
Quarter-cloths, long pieces of painted canvas, extended on the outside of the quarter-netting from the upper part of the gallery to the gangway.
Quarter-deck, that part of the deck of a ship which extends from the stern to the mainmast.  But in some kinds of vessels, the quarter-deck does not extend to the mainmast, but is raised above the main deck.
Quarter-gallery, a sort of balcony on the quarters of a ship.
Quarter-railing, narrow molded planks, reaching from the top of the stern to the gangway, serving as a fence to the quarter-deck.
Quarter-master, in an army, an officer whose business is to attend to the quarters for the soldiers, their provisions, fuel, forage, &c.; in the navy, an officer who assists the mates in their duties, in stowing the hold, coiling the cables, attending the steerage, and keeping time by the watch glasses.
Quarter-master-general, in military affairs, is an officer whose duty is to mark the marches and encampments of an army, the head-quarters, the place for the artillery, and procure supplies of provisions and forage, &c.
1.  Quarter-staff, a long staff borne by foresters and park-keepers, as a badge of office and a weapon.
2.  A staff of defense.
Quarter-sessions, in England, a general court held quarterly by the justices of peace of each county, with jurisdiction to try and determine felonies and trespasses; but capital offenses are seldom or never tried in this court.
Quarter-round, in architecture, the echinus or ovolo.
Head-quarters, the tent or mansion of the commander in chief of an army.


Topic: Quarter-day
Definition:
QUARTER-DAY, n.  The day that completes three months, the quarter of a year; the day when quarterly payments are made of rent or interest.


Topic: Quartered
Definition:
QUART'ERED, pp.  Divided into four equal parts or quarters; separated into distinct parts; lodged; stationed for lodging.


Topic: Quartering
Definition:
QUART'ERING, ppr.  Dividing into quarters or into distinct parts; stationing for lodgings.

QUART'ERING, n.
1.  A station.
2.  Assignment of quarters for soldiers.
3.  The division of a shield containing many coats.


Topic: Quarterly
Definition:
QUART'ERLY, a.
1.  Containing or consisting of a fourth part; as quarterly seasons.
2.  Recurring at the end of each quarter of the year; as quarterly payments of rent; a quarterly visitation or examination.  The secretary requires quarterly returns from his officers.
QUART'ERLY, adv.  Once in a quarter of a year.  The returns are made quarterly.


Topic: Quartile
Definition:
QUART'ILE, n.  An aspect of the planets, when they are distant from each other a quarter of the circle, ninety degrees, or three signs.


Topic: Quarto
Definition:
QUART'O, n.  [L. quartus.]  A book of the size of the fourth of a sheet; a size made by twice folding a sheet, which then makes four leaves.
QUART'O, a.  Denoting the size of a book in which a sheet makes four leaves.


Topic: Quartz
Definition:
QUARTZ, n. quortz.  A species of silicious minerals, of various colors, white, gray, reddish, yellowish or brownish; commonly amorphous, and frequently crystallized.  The subspecies and varieties are numerous.


Topic: Quartzy
Definition:
QUARTZ'Y, a.  Pertaining to quartz; partaking of the nature or qualities of quartz; resembling quartz.  [Quartzy is the regular adjective, and quartzose and quartzous may be dispensed with.]


Topic: Quas
Definition:
QUAS, n.  In Russia, a drink of common domestic use; being a liquor prepared from pollard, meal and bread, or from meal and malt, by an acid fermentation.


Topic: Quash
Definition:
QUASH, v.t.  [L. quasso, quatio.]
1.  Properly, to beat down or beat in pieces; to crush.
The whales against sharp rocks, like reeling vessels, quash'd.
2.  To crush; to subdue; as, to quash a rebellion.
3.  In law, to abate, annul, overthrow or make void; as, to quash an indictment.  He pays judgment of the writ or declaration that the same may be quashed.
QUASH, v.i.  To be shaken with a noise.
QUASH, n.  A species of cucurbita; but in America pronounced squash; so called probably from it softness.  [See the Verb.]


Topic: Quassia
Definition:
QUAS'SIA, n.  A plant, or rather a genus of plants of three species, the amara, simaruba, and excelsa or polygama, natives of South America and of some of the isles of the West Indies, and possessing valuable medicinal qualities.


Topic: Quater-cousins
Definition:
QUATER-COUSINS, n.  ka'ter-cuzns.  [L. quatuor, four, and cousin.]
Those within the first four degrees of kindred.


Topic: Quatern
Definition:
QUAT'ERN, a.  [L. quaterni, four, from quatuor, four.]
Consisting of four; fourfold; growing by fours; as quatern leaves.


Topic: Quaternary
Definition:
QUATERN'ARY, n.  [L. quaternarius, from quatuor, four.]
The number four.
QUATERN'ARY, a.  Consisting of four.


Topic: Quaternion
Definition:
QUATERN'ION, n.  [L. quaternio, from quatuor, four.]
1.  The number four.
2.  A file of four soldiers.  Acts 12.
QUATERN'ION, v.t.  To divide into files or companies.


Topic: Quaver
Definition:
QUA'VER, v.i.
1.  To shake the voice; to utter or form sound with rapid vibrations, as in singing; to sing with tremulous modulations of voice.
2.  To tremble; to vibrate.
The finger - moved with a quavering motion.
QUA'VER, n. 
1.  A shake or rapid vibration of the voice, or a shake on an instrument of music.
2.  A note and measure of time in music, equal to half a crotchet or the eighth of a semibreve.


Topic: Quavering
Definition:
QUA'VERING, ppr.  Shaking the voice or the sound of an instrument.
QUA'VERING, n.  The act of shaking the voice, or of making rapid vibrations of sound on an instrument of music.


Topic: Quay
Definition:
QUAY, n. ke.
A key; a mole or wharf, constructed in harbors for securing vessels and receiving goods unladen or to be shipped on board.
QUAY, v.t.  To furnish with quays.


Topic: Queachy
Definition:
QUE'ACHY, a.  [from queach.]  
1.  Shaking; moving, yielding or trembling under the feet, as moist or boggy ground.
The queachy fens.
Godwin's queachy sands.
[This word is still in use in New England, and if the word is from the root of quick, we recognize the application of it in quicksand.]
2.  Thick; bushy.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Queasy
Definition:
QUE'ASY, a. s as z.  
1.  Sick at the stomach; affected with nausea; inclined to vomit.
2.  Fastidious; squeamish; delicate.
3.  Causing nausea; as a queasy question.


Topic: Queen
Definition:
QUEEN, n.
1.  The consort of a king; a queen consort.
2.  A woman who is the sovereign of a kingdom; a queen-regent; as Elizabeth, queen of England; Mary, queen of Scotland.
3.  The sovereign of a swarm of bees, or the female of the hive.
A hive of bees cannot subsist without a queen.
Queen of the meadows, meadow sweet, a plant of the genus Spiraea.
QUEEN, v.i.  To play the queen; to act the part or character of a queen.


Topic: Queen-gold
Definition:
QUEE'N-GOLD, n.  A royal duty or revenue belonging to every queen of England during her marriage to the king.


Topic: Quell
Definition:
QUELL, v.t.
1.  To crush; to subdue; to cause to cease; as, to quell an insurrection or sedition.
2.  To quiet; to allay; to reduce to peace; as, to quell the tumult of the soul.
3.  To subdue; to reduce.
This quell'd her pride.
QUELL, v.i.  To die; to abate.
QUELL, n.  Murder.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Quench
Definition:
QUENCH, v.t.
1.  To extinguish; to put out; as, to quench flame.
2.  To still; to quiet; to repress; as, to quench a passion or emotion.
3.  To allay or extinguish; as, to quench thirst.
4.  To destroy.
5.  To check; to stifle; as, to quench the Spirit.  
1Thess. 5.
QUENCH, v.i.  To cool; to become cool.
Dost thou think, in time she will not quench?  [Not in use.]


Topic: Quenchless
Definition:
QUENCH'LESS, a.  That cannot be quenched or repressed; inextinguishable; as quenchless fire or fury.


Topic: Querent
Definition:
QUE'RENT, n.  [L. querens, queror, to complain.]
The complainant; the plaintiff.  [Not in use.]
QUE'RENT, n.  [L. quaerens, quaero, to inquire.]
To inquirer.  [Not much used.]


Topic: Querimonious
Definition:
QUERIMO'NIOUS, a.  [L. querimonia, complaint, from queror.]
Complaining; querulous; apt to complain.


Topic: Querl
Definition:
QUERL, v.t.  To twirl; to turn or wind round; to coil; as, to querl a cord, thread or rope.  [This is a legitimate English word, in common use in New England.  It may be a dialectical variation of whirl and twirl.]


Topic: Quern
Definition:
QUERN, n.
A hand-mill for grinding grain; a mill, the stone of which was turned by hand, used before the invention of windmills and watermills.


Topic: Querulous
Definition:
QUER'ULOUS, a.  [L. querulus, from queror, to complain.  See Quarrel.]
1.  Complaining or habitually complaining; disposed to murmur; as a querulous man or people.
2.  Expressing complaint; as a querulous tone of voice.


Topic: Query
Definition:
QUE'RY, n.  [from L. quaere, imperative of quaero; perhaps Heb. to seek, to search, to inquire.]
A question; an inquiry to be answered or resolved.
I will conclude by proposing some queries.
QUE'RY, v.i.  To ask a question or questions.
Three Cambridge sophs each prompt to query, answer and debate.
QUE'RY, v.t.
1.  To seek; to inquire; as, query the sum or amount; query the motive or the fact.
2.  To examine by questions.
3.  To doubt of.


Topic: Quest
Definition:
QUEST, n.  [L. quaero, quaestus.  As the letter r is rarely changed into s, perhaps the L. quaesivi, quaestus, may be from the root of quaeso.]
1.  The act of seeking; search; as, to rove in quest of game; to go in quest of a lost child; in quest of property, &c.
2.  Inquest; a jury.  [Not used.]
3.  Searchers, collectively.  [Not used.]
4.  Inquiry; examination.  [Not used.]
5.  Request; desire; solicitation.
Gad not abroad at every quest and call of an untrain'd hope or passion.
QUEST, v.i.  To go in search.  [Not used.]
QUEST, v.t.  To search or seek for.


Topic: Question
Definition:
QUESTION, n. ques'chun.  [L. quaestio.  See Quest.]
1.  The act of asking; an interrogatory; as, to examine by question and answer.
2.  That which is asked; something proposed which is to be solved by answer.  What is the question?
3.  Inquiry; disquisition; discussion.
It is to be put to question, whether it is lawful for christian princes to make an invasive war, simply for the propagation of the faith.
4.  Dispute or subject of debate.
There arose a question between some of John's disciples and the Jews, about purifying.  John 3.
5.  Doubt; controversy; dispute.  The story is true beyond all question.
This does not bring their truth in question.
6.  Trial; examination; judicial trial or inquiry.
Of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.  Acts 23.  Acts 24.
7.  Examination by torture.
8.  Endeavor; effort; act of seeking.  [Not in use.]
9.  In logic, a proposition stated by way of interrogation.
In question, in debate; in the course of examination or discussion; as, the matter or point in question.


Topic: Questionable
Definition:
QUES'TIONABLE, a.
1.  That may be questioned; doubtful; uncertain; disputable.  the deed is of questionable authority.
It is questionable whether Galen ever saw the dissection of a human body.
2.  Suspicious; liable to be doubted or disputed; liable to suspicion.  His veracity is questionable.
Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, that I will speak to thee.


Topic: Questor
Definition:
QUES'TOR, n.  [L. quaestor.  See Quest and Query.]
In Roman antiquity, an officer who had the management of the public treasure; the receiver of taxes, tribute, &c.


Topic: Questorship
Definition:
QUES'TORSHIP, n.
1.  The office of a questor or Roman treasurer.
2.  The term of a questor's office.


Topic: Quibble
Definition:
QUIB'BLE, n.  
1.  A start or turn from the point in question, or from plain truth; an evasion; a cavil; a pretense; as, to answer a sound argument by quibbles.
Quirks and quibbles have no place in the search after truth.
2.  A pun; a low conceit.
QUIB'BLE, v.i.
1.  To evade the point in question, or plain truth, by artifice, play upon words, caviling or any conceit; to trifle in argument or discourse.
2.  To pun.


Topic: Quibbler
Definition:
QUIB'BLER, n.
1.  One who evades plain truth by trifling artifices, play upon words, or cavils.
2.  A punster.


Topic: Quick
Definition:
QUICK, v.i.
To stir; to move.  [Not in use.]
QUICK, a.  [If q is a dialectical prefix, as I suppose, this word coincides with the L. vigeo, vegeo, and vig, veg, radical, coincide with wag.]
1.  Primarily, alive; living; opposed to dead or unanimated; as quick flesh.  Lev. 13.
The Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead.  2Tim. 4.
[In this sense, the word is obsolete, except in some compounds or in particular phrases.]
2.  Swift; hasty; done with celerity; as quick dispatch.
3.  Speedy; done or occurring in a short time; as a quick return of profits.
Oft he to her his charge of quick return repeated.
4.  Active; brisk; nimble; prompt ready.  He is remarkably quick in his motions.  He is a man of quick parts.
5.  Moving with rapidity or celerity; as quick time in music.
Quick with child, pregnant with a living child.
QUICK, adv.  
1.  Nimbly; with celerity; rapidly; with haste; speedily; without delay; as, run quick; be quick.
If we consider how very quick the actions of the mind are performed.
2.  Soon; in a short time; without delay.  Go, and return quick.
QUICK, n.
1.  A living animal.  Obs.
2.  The living flesh; sensible parts; as penetrating to the quick; stung to the quick; cut to the quick.
3.  Living shrubs or trees; as a ditch or bank set with quick.
QUICK, v.t.  To revive; to make alive.  Obs.
QUICK, v.i.  To become alive.  Obs.


Topic: Quick-match
Definition:
QUICK-MATCH, n.  [See Match.]  A combustible preparation formed of cotton strands dipped in a boiling composition of white vinegar, saltpeter and mealed powder; used by artillerymen.


Topic: Quicken
Definition:
QUICKEN, v.t.  quik'n.
1.  Primarily, to make alive; to vivify; to revive or resuscitate, as from death or an inanimate state.  Rom. 4.
Hence flocks and herds, and men and beasts and fowls, with breath are quicken'd and attract their souls.
2.  To make alive in a spiritual sense; to communicate a principle of grace to.
You hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins.  Eph. 2.
3.  To hasten; to accelerate; as, to quicken motion, speed or flight.
4.  To sharpen; to give keener perception to; to stimulate; to incite; as, to quicken the appetite or taste; to quicken desires.
5.  To revive; to cheer; to reinvigorate; to refresh by new supplies of comfort or grace.  Ps. 119.
QUICKEN, v.i. quik'n.  
1.  To become alive.
The heart is the first part that quickens, and the last that dies.  
2.  To move with rapidity or activity.
And keener lightning quickens in her eye.


Topic: Quicken-tree
Definition:
QUICK'EN-TREE, n.  A tree, the wild sorb, a species of wild ash.
the Sorbus aucuparia, or mountain ash, a species of service tree.


Topic: Quickened
Definition:
QUICK'ENED, pp.
1.  Made alive; revived; vivified; reinvigorated.
2.  Accelerated; hastened.
3.  Stimulated; incited.


Topic: Quickener
Definition:
QUICK'ENER, n.  
1.  One who revives, vivifies, or communicates life.
2.  That which reinvigorates.
3.  That which accelerates motion or increases activity.


Topic: Quicklime
Definition:
QUICK'LIME, n.  [See Lime.]  Any calcarious substance deprived of its fixed or carbonic air, or an earthy substance calcined; as chalk, limestone, oyster-shells, &c.; unslaked lime.  Calcarious stones and shells are reduced to quicklime by being subjected for a considerable time to intense heat, which expels the carbonic and aqeuous matter.


Topic: Quickness
Definition:
QUICK'NESS, n.
1.  Speed; velocity; celerity; rapidity; as the quickness of motion.
2.  Activity; briskness; promptness, as the quickness of the imagination or wit.
3.  Acuteness of perception; keep sensibility; as quickness of sensation.
4.  Sharpness; pungency.


Topic: Quicksand
Definition:
QUICK'SAND, n.  
1.  Sand easily moved or readily yielding to pressure, loose sand abounding with water.
2.  Unsolid ground.


Topic: Quickset
Definition:
QUICK'SET, n.  A living plant set to grow, particularly for a hedge.
QUICK'SET, v.t.  To plant with living shrubs or trees for a hedge or fence; as, to quickset a ditch.


Topic: Quicksilver
Definition:
QUICK'SILVER, n.  [that is, living silver, argentum vivum, so called from its fluidity.]
Mercury, a metal found both native and in the state of ore, in mines, in various parts of the world, and so remarkably fusible as to be congealable only with the intense cold indicated by 39 degrees or 40 degrees below zero, on Fahrenheit's thermometer.  It is the heaviest of the metals, next to platina and gold.  It is used in various arts and in medicine.


Topic: Quiddity
Definition:
QUID'DITY, n.  [L. quid, what.]
1.  A barbarous term used in school philosophy for essence, that unknown and undefinable something which constitutes its peculiar nature, or answers the question, quidest? The essence of a thing constitutes it tale quid, such a thing as it is, and not another.
2.  A trifling nicety; a cavil; a captious question.


Topic: Quidnunc
Definition:
QUID'NUNC, n.  [L. what now.]  One who is curious to know every thing that passes; one who knows or pretends to know all occurrences.
Quid pro quo,  [L.] in law, an equivalent; something given or done for another thing; mutual consideration and performance.


Topic: Quiescent
Definition:
QUIES'CENT, a.  [L. quiescens.]
1.  Resting being in a state of repose; still: not moving; as a quiescent body or fluid.  
2.  Not ruffled with passion; unagitated; as the mind.
3.  Silent; not sounded; having no sound; as a quiescent letter.  Sow mow, with w quiescent; say, day, with y quiescent.
QUIES'CENT, n.  A silent letter.


Topic: Quiet
Definition:
QUI'ET, a.  [L. quietus.]
1.  Still; being in a state of rest; now moving.  Judges 16.
2.  Still; free from alarm or disturbance; unmolested; as a quiet life.
In his days the land was quiet ten years. 2Chron. 14.
3.  Peaceable; not turbulent; not giving offense; not exciting controversy, disorder or trouble; mild; meek; contented.
The ornament of a meek and quiet spirit.  1Peter 3.  
1Thess. 4.
4.  Calm; not agitated by wind; as a quiet sea or atmosphere.
5.  Smooth; unruffled.
6.  Undisturbed; unmolested; as the quiet possession or enjoyment of an estate.
7.  Not crying; not restless; as a quiet child.
QUI'ET, n.  [L. quies.]
1.  Rest; repose; stillness; the state of a thing not in motion.
2.  Tranquility; freedom from disturbance or alarm; civil or political repose.  Our country enjoys quiet.
3.  Peace; security.  Judges 18.
QUI'ET, v.t.
1.  To stop motion; to still; to reduce to a state of rest; as, to quiet corporeal motion.
2.  To calm; to appease; to pacify; to lull; to tranquilize; as, to quiet the soul when agitated; to quiet the passions; to quiet the clamors of a nation; to quiet the disorders of a city or town.
3.  To allay; to suppress; as, to quiet pain or grief.


Topic: Quietism
Definition:
QUI'ETISM, n.  Peace or tranquility of mind; apathy; dispassion; indisturbance; inaction.  In history, quietism is the system of the quietists, who maintained that religion consists in the internal rest or recollection of the mind, employed in contemplating God and submitting to his will.


Topic: Quietist
Definition:
QUI'ETIST, n.  One of a sect of mystics, originated by Molino, a Spanish priest, who maintained the principles of quietism.


Topic: Quietly
Definition:
QUI'ETLY, adv.
1.  In a quiet state; without motion; in a state of rest; as, to lie or sit quietly.
2.  Without tumult, alarm, dispute or disturbance; peaceably; as, to live quietly.
3.  Calmly; without agitation or violent emotion; patiently.  submit quietly to unavoidable evils.


Topic: Quietness
Definition:
QUI'ETNESS, n.
1.  A state of rest; stillness.
2.  Calm; tranquility; as the quietness of the ocean or atmosphere.
3.  Freedom from agitation or emotion; calmness; coolness; as the quietness of the mind.
4.  Freedom from disturbance, disorder or commotion; peace; tranquility; as the quietness of a city or state.


Topic: Quietus
Definition:
QUIE'TUS, n.  [L.]  Rest; repose; death; hence, a final discharge or acquittance; that which silences claims.


Topic: Quill
Definition:
QUILL, n.  [L. calamus.]
1.  The large strong feather of a goose or other large fowl; used much for writing pens.  Hence,
2.  The instrument of writing; as the proper subject of his quill.
3.  The spine or prickle of a porcupine.
4.  A piece of small reed or other hollow plant, or which weavers wind the thread which forms the woof of cloth.
5.  The instrument with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.
To carry a good quill, to write well.
QUILL, v.t.  To plait, or to form with small ridges like quills or reeds; as a woolen stuff quilled.
[In the United States, this word is generally, if not universally, pronounced twilled.]


Topic: Quillet
Definition:
QUIL'LET, n.  [L. quidlibet, what you please.]
Subtilty; nicety; fraudulent distinction; petty cant.  [Not much used.]


Topic: Quilt
Definition:
QUILT, n.  [L. culcita.]
A cover or garment made by putting wool, cotton or other substance between two cloths and sewing them together; as beds covered with magnificent quilts.
QUILT, v.t.
1.  To stitch together two pieces of cloth with some soft and warm substance between them; as a quilted bedcover; a quilted coat.
2.  To sew in the manner of a quilt.


Topic: Quilting
Definition:
QUILT'ING, ppr.  Stitching together, as two cloths, with some soft substance between them.
QUILT'ING, n.
1.  The act of forming a quilt.
2.  In New England, the act of quilting by a collection of females who bestow their labor gratuitously to aid a female friend, and conclude with an entertainment.


Topic: Quinary
Definition:
QUI'NARY, a.  [L. quinarius, from quinque, five.]  Consisting of five.]  Consisting of five; as a quinary number.


Topic: Quinate
Definition:
QUI'NATE, a.  [from L. quinque.]  In botany, a quinate leaf is a sort of digitate leaf having five leaflets on a petiole.


Topic: Quince
Definition:
QUINCE, n. quins.  [L. cydonius.]
The fruit of the Pyrus cydonia, so named from Cydonia, a town of Crete, famous for abounding with this fruit.  One species of this fruit is of an oblong shape, from which probably it has its French name.
QUINCE,


Topic: Quinch
Definition:
QUINCH, v.i.  [probably a vulgar pronunciation of wince or winch.]  To stir, wince or flounce.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Quincunx
Definition:
QUIN'CUNX, n.  [L. composed of quinque, five, and uncia, ounce.]
In gardening, the quincunx order is a plantation of trees disposed in a square, consisting of five trees, one at each corner and a fifth in the middle, thus :.:; which order repeated indefinitely, forms a regular grove or wood, which viewed by an angle of the square or parallelogram, presents equal or parallel alleys.


Topic: Quindecagon
Definition:
QUINDEC'AGON, n.  [L. quinque, five Gr. ten, and angle.]
In geometry, a plain figure with fifteen sides and fifteen angles.


Topic: Quindecemvir
Definition:
QUINDEC'EMVIR, n.  [L. quinque, five, decem, ten, and vir, man.]
In Roman history, one of a collection or body of fifteen magistrates, whose business was to preside over the sacrifices.


Topic: Quinquagesima
Definition:
QUINQUAGES'IMA, n.  [L. fifty.]  Quinquagesima Sunday, so called as being about the fiftieth day before Easter; Shrove Sunday.


Topic: Quinquarticular
Definition:
QUINQUARTIC'ULAR, a.  [L. quinque, five, and articulus, article.]  Consisting of five articles.  [Little used.]


Topic: Quinquecapsular
Definition:
QUINQUECAP'SULAR, a.  [L. quinque, five, and capsula, a little chest.]
In botany, having five capsules to a flower; as a quinquecapsular pericarp.


Topic: Quinquedentate
Definition:
QUINQUEDEN'TATE, a.  [L. quinque, five, and dentatus, toothed; dens, tooth.]  In botany, five-toothed.


Topic: Quinquefarious
Definition:
QUINQUEFA'RIOUS, a.  [L. quinque, five.  Eng. to fare, or from the root of vary.]  In botany, opening into five parts.


Topic: Quinquefid
Definition:
QUIN'QUEFID, a.  [L. quinque, five, and findo, to split.]
In botany, five-cleft; cut into five segments with linear sinuses and straight margins; as a leaf.


Topic: Quinquelocular
Definition:
QUINQUELOC'ULAR, a.  [L. quinque, five, and loculus, a cell.]
Five-celled; having five cells; as a pericarp.


Topic: Quinquennial
Definition:
QUINQUEN'NIAL, a.  [L. quinquennalis, quinquennis; quinque, five, and annus, year.]  Occurring once in five years, or lasting five years.


Topic: Quinquepartite
Definition:
QUINQUEP'ARTITE, a.  [L. quinque, five, and partitus, divided.]
1.  Divided into five parts almost to the base.
2.  Consisting of two parts.


Topic: Quinsy
Definition:
QUIN'SY, n. s as z.
1.  An inflammation of the throat; a species of angina which renders respiration difficult, or intercepts it.
2.  An inflammation of the fauces, particularly of the tonsils.


Topic: Quintal
Definition:
QUINT'AL, n.  [l. centum, a hundred.]
A hundred pounds in weight; or a weight of that number of pounds; sometimes written and pronounced kentle.


Topic: Quintessence
Definition:
QUINTES'SENCE, n.  [L. quinta essentia, fifth essence.]
1.  In alchimy, the fifth or last and highest essence of power in a natural body.  Hence,
2.  An extract from any thing, containing its virtues or most essential part in a small quantity.
Let there be light, said God; and forthwith light etherial, first of things, quintessence pure, sprung from the deep.
3.  In chimistry, a preparation consisting of the essential oil of a vegetable substance, mixed and incorporated with spirit of wine.
4.  The pure essential part of a thing.
[I have followed Bailey and Ash and our general usage in the accentuation of this word.  Jameson has done the same.  The accent on the first syllable is very unnatural.]


Topic: Quintile
Definition:
QUINT'ILE, n.  [L. quintus, fifth.]  The aspect of planets when distant from each other the fifth part of the zodiac, or 72 degrees.


Topic: Quintin
Definition:
QUINT'IN, n.  
An upright post on the top of which turned a cross piece, on one end of which was fixed a broad board, and on the other a sand bag.  The play was to tilt on ride against the broad end with a lance, and pass without being struck by the sand bag behind.


Topic: Quintuple
Definition:
QUINT'UPLE, a.  [L. quintuplus, fivefold; quintus and plico.]
Fivefold; containing five times the amount.


Topic: Quip
Definition:
QUIP, n.  
A smart sarcastic turn; a taunt; a severe retort.
QUIP, v.t.  To taunt; to treat with a sarcastic retort.
QUIP, v.i.  To scoff.


Topic: Quire
Definition:
QUIRE, n.  [L. chorus; Gr.]
1.  A body of singers; a chorus.  [See Chorus and Choir.]
2.  The part of a church where the service is sung.
QUIRE, n.  
A collection of paper consisting of twenty four sheets, each having a single fold.
QUIRE, v.i.  To sing in concert or chorus.


Topic: Quirister
Definition:
QUIR'ISTER, n.  One that sings in concert; more generally, the leader of a quire, particularly in divine service; a chorister.  But in America, this word is little used and vulgar.  The word used is chorister.


Topic: Quirk
Definition:
QUIRK, n. quurk.
1.  Literally, a turn; a starting from the point or line; hence, an artful turn for evasion or subterfuge; a shift; a quibble; as the quirks of a pettifogger.
2.  A fit or turn; a short paroxysm; as a quirk of joy or grief.
3.  A smart taunt or retort.
I may chance to have some odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me.
4.  A slight conceit or quibble.
5.  A flight of fancy.  [Not in use.]
6.  An irregular air; as light quirks of music.
7.  In building, a piece of ground taken out of any regular ground-plot or floor, as to mark a court or yard, &c.


Topic: Quirkish
Definition:
QUIRK'ISH, a. 
1.  Consisting of quirks, turns, quibbles or artful evasions.
2.  Resembling a quirk.


Topic: Quit
Definition:
QUIT, v.t. pret. and pp. quit or quitted.  [L. cedo.  The sense of quit is to leave, to withdraw from; but the primary sense of the root must have been to move or to send; for to requite is to send back.]
1.  To leave; to depart from, either temporarily or forever.  It does not necessarily include the idea of abandoning, without a qualifying word.  A man quits his house for an hour, or for a month.  He quits his native country on a voyage or he quits it forever; he quits an employment with the intention of resuming it.
2.  To free; to clear; to liberate; to discharge from.
To quit you of this fear, you have already looked death in the face.  [Nearly obsolete.]
3.  To carry through; to do or perform something to the end, so that nothing remains; to discharge or perform completely.
Never a worthy prince a day did quit with greater hazard and with more renown.
4.  To quit one's self, reciprocally, to clear one's self of incumbent duties by full performance.
Samson hath quit himself like Samson.
In this sense, acquit is generally used.
5.  To repay; to requite.
- Enkindle all the sparks of nature to quit this horrid act.
In this sense, quit is now rarely used.  We use requite.
6.  To vacate obligation; to release; to free from
Dangers of law, actions, decrees, judgments against us quitted.
7.  To pay; to discharge; hence, to free from; as, to quit the debt of gratitude.
8.  To set free; to release; to absolve; to acquit.
Guiltless I quit, guilty I set them free.  In this sense, acquit is now used.
9.  To leave; to give up; to resign; to relinquish; as, to quit an office.
10.  To pay.
Before that judge that quits each soul his hire.  [Not used.]
11.  To forsake; to abandon.
Such a superficial way of examining is to quit truth for appearance.
To quit cost, to pay; to free from by an equivalent; to reimburse; as, the cultivation of barren land will not always quit cost.
To quit scores, to make even; to clear mutually from demands by mutual equivalents given.  We will quit scores [marks of charges] before we part.
Does not the earth quit scores with all the elements in her noble fruits?
QUIT, a.  Free; clear; discharged from; absolved.
The owner of the ox shall be quit.  Ex. 21.  [This word, though primarily a participle, and never placed before its noun, has properly the sense of an adjective.]
Qui tam,  [L.] A qui tam action, in law, is a popular action, in which a man prosecutes an offender for the king or state, as well as for himself.


Topic: Quitch-grass
Definition:
QUITCH'-GRASS, n.  [properly quick-grass, probably from its vigorous growth, or the difficulty of eradicating it.]
Dog-grass; a species of grass which roots deeply and is not easily killed.


Topic: Quitclaim
Definition:
QUIT'CLAIM, v.t.  [quit and claim.]  To release a claim by deed without covenants of warranty; to convey to another who hath some right in lands or tenements, all one's right, title and interest in the estate, by relinquishing all claim to them.  The words used in the instrument are, 'A hath remised, released and forever quitclaimed all his right, title and interest to a certain estate.'
QUIT'CLAIM, n.  A deed of release; an instrument by which all claims to an estate are relinquished to another without any covenant or warranty, express or implied.


Topic: Quite
Definition:
QUITE, adv.  [from quit; that is, primarily, free or clear by complete performance.]
Completely; wholly; entirely; totally; perfectly.  The work is not quite done; the object is quite accomplished.
He hath sold us and quite devoured also our money.  Gen. 31.
The same actions may be aimed at different ends, and arise from quite contrary principles.


Topic: Quits
Definition:
QUITS, adv.  [from quit.]  An exclamation used when mutual demands are adjusted and the parties are even, each quit of the other.


Topic: Quittance
Definition:
QUIT'TANCE, n.  
1.  Discharge from a debt or obligation; an acquittance.  [See Acquittance, which is chiefly used.]
2.  Recompense; return; repayment.
QUIT'TANCE, v.t.  To repay.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Quitter-bone
Definition:
QUIT'TER-BONE, n.  In farriery, a hard round swelling on the coronet, between the heel and the quarter, usually on the inside of the foot.


Topic: Quiver
Definition:
QUIV'ER, n.
A case or sheath for arrows.
Take the quiver and thy bow.  Gen. 27.
QUIV'ER, a.  Nimble; active.  [Not in use.]
QUIV'ER, v.i.
1.  To shake or tremble; to quake; to shudder; to shiver.  This word expresses that tremulous motion of the body which proceeds from loss of heat or vigor.  Thus persons quiver with fear or with cold.
He quiver'd with his feet and lay for dead.
And left the limbs still quiv'ring on the ground.
2.  To play or be agitated with a tremulous motion.
The green leaves quiver with the cooling wind.
The lakes that quiver to the curling breeze.


Topic: Quivered
Definition:
QUIV'ERED, a.  [from the noun quiver.]
1.  Furnished with a quiver; as the quivered nymph.
2.  Sheathed as in a quiver.
- Whose quills stand quivered at his ear.


Topic: Quivering
Definition:
QUIV'ERING, ppr.  Trembling, as with cold or fear; moving with a tremulous agitation.
QUIV'ERING, n.  The act of shaking or trembling; agitation; as, to be seized with a quivering.


Topic: Quixotism
Definition:
QUIX'OTISM, n.  Romantic and absurd notions; schemes or actions like those of Don Quixote, the hero of Cervantes.


Topic: Quiz
Definition:
QUIZ, n.  An enigma; a riddle or obscure question.
QUIZ, v.t.  To puzzle.  [A popular, but not an elegant word.]
Quo Warranto, in Law Latin, a writ brought before a proper tribunal, to inquire by what warrant a person or corporation exercises certain powers.


Topic: Quodlibetical
Definition:
QUODLIBET'ICAL, a.  Not restrained to a particular subject; moved or discussed at pleasure for curiosity or entertainment.


Topic: Quoif
Definition:
QUOIF, n.  A cap or hood.  [See Coif.]
QUOIF, v.t.  To cover or dress with a coif.  [This word may be discarded with advantage.]


Topic: Quoin
Definition:
QUOIN, n.  [See Coin.
1.  A corner.
2.  An instrument to raise any thing; a wedge employed to raise cannon to a proper level, and for other purposes.
3.  In architecture, the corner of a brick or stone wall.


Topic: Quoit
Definition:
QUOIT, n.  
1.  A kind of horse shoe to be pitched or thrown at a fixed object in play.  In common practice, a plain flat stone is used for this purpose.
2.  In some authors, the discus of the ancients, thrown in trials of strength.
QUOIT, v.i.  To throw quoits; to play at quoits.
QUOIT, v.t.  To throw.  [Not used.]


Topic: Quorum
Definition:
QUO'RUM, n.  [L. gen. plu. of qui, who.]
1.  A bench of justices, or such a number of officers or members as is competent by law or constitution to transact business; as a quorum of the house of representatives.  A constitutional quorum was not present.
2.  A special commission of justices.


Topic: Quota
Definition:
QUO'TA, n.  [L. quotus.]
A just part or share; or the share, part or proportion assigned to each.  Each state was ordered to furnish its quota of troops.


Topic: Quotation
Definition:
QUOTA'TION, n.  [from quote.]
1.  The act of quoting or citing.
2.  The passage quoted or cited; the part of a book or writing named, repeated or adduced as evidence or illustration.
3.  In mercantile language, the naming of the price of commodities; or the price specified to a correspondent.
4.  Quota; share.  [Not used.]


Topic: Quote
Definition:
QUOTE, v.t.
1.  To cite, as a passage from some author; to name, repeat or adduce a passage from an author or speaker, by way of authority or illustration; as, to quote a passage from Homer; to quote the words of Peter, or a passage of Paul's writings; to quote chapter and verse.
2.  In commerce, to name, as the price of an article.
3.  To note.
QUOTE, n.  A note upon an author.  Obs.


Topic: Quoth
Definition:
QUOTH, v.i.  [L. inquio, contracted.]
To say; to speak.  This verb is defective, being used only in the first and third persons in the present and past tenses, as quoth I, quoth he, and the nominative always follows the verb.  It is used only in ludicrous language, and has no variation for person, number or tense.


Topic: Quotidian
Definition:
QUOTID'IAN, a.  [L. quotidianus; quotus and dies.]  Daily; occurring or returning daily; as a quotidian fever.
QUOTID'IAN, n.
1.  A fever whose paroxysms return every day.
2.  Any thing returning daily.


Topic: Quotient
Definition:
QUO'TIENT, n.  [L. quoties, how often.]
In arithmetic, the number resulting from the division of one number by another, and showing how often a less number is contained in a greater.  Thus 3)12(4.  Here 4 is the quotient, showing that 3 is contained 4 times in 12.  Or quotient is an expression denoting a certain part of a unit; as 3/4.


Topic: R
Definition:
R is the eighteenth letter of the English Alphabet, and an articulation sui generis, having little or no resemblance in pronunciation to any other letter.  But from the position of the tongue in uttering it, it is commutable with l, into which letter it is changed in many words by the Spaniards and Portuguese, and some other nations; as l is also changed into r.  It is numbered among the liquids and semi-vowels, and is sometimes called the canine letter.  It is uttered with a guttural extrusion of the breath, and in some words, particularly at the end or after a labial and a dental letter, with a sort of quivering motion or slight jar of the tongue.  Its English uses, which are uniform, may be understood by the customary pronunciation of rod, room, rose, bar, bare,  barren, disturb, catarrh, free, brad, pride, drip, drag, drown.
In words which we have received from the Greek language, we follow the Latins, who wrote h after r, as the representative of the aspirated sound with which this letter was pronounced by the Greeks.  It is the same in the Welsh language.  But as the letter is not aspirated in English, h is entirely superfluous; rhapsody, rheum, rhetoric, being pronounced rapsody, reum, retoric.
As an abbreviation, R. in English, stands for rex, king, as George R.
As a numeral, R, in Roman authors, stands for 80, and with a dash over it, for 80,000.  But in Greek, with a small mark over it, signifies 100, and with the same mark under it, it denoted 1000x100, or 100,000.  In Hebrew, denoted 200, and with two horizontal points over it, 1000x200, or 200,000.
Among physicians, R. stands for recipe, take.


Topic: Ra
Definition:
RA, as an inseparable prefix or preposition, is the Latin re, coming to us through the Italian and French, and primarily signifying again, repetition.  [See Re.]


Topic: Rabbet
Definition:
RAB'BET, v.t.  
1.  To pare down the edge of a board or other piece of timber, for the purpose of receiving the edge of another piece by lapping and thus uniting the two.
2.  To lap and unite the edges of boards, &c.  In ship carpentry, to let the edge of a plank into the keel.
RAB'BET, n.  A cut on the side of a board, &c. to fit it to another by lapping; a joint made by lapping boards, &c.


Topic: Rabbinist
Definition:
RAB'BINIST, n.  Among the Jews, one who adhered to the Talmud and the traditions of the Rabbins, in opposition to the Caraites, who rejected the traditions.


Topic: Rabbit
Definition:
RAB'BIT, n.
A small quadruped of the genus Lepus, which feeds on grass or other herbage, and burrows in the earth.  The rabbit is said to be less sagacious than the hare.  It is a very prolific animal, and is kept in warrens for the sake of its flesh.


Topic: Rabble
Definition:
RAB'BLE, n.  [L. rabula, a brawler, from rabo, to rave.]
1.  A tumultuous crowd of vulgar, noisy people; the mob; a confused disorderly crowd.
2.  The lower class of people, without reference to an assembly; the dregs of the people.


Topic: Rabdology
Definition:
RABDOL'OGY, n.  [Gr. a rod, and discourse.]
A method of performing mathematical operations by little square rods.


Topic: Rabid
Definition:
RAB'ID, a.  [L. rabidus, from rabio, rabo, to rage.]
Furious; raging; mad; as a rabid dog or wolf.  It is particularly applied to animals of the canine genus, affected with the distemper called rabies, and whose bite communicates hydrophobia.


Topic: Race
Definition:
RACE, n.  [L. radix and radius having the same original.  This word coincides in origin with rod, ray, radiate, &c.]
1.  The lineage of a family, or continued series of descendants from a parent who is called the stock.  A race is the series of descendants indefinitely.  Thus all mankind are called the race of Adam; the Israelites are of the race of Abraham and Jacob.  Thus we speak of a race of kings, the race of Clovis or Charlemagne; a race of nobles, &c.
Hence the long race of Alban fathers come.
2.  A generation; a family of descendants.  A race of youthful and unhandled colts.
3.  A particular breed; as a race of mules; a race of horses; a race of sheep.
Of such a race no matter who is king.
4.  A root; as race-ginger, ginger in the root or not pulverized.
5.  A particular strength or taste of wine; a kind of tartness.
RACE, n.  [L. gradior, gressus, with the prefix g.  Eng. ride.]
1.  A running; a rapid course or motion, either on the feet, on horseback or in a carriage, &c.; particularly, a contest in running; a running in competition for a prize.
The race was one of the exercises of the Grecian games.
I wield the gauntlet and I run the race.
2.  Any sunning with speed.
The flight of many birds is swifter than the race of any beast.
3.  A progress; a course; a movement or progression of any kind.
My race of glory run.
Let us run with patience the race that is set before us.  
Heb. 12.
4.  Course; train; process; as the prosecution and race of the war.  [Not now used.]
5.  A strong or rapid current of water, or the channel or passage for such a current; as a mill-race.
6.  By way of distinction, a contest in the running of horses; generally in the plural.  The races commence in October.
RACE, v.i.  To run swiftly; to run or contend in running.  The animals raced over the ground.


Topic: Racemation
Definition:
RACEMA'TION, n.  [L. racemus, a cluster.]
1.  A cluster, as of grapes.
2.  The cultivation of cluster of grapes.


Topic: Raceme
Definition:
RAC'EME, n.  [L. racemus, a bunch of berries.
In botany a species of inflorescence, consisting of a peduncle with short lateral branches.  It is simple or compound, naked or leafy, &c.


Topic: Racemiferous
Definition:
RACEMIF'EROUS, a.  [L. racemus, a cluster, and fero, to bear.]
Bearing racemes or clusters; as the racemiferous fig-tree.


Topic: Racer
Definition:
RA'CER, n.  [from race.]  a runner; one that contends in a race.
And bade the nimblest racer seize the prize.


Topic: Rack
Definition:
RACK, n.  [Eng. to reach.  See Reach and Break.]
1.  An engine of torture, used for extorting confessions from criminals or suspected persons.  The rack is entirely unknown in free countries.
2.  Torture; extreme pain; anguish.
A fit of the stone puts a king to the rack and makes him as miserable as it does the meanest subject.
3.  Any instrument for stretching or extending any thing; as a rack for bending a bow.
4.  A grate on which bacon is laid.
5.  A wooden frame of open work in which hay is laid for horses and cattle for feeding.
6.  The frame of bones of an animal; a skeleton.  We say, a rack of bones.
7.  A frame of timber on a ship's bowsprit.
RACK, n.  [Eng. crag.]
The neck and spine of a fore quarter of veal or mutton.
[The two foregoing words are doubtless from one original.]
RACK, n.  [See Reek.]
Properly, vapor; hence, thin flying broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapor in the sky.
The winds in the upper region, which move the clouds above, which we call the rack -
The great globe itself, yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, and, like this unsubstantial pageant, faded, leave not a rack behind.
It is disputed however, whether rack in this passage should not be wreck.
RACK, n.  [for arrack.  See Arrack.]  Among the Tartars, a spirituous liquor made of mare's milk which has become sour and is then distilled.
RACK, v.i.  [See the noun.]
1.  Properly, to steam; to rise, as vapor.
[See Reek, which is the word used.]
2.  To fly, as vapor or broken clouds.


Topic: Racket
Definition:
RACK'ET, n.  [This word belong to the root of crack.  See Rocket.]
1.  A confused, clattering noise, less loud than uproar; applied to the confused sounds of animal voices, or such voices mixed with other sound.  We say, the children make a racket; the racket of a flock of fowls.
2.  Clamor; noisy talk.
RACK'ET, v.i.  To make a confused noise or clamor; to frolic.
RACK'ET, n.
The instrument with which players at tennis strike the ball.
RACK'ET, v.t.  To strike as with a racket.


Topic: Racking
Definition:
RACK'ING, ppr.
1.  Torturing; tormenting; straining; drawing off.
2.  a.  Tormenting; excruciating; as a racking pain.
RACK'ING, n.
1.  Torture; a stretching on the rack.
2.  Torment of the mind; anguish; as the rackings of conscience.
3.  The act of stretching cloth on a frame for drying.
4.  The act of drawing from the sediment, as liquors.


Topic: Racoon
Definition:
RACOON', n.  An American quadruped of the genus Ursus.  It is somewhat larger than a fox, and its fur is deemed valuable, next to that of the beaver.  This animal lodges in a hollow tree, feeds on vegetables, and its flesh is palatable food.  It inhabits North America from Canada to the tropics.


Topic: Racy
Definition:
RA'CY, a.  [L. radix.]
Strong; flavorous; tasting of the soil; as racy cider; racy wine.
Rich racy verses, in which we the soil from which they come, taste, smell and see.


Topic: Raddle
Definition:
RAD'DLE, v.t.
To twist; to wind together.  [Not in use.]
RAD'DLE, n.  [supra.]  A long stick used in hedging; also, a hedge formed by interweaving the shoots and branches of trees or shrubs.
[I believe the two foregoing words are not used in the United States, and probably they are local.]


Topic: Radiant
Definition:
RA'DIANT, a.  Shooting or darting rays of light; beaming with brightness; emitting a vivid light or splendor; as the radiant sun.
Mark what radiant state she spreads.
Radiant in glittering arms and beamy pride.
RA'DIANT, n.  In optics, the luminous point or object from which light emanates, that falls on a mirror or lens.


Topic: Radiate
Definition:
RA'DIATE, v.i.  [L. radio.  See Ray.]
1.  To issue in rays, as light; to dart, as beams of brightness; to shine.
Light radiates from luminous bodies directly to our eyes.
2.  To issue and proceed in direct lines from a point.
RA'DIATE, v.t.  To enlighten; to illuminate; to shed light or brightness on.  [Usually irradiate.]
RA'DIATE, a.  In botany, a rayed or radiate corol or flower, is a compound flower consisting of a disk, in which the corollets or florets are tubular and regular, and of a ray, in which the florets are irregular.
Or a flower with several semiflosculous florets set round a disk in form of a radiant star.


Topic: Radiation
Definition:
RADIA'TION, n.  [L. radiatio.]  
1.  The emission and diffusion of rays of light; beamy brightness.
2.  The shooting of any thing from a center, like the diverging rays of light.


Topic: Radical
Definition:
RAD'ICAL, a.  [L. radicalis, from radix, root.  See Race and Ray.]
1.  Pertaining to the root or origin; original; fundamental; as a radical truth or error; a radical evil; a radical difference of opinions or systems.
2.  Implanted by nature; native; constitutional; as the radical moisture of a body.
3.  Primitive; original; underived; uncompounded; as a radical word.
4.  Serving to origination.
5.  In botany, proceeding immediately from the root; as a radical leaf or peduncle.
RAD'ICAL, n.
1.  In philology, a primitive word; a radix, root, or simple underived uncompounded word.
2.  A primitive letter; a letter that belongs to the radix.
3.  in chimistry, an element, or a simple constituent part of a substance, which is incapable of decomposition.
That which constitutes the distinguishing part of an acid, by its union with oxygen.
Compound radical is the base of an acid composed of two or more substances.  Thus a vegetable acid having a radical composed of hydrogen and carbon, is said to be an acid with a compound radical.
Radical quantities, in algebra, quantities whose roots may be accurately expressed in numbers.  The term is sometimes extended to all quantities under the radical sign.


Topic: Radically
Definition:
RAD'ICALLY, adv. 
1.  Originally; at the origin or root; fundamentally; as a scheme or system radically wrong or defective.
2.  Primitively; essentially; originally; without derivation.
These great orbs thus radically bright.


Topic: Radicate
Definition:
RAD'ICATE, v.t.  [L. radicatus, radicor, from radix, root.]
To root; to plant deply and firmly; as radicated opinions; radicated knowledge.
Meditation will radicate these seeds.
RAD'ICATE,


Topic: Radicated
Definition:
RAD'ICATED, pp. or a.  Deeply planted.
- Prejudices of a whole race of people radicated by a succession of ages.


Topic: Radication
Definition:
RADICA'TION, n.  [from radicate.]
1.  The process of taking root deeply; as the radication of habits.
2.  In botany, the disposition of the root of a plant with respect to the ascending and descending caudex and the radicles.


Topic: Radicle
Definition:
RAD'ICLE, n.  [L. radicula, from radix.]
1.  That part of the seed of a plant which upon vegetating becomes the root.
2.  The fibrous part of a root, by which the stock or main body of it is terminated.


Topic: Radiometer
Definition:
RADIOM'ETER, n.  [L. radius, rod, and Gr. measure.]
The forestaff, an instrument for taking the altitudes of celestial bodies.


Topic: Radish
Definition:
RAD'ISH, n.  [See Ruddy.]
A plant of the genus Raphanus, the root of which is eaten raw.  Horse-radish is of the genus Cochlearia.  Water-radish is of the genus Sisymbrium.


Topic: Radius
Definition:
RA'DIUS, n.  [L. id, a ray, a rod, a beam, a spoke, that is, a shoot; radio, to shine, that is, to dart beams.  See Ray.]
1.  In geometry, a right line drawn or extending from the center of a circle to the periphery, and hence the semidiameter of the circle.  In trigonometry, the radius is the whole sine, or sine of 90 degrees.
2.  In anatomy, the exterior bone of the fore arm, descending along with the ulna from the elbow to the wrist.
3.  In botany, a ray; the outer part or circumference of a compound radiate flower, or radiated discous flower.


Topic: Radix
Definition:
RA'DIX, n.  [L. a root.]
1.  In etymology, a primitive word from which spring other words.
2.  In logarithms, the base of any system of logarithms, or that number whose logarithm is unity.  Thus in Briggs', or the common system of logarithms, the radix is 10; in Napier's, it is 2.7182818284.  All other numbers are considered as some powers or roots of the radix, the exponents of which powers or roots, constitute the logarithms of those numbers respectively.
3.  In algebra, radix sometimes denotes the root of a finite expression, from which a series is derived.


Topic: Raff
Definition:
R'AFF, v.t.  [Heb.]
To sweep; to snatch, draw or huddle together; to take by a promiscuous sweep.  Obs.
Their causes and effects I thus raff up together.
R'AFF, n.  
1.  The sweepings of society; the rabble; the mob.  This is used chiefly in the compound or duplicate, riff-raff.
2.  A promiscuous heap or collection; a jumble.


Topic: Raffle
Definition:
RAF'FLE, v.i.  [Heb. to strive.  See Raff.]
To cast dice for a prize, for which each person concerned in the game lays down a stake, or hazards a part of the value; as, to raffle for a watch.
RAF'FLE, n.  A game of chance, or lottery in which several persons deposit a part of the value of the thing, in consideration of the chance of gaining it.  The successful thrower of the dice takes or sweeps the whole.


Topic: Raft
Definition:
R'AFT, n.  [Gr. to sew that is, to fasten together, and allied to reeve; or Gr. whence a flooring.  See Rafter and Roof.]
An assemblage of boards, planks or pieces of timber fastened together horizontally and floated down a stream; a float.
R'AFT, pp.  [L. rapio; bereafian, to snatch away, to bereave.]
Torn; rent; severed.  Obs.


Topic: Rafter
Definition:
R'AFTER, n.  [Gr. to cover; a roof.]
A roof timber; a piece of timber that extends from the plate of a building to the ridge and serves to support the covering of the roof.


Topic: Rag
Definition:
RAG, n.  [Gr. a torn garment; tear; a rupture, a rock, a crag; to tear asunder.]
1.  Any piece of cloth torn from the rest; a tattered cloth, torn or worn till its texture is destroyed.  Linen and cotton rags are the chief materials of paper.
2.  Garments worn out; proverbially, mean dress.
Drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.  Prov. 23.
And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
3.  A fragment of dress.


Topic: Rage
Definition:
RAGE, n.  [Heb. to grind or gnash the teeth.]
1.  Violent anger accompanied with furious words, gestures or agitation; anger excited to fury.  Passion sometimes rises to rage.
Torment and loud lament and furious rage.
2.  Vehemence or violent exacerbation of any thing painful; as the rage of pain; the rage of a fever; the rage of hunger or thirst.
3.  Fury; extreme violence; as the rage of a tempest.
4.  Enthusiasm; rapture.
Who brought green poesy to her perfect age, and made that art which was a rage.
5.  Extreme eagerness or passion directed to some object; as the rage for money.
You purchase pain with all that joy can give, and die of nothing but a rage to live.
RAGE, v.i.
1.  To be furious with anger; to be exasperated to fury; to be violently agitated with passion.
At this he inly rag'd.
2.  To be violent and tumultuous.
Why do the heathen rage?  Ps. 2.
3.  To be violently driven or agitated; as the raging sea or winds.
4.  To ravage; to prevail without restraint, or with fatal effect; as, the plague rages in Cairo.
5.  To be driven with impetuosity; to act or move furiously.
The chariots shall rage in the streets.  Nah. 2.
The madding wheels of brazen chariots rag'd.
6.  To toy wantonly; to sport.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Ragg
Definition:
RAGG, n.  Rowley ragg, a species of silicious stone, of a dusky or dark gray color, with shining crystals, of a granular texture, and by exposure to the air acquiring an ochery crust.


Topic: Ragged
Definition:
RAG'GED, a.  [from rag.]  
1.  Rent or worn into tatters, or till its texture is broken; as a ragged coat; a ragged sail.
2.  Broken with rough edges; uneven; as a ragged rock.
3.  Having the appearance of being broken or torn; jagged; rough with sharp or irregular points.
The moon appears, when looked upon through a good glass, rude and ragged.
4.  Wearing tattered clothes; as a ragged fellow.
5.  Rough; rugged.
What shepherd owns those ragged sheep?


Topic: Raggedness
Definition:
RAG'GEDNESS, n.
1.  The state of being dressed in tattered clothes.
2.  The state of being rough or broken irregularly; as the raggedness of a cliff.


Topic: Raging
Definition:
RA'GING, ppr.  [from rage.]
1.  Acting with violence or fury.
2. a.  Furious; impetuous; vehemently driven or agitated; as the raging sea or tempest.
RA'GING, n.  Fury; violence; impetuosity.  Jonah 1.


Topic: Ragmans-roll
Definition:
RAGMAN'S-ROLL, n.  A roll or register of the value of benefices in Scotland, made by Ragimund, a legate of the pope, according to which the clergy were afterwards taxed by the court of Rome.  [See Rigmarole.]


Topic: Ragstone
Definition:
RAG'STONE, n.  A stone of the silicious kind, so named from its rough fracture.  It is of a gray color, the texture obscurely laminar or rather fibrous, the lamins consisting of a congeries of grains of a quartzy appearance, coarse and rough.  It effervesces with acids, and gives fire with steel.  It is used for a whetstone without oil or water, for sharpening coarse cutting tools.


Topic: Rail
Definition:
RAIL, n.
1.  A cross beam fixed at the ends in two upright posts.
[In New England, this is never called a beam; pieces of timber of the proper size for rails are called scantling.]
2.  In the United States, a piece of timber cleft, hewed or sawed, rough or smooth, inserted in upright posts for fencing.  The common rails among farmers, are rough, being used as they are split from the chestnut or other trees.  The rails used in fences of boards or pickets round gentlemen's houses and gardens, are usually sawed scantling and often dressed with the plane.
3.  A bar of wood or iron used for inclosing any place; the piece into which ballusters are inserted.
4.  A series of posts connected with cross beams, by which a place is inclosed.
In New England we never call this series a rail, but by the general term railing.  In a picket fence, the pales or pickets rise above the rails; in a ballustrade, or fence resembling it, the ballusters usually terminate in the rails.
5.  In a ship, a narrow plank nailed for ornament or security on a ship's upper works; also, a curved piece of timber extending from the bows of a ship to the continuation of its stern, to support the knee of the head, &c.
RAIL, n.  A bird of the genus Rallus, consisting of many species.  The water rail has a long slender body with short concave wings.  The birds of the genus inhabit the slimy margins of rivers and ponds covered with marsh plants.
RAIL, n.
A woman's upper garment; retained in the word nightrail, but not used in the United States.
RAIL, v.t.
1.  To inclose with rails.
2.  To range in a line.
RAIL, v.i.  [Eng. to brawl.]
To utter reproaches; to scoff; to use insolent and reproachful language; to reproach or censure in opprobrious terms; followed by at or against, formerly by on.
And rail at arts he did not understand.
Lesbia forever on e rails.


Topic: Railing
Definition:
RA'ILING, ppr. 
1.  Clamoring with insulting language; uttering reproachful words.
2.  a.  Expressing reproach; insulting; as a railing accusation.  2Peter 2.
RA'ILING, n.  Reproachful or insolent language.  1Peter 3.
RA'ILING, ppr.  Inclosing with rails.
RA'ILING, n.  
1.  A series of rails; a fence.
2.  Rails in general; or the scantling for rails.


Topic: Raillery
Definition:
RA'ILLERY, n.
Banter; jesting language; good humored pleasantry or slight satire; satirical merriment.
Let raillery be without malice or heat.
- Studies employed on low objects; the very naming of them is sufficient to turn them into raillery.


Topic: Raiment
Definition:
RA'IMENT, n.  [for arrayment.  See Array and Ray.]
1.  Clothing in general; vestments; vesture; garments.  
Gen. 24. Deut. 8.
Living, both food and raiment she supplies.
2.  A single garment.
[In this sense it is rarely used, and indeed is improper.]


Topic: Rain
Definition:
RAIN, v.i.  [It seems that rain is contracted from regen.  It is the Gr. to rain, to water, which we retain in brook, and the Latins, by dropping the prefix, in rigo, irrigo, to irrigate.  The primary sense is to pour out, to drive forth.  Heb.]
1.  To fall in drops from the clouds, as water; used mostly with it for a nominative; as, it rains; it will rain; it rained, or it has rained.
2.  To fall or drop like rain; as, tears rained at their eyes.
RAIN, v.t.  To pour or shower down from the upper regions, like rain from the clouds.
Then said the Lord to Moses, behold I will rain bread from heaven for you.  Ex. 14.
God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.  Job. 20.
Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and horrible tempest.  Ps. 11.
RAIN, n.  The descent of water in drops from the clouds; or the water thus falling.  Rain is distinguished from mist, by the size of the drops, which are distinctly visible.  When water falls in very small drops or particles, we call it mist, and fog is composed of particles so fine as to be not only indistinguishable, but to float or be suspended in the air.


Topic: Rainbow
Definition:
RA'INBOW, n.  A bow, or an arch of a circle, consisting of all the colors formed by the refraction and reflection of rays of light from drops of rain or vapor, appearing in the part of the hemisphere opposite to the sun.  When the sun is at the horizon, the rainbow is a semicircle.  The rainbow is called also iris.
The moon sometimes forms a bow or arch of light, more faint than that formed by the sun, and called lunar rainbow.  Similar bows at sea are called marine rainbows or sea bows.


Topic: Raise
Definition:
RAISE, v.t.  raze.  [This word occurs often in the Gothic version of the gospels,  Luke 3:8.  John 6:40, 44.  These verbs appear to be the L. gradior, gressus, without the prefix.  L. to go to walk, to pass.]
1.  To lift; to take up; to heave; to lift from a low or reclining posture; as, to raise a stone or weight; to raise the body in bed.
The angel smote Peter on the side and raised him up.  
Acts 12.
2.  To set upright; as, to raise a mast.
3.  To set up; to erect; to set on its foundations and put together; as, to raise the frame of a house.
4.  To build; as, to raise a city, a fort, a wall, &c.
I will raise forts against thee.  Is. 29.  amos 9.
5.  To rebuild.
They shall raise up the former desolations.  Is. 61.
6.  To form to some height by accumulation; as, to raise a heap of stones.  Josh. 8.
7.  To make; to produce; to amass; as, to raise a great estate out of small profits.
8.  To enlarge; to amplify.
9.  To exalt; to elevate in condition; as, to raise one from a low estate.
10.  To exalt; to advance; to promote in rank or honor; as, to raise one to an office of distinction.
This gentleman came to be raised to great titles.
11.  To enhance; to increase; as, to raise the value of coin; to raise the price of goods.
12.  To increase in current value.
the plate pieces of eight were raised three pence in the piece.
13.  To excite; to put in motion or action; as, to raise a tempest or tumult.
He commandeth and raiseth the stormy wind.  Ps. 107.
14.  To excite to sedition, insurrection, war or tumult; to stir up.  Act. 14.
AEneas then employs his pains in parts remote to raise the Tuscan swains.
15.  To rouse; to awake; to stir up.
They shall not awake, not be raised out of their sleep.  Job. 14.
16.  To increase in strength; to excite from languor or weakness.  The pulse is raised by stimulants, sometimes by venesection.
17.  To give beginning of importance to; to elevate into reputation; as, to raise a family.
18.  To bring into being.
God vouchsafes to raise another word for him.
19.  To bring from a state of death to life.
He was delivered for our offenses, and raised again for our justification.  Rom. 4.  1Cor. 15.
20.  To call into view from the state of separate spirits; as, to raise a spirit by spells and incantations.
21.  To invent and propagate; to originate; to occasion; as, to raise a report or story.
22. To set up; to excite; to begin by loud utterance; as, to raise a shout or cry.
23.  To utter loudly; to begin to sound or clamor.  He raised his voice against the measures of administration.
24.  To utter with more strength or elevation; to swell.  Let the speaker raise his voice.
25.  To collect; to obtain; to bring into a sum or fund.  Government raises money by taxes, excise and imposts.  Private persons and companies raise money for their enterprises.
26.  To levy; to collect; to bring into service; as, to raise troops; to raise an army.
27.  To give rise to.
28.  To cause to grow; to procure to be produced, bred or propagated; as, to raise wheat, barley, hops, &c.; to raise horses, oxen or sheep.
[The English now use grow in regard to crops; as, to grow wheat.  This verb intransitive has never been used in New England in a transitive sense, until recently some persons have adopted it from the English books.  We always use raise, but in New England it is never applied to the breeding of the human race, as it is in the southern states.]
29.  To cause to swell, heave and become light; as, to raise dough or paste by yeast or leaven.
Miss Liddy can dance a jig and raise paste.
30.  To excite; to animate with fresh vigor; as, to raise the spirits or courage.
31.  To ordain; to appoint; or to call to and prepare; to furnish with gifts and qualification suited to a purpose; a Scriptural sense.
I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren.  Deut. 18.
For this cause have I raised thee up, to show in thee my power.  Ex. 9.  Judg. 2.
32.  To keep in remembrance.  Ruth 4.
33.  To cause to exist by propagation.  Matt. 22.
34.  To incite; to prompt.  Ezra 1.
35.  To increase in intensity or strength; as, to raise the heat of a furnace.
36.  In seamen's language, to elevate, as an object by a gradual approach to it; to bring to be seen at a greater angle; opposed to laying; as, to raise the land; to raise a point.
To raise a purchase, in seamen's language, is to dispose instruments or machines in such a manner as to exert any mechanical force required.
To raise a siege, is to remove a besieging army and relinquish an attempt to take the place by that mode of attack, or to cause the attempt to be relinquished.


Topic: Raised
Definition:
RA'ISED, pp.  Lifted; elevated; exalted; promoted; set upright; built; made or enlarged; produced; enhanced; excited; restored to life; levied; collected; roused; invented and propagated; increased.


Topic: Raiser
Definition:
RA'ISER, n.  One who raises; that which raises; one that builds; one that levies or collects; one that begins, produces or propagates.


Topic: Raisin
Definition:
RAISIN, n. razn.
A dried grape.  Grapes are suffered to remain on the vines till they are perfectly ripe, and then dried in an oven, or by exposure to the heat of the sun.  Those dried in the sun are the sweetest.


Topic: Raising
Definition:
RA'ISING, ppr.  Lifting; elevating; setting upright; exalting; producing; enhancing; restoring to life; collecting; levying; propagating, &c.
RA'ISING, n.
1.  The act of lifting, setting up, elevating, exalting, producing, or restoring to life.
2.  In New England, the operation or work of setting up the frame of a building.


Topic: Raja
Definition:
RA'JA, n.  [L. rex, regis.]  In India, a prince.  some of the rajahs are said to be independent princes; others are tributary to the Mogul.


Topic: Rake
Definition:
RAKE, n.  
An instrument consisting of a head-piece in which teeth are inserted, and a long handle; used for collecting hay or other light things which are spread over a large surface, or in gardens for breaking and smoothing the earth.
RAKE, n.  
A loose, disorderly, vicious man; a man addicted to lewdness and other scandalous vices.
RAKE, n.  
1.  The projection of the upper parts of a ship, at the height of the stem and stern, beyond the extremities of the keel.  The distance between a perpendicular line from the extremity of stem or stern to the end of the keel, is the length of the rake; one the fore-rake, the other the rake-aft.
2.  The inclination of a mast from a perpendicular direction.
RAKE, v.t.  [L. frico.]
1.  Properly, to scrape; to rub or scratch with something rough; as, to rake the ground.
2.  To gather with a rake; as, to rake hay or barley.
3.  To clear with a rake; to smooth with a rake; as, to rake a bed in a garden; to rake land.
4.  To collect or draw together something scattered; to gather by violence; as, to rake together wealth; to rake together slanderous tales; to rake together the rabble of a town.
5.  To scour; to search with eagerness all corners of a place.
The statesman rakes the town to find a plot.
6.  In the military art, to enfilade; to fire in a direction with the length of any thing; particularly in naval engagement, to rake is to cannonade a ship on the stern or head, so that the 
balls range the whole length of the deck.  Hence the phrase, to rake a ship fore and aft.
To rake up, applied to fire, is to cover the fire with ashes.
RAKE, v.i.
1.  To scrape; to scratch into for finding something; to search minutely and meanly; as, to rake into a dunghill.
2.  To search with minute inspection into every part.
One is for raking in Chaucer for antiquated words.
3.  To pass with violence or rapidity.
Pas could not stay, but over him did rake.
4.  To seek by raking; as, to rake for oysters.
5.  To lead a dissolute, debauched life.
6.  To incline from a perpendicular direction; as, a mast rakes aft.


Topic: Raking
Definition:
RA'KING, ppr.  
1.  Scraping; gathering with a rake; cleaning and smoothing with a rake; cannonading in the direction of the length; inclining.
And raking chase-guns through our sterns they send.
2.  a.  That rakes; as a raking fire or shot.
RA'KING, n. 
1.  The act of using a rake; the act or operation of collecting with a rake, or of cleaning and smoothing with a rake.
2.  The space of ground raked at once; or the quantity of hay, &c. collected by once passing the rake.


Topic: Rally
Definition:
RAL'LY, v.t.  [This seems to be a compound of re, ra, and lier, L. ligo, to unite.]
1.  To reunite; to collect and reduce to order troops dispersed or thrown into confusion.
2.  To collect; to unite; as things scattered.
RAL'LY, v.t.  [See Raillery.]
To treat with good humor and pleasantry, or with slight contempt or satire, according to the nature of the case.
Honeycomb rallies me upon a country life.
Strephon had long confess'd his am'rous pain, which gay Corinna rallied with disdain.
RAL'LY, v.i.
1.  To assemble; to unite.
Innumerable parts of matter chanced then to rally together and to form themselves into this new world.
2.  To come back to order.
The Grecians rally and their pow'rs unite.
3.  To use pleasantry or satirical merriment.
RAL'LY, n.
1.  The act of bringing disordered troops to their ranks.
2.  Exercise of good humor or satirical merriment.


Topic: Ram
Definition:
RAM, n.  [See the Verb.]
1.  The male of the sheep or ovine genus; in some parts of England called a tup.  In the United States, the word is applied, I believe, to no other male, except in the compound ram-cat.
2.  In astronomy, Aries, the sign of the zodiac which the sun enters on the 21st of March, or a constellation of fixed stars in the figure of a ram.  It is considered the first of the twelve signs.
3.  An engine of war, used formerly for battering and demolishing the walls of cities; called a battering-ram.  [See Battering-ram.]
RAM, v.t.  [L. ramus, a branch that is a shoot or thrust.  Heb.  See Cram.]
1.  To thrust or drive with violence; to force in; to drive down or together; as, to ram down a cartridge; to ram piles into the earth.
2.  To drive, as with a battering ram.
3.  To stuff; to cram.


Topic: Ramage
Definition:
RAM'AGE, n.  [L. ramus, a branch.]
1.  Branches of trees.  [Not in use.]
2.  The warbling of birds sitting on boughs.
3.  [See Rummage.]


Topic: Ramble
Definition:
RAM'BLE, v.i.
1.  To rove; to wander; to walk, ride or sail from place to place, without any determinate object in view; or to visit many places; to rove carelessly or irregularly; as, to ramble about the city; to ramble over the country.
Never ask leave to go abroad, for you will be thought an idle rambling fellow.
2.  To go at large without restraint and without direction.
3.  To move without certain direction.
O're his ample sides, the rambling sprays luxuriant shoot.
RAM'BLE, n.  a roving; a wandering; a going or moving from place to place without any determinate business or object; an irregular excursion.
Coming home after a short Christmas ramble, I found a letter upon my table.


Topic: Rambling
Definition:
RAM'BLING, ppr.  Roving; wandering; moving or going irregularly.
RAM'BLING, n.  A roving; irregular excursion.


Topic: Rameous
Definition:
RA'MEOUS, a.  [L. ramus, a branch.]  In botany, belonging to a branch; growing on or shooting from a branch.


Topic: Ramification
Definition:
RAMIFICA'TION, n.  [L. ramus, a branch.]
1.  The process of branching or shooting branches from a stem.
2.  A branch; a small division proceeding from a main stock or channel; as the ramifications of a family; the ramifications of an artery.
3.  A division or subdivision; as the ramifications of a subject or scheme.
4.  In botany, the manner in which a tree produces its branches or boughs.
5.  The production of figures resembling branches.


Topic: Ramify
Definition:
RAM'IFY, v.t.  [L. ramus, a branch, and facio, to make.]
To divide into branches or parts; as, to ramify an art, a subject or scheme.
RAM'IFY, v.i.
1.  To shoot into branches, as the stem of a plant.
When the asparagus begins to ramify -
2.  To be divided or subdivided; as a main subject or scheme.


Topic: Rammer
Definition:
RAM'MER, n.
1.  One that rams or drives.
2.  An instrument for driving any thing with force; as a rammer for driving stones or piles, or for beating the earth to more solidity.
3.  A gun-stick; a ramrod; a rod for forcing down the charge of a gun.


Topic: Ramous
Definition:
RA'MOUS, a.  [L. ramosus, from ramus, a branch.]
1.  In botany, branched, as a stem or root; having lateral divisions.
2.  Branchy; consisting of branches; full of branches.


Topic: Ramp
Definition:
RAMP, v.i.  [See Ramble and Romance.]
1.  To climb, as a plant; to creep up.
Plants furnished with tendrils catch hold, and so ramping on trees, they mount to a great height.
2.  To spring; to leap; to bound; to prance; to frolic.
Their bridles they would champ - and trampling the fine element, would fiercely ramp.
Sporting the lion ramp'd.
[In the latter sense, the word is usually written and pronounced romp; the word being originally pronounced with a broad.]
RAMP, n.  A leap; a spring; a bound.


Topic: Rampancy
Definition:
RAMP'ANCY, n.  [from rampant.]  Excessive growth or practice; excessive prevalence; exuberance; extravagance; as the rampancy of vice.


Topic: Rampant
Definition:
RAMP'ANT, a.  [See Ramp and Ramble.]
1.  Overgrowing the usual bounds; rank in growth; exuberant; as rampant weeds.
2.  Overleaping restraint; as rampant vice.
3.  In heraldry, applied to the lion, leopard or other beast, rampant denotes the animal reared and standing on his hind legs, in the posture of climbing.  It differs from saliant, which indicates the posture of springing or making a sally.
The lion rampant shakes his brinded mane.


Topic: Rampart
Definition:
RAM'PART, n.  [Hence we see rampart is from L. reparo; re and paro.  See Parry and Repair.]
1.  In fortification, an elevation or mound of earth round a place, capable of resisting cannon shot, and formed into bastions, curtains, &c.
No standards from the hostile ramparts torn.
2.  That which fortifies and defends from assault; that which secures safety.
RAM'PART, v.t.  To fortify with ramparts.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Rampion
Definition:
RAM'PION, n.  [from ramp.]  The name of several plants; as the common esculent rampion, a species of Campanula; the crested rampion, a species of Lobelia; the horned rampion, a species of Phyteuma.


Topic: Ranch
Definition:
RANCH, v.t.  [corrupted from wrench.]  To sprain; to injure by violent straining or contortion.  [Not used.]


Topic: Rancid
Definition:
RAN'CID, a.  [L. rancidus, from ranceo, to be rank.  This is the Eng. rank, luxuriant in growth.]
Having a rank smell; strong scented; sour; musty; as rancid oil.


Topic: Rancor
Definition:
RAN'COR, n.  [L. from ranceo, to be rank.]
1.  The deepest malignity or spite; deep seated and implacable malice; inveterate enmity.  [This is the strongest term for enmity which the English language supplies.]
It issues from the rancor of a villain.
2.  Virulence; corruption.


Topic: Rancorous
Definition:
RAN'COROUS, a.  Deeply malignant; implacably spiteful or malicious; intensely virulent.
So flam'd his eyes with rage and ranc'rous ire.
Rancorous opposition to the gospel of Christ.


Topic: Random
Definition:
RAN'DOM, n.
1.  A roving motion or course without direction; hence, want of direction, rule or method; hazard; chance; used in the phrase, at random, that is, without a settled point of direction; at hazard.
2.  Course; motion; progression; distance of a body thrown; as the furthest random of a missile weapon.
RAN'DOM, a.
1.  Done at hazard or without settled aim or purpose; left to chance; as a random blow.
2.  Uttered or done without previous calculation; as a random guess.


Topic: Random-shot
Definition:
RAN'DOM-SHOT, n.  A shot not directed to a point, or a shot with the muzzle of the gun elevated above a horizontal line.


Topic: Range
Definition:
RANGE, v.t.
1.  To set in a row or in rows; to place in a regular line, lines or ranks; to dispose in the proper order; as, to range troops in a body; to range men or ships in the order of battle.
2.  To dispose in proper classes, orders or divisions; as, to range plants and animals in genera and species.
3.  To dispose in a proper manner; to place in regular method; in a general sense.  Range and arrange are used indifferently in the same sense.
4.  To rove over; to pass over.
Teach him to range the ditch and force the brake.
[This use is elliptical, over being omitted.]
5.  To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near; as, to range the coast, that is, along the coast.
RANGE, v.i.
1.  To rove at large; to wander without restraint or direction.
As a roaring lion and a ranging bear.  Prov. 28.
2.  To be placed in order; to be ranked.
'Tis better to be lowly born, and range with humble livers in content -
[In this sense, rank is now used.]
3.  To lie in a particular direction.
Which way thy forests range -
We say, the front of a house ranges with the line of the street.
4.  To sail or pass near or in the direction of; as, to range along the coast.
RANGE, n.  [See Rank.]
1.  A row; a rank; things in a line; as a range of buildings; a range of mountains; ranges of colors.
2.  A class; an order.
The next range of beings above him are the immaterial intelligences -
3.  A wandering or roving; excursion.
He may take a range all the world over.
4.  Space or room for excursion.
A man has not enough range of thought -
5.  Compass or extent of excursion; space taken in by any thing extended or ranked in order; as the range of Newton's thought.  No philosopher has embraced a wider range.
Far as creation's ample range extends.
6.  The step of a ladder.  [Corrupted in popular language to rung.]
7.  A kitchen grate.
8.  A bolting sieve to sift meal.
9.  In gunnery, the path of a bullet or bomb, or the line it describes from the mouth of the piece to the point where it lodges; or the whole distance which it passes.  When a cannon lies horizontally, it is called the right level, or point blank range; when the muzzle is elevated to 45 degrees, it is called the utmost range.  To this may be added the ricochet, the rolling or bounding shot, with the piece elevated from three to six degrees.


Topic: Ranged
Definition:
RANGED, pp.  Disposed in a row or line; placed in order; passed in roving placed in a particular direction.


Topic: Ranger
Definition:
RANGER, n.
1.  One that ranges; a rover; a robber.  [Now little used.]
2.  A dog that beats the ground.
3.  In England, a sworn officer of a forest, appointed by the king's letters patent, whose business is to walk through the forest, watch the deer, present trespasses, &c.


Topic: Ranging
Definition:
RANGING, ppr.  Placing in a row or line; disposing in order, method or classes; roving; passing near and in the direction of.
RANGING, n.  The act of placing in lines or in order; a roving, &c.


Topic: Ranking
Definition:
RANK'ING, ppr.  Placing in ranks or lines; arranging; disposing in orders or classes; having a certain rank or grade.


Topic: Rankle
Definition:
RANK'LE, v.i.  [from rank.]
1.  To grow more rank or strong; to be inflamed; to fester; as a rankling wound.
A malady that burns and rankles inward.
2.  To become more violent; to be inflamed; to rage; as rankling malice; rankling envy.  Jealousy rankles in the breast.


Topic: Rankness
Definition:
RANK'NESS, n.
1.  Vigorous growth; luxuriance; exuberance; as the rankness of plants or herbage.
2.  Exuberance; excess; extravagance; as the rankness of pride; the rankness of joy.
3.  Extraordinary strength.
The crane's pride is in the rankness of her wing.
4.  Strong taste; as the rankness of flesh or fish.
5.  Rancidness; rank smell; as the rankness of oil.
6.  Excessiveness; as the rankness of a composition or modus.


Topic: Ransack
Definition:
RAN'SACK, v.t. [Eng. rand, and ran is rapine.  The last syllable coincides with the English verb to sack, to pillage.]
1.  To plunder; to pillage completely; to strip by plundering; as, to ransack a house or city.
Their vow is made to ransack Troy.
2.  To search thoroughly; to enter and search every place or part.  It seems often to convey the sense of opening doors and parcels, and turning over things in search; as, to ransack files of papers.
I ransack the several caverns.
3.  To violate; to ravish; to deflower; as ransacked chastity.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Ransom
Definition:
RAN'SOM, n.
1.  The money or price paid for the redemption of a prisoner or slave, or for goods captured by an enemy; that which procures the release of a prisoner or captive, or of captured property, and restores the one to liberty and the other to the original owner.
By his captivity in Austria, and the heavy ransom he paid for his liberty, Richard was hindered from pursuing the conquest of Ireland.
2.  Release from captivity, bondage or the possession of an enemy.  They were unable to procure the ransom of the prisoners.
3.  In law, a sum paid for the pardon of some great offense and the discharge of the offender; or a fine paid in lieu of corporal punishment.
4.  In Scripture, the price paid for a forfeited life, or for delivery or release from capital punishment.
Then he shall give for the ransom of his life, whatever is laid upon him.  Ex. 21.
5.  The price paid for procuring the pardon of sins and the redemption of the sinner from punishment.
Deliver him from going down to the pit; I have found a ransom.  Job. 33.
The Son of man came - to give his life a ransom for many.  Matt. 20.  Mark 10.
RAN'SOM, v.t.
1.  To redeem from captivity or punishment by paying an equivalent; applied to persons; as, to ransom prisoners from an enemy.
2.  To redeem from the possession of an enemy by paying a price deemed equivalent; applied to goods or property.
3.  In Scripture, to redeem from the bondage of sin, and from the punishment to which sinners are subjected by the divine law.
The ransomed of the Lord shall return.  Is. 35.
4.  To rescue; to deliver.  Hos. 13.


Topic: Ransomed
Definition:
RAN'SOMED, pp.  Redeemed or rescued from captivity, bondage or punishment by the payment of an equivalent.


Topic: Ransoming
Definition:
RAN'SOMING, ppr.  Redeeming from captivity, bondage or punishment by giving satisfaction to the possessor; rescuing; liberating.


Topic: Ranting
Definition:
RANT'ING, ppr.  Uttering high sounding words without solid sense; declaiming or preaching with boisterous empty words.


Topic: Rantipole
Definition:
RANT'IPOLE, a.  [from rant.]  Wild; roving; rakish.  [A low word.]
RANT'IPOLE, v.i.  To run about wildly.  [Low.]


Topic: Ranula
Definition:
RAN'ULA, n.  [L. rana, a frog; dim. a little frog.]
A swelling under the tongue, similar to the encysted tumors in different parts of the body.


Topic: Ranunculus
Definition:
RANUN'CULUS, n.  [L. from rana, a frog.] 
In botany, crowfoot, a genus of plants of many species, some of them beautiful flowering plants, particularly the Asiatic, or Turkey and Persian ranunculus, which is diversified with many rich colors.


Topic: Rap
Definition:
RAP, v.i.  [L. rapio, rapidus, rapid.]
To strike with a quick sharp blow; to knock; as, to rap on the door.
RAP, v.t.  To strike with a quick blow; to knock.
with one great peal they rap the door.
To rap out, to utter with sudden violence; as, to rap out an oath.  [In the popular language of the United States, it is often pronounced rip, to rip out an oath; L. crepo.]
RAP, v.t.
1.  to seize and bear away, as the mind or thoughts; to transport out of one's self; to affect with ecstasy or rapture; as rapt into admiration.
I'm rapt with joy to see my Marcia's tears.
Rapt into future times the bar begun.
2.  To snatch or hurry away.
And rapt with whirling wheels.
Rapt in a chariot drawn by fiery steeds.
3.  To seize by violence.
4.  To exchange; to truck.  [Low and not used.]
To rap and rend, to seize and tear or strip; to fall on and plunder; to snatch by violence.  They brought off all they could rap and rend.  [See Rend.]
RAP, n.  a quick smart blow; as a rap on the knuckles.


Topic: Rapacious
Definition:
RAPA'CIOUS, a.  [L. rapax, from rapio, to seize.  See Rap.]
1.  Given to plunder; disposed or accustomed to seize by violence; seizing by force; as a rapacious enemy.
Well may thy lord, appeas'd redeem thee quite from death's rapacious claim.
2.  Accustomed to seize for food; subsisting on prey or animals seized by violence; as a rapacious tiger; a rapacious fowl.


Topic: Rapaciousness
Definition:
RAPA'CIOUSNESS, n.  The quality of being rapacious; disposition to plunder or to exact by oppression.


Topic: Rapacity
Definition:
RAPAC'ITY, n.  [L. rapacitas, from rapax, rapio.]
1.  Addictedness to plunder; the exercise of plunder; the act or practice of seizing by force; as the rapacity of a conquering army; the rapacity of pirates; the rapacity of a Turkish pashaw; the rapacity of extortioners.
2.  Ravenousness; as the rapacity of animals.
3.  The act or practice of extorting or exacting by oppressive injustice.


Topic: Rape
Definition:
RAPE, n.  [L. rapio, raptus.  See Rap.]
1.  In a general sense, a seizing by violence; also, a seizing and carrying away by force, as females.
2.  In law, the carnal knowledge of a woman forcibly and against her will.
3.  Privation; the act of seizing or taking away.
And ruin'd orphans of thy rapes complain.
4.  something taken or seized and carried away.
Where now are all my hopes? oh, never more shall they revive, nor death her rapes restore.
5.  Fruit plucked from the cluster.
6.  A division of a county in Sussex, in England; or an intermediate division between a hundred and a shire, and containing three or four hundreds.
RAPE, n.  [L. rapa, Gr.]
A plant of the genus Brassica, called also cole-rape and cole-seed, and of which the navew or French turnip is a variety.
The broom-rape is of the genus Orobanche.


Topic: Rapid
Definition:
RAP'ID, a.  [L. rapidus, from rapio, the primary sense of which is to rush.]
1.  Very swift or quick; moving with celerity; as a rapid stream; a rapid flight; a rapid motion.
Part shun the goal with rapid wheels.
2.  Advancing with haste or speed; speedy in progression; as rapid growth; rapid improvement.
3.  Of quick utterance of words; as a rapid speaker.


Topic: Rapidity
Definition:
RAPID'ITY, n.  [L. rapiditas.]
1.  Swiftness; celerity; velocity; as the rapidity of a current; the rapidity of motion of any kind.
2.  Haste in utterance; as the rapidity of speech or pronunciation.
3.  Quickness of progression or advance; as rapidity of growth or improvement.


Topic: Rapidly
Definition:
RAP'IDLY, adv.  
1.  With great speed, celerity or velocity; swiftly; with quick progression; as, to run rapidly; to grow or improve rapidly.
2.  With quick utterance; as, to speak rapidly.


Topic: Rapids
Definition:
RAP'IDS, n. plu.  The part of a river where the current moves with more celerity than the common current.  Rapids imply a considerable descent of the earth, but not sufficient to occasion a fall of the water, or what is called a cascade or cataract.


Topic: Rapine
Definition:
RAP'INE, n.  [L. rapina; rapio, to seize.]
1.  The act of plundering; the seizing and carrying away of things by force.
2.  Violence; force.
RAP'INE, v.t.  To plunder.


Topic: Rapper
Definition:
RAP'PER, n.  [from rap.]
1.  One that raps or knocks.
2.  The knocker of a door.  [Not in common use.]
3.  An oath or a lie.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Rapt
Definition:
RAPT, pp.  [from rap.]  Transported; ravished.
RAPT, v.t.  To transport or ravish.  [Not legitimate or in use.]
RAPT, n.
1.  An ecstasy; a trance.
2.  Rapidity.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Rapture
Definition:
RAP'TURE, n.  [L. raptus, rapio.]
1.  A seizing by violence.  [Little used.]
2.  Transport; ecstasy; violence of a pleasing passion; extreme joy or pleasure.
Music when thus applied, raises in the mind of the hearer great conceptions; it strengthens devotion and advances praise into rapture.
3.  Rapidity with violence; a hurrying along with velocity; as rolling with torrent rapture.
4.  Enthusiasm; uncommon heat of imagination.
You grow correct, that once with rapture writ.


Topic: Rare
Definition:
RARE, a.  [L. rarus, thin.]
1.  Uncommon; not frequent; as a rare event; a rare phenomenon.
2.  Unusually excellent; valuable to a degree seldom found.
Rare work, all fill'd with terror and delight.
Above the rest I judge one beauty rare.
3.  Thinly scattered.
4.  Thin; porous; not dense; as a rare and attenuate substance.
Water is nineteen times lighter and by consequence nineteen times rarer than gold.
5.  Nearly raw; imperfectly roasted or boiled; as rare beef or mutton; eggs roasted rare.


Topic: Rarefaction
Definition:
RAREFAC'TION, n.  [See Rarefy.]
The act or process of expanding or distending bodies, by separating the parts and rendering the bodies more rare or porous, by which operation they appear under a larger bulk, or require more room, without an accession of new matter; opposed to condensation; as the rarefaction of air.


Topic: Rarefy
Definition:
RAR'EFY, v.t.  [L. rarefacio; rarus, rare, and facio, to make.]
To make thin and porous or less dense; to expand or enlarge a body without adding to it any new portion of its own matter; opposed to condense.
RAR'EFY, v.i.  To become thin and porous.


Topic: Rareness
Definition:
RA'RENESS, n.
1.  The state of being uncommon; uncommonness; infrequency.
And let the rareness the small gift commend.
2.  Value arising from scarcity.
3.  Thinness; tenuity; as the rareness of air or vapor.
4.  Distance from each other; thinness.


Topic: Rareripe
Definition:
RA'RERIPE, a.  
Early ripe; ripe before others, or before the usual season.
RA'RERIPE, n.  An early fruit, particularly a kind of peach which ripens early.


Topic: Rarity
Definition:
RAR'ITY, n.  [L. raritas.]
1.  Uncommonness; infrequency.
Far from being fond of a flower for its rarity -
2.  A thing valued for its scarcity.
I saw three rarities of different kinds, which pleased me more than any other shows in the place.
3.  Thinness; tenuity; opposed to density; as the rarity of air.


Topic: Rascal
Definition:
RAS'CAL, n.  
A mean fellow; a scoundrel; in modern usage, a trickish dishonest fellow; a rogue; particularly applied to men and boys guilty of the lesser crimes, and indicating less enormity or guilt than villain.
I have sense to serve my turn in store, and he's a rascal who pretends to more.
RAS'CAL, a.
1.  Lean; as a rascal deer.
2.  Mean; low.


Topic: Rascality
Definition:
RASCAL'ITY, n.  
1.  The low mean people.
2.  Mean trickishness or dishonesty; base fraud.  [This is its sense in present usage in America.]


Topic: Rascally
Definition:
RAS'CALLY, a.
1.  Meanly trickish or dishonest; vile.
2.  Mean; vile; base; worthless; as a rascally porter.


Topic: Rase
Definition:
RASE, v.t. s as z.  [L. rasus, rado.]
1.  To pass along the surface of a thing, with striking or rubbing it at the same time; to graze.
Might not the bullet which rased his cheek, have gone into his head?  Obs.
2.  To erase; to scratch or rub out; or to blot out; to cancel.
[In this sense, erase is generally used.]
3.  To level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; as, to rase a city.
[In this sense, raze is generally used.  This orthography, rase, may therefore be considered as nearly obsolete; graze, erase and raze having superseded it.]
RASE, n
1.  A cancel; erasure.  [Not in use.]
2.  A slight wound.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Rash
Definition:
RASH, a.
1.  Hasty in council or action; precipitate; resolving or entering on a project or measure without due deliberation and caution, and thus encountering unnecessary hazard; applied to persons; as a rash statesman or minister; a rash commander.
2.  Uttered or undertaken with too much haste or too little reflection; as rash words; rash measures.
3.  Requiring haste; urgent.
I have scarce leisure to salute you, my matter is so rash.
4.  Quick; sudden; as rash gunpowder.  [Not in use.]
RASH, n.  Corn so dry as to fall out with handling.  [Local.]
RASH, n.  
1.  Satin.
2.  An eruption or efflorescence on the body.  
RASH, v.t.  To slice; to cut into pieces; to divide.


Topic: Rashly
Definition:
RASH'LY, adv.  With precipitation; hastily; without due deliberation.
He that doth any thing rashly, must do it willingly.
So rashly brave, to dare the sword of Theseus.


Topic: Rashness
Definition:
RASH'NESS, n.  
1.  To much haste in resolving or in undertaking a measure; precipitation; inconsiderate readiness or promptness to decide or act, implying disregard of consequences or contempt of danger; applied to persons.  The failure of enterprises is often owing to rashness.
We offend by rashness, which is an affirming or denying before we have sufficiently informed ourselves.
2.  The quality of being uttered or done without due deliberation; as the rashness of words or of undertakings.


Topic: Rasp
Definition:
R'ASP, n.  [See Rase.]
1.  A large rough file; a grater.
2.  A raspberry, which see.
R'ASP, v.t.  [See Rase.]
To rub or file with a rasp; to rub or grate with a rough file; as, to rasp wood to make it smooth; to rasp bones to powder.


Topic: Raspberry
Definition:
R'ASPBERRY, n.  [from rasp, so named from the roughness of the brambles.]
The fruit of a bramble or species of rubus; a berry growing on a prickly plant; as the black raspberry; the red and the white raspberry.


Topic: Rasure
Definition:
RA'SURE, n. s as z.  [L. rasura, from rado, rasus.  See Rase.]
1.  The act of scraping or shaving; the act of erasing.
2.  The mark by which a letter, word or any part of a writing is erased, effaced or obliterated; an erasure.


Topic: Rat
Definition:
RAT, n.  [Probably named from gnawing, and from the root of L. rodo.]
A small quadruped of the genus Mus, which infests houses, stores and ships; a troublesome race of animals.
To smell a rat, to be suspicious, to be on the watch from suspicion; as a cat by the scent or noise of a rat.


Topic: Ratable
Definition:
RA'TABLE, a.  [from rate.]  
1.  That may be rated, or set at a certain value; as a Danish ore ratable at two marks.
2.  Liable or subjected by law to taxation; as ratable estate.


Topic: Ratafia
Definition:
RATAFIA, n.  ratafee'.  A fine spirituous liquor, prepared from the kernels of several kinds of fruits, particularly of cherries, apricots and peaches.


Topic: Ratch
Definition:
RATCH, n.  In clock work, a sort of wheel having twelve fangs, which serve to lift the detents every hour and thereby cause the clock to strike.


Topic: Ratchet
Definition:
RATCH'ET, n.  In a watch, a small tooth at the bottom of the fusee or barrel, which stops it in winding up.


Topic: Rate
Definition:
RATE, n.  [L. ratus, reor, contracted from retor, redor, or resor.  See Ratio and Reason.]
1.  The proportion or standard by which quantity or value is adjusted; as silver valued at the rate of six shillings and eight pence the ounce.
The rate and standard of wit was different then from what it is in these days.
2.  Price or amount stated or fixed on any thing.  A king may purchase territory at too dear a rate.  The rate of interest is prescribed by law.
3.  Settled allowance; as a daily rate of provisions.  2Kings 25.
4.  Degree; comparative height or value.
I am a spirit of no common rate.
In this did his holiness and godliness apear above the rate and pitch of other men's, in that he was so infintely merciful.
5.  Degree in which any thing is done.  the ship sails at the rate of seven knots an hour.
Many of the horse could not march at that rate, nor come lup soon enough.
6.  Degree of value; price.  Wheat in England is often sold at the rate of fifty shillings the quarter.  wit may be purchased at too dear a rate.
7.  a tax or sum assessed by authority on property for public use, according to its income or value; as parish rates; town rates; highway rates.
8.  In the navy, the order or class of a ship, according to its magnitude or force.  Ships of the first rate mount a hundred guns or upwards; those of the second rate carry from 90 to 98 guns; those of the third rate carry from 64 to 80 guns; those of the fourth rate from 50 to 60 guns; those of the fifth rate from 32 to 44 guns; those of the sixth rate from 20 to 30 guns.  Those of the two latter rates are called frigates.
RATE, v.t.
1.  To set a certain value on; to value at a certain price or degree of excellence.
You seem not high enough your joys to rate.
Instead of rating the man by his performances, we too frequently rate the performance by the man.
2.  To fix the magnitude, force or order, as of ships.  A ship is rated in the first class, or as a ship of the line.
RATE, v.i.
1.  To be set or considered in a class, as a ship.  The ship rates as a ship of the line.
2.  To make an estimate.
RATE, v.t.  [See Read.  It is probably allied to rattle, and perhaps to L. rudo.]
To chide with vehemence; to reprove; to scold; to censure violently.
Go, rate thy minions, proud insulting boy.
An old lord of the council rated me the other day in the street about you, sir.


Topic: Rated
Definition:
RA'TED, pp.
1.  Set at a certain value; estimated; set in a certain order or rank.
2.  Chid; reproved.


Topic: Rath
Definition:
RATH, n.  A hill.  Obs.
RATH, a.  [See Ready.]
Early; coming before others, or before the usual time.
Bring the rath primrose, that forsaken dies.
We sometimes see the word rath-ripe, early ripe; but it is obsolete or nearly so.  In the United States, I believe it is not used at all.


Topic: Rather
Definition:
RATH'ER, adv.  [I would rather go, or sooner go.  The use is taken from pushing or moving forward.]  [L. ante, before.]  But he said, yea rather, happy are they that hear the word of God and keep it.  Luke 11.]
1.  More readily or willingly; with better liking; with preference or choice.
My soul chooseth strangling and death rather than life.  Job. 7.
Light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.  John 3.  Ps. 84.
2.  In preference; preferably; with better reason.  Good is rather to be chosen than evil.  See acts 5.
3.  In a greater degree than otherwise.
He sought throughout the world, but sought in vain, and no where finding, rather fear'd her slain.
4.  More properly; more correctly speaking.
This is an art which does mend nature, change it rather; but the art itself is nature.
5.  Noting some degree of contrariety in fact.
She was nothing better, but rather grew worse.  Mark 5.
Matt. 27.
The rather, especially; for better reason; for particular cause.
You are come to me in a happy time, the rather for I have some sport in hand.
Had rather, is supposed to be a corruption of would rather.
I had rather speak five words with my understanding - 
1Cor. 14.
This phrase may have been originally, 'I'd rather,' for I would rather, and the contraction afterwards mistaken for had.  Correct speakers and writers generally use would in all such phrases; I would rather, I prefer; I desire in preference.


Topic: Rathoffite
Definition:
RATH'OFFITE, n.  A mineral brought from Sweden, of the garnet kind.  Its color is a dingy brownish black, and it is accompanied with calcarious spar and small crystals of hornblend.


Topic: Ratification
Definition:
RATIFICA'TION, n.
1.  The act of ratifying; confirmation.
2.  The act of giving sanction and validity to something done by another; as the ratification of a treaty by the senate of the United States.


Topic: Ratify
Definition:
RAT'IFY, v.t.  [L. ratum facio, to make firm.]
1.  To confirm; to establish; to settle.
We have ratified to them the borders of Judea.
2.  To approve and sanction; to make valid; as, to ratify an agreement or treaty.


Topic: Rating
Definition:
RA'TING, ppr.  [from rate.]
1.  Setting at a certain value; assigning rant to; estimating.
2.  Chiding; reproving.


Topic: Ratio
Definition:
RA'TIO, n. ra'sho.  [L. from ratus, reor, to think or suppose, to set, confirm or establish.  Reor is contracted from redor or retor, and primarily signifies to throw, to thrust, hence to speak, to set in the mind, to think, like L. suppono; and setting gives the sense of a fixed rate or rule.  See Reason.]
Proportion, or the relation of homogeneous things which determines the quantity of one from the quantity of another, without the intervention of a third.
The relation which one quantity has to another of the same kind, as expressed by the quotient of the one divided by the other.  Thus the ratio of 4 to 2 is 4/2, or 2; and the ratio of 5 to 6 is 5/6.  This is geometrical ratio, which is that signified when the term is used without distinction; but arithmetical ratio is the difference between two quantities.  Thus the arithmetical ratio of 2 to 6 is 4.
Ratio respects magnitudes of the same kind only.  One line may be compared with another line, but a line cannot be compared with a superficies, and hence between a line and a superficies there can be no ratio.


Topic: Ratiocination
Definition:
RATIOCINA'TION, n.  [L. ratiocinatio.]  The act or process of reasoning, or of deducing consequences from premises.  [See Reasoning.]


Topic: Ratiocinative
Definition:
RATIOC'INATIVE, a.  Argumentative; consisting in the comparison of propositions or facts, and the deduction of inferences from the comparison; as a ratiocinative process.  [A bad word and little used.]


Topic: Ration
Definition:
RA'TION, n.  [L. ratio, proportion.]
A portion or fixed allowance of provisions, drink and forage, assigned to each soldier in an army for his daily subsistence and for the subsistence of horses.  Officers have several rations according to their rank or number of attendants.  Seamen in the navy also have rations of certain articles.


Topic: Rational
Definition:
RA'TIONAL, a.  [L. rationalis.]
1.  Having reason or the faculty of reasoning; endowed with reason; opposed to irrational; as, man is a rational being; brutes are not rational animals.
It is our glory and happiness to have a rational nature.
2.  Agreeable to reason; opposed to absurd; as a rational conclusion or inference; rational conduct.
3.  Agreeable to reason; not extravagant.
4.  Acting in conformity to reason; wise; judicious; as a rational man.
RA'TIONAL, n.  A rational being.


Topic: Rationale
Definition:
RATIONA'LE, n.
1.  A detail with reasons; a series of reasons assigned; as Dr. Sparrow's rationale of the Common Prayer.
2.  An account or solution of the principles of some opinion, action, hypothesis, phenomenon, &c.


Topic: Rationality
Definition:
RATIONAL'ITY, n.
1.  The power of reasoning.
God has made rationality the common portion of mankind.
2.  Reasonableness.
Well directed intentions, whose rationalities will not bear a rigid examination.


Topic: Rationally
Definition:
RA'TIONALLY, adv.  In consistency with reason; reasonably.  We rationally expect every man will pursue his own happiness.


Topic: Rattle
Definition:
RAT'TLE, v.i.
1.  To make a quick sharp noise rapidly repeated, by the collision of bodies not very sonorous.  When bodies are sonorous, it is called jingling.  We say, the wheels rattle over the pavement.
And the rude hail in rattling tempest forms.
He fagoted his notions as they fell, and if they rhym'd and rattl'd, all was well.
2.  To speak eagerly and noisily; to utter words in a clattering manner.
Thus turbulent in rattling tone she spoke.
He rattles it out against popery.
RAT'TLE, v.t.
1.  To cause to make a rattling sound or a rapid succession of sharp sounds; as, to rattle a chain.
2.  To stun with noise; to drive with sharp sounds rapidly repeated.
Sound but another, and another shall, as loud as thine, rattle the welkin's ear.
3.  To scold; to rail at clamorously; as, to rattle off servants sharply.
RAT'TLE, n.
1.  A rapid succession of sharp clattering sounds; as the rattle of a drum.
2.  A rapid succession of words sharply uttered; loud rapid talk; clamorous chiding.
3.  An instrument with which a clattering sound is made.
The rattles of Isis and the cymbals of Brasilea nearly enough resemble each other.
The rhymes and rattles of the man or boy.
4.  A plant of the genus Pedicularis, louse-wort.
Yellow rattle, a plant of the genus Rhinanthus.


Topic: Rattlesnake
Definition:
RAT'TLESNAKE, n.  A snake that has rattles at the tail, of the genus Crotalus.  The rattles consist of articulated horny cells, which the animal vibrates in such a manner as to make a rattling sound.  The poison of the rattlesnake is deadly.


Topic: Rattling
Definition:
RAT'TLING, ppr.  Making a quick succession of sharp sounds.
RAT'TLING, n.  A rapid succession of sharp sounds.  Nah. 3.


Topic: Raucity
Definition:
RAU'CITY, n.  [L. raucus, hoarse.  Raucus is the Eng. rough, which see.]
1.  Hoarseness; a loud rough sound; as the raucity of a trumpet.
2.  Among physicians, hoarseness of the human voice.


Topic: Ravage
Definition:
RAV'AGE, n.  [L. rapio.]
1.  Spoil; ruin; waste; destruction by violence, wither by men, beasts or physical causes; as the ravage of a lion; the ravages of fire or tempest; the ravages of an army.
Would one think 'twene possible for love to make such ravage in a noble soul.
2.  Waste; ruin; destruction by decay; as the ravages of time.
RAV'AGE, v.t.
1.  To spoil; to plunder; to pillage; to sack.
Already Cesar has ravag'd more than half the globe!
2.  To lay waste by any violent force; as, a flood or inundation ravages the meadows. 
The shatter'd forest and the ravag'd vale.
3.  to waste or destroy by eating; as fields ravaged by swarms of locusts.


Topic: Rave
Definition:
RAVE, v.i.  [L. rabio, to rave, to rage or be furious; rabies, rage.]
1.  To wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk irrationally; to be wild.
when men thus rave, we may conclude their brains are turned.
2.  To utter furious exclamations; to be furious or raging; as a madman.
Have I not cause to rave and beat my breast?
3.  To dote; to be unreasonably fond; followed by upon; as, to rave upon antiquity.  [Hardly proper.]
RAVE, n.  the upper side-piece of timber of the body of a cart.


Topic: Ravel
Definition:
RAVEL, v.t. rav'l.
1.  To entangle; to entwist together; to make intricate; to involve; to perplex.
What glory's due to him that could divide such ravel'd inte'rests, has the knot unty'd?
2.  To untwist; to unweave or unknot; to disentangle; as, to ravel out a twist; to ravel out a stocking.
Sleep, that knits up the ravel'd sleeve of care.
3.  to hurry or run over in confusion.  [Not in use.]
RAVEL, v.i. rav'l.  
1.  To fall into perplexity and confusion.
Till by their own perplexities involv'd, they ravel more, still less resolv'd.
2.  To work in perplexities; to busy one's self with intricacies; to enter by winding and turning.
It will be needless to ravel far into the records of elder times.
The humor of raveling into all these mystical or entangled matters - produced infinite diputes.
3.  To be unwoven.
[As far as my observation extends, ravel, in the United States, is used only in the second sense above, viz. to unweave, to separate the texture of that which is woven or knit; so that ravel and unravel are with us always synonymous.  etymology proves this to be the true sense of the word ravel.]


Topic: Ravelin
Definition:
RAV'ELIN, n.
In fortification, a detached work with two faces which make a salient angle, without any flanks, and raised before the counterscarp, of the place.  In this it differs from a half moon, which is placed before an angle.


Topic: Raven
Definition:
RAVEN, n.  ra'ven.  [Heb. from its color.  But this may be L. corvus, rapio.]
A large fowl of a black color, of the genus Corvus.
RAVEN, v.t. rav'n.
1.  To devour with great eagerness; to eat with voracity.
Our natures do pursue, like rats that raven down their proper bane, a thirsty evil, and when we drink, we die.
Like a roaring lion, ravening the prey.  Ezek. 22.
2.  To obtain by violence.
RAVEN, v.i. rav'n.  To prey with rapacity.
Benjamin shall raven as a wolf.  Gen 49.
RAVEN, n. rav'n.
1.  Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.  Nah. 2.
2.  Rapine; rapacity.


Topic: Ravening
Definition:
RAV'ENING, ppr.  Preying with rapacity; voraciously devouring; as a ravening wolf.
RAV'ENING, n.  Eagerness for plunder.  Luke 11.


Topic: Ravenous
Definition:
RAV'ENOUS, a.
1.  Furiously voracious; hungry even to rage; devouring with rapacious eagerness; as a ravenous wolf, lion or vulture.
2.  Eager for prey or gratification; as ravenous appetite or desire.


Topic: Ravine
Definition:
RAV'INE, n.  A long deep hollow worn by a stream or torrent of water; hence, any long deep hollow or pass through mountains, &c.


Topic: Ravish
Definition:
RAV'ISH, v.t.  [L. rapio.]
1.  To seize and carry away by violence.
These hairs which thou dost ravish from my chin, will quicken and accuse thee.
This hand shall ravish thy pretended right.
2.  To have carnal knowledge of a woman by force and against her consent.  Is. 13.  Zech. 14.
3.  To bear away with joy or delight; to delight to ecstasy; to transport.
Thou hast ravished my heart.  Prov. 5.


Topic: Ravished
Definition:
RAV'ISHED, pp.  Snatched away by violence; forced to submit to carnal embrace; delighted to ecstasy.


Topic: Ravisher
Definition:
RAV'ISHER, n.
1.  One that takes by violence.
2.  One that forces a woman to his carnal embrace.
3.  One that transports with delight.


Topic: Ravishing
Definition:
RAV'ISHING, ppr.  
1.  Snatching or taking by violence; compelling to submit to carnal intercourse; delighting to ecstasy.
2. a.  Delighting to rapture; transporting.
RAV'ISHING, n. 
1.  A seizing and carrying away by violence.
2.  Carnal knowledge by force against consent.
3.  Ecstatic delight; transport.


Topic: Ravishment
Definition:
RAV'ISHMENT, n. 
1.  The act of forcing a woman to carnal connection; forcible violation of chastity.
2.  Rapture; transport of delight; ecstasy; pleasing violence of the mind or senses.
All things joy with ravishment attracted by thy beauty still to gaze.
3.  The act of carrying away; abduction; as the ravishment of children from their parents, of a ward from his guardian, or of a wife from her husband.


Topic: Raw
Definition:
RAW, a.  [L. crudus, rodo.]
1.  Not altered from its natural state; not roasted, boiled or cooked; not subdued by heat; as raw meat.
2.  Not covered with skin; bare, as flesh.
If there is quick raw flesh in the risings, it is an old leprosy.  Lev. 13.
3.  sore.
And all his sinews waxen weak and raw through long imprisonment.
4.  Immature; unripe; not concocted.
5.  Not altered by heat; not cooked or dressed; being in its natural state; as raw fruit.
6.  Unseasoned; unexperienced; unripe in skill; as people while young and raw.
so we say, raw troops; and new seamen are called raw hands.
7.  New; untried; as a raw trick.
8.  Bleak; chilly; cold, or rather cold and damp; as a raw day; a raw cold climate.
Once upon a raw and gusty day -
9.  Not distilled; as raw water.  [Not used.]
10.  Not spun or twisted; as raw silk.
11.  Not mixed or adulterated; as raw spirits.
12.  Bare of flesh.
13.  Not tried or melted and strained; as raw tallow.
14.  Not tanned; as raw hides.


Topic: Rawness
Definition:
RAW'NESS, n.  
1.  The state of being raw; uncooked; unaltered by heat; as the rawness of flesh.
2.  Unskillfulness; state of being inexperienced; as the rawness of seamen or troops.
3.  Hasty manner.  [Not legitimate.]
4.  Chilliness with dampness.


Topic: Ray
Definition:
RAY, n.  [L. radius.]
1.  a line of light, or the right line supposed to be described by a particle of light.  a collection of parallel rays constitutes a beam; a collection of diverging or converging rays, a pencil.
The mixed solar beam contains, 1st. calorific rays, producing heat and expansion, but not vision and color; 2d. colorific rays, producing vision and color, but not heat nor expansion; 3d. chimical rays, producing certain effects on the composition of bodies, but neither heat, expansion, vision or color; 4th. a power producing magnetism, but whether a distinct or associated power, is not determined.  It seems to be associated with the violet, more than with the other rays.
2.  Figuratively, a beam of intellectual light.
3.  Light; luster.
The air sharpen'd his visual ray.
4.  In botany, the outer part or circumference of a compound radiate flower.
5.  In ichthyology, a bony or cartilaginous ossicle in the fins of fishes, serving to support the membrane.
6.  A plant, [lolium.]
7.  Ray, for array.  [Not in use.]
Pencil of rays, a number of rays of light issuing from a point and diverging.
RAY, n.  A fish; a common name for the species of the genus Raia, including the skate, thornback, torpedo, stingray, &c.
RAY, v.t
1.  To streak; to mark with long lines.
2.  To foul; to beray.  [Not in use.]
3.  To array.  [Not in use.]
4.  To shoot forth.


Topic: Raze
Definition:
RAZE, n.  A root.  [See Race-ginger, under Race.]
RAZE, v.t.  [L. rasus, rado.  See Rase and Erase.]
1.  To subvert from the foundation; to overthrow; to destroy; to demolish; as, to raze a city to the ground.
The royal hand that raz'd unhappy Troy.
2.  To erase; to efface; to obliterate.
Razing the characters of your renown.
[In this sense, rase and erase are now used.]
3.  To extirpate.
And raze their factions and their family.


Topic: Razor
Definition:
RA'ZOR, n.  [L. rasus, rado, to scrape.]
An instrument for shaving off beard or hair.  Razors of a boar, a boar's tusks.


Topic: Re
Definition:
RE,  a prefix or inseparable particle in the composition of words, denotes return, repetition, iteration.  It is contracted from red, which the Latins retained in words beginning with a vowel, as in redamo, redeo, redintegro.  In a few English words, all or most of which, I believe, we receive from the French, it has lost its appropriate signification, as in rejoice, recommend, receive.


Topic: Re-collect
Definition:
RE-COLLECT', v.t.  To gather again; to collect what has been scattered; as, to re-collect routed troops.


Topic: Re-create
Definition:
RE-CREA'TE, v.t.  To create or form anew. 
An opening the campaign of 1776, instead of reinforcing, it was necessary to re-create the army.


Topic: Re-echo
Definition:
RE-ECH'O, v.t  [re and echo.]  To echo back; to reverberate again; as, the hills re-echo the roar of cannon.
RE-ECH'O, v.i.  [supra.]  To echo back; to return back or be reverberated; as an echo.
And a loud groan re-echoes from the main.
RE-ECH'O, n.  The echo of an echo.


Topic: Re-election
Definition:
RE-ELEC'TION, n.  Election a second time, or repeated election; as the re-election of a former representative.


Topic: Re-embark
Definition:
RE-EMB'ARK, v.t.  [re and embark.]  To embark or put on board again.
RE-EMB'ARK, v.i.  To embark or go on board again.


Topic: Re-embattle
Definition:
RE-EMBAT'TLE, v.t.  [re and embattle.]  To array again for battle; to arrange again in the order of battle.


Topic: Re-enforce
Definition:
RE-ENFORCE, v.t.  [re and enforce.]  To strengthen with new force, assistance or support, as to re-enforce an argument; but particularly, to strengthen an army or a fort with additional troops, or a navy with additional ships.


Topic: Re-enforcement
Definition:
RE-ENFORCEMENT, n.
1.  The act of re-enforcing.
2.  Additional force; fresh assistance; particularly, additional troops or force to augment the strength of an army or of ships.
3.  Any augmentation of strength or force by something added.


Topic: Re-engage
Definition:
RE-ENGA'GE, v.t.  To engage a second time.
RE-ENGA'GE, v.i.  To engage again; to enlist a second time; to covenant again.


Topic: Re-establish
Definition:
RE-ESTAB'LISH, v.t.  [re and establish.]  To establish anew; to fix or confirm again; as, to re-establish a covenant; to re-establish health.


Topic: Re-establishment
Definition:
RE-ESTAB'LISHMENT, n.  The act of establishing again; the state of being re-established; renewed confirmation; restoration.


Topic: Re-exchange
Definition:
RE-EXCHANGE, n.  [re and exchange.]  
1.  A renewed exchange.
2.  In commerce, the exchange chargeable on the redraft of a bill of exchange.
The rate of re-exchange 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.  Re-exchanges cannot be emulated.


Topic: Re-export
Definition:
RE-EXPORT, v.t.  [re and export.]  To export again; to export what has been imported.  In the United States, a drawback is allowed on commodities re-exported.


Topic: Re-formation
Definition:
RE-FORMA'TION, n.  The act of forming anew; a second forming in order; as the re-formation of a column of troops into a hollow square.


Topic: Reabsorb
Definition:
REABSORB', v.t.  [re and absorb.]
1.  To draw in or inbibe again what has been effused, extravasated or thrown off; used of fluids; as, to reabsorb chyle, lymph, blood, gas, &c.
2.  To swallow up again.


Topic: Reabsorption
Definition:
REABSORP'TION, n.  The act or process of inbibing what has been previously thrown off, effused or extravasated; the swallowing a second time.


Topic: Reach
Definition:
REACH, v.t.  Raught, the ancient preterit, is obsolete.  The verb is now regular; pp. reached.  L. rego, to rule or govern, to make right or straight, that is, to strain or stretch, the radical sense.  The English sense of reach appears in L. porrigo and porricio.  Greek, to reach, to stretch, the radical sense of desiring.  L. fragro.  But the primary sense is the same, to reach, to extend, to shoot forth, to urge.]
1.  To extend; to stretch; in a general sense; sometimes followed by out and forth; as, to reach out the arm.  Hence,
2.  To extend to; to touch by extending either the arm alone, or with an instrument in the hand; as, to reach a book on the shelf; I cannot reach the object with my cane; the seaman reaches the bottom of the river with a pole or a line.
3.  To strike from a distance.
O patron power, thy present aid afford, that I may reach the beast.
4.  To deliver with the hand by extending the arm; to hand.  He reached [to] me an orange.
He reached me a full cup.
5.  To extend or stretch from a distance.
Reach hither thy finger - reach hither thy hand.  John 20.
6.  To arrive at; to come to.  The ship reached her port in safety.  We reached New York on Thursday.  The letter reached me at seven o'clock.
7.  To attain to or arrive at, by effort, labor or study; hence, to gain or obtain.  Every artist should attempt to reach the point of excellence.
The best accounts of the appearances of nature which human penetration can reach, come short of its reality.
8.  To penetrate to.
Whatever alterations are made in the body, if they reach not the mind, there is no perception.
9.  To extend to so as to include or comprehend in fact or principle.
The law reached the intention of the promoters, and this act fixed the natural price of money.
If these examples of grown men reach not the case of children, let them examine.
10.  To extend to.
Thy desire leads to no excess that reaches blame.
11.  To extend; to spread abroad.
Trees reach'd too far their pampered boughs.
12.  To take with the hand.
Lest therefore now his bolder hand reach also of the tree of life and eat.  [Unusual.]
13.  To overreach; to deceive.
REACH, v.i.  
1.  To be extended.
The new world reaches quite across the torrid zone.
The border shall descend, and shall reach to the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward.  Num. 34.
And behold, a ladder set on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven.  Gen. 28.
2.  To penetrate.
Ye have slain them in a rage that reacheth to heaven.  2Chron. 28.
3.  To make efforts to vomit.  [See Retch.]
To reach after, to make efforts to attain to or obtain.
He would be in a posture of mind, reaching after a positive idea of infinity.
REACH, n.
1.  In a general sense, extension; a stretching; extent.
2.  The power of extending to, or of taking by the hand, or by any instrument managed by the hand.  The book is not within my reach.  The bottom of the sea is not within the reach of a line or cable.
3.  Power of attainment or management, or the limit of power, physical or moral.  He used all the means within his reach.  The causes of phenomena are often beyond the reach of human intellect.
Be sure yourself and your own reach to know.
4.  Effort of the mind in contrivance or research; contrivance; scheme.
- Drawn by others who had deeper reaches than themselves to matters which they least intended.
5.  A fetch; an artifice to obtain an advantage.
The duke of Parma had particular reaches and ends of his own underhand, to cross the design.
6.  Tendency to distant consequences.
Strain not my speech to grosser issues, nor to larger reach than to suspicion.
7.  Extent.
And on the left hand, hell with long reach interpos'd.
8.  Among seamen, the distance between two points on the banks of a river, in which the current flows in a straight course.
9.  An effort to vomit.


Topic: Reaching
Definition:
RE'ACHING, ppr.  Stretching out; extending; touching by extension of the arm; attaining to; gaining; making efforts to vomit.


Topic: React
Definition:
REACT', v.t.  [re and act.]  To act or perform a second time; as, to react a play.  The same scenes were reacted at Rome.
REACT', v.i.
1.  To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force.  Every elastic body reacts on the body that impels it from its natural state.
2.  To act in opposition; to resist any influence or power.


Topic: Reaction
Definition:
REAC'TION, n.  
1.  In physics, counteraction; the resistance made by a body to the action or impulse of another body, which endeavors to change its state, either of motion or rest.  Action and reaction are equal.
2.  Any action in resisting other action or power.


Topic: Read
Definition:
READ, n.  [See the Verb.]
1.  Counsel.  [Obs.]
2.  Saying; sentence.  Obs.
READ, v.t.  The preterit and pp. read, is pronounced red.  [Gr. to say or tell, to flow; a speaker, a rhetorician.  The primary sense of read is to speak, to utter, that is, to push, drive or advance.  This is also the primary sense of ready, that is, prompt or advancing, quick.  L. gratia, the primary sense of which is prompt to favor, advancing towards, free.  The elements of these words are the same as those of ride and L. gradior, &c.  The sense of reason is secondary, that which is uttered, said or set forth; hence counsel also.  See Ready.]
1.  To utter or pronounce written or printed words, letters or characters in the proper order; to repeat the names or utter the sounds customarily annexed to words, letters or characters; as, to read a written or printed discourse; to read the letters of an alphabet; to read figures; to read the notes of music, or to read music.
2.  To inspect and understand words or characters; to peruse silently; as, to read a paper or letter without uttering the words; to read to one's self.
3.  To discover or understand by characters, marks or features; as, to read a man's thoughts in his countenance.
To read the interior structure of the globe.
An armed corse did lie, in whose dead face he read great magnanimity.
4.  To learn by observation.
Those about her from her shall read the perfect ways of honor.
5.  To know fully.
Who is't can read a woman?
6.  To suppose; to guess.  Obs.
7.  To advise.  Obs.
READ, v.i.
1.  To perform the act of reading.
So they read in the book of the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense.  Neh. 8.
2.  To be studious; to practice much reading.
It is sure that Fleury roads.
3.  To learn by reading.
I have read of an eastern king who put a judge to death for an iniquitous sentence.
4.  To tell; to declare.  [Not in use.]
READ, pp. red.  
1.  Uttered; pronounced, as written words in the proper order; as, the letter was read to the family.
2.  Silently perused.
READ, a. red.  Instructed or knowing by reading; versed in books; learned.  Well read is the phrase commonly used; as well read in history; well read in the classics.
A poet well read in Longinus - 


Topic: Readeption
Definition:
READEP'TION, n.  [from L. re and adeptus, obtained.]
A regaining; recovery of something lost.  [Not much used.]


Topic: Reader
Definition:
RE'ADER, n.
1.  One that reads; any person who pronounces written words; particularly, one whose office is to read prayers in a church.
2.  By way of distinction, one that reads much; one studious in books.


Topic: Readily
Definition:
READILY, adv. red'ily.  [See Ready.]  
1.  Quickly; promptly; easily.  I readily perceive the distinction you make.
2.  Cheerfully; without delay or objection; without reluctance.  He readily granted my request.


Topic: Readiness
Definition:
READINESS, n.  red'iness.  [from ready.]
1.  Quickness; promptness; promptitude; facility; freedom from hinderance or obstruction; as readiness of speech; readiness of thought; readiness of mind in suggesting an answer; readiness of reply.
2.  Promptitude; cheerfulness; willingness; alacrity; freedom from reluctance; as, to grant a request or assistance with readiness.
They received the word with all readiness of mind.  Acts 17.
3.  A state of preparation; fitness of condition.  The troops are in readiness.


Topic: Reading
Definition:
RE'ADING, ppr.
1.  Pronouncing or perusing written or printed words or characters of a book or writing.
2.  Discovering by marks; understanding.
RE'ADING, n.
1.  The act of reading; perusal.
2.  Study of books; as a man of extensive reading.
3.  A lecture or prelection.
4.  Public recital.
The Jews had their weekly readings of the law.
5.  In criticism, the manner of reading the manuscripts of ancient authors, where the words or letters are obscure.  No small part  of the business of critics is to settle the true reading, or real words used by the author; and the various readings of different critics are often perplexing.
6.  A commentary or gloss on a law, text or passage.
7.  In legislation, the formal recital of a bill by the proper officer, before the house which is to consider it.  In Congress and in the state legislatures, a bill must usually have three several readings on different days, before it can be passed into a law.


Topic: Readjourn
Definition:
READJOURN', v.t.  [re and adjourn.]
1.  To adjourn a second time.
2.  To cite or summon again.  [Not used.]


Topic: Readjust
Definition:
READJUST', v.t.  [re and adjust.]  To settle again; to put in order again what had been discomposed.


Topic: Readmission
Definition:
READMIS'SION, n.  [re and admission.]  The act of admitting again what had been excluded; as the readmission of fresh air into an exhausted receiver; the readmission of a student into a seminary.


Topic: Readmit
Definition:
READMIT', v.t.  [re and admit.]  To admit again.
Whose ear is ever open and his eye gracious to readmit the suppliant.


Topic: Ready
Definition:
READY, a. red'y.  [Eng. to rid; redo, ready; rida, to ride; bereda, to prepare. Gr. easy.  The primary sense is to go, move, or advance forward, and it seems to be clear that ready, ride, read, riddle, are all of one family, and probably from the root of L. gradior.  See Read and Red.]
1.  Quick; prompt; not hesitating; as ready wit; a ready consent.
2.  Quick to receive or comprehend; not slow or dull; as a ready apprehension.
3.  Quick in action or execution; dextrous; as an artist ready in his business; a ready writer.  Ps. 45.
4.  Prompt; not delayed present in hand.  He makes ready payment; he pays ready money for every thing he buys.
5.  Prepared; fitted; furnished with what is necessary, or disposed in a manner suited to the purpose; as a ship ready for sea.
My oxen and fatlings are killed, and all things are ready.  Matt 22.
6.  Willing; free; cheerful to do or suffer; not backward or reluctant; as a prince always ready to grant the reasonable requests of his subjects.
The spirit is ready, but the flesh is weak.  Mark 14.
I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.  Acts 21.
7.  Willing; disposed.  Men are generally ready to impute blame to others.  They are more ready to give than to take reproof.
8.  Being at the point; near; not distant; about to do or suffer.
A Syrian ready to perish was my father.  Deut. 26.  Job 29.  Ps. 88.
9.  Being nearest or at hand.
A sapling pine he wrench'd from out the ground, the readiest weapon that his fury found.
10.  Easy; facile; opportune; short; near, or most convenient; the Greek sense.
Sometimes the readiest way which a wise man has to conquer, is to flee.
Through the wild desert, not the readiest way.
The ready way to be thought mad, is to contend you are not so.
1.  To make ready, to prepare; to provide and put in order.
2.  An elliptical phrase, for make things ready; to make preparations; to prepare.
READY, adv.  red'y.  In a state of preparation, so as to need no delay.
We ourselves will go ready armed before the house of Israel.  Num. 32.
READY, n. red'y.  For ready money.
Lord Strut was not flush in ready, either to go to law, or to clear old debts.  [A low word.]
READY, v.t. red'y.  To dispose in order; to prepare.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Reagent
Definition:
REA'GENT, n.  [re and agent.]  In chimistry, a substance employed to precipitate another in solution, or to detect the ingredients of a mixture.
Bergman reckons barytic muriate to be one of the most sensible reagents.


Topic: Reaggravation
Definition:
REAGGRAVA'TION, n.  [re and aggravation.]
In the Romish ecclesiastical law, the last monitory, published after three admonitions and before the last excommunication.  Before they proceed to fulminate the last excommunication, they publish an aggravation and a reaggravation.


Topic: Real
Definition:
RE'AL, a.  [Low L. realis.  The L. res and Eng. thing coincide exactly with the Heb. a word, a thing, an event.  See Read and Thing.]
1.  Actually being or existing; not fictitious or imaginary; as a description of real life.  The author describes a real scene or transaction.
2.  True; genuine; not artificial, counterfeit or factitious; as real Madeira wine; real ginger.
3.  True; genuine; not affected; not assumed.  The woman appears in her real character.
4.  Relating to things, not to persons; not personal.
Many are perfect in men's humors, that are not greatly capable of the real part of business.  [Little used or obsolete.]
5.  In law, pertaining to things fixed, permanent or immovable, as to lands and tenements; as real estate, opposed to personal or movable property.
Real action, in law, is an action which concerns real property.
Real assets, assets consisting in real estate, or lands and tenements descending to an heir, sufficient to answer the charges upon the estate created by the ancestor.
Chattels real, are such chattels as concern or savor of the reality; as a term for years of land, wardships in chivalry, the next presentation to a church, estate by statue-merchant, elegit, &c.
Real composition, is when an agreement is made between the owner of lands and the parson or vicar, with consent of the ordinary, that such lands shall be discharged from payment of tithes, in consequence of other land or recompense given to the parson in lieu and satisfaction thereof.
Real presence, in the Romish church, the actual presence of the body and blood of Christ in the eucharist, or the conversion of the substance of the bread and wine into the real body and blood of Christ.
RE'AL,


Topic: Realgar
Definition:
RE'ALGAR, n.
A combination of sulphur and arsenic; red sulphuret of arsenic.  Realgar differs from orpiment in having undergone a greater degree of heat.


Topic: Realist
Definition:
RE'ALIST, n.  A scholastic philosopher, who maintains that things and not words, are the objects of dialectics; opposed to nominal or nominalist.


Topic: Reality
Definition:
REAL'ITY, n.
1.  Actual being or existence of any thing; truth; fact; in distinction from mere appearance.
A man may fancy he understands a critic, when in reality he does not comprehend his meaning.
2.  Something intrinsically important, not merely matter of show.
And to realities yield all her shows.
3.  In the schools, that may exist of itself, or which has a full and absolute being of itself, and is not considered as a part of any thing else.
4.  In law, immobility, or the fixed, permanent nature of property; as chattels which savor of the reality.  [This word is so written in law, for reality.]


Topic: Realization
Definition:
REALIZA'TION, n.  [from realize.]  
1.  The act of realizing or making real.
2.  The act of converting money into land.
3.  The act of believing or considering as real.
4.  The act of bringing into being or act.


Topic: Realize
Definition:
RE'ALIZE, v.t.
1.  To bring into being or act; as, to realize a scheme or project.
We realize what Archimedes had only in hypothesis, weighing a single grain of sand against the globe of earth.
2.  To convert money into land, or personal into real estate.
3.  To impress on the mind as a reality; to believe, consider or treat as real.  How little do men in full health realize their frailty and mortality.
Let the sincere christian realize the closing sentiment.
4.  To bring home to one's own case or experience; to consider as one's own; to feel in all its force.  Who, at his fire side, can realize the distress of shipwrecked mariners?
This allusion must have had enhanced strength and beauty to the eye of a nation extensively devoted to a pastoral life, and therefore realizing all its fine scenes and the tender emotions to which they gave birth.
5.  To bring into actual existence and possession; to render tangible or effective.  He never realized much profit from his trade or speculations.


Topic: Realized
Definition:
RE'ALIZED, pp.  Brought into actual being; converted into real estate; impressed, received or treated as a reality; felt in its true force; rendered actual, tangible or effective.


Topic: Realizing
Definition:
RE'ALIZING, ppr.
1.  Bringing into actual being; converting into real estate; impressing as a reality; feeling as one's own or in its real force; rendering tangible or effective.
2.  a.  That makes real, or that brings home as a reality; as a realizing view of eternity.


Topic: Really
Definition:
RE'ALLY, adv.
1.  With actual existence.
2.  In truth; in fact; not in appearance only; as things really evil.
The anger of the people is really a short fit of madness.
In this sense, it is used familiarly as a slight corroboration of an opinion or declaration.
Why really, sixty five is somewhat old.


Topic: Realm
Definition:
REALM, n. relm.  [L. rex, king, whence regalis, royal.]
1.  A royal jurisdiction or extent of government; a kingdom; a king's dominions; as the realm of England.
2.  Kingly government; as the realm of bees.  [Unusual.]


Topic: Realty
Definition:
RE'ALTY, n.  [L. rex.]
1.  Lovalty.  [Not in use.]
2.  Reality.  [Not in use.]
3.  In law, immobility.  [See Reality.]


Topic: Ream
Definition:
REAM, n.  [L. remus., ramus, a branch, for the shoots of trees or shrubs were the first bands used by men.  See Gird and Withe.]
A bundle or package of paper, consisting of twenty quires.


Topic: Reanimate
Definition:
REAN'IMATE, v.t.  [re and animate.]
1.  To revive; to resuscitate; to restore to life; as a person dead or apparently dead; as, to reanimate a drowned person.
2.  To revive the spirits when dull or languid; to invigorate; to infuse new life or courage into; as, to reanimate disheartened troops; to reanimate drowsy senses or languid spirits.


Topic: Reanimation
Definition:
REANIMA'TION, n.  The act or operation of reviving from apparent death; the act or operation of giving fresh spirits, courage or vigor.


Topic: Reap
Definition:
REAP, v.t.  [L. rapio, carpo; Gr. a sickle, to reap; Eng. crop.]
1.  To cut grain with a sickle; as, to reap wheat or rye.
When ye reap the harvest, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field.  Lev. 19.
2.  To clear of a crop by reaping; as, to reap a field.
3.  To gather; to obtain; to receive as a reward, or as the fruit of labor or of works; in a good or bad sense; as, to reap a benefit from exertions.
He that soweth to the flesh, shall of the flesh reap corruption.  Gal. 6.
Ye have plowed wickedness; ye have reaped iniquity.  
Hos. 10.
REAP, v.i.
1.  To perform the act or operation of reaping.  In New England, farmers reap in July and August.
2.  To receive the fruit of labor or works.
They that sow in tears, shall reap in joy.  Ps. 126.


Topic: Reaping
Definition:
RE'APING, ppr.  Cutting grain with a sickle; receiving as the fruit of labor or the reward of works.


Topic: Rear
Definition:
REAR, n.
1.  In a general sense, that which is behind or backwards; appropriately, the part of an army which is behind the other, either when standing on parade or when marching; also, the part of a fleet which is behind the other.  It is opposed to front or van.  Bring up the rear.
2.  The last class; the last in order.
Coins I place in the rear.
In the rear, behind the rest; backward, or in the last class.  In this phrase, rear signifies the part or place behind.
REAR, a.  
1.  Raw; rare; not well roasted or boiled.
2.  Early.  [A provincial word.]
REAR, v.t.
1.  To raise.
Who now shall rear you to the sun, or rank your tribes?
2.  To lift after a fall.
In adoration at his feet I fell submiss; he rear'd me.
3.  To bring up or to raise to maturity, as young; as, to rear a numerous offspring.
4.  To educate; to instruct.
He wants a father to protect his youth, and rear him up to virtue.
5.  To exalt; to elevate.
Charity, decent, modest, easy, kind, softens the high, and rears the abject mind.
6.  To rouse; to stir up.
And seeks the tusky boar to rear.
7.  To raise; to breed; as cattle.
8.  To achieve; to obtain.
To rear the steps, to ascend; to move upward.


Topic: Rearward
Definition:
RE'ARWARD, n.  [from rear.  See Rereward.]
1.  The last troop; the rear-guard.
2.  The end; the tail; the train behind.
3.  The latter part.


Topic: Reascend
Definition:
REASCEND', v.i.  [re and ascend.]  To rise, mount or climb again.
REASCEND', v.t.  To mount or ascend again.
He mounts aloft and reascends the skies.


Topic: Reason
Definition:
REASON, n. re'zn.  [L. ratio, which is from ratus, and which proves reor to be contracted from redo, redor, and all unite with rod, L. radius, &c.  Gr. to say or speak, whence rhetoric.  See Read.]
1.  That which is thought or which is alleged in words, as the ground or cause of opinion, conclusion or determination.  I have reasons which I may choose not to disclose.  You ask me my reasons.  I freely give my reasons.  The judge assigns good reasons for his opinion, reasons which justify his decision.  Hence in general,
2.  The cause, ground, principle or motive of any thing said or done; that which supports or justifies a determination, plan or measure.
Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for that goodness and virtue, and against vice and wickedness.  1Peter 3.
3.  Efficient cause.  He is detained by reason of sickness.
Spain in thin sown of people, partly by reason of its sterility of soil
The reason of the motion of the balance in a wheel-watch is by motion of the next wheel.
4.  Final cause.
Reason, in the English language, is sometimes taken for true and clear principles; sometimes for clear and fair deductions; sometimes for the cause, particularly the final cause.
5.  A faculty of the mind by which it distinguishes truth from falsehood, and good from evil, and which enables the possessor to deduce inferences from facts or from propositions.
Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul, reason's comparing balance rules the whole - That sees immediate good by present sense, reason the future and the consequence.
Reason is the director of man's will.
6.  Ratiocination; the exercise of reason.
But when by reason she the truth has found -
7.  Right; justice; that which is dictated or supported by reason.  Every man claims to have reason on his side.
I was promised on a time to have reason for my rhyme.
8.  Reasonable claim; justice.
God brings good out of evil, and therefore it were but reason we should trust God to govern his own world.
9.  Rationale; just account.
This reason did the ancient fathers render, why the church was called catholic.
10.  Moderation; moderate demands; claims which reason and justice admit or prescribe.
The most probable way of bringing France to reason, would be by the making an attempt on the Spanish West Indies -
In reason, in all reason, in justice; with rational ground.
When any thing is proved by as good arguments as a thing of that kind is capable of, we ought not in reason to doubt of its existence.


Topic: Reasonable
Definition:
RE'ASONABLE, a.
1.  Having the faculty of reason; endued with reason; as a reasonable being.  [In this sense, rational is now generally used.]
2.  Governed by reason; being under the influence of reason; thinking, speaking or acting rationally or according to the dictates of reason; as, the measure must satisfy all reasonable men.
3.  Conformable or agreeable to reason; just; rational.
By indubitable certainty, I mean that which does not admit of any reasonable cause of doubting.
A law may be reasonable in itself, though a man does not allow it.
4.  Not immoderate.
Let all things be thought upon, that may with reasonable swiftness add more feathers to our wings.
5.  Tolerable; being in mediocrity; moderate; as a reasonable quantity.
6.  Not excessive; not unjust; as a reasonable fine; a reasonable sum in damages.


Topic: Reasonableness
Definition:
RE'ASONABLENESS, n.
1.  The faculty of reason.  [In this sense, little used.]
2.  Agreeableness to reason; that state or quality of a thing which reason supports or justifies; as the reasonableness of our wishes, demands or expectations.
the reasonableness and excellency of charity.
3.  Conformity to rational principles.
The whole frame and contexture of a watch carries in it a reasonableness - the passive impression of the reason or intellectual idea that was in the artist.  [Unusual.]
4.  Moderation; as the reasonableness of a demand.


Topic: Reasonably
Definition:
RE'ASONABLY, adv.
1.  In a manner or degree agreeable to reason; in consistency with reason.  We may reasonably suppose self interest to be the governing principle of men.
2.  Moderately; in a moderate degree; not fully; in a degree reaching to mediocrity. 
If we can be industry make our deaf and dumb persons reasonably perfect in the language -


Topic: Reasoning
Definition:
RE'ASONING, ppr.  arguing; deducing inferences from premises; debating; discussing.
RE'ASONING, n.  The act or process of exercising the faculty of reason; that act or operation of the mind by which new or unknown propositions are deduced from previous ones which are known and evident, or which are admitted or supposed for the sake of argument; argumentation; ratiocination; as fair reasoning; false reasoning; absurd reasoning; strong or weak reasoning.  The reasonings of the advocate appeared to the court conclusive.


Topic: Reasonless
Definition:
RE'ASONLESS, a. 
1.  Destitute of reason; as a reasonless man or mind.
2.  Void of reason; not warranted or supported by reason.
This proffer is absurd and reasonless.


Topic: Reassemble
Definition:
REASSEM'BLE, v.t.  [re and assemble.]  to collect again.
REASSEM'BLE, v.i.  to assemble or convene again.


Topic: Reassert
Definition:
REASSERT', v.t.  [re and asset.]  To assert again; to maintain after suspension or cessation.
Let us hope - we may have a body of authors who will reassert our claim to respectability in literature.


Topic: Reassimilate
Definition:
REASSIM'ILATE, v.t.  [re and assimilate.]  
To assimilate or cause to resemble anew; to change again into a like or suitable substance.


Topic: Reassurance
Definition:
REASSU'RANCE, n.  [See Sure and Assurance.]
A second assurance against loss; or the assurance of property by an underwriter, to relieve himself from a risk he has taken.


Topic: Reassure
Definition:
REASSURE, v.t.  reashu're.  [re and assure.]
1.  To restore courage to; to free from fear or terror.
They rose with fear, till dauntless Pallas reassur'd the rest.
2.  To insure a second time against loss, or rather to insure by another what one has already insured; to insure against loss that may be incurred by taking a risk.


Topic: Reassured
Definition:
REASSU'RED, pp.
1.  Restored from fear; re-encouraged.
2.  Insured against loss by risk taken, as an underwriter.


Topic: Reassuring
Definition:
REASSU'RING, ppr.  
1.  Restoring from fear, terror or depression of courage.
2.  Insuring against loss by insurance.


Topic: Reasty
Definition:
RE'ASTY, a.  Covered with a kind of rust and having a rancid taste; applied to dried meat.  [Not in use or local.]


Topic: Reate
Definition:
RE'ATE, n.  A kind of long small grass that grows in water and complicates itself.  [Not in use or local.]


Topic: Rebate
Definition:
REBA'TE, v.t.
To blunt; to beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness.
He doth rebate and blunt his natural edge.
The keener edge of battle to rebate.
REBA'TE,


Topic: Rebatement
Definition:
REBA'TEMENT, n.
1.  Diminution.
2.  In commerce, abatement in price; deduction.
3.  In heraldry, a diminution or abatement of the bearings in a coat of arms.


Topic: Rebel
Definition:
REB'EL, n.  [L. rebellis, making war again.]
1.  One who revolts from the government to which he owes allegiance, either by openly renouncing the authority of that government, or by taking arms and openly opposing it.  A rebel differs from an enemy, as the latter is one who does not owe allegiance to the government which he attacks.  Num. 17.
2.  One who willfully violates a law.
3.  One who disobeys the king's proclamation; a contemner of the king's laws.
4.  A villain who disobeys his lord.

REB'EL, a.  Rebellious; acting in revolt.


Topic: Rebelling
Definition:
REBEL'LING, ppr.  Renouncing the authority of the government to which one owes allegiance; rising in opposition to lawful authority.


Topic: Rebellion
Definition:
REBEL'LION, n.  [L. rebellio.  among the Romans, rebellion was originally a revolt or open resistance to their government by nations that had been subdued in war.  It was a renewed war.]
1.  An open and avowed renunciation of the authority of the government to which one owes allegiance; or the taking of arms traitorously to resist the authority of lawful government; revolt.  Rebellion differs from insurrection and from mutiny.  Insurrection may be a rising in opposition to a particular act or law, without a design to renounce wholly all subjection to the government.  Insurrection may be, but is not necessarily, rebellion.  Mutiny is an insurrection of soldiers or seamen against the authority of their officers.
No sooner is the standard of rebellion displayed, than men of desperate principles resort to it.
2.  Open resistance to lawful authority.
Commission of rebellion, in law, a commission awarded against a person who treats the king's authority with contempt, in not obeying his proclamation according to his allegiance, and refusing to attend his sovereign when required; in which case, four commissioners are ordered to attach him wherever he may be found.


Topic: Rebellious
Definition:
REBEL'LIOUS, a.  Engaged in rebellion; renouncing the authority and dominion of the government to which allegiance is due; traitorously resisting government or lawful authority.  Deut. 9.  Deut. 21.


Topic: Rebelliously
Definition:
REBEL'LIOUSLY, adv.  With design to throw off the authority of legitimate government; in opposition to the government, to which one is bound by allegiance; with violent or obstinate disobedience to lawful authority.


Topic: Rebellow
Definition:
REBEL'LOW, v.i.  [re and bellow.]  To bellow in return; to echo back a loud roaring noise.
The cave rebellow'd and the temple shook.


Topic: Rebild
Definition:
REBILD', v.t.  [re and build.]  To build again; to renew a structure; to build or construct what has been demolished; as, to rebuild a house, a wall, a wharf or a city.


Topic: Rebound
Definition:
REBOUND',  v.i.
To spring back; to start back; to be reverberated by an elastic power resisting force or impulse impressed; as a rebounding echo.
Bodies absolutely hard, or so soft as to be void of elasticity, will not rebound from one another.
REBOUND', v.t.  To drive back; to reverberate.
Silenus sung; the vales his voice rebound.
REBOUND', n.  The act of flying back in resistance of the impulse of another body; resilience.
Put back as from a rock with swift rebound.


Topic: Rebuff
Definition:
REBUFF', n.  
1.  Repercussion, or beating back; a quick and sudden resistance.
The strong rebuff of some tumultuous cloud.
2.  Sudden check; defeat.
3.  Refusal; rejection of solicitation.
REBUFF', v.t.  To beat back; to offer sudden resistance to; to check.


Topic: Rebuke
Definition:
REBU'KE, v.t.  [See Pack and Impeach.]
1.  To chide; to reprove; to reprehend for a fault; to check by reproof.
The proud he tam'd, the penitent he cheer'd, not to rebuke the rich offender fear'd.
Thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbor.  Lev. 19.
2.  To check or restrain.
The Lord rebuke thee, O Satan.  Zech. 3.  Is. 17.
3.  To chasten; to punish; to afflict for correction.
O Lord, rebuke me not in thine anger.  Ps. 6.
4.  To check; to silence.
Master, rebuke thy disciples.  Luke 19.
5.  To check; to heal.
And he stood over her and rebuked the fever.  Luke 4.
6.  To restrain; to calm.
He arose and rebuked the winds and the sea.  Matt. 8.
REBU'KE, n.
1.  A chiding; reproof for faults; reprehension.
Why bear you these rebukes and answer not?
2.  In Scripture, chastisement; punishment; affliction for the purpose of restraint and correction.  Ezek. 5.  Hos. 5.
3.  In low language, any kind of check.
To suffer rebuke, to endure the reproach and persecution of men.  Jer. 15.
To be without rebuke, to live without giving cause of reproof or censure; to be blameless.


Topic: Rebus
Definition:
RE'BUS, n.  [L. from res, which is of the class Rd, Rs, and of the same family as riddle.  See Riddle, Read and Real.]
1.  An enigmatical representation of some name, &c. by using figures or pictures instead of words.  A gallant in love with a woman named Rose Hill, painted on the border of his gown, a rose, a hill, an eye, a loaf and a well, which reads, Rose Hill I love well.
2.  A sort of riddle.
3.  In some chimical writers, sour milk; sometimes, the ultimate matter of which all bodies are composed.
4.  In heraldry, a coat of arms which bears an allusion to the name of the person; as three cups, for Butler.


Topic: Rebut
Definition:
REBUT', v.t.  [See Butt and Pout.]
To repel; to oppose by argument, plea or countervailing proof.  [It is used by lawyers in a general sense.]
REBUT', v.i.
1.  To retire back.  Obs.
2.  To answer, as a plaintiff's sur-rejoinder. 
The plaintiff may answer the rejoinder by a sur-rejoinder; on which the defendant may rebut.


Topic: Rebutter
Definition:
REBUT'TER, n.  In law pleadings, the answer of a defendant to a plaintiff's sur-rejoinder.
If I grant to a tenant to hold without impeachment of waste, and afterward implead him for waste done, he may debar me of this action by showing my grant, which is a rebutter.


Topic: Recall
Definition:
RECALL', v.t.  [re and call.]
1.  To call back; to take back; as, to recall words or declarations.
2.  To revoke; to annul by a subsequent act; as, to recall a decree.
3.  To call back; to revive in memory; as, to recall to mind what has been forgotten.
4.  To call back from a place or mission; as, to recall a minister from a foreign court; to recall troops from India.
RECALL', n.
1.  A calling back; revocation.
2.  The power of calling back or revoking.
'Tis done, and since 'tis done, 'tis past recall.


Topic: Recant
Definition:
RECANT', v.t.  [L. recanto; re and canto.  See Cant.]
To retract; to recall; to contradict a former declaration.
How soon would ease recant vows made in pain, as violent as void.
RECANT', v.i.  To recall words; to revoke a declaration or proposition; to unsay what has been said.  Convince me I am wrong, and I will recant.


Topic: Recapitulate
Definition:
RECAPIT'ULATE, v.t.  [L. capitulum.  See Capitulate.]
To repeat the principal things mentioned in a preceding discourse, argument or essay; to give a summary of the principal facts, points or arguments.


Topic: Recapitulation
Definition:
RECAPITULA'TION, n.
1.  The act of recapitulating.
2.  A summary or concise statement or enumeration of the principal points or facts in a preceding discourse, argument or essay.


Topic: Recaption
Definition:
RECAP'TION, n.  [L. re and captio; capio, to take.]
The act of retaking; reprisal; the retaking of one's own goods, chattels, wife or children from one who has taken them and wrongfully detains them.
Writ of recaption, a writ to recover property taken by a second distress, pending a replevin for a former distress for the same rent or service.


Topic: Recaptor
Definition:
RECAP'TOR, n.  [re and captor.]  One who retakes; one that takes a prize which had been previously taken.


Topic: Recapture
Definition:
RECAP'TURE, n.  [re and capture.]
1.  The act of retaking; particularly, the retaking of a prize or goods from a captor.
2.  A prize retaken.
RECAP'TURE, v.t.  To retake; particularly, to retake a prize which had been previously taken.


Topic: Recarnify
Definition:
REC'ARNIFY, v.t.  [re and carnify, from L. caro, flesh.]
To convert again into flesh.  [Not much used.]


Topic: Recast
Definition:
REC'AST, v.t.  [re and cast.]
1.  To cast again; as, to recast cannon.
2.  To throw again.
3.  To mold anew.
4.  To compute a second time.
REC'AST, pp.  Cast again; molded anew.


Topic: Recede
Definition:
RECE'DE, v.i.  [L. recedo; re and cedo.]
1.  To move back; to retreat; to withdraw.
Like the hollow roar of tides receding from th' insulted shore.
All bodies moved circularly, endeavor to recede from the center.
2.  To withdraw a claim or pretension; to desist from; to relinquish what had been proposed or asserted; as, to recede from a demand; to recede from terms or propositions.
RECE'DE, v.t.  [re and cede.]  To cede back; to grant or yield to a former possessor; as, to recede conquered territory.


Topic: Receive
Definition:
RECE'IVE, v.t.  [L. recipio; re and capio, to take.]
1.  To take, as a thing offered or sent; to accept.  He had the offer of a donation, but he would not receive it.
2.  To take as due or as a reward.  He received the money on the day it was payable.  He received ample compensation.
3.  To take or obtain from another in any manner, and either good or evil.
Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?  Job 2.
4.  To take, as a thing communicated; as, to receive a wound by a shot; to receive a disease by contagion.
The idea of a solidity we receive by our touch.
5.  To take or obtain intellectually; as, to receive an opinion or notion from others.
6.  To embrace.
Receive with meekness the engrafted word.  James 1.
7.  To allow; to hold; to retain; as a custom long received.
8.  To admit.
Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.  Ps. 73.
9.  To welcome; to lodge and entertain; as a guest.
They kindled a fire and received us every one, because of the present rain and because of the cold.  Acts 28.
10.  To admit into membership or fellowship.
Him that is weak in the faith, receive ye.  Rom. 14.
11.  To take in or on; to hold; to contain.
The brazen altar was too little to receive the burnt-offering.  1Kings 8.
12.  To be endowed with.
Ye shall receive power after that the Holy Spirit has come upon you.  Acts 1.
13.  To take into a place or state.
After the Lord had spoken to them, he was received up into heaven.  Mark 16.
14.  To take or have as something ascribed; as, to receive praise or blame.  Rev. 4.  Rev. 5.
15.  To bear with or suffer.  2Cor. 11.
16.  To believe in.  John 1.
17.  To accept or admit officially or in an official character.  The minister was received by the emperor or court.
18.  To take stolen goods from a thief, knowing them to be stolen.
 


Topic: Receiver
Definition:
RECE'IVER, n.
1.  One who takes or receives in any manner.
2.  An officer appointed to receive public money; a treasurer.
3.  One who takes stolen goods from a thief, knowing them to be stolen, and incurs the guilt of partaking in the crime.
4.  A vessel for receiving and containing the product of distillation.
5.  The vessel of an air pump, for containing the thing on which an experiment is to be made.
6.  One who partakes of the sacrament.


Topic: Recency
Definition:
RE'CENCY, n.  [L. recens.]  
1.  Newness; new state; late origin; as the recency of a wound or tumor.
2.  Lateness in time; freshness; as the recency of a transaction.


Topic: Recent
Definition:
RE'CENT, a.  [L. recens.]
1.  New; being of late origin or existence.
The ancients believed some parts of Egypt to be recent, and formed by the mud discharged into the sea by the Nile.
2.  Late; modern; as great and worthy men ancient or recent.  [Modern is now used.]
3.  Fresh; lately received; as recent news or intelligence.
4.  Late; of late occurrence; as a recent event or transaction.
5.  Fresh; not long dismissed, released or parted from; as Ulysses, recent from the storms.


Topic: Recently
Definition:
RE'CENTLY, adv.  Newly; lately; freshly; not long since; as advices recently received; a torn recently built or repaired; an isle recently discovered.


Topic: Recentness
Definition:
RE'CENTNESS, n.  Newness; freshness; lateness of origin or occurrence; as the recentness of alluvial land; the recentness of news or of events.


Topic: Receptacle
Definition:
RECEP'TACLE, n.  [L. receptaculum, from receptus, recipio.]
1.  A place or vessel into which something is received or in which it is contained, as a vat, a tun, a hollow in the earth, &c.  The grave is the common receptacle of the dead.
2.  In botany, one of the parts of the fructification; the base by which the other parts of the fructification are connected.  A proper receptacle belongs to one fructification only; a common receptacle connects several florets or distinct fructifications.  The receptacle of the fructification is common both to the flower and the fruit, or it embraces the corol and germ.  The receptacle of the flower, is the base to which the parts of the flower, exclusive of the germ, are fixed.  The receptacle of the fruit, is the base of the fruit only.  The receptacle of the seeds, is the base to which the seeds are fixed.
3.  In anatomy, the receptacle of the chyle is situated on the left side of the upper verteber of the loins, under the aorta and the vessels of the left kidney.


Topic: Reception
Definition:
RECEP'TION, n.  [L. receptio.]
1.  The act of receiving; in a general sense; as the reception of food into the stomach, or of air into the lungs.
2.  The state of being received.
3.  Admission of any thing sent or communicated; as the reception of a letter; the reception of sensation or ideas.
4.  Readmission.
All hope is lost of my reception into grace.
5.  Admission of entrance for holding or containing; as a sheath fitted for the reception of a sword; a channel for the reception of water.
6.  A receiving or manner of receiving for entertainment; entertainment.  The guests were well pleased with their reception.  Nothing displeases more than a cold reception.
7.  A receiving officially; as the reception of an envoy by a foreign court.
8.  Opinion generally admitted.
Philosophers who have quitted the popular doctrines of their countries, have fallen into as extravagant opinions, as even common reception countenanced.  [Not in use.]
9.  Recovery.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Receptive
Definition:
RECEP'TIVE, a.  Having the quality of receiving or admitting what is communicated.
Imaginary space is receptive of all bodies.


Topic: Recess
Definition:
RECESS', n.  [L. recessus, from recedo.  See Recede.]
1.  A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; as the recess of the tides.
2.  A withdrawing from public business or notice; retreat; retirement.
My recess hath given them confidence that I may be conquered.
And every neighboring grove sacred to soft recess and gentle love.
3.  Departure.
4.  Place of retirement or secrecy; private abode.
This happy place, our sweet recess.
5.  State of retirement; as lords in close recess.
In the recess of the jury, they are to consider their evidence.
6.  Remission or suspension of business or procedure; as, the house of representatives had a recess of half an hour.
7.  Privacy; seclusion from the world or from company.
Good verse recess and solitude requires.
8.  Secret or abstruse part; as the difficulties and recesses of science.
9.  A withdrawing from any point; removal to a distance.
10.  An abstract or registry of the resolutions of the imperial diet.  [Not in use.]
11.  The retiring of the shore of the sea or of a lake from the general line of the shore, forming a bay.


Topic: Recession
Definition:
RECES'SION, n.  [L. recessio.]
1.  The act of withdrawing, retiring or retreating.
2.  The act of receding from a claim, or of relaxing a demand.
3.  A cession or granting back; as the recession of conquered territory to its former sovereign.


Topic: Recharge
Definition:
RECH'ARGE, v.t.  [re and charge.]
1.  To charge or accuse in return.
2.  To attack again; to attack anew.


Topic: Recheat
Definition:
RECHE'AT, n.  
Among hunters, a lesson which the huntsman winds on the horn when the hounds have lost the game, to call them back from pursuing a counter scent.
RECHE'AT, v.t.  To blow the recheat.


Topic: Recidivation
Definition:
RECIDIVA'TION, n.  [L. recidivus, from recido, to fall back; re and cado, to fall.]
A falling back; a backsliding.  [Not much used.]


Topic: Recipe
Definition:
RECIPE, n.  res'ipy.  [L. imperative of recipio, to take.]
A medical prescription; a direction of medicines to be taken by a patient.


Topic: Recipient
Definition:
RECIP'IENT, n.  [L. recipiens, recipio.]  
1.  A receiver; the person or thing that receives; he or that to which any thing is communicated.
2.  The receiver of a still.


Topic: Reciprocal
Definition:
RECIP'ROCAL, a.  [L. reciprocus.]
1.  Acting in vicissitude or return; alternate.
Corruption is reciprocal to generation.
2.  Mutual; done by each to the other; as reciprocal love; reciprocal benefits or favors; reciprocal duties; reciprocal aid.
3.  Mutually interchangeable.
These two rules will render a definition reciprocal with the thing defined.
Reciprocal terms, in logic, those terms that have the same signification, and consequently are convertible and may be used for each other.
Reciprocal quantities, in mathematics, are those which, multiplied together, produce unity.
Reciprocal figures, in geometry, are those which have the antecedents and consequents of the same ratio in both figures.
Reciprocal ratio, is the ratio between the reciprocals of two quantities; as, the reciprocal ratio of 4 to 9, is that of 1/4 to 1/9.
RECIP'ROCAL, n.  The reciprocal of any quantity, is unity divided by that quantity.  Thus the reciprocal of 4 is 1/4.


Topic: Reciprocally
Definition:
RECIP'ROCALLY, adv.  Mutually; interchangeably; in such a manner that each affects the other and is equally affected by it.
These two particles do reciprocally affect each other with the same force.


Topic: Reciprocate
Definition:
RECIP'ROCATE, v.i.  [L. reciproco.]  To act interchangeably; to alternate.
One brawny smith the puffing bellows plies, and draws and blows reciprocating air.
RECIP'ROCATE, v.t.  To exchange; to interchange; to give and return mutually; as, to reciprocate favors.


Topic: Reciprocation
Definition:
RECIPROCA'TION, n.  [L. reciprocatio.]
1.  Interchange of acts; a mutual giving and returning; as the reciprocation of kindnesses.
2.  Alternation; as the reciprocation of the sea in the flow and ebb of tides.
3.  Regular return or alternation of two symptoms or diseases.


Topic: Reciprocity
Definition:
RECIPROC'ITY, n.  Reciprocal obligation or right; equal mutual rights or benefits to be yielded or enjoyed.  The commissioners offered to negotiate a treaty on principles of reciprocity.


Topic: Recital
Definition:
RECI'TAL, n.  [from recite.]
1.  Rehearsal; the repetition of the words of another or of a writing; as the recital of a deed; the recital of testimony.
2.  Narration; a telling of the particulars of an adventure or of a series of events.
3.  Enumeration.


Topic: Recitation
Definition:
RECITA'TION, n.  [L. recitatio.]
1.  Rehearsal; repetition of words.
2.  In colleges and schools, the rehersal of a lesson by pupils before their instructor.


Topic: Recitative
Definition:
RECIT'ATIVE, a.  [See recite.]
Reciting; rehearsing; pertaining to musical pronunciation.
RECIT'ATIVE, n.  a kind of musical pronunciation, such as that in which the several parts of the liturgy are rehearsed in churches, or that of actors on the stage, when they express some action or passion, relate some event or reveal some design.
In recitative, the composer and the performer endeavor to imitate the inflections, accent and emphasis of natural speech.
[Note.  The natural and proper English accent of this word is on the second syllable.  The foreign accent may well be discarded.]


Topic: Recite
Definition:
RECI'TE, v.t.  [L. recito; re and cito, to call or name.]
1.  To rehearse; to repeat the words of another or of a writing; as, to recite the words of an author or of a deed or covenant.
2.  In writing, to copy; as, the words of a deed are recited in the pleading.
3.  To tell over; to relate; to narrate; as to recite past events; to recite the particulars of a voyage.
4.  To rehearse, as a lesson to an instructor. 
5.  To enumerate.
RECI'TE, v.i.  To rehearse a lesson.  The class will recite at eleven o'clock.


Topic: Reck
Definition:
RECK, v.i.  [L. rego.  See Rack and Reckon.]
To care; to mind; to rate at much; as we say, to reckon much of; followed by of.  Obs.
Thou's but a lazy loorde, and recks much of thy swinke.  
I reck as little what betideth me, as much I wish all good befortune you.
Of night or loneliness it recks me not.
RECK, v.t.  To heed; to regard; to care for.
This son of mine not recking danger.
[This verb is obsolete unless in poetry.  We observe the primary sense and application in the phrase, 'it recks me not,' that is, it does not strain or distress me; it does not rack my mind.  To reck danger is a derivative form of expression, and a deviation from the proper sense of the verb.]


Topic: Recklessness
Definition:
RECK'LESSNESS, n.  Heedlessness; carelessness; negligence.
[These words, formerly disused, have been recently revived.]


Topic: Reckon
Definition:
RECKON, v.t. rek'n.  [L. rego, rectus, whence regnum, regno, Eng. to reign and right.]
1.  To count; to number; that is, to tell the particulars.
The priest shall reckon to him the money, according to the years that remain, even to the year of jubilee, and it shall be abated.  Lev. 27.
I reckoned above two hundred and fifty on the outside of the church.
2.  To esteem; to account; to repute.  Rom. 8.
For him I reckon not in high estate.
3.  To repute; to set in the number or rank of.
He was reckoned among the transgressors.  Luke 22.
4.  To assign in an account.  rom. 4.
5.  to compute; to calculate.


Topic: Reckoned
Definition:
RECKONED, pp. rek'nd.  Counted; numbered; esteemed; reputed; computed; set or assigned to in account.


Topic: Reckoner
Definition:
RECKONER, n.  rek'ner.  One who reckons or computes.
Reckoners without their host must reckon twice.


Topic: Reclaim
Definition:
RECLA'IM, v.t.  [L. reclama.  re and clamo, to call.  See Claim.]
1.  To claim back; to demand to have returned.  The vender may reclaim the goods.
2.  To call back from error, wandering or transgression, to the observance of moral rectitude; to reform; to bring back to correct deportment or course of life.
It is the intention of Providence in its various expressions of goodness, to reclaim mankind.
3.  To reduce to the state desired.
Much labor is requir'd in trees, to tame their wild disorder, and in ranks reclaim.
4.  To call back; to restrain.
Or is her tow'ring flight reclaim'd by seas from Icarus' downfall nam'd?
5.  To recall; to cry out against.
The headstrong horses hurried Octavius along, and were deaf to his reclaiming them.  [Unusual.]
6.  To reduce from a wild to a tame or domestic state; to tame; to make gentle; as, to reclaim a hawk, an eagle or a wild beast.
7.  To demand or challenge; to make a claim; a French use.
8.  To recover.


Topic: Reclinate
Definition:
REC'LINATE, a.  [L. reclinatus.  See recline.]
In botany, reclined, as a leaf; bend downwards, so that the point of the leaf is lower than the base.
A reclinate stem is one that bends in an arch towards the earth.


Topic: Recline
Definition:
RECLI'NE, v.t.  [L. reclino; re and clino, to lean.]
To lean back; to lean to one side or sideways; as, to recline the head on a pillow, or on the bosom of another, or on the arm.
The mother reclin'd her dying head upon his breast.
RECLI'NE, v.i.  To lean; to rest or repose; as, to recline on a couch.
RECLI'NE, a.  [L. reclinis.]  Leaning; being in a leaning posture.
They sat recline on the soft downy bank damask'd with flowers.  [Little used.]


Topic: Recluse
Definition:
RECLU'SE, a.
Shut up; sequestered; retired from the world or from public notice; solitary; as a recluse monk or hermit; a recluse life.
I all the live-long day consume in meditation deep, recluse from human converse.
RECLU'SE, n.  
1.  A person who live in retirement or seclusion from intercourse with the world; as a hermit or monk.
2.  A person who confines himself to a cell in a monastery.


Topic: Recognition
Definition:
RECOGNITION, n.  reconish'on or recognish'on.  [L. recognitio.]
1.  Acknowledgment; formal avowal; as the recognition of a final concord on a writ of covenant.
2.  Acknowledgment; memorial.
3.  Acknowledgment; solemn avowal by which a thing is owned or declared to belong to, or by which the remembrance of it is revived.
The lives of such saints had, at the time of their yearly memorials, solemn recognition in the church of God.
4.  Knowledge confessed or avowed; as the recognition of a thing present; memory of it as passed.


Topic: Recognizance
Definition:
RECOGNIZANCE, n.  recon'izance.
1.  Acknowledgment of a person or thing; avowal; profession; as the recognizance of christians, by which they avow their belief in their religion.
2.  In law, an obligation of record which a man enters into before some court of record or magistrate duly authorized, with condition to do some particular act, as to appear at the assizes, to keep the peace or pay a debt.  This recognizance differs from a bond, as it does not create a new debt, but it is the acknowledgment of a former debt or record.  This is witnessed by the record only, and not by the party's seal.  There is also a recognizance in the nature of a statute staple, acknowledged before either of the chief justices or their substitutes, the mayor of the staple at Westminster and the recorder of London, which is to be enrolled and certified into chancery.
3.  The verdict of a jury impaneled upon assize.


Topic: Recognize
Definition:
RECOGNIZE, v.t. rec'onize.  [L. recognosco; re and cognosco, to know.  The g in these words has properly no sound in English.]
1.  To recollect or recover the knowledge of, either with an avowal of that knowledge or not.  We recognize a person at a distance, when we recollect that we have seen him before, or that we have formerly known him.  We recognize his features or his voice.
Speak, vassal; recognize thy sovereign queen.
2.  To review; to re-examine.


Topic: Recoil
Definition:
RECOIL', v.i.
1.  To move or start back; to roll back; as, a cannon recoils when fired; waves recoil from the shore.
2.  To fall back; to retire.
3.  To rebound; as, the blow recoils.
4.  To retire; to flow back; as, the blood recoils with horror at the sight.
5.  To start back; to shrink.  Nature recoils at the bloody deed.
6.  To return.  The evil will recoil upon his own head.
RECOIL', v.t.  To drive back.  [Not used.]
RECOIL', n.  A starting or falling back; as the recoil of fire-arms; the recoil of nature of the blood.


Topic: Recoiling
Definition:
RECOIL'ING, ppr.  Starting or falling back; retiring; shrinking.
RECOIL'ING, n.  The act of starting or falling back; a shrinking; revolt.


Topic: Recollect
Definition:
RECOLLECT', v.t. [re and collect; L. recolligo, recollectus.]
1.  To collect again; applied to ideas that have escaped from the memory; to recover or call back ideas to the memory.  I recollect what was said at a former interview; or I cannot recollect what was said.
2.  To recover or recall the knowledge of; to bring back to the mind or memory.  I met a man whom I thought I had seen before, but I could not recollect his name or the place where I had seen him.  I do not recollect you, sir.
3.  To recover resolution or composure of mind.
The Tyrian queen admir'd his fortunes, more admir'd the man, then recollected stood.
[In this sense, collected is more generally used.]


Topic: Recollection
Definition:
RECOLLEC'TION, n.  
1.  The act of recalling to the memory, as ideas that have escaped; or the operation by which ideas that have escaped; or the operation by which ideas are recalled to the memory or revived in the mind.  Recollection differs from remembrance, as it is the consequence of volition, or an effort of the mind to revive ideas; whereas remembrance implies no such volition.  We often remember things without any voluntary effort.  Recollection is called also reminiscence.
2.  The power of recalling ideas to the mind, or the period within which things can be recollected; remembrance.  The events mentioned are not within my recollection.
3.  In popular language, recollection is used as synonymous with remembrance.


Topic: Recommend
Definition:
RECOMMEND', v.t.  [re and commend.]
1.  To praise to another; to offer or commend to another's notice, confidence or kindness by favorable representations.
Maecenas recommended Virgil and Horace to Augustus.
[In this sense, commend, though less common, is the preferable word.]
2.  To make acceptable.
A decent boldness ever meets with friends, succeeds, and ev'n a stranger recommends.
3.  To commit with prayers.
Paul chose Silas and departed, being recommended by the brethren to the grace of God.  Acts. 15.
[Commend here is much to be preferred.]


Topic: Recommendation
Definition:
RECOMMENDA'TION, n.  
1.  The act of recommending or of commending; the act of representing in a favorable manner for the purpose of procuring the notice, confidence or civilities of another.  We introduce a friend to a stranger by a recommendation of his virtues or accomplishments.
2.  That which procures a kind or favorable reception.  The best recommendation of a man to favor is politeness.  Misfortune is a recommendation to our pity.


Topic: Recommission
Definition:
RECOMMIS'SION, v.t.  [re and commission.]  To commission again.
Officers whose time of service had expired, were to be recommissioned.


Topic: Recommit
Definition:
RECOMMIT', v.t.  [re and commit.]
1.  To commit again; as, to recommit persons to prison.
2.  To refer again to a committee; as, to recommit a bill to the same committee.


Topic: Recompense
Definition:
REC'OMPENSE, v.t.
1.  To compensate; to make return of an equivalent for any thing given, done or suffered; as, to recompense a person for services, for fidelity or for sacrifices of time, for loss or damages.
The word is followed by the person or the service.  We recompense a person for his services, or we recompense his kindness.  It is usually found more easy to neglect than to recompense a favor.
2.  To require; to repay; to return an equivalent; in a bad sense.
Recompense to no man evil for evil.  Rom. 12.
3.  To make an equivalent return in profit or produce.  The labor of man is recompensed by the fruits of the earth.
4.  To compensate; to make amends by any thing equivalent.
Solyman - said he would find occasion for them to recompense that disgrace.
5.  To make restitution or an equivalent return for. Num. 5.


Topic: Recompose
Definition:
RECOMPO'SE, v.t. s as z.  [re and compose.]
1.  To quiet anew; to compose or tranquilize that which is ruffled or disturbed; as, to recompose the mind.
2.  To compose anew; to form or adjust again.
We produced a lovely purple which we can destroy or recompose at pleasure.


Topic: Reconcilable
Definition:
RECONCI'LABLE, a. 
1.  Capable of being reconciled; capable of renewed friendship.  The parties are not reconcilable.
2.  That may be made to agree to be consistent; consistent.
The different accounts of the numbers of ships are reconcilable.
3.  Capable of being adjusted; as, the difference between the parties is reconcilable.


Topic: Reconcilableness
Definition:
RECONCI'LABLENESS, n.
1.  The quality of being reconcilable; consistency; as the reconcilableness of parts of Scripture which apparently disagree.
2.  Possibility of being restored to friendship and harmony.


Topic: Reconcile
Definition:
RECONCI'LE, v.t.  [L. reconcilio; re and concilio; con and calo, to call,  Gr.  The literal sense is to call back into union.]
1.  To conciliate anew; to call back into union and friendship the affections which have been alienated; to restore to friendship or favor after estrangement; as, to reconcile men or parties that have been at variance.
Go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother - Matt. 5.
We pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.  
2Cor. 5.  Eph. 2.  Col. 1.
2.  To bring to acquiescence, content or quiet submission; with to; as, to reconcile one's self to afflictions.  It is our duty to be reconciled to the dispensations of Providence.
3.  To make consistent or congruous; to bring to agreement or suitableness; followed by with or to.
The great men among the ancients understood how to reconcile manual labor with affairs of state.
Some figures monstrous and misshap'd appear, considered singly, or beheld too near; which but proportion'd to their light and place, due distance reconciles to form and grace.
4.  To adjust; to settle; as, to reconcile differences or quarrels.


Topic: Reconciled
Definition:
RECONCI'LED, pp.  Brought into friendship from a state of disagreement or enmity; made consistent; adjusted.


Topic: Reconcilement
Definition:
RECONCI'LEMENT, n.
1.  Reconciliation; renewal of friendship.  Animosities sometimes make reconcilement impracticable.
2.  Friendship renewed.
No cloud of anger shall remain, but peace assured and reconcilement.


Topic: Reconciler
Definition:
RECONCI'LER, n.
1.  One who reconciles; one who brings parties at variance into renewed friendship.
2.  One who discovers the consistence of proposition.


Topic: Reconciliation
Definition:
RECONCILIA'TION, n.  [L. reconciliatio.]
1.  The act of reconciling parties at variance; renewal of friendship after disagreement or enmity.
Reconciliation and friendship with God, really form the basis of all rational and true enjoyment.
2.  In Scripture, the means by which sinners are reconciled and brought into a state of favor with God, after natural estrangement or enmity; the atonement; expiation.
Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression and to make an end of sin, and to make reconciliation for iniquity.  Dan. 9.  Heb. 2.
3.  Agreement of things seemingly opposite, different or inconsistent.


Topic: Reconciling
Definition:
RECONCI'LING, ppr.  Bringing into favor and friendship after variance; bringing to content or satisfaction; showing to be consistent; adjusting; making to agree.


Topic: Recondite
Definition:
REC'ONDITE, a.  [L. reconditus, recondo; re and condo to conceal.]
1.  Secret; hidden from the view or intellect; abstruse; as recondite causes of things.
2.  Profound; dealing in things abstruse; as recondite studies.


Topic: Reconnoiter
Definition:
RECONNOIT'ER, v.t.
To view; to survey; to examine by the eye; particularly in military affairs, to examine the state of an enemy's army or camp, or the ground for military operations.


Topic: Reconquer
Definition:
RECONQUER, v.t. recon'ker.  [re and conquer.]
1.  To conquer again; to recover by conquest.
2.  To recover; to regain.


Topic: Reconsider
Definition:
RECONSID'ER, v.t.  [re and consider.]
1.  To consider again; to turn in the mind again; to review.
2.  To annul; to take into consideration a second time and rescind; as, to reconsider a motion in a legislative body; to reconsider a vote.  The vote has been reconsidered, that is, rescinded.


Topic: Reconsideration
Definition:
RECONSIDERA'TION, n.  
1.  A renewed consideration or review in the mind.
2.  A second consideration; annulment; recision.


Topic: Reconvene
Definition:
RECONVE'NE, v.t.  [re and convene.]  To convene or call together again.
RECONVE'NE, v.i.  To assemble or come together again.


Topic: Reconvey
Definition:
RECONVEY, v.t.  [re and convey.]
1.  To convey back or to its former place; as, to reconvey goods.
2.  To transfer back to a former owner; as, to reconvey an estate.


Topic: Record
Definition:
RECORD', v.t.  [L. recorder, to call to mind, to remember, from re and cor, cordis, the heart or mind.]
1.  To register; to enroll; to write or enter in a book or on parchment, for the purpose of preserving authentic or correct evidence of a thing; as, to record the proceedings of a court; to record a deed or lease; to record historical events.
2.  To imprint deeply on the mind or memory; as, to record the sayings of another in the heart.
3.  To cause to be remembered.
So ev'n and morn recorded the third day.
4.  To recite; to repeat.  [Not in use.]
5.  To call to mind.  [Not in use.]
RECORD', v.i.  To sing or repeat a tune.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Recorder
Definition:
RECORD'ER, n.
1.  A person whose official duty is to register writings or transactions; one who enrolls or records.
2.  An officer of a city who is keeper of the rolls or records, or who is invested with judicial powers.
3.  Formerly, a kind of flute, flageolet or wind instrument.
The figures of recorders, flutes and pipes are straight; but the recorder hath a less bore and a greater above and below.


Topic: Recount
Definition:
RECOUNT', v.t.  [re and count.]
To relate in detail; to recite; to tell or narrate the particulars; to rehearse.
Say from these glorious seeds what harvest flows, recount our blessings, and compare our woes.


Topic: Recourse
Definition:
RECOURSE, n.  [L. recursus; re and cursus, curro, to run.]  Literally, a running back; a return.
1.  Return; a new attack.  [Not in use.]
2.  A going to with a request or application, as for aid or protection.  Children have recourse to their parents for assistance.
3.  Application of efforts, art or labor.  The general had recourse to stratagem to effect his purpose.
Our last recourse is therefore to our art.
4.  Access.  [Little used.]
5.  Frequent passage.
RECOURSE, v.i.  To return.  [Not used.]


Topic: Recover
Definition:
RECOVER, v.t.  [L. recupero; re and capio, to take.]
1.  To regain; to get or obtain that which was lost; as, to recover stolen goods; to recover a town or territory which an enemy had taken; to recover sight or senses; to recover health or strength after sickness.
David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away.  1Sam. 30.
2.  To restore from sickness; as, to recover one from leprosy.  2Kings 5.
3.  To revive from apparent death; as, to recover a drowned man.
4.  To regain by reparation; to repair the loss of, or to repair an injury done by neglect; as, to recover lost time.
Good men have lapses and failings to lament and recover.
5.  To regain a former state by liberation from capture or possession.
That they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil.  2Tim. 2.
6.  To gain as a compensation; to obtain in return for injury or debt; as, to recover damages in trespass; to recover debt and cost in a suit at law.
7.  To reach; to come to.
The forest is not three leagues off; if we recover that, we're sure enough.
8.  To obtain title to by judgment in a court of law; as, to recover lands in ejectment or common recovery.
RECOVER, v.i.  
1.  To regain health after sickness; to grow well; followed by of or from.
Go, inquire of Beelzebub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover of this disease.  2Kings 1.
2.  To regain a former state or condition after misfortune; as, to recover from a state of poverty or depression.
3.  To obtain a judgment in law; to succeed in a lawsuit.  The plaintiff has recovered in his suit.


Topic: Recoverable
Definition:
RECOVERABLE, a.  
1.  That may be regained or recovered.  Goods lost or sunk in the ocean are not recoverable.
2.  That may be restored from sickness.
3.  That may be brought back to a former condition.
A prodigal course is like the sun's, but not like his recoverable.
4.  That may be obtained from a debtor or possessor.  The debt is recoverable.


Topic: Recoveree
Definition:
RECOVEREE', n.  In law, the tenant or person against whom a judgment is obtained in common recovery.


Topic: Recoveror
Definition:
RECOVEROR, n.  In law, the demandant or person who obtains a judgment in his favor in common recovery.


Topic: Recovery
Definition:
RECOVERY, n.
1.  The act of regaining, retaking or obtaining possession of anything lost.  The crusades were intended for the recovery of the holy land from the Saracens.  We offer a reward for the recovery of stolen goods.
2.  Restoration from sickness or apparent death.  The patient has a slow recovery from a fever.  Recovery from a pulmonary affection is seldom to be expected.  Directions are given for the recovery of drowned persons.
3.  The capacity of being restored to health.  The patient is past recovery.
4.  The obtaining of right to something by a verdict and judgment of court from an opposing party in a suit; as the recovery of debt, damages and costs by a plaintiff; the recovery of cost by a defendant; the recovery of land in ejectment.
Common recovery, in law, is a species of assurance by matter of record, or a suit or action, actual or fictitious, by which lands are recovered against the tenant of the freehold; which recovery binds all persons, and vests an absolute fee simple in the recoveror.


Topic: Recreant
Definition:
REC'REANT, a.  [See Craven.]
1.  Crying for mercy, as a combatant in the trial by battle; yielding; hence, cowardly; mean spirited.
2.  Apostate; false.
Who for so many benefits receiv'd, turn'd recreant to God, ingrate and false.
REC'REANT, n.  One who yields in combat and cries craven; one who begs for mercy; hence, a mean spirited, cowardly wretch.


Topic: Recreate
Definition:
REC'REATE, v.t.  [L. recero; re and creo, to create.]
1.  To refresh after toil; to reanimate, as languid spirits or exhausted strength; to amuse or divert in weariness.
Painters when they work on white grounds, place before them colors mixed with blue and green, to recreate their eyes.
St. John is said to have recreated himself with sporting with a tame partridge.
2.  To gratify; to delight.
These ripe fruits recreate the nostrils with their aromatic scent.
3.  To relieve; to revive; as, to recreate the lungs with fresh air.
REC'REATE, v.i.  To take recreation.


Topic: Recreation
Definition:
RECREA'TION, n.
1.  Refreshment of the strength and spirits after toil; amusement; diversion.
2.  Relief from toil or pain; amusement in sorrow or distress.


Topic: Recreative
Definition:
REC'REATIVE, a.  Refreshing; giving new vigor or animation; giving relief after labor or pain; amusing; diverting.  Choose such sports as are recreative and healthful.
Let the music be recreative.


Topic: Recrement
Definition:
REC'REMENT, n.  [L. recrementum; probably re and cerno, to secrete.]
Superfluous matter separated from that which is useful; dross; scoria; spume; as the recrement of ore or of the blood.


Topic: Recriminate
Definition:
RECRIM'INATE, v.i.  [L. re and criminor, to accuse.]
1.  To return one accusation with another.
It is not my business to recriminate.
2.  To charge an accuser with the like crime.
RECRIM'INATE, v.t.  To accuse in return.


Topic: Recrimination
Definition:
RECRIMINA'TION, n.
1.  The return of one accusation with another.
2.  In law, an accusation brought by the accused against the accuser upon the same fact.


Topic: Recruit
Definition:
RECRUIT, v.t.  [L. cresco.]
1.  To repair by fresh supplies any thing wasted.  We say, food recruits the flesh; fresh air and exercise recruit the spirits.
Her cheeks glow the bright, recruiting their color.
2.  To supply with new men any deficiency of troops; as, to recruit an army.
RECRUIT, v.i.
1.  To gain new supplies of any thing wasted; to gain flesh, health, spirits, &c.; as, lean cattle recruit in fresh pastures.
2.  To gain new supplies of men; to raise new soldiers.
RECRUIT, n.  The supply of any thing wasted; chiefly, a new raised soldier to supply the deficiency of an army.


Topic: Recruiting
Definition:
RECRUITING, ppr.  Furnishing with fresh supplies; raising new soldiers for an army.
RECRUITING, n.  The business of raising new soldiers to supply the loss of men in an army.


Topic: Rectangle
Definition:
RECT'ANGLE, n.  [L. rectangulus; rectus, right, and angulus, angle.]
1.  A right angled parallelogram.
2.  In arithmetic, the product of two lines multiplied into each other.


Topic: Rectifiable
Definition:
RECTIFIABLE, a.  [from rectify.]  that may be rectified; capable of being corrected or set right; as a rectifiable mistake.


Topic: Rectification
Definition:
RECTIFICA'TION, n.
1.  The act or operation of correcting, amending or setting right that which is wrong or erroneous; as the retification of errors, mistakes or abuses.
2.  In chimistry, the process of refining or purifying any substance by repeated distiliation, which separates the grosser parts; as the rectification of spirits or sulphuric acid.


Topic: Rectifier
Definition:
REC'TIFIER, n.
1.  One that corrects or amends.
2.  One who refines a substance by repeated distiliation.
3.  An instrument that shows the variations of the compass, and rectifies the course of a ship.


Topic: Rectify
Definition:
REC'TIFY, v.t.  [L. rectus, right, and facio, to make.]
1.  To make right; to correct that which is wrong, erroneous or false; to amend; as, to rectify errors, mistakes or abuses; to rectify the will, the judgment, opinions; to rectify disorders.
2.  In chimistry, to refine by repeated distiliation or sublimation, by which the fine parts of a substance are separated from the grosser; as, to rectify spirit or wine.
3.  To rectify the globe, is to bring the sun's place in the ecliptic on the globe to the brass meridian.


Topic: Rectitude
Definition:
REC'TITUDE, n.  [L. rectus, right, straight.]
In morality, rightness of principle or practice; uprightness of mind; exact conformity to truth, or to the rules prescribed for moral conduct, either by divine or human laws.  Rectitude of mind is the disposition to act in conformity to any known standard of right, truth or justice; rectitude of conduct is the actual conformity to such standard.  Perfect rectitude belongs only to the Supreme Being.  The more nearly the rectitude of men approaches to the standard of the divine law, the more exalted and dignified is their character.  Want of rectitude is not only sinful, but debasing.
There is a sublimity in conscious rectitude - in comparison with which the treasures of earth are not worth naming.


Topic: Rector
Definition:
REC'TOR, n.  [L. rector, from rego, rectum, to rule.]
1.  A ruler or governor.
God is the supreme rector of the world.
[This application of the word is unusual.]
2.  A clergyman who has the charge and cure of a parish, and has the tithes, &c.; or the parson of an unimpropriated parish.
3.  The chief elective officer of some universities, as in France and Scotland.  The same title was formerly given to the president of a college in New England, but it is now in disuse.  In Scotland, it is still the title of the head master of a principal school.
4.  The superior officer or chief of a convent or religious house; and among the Jesuits, the superior of a house that is a seminary or college.


Topic: Rectory
Definition:
REC'TORY, n.
1.  A parish church, parsonage or spiritual living, with all its rights, tithes and glebes.
2.  A rector's mansion or parsonage house.


Topic: Recubation
Definition:
RECUBA'TION, n.  [L. recubo; re and cubo, to lie down.]
The act of lying or leaning.  [Little used.]


Topic: Recumbent
Definition:
RECUMB'ENT, a.  [L. recumbens.]
1.  Leaning; reclining; as the recumbent posture of the Romans at their meals.
2.  Reposing; inactive; idle.


Topic: Recur
Definition:
RECUR', v.i.  [L. recurro; re and curro, to run.]
1.  To return to the thought or mind.
When any word has been used to signify an idea, the old idea will recur in the mind, when the word is heard.
2.  To resort; to have recourse.
If to avoid succession in eternal existence, they recur to the punctum stans of the schools, they will very little help us to a more positive idea of infinite duration.


Topic: Recure
Definition:
RECU'RE, v.t.  [re and cure.]  To cure; to recover.  [Not in use.]
RECU'RE, n.  Cure; recovery.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Recurrent
Definition:
RECUR'RENT, a.  [L. recurrens.
1.  Returning from time to time; as recurrent pains of a disease.
2.  In crystallography, a recurrent crystal is one whose faces, being counted in annular ranges from one extremity to the other, furnish two different numbers which succeed each other times, as 4, 8, 4, 8, 4.
3.  In anatomy, the recurrent nerve is a branch of the par vagum, given off in the upper part of the thorax, which is reflected and runs up along the trachea to the larynx.


Topic: Recurvate
Definition:
RECURV'ATE, v.t.  [L. recurro; re and curvo, to bend.]  To bend back.
RECURV'ATE, a.  
1.  In botany, bent, bowed or curved downwards; as a recurvate leaf.
2.  Bent outward; as a recurvate prickle, awn, petiole, calyx or corol.


Topic: Recurviroster
Definition:
RECURV'IROSTER, n.  [L. recurvus, bent back, and rostrum, a beak.]
A fowl whose beak or bill bends upwards, as the avoset.


Topic: Recusant
Definition:
RECU'SANT, a. s as z.  [L. recusans, recuso, to refuse; re and the root of causa, signifying to drive.  The primary sense is to repel or drive back.]
Refusing to acknowledge the supremacy of the king, or to conform to the established rites of the church; as a recusant lord.
RECU'SANT, n.  [supra.]
1.  In English history, a person who refuses to acknowledge the supremacy of the king in matters of religion; as a popish recusant, who acknowledges the supremacy of the pope.
2.  One who refuses communion with the church of England; a non-conformist.
All that are recusants of holy rites.


Topic: Recusation
Definition:
RECUSA'TION, n.  [L. recusatio.]
1.  Refusal.
2.  In law, the act of refusing a judge, or challenging that he shall not try the cause, on account of his supposed partiality.  [This practice is now obsolete.]


Topic: Recuse
Definition:
RECU'SE, v.t. s as z.  [L. recuso.]  To refuse or reject, as a judge; to challenge that the judge shall not try the cause.  [The practice and the word are obsolete.]


Topic: Red
Definition:
RED, a.  [Gr red, and a rose, from its color.  Heb. to descend, to bring down.  L. gradior, also to correct, to teach, erudio.]
Of a bright color, resembling blood.  Red is a simple or primary color, but of several different shades or hues, as scarlet, crimson, vermilion, orange red, &c.  We say red color, red cloth, red flame, red eyes, red cheeks, red lead, &c.
Red book of the exchequer, an ancient English record or manuscript containing various treatises relating to the times before the conquest.
Red men, red people, red children, the aboriginals of America, as distinguished from the whites.
RED, n.  A red color; as a brighter color, the best of all the reds.


Topic: Red-bird
Definition:
RED-BIRD, n.  The popular name of several birds in the United States, as the Tanagra aestiva or summer red-bird, the Tanagra rubra, and the Baltimore oriole or hangnest.


Topic: Red-led
Definition:
RED'-LED, n. red-led.  [red and lead.]  Minium, or red oxyd of lead, composed of 88 parts of lead and 12 of oxygen.


Topic: Redan
Definition:
RED'AN, n.  [written sometimes redent and redens; said to be contracted from L. recedens.  Lunier.]
In fortification, a work indented, or formed with salient and re-entering angles, so that one part may flank and defend another.


Topic: Redbreast
Definition:
RED'BREAST, n.  A bird so called from the color of its breast, a species of Motacilla.  In America, this name is given to the robin, so called, a species of Turdus.


Topic: Redden
Definition:
REDDEN, v.t.  red'n.  [from red.]  To make red.
REDDEN, v.i. red'n.  
1.  To grow or become red.
- The coral redden and the ruby glow.
2.  To blush.
Appius reddens at each word you speak.


Topic: Reddition
Definition:
REDDI'TION, n.  [L. reddo, to return.]  
1.  A returning of any thing; restitution; surrender.
2.  Explanation; representation.


Topic: Redditive
Definition:
RED'DITIVE, a.  [L. redditivus, from reddo.]
Returning; answering to an interrogative; a term of grammar.


Topic: Reddle
Definition:
RED'DLE, n.  [from red.]  Red chalk, commonly used as a pigment.  It is a mineral of a florid color, but not of a deep red.


Topic: Redeem
Definition:
REDEE'M, v.t.  [L. redimo; red, re, and emo, to obtain or purchase.]
1.  To purchase back; to ransom; to liberate or rescue from captivity or bondage, or from any obligation or liability to suffer or to be forfeited, by paying an equivalent; as, to redeem prisoners or captured goods; to redeem a pledge.
2.  To repurchase what has been sold; to regain possession of a thing alienated, by repaying the value of it to the possessor.
If a man [shall] sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold.  
Lev. 25.
3.  To rescue; to recover; to deliver from.
Th' Almighty from the grave hath me redeem'd.
Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles.  Ps. 25.  Deut. 7.
The mass of earth not yet redeemed from chaos.
4.  To compensate; to make amends for.
It is a chance which does redeem all sorrows.
By lesser ills the greater to redeem.
5.  To free by making atonement.
Thou hast one daughter who redeems nature from the general curse.
6.  To pay the penalty of.
Which of you will be mortal to redeem man's mortal crime?
7.  To save.
He could not have redeemed a portion of his time for contemplating the powers of nature.
8.  To perform what has been promised; to make good by performance.  He has redeemed his pledge or promise.
9.  In law, to recall an estate, or to obtain the right to re-enter upon a mortgaged estate by paying to the mortgagee his principal, interest, and expenses or costs.
10.  In theology, to rescue and deliver from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law, by obedience and suffering in the place of the sinner, or by doing and suffering that which is accepted in lieu of the sinner's obedience.
Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us.  Gal. 3.  Titus 2.
11.  In commerce, to purchase or pay the value in specie, of any promissory note, bill or other evidence of debt, given by the state, by a company or corporation, or by an individual.  The credit of a state, a banking company or individuals, is good when they can redeem all their stock, notes or bills, at par.
To redeem time, is to use more diligence in the improvement of it; to be diligent and active in duty and preparation. Eph. 5.


Topic: Redeemable
Definition:
REDEE'MABLE, a.
1.  That may be redeemed; capable of redemption.
2.  That may be purchased or paid for in gold and silver, and brought into the possession of government or the original promiser.
The capital of the debt of the United States may be considered in the light of an annuity redeemable at the pleasure of the government.


Topic: Redeemed
Definition:
REDEE'MED, pp.  Ransomed; delivered from bondage, distress, penalty, liability, or from the possession of another, by paying an equivalent.


Topic: Redeeming
Definition:
REDEE'MING, ppr.  Ransoming; procuring deliverance from captivity, capture, bondage, sin, distress or liability to suffer, by the payment of an equivalent.


Topic: Redeliberate
Definition:
REDELIB'ERATE, v.i.  [re and deliberate.]  To deliberate again.
REDELIB'ERATE, v.t.  To reconsider.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Redeliver
Definition:
REDELIV'ER, v.t.  [re and deliver.]
1.  To deliver back.
2.  To deliver again; to liberate a second time.


Topic: Redemand
Definition:
REDEM'AND, v.t.  [re and demand.]
To demand back; to demand again.
REDEM'AND, n.  A demanding back again.


Topic: Redemise
Definition:
REDEMI'SE, v.t. s as z.  [re and demise.]  To convey or transfer back, as an estate in fee simple, fee tail, for life or a term of years.
REDEMI'SE, n.  Reconveyance; the transfer of an estate back to the person who has demised it; as the demise and redemise of an estate in fee simple, fee tail, or for life or years, by mutual leases.


Topic: Redemption
Definition:
REDEMP'TION, n.  [L. redemptio.  See Redeem.]
1.  Repurchase of captured goods or prisoners; the act of procuring the deliverance of persons or things from the possession and power of captors by the payment of an equivalent; ransom; release; as the redemption of prisoners taken in war; the redemption of a ship and cargo.
2.  Deliverance from bondage, distress, or from liability to any evil or forfeiture, either by money, labor or other means.
3.  Repurchase, as of lands alienated.  Lev. 25.  Jer. 32.
4.  The liberation of an estate from a mortgage; or the purchase of the right to re-enter upon it by paying the principal sum for which it was mortgaged with interest and cost; also, the right of redeeming and re-entering.
5.  Repurchase of notes, bills or other evidence of debt by paying their value in specie to their holders.
6.  In theology, the purchase of God's favor by the death and sufferings of Christ; the ransom or deliverance of sinners from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law by the atonement of Christ.
In whom we have redemption through his blood.  Eph. 1. 
Col. 1.


Topic: Redemptioner
Definition:
REDEMP'TIONER, n.  One who redeems himself, or purchases his release from debt or obligation to the master of a ship by his services; or one whose services are sold to pay the expenses of his passage to America.


Topic: Redintegrate
Definition:
REDIN'TEGRATE, v.t.  [L. redintegro; red, re, and integro, from integer, whole.]
To make whole again; to renew; to restore to a perfect state.
REDIN'TEGRATE, a.  Renewed; restored to wholeness or a perfect state.


Topic: Redintegration
Definition:
REDINTEGRA'TION, n.
1.  Renovation; restoration to a whole or sound state.
2.  In chimistry, the restoration of any mixed body or matter to its former nature and constitution.


Topic: Redisseizin
Definition:
REDISSE'IZIN, n.  [re and disseizin.]  In law, a writ of redisseizin, is a writ to recover seizin of lands or tenements against a redisseizor.


Topic: Redisseizor
Definition:
REDISSE'IZOR, n.  [re and disseizor.]  A person who disseizes lands or tenements a second time, or after a recovery of the same from him in an action of novel disseizin.


Topic: Redolent
Definition:
RED'OLENT, a.  [L. redolens, redoleo; red, re, and oleo, to smell.]
Having or diffusing a sweet scent.


Topic: Redouble
Definition:
REDOUBLE, v.t. redub'l.  [re and double.]
1.  To repeat in return.
2.  To repeat often; as, to redouble blows.
3.  To increase by repeated or continued additions.
And AEtna rages with redoubl'd heat.
REDOUBLE, v.i.  redub'l.  To become twice as much.
The argument redoubles upon us.


Topic: Redoubled
Definition:
REDOUBLED, pp.  redub'ld.  Repeated in return; repeated over and over; increased by repeated or continued additions.


Topic: Redoubling
Definition:
REDOUBLING, ppr.  redub'ling.  Repeating in return; repeating again and again; increasing by repeated or continued additions.


Topic: Redound
Definition:
REDOUND, v.i.  [L. redundo; red, re, and undo, to rise or swell, as waves.]
1.  To be sent, rolled or driven back.
The evil, soon driven back, redounded as a flood on those from whom it sprung.
2.  To conduce in the consequence; to contribute; to result.
The honor done to our religion ultimately redounds to God the author of it.
3.  To proceed in the consequence or effect; to result.
There will no small use redound from them to that manufactures.


Topic: Redout
Definition:
REDOUT', n.  [L. reductus, reduco, to bring back; literally a retreat.  The usual orthography, redoubt, is egregiously erroneous.]
In fortification, an outwork; a small square fort without any defense, except in front; used in trenches, lines of circumvallation, contravallation and approach to defend passages, &c.


Topic: Redoutable
Definition:
REDOUT'ABLE, a.
Formidable; that is to be dreaded; terrible to foes; as a redoubtable hero.  Hence the implied sense is valiant.


Topic: Redraft
Definition:
REDR'AFT, v.t.  [re and draft.]  To draw or draft anew.
REDR'AFT, n.
1.  A second draft or copy.
2.  In the French commercial code, a new bill of exchange which the holder of a protested bill draws on the drawer or indorsers, by which he reimburses to himself the amount of the protested bill with costs and charges.


Topic: Redraw
Definition:
REDRAW', v.t.  [re and draw.]
1.  To draw again.  In commerce, to draw a new bill of exchange, as the holder of a protested bill, on the drawer or indorsers.
2.  To draw a second draft or copy.


Topic: Redress
Definition:
REDRESS', v.t.
1.  To set right; to amend.
In yonder spring of roses, find what to redress till noon.
[In this sense, as applied to material things, rarely used.]
2.  To remedy; to repair; to relieve from, and sometimes to indemnify for; as, to redress wrongs; to redress injuries; to redress grievances.  Sovereigns are bound to protect their subjects, and redress their grievances.
3.  To ease; to relieve; as, she labored to redress my pain.
[We use this verb before the person or the thing.  We say, to redress an injured person, or to redress the injury.  The latter is most common.]
REDRESS', n.
1.  Reformation; amendment.
For us the more necessary is a speedy redress of ourselves.
[This sense is now unusual.]
2.  Relief; remedy; deliverance from wrong, injury or oppression; as the redress of grievances.  We applied to government, but could obtain no redress.
There is occasion for redress when the cry is universal.
3.  Reparation; indemnification.  [This sense is often directly intended or implied in redress.]
4.  One who gives relief.
Fair majesty, the refuge and redress of those whom fate pursues and wants oppress.


Topic: Redsear
Definition:
REDSE'AR, v.i.  [red and sear.]  To break or crack when too hot, as iron under the hammer; a term of workmen.


Topic: Redshank
Definition:
RED'SHANK, n.
1.  A bird of the genus Scolopax.
2.  A contemptuous appellation for bare legged persons.


Topic: Redshort
Definition:
RED'SHORT, a.  [red and short.]  Brittle, or breaking short when red hot, as a metal; a term of workmen.


Topic: Reduce
Definition:
REDU'CE, v.t.  [L. reduco; re and duco, to lead or bring.]
1.  Literally, to bring back; as, to reduce these bloody days again.
[In this sense, not in use.]
2.  To bring to a former state.
It were but just and equal to reduce me to my dust.
3.  To bring to any state or condition, good or bad; as, to reduce civil or ecclesiastical affairs to order; to reduce a man to poverty; to reduce a state to distress; to reduce a substance to powder; to reduce a sum to fractions; to reduce on to despair.
4.  To diminish in length, breadth, thickness, size, quantity or value; as, to reduce expenses; to reduce the quantity of any thing; to reduce the intensity of heat; to reduce the brightness of color light; to reduce a sum or amount; to reduce the price of goods.
5.  To lower; to degrade; to impair in dignity or excellence.
Nothing so excellent but a man may fasten on something belonging to it, to reduce it.
6.  To subdue; to bring into subjection.  The Romans reduced Spain, Gaul and Britain by their arms.
7.  To reclaim to order.
8.  To bring, as into a class, order, genus or species; to bring under rules or within certain limits of description; as, to reduce animals or vegetables to a class or classes; to reduce men to tribes; to reduce language to rules.
9.  In arithmetic, to change numbers from one denomination into another without altering their value; or to change numbers of one denomination into others of the same value; as, to reduce a dollar to a hundred cents, or a hundred cents to a dollar.
10.  In algebra, to reduce equations, is to clear them of all superfluous quantities, bring them to their lowest terms, and separate the known from the unknown, till at length the unknown quantity only is found on one side and the known ones on the other.
11.  In metallurgy, to bring back metallic substances which have been divested of their form, into their original state of metals.
12.  In surgery, to restore to its proper place or state a dislocated or fractured bone.
To reduce a figure, design or draught, to make a copy of it larger or smaller than the original, but preserving the form and proportion.


Topic: Reduced
Definition:
REDU'CED, pp.  Brought back; brought to a former state; brought into any state or condition; diminished; subdued; impoverished.


Topic: Reducement
Definition:
REDU'CEMENT, n.  The act of bringing back; the act of diminishing; the act of subduing; reduction.
[This word is superseded by reduction.]


Topic: Reducible
Definition:
REDU'CIBLE, a.  That may be reduced.
All the parts of painting are reducible into these mentioned by the author.


Topic: Reducing
Definition:
REDU'CING, ppr.  Bringing back; bringing to a former state, or to a different state or form; diminishing; subduing; impoverishing.


Topic: Reduct
Definition:
REDUCT', v.t.  [L. reductus, reduco.]  To reduce.  [Not in use.]
REDUCT', n.  In building, a little place taken out of a larger to make it more regular and uniform, or for some other convenience.


Topic: Reduction
Definition:
REDUC'TION, n.  [L. reductio.]
1.  The act of reducing, or state of being reduced; as the reduction of a body to powder; the reduction of things to order.
2.  Diminution; as the reduction of the expenses of government; the reduction of the national debt.
3.  Conquest; subjugation; as the reduction of a province to the power of a foreign nation.
4.  In arithmetic, the bringing of numbers of different denominations into one denomination; as the reduction of pounds, ounces, pennyweights and grains to grains, or the reduction of grains to pounds; the reduction of days and hours to minutes, or of minutes to hours and days.  The change of numbers of a higher denomination into a lower, as of pounds into pence or farthings, is called reduction descending; the change of numbers of a lower denomination into a higher, as of cents into dimes, dollars or eagles, is called reduction ascending.  Hence the rule for bringing sums of different denominations into one denomination, is called reduction.
5.  In algebra, reduction of equations is the clearing of them of all superfluous quantities, bringing them to their lowest terms and separating the known from the unknown, till the unknown quantity alone is found on one side, and the known ones of the other.
6.  Reduction of a figure, men, &c. is the making of a copy of it on a smaller or larger scale, preserving the form and proportions.
7.  In surgery, the operation of restoring a dislocated or fractured bone to its former place.
8.  In metallurgy, the operation of bringing metallic substances which have been changed, or divested of their metallic form, into their natural and original state of metals.  This is called also revivification.


Topic: Redundant
Definition:
REDUND'ANT, a.  
1.  Superfluous; 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.
Redundant words, in writing or discourse, are such as are synonymous with others used, or such as add nothing to the sense or force of the expression.
2.  Using more words or images than are necessary or useful.
Where an author is redundant, mark those paragraphs to be retrenched.
3.  In music, a redundant chord is one which contains a greater number of tones, semitones or lesser intervals, than it does in its natural state, as from fa to sol sharp.  It is called by some authors, a chord extremely sharp.


Topic: Reechy
Definition:
REECH'Y, a.  [a mis-spelling of reeky.  See Reek.]
Tarnished with smoke; sooty; foul; as a reechy neck.


Topic: Reed
Definition:
REED, n.
1.  The common name of many aquatic plants; most of them large grasses, with hollow jointed stems, such as the common reed of the genus Arundo, the bamboo, &c.  The bur-reed is of the genus Sparganium; the Indian Flowering reed of the genus Canna.
2.  A musical pipe; reeds being anciently used for instruments of music.
3.  A little tube through which a hautboy, bassoon or clarinet is blown.
4.  An arrow, as made of a reed headed.
5.  Thatch.


Topic: Reef
Definition:
REEF, n.  
A certain portion of a sail between the top or bottom and a row of eyelet holes, which is folded or rolled up to contract the sail, when the violence of the wind renders it necessary.
REEF, n.
A chain or range of rocks lying at or near the surface of the water.
REEF, v.t.  [from the noun.]  To contract or reduce the extent of a sail by rolling or folding a certain portion of it and making it fast to the yard.


Topic: Reef-bank
Definition:
REE'F-BANK, n.  A piece of canvas sewed across a sail, to strengthen it in the part where the eyelet holes are formed.


Topic: Reef-line
Definition:
REE'F-LINE, n.  A small rope formerly used to reef the courses by being passed through the holes of the reef spirally.


Topic: Reef-tackle
Definition:
REE'F-TACKLE, n.  A tackle upon deck, communicating with its pendant, and passing through a block at the top-mast head, and through a hole in the top-sail-yard-arm, is attached to a cringle below the lowest reef; used to pull the skirts of the top-sails close to the extremities of the yards to lighten the labor of reefing.


Topic: Reek
Definition:
REEK, n.
1.  Vapor; steam.
2.  A rick, which see.
REEK, v.i.  [L. fragro.  The primary sense is to send out or emit, to extend, to reach.]
To steam; to exhale; to emit vapor; applied especially to the vapor of certain moist substances, rather than to the smoke of burning bodies.
I found me laid in balmy sweat, which with his beams the sun soon dry'd, and on the reeking moisture fed.
Whose blood yet reeks on my avenging sword.


Topic: Reel
Definition:
REEL, n.  [See Reel, to stagger.]
1.  A frame or machine turning on an axis, and on which yarn is extended for winding, either into skeins, or from skeins on to spools and quills.  On a reel also seamen wind their log-lines, &c.
2.  A kind of dance.
REEL, v.t.  To gather yarn from the spindle.
REEL, v.i.
To stagger; to incline or move in walking, first to one side and then to the other; to vacillate.
He with heavy fumes opprest, reel'd from the palace and retir'd to rest.
They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man.  
Ps. 107.


Topic: Reeve
Definition:
REEVE, n.  A steward.  Obs.
REEVE, n.  A bird, the female of the ruff.
REEVE, v.t. In seamen's language, to pass the end of a rope through any hole in a block, thimble, cleat, ring-bolt, cringle, &c.


Topic: Refect
Definition:
REFECT', v.t.  [L. refectus, reficio; re and facio, to make.]
To refresh; to restore after hunger or fatigue.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Refectory
Definition:
REFECT'ORY, n.  A room of refreshment; properly, a hall or apartment in convents and monasteries, where a moderate repast is taken.


Topic: Refel
Definition:
REFEL', v.t.  [L. refello.]  To refute; to disprove; to repress; as, to refel the tricks of a sophister.  [Little used.]


Topic: Refer
Definition:
REFER', v.t.  [L. refero; re and fero, to bear.]
1.  To direct, leave or deliver over to another person or tribunal for information or decision; as when parties to a suit refer their cause to another court; or the court refers a cause to individuals for examination and report.  A person whose opinion is requested, sometimes refers the inquirer to another person or other source of information.
2.  To reduce as to the ultimate end.
You profess and practice to refer all things to yourself.
3.  To reduce; to assign; as to an order, genus or class.  Naturalists are sometimes at a loss to know to what class or genus an animal or plant is to be referred.
To refer one's self, to betake; to apply.  [Little used.]
REFER', v.i.
1.  To respect; to have relation.  Many passages of Scripture refer to the peculiar customs of the orientals.
2.  To appeal; to have recourse; to apply.
In suits it is good to refer to some friend of trust.
3.  To allude; to have respect to by intimation without naming.  I refer to a well known fact.


Topic: Referable
Definition:
REF'ERABLE, a.
1.  That may be referred; capable of being considered in relation to something else.
2.  That may be assigned; that may be considered as belonging to or related to.
It is a question among philosophers, whether all the attractions which obtain between bodies, are referable to one general cause.


Topic: Referee
Definition:
REFEREE', n.  One to whom a thing is referred; particularly, a person appointed by a court to hear, examine and decide a cause between parties, pending before the court, and make report to the court.  In New England, a referee differs from a arbitrator, in being appointed by the court to decide in a cause which is depending before that court.  An arbitrator is chosen by parties to decide a cause between them.


Topic: Reference
Definition:
REF'ERENCE, n.
1.  A sending, dismission or direction to another for information.
2.  Relation; respect; view towards.
The christian religion commands sobriety, temperance and moderation, in reference to our appetites and passions.
3.  Allusion to.  In his observations he had no reference to the case which has been stated.
4.  In law, the process of assigning a cause depending in court, for a hearing and decision, to persons appointed by the court.


Topic: Referendary
Definition:
REFEREND'ARY, n. 
1.  One to whose decision a cause is referred.  [Not in use.]
2.  An officer who delivered the royal answer to petitions.


Topic: Referred
Definition:
REFER'RED, pp.  Dismissed or directed to another; assigned, as to a class, order or cause; assigned by a court to persons appointed to decide.


Topic: Referring
Definition:
REFER'RING, ppr.  Dismissing or directing to another for information; alluding; assigning, as to a class, order, cause, &c; or assigning to private persons for decision.


Topic: Refine
Definition:
REFI'NE, v.t.
1.  To purify; in a general sense; applied to liquors, to depurate; to defecate; to clarify; to separate, as liquor, from all extraneous matter.  In this sense, the verb is used with propriety, but it is customary to use fine.
2.  Applied to metals, to separate the metallic substance from all other matter, whether another metal or alloy, or any earthy substance; in short, to detach the pure metal from all extraneous matter.
I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined.  Zech. 13.
3.  To purify, as manners, from what is gross, clownish or vulgar; to polish; to make elegant.  We expect to see refined manners in courts.
4.  To purify, as language, by removing vulgar words and barbarisms.
5.  To purify, as taste; to give a nice and delicate perception of beauty and propriety in literature and the arts.
6.  To purify, as the mind or moral principles; to give or implant in the mind a nice perception of truth, justice and propriety in commerce and social intercourse.  This nice perception of what is right constitutes rectitude of principle, or moral refinement of mind; and a correspondent practice of social duties, constitutes rectitude of conduct or purity of morals.  Hence we speak of a refined mind, refined morals, refined principles.
To refine the heart or soul, to cleanse it from all carnal or evil affections and desires and implant in it holy or heavenly affections.
REFI'NE, v.i.
1.  To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or in any thing that constitutes excellence.
Chaucer refined on Boccace and mended his stories.
Let a lord but own the happy lines, how the wit brightens, how the sense refines!
2.  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.
3.  To affect nicety.  Men sometimes refine in speculation beyond the limits of practical truth.
He makes another paragraph about our refining in controversy.


Topic: Refined
Definition:
REFI'NED, pp.  Purified; separated from extraneous matter; assayed, as metals; clarified, as liquors; polished; separated from what is coarse, rude or improper.


Topic: Refinement
Definition:
REFI'NEMENT, n.
1.  The act of purifying by separating from a substance all extraneous matter; a clearing from dross, dregs or recrement; as the refinement of metals or liquors.
2.  The state of being pure.
The more bodies are of a kin to spirit in subtilty and refinement, the more diffusive are they.
3.  Polish of language; elegance; purity.
From the civil war to this time, I doubt whether the corruptions in our language have not equaled its refinements.
4.  Polish of manners; elegance; nice observance of the civilities of social intercourse and of graceful decorum.  Refinement of manners is often found in persons of corrupt morals.
5.  Purity of taste; nice perception of beauty and propriety in literature and the arts.
6.  Purity of mind and morals; nice perception and observance of rectitude in moral principles and practice.
7.  Purity of heart; the state of the heart purified from sensual and evil affections.  This refinement is the effect of christian principles.
8.  Artificial practice; subtilty; as the refinements of cunning.
9.  Affectation of nicety, or of elegant improvement; as the refinements of reasoning or philosophy.


Topic: Refiner
Definition:
REFI'NER, n.
1.  One that refines metals or other things.
2.  An improver in purity and elegance; as a refiner of language.
3.  An inventor of superfluous subtilities; one is who over nice in discrimination, in argument, reasoning, philosophy, &c.


Topic: Refining
Definition:
REFI'NING, ppr.  Purifying; separating from alloy or any extraneous matter; polishing; improving in accuracy, delicacy or purity.


Topic: Refit
Definition:
REFIT', v.t.  [re and fit.]  To fit or prepare again; to repair; to restore after damage or decay; as, to refit ships of war.


Topic: Reflect
Definition:
REFLECT', v.t.  [L. reflecto; re and flecto, to bend.]
To throw back; to return.  In the rainbow, the rays of light are reflected as well as refracted.
Bodies close together reflect their own color.
REFLECT', v.i.
1.  To throw back light; to return rays or beams; as a reflecting mirror or gem.
2.  To bend back.
3.  To throw or turn back the thoughts upon the past operations of the mind or upon past events.  We reflect with pleasure on a generous or heroic action; we reflect with pain on our follies and vices; we reflect on our former thoughts, meditations and opinions.
4.  To consider attentively; to revolve in the mind; to contemplate; as, I will reflect on this subject.
And as I much reflected, much I mourn'd.
In every action, reflect upon the end.
[To reflect on things future, is not strictly possible, yet the word is often used as synonymous with meditate and contemplate.]
5.  To bring reproach.
Errors of wives reflect on husband still.
To reflect on, to cast censure or reproach.  
I do not reflect in the least on the memory of his late majesty.


Topic: Reflecting
Definition:
REFLECT'ING, ppr.
1.  Throwing back.
2.  Turning back, as thoughts upon themselves or upon past events.
3.  Reflecting on, casting censure or reproach.


Topic: Reflection
Definition:
REFLEC'TION, n.  [from reflect.]
1.  The act of throwing back; as the reflection of light or colors.  The angle of incidence and the angle of reflection are always equal.
2.  The act of bending back.
3.  That which is reflected.
As the sun in water we can bear, yet not the sun, but his reflection there.
4.  The operation of the mind by which it turns its views back upon itself and its operations; the review or consideration of past thoughts, opinions or decisions of the mind, or of past events.
5.  Thought thrown back on itself, on the past or on the absent; as melancholy reflections; delightful reflections.
Job's reflections on his once flourishing estate, at the same time afflicted and encouraged him.
6.  The expression of thought.
7.  Attentive consideration; meditation; contemplation.
This delight grows and improves under thought and reflection.
8.  Censure; reproach cast.
He died, and oh! may no reflection shed its pois'nous venom on the royal dead.


Topic: Reflective
Definition:
REFLECT'IVE, a.
1.  Throwing back images; as a reflective mirror.
In the reflective stream the sighing bride, viewing her charms impair'd -
2.  Considering the operation of the mind, or things past; as reflective reason.


Topic: Reflex
Definition:
RE'FLEX, a.  [L. reflexus.]
1.  Directed back; as a reflex act of the soul, the turning of the intellectual eye inward upon its own actions.
2.  Designating the parts of a painting illuminated by light reflected from another part of the same picture.
3.  In botany, bent back; reflected.


Topic: Reflexibility
Definition:
REFLEXIBIL'ITY, n.  The quality of being reflexible or capable of being reflected; as the reflexibility of the rays of light.


Topic: Reflexible
Definition:
REFLEX'IBLE, a.  Capable of being reflected or thrown back.
The light of the sun consists of rays differently refrangible and reflexible.


Topic: Refluent
Definition:
REF'LUENT, a.  [L. refluens; re and fluo.]
1.  Flowing back; ebbing; as the refluent tide.
2.  Flowing back; returning, as a fluid; as refluent blood.


Topic: Reflux
Definition:
RE'FLUX, n.  [L. refluxus.]  A flowing back; the returning of a fluid; as the flux and reflux of the tides; the flux and reflux of Euripus.


Topic: Refocillate
Definition:
REFO'CILLATE, v.t.  [L. refocillo; re and the root of focus.]  To refresh; to revive; to give new vigor to.  [Little used.]


Topic: Refocillation
Definition:
REFOCILLA'TION, n.  The act of refreshing or giving new vigor; restoration of strength by refreshment.  [Little used.]


Topic: Reform
Definition:
REFORM', v.t.  [L. reformo; re and formo, to form.]
1.  To change from worse to better; to amend; to correct; to restore to a former good state, or to bring from a bad to a good state; 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.
2.  To change from bad to good; to remove that which is bad or corrupt; as, to reform abuses; to reform the vices of the age.
REFORM', v.i.  To abandon that which is evil or corrupt, and return to a good state; to be amended or corrected.  A man of settled habits of vice will seldom reform.


Topic: Reformation
Definition:
REF'ORMATION, n.
1.  The act of reforming; correction or amendment of life, manners, or of any thing vicious or corrupt; as the reformation of manners; reformation of the age; reformation of abuses.
Satire lashes vice into reformation.
2.  By way of eminence, the change of religion from the corruptions of popery to its primitive purity, begun by Luther, A.D. 1517.


Topic: Reformed
Definition:
REFORM'ED, pp.  Corrected; amended; restored to a good state; as a reformed profligate; the reformed church.


Topic: Reformer
Definition:
REFORM'ER, n.
1.  One who effects a reformation or amendment; as a reformer of manners or of abuses.
2.  One of those who commenced the reformation of religion from popish corruption; as Luther, Melancthon, Zuinglius and Calvin.


Topic: Reformist
Definition:
REFORM'IST, n.  
1.  One who is of the reformed religion.
2.  One who proposes or favors a political reform.


Topic: Refract
Definition:
REFRACT', v.t.  [L. refractus, refringo; re and frango, to break.]
To break the natural course of the rays of light; to cause to deviate from a direct course.  A dense medium refracts the rays of light, as they pass into it from a rare medium.


Topic: Refracted
Definition:
REFRACT'ED, pp.  
1.  Turned from a direct course, as rays of light.
2.  a.  In botany, bent back at an acute angle; as a refracted corol.


Topic: Refracting
Definition:
REFRACT'ING, ppr.
1.  Turning from a direct course.
2.  a.  That turns rays from a direct course; as a refracting medium.


Topic: Refraction
Definition:
REFRAC'TION, n.  The deviation of a moving body, chiefly rays of light, from a direct course.  This is occasioned by the different densities of the mediums through which light passes.
Refraction out of a rarer medium into a denser, is made towards the perpendicular.
Refraction may be caused by a body's falling obliquely out of one medium into another.
Refraction double, the separation of a ray of light into two separate parts, by passing through certain transparent mediums, as the Iceland crystal.  All crystals, except those whose primitive form is either a cube or a regular octahedron, exhibit double refraction.


Topic: Refractive
Definition:
REFRACT'IVE, a.  That refracts or has power to refract or turn from a direct course; as refractive densities.


Topic: Refractoriness
Definition:
REFRACT'ORINESS, n.  [from refractory.] 
Perverse or sullen obstinacy in opposition or disobedience.
I never allowed any man's refractoriness against the privileges and orders of the house.


Topic: Refractory
Definition:
REFRACT'ORY, a.  [L. refractarius, from refragor, to resist; re and fragor, from frango.]
1.  Sullen or perverse in opposition or disobedience; obstinate in non-compliance; as a refractory child; a refractory servant.
Raging appetites that are most disobedient and refractory.
2.  Unmanageable; obstinately unyielding; as a refractory beast.
3.  Applied to metals, difficult of fusion; not easily yielding to the force of heat.
REFRACT'ORY, n.
1.  A person obstinate in opposition or disobedience.
2.  Obstinate opposition.  [Not used.]


Topic: Refrain
Definition:
REFRA'IN, v.t.  [L. refaeno; re and fraeno, to curb; fraenum, a rein.  See Rein.]
To hold back; to restrain; to keep from action.
My son - refrain thy foot from their path.  Prov. 1.
Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by.  Gen. 45.

REFRA'IN, v.i.  To forbear; to abstain; to keep one's self from action or interference.
Refrain from these men and let them alone.  Acts 5.
REFRA'IN, n.  The burden of a song; a kind of musical repetition.


Topic: Refrangibility
Definition:
REFRANGIBIL'ITY, n.  [from refrangible.]
The disposition of rays of light to be refracted or turned out of a direct course, in passing out of one transparent body or medium into another.


Topic: Refrangible
Definition:
REFRAN'GIBLE, a.  [L. re and frango, to break.]
Capable of being refracted or turned out of a direct course in passing from one medium to another; as rays of light.


Topic: Refresh
Definition:
REFRESH', v.t.  [See Fresh.]
1.  To cool; to allay heat.
A dew coming after a heat refresheth.
2.  To give new strength to; to invigorate; to relieve after fatigue; as, to refresh the body.  A man or a beast is refreshed by food and rest.  Ex. 23.
3.  To revive; to reanimate after depression; to cheer; to enliven.
For they have refreshed my spirit and yours.  1Cor. 16.
4.  To improve by new touches any thing impaired.
The rest refresh the scaly snakes.
5.  To revive what is drooping; as, rain refreshes the plants.

REFRESH', n.  Act of refreshing.  [Not used.]


Topic: Refreshing
Definition:
REFRESH'ING, ppr. or a.  Cooling; invigorating; reviving; reanimating.
REFRESH'ING, n.  Refreshment; relief after fatigue or suffering.


Topic: Refreshment
Definition:
REFRESH'MENT, n.
1.  Act of refreshing; or new strength or vigor received after fatigue; relief after suffering; applied to the body.
2.  New life or animation after depression; applied to the mind or spirits.
3.  That which gives fresh strength or vigor, as food or rest.


Topic: Refrigerant
Definition:
REFRIG'ERANT, a.  [See Refrigerate.]
Cooling; allaying heat.
REFRIG'ERANT, n.  Among physicians, a medicine which abates heat and refreshes the patient.


Topic: Refrigerate
Definition:
REFRIG'ERATE, v.t.  [L. refrigero; re and frigus, cold.]  To cool; to allay the heat of; to refresh.


Topic: Refrigeratory
Definition:
REFRIG'ERATORY, a.  Cooling; mitigating heat.
REFRIG'ERATORY, n. 
1.  In distillation, a vessel filled with cold water, through which the worm passes; by which means the vapors are condensed as they pass through the worm.
2.  Any thing internally cooling.


Topic: Reft
Definition:
REFT, pp. of reave.
1.  Deprived; bereft.  [Not in use.]
2.  pret. of reave.  Took away.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Refuge
Definition:
REF'UGE, n.  [L. refugium, refugio; re and fugio, to flee.]
1.  Shelter or protection from danger or distress.
- Rocks, dens and caves, but I in none of these find place or refuge.
We have made lies our refuge.  Is. 28.
- We might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us.  Heb. 6.
2.  That which shelters or protects from danger, distress or calamity; a strong hold which protects by its strength, or a sanctuary which secures safety by its sacredness; any place inaccessible to an enemy.
The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats.  Ps. 104.
The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed.  Ps. 9.
3.  An expedient to secure protection or defense.
This last old man - their latest refuge was to send to him.
4.  Expedient, in general.
Light must be supplied, among graceful refuges, by terracing any story in danger of darkness.
Cities of refuge, among the Israelites, certain cities appointed to secure the safety of such persons as might commit homicide without design.  Of these there were three on each side of Jordan.  Josh. 20.
REF'UGE, v.t.  To shelter; to protect.


Topic: Refugee
Definition:
REFUGEE', n.  
1.  One who flies to a shelter or place of safety.
2.  One who, in times of persecution or political commotion, flees to a foreign country for safety; as the French refugees, who left France after the revocation of the edict of Nantz, and settled in Flanders and America; the refugees from Hispaniola, in 1792; and the American refugees, who left their country at the revolution.


Topic: Refulgent
Definition:
REFUL'GENT, a.  Casting a bright light; shining; splendid; as refulgent beams; refulgent light; refulgent arms.
A conspicuous and refulgent truth.


Topic: Refund
Definition:
REFUND', v.t.  [L. refundo; re and fundo, to pour.]
1.  To pour back.
Were the humors of the eye tinctured with any color, they would refund that color upon the object.  [Unusual or obsolete.]
2.  To repay; to return in payment or compensation for what has been taken; to restore; as, to refund money taken wrongfully; to refund money advanced with interest; to refund the amount advanced.


Topic: Refusal
Definition:
REFU'SAL, n.  s as z.
1.  The act of refusing; denial of any thing demanded, solicited or offered for acceptance.  The first refusal is not always proof that the request will not be ultimately granted.
2.  The right of taking in preference to others; the choice of taking or refusing; option; pre-emption.  We say, a man has the refusal of a farm or a horse, or the refusal of an employment.


Topic: Refuse
Definition:
REFU'SE, v.t. s as z.  [L. recuso; re and the root of causor, to accuse; causa, cause.  The primary sense of causor is to drive, to throw or thrust at, and recuso is to drive back, to repel or repulse, the sense of refuse.]
1.  To deny a request, demand, invitation or command; to decline to do or grant what is solicited, claimed or commanded.
Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border.  Num. 20.
2.  To decline to accept what is offered; as, to refuse an office; to refuse an offer.
If they refuse to take the cup at thy hand - Jer. 25.
3.  To reject; as, to refuse instruction or reproof.  
Prov. 10.
The stone which the builders refused is become the head of the corner.  Ps. 118.
[Note - Refuse expenses rejection more strongly than decline.]
REFU'SE, v.i.  s as z.  To decline to accept; not to comply.
Too proud to ask, to humble too refuse.


Topic: Refutable
Definition:
REFU'TABLE, a.  [from refute.]  That may be refuted or disproved; that may be proved false or erroneous.


Topic: Refutation
Definition:
REFUTA'TION, n.  [L. refutatio.  See Refute.]
The act or process of refuting or disproving; the act of proving to be false or erroneous; the overthrowing of an argument, opinion, testimony, doctrine or theory, by argument or countervailing proof.


Topic: Refute
Definition:
REFU'TE, v.t.  [L. refuto; re and futo, Obs.  The primary sense of futo, is to drive or thrust, to beat back.]
To disprove and overthrow by argument, evidence or countervailing proof; to prove to be false or erroneous; to confute.  We say, to refute arguments, to refute testimony, to refute opinions or theories, to refute a disputant.
There were so many witnesses to these two miracles, that it is impossible to refute such multitudes.


Topic: Regal
Definition:
RE'GAL, a.  [L. regalis, from rex, L. rectus.  See Reck and Reckon.]
Pertaining to a king; kingly; royal; as a regal title; regal authority; regal state, pomp or splendor; regal power or sway.  But we say, a royal or kingly government, not a regal one.  We never say, a regal territory, regal dominions, regal army, or regal navy.  Regal expresses what is more personal.
RE'GAL, n.  A musical instrument.


Topic: Regale
Definition:
REGA'LE, n.  The prerogative of monarchy.
REGA'LE, n.  [See the verb, below.]  A magnificent entertainment or treat given to embassadors and other persons of distinction.
REGA'LE, v.t.  [Eng. gale, gallant, jolly; Gr.]
To refresh; to entertain with something that delights; to gratify, as the senses; as, to regale the taste, the eye or the ear.  The birds of the forest regale us with their songs.
REGA'LE, v.t.  To feast; to fare sumptuously.


Topic: Regalia
Definition:
REGA'LIA, n.  [L. from rex, king.]  
1.  Ensigns of royalty; the apparatus of a coronation; as the crown, scepter, &c.
2.  In law, the rights and prerogatives of a king.


Topic: Regality
Definition:
REGAL'ITY, n.  [from L. regalis.]  Royalty; sovereignty; kingship.
He came partly in by the sword and had high courage in all points of regality.


Topic: Regard
Definition:
REG'ARD, v.t.
1.  To look towards; to point or be directed.
It is a peninsula which regardeth the main land.
2.  To observe; to notice with some particularity.
If much you note him, you offend him; feed and regard him not.
3.  To attend to with respect and estimation; to value.
This aspect of mine, the best regarded virgins of your clime have lov'd.
4.  To attend to as a thing that affects our interest or happiness; to fix the mind on as a matter of importance.  He does not regard the pain he feels.  He does not regard the loss he has suffered.  He regards only the interest of the community.
5.  To esteem; to hold in respect and affection.  The people regard their pastor, and treat him with great kindness. 2Kings 3.
6.  To keep; to observe with religious or solemn attention.
He that regardeth the day, regardeth it to the Lord.  
Rom. 14.
7.  To attend to as something to influence our conduct.
He that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.  Eccles. 11.
8.  To consider seriously; to lay to heart.
They regard not the work of the Lord.  Is. 5.
9.  To notice with pity or concern.  Deut. 28.
10.  To notice favorably or with acceptance; to hear and answer.
He will regard the prayer of the destitute.  Ps. 102.
11.  To love and esteem; to practice; as, to regard iniquity in the heart.  Ps. 64.
12.  To respect; to have relation to.  The argument does not regard the question.
To regard the person, to value for outward honor, wealth or power.  Matt. 22.
REG'ARD, n.
1.  Look; aspect directed to another.
But her with stern regard he thus repell'd.
[Nearly or quite obsolete.]
2.  Attention of the mind; respect in relation to something.  He has no regard to the interest of society; his motives are wholly selfish.
3.  Respect; esteem; reverence; that view of the mind which springs from value, estimable qualities, or any thing that excites admiration.
With some regard to what is just and right they'll lead their lives.
To him they had regard, because of long time he had bewitched them with sorceries.  Act. 8.
4.  Respect; account.
Change was thought necessary, in regard of the injury the church received by a number of things then in use.
5.  Relation; reference.
To persuade them to pursue and preserve in virtue, in regard to themselves; in justice and goodness, in regard to their neighbors; and piety towards God.
6.  Note; eminence; account.
Mac Ferlagh was a man of meanest regard among them.
7.  Matter demanding notice.
8.  Prospect; object of sight.  [Not proper nor in use.]
9.  In the forest laws, view; inspection.
Court of regard, or survey of dogs, a forest court in England, held every third year for the lawing or expeditation of mastifs, that is, for cutting off the claws and ball of the fore feet, to prevent them from running after deer.


Topic: Regardant
Definition:
REG'ARDANT, a.  
1.  In law, a villain regardant is one annexed to the manor or land.
2.  In heraldry, looking behind, as a lion or other beast.


Topic: Regarder
Definition:
REG'ARDER, n.
1.  One that regards.
2.  In law, the regarder of the forest is an officer whose business is to view the forest, inspect the officers, and inquire of all offenses and defaults.


Topic: Regardful
Definition:
REG'ARDFUL, a.  Taking notice; heedful; observing with care; attentive.
Let a man be very tender and regardful of every pious motion made by the Spirit of God on his heart.


Topic: Regarding
Definition:
REG'ARDING, ppr.  
1.  Noticing; considering with care; attending to; observing; esteeming; caring for.
2.  Respecting; concerning; relating to.


Topic: Regardless
Definition:
REG'ARDLESS, a.  
1.  Not looking or attending to; heedless; negligent; careless; as regardless of life or of health; regardless of danger; regardless of consequences.
Regardless of the bliss wherein he sat.
2.  Not regarded; slighted.


Topic: Regenerate
Definition:
REGEN'ERATE, v.t.  [L. regenero; re and genero.  See Generate.]
1.  To generate or produce anew; to reproduce.
Through all the soil a genial ferment spreads, regenerates the plants and new adorns the meads.
2.  In theology, to renew the heart by a change of affections; to change the heart and affections from natural enmity to the love of God; to implant holy affections in the heart.
REGEN'ERATE, a.  [L. regeneratus.]
1.  Reproduced.
2.  Born anew; renovated in heart; changed from a natural to a spiritual state.


Topic: Regenerating
Definition:
REGEN'ERATING, ppr.
1.  Reproducing.
2.  Renovating the nature by the implantation of holy affections in the heart.


Topic: Regeneration
Definition:
REGENERA'TION, n.
1.  Reproduction; the act of producing anew.
2.  In theology, new birth by the grace of God; that change by which the will and natural enmity of man to God and his law are subdued, and a principle of supreme love to God and his law, or holy affections, are implanted in the heart.
He saved us by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit.  Titus 3.


Topic: Regent
Definition:
RE'GENT, a.  [L. regens, from rego, to rule.
1.  Ruling; governing; as a regent principle.
2.  Exercising vicarious authority.
Queen regent, a queen who governs; opposed to queen consort.
RE'GENT, n.
1.  A governor; a ruler; in a general sense; as Uriel, regent of the sun.
2.  One invested with vicarious authority; one who governs a kingdom in the minority, absence or disability of the king.
3.  In colleges, a teacher of arts and sciences, having pupils under his care, generally of the lower classes; those who instruct the higher classes being called professors.
4.  In English universities, a master of arts under five years standing, and a doctor under two.
5.  In the state of New york, the member of a corporate body which is invested with the superintendence of all the colleges, academies and schools in the state.  This board consists of twenty one members, who are called 'the regents of the university of the state of New York.'  They are appointed and removable by the legislature.  They have power to grant acts of incorporation for colleges, to visit and inspect all colleges, academies and schools, and to make regulations for governing the same.


Topic: Regerminate
Definition:
REGERM'INATE, v.i.  [re and germinate.]
To germinate again.
Perennial plants regerminate several years successively.


Topic: Regicide
Definition:
REG'ICIDE, n.  [L. rex, king, and caedo, to slay.]
1.  A king-killer; one who murders a king.
2.  The killing or murder of a king.


Topic: Regimen
Definition:
REG'IMEN, n.  [L. from rego, to govern.]
1.  In medicine, the regulation of diet with a view to the preservation or restoration of health; or in a more general sense, the regulation of all the non-naturals for the same purposes.
2.  Any regulation or remedy which is intended to produce beneficial effects by gradual operation.
3.  In grammar, government; that part of syntax or construction, which regulates the dependency of words, and the alterations which one occasions or requires in another in connection with it; the words governed.
4.  Orderly government; system of order.


Topic: Regiment
Definition:
REG'IMENT, n.  [L. regimen.]
1.  In military affairs, a body of men, either horse, foot or artillery, commanded by a colonel or lieutenant colonel and major, and consisting of a number of companies, usually from eight to ten.
2.  Government; mode of ruling; rule; authority; as used by Hooker, Hale and others.  [Wholly obsolete.]
REG'IMENT, v.t.  To form into a regiment or into regiments with proper officers.  [A military use of the word.]


Topic: Region
Definition:
REGION, n. re'jun.  [L. regio, rego.]
1.  A tract of land or space of indefinite extent, usually a tract of considerable extent.  It is sometimes nearly synonymous with country; as all the region of Argob.  Deut. 3.
He had dominion over all the region on this side the river.  1Kings 4.
So we speak of the airy region, the etherial regions, the upper regions, the lower regions.
2.  The inhabitants of a region or district of country.  Matt. 3.
3.  A part of the body; as the region of the heart or liver.
4.  Place; rank.
He is of too high a region.  [Unusual.]


Topic: Register
Definition:
REG'ISTER, n.  [Low L. registrum, from regero, to set down in writing; re and gero, to carry.]
1.  A written account or entry of acts, judgments or proceedings, for preserving and conveying to future times an exact knowledge of transactions.  The word appropriately denotes an official account of the proceedings of a public body, a prince, a legislature, a court an incorporated company and the like, and in this use it is synonymous with record.  But in a lax sense, it signifies any account entered on paper to preserve the remembrance of what is done.
2.  The book in which a register or record is kept, as a parish register; also, a list, as the register of seamen.
3.  [Low L. registrarius.]  The officer or person whose business is to write or enter in a book accounts of transactions, particularly of the acts and proceedings of courts or other public bodies; as the register of a court of probate; a register of deeds.
4.  In chimistry and the arts, an aperture with a lid, stopper or sliding plate, in a furnace.
stove, &c. for regulating the admission of air and the heat of the fire.
5.  The inner part of the mold in which types are cast.
6.  In printing, the correspondence of columns on the opposite sides of the sheet.
7.  A sliding piece of wood, used as a stop in an organ.
Parish register, a book in which are recorded the baptisms of children and the marriages and burials of the parish.
Register ship, a ship which obtains permission to trade to the Spanish West Indies and is registered before sailing.
REG'ISTER, v.t.  
1.  To record; to write in a book for preserving an exact account of facts and proceedings.  The Greeks and Romans registered the names of all children born.
2.  To enroll; to enter in a list.


Topic: Registrar
Definition:
REG'ISTRAR, n.  An officer in the English universities, who has the keeping of all the public records.


Topic: Registry
Definition:
REG'ISTRY, n.
1.  The act of recording or writing in a register.
2.  The place where a register is kept.
3.  A series of facts recorded.


Topic: Reglet
Definition:
REG'LET, n.  [L. regula, rego.]
A ledge of wood exactly planed, used by printers to separate lines and make the work more open.


Topic: Regnant
Definition:
REG'NANT, a.  [L. regno, to reign.]
1.  Reigning; exercising regal authority; as a queen regnant.  The modern phrase is queen regent.
2.  Ruling; predominant; prevalent; having the chief power; as vices regnant.  We now say, reigning vices.


Topic: Regorge
Definition:
REGORGE, v.t. regorj'.
1.  To vomit up; to eject from the stomach; to throw back or out again.
2.  To swallow again.
3.  To swallow eagerly.


Topic: Regrant
Definition:
REGR'ANT, v.t.  [re and grant.]  To grant back.
REGR'ANT, n.  The act of granting back to a former proprietor.


Topic: Regrate
Definition:
REGRA'TE, v.t.
1.  To offend; to shock.  [Little used.]
2.  To buy provisions and sell them again in the same market or fair; a practice which, by raising the price is a public offense and punishable.  Regrating differs from engrossing and monopolizing, which signify the buying the whole of certain articles, or large quantities, and from forestalling, which signifies the purchase of provisions on the way, before they reach the market.


Topic: Regress
Definition:
RE'GRESS, n.  [L. regressus, regredior.]
1.  Passage back; return; as ingress and regress.
2.  The power of returning or passing back.


Topic: Regret
Definition:
REGRET', n.  
1.  Grief; sorrow; pain of mind.  We feel regret at the loss of friends, regret for our own misfortunes, or for the misfortunes of others.
Never any prince expressed a more lively regret for the loss of a servant.
Her piety itself would blame, if her regrets should waken thine.
2.  Pain of conscience; remorse; as a passionate regret at sin.
3.  Dislike; aversion.  [Not proper nor in use.]
REGRET', v.t.  
1.  To grieve at; to lament; to be sorry for; to repent.
Calmly he look'd on either life, and here saw nothing to regret, or there to fear.
2.  To be uneasy at.  [Not proper nor in use.]


Topic: Reguerdon
Definition:
REGUERDON, n.  regerd'on.  [See Reward.]
A reward; a recompense.  [Not in use.]
REGUERDON, v.t.  regerd'on.  To reward.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Regular
Definition:
REG'ULAR, a.  [L. regularis, from regula, a rule, from rego, to rule.]
1.  Conformed to a rule; agreeable to an established rule, law or principle, to a prescribed mode or to established customary forms; as a regular epic poem; a regular verse in poetry; a regular piece of music; regular practice of law or medicine; a regular plan; a regular building.
2.  Governed by rule or rules; steady or uniform in a course or practice; as regular in diet; regular in attending on divine worship.
3.  In geometry, a regular figure is one whose sides and angles are equal, as a square, a cube, or an equilateral triangle.  Regular figures of more than three or four sides are usually called regular polygons.
4.  Instituted or initiated according to established forms or discipline; as a regular physician.
5.  Methodical; orderly; as a regular kind of sensuality or indulgence.
6.  Periodical; as the regular return of day and night; a regular trade wind or monsoon.
7.  Pursued with uniformity or steadiness; as a regular trade.
8.  Belonging to a monastic order; as regular clergy, in distinction from the secular clergy.
Regular troops, troops of a permanent army; opposed to militia.
REG'ULAR, n.
1.  In a monastery, one who has taken the vows, and who is bound to follow the rules of the order.
2.  A soldier belonging to a permanent army.


Topic: Regularity
Definition:
REGULAR'ITY, n.  
1.  Agreeableness to a rule or to established order; as the regularity of legal proceedings.
2.  Method; certain order.  Regularity is the life of business.
3.  Conformity to certain principles; as the regularity of a figure.
4.  Steadiness or uniformity in a course; as the regularity of the motion of a heavenly body.  There is no regularity in the vicissitudes of the weather.


Topic: Regularly
Definition:
REG'ULARLY, adv.
1.  In a manner accordant to a rule or established mode; as a physician or lawyer regularly admitted to practice; a verse regularly formed.
2.  In uniform order; at certain intervals or periods; as day and night regularly returning.
3.  Methodically; in due order; as affairs regularly performed.


Topic: Regulate
Definition:
REG'ULATE, v.t.
1.  To adjust by rule, method or established mode; as, to regulate weights and measures; to regulate the assize of bread; to regulate our moral conduct by the laws of God and of society; to regulate our manners by the customary forms.
2.  To put in good order; as, to regulate the disordered state of a nation or its finances.
3.  To subject to rules or restrictions; as, to regulate trade; to regulate diet.


Topic: Regulated
Definition:
REG'ULATED, pp.  Adjusted by rule, method or forms; put in good order; subjected to rules or restrictions.


Topic: Regulating
Definition:
REG'ULATING, ppr.  Adjusting by rule, method or forms; reducing to order; subjecting to rules or restrictions.


Topic: Regulation
Definition:
REGULA'TION, n. 
1.  The act of regulating or reducing to order.
2.  A rule or order prescribed by a superior for the management of some business, or for the government of a company or society.


Topic: Regulator
Definition:
REG'ULATOR, n.
1.  One who regulates.
2.  The small spring of a watch, which regulates its motions by retarding or accelerating them.
3.  Any part of a machine which regulates its movements.


Topic: Reguline
Definition:
REG'ULINE, a.  [See Regulus.]  Pertaining to regulus or pure metal.
Bodies which we can reduce to the metallic or reguline state. 


Topic: Regulus
Definition:
REG'ULUS, n.  [L. a petty king.]
In chimistry, the finer or pure part of a metallic substance, which, in the melting of ores, falls to the bottom of the crucible.


Topic: Regurgitate
Definition:
REGURG'ITATE, v.t.  [L. re and gurges.]
To throw or pour back as from a deep or hollow place; to pour or throw back in great quantity.
REGURG'ITATE, v.i.  To be thrown or poured back.


Topic: Rehabilitate
Definition:
REHABIL'ITATE, v.t.
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 the civil and canon law.


Topic: Rehabilitation
Definition:
REHABILITA'TION, n.  The act of reinstating in a former rank or capacity; restoration to former rights.


Topic: Rehear
Definition:
REHE'AR, v.t.  pret. and pp.  reheard.  [re and hear.]
To hear again; to try a second time; as, to rehear a cause in the court of king's bench.


Topic: Rehearing
Definition:
REHE'ARING, ppr.  Hearing a second time.
REHE'ARING, n.
1.  A second hearing.
2.  In law, a second hearing or trial.


Topic: Rehearsal
Definition:
REHEARSAL, n.  rehers'al.  [from rehearse.]
1.  Recital; repetition of the words of another or of a written work; as the rehearsal of the Lord's prayer.
2.  Narration; a telling or recounting, as of particulars in detail; as the rehearsal of a soldier's adventures.
3.  The recital of a place before the public exhibition of it; as the rehearsal of a comedy.


Topic: Rehearse
Definition:
REHEARSE, v.t. rehers.'
1.  To recite; to repeat the words of a passage or composition; to repeat the words of another.
When the words were heard which David spoke, they rehearsed them before Saul.  1Sam. 17.
2.  To narrate or recount events or transactions.
There shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord.  Judges 5.  Acts 11.
3.  To recite or repeat in private for experiment and improvement, before a public representation; as, to rehearse a tragedy.


Topic: Reigle
Definition:
RE'IGLE, n.  A hollow cut or channel for guiding any thing; as the reigle of a side post for a flood gate.


Topic: Reign
Definition:
REIGN, v.i. rane.  [L. regno, a derivative of rego, regnum.]
1.  To possess or exercise sovereign power or authority; to rule; to exercise government, as a king or emperor; or to hold the supreme power.  George the third reigned over Great Britain more than fifty years.
Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness.  Is. 32.
2.  To be predominant; to prevail.
Pestilent diseases which commonly reign in summer or autumn.
3.  To rule; to have superior or uncontrolled dominion.  Romans 6.
[This word is never applied to the exercise of supreme power by a legislative body or the executive administration, in the United States.]
REIGN, n. rane.  [L. regnum.]
1.  Royal authority; supreme power; sovereignty.
He who like a father held his reign.
2.  The time during which a king, queen or emperor possesses the supreme authority.  The Spanish armada was equipped to invade England in the reign of queen Elizabeth.  Magna Charta was obtained in the reign of king John.
3.  Kingdom; dominion.
Saturn's sons received the threefold reign of heav'n, of ocean, and deep hell beneath.
4.  Power; influence.
5.  Prevalence.


Topic: Reigning
Definition:
REIGNING, ppr. ra'ning. 
1.  Holding or exercising supreme power; ruling; governing as king, queen or emperor.
2.  a. Predominating; prevailing; as a reigning vice or disease.


Topic: Reimbursable
Definition:
REIMBURS'ABLE, a.  That may be repaid.
A loan has been made of two million of dollars, reimbursable in ten years.


Topic: Reimburse
Definition:
REIMBURSE, v.t. reimburs'.
To refund; to replace in a treasury or in a private coffer, an equivalent to the sum taken from it, lost or expended; as, to reimburse the expenses of a war or a canal.  The word is used before the person expending, or the treasury from which the advances are made, or before the expenses.  We say, to reimburse the individual, to reimburse the treasury, or to reimburse the expenses.  To reimburse the person, is to repay to him his losses, expenses or advances; to reimburse the treasury, is to refund to it the sum drawn from it; to reimburse losses or expenses, is to repay them or make them good.


Topic: Reimbursement
Definition:
REIMBURSEMENT, n. reimburs'ment.  The act of repaying or refunding; repayment; as the reimbursement of principal and interest.


Topic: Rein
Definition:
REIN, n.  [L. retina, retinaculum.  If contracted from the Latin, it is from retineo, otherwise from the root of arrest.]
1.  The strap of a bridle, fastened to the curb or snaffle on each side, by which the rider of a horse restrains and governs him.
2.  The instrument of curbing, restraining or governing; government.
To give the reins, to give license; to leave without restraint.
To take the reins, to take the guidance or government.
REIN, v.t.  
1.  To govern by a bridle.
2.  To restrain; to control.


Topic: Reindeer
Definition:
REINDEER, n.
A species of the cervine genus; more correctly written ranedeer, or rather rane, which is the true name.


Topic: Reinforce
Definition:
REINFORCE, v.t.  [re and enforce.]  To give new force to; to strengthen by new assistance or support.  [It is written also re-enforce; but reinforce seems now to be the most common.]


Topic: Reinforcement
Definition:
REINFORCEMENT, n.  New force added; fresh supplies of strength; particularly, additional troops or ships.


Topic: Reingratiate
Definition:
REINGRA'TIATE, v.t.  To ingratiate again.
REINGRA'TIATE, v.t.  [re and ingratiate.]  To ingratiate again; to recommend again to favor.


Topic: Reins
Definition:
REINS, n. plu.  [L. ren, renes.]
1.  The kidneys; the lower part of the back.
2.  In Scripture, the inward parts; the heart, or seat of the affections and passions.  Ps. 73.


Topic: Reinstate
Definition:
REINSTA'TE, v.t.  [re and instate.]  To place again in possession or in a former state; to restore to a state from which one has been removed; as, to reinstate a king in the possession of the kingdom; to reinstate one in the affections of his family.


Topic: Reinsurance
Definition:
REINSU'RANCE, n.  [re and insurance.  See Sure.]
An insurance of property already insured; a second insurance of the same property.  Such reinsurance is permitted by the French commercial code; but in England is prohibited by statute, except when the first underwriter is insolvent.


Topic: Reinsure
Definition:
REINSU'RE, v.t.  [re and insure.]  To insure the same property a second time by other underwriters.
The insurer may cause the property insured to be reinsured by other persons.


Topic: Reintegrate
Definition:
REIN'TEGRATE, v.t.  [L. redintegro; red, re, and integro, from integer.]
To renew with regard to any state or quality; to restore.  [Little used.]


Topic: Reiterate
Definition:
REIT'ERATE, v.t.  [L. re and itero.]
To repeat; to repeat again and again; as reiterated crimes; to reiterate requests.


Topic: Reject
Definition:
REJECT', v.t.  [L. rejicio, rejectus, re and jacio, to throw.]
1.  To throw away, as any thing useless or vile.
2.  To cast off.
Have I rejected those that me ador'd?
3.  To cast off; to forsake.  Jer. 7.
4.  To refuse to receive; to slight; to despise.
Because thou has rejected knowledge, I will reject thee.  Hos. 4.  1Sam. 15.
5.  To refuse to grant; as, to reject a prayer or request.
6.  To refuse to accept; as, to reject an offer.


Topic: Rejection
Definition:
REJEC'TION, n.  [L. rejectio.]  The act of throwing away; the act of casting off or forsaking; refusal to accept or grant.


Topic: Rejoice
Definition:
REJOICE, v.i. rejois'.
To experience joy and gladness in a high degree; to be exhilarated with lively and pleasurable sensations; to exult.
When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.  Prov. 29.
I will rejoice in thy salvation.  Ps. 9.
REJOICE, v.t.  rejois'.  To make joyful; to gladden; to animate with lively pleasurable sensations; to exhilarate.
Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father.  Prov. 29.
While she, great saint, rejoices heaven.


Topic: Rejoicing
Definition:
REJOIC'ING, ppr.  Animating with gladness; exhilarating; feeling joy.
REJOIC'ING, ppr.  Animating with gladness; exhilarating; feeling joy.
REJOIC'ING, n.
1.  The act of expressing joy and gladness.
The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous.  Ps. 118.
2.  The subject of joy.
Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage forever, for they are the rejoicing of my heart.  Ps. 119.
3.  The experience of joy.  Gal. 6.


Topic: Rejoin
Definition:
REJOIN', v.t.  [re and join.]
1.  To join again; to unite after separation.
2.  To meet one again.
REJOIN', v.i.
1.  To answer to a reply.
2.  In law pleadings, to answer, as the defendant to the plantif's replication.


Topic: Rejoinder
Definition:
REJOIND'ER, n.
1.  An answer to a reply; or in general, an answer.
2.  In law pleadings, the defendants's answer to the plantif's replication.


Topic: Rejudge
Definition:
REJUDGE, v.t. rejuj'.  [re and judge.]  To judge again; to re-examine; to review; to call to a new trial and decision.
Rejudge his acts, and dignify disgrace.


Topic: Rekindle
Definition:
REKIN'DLE, v.t.  [re and kindle.]
1.  To kindle again; to set on fire anew.
2.  To inflame again; to rouse anew.


Topic: Reland
Definition:
RELAND', v.t.  [re and land.]  To land again; to put on land what had been shipped or embarked.
RELAND', v.i.  To go on shore after having embarked.


Topic: Relapse
Definition:
RELAPSE, v.i.  relaps'.  [L. relapsus, relabor, to slide back; re and labor, to slide.]
1.  To slip or slide back; to return.
2.  To fall back; to return to a former state or practice; as, to relapse into vice or error after amendment.
3.  To fall back or return from recovery or a convalescent state; as, to relapse into a fever.
RELAPSE, n.  relaps'.  A sliding or falling back, particularly into a former bad state, either of body or of morals; as a relapse into a disease from a convalescent state; a relapse into a vicious course of life.  [In the sense of a person relapsing, not used.]


Topic: Relate
Definition:
RELA'TE, v.t.  [L. relatus, refero; re and fero, to produce.]
1.  To tell; to recite; to narrate the particulars of an event; as, to relate the story of Priam; to relate the adventures of Don Quixote.
2.  To bring back; to restore.  [Not in use.]
3.  To ally by connection or kindred.
To relate one's self, to vent thoughts in words.
RELA'TE, v.i.  To have reference or respect; to regard.
All negative words relate to positive ideas.


Topic: Related
Definition:
RELA'TED, pp. 
1.  Recited; narrated.
2.  a.  Allied by kindred; connected by blood or alliance, particularly by consanguinity; as a person related in the first or second degree.


Topic: Relation
Definition:
RELA'TION, n.  [L. relatio, refero.]
1.  The act of telling; recital; account; narration; narrative of facts; as a historical relation.  We listened to the relation of his adventures.
2.  Respect; reference; regard.
I have been importuned to make some observations on this art, in relation to its agreement with poetry.
3.  Connection between things; mutual respect, or what one thing is with regard to another; as the relation of a citizen to the state; the relation of a subject to the supreme authority; the relation of husband and wife, or of master and servant; the relation of a state of probation to a state of retribution.
4.  Kindred; alliance; as the relation of parents and children.
Relations dear, and all the charities of father, son and brother, first were known.
5.  A person connected by consanguinity or affinity; a kinsman or kinswoman.  He passed a month with his relations in the country.
6.  Resemblance of phenomena; analogy.
7.  In geometry, ratio; proportion.


Topic: Relational
Definition:
RELA'TIONAL, a.  Having relation or kindred.
We might be tempted to take these two nations for relational stems.


Topic: Relationship
Definition:
RELA'TIONSHIP, n.  The state of being related by kindred, affinity or other alliance.
[This word is generally tautological and useless.]


Topic: Relative
Definition:
REL'ATIVE, a.  [L. relativus.]
1.  Having relation; respecting.  The arguments may be good, but they are not relative to the subject.
2.  Not absolute or existing by itself; considered as belonging to or respecting something else.
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 relation to the whole.
3.  Incident to man in society; as relative rights and duties.
4.  Particular; positive.  [Not in use.]
Relative made, in music, the mode which the composer interweaves with the principal mode in the flow of the harmony.
Relative terms, in logic, terms which imply relation, as guardian and ward; master and servant; husband and wife.
Relative word, in grammar, a word which relates to another word, called its antecedent, or to a sentence or member of a sentence, or to a series of sentences.
REL'ATIVE, n.  
1.  A person connected by blood or affinity; strictly, one allied by blood; a relation; a kinsman or kinswoman.
Confining our care either to ourselves and relatives.
2.  That which has relation to something else.
3.  In grammar, a word which relates to or represents another word, called its antecedent, or to a sentence or member of a sentence, or to a series of sentences, which constitutes its antecedent.  'He seldom lives frugally, who lives by chance.'  Here who is the relative, which represents he, the antecedent.
'Judas declared him innocent, which he could not be, had he deceived his disciples.'  Here which refers to innocent, an adjective, as its antecedent.
'Another reason that makes me doubt of any innate practical principles is, that I think there cannot any one moral rule be proposed, whereof a man may not justly demand a reason; which would be perfectly ridiculous and absurd, if they were innate, or so much as self-evident, which every innate principle must needs be.'
If we ask the question, what would be ridiculous and absurd, the answer must be, whereof a man may justly demand a reason, and this part of the sentence is the antecedent to which.  Self-evident is the antecedent to which, near the close of the sentence.


Topic: Relatively
Definition:
REL'ATIVELY, adv.  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.


Topic: Relax
Definition:
RELAX', v.t.  [L. relaxo; re and laxo, to slacken.]
1.  To slacken; to make less tense or rigid; as, to relax a rope or cord; to relax the muscles or sinews; to relax the reins in riding.
2.  To loosen; to make less close or firm; as, to relax the joints.
3.  To make less severe or rigorous; to remit or abate in strictness; as, to relax a law or rule of justice; to relax a demand.
4.  To remit or abate in attention, assiduity or labor; as, to relax study; to relax exertions or efforts.
5.  To unbend; to ease; to relieve from close attention; as, conversation relaxes the student or the mind.
6.  To relieve from constipation; to loosen; to open; as, medicines relax the bowels.
7.  To open; to loose.
8.  To make languid.
RELAX', v.i.  
1.  To abate in severity; to become more mild or less rigorous.
In others she relax'd again, and govern'd with a looser rein.
2.  To remit in close attention.  It is useful for the student to relax often, and give himself to exercise and amusements.
RELAX', n.  Relaxation.  [Not used.]


Topic: Relaxation
Definition:
RELAXA'TION,  n.  [L. relaxatio.]
1.  The act of slackening or remitting tension; as a relaxation of the muscles, fibers or nerves; a relaxation of the whole system.
2.  Cessation of restraint.
3.  Remission or abatement of rigor; as a relaxation of the law.
4.  Remission of attention or application; as a relaxation of mind, study or business.
5.  An opening or loosening.


Topic: Relaxed
Definition:
RELAX'ED, pp.  Slackened; loosened; remitted or abated in rigor or in closeness; made less vigorous; languid.


Topic: Relaxing
Definition:
RELAX'ING, ppr.  Slackening; loosening; remitting or abating in rigor, severity or attention; rendering languid.


Topic: Relay
Definition:
RELA'Y, n. 
1.  A supply of horses placed on the road to be in readiness to relieve others, that a traveler may proceed without delay.
2.  Hunting dogs kept in readiness at certain places to pursue the game, when the dogs that have been in pursuit are weary.
RELA'Y, v.t.  [re and lay.]  To lay again; to lay a second time; as, to relay a pavement.


Topic: Release
Definition:
RELE'ASE, v.t.
1.  To set free from restraint of any kind, either physical or moral; to liberate from prison, confinement or servitude.  
Matt. 15.  Mark 15.
2.  To free from pain, care, trouble, grief, &c.
3.  To free from obligation or penalty; as, to release one from debt, from a promise or covenant.
4.  To quit; to let go, as a legal claim; as, to release a debt or forfeiture.  Deut. 15.
5.  To discharge or relinquish a right to lands or tenements, by conveying it to another that has some right or estate in possession, as when the person in remainder releases his right to the tenant in possession; when one co-parcener releases his right to the other; or the mortgagee releases his claim to the mortgager.
6.  To relax.  [Not in use.]
RELE'ASE, n.
1.  Liberation or discharge from restraint of any kind, as from confinement or bondage.
2.  Liberation from care, pain or any burden.
3.  Discharge from obligation or responsibility, as from debt, penalty or claim of any kind; acquittance.
4.  In law, a release or deed of release is a conveyance of a man's right in lands or tenements to another who has some estate in possession; a quitclaim.  The efficient words in such an instrument are, 'remised, released, and forever quitclaimed.'


Topic: Released
Definition:
RELE'ASED, pp.  Set free from confinement; freed from obligation or liability; freed from pain; quitclaimed.


Topic: Releasing
Definition:
RELE'ASING, ppr.  Liberating from confinement or restraint; freeing from obligation or responsibility, or from pain or other evil; quitclaiming.


Topic: Relent
Definition:
RELENT', v.i.  [L. blandus, which unites the L. blandus with lentus.  The English is from re and L. lentus, gentle, pliant, slow, the primary sense of which is soft or yielding.  The L. lenis is probably of the same family.  See Bland.]
1.  To soften; to become less rigid or hard; to give.
In some houses, sweetmeats will relent more than in others.
When op'ning buds salute the welcome day, and earth relenting feels the genial ray.
[This sense of the word is admissible in poetry, but is not in common use.]
2.  To grow moist; to deliquesce; applied to salts; as the relenting of the air.
Salt of tartar - placed in a cellar, will begin to relent.
[This sense is not in use.]
3.  To become less intense.  [Little used.]
4.  To soften in temper; to become more mild and tender; to feel compassion.  [This is the usual sense of the word.]
Can you behold my tears, and not once relent?
RELENT', v.t.
1.  To slacken.
And oftentimes he would relent his pace.  Obs.
2.  To soften; to mollify.  Obs.
RELENT', pp.  Dissolved.  obs.
RELENT', n.  Remission; stay.  Obs.


Topic: Relenting
Definition:
RELENT'ING, ppr.  Softening in temper; becoming more mild or compassionate.
RELENT'ING, n.  The act of becoming more mild or compassionate.


Topic: Relentless
Definition:
RELENT'LESS, a.  Unmoved by pity unpitying; insensible to the distress of others; destitute of tenderness; as a pray to relentless despotism.
For this th' avenging pow'r employs his darts,
Thus will persist relentless in his ire.
Relentless thoughts, in Milton, may signify unremitted, intently fixed on disquieting objects.
[This sense of the word is unusual and not to be countenanced.]


Topic: Relessor
Definition:
RELESSOR', n.  The person who executes a release.
There must be a privity of estate between the relessor and release.


Topic: Relevant
Definition:
REL'EVANT, a.  [L. relever, to relieve, to advance, to raise; re and lever, to raise.]
1.  Relieving; lending aid or support.
2.  Pertinent; applicable.  The testimony is not relevant to the case.  The argument is not relevant to the question.  [This is the sense in which the word is now generally used.]
3.  Sufficient to support the cause.


Topic: Reliance
Definition:
RELI'ANCE, n.  [from rely.]  Rest or repose of mind, resulting from a full belief of the veracity or integrity of a person, or of the certainty of a fact; trust; confidence; dependence.  We may have perfect reliance on the promises of God; we have reliance on the testimony of witnesses; we place reliance on men of known integrity, or on the strength and stability of government.


Topic: Relic
Definition:
REL'IC, n.  [L. reliquiae, from relinquo, to leave; re and linquo.]
1.  That which remains; that which is left after the loss or decay of the rest; as the relics of a town; the relics of magnificence; the relics of antiquity.  The relics of saints, real or pretended, are held in great veneration by the catholics.
2.  The body of a deceased person; a corpse.  [Usually in the plural.]


Topic: Relict
Definition:
REL'ICT, n.  [L. relictus, relicta, from relinquo, to leave.]
A widow; a woman whose husband is dead.


Topic: Relief
Definition:
RELIE'F, n.
1.  The removal, in whole or in part, of any evil that afflicts the body of mind; the removal or alleviation of pain, grief, want, care, anxiety, toil or distress, or of any thing oppressive or burdensome, by which some ease is obtained.  Rest gives relief to the body when weary; an anodyne gives relief from pain; the sympathy of friends affords some relief to the distressed; a loan of money to a man embarrassed may afford him a temporary relief; medicines which will not cure a disease, sometimes give a partial relief.  A complete relief from the troubles of life is never to be expected.
2.  That which mitigates or removes pain, grief or other evil.
3.  The dismission of a sentinel from his post, whose place is supplied by another soldier; also, the person who takes his place.
4.  In sculpture, &c. the projecture or prominence of a figure above or beyond the ground or plane on which it is formed.  Relief is of three kinds; high relief [alto relievo;] low relief [basso relievo;] and demi relief [demi relievo.]  The difference is in the degree of projecture.  High relief is formed from nature, as when a figure projects as much as the life.  Low relief is when the figure projects but little, as in medals, festoons, foliages and other ornaments.  Demi relief is when one half of the figure rises from the plane.
5.  In painting, the appearance of projection, or the degree of boldness which a figure exhibits to the eye at a distance.
6.  In feudal law, a fine or composition which the heir of a tenant, holding by knight's service or other tenure, paid to the lord at the death of the ancestor, 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.  This relief consisted of horses, arms, money and the like, the amount of which was originally arbitrary, but afterwards fixed at a certain rate by law.  It is not payable, unless the heir at the death of his ancestor had attained to the age of twenty one years.
7.  A remedy, partial or total, for any wrong suffered; redress; indemnification.  He applied to chancery, but could get no relief.  He petitioned the legislature and obtained relief.
8.  The exposure of any thing by the proximity of something else.


Topic: Relieve
Definition:
RELIE'VE, v.t.  [L. relevo.  See Relief.]
1.  To free, wholly or partially, from pain, grief, want, anxiety, care, toil, trouble, burden, oppression or any thing that is considered to be an evil; to ease of any thing that pains the body or distresses the mind.  Repose relieves the wearied body; a supply of provisions relieves a family in want; medicines may relieve the sick man, even when they do not cure him.  We all desire to be relieved from anxiety and from heavy taxes.  Law or duty, or both, require that we should relieve the poor and destitute.
2.  To alleviate or remove; as when we say, to relieve pain or distress; to relieve the wants of the poor.
3.  To dismiss from a post or station, as sentinels, a guard or ships, and station others in their place.  Sentinels are generally relieved every two hours; a guard is usually relieved once in twenty four hours.
4.  To right; to ease of any burden, wrong or oppression by judicial or legislative interposition, by the removal of a grievance, by indemnification for losses and the like.
5.  To abate the inconvenience of any thing by change, or by the interposition of something dissimilar.  The moon relieves the luster of the sun with a milder light.
The poet must not encumber his poem with, too much business, but sometimes relieve the subject with a moral reflection.
6.  To assist; to support.
Parallels or like relations alternately relieve each other; when neither will pass asunder, yet are they plausible together.


Topic: Relieved
Definition:
RELIE'VED, pp.
1.  Freed from pain or other evil; eased or cured; aided; succored; dismissed from watching.
2.  Alleviated or removed; as pain or distress.


Topic: Relieving
Definition:
RELIE'VING, ppr.  Removing pain or distress, or abating the violence of it; easing; curing; assisting; dismissing from a post, as a sentinel; supporting.


Topic: Relievo
Definition:
RELIE'VO, n.  Relief; prominence of figures in statuary, architecture, &c.; apparent prominence of figures in painting.


Topic: Relight
Definition:
RELIGHT, v.t. reli'te.  [re and light.]  
1.  To light anew; to illuminate again.
2.  To rekindle; to set on fire again.


Topic: Religion
Definition:
RELIGION, n. relij'on.  [L. religio, from religo, to bind anew; re and ligo, to bind.  This word seems originally to have signified an oath or vow to the gods, or the obligation of such an oath or vow, which was held very sacred by the Romans.]
1.  Religion, in its most comprehensive sense, includes a belief in the being and perfections of God, in the revelation of his will to man, in man's obligation to obey his commands, in a state of reward and punishment, and in man's accountableness to God; and also true godliness or piety of life, with the practice of all moral duties.  It therefore comprehends theology, as a system of doctrines or principles, as well as practical piety; for the practice of moral duties without a belief in a divine lawgiver, and without reference to his will or commands, is not religion.
2.  Religion, as distinct from theology, is godliness or real piety in practice, consisting in the performance of all known duties to God and our fellow men, in obedience to divine command, or from love to God and his law.  James 1.
3.  Religion, as distinct from virtue, or morality, consists in the performance of the duties we owe directly to God, from a principle of obedience to his will.  Hence we often speak of religion and virtue, as different branches of one system, or the duties of the first and second tables of the law.
Let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion.
4.  Any system of faith and worship.  In this sense, religion comprehends the belief and worship of pagans and Mohammedans, as well as of christians; any religion consisting in the belief of a superior power or powers governing the world, and in the worship of such power or powers.  Thus we speak of the religion of the Turks, of the Hindoos, of the Indians, &c. as well as of the christian religion.  We speak of false religion, as well as of true religion.
5.  The rites of religion; in the plural.


Topic: Religious
Definition:
RELIG'IOUS, a.  [L. religiosus.]
1.  Pertaining or relating to religion; as a religious society; a religious sect; a religious place; religious subjects.
2.  Pious; godly; loving and reverencing the Supreme Being and obeying his precepts; as a religious man.
3.  Devoted to the practice of religion; as a religious life.
4.  Teaching religion; containing religious subject or the doctrines and precepts of religion, or the discussion of topics of religion; as a religious book.
5.  Exact; strict; such as religion requires; as a religious observance of vows or promises.
6.  Engaged by vows to a monastic life; as a religious order or fraternity.
7.  Appropriated to the performance of sacred or religious duties; as a religious house.
RELIG'IOUS, n.  A person bound by monastic vows, or sequestered from secular concerns and devoted to a life of piety and devotion; a monk or friar; a nun.


Topic: Religiously
Definition:
RELIG'IOUSLY, adv.
1.  Piously; with love and reverence to the Supreme Being; in obedience to the divine commands.
2.  According to the rites of religion.
3.  Reverently; with veneration.
4.  Exactly; strictly; conscientiously; as a vow or promise religiously observed.


Topic: Relinquish
Definition:
RELIN'QUISH, v.t.  [L. relinquo, re and linquo, to leave, to fail or faint; from the same root as liqueo, liquo, to melt or dissolve, deliquium, a fainting.  Hence the sense is to withdraw or give way; to relinquish is to recede from.]
1.  To withdraw from; to leave; to quit.  It may be to forsake or abandon, but it does not necessarily express the sense of the latter.  A man may relinquish an enterprise for a time, or with a design never to resume it.  In general, to relinquish is to leave without the intention of resuming, and equivalent to forsake, but is less emphatical than abandon and desert.
They placed Irish tenants on the lands relinquished by the English.
2.  To forbear; to withdraw from; as, to relinquish the practice of intemperance; to relinquish the rites of a church.
3.  To give up; to renounce a claim to; as, to relinquish a debt.
To relinquish back, or to, to give up; to release; to surrender; as, to relinquish a claim to another.


Topic: Relish
Definition:
REL'ISH, n.
1.  Taste; or rather, a pleasing taste; that sensation of the organs which is experienced when we take food or drink of an agreeable flavor.  Different persons have different relishes.  Relish is often natural, and often the effect of habit.
2.  Liking; delight; appetite.
We have such a relish for faction, as to have lost that of wit.
3.  Sense; the faculty of perceiving excellence; taste; as a relish for fine writing, or a relish of fine writing.  Addison uses both of and for after relish.
4.  That which gives pleasure; the power of pleasing.
When liberty is gone, life grows insipid and has lost its relish.
5.  Cast; manner.
It preserves some relish of old writing.
6.  Taste; a small quantity just perceptible.
Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude, I have no relish of them.
REL'ISH, v.t.
1.  To give an agreeable taste to.
A sav'ry bit that serv'd to relish wine.
2.  To like the taste of; as, to relish venison.
3.  To be gratified with the enjoyment or use of.
He knows how to prize his advantages and to relish the honors which he enjoys.
Men of nice palates would not relish Aristotle, as dressed up by the schoolmen.
REL'ISH, v.i. 
1.  To have a pleasing taste.  The greatest dainties do not always relish.
2.  To give pleasure.
Had I been the finder-out of this secret, it would not have relished among my other discredits.
3.  To have a flavor.
A theory which, how much soever it may relish of wit and invention, hath no foundation in nature.


Topic: Relive
Definition:
RELIVE, v.i. reliv'.  [re and live.]  To live again; to revive.
RELIVE, v.t.  reliv'.  To recall to life.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Reloan
Definition:
RELOAN, v.t.  [re and loan.]  To loan again; to lend what has been lent and repaid.
RELOAN, n.  A second lending of the same money.


Topic: Relucent
Definition:
RELU'CENT, a.  [L. relucens, relucco; re and lucco, to shine.]
Shining; transparent; clear; pellucid; as a relucent stream.


Topic: Reluct
Definition:
RELUCT', v.i.  [L. reluctor; re and luctor, to struggle.]  To strive or struggle against.  [Little used.]


Topic: Reluctant
Definition:
RELUCT'ANT, a. 
1.  Striving against; unwilling; much opposed in heart.
Reluctant now I touch'd the trembling string.
2.  Unwilling; acting with slight repugnance; coy.
3.  Proceeding from an unwilling mind; granted with reluctance; as reluctant obedience.


Topic: Reluctantly
Definition:
RELUCT'ANTLY, adv.  With opposition of heart; unwillingly.  What is undertaken reluctantly is seldom well performed.


Topic: Relumine
Definition:
RELU'MINE, v.t.  [re and lumino; re and lumen, light, from lucco, to shine.]
1.  To light anew; to rekindle.
2.  To illuminate again.


Topic: Rely
Definition:
RELY', v.i.  [re and lie, or from the root of lie, lay.]
To rest on something, as the mind when satisfied of the veracity, integrity or ability of persons, or of the certainty of facts or of evidence; to have confidence in; to trust in; to depend; with on.  We rely on the promise of a man who is known to be upright; we rely on the veracity or fidelity of a tried friend; a prince relies on the affections of his subjects for support, and on the strength of his army for success in war; above all things, we rely on the mercy and promises of God.  That which is the ground of confidence, is a certainty or full conviction that satisfies the mind and leaves it at rest, or undisturbed by doubt.
Because thou has relied on the king of Syria, and not relied on the Lord thy God - 2Chron. 16.


Topic: Remain
Definition:
REMA'IN, v.i.  [L. remaneo; re and maneo, Gr.]
1.  To continue; to rest or abide in a place for a time indefinite.  They remained a month in Rome.  We remain at an inn for a night, for a week, or a longer time.
Remain a widow at thy father's house, till Shelah my son be grown.  Gen. 38.
2.  To be left after others have withdrawn; to rest or abide  in the same place when others remove, or are lost, destroyed or taken away.
Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.  Gen. 7.
3.  To be left after a part or others have past.  Let our remaining time or years be employed in active duties.
4.  To continue unchanged, or in a particular state.  He remains stupid; he remains in a low state of health.
5.  Not to be lost; not to escape; not to be forgotten.
All my wisdom remained with me.
6.  To be left, out of a greater number or quantity.  Part of the debt is paid; that which remains will be on interest.
That which remaineth over, lay up for you to be kept till the morning.  Ex. 16.
7.  To be left as not included or comprised.  There remains one argument which has not been considered.
That an elder brother has power over his brethren, remains to be proved.
8.  To continue in the same state.
Children thou art, childless remain.
REMA'IN, v.t.  To await; to be left to; as, the easier conquest now remains thee.  [This is elliptical for remains to thee.  Remain is not properly a transitive verb.]
REMA'IN, n.  That which is left; a corpse; also, abode.  [Not used.]


Topic: Remainder
Definition:
REMA'INDER, n.  
1.  Any thing left after the separation and removal of a part.
If these decoctions be repeated till the water comes off clear, the remainder yields no salt.
The last remainders of unhappy Troy.
2.  Relics; remains; the corpse of a human being.  [Not now used.]
3.  That which is left after a part is past; as the remainder of the day or week; the remainder of the year; the remainder of life.
4.  The sum that is left after subtraction or after any deduction.
5.  In law, an estate limited to take effect and be enjoyed after another estate is determined.  A grants land to B for twenty years; remainder to D in fee.  If a man by deed or will limits his books or furniture to A for life, with remainder to B, this remainder is good.
A writ of formedon in remainder, is a writ which lies where a man gives lands to another for life or in tail, with remainder to a third person in tail or in fee, and he who has the particular estate dies without issue heritable, and a stranger intrudes upon him in remainder and keeps him out of possession; in this case, the remainder-man shall have his writ of formedon in the remainder.
REMA'INDER, a.  Remaining; refuse; left; as the remainder biscuit; the remainder viands.  Obs.


Topic: Remaining
Definition:
REMA'INING, ppr.  Continuing; resting; abiding for an indefinite time; being left after separation and removal of a part, or after loss or destruction, or after a part is passed, as of time.


Topic: Remains
Definition:
REMA'INS, n. plu. 
1.  That which is left after a part is separated, taken away or destroyed; as the remains of a city or house demolished.
2.  A dead body; a corpse.
The singular, remain, in the like sense, and in the sense of abode, is entirely obsolete.


Topic: Remand
Definition:
REM'AND, v.t.  [L. re and mando.]
To call or send back him or that which is ordered to a place; as, to remand an officer from a distant place; to remand an envoy from a foreign court.


Topic: Remanent
Definition:
REM'ANENT, n.  [L. remanens.]  The part remaining.  [Little used.  It is contracted into remnant.]
REM'ANENT, a.  Remaining.  [little used.]


Topic: Remark
Definition:
REM'ARK, n.  Notice or observation, particularly notice or observation expressed in words or writing; as the remarks of an advocate; the remarks made in conversation; the judicious or the uncandid remarks of a critic.  A remark is not always expressed, for we say, a man makes his remarks on a preacher's sermon while he is listening to it.  In this case the notice is silent, a mere act of the mind.
REM'ARK, v.t.
1.  To observe; to note in the mind; to take notice of without expression.  I remarked the manner of the speaker; I remarked his elegant expressions.
2.  To express in words or writing what one thinks or sees; to express observations; as, it is necessary to repeat what has been before remarked.
3.  To mark; to point out; to distinguish.  [Not in use.]
His manacles remark him.


Topic: Remarkable
Definition:
REM'ARKABLE, a.
1.  Observable; worthy of notice.
'Tis remarkable that they talk most, who have the least to say.
2.  Extraordinary; unusual; that deserves particular notice, or that may excite admiration or wonder; as the remarkable preservation of lives in shipwreck.  The dark day in May, 1790, was a remarkable phenomenon.


Topic: Remarkableness
Definition:
REM'ARKABLENESS, n.  Observableness; worthiness of remark; the quality of deserving particular notice.


Topic: Remarkably
Definition:
REM'ARKABLY, adv.  
1.  In a manner or degree worthy of notice; as, the winters of 1825, 1826 and 1828 were remarkably free from snow.  The winter of 1827 was remarkable for a great quantity of snow.
2.  In an extraordinary manner.


Topic: Remasticate
Definition:
REMAS'TICATE, v.t.  [re and masticate.]  To chew or masticate again; to chew over and over, as in chewing the cud.


Topic: Remediable
Definition:
REME'DIABLE, a.  [from remedy.]  That may be remedied or cured.  The evil is believed to be remediable.


Topic: Remedial
Definition:
REME'DIAL, a.  [L. remedialis.]  Affording a remedy; intended for a remedy, or for the removal of an evil.
The remedial part of law is so necessary a consequence of the declaratory and directory, that laws without it must be very vague and imperfect.  Statutes are declaratory of remedial.


Topic: Remediless
Definition:
REMED'ILESS, a.  [In modern books, the accent is placed on the first syllable, which would be well if there were no derivatives; but remedilessly, remedilessness, require the accent on the second syllable.]
1.  Not admitting a remedy; incurable; desperate; as a remediless disease.
2.  Irreparable; as, a loss or damage is remediless.
3.  Not admitting change or reversal; as a remediless doom.
4.  Not admitting recovery; as a remediless delusion.


Topic: Remedy
Definition:
REM'EDY, n.  [L. remedium; re and medeor, to heal.]
1.  That which 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 counteracts an evil of any kind; with for, to or against; usually with for.  Civil government is the remedy for the evils of natural liberty.  What remedy can be provided for extravagance in dress?  The man who shall invent an effectual remedy for intemperance, will deserve every thing from his fellow men.
3.  That which cures uneasiness.
Our griefs how swift, our remedies how slow.
4.  That which repairs loss or disaster; reparation.
In the death of a man there is no remedy.


Topic: Remember
Definition:
REMEM'BER, v.t.  [Low L. rememoror; re and memoror.  See Memory.]
1.  To have in the mind an idea which had been in the mind before, and which recurs to the mind without effort.
We are said to remember any thing, when the idea of it arises in the mind with the consciousness that we have had this idea before.
2.  When we use effort to recall an idea, we are said to recollect it.  This distinction is not always observed.  Hence remember is often used as synonymous with recollect, that is, to call to mind.  We say, we cannot remember a fact, when we mean, we cannot recollect it.
Remember the days of old.  Deut. 32.
3.  To bear or keep in mind; to attend to.
Remember what I warn thee; shun to taste.
4.  To preserve the memory of; to preserve from being forgotten.
Let them have their wages duly paid, and something over to remember me.
5.  To mention.  [Not in use.]
6.  To put in mind; to remind; as, to remember one of his duty.  [Not in use.]
7.  To think of and consider; to meditate.  Ps. 63.
8.  To bear in mind with esteem; or to reward.  Eccles. 9.
9.  To bear in mind with praise or admiration; to celebrate.  1Chron. 16.
10.  To bear in mind with favor, care, and regard for the safety or deliverance of any one.  Ps. 74.  Gen. 8.  Gen. 19.
11.  To bear in mind with intent to reward or punish.  
3John 10.  Jer. 31.
12.  To bear in mind with confidence; to trust in.  Ps. 20.
13.  To bear in mind with the purpose of assisting or relieving.  Gal. 2.
14.  To bear in mind with reverence; to obey.
Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth.  Eccles. 12.
15.  To bear in mind with regard; to keep as sacred; to observe.
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.  Ex. 20.
To remember mercy, is to exercise it.  Hab. 3.


Topic: Remembrance
Definition:
REMEM'BRANCE, n.  
1.  The retaining or having in mind an idea which had been present before, or an idea which had been previously received from an object when present, and which recurs to the mind afterwards without the presence of its object.  Technically, remembrance differs from reminiscence and recollection, as the former implies that an idea occurs to the mind spontaneously, or without much mental exertion.  The latter imply the power or the act of recalling ideas which do not spontaneously recur to the 
mind.
The righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance.  Ps. 112.
Remembrance is when the same idea recurs, without the operation of the like object on the external sensory.
2.  Transmission of a fact from one to another.
Titan among the heav'ns th' immortal fact display'd, lest the remembrance of his grief should fall.
3.  Account preserved; something to assist the memory.
Those proceedings and remembrances are in the Tower.
4.  Memorial.
But in remembrance of so brave a deed, a tomb and funeral honors I decreed. 
5.  A token by which one is kept in the memory.
Keep this remembrance for thy Julia's sake.
6.  Notice of something absent.
Let your remembrance still apply to Banquo.
7.  Power of remembering; limit of time within which a fact can be remembered; as when we say, an event took place before our remembrance, or since our remembrance.
8.  Honorable memory.  [Not in use.]
9.  Admonition.
10.  Memorandum; a note to help the memory.


Topic: Remembrancer
Definition:
REMEM'BRANCER, n.
1.  One that reminds, or revives the remembrance of any thing.
God is present in the consciences of good and bad; he is there a remembrancer to call our actions to mind.
2.  An officer in the exchequer of England, whose business is to record certain papers and proceedings, make out processes, &c.; a recorder.  The officers bearing this name were formerly called clerks of the remembrance.


Topic: Remigrate
Definition:
REM'IGRATE, v.i.  [L. remigro; re and migro, to migrate.]
To remove back again to a former place or state; to return.  [See Migrate.]


Topic: Remind
Definition:
REMIND, v.t.  [re and mind.]
1.  To put in mind; to bring to the remembrance of; as, to remind a person of his promise.
2.  To bring to notice or consideration.  The infirmities of old age remind us of our mortality.


Topic: Reminiscence
Definition:
REMINIS'CENCE, n.  [L. reminiscens, reminiscor, Gr.  See Memory.]
1.  That faculty of the mind by which ideas formerly received into it, but forgotten, are recalled or revived in the memory.
2.  Recollection; recovery of ideas that had escaped from the memory.


Topic: Remise
Definition:
REMI'SE, v.t. s as z.  [L. remissus, remitto; re and mitto, to send.]
To give or grant back; to release a claim; to resign or surrender by deed.  A B hath remised, released, and forever quitclaimed to B C, all his right to the manor of Dale.


Topic: Remiss
Definition:
REMISS', a.  [L. remissus, supra.]
1.  Slack; dilatory; negligent; not performing duty or business; not complying with engagements at all, or not in due time; as to be remiss in attendance on official duties; remiss in payment of debts.
2.  Slow; slack; languid.
3.  Not intense.
These nervous, bold; those languid and remiss.


Topic: Remission
Definition:
REMIS'SION, n.  [L. remissio, from remitto, to send back.]
1.  Abatement; relaxation; moderation; as the remission of extreme rigor.
2.  Abatement; diminution of intensity; as the remission of the sun's heat; the remission of cold; the remission of close study or of labor.
3.  Release; discharge or relinquishment of a claim or right; as the remission of a tax or duty.
4.  In medicine, abatement; a temporary subsidence of the force or violence of a disease or of pain, as distinguished from intermission, in which the disease leaves the patient entirely for a time.
5.  Forgiveness; pardon; that is, the giving up of the punishment due to a crime; as the remission of sins.  Matt. 26.  Heb. 9.
6.  The act of sending back.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Remissly
Definition:
REMISS'LY, adv.  
1.  Carelessly; negligently; without close attention.
2.  Slowly; slackly; not vigorously; not with ardor.


Topic: Remissness
Definition:
REMISS'NESS, n.  Slackness; slowness; carelessness; negligence; want of ardor or vigor; coldness; want of ardor; want of punctuality; want of attention to any business, duty or engagement in the proper time or with the requisite industry.


Topic: Remit
Definition:
REMIT', v.t.  [L. remitto, to send back; re and mitto, to send.]
1.  To relax, as intensity; to make less tense or violent.
So willingly doth God remit his ire.
2.  To forgive; to surrender the right of punishing a crime; as, to remit punishment.
3.  To pardon, as a fault or crime.
Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted to them.  
John 20.
4.  To give up; to resign.
In grievous and inhuman crimes, offenders should be remitted to their prince.
5.  To refer; as a clause that remitted all to the bishop's discretion.
6.  To send back.
The pris'ner was remitted to the guard.
7.  To transmit money, bills or other thing in payment for goods received.  American merchants remit money, bills of exchange or some species of stock, in payment for British goods.
8.  To restore.
In this case, the law remits him to his ancient and more certain right.
REMIT', v.i.
1.  To slacken; to become less intense or rigorous.
When our passions remit, the vehemence of our speech remits too.  
So we say, cold or heat remits.
2.  To abate in violence for a time, without intermission; as, a fever remits at a certain hour every day.


Topic: Remittance
Definition:
REMIT'TANCE, n.  
1.  In commerce, the act of transmitting money, bills or the like, to a distant place, in return or payment for goods purchased.
2.  The sum or thing remitted in payment.


Topic: Remitter
Definition:
REMIT'TER, n.
1.  One who remits, or makes remittance for payment.
2.  In law, the restitution of a more ancient and certain right to a person who has right to lands, but is out of possession and hath afterwards the freehold cast upon him by some subsequent defective title, by virtue of which he enters.
3.  One that pardons.


Topic: Remnant
Definition:
REM'NANT, n.  [contracted from remanent.  See Remain.]
1.  Residue; that which is left after the separation, removal or destruction of a part.
The remnant that are left of the captivity.  Neh. 1.
2.  That which remains after a part is done, performed, told or passed.
The remnant of my tale is of a length to tire your patience.
Where I may think the remnant of my thoughts.
REM'NANT, a.  Remaining; yet left.
And quiet dedicate her remnant life to the just duties of a humble wife.  [Little used.]


Topic: Remonstrance
Definition:
REMON'STRANCE, n.  
1.  Show; discovery.  [Not in use.]
2.  Expostulation; strong representation of reasons against a measure, either public or private, and when addressed to a public body, a prince or magistrate, it may be accompanied with a petition or supplication for the removal or prevention of some evil or inconvenience.  A party aggrieved presents a remonstrance to the legislature.
3.  Pressing suggestions in opposition to a measure or act; as the remonstrances of conscience or of justice.
4.  Expostulatory counsel or advice; reproof.


Topic: Remonstrant
Definition:
REMON'STRANT, a.  Expostulatory; urging strong reasons against an act.
REMON'STRANT, n.  One who remonstrates.  The appellation of remonstrants is given to the Arminians who remonstrated against the decisions of the Synod of Dort, in 1618.


Topic: Remonstrate
Definition:
REMON'STRATE, v.i.  [L. remonstro; re and monstro, to show.  See Muster.]
1.  To exhibit or present strong reasons against an act, measure of any course of proceedings; to expostulate.  Men remonstrate by verbal argument, or by a written exposition of reasons.
2.  To suggest urgent reasons in opposition to a measure.  conscience remonstrates against a profligate life.
REMON'STRATE, v.t.  To show by a strong representation of reasons.


Topic: Remora
Definition:
REM'ORA, n.  [L. from re and moror, to delay.]
1.  Delay; obstacle; hinderance.  [Not in use.]
2.  The sucking fish, a species of Echeneis, which is said to attach itself to the bottom or side of a ship and retard its motion.


Topic: Remord
Definition:
REMORD', v.t.  [L. remordeo; re and mordeo, to gnaw.]
To rebuke; to excite to remorse.  [Not in use.]
REMORD', v.i.  To feel remorse.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Remorse
Definition:
REMORSE, n.  remors'.  [L. remorsus, from remordeo.]
1.  The keen pain or anguish excited by a sense of guilt; compunction of conscience for a crime committed.
2.  Sympathetic sorrow; pity; compassion.
Curse on th' unpard'ning prince, whom tears can draw to no remorse.
[This sense is nearly or quite obsolete.]


Topic: Remorseful
Definition:
REMORSEFUL, a.  remors'ful.
1.  Full of remorse.
2.  Compassionate; feeling tenderly.  [Not in use.]
3.  Pitiable.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Remorseless
Definition:
REMORSELESS, a.  remors'less.  Unpitying; cruel; insensible to distress; as the remorseless deep.
Remorseless adversaries.


Topic: Remote
Definition:
REMO'TE, a.  [L. remotus, removeo; re and moveo, to move.]
1.  Distant in place; not near; as a remote country; a remote people.
Give me a life remote from guilty courts.
2.  Distant in time, past or future; as remote antiquity.  Every man is apt to think the time of his dissolution to be remote.
3.  Distant; not immediate.
It is not all remote and even apparent good that affects us.
4.  Distant; primary; not proximate; as the remote causes of a disease.
5.  Alien; foreign; not agreeing with; as a proposition remote from reason.
6.  Abstracted; as the mind placed by thought amongst or remote from all bodies.
7.  Distant in consanguinity or affinity; as a remote kinsman.
8.  Slight; inconsiderable; as a remote analogy between cases; a remote resemblance is form or color.


Topic: Remotely
Definition:
REMO'TELY, adv.
1.  At a distance in space or time; not nearly.
2.  At a distance in consanguinity or affinity.
3.  Slightly; in a small degree; as, to be remotely affected by an event.


Topic: Remoteness
Definition:
REMO'TENESS, n.
1.  State of being distant in space or time; distance; as the remoteness of a kingdom or of a star; the remoteness of the deluge from our age; the remoteness of a future event, of an evil or of success.
2.  Distance in consanguinity or affinity.
3.  Distance in operation or efficiency; as the remoteness of causes.
4.  Slightness; smallness; as remoteness of resemblance.


Topic: Remount
Definition:
REMOUNT', v.t.  To mount again; as, to remount a horse.
REMOUNT', v.i.  To mount again; to reascend.


Topic: Removability
Definition:
REMOVABIL'ITY, n.  The capacity of being removable from an office or station; capacity of being displaced.


Topic: Removable
Definition:
REMOVABLE, a.  [from remove.]
1.  That may be removed from an office or station.
Such curate is removable at the pleasure of the rector of the mother church.
2.  That may be removed from one place to another.


Topic: Removal
Definition:
REMOVAL, n.
1.  The act of moving from one place to another for residence; as the removal of a family.
2.  The act of displacing from an office or post.
3.  The act of curing or putting away; as the removal of a disease.
4.  The state of being removed; change of place.
5.  The act of putting an end to; as the removal of a grievance.


Topic: Remove
Definition:
REMOVE, v.t.  [L. removeo; re and moveo, to move.]
1.  To cause to change place; to put from its place in any manner; as, to remove a building.
Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark.  Deut. 19.
2.  To displace from an office.
3.  To take or put away in any manner; to cause to leave a person or thing; to banish or destroy; as, to remove a disease or complaint.
Remove sorrow from thine heart.  Eccles. 11.
4.  To carry from one court to another; as, to remove a cause or suit by appeal.
5.  To take from the present state of being; as, to remove one by death.
REMOVE, v.i.
1.  To change place in any manner.
2.  To go from one place to another.
3.  To change the place of residence; as, to remove from New York to Philadelphia.
REMOVE, n. 
1.  Change of place.
2.  Translation of one to the place of another.
3.  State of being removed.
4.  Act of moving a man in chess or other game.
5.  Departure; a going away.
6.  The act of changing place; removal.
7.  A step in any scale of gradation.
A freeholder is but one remove from a legislator.
8.  Any indefinite  distance; as a small or great remove.
9.  The act of putting a horse's shoes on different feet.
10.  A dish to be changed while the rest of the course remains.
11.  Susceptibility of being removed.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Removed
Definition:
REMOVED, pp. 
1.  Changed in place; carried to a distance; displaced from office; placed far off.
2.  a.  Remote; separate from others.


Topic: Remunerate
Definition:
REMU'NERATE, v.t.  [L. remunero; re and munero, from munus, a gift.]
to reward; to recompense; to requite; in a good sense; to pay an equivalent to for any service, loss, expense or other sacrifice; as, to remunerate the troops of an army for their services and sufferings; to remunerate men for labor.  the pious usfferer in this life will be remunerated in the life to come.


Topic: Remuneration
Definition:
REMUNERA'TION, n.
1.  Reward; recompense; the act of paying an equivalent for services, loss or sacrifices.
2.  The equivalent given for services, loss or sufferings.


Topic: Remurmur
Definition:
REMUR'MUR, v.t.  [L. remurmuro; re and murmuro.]
to utter back in murmurs; to return in murmurs; to repeat in low hoarse sounds.
The trembling trees in every plain and wood, her fate remurmur to the silver flood.
REMUR'MUR, v.i.  to murmur back; to return or echo in low rumbling sounds.
The realms of Mars remurmur'd all around.


Topic: Renal
Definition:
RE'NAL, a.  [L. renalis, from renes, the kidneys.]
Pertaining to the kidneys or reins; as the renal arteries.


Topic: Renascent
Definition:
RENAS'CENT, a.  [L. renascens, renascor; re and nascor, to be born.]
Springing or rising into being again; reproduced.


Topic: Rencounter
Definition:
RENCOUN'TER, n.  Literally, a meeting of two bodies.  Hence,
1.  A meeting in opposition or contest.
The jostling chiefs in rude rencounter join.
2.  A casual combat; a sudden contest or fight without premeditation; as between individuals or small parties.
3.  A casual action; an engagement between armies or fleets.
The confederates should - outnumber the enemy in all rencounters and engagements.
4.  Any combat, action or engagement.
RENCOUN'TER, v.t.  
1.  To meet unexpectedly without enmity or hostility.  [This use is found in some recent publications, but is not common.]
2.  To attack hand to hand.
RENCOUN'TER, v.i.
1.  To meet an enemy unexpectedly.
2.  To clash; to come in collision.
3.  To skirmish with another.
4.  To fight hand to hand.


Topic: Rend
Definition:
REND, v.t. pret. and pp. rent.  [Eng. cranny, L. crena, Gr.]
1.  To separate any substance into parts with force or sudden violence; to tear asunder; to split; as, powder rends a rock in blasting; lightning rends an oak.
An empire from its old foundation rent.
I rend my tresses, and by breast I wound.
Neither rend your clothes, lest ye die.  Lev. 10.
2.  To separate or part with violence.
I will surely rend the kingdom from thee.  1Kings 11.
To rend the heart, in Scripture, to have bitter sorrow for sin.  Joel 2.
To rend the heavens, to appear in majesty.  Is. 64.
Rend differs somewhat from lacerate.  We never say, to lacerate a rock or a kingdom, when we mean to express splitting or division.  Lacerate is properly applicable to the tearing off of small pieces of a thing, as to lacerate the body with a whip or scourge; or to the tearing of the flesh or other thing without entire separation.


Topic: Rendering
Definition:
REN'DERING, ppr.  Returning; giving back; assigning; making; translating; surrendering; affording.
REN'DERING, n.  Version; translation.


Topic: Rendezvous
Definition:
REN'DEZVOUS, n.  [This word is anglicized, and may well be pronounced as an English word.]
1.  A place appointed for the assembling of troops, or the place where they assemble; or the port or place where ships are ordered to join company.
2.  A place of meeting, or a sign that draws men together.  [Rarely used.]
3.  An assembly; a meeting.  [Rarely used.]
REN'DEZVOUS, v.i.  To assemble at a particular place, as troops.
The place where the Gauls and Bruti had rendezvoused.
REN'DEZVOUS, v.t.  To assemble or bring together at a certain place.


Topic: Rendible
Definition:
REN'DIBLE, a.  
1.  That may be yielded or surrendered.
2.  That may be translated.  [little used in either sense.]


Topic: Renew
Definition:
RENEW', v.t.  [L. renovo; re and novo, or re and new.]
1.  To renovate; to restore to a former state, or to a good state, after decay or depravation; to rebuild; to repair.
Asa renewed the altar of the Lord.  2Chron. 15.
2.  To re-establish; to confirm.
Let us go to Gilgal and renew the kingdom there.  1Sam. 11.
3.  To make again; as, to renew a treaty or covenant.
4.  To repeat; as, to renew expressions of friendship; to renew a promise; to renew an attempt.
5.  To revive; as, to renew the glories of an ancestor or of a former age.
6.  To begin again.
The last great age renews its finish'd course.
7.  To make new; to make fresh or vigorous; as, to renew youth; to renew strength; to renew the face of the earth.  
Ps. 103.  Is. 40.  Ps. 104.
8.  In theology, to make new; to renovate; to transform; to change from natural enmity to the love of God and his law; to implant holy affections in the heart; to regenerate.
Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.  Romans 12. Eph. 4.


Topic: Renewal
Definition:
RENEW'AL, n.  
1.  The act of renewing; the act of forming anew; as the renewal of a treaty.
2.  Renovation; regeneration.
3.  Revival; restoration to a former or to a good state.


Topic: Renewing
Definition:
RENEW'ING, ppr.
1.  Making new again; repairing; re-establishing; repeating; reviving; renovating.
2.  a.  Tending or adapted to renovate.
RENEW'ING, n.  The act of making new; renewal.


Topic: Rennet
Definition:
REN'NET, n.
The concreted milk found in the stomach of a sucking quadruped, particularly of the calf.  It is also written runnet, and this is the preferable orthography.
REN'NET,


Topic: Renounce
Definition:
RENOUNCE, v.t. renouns'.  [L. renuncio; re and nuncio, to declare, from the root of nomen, name.]
1.  To disown; to disclaim; to reject; as a title or claim; to refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to; as, to renounce a title to land or a claim to reward; to renounce all pretensions to applause.
2.  To deny; to cast off; to reject; to disclaim; as an obligation or duty; as, to renounce allegiance.
3.  To cast off or reject, as a connection or possession; to forsake; as, to renounce the world and all its cares.
We have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty.  2Cor. 4.
RENOUNCE, v.i.  renouns'.  To declare a renunciation.
He of my sons who falls to make it good, by one rebellious act renounces to my blood.  [Not in use.]
RENOUNCE, n.  renouns'.  The declining to follow suit, when it can be done.


Topic: Renouncing
Definition:
RENOUN'CING, ppr.  Disowning; disclaiming; rejecting.
RENOUN'CING, n.  The act of disowning, disclaiming, denying or rejecting.


Topic: Renovate
Definition:
REN'OVATE, v.t.  [L. renovo; re and novo, to make new; novus, new.]
To renew; to restore to the first state, or to a good state, after decay, destruction or depravation.  It is synonymous with renew, except in its fourth definition, supra.


Topic: Renovation
Definition:
RENOVA'TION, n.  [L. renovatio.]
1.  The act of renewing; a making new after decay, destruction or depravation; renewal; as the renovation of the heart by grace.
There is something inexpressibly pleasing in the annual renovation of the world.
2.  A state of being renewed.


Topic: Renown
Definition:
RENOWN', n.
Fame; celebrity; exalted reputation derived from the extensive praise of great achievements or accomplishments.
Giants of old, men of renown.  Gen. 6.  Num. 16.
RENOWN', v.t.  To make famous.
Soft elocution does thy style renown.
A bard whom pilfer'd pastorals renown.
[This verb is nearly or quite obsolete.]


Topic: Renowned
Definition:
RENOWN'ED, a.  Famous; celebrated for great and heroic achievements, for distinguished qualities or for grandeur; eminent; as renowned men; a renowned king; a renowned city.


Topic: Rent
Definition:
RENT, pp.  of rend.  Torn asunder; split or burst by violence; torn.
RENT, n.  [from rend. 
1.  A fissure; a break or breach made by force; as a rent made in the earth, in a rock or in a garment.
2.  A schism; a separation; as a rent in the church.
RENT, v.t.  To tear.  [See Rend.]
RENT, v.i.  To rant.  [Not in use.]
RENT, n.
A sum of money, or a certain amount of other valuable thing, issuing yearly from lands or tenements; a compensation or return, in the nature of an acknowledgment, for the possession of a corporeal inheritance.
Rents, at common law, are of three kinds; rent-service, rent-charge, and rent-seek.  Rent-service is when some corporal service is incident to it, as by fealty and a sum of money; rent-charge is when the owner of the rent has no future interest or reversion expectant in the land, but the rent is reserved in the deed by a clause of distress for rent in arrear; rent-seek, dry rent, is rent reserved by deed, but without any clause of distress.  There are also rents of assize, certain established rents of free-holders and copy-holders of manors, which cannot be varied; called also quit-rents.  These when payable in silver, are called white rents, in contradistinction to rents reserved in work or the baser metals, called black rents, or black mail.  Rack-rent is a rent of the full value of the tenement, or near it.  A fee farm rent is a rent-charge issuing out of an estate in fee, of at least one fourth of the value of the lands at the time of its reservation.
RENT, v.t.
1.  To lease; to grant the possession and enjoyment of lands or tenements for a consideration in the nature of rent.  The owner of an estate or house rents it to a tenant for a term of years.
2.  To take and hold by lease the possession of land or a tenement, for a consideration in the nature of rent.  The tenant rents his estate for a year.
RENT, v.i.  To be leased, or let for rent; as, an estate or a tenement rents for five hundred dollars a year.


Topic: Renter
Definition:
RENT'ER, n.  One who leases an estate; more generally, the lessee or tenant who takes an estate or tenement on rent.
RENT'ER, v.t.  [L. retracho, retrahere; re and traho, to draw.]
1.  To fine-draw; to sew together the edges of two pieces of cloth without doubling them, so that the seam is scarcely visible.
2.  In tapestry, to work new warp into a piece of damaged tapestry, and on this to restore the original pattern or design.
3.  To sew up artfully, as a rent.


Topic: Renunciation
Definition:
RENUNCIA'TION, n.  [L. renunciatio.]  The act of renouncing; a disowning; rejection.  [See Renounce.]


Topic: Renverse
Definition:
RENVERSE, v.t. renvers'.  To reverse.  [Not used.]
RENVERSE, a. renvers'.  In heraldry, inverted; set with the head downward or contrary to the natural posture.


Topic: Reorganize
Definition:
REOR'GANIZE, v.t.  [re and organize.]  To organize anew; to reduce again to a regular body, or to a system; as, to reorganize a society or an army.


Topic: Repair
Definition:
REPA'IR, v.t.  [L. reparo; re and paro, to prepare.  See Pare.]
1.  To restore to a sound or good state after decay, injury, dilapidation or partial destruction; as, to repair a house, a wall or a ship; to repair roads and bridges.  Temperance and diet may repair a broken or enfeebled constitution.  Food repairs the daily waste of the body.
2.  To rebuild a part decayed or destroyed; to fill up; as, to repair a breach.
3.  To make amends, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to indemnify for; as, to repair a loss or damage.
REPA'IR, n.  Restoration to a sound or good state after decay, waste, injury or partial destruction; supply of loss; reparation; as, materials are collected for the repair of a church or a city.
REPA'IR, v.i.  To go to; to betake one's self; to resort; as, to repair to a sanctuary for safety.
Go, mount the winds and to the shades repair.
REPA'IR, n.  The act of betaking one's self to any place; a resorting; abode.


Topic: Repand
Definition:
REPAND', a.  [L. repandus.]  In botany, a repand leaf is one, the rim of which is terminated by angles having sinuses between them, inscribed in the segment of a circle; or which has a bending or waved margin, without any angles; of which is bordered with numerous minute angles and small segments of circles alternately.


Topic: Reparable
Definition:
REP'ARABLE, a.  [L. reparabilis.  See Repair.]
1.  That may be repaired or restored to a sound or good state; as, a house or wall is not reparable.
2.  That may be retrieved or made good; as, the loss is reparable.
3.  That may be supplied by an equivalent; as a reparable injury.


Topic: Reparably
Definition:
REP'ARABLY, adv.  In a manner admitting of restoration to a good state, or of amends, supply or indemnification.


Topic: Reparation
Definition:
REPARA'TION, n.
1.  That act of repairing; restoration to soundness or a good state; as the reparation of a bridge or of a highway.
2.  Supply of what is wasted; as the reparation of decaying health or strength after disease or exhaustion.
3.  Amends; indemnification for loss or damage.  A loss may be too great for reparation.
4.  Amends; satisfaction for injury.
I am sensible of the scandal I have given by my loose writings, and make what reparation I am able.


Topic: Reparative
Definition:
REPAR'ATIVE, a.  That repairs; restoring to a sound or good state; that amends defect or makes good.
REPAR'ATIVE, n.  That which restores to a good state; that which makes amends.


Topic: Repartee
Definition:
REPARTEE', n.  
A smart, ready and witty reply.
Cupid was as bad as he; hear but the youngster's repartee.
REPARTEE', v.i.  To make smart and witty replies.


Topic: Repass
Definition:
REP'ASS, v.t.
To pass again; to pass or travel back; as, to repass a bridge or a river; to repass the sea.
REP'ASS, v.i.  To pass or go back; to move back; as troops passing and repassing before our eyes.


Topic: Repast
Definition:
REP'AST, n.  [L. re and pasco, to feed.]
1.  The act of taking food; or the food taken; a meal.
From dance to sweet repast they turn.
A repast without luxury.
2.  Good; victuals.
Go, and get me some repast.
REP'AST, v.t.  To feed; to feast.


Topic: Repay
Definition:
REPA'Y, v.t.  
1.  To pay back; to refund; as, to repay money borrowed or advanced.
2.  To make return or requital; in a good or bad sense; as, to repay kindness; to repay an injury.
Benefits which cannot be repaid - are not commonly found to increase affection.
3.  To recompense, as for a loss.
4.  To compensate; as false honor repaid in contempt.


Topic: Repayable
Definition:
REPA'YABLE, a.  That is to be repaid or refunded; as money lent, repayable at the end of sixty days.


Topic: Repeal
Definition:
REPE'AL, v.t.  [L. appello; ad and pello.]
1.  To recall.  [Obsolete as it respects persons.]
2.  To recall, as a deed, will, law or statute; to revoke; to abrogate by an authoritative act, or by the same power that made or enacted; as, the legislature may repeal at one session, a law enacted at a preceding one.
REPE'AL, n. 
1.  Recall from exile.  [Not in use.]
2.  Revocation; abrogation; as the repeal of a statute.


Topic: Repealable
Definition:
REPEA'LABLE, a.  Capable of being repealed; revocable by the same power that enacted.  It is held as a sound principle, that charters or grants which vest rights in individuals or corporations, are not repealable without the consent of the grantees, unless a clause reserving the right is inserted in the act.


Topic: Repeat
Definition:
REPE'AT, v.t.  [L. repeto; re and peto, to make at or drive towards.  this verb ought to be written repete, in analogy with compete, and with repetition.]
1.  To do, make, attempt or utter again; to iterate; as, to repeat an action; to repeat an attempt or exertion; to repeat a word or discourse; to repeat a song; to repeat an argument.
2.  To try again.
I the danger will repeat.
3.  to recite; to rehearse.
He repeated some lines of Virgil.
To repeat signals, in the navy, is to make the same signal which the admiral or commander has made, or to make a signal again.
REPE'AT, n.
1.  In music, a mark directing a part to be repeated in performance.
2.  Repetition.


Topic: Repeatedly
Definition:
REPE'ATEDLY, adv.  More than once; again and again, indefinitely.  He has been repeatedly warned of his danger.


Topic: Repeater
Definition:
REPE'ATER, n.  
1.  One that repeats; one that recites or rehearses.
2.  A watch that strikes the hours at will, by the compression of a spring.


Topic: Repel
Definition:
REPEL', v.t.  [l. repello; re and pello, to drive.]
1.  to drive back; to force to return; to check advance; as, to repel an enemy or an assailant.
Hippomedon repell'd the hostile tide.
And virtue may repel, though not invade.
2.  To resist; to oppose; as, to repel an argument.
REPEL', v.i.
1.  To act with force in opposition to force impressed.  Electricity sometimes attracts and sometimes repels.
2.  In medicine, to check an afflux to a part of the body.


Topic: Repellency
Definition:
REPEL'LENCY, n.
1.  The principle of repulsion; the quality of a substance which expands or separates particles and enlarges the volume; as the repellency of heat.
2.  The quality that repels, drives back or resists approach; as the repellency of the electric fluid.
3.  Repulsive quality.


Topic: Repellent
Definition:
REPEL'LENT, a.  Driving back; able or tending to repel.
REPEL'LENT, n.  In medicine, a medicine which drives back morbid humors into the mass of the blood, from which they were unduly secreted; or which prevents such an afflux of fluid to a part, as would raise it to a tumor; a discutient.


Topic: Repentance
Definition:
REPENT'ANCE, n.
1.  Sorrow for any thing done or said; the pain or grief which a person experiences in consequence of the injury or inconvenience produced by his own conduct.
2.  In theology, the pain, regret or affliction which a person feels on account of his past conduct, because it exposes him to punishment.  This sorrow proceeding merely from the fear of punishment, is called legal repentance, as being excited by the terrors of legal penalties, and it may exist without an amendment of life.
3.  Real penitence; sorrow or deep contrition for sin, as an offense and dishonor to God, a violation of his holy law, and the basest ingratitude towards a Being of infinite benevolence.  This is called evangelical repentance, and is accompanied and followed by amendment of life.
Repentance is a change of mind, or a conversion from sin to God.
Godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation.  2Cor. 7.  Matt. 3.
Repentance is the relinquishment of any practice, from conviction that it has offended God.


Topic: Repentant
Definition:
REPENT'ANT, a. 
1.  Sorrowful for past conduct or words.
2.  Sorrowful for sin.
3.  Expressing or showing sorrow for sin; as repentant tears; repentant ashes; repentant sighs.
REPENT'ANT, n.
1.  One who repents; a penitent.
2.  One that expresses sorrow for sin.


Topic: Repenting
Definition:
REPENT'ING, ppr.  Grieving for what is past; feeling pain or contrition for sin.
REPENT'ING, n.  Act of repenting.  Hosea 11.


Topic: Repeople
Definition:
REPEOPLE, v.t.  [re and people.]
To people anew; to furnish again with a stock of people.  The world after the flood was repeopled by the descendants of one family.


Topic: Repeopling
Definition:
REPEOPLING, ppr.  Furnishing again with a stock of inhabitants.
REPEOPLING, n.  [supra.]  The act of furnishing again with inhabitants.


Topic: Repercuss
Definition:
REPERCUSS', v.t.  [L. repercutio; re and percutio; per and quatio, to shake, to beat.]  To beat back.


Topic: Repercussion
Definition:
REPERCUS'SION, n.  [L. repercussio.]
1.  The act of driving back; reverberation; as the repercussion of sound.
2.  In music, frequent repetition of the same sound.


Topic: Repercussive
Definition:
REPERCUSS'IVE, a. 
1.  Driving back; having the power of sending back; causing to reverberate; as repercussive rocks.
2.  Repellent; as a repercussive medicine.  [Not in use.]
3.  Driven back; reverberated.
REPERCUSS'IVE, n.  A repellent.  Obs.


Topic: Repertory
Definition:
REP'ERTORY, n.  [L. repertorium, from reperio, to find again; re and aperio, to uncover.]
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 common-place book, &c.
2.  A treasury; a magazine.


Topic: Repetition
Definition:
REPETI'TION, n.  [L. repetitio.  See Repeat.]
1.  The act of doing or uttering a second time; iteration of the same act, or of the same words or sounds.
2.  The act of reciting or rehearsing; the act of reading over.
3.  Recital.
4.  Recital from memory, as distinct from reading.
5.  In music, the art of repeating, singing or playing the same part a second time.
6.  In rhetoric, reiteration, or a repeating the same word, or the same sense in different words, for the purpose of making a deeper impression on the audience.


Topic: Repine
Definition:
REPI'NE, v.i.  [re and pine.]  
1.  To fret one's self; to be discontented; to feel inward discontent which preys on the spirits; with at or against.  It is our duty never to repine at the allotments of Providence.
2.  To complain discontentedly; to murmur.
Multitudes repine at the want of that which nothing but idleness hinders them from enjoying.
3.  To envy.


Topic: Repining
Definition:
REPI'NING, ppr. 
1.  Fretting one's self; feeling discontent that preys on the spirits; complaining; murmuring.
2.  a.  Disposed to murmur or complain; as a repining temper.
REPI'NING, n.  The act of fretting or feeling discontent or of murmuring.


Topic: Replace
Definition:
REPLA'CE, v.t.
1.  To put again in the former place; as, to replace a book.
The earl - was replaced in his government.
2.  To put in a new place.
3.  To repay; to refund; as, to replace a sum of money borrowed
4.  To put a competent substitute in the place of another displaced or of something lost.  The paper is lost and cannot be replaced.


Topic: Replaced
Definition:
REPLA'CED, pp.  Put again in a former place; supplied by a substitute.  Thus in petrification, the animal or vegetable substance gradually wastes away, and is replaced by silex.


Topic: Replait
Definition:
REPLA'IT, v.t.  [re and plait.]  To plait or fold again; to fold one part over another again and again.


Topic: Repleader
Definition:
REPLE'ADER, n.  In law, a second pleading or course of pleadings; or the power of pleading again.
Whenever a repleader is granted, the pleadings must begin de novo.


Topic: Replenish
Definition:
REPLEN'ISH, v.t.  [L. re and plenus, full.]
1.  To fill; to stock with numbers or abundance.  The magazines are replenished with corn.  The springs are replenished with water.
Multiply and replenish the earth.  Gen. 1.
2.  To finish; to complete.  [Not in use.]
REPLEN'ISH, v.i.  To recover former fullness.


Topic: Replete
Definition:
REPLE'TE, a.  [L. repletus; re and pleo, to fill.]  Completely filled; full.
His words replete with guile.


Topic: Repletion
Definition:
REPLE'TION, n.  [L. repletio.]
1.  The state of being completely filled; or superabundant fullness.
2.  In medicine, fullness of blood; plethorn.


Topic: Replevin
Definition:
REPLEV'IN, n.  [See Replevy.]
1.  An action or remedy granted on a distress, by which a person whose cattle or goods are distrained, has them returned to his own possession upon giving security to try the right of taking in a suit at law, and if that should be determined against him, to return the cattle or goods into the possession of the distrainor.
2.  The writ by which a distress is replevied.


Topic: Replevy
Definition:
REPLEV'Y, v.t.  [re and pledge.  Law L. replegiabilis and replegiare.]
1.  To take back, by a writ for that purpose cattle or goods that have been distrained, upon giving security to try the right of distraining in a suit at law, and if that should be determined against the plaintiff, to return the cattle or goods into the hands of the distrainor.  In this case, the person whose goods are distrained becomes the plaintiff, and the person distraining the defendant or avowant.
2.  To bail.


Topic: Replication
Definition:
REPLICA'TION, n.  [L. replicatio.  See Reply.]  
1.  An answer; a reply.  Particularly,
2.  In law pleadings, the reply of the plaintiff to the defendant's plea.
3.  Return or repercussion of sound.  [Not used.]


Topic: Reply
Definition:
REPLY', v.i.  [L. replico; re and plico, to fold, that is, to turn or send to.  See apply, Employ and Ply.]
1.  To answer; to make a return in words or writing to something said or written by another.
O man, who art thou that repliest against God?  Rom. 9.
2.  In law, to answer a defendant's plea.  The defendant pleads in bar to the plaintiff's declaration; the plaintiff replies to the defendant's plea in bar.
REPLY', v.t.  To return for an answer.  He knows not what to reply.
REPLY', n.
1.  An answer; that which is said or written in answer to what is said or written by another.
2.  A book or pamphlet written in answer to another.


Topic: Report
Definition:
REPORT, v.t.  [l. reporto, to carry back; re and porto, to bear.]
1.  To bear or bring back an answer, or to relate 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 the whole number of votes.
2.  To give an account of; to relate; to tell.
They reported his good deeds before me.  Neh. 6.  Acts 4.
3.  To tell or relate from one to another; to circulate publicly, as a story; as in the common phrase, it is reported.
It is reported among the heathen, and Gashmu saith it, that thou and the Jews think to rebel.  Neh. 6.
In this form of expression, it refers to the subsequent clause of the sentence; 'that thou and the Jews think to rebel, is reported.'
4.  To give an official account or statement; as, the secretary of the treasury reports to congress annually the amount of revenue and expenditure.
5.  To give an account or statement of cases and decisions in a court of law or chancery.
6.  To return, as sound; to give back.
To be reported, or usually, to be reported of, to be well or ill spoken of; to be mentioned with respect or reproach.  
Acts 16.  Romans 3.
REPORT, v.i.  To make a statement of facts.  The committee will report at twelve o'clock.
REPORT, n.  
1.  An account returned; a statement or relation of facts given in reply to inquiry, or by a person authorized to examine and make return to his employer.
From Thetis sent as spies to make report.
2.  Rumor; common fame; story circulated.  Report, though often originating in fact, soon becomes incorrect, and is seldom deserving of credit.  When we have no evidence but popular report, it is prudent to suspend our opinions in regard to the facts.
3.  Repute; public character; as evil report and good report.  2Cor. 6.
Cornelius was of good report among the Jews.  Acts 10.
4.  Account; story; relation.
It was a true report that I heard in my own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom.  1Kings 10.
5.  Sound; noise; as the report of a pistol or cannon.
6.  An account or statement of a judicial opinion or decision, or of a case argued and determined in a court of law, chancery, &c.  The books containing such statements are also called reports.
7.  An official statement of facts, verbal or written; particularly, a statement in writing of proceedings and facts exhibited by an officer to his superiors; as the reports of the heads of departments to congress, of a master in chancery to the court, of committees to a legislative body and the like.


Topic: Reported
Definition:
REPORTED, pp.  Told, related or stated in answer to inquiry or direction; circulated in popular rumors; reputed; stated officially.


Topic: Reporter
Definition:
REPORTER, n.
1.  One that gives an account, verbal or written, official or unofficial.
2.  An officer or person who makes statements of law proceedings and decisions, or of legislative debates.


Topic: Reporting
Definition:
REPORTING, ppr.  Giving account; relating; presenting statements of facts or of adjudged cases in law.


Topic: Repose
Definition:
REPO'SE, v.t. s as z.  [l. repono, reposui.]
1.  To lay at rest.
- After the toil of battle, to repose your wearied virtue.
2.  To lay; to rest, as the mind, in confidence or trust; as, to repose trust or confidence in a person's veracity.
3.  To lay up; to deposit; to lodge; as pebbles reposed in cliffs.
4.  To place in confidence.
REPO'SE, v.i.
1.  To lie at rest; to sleep.
Within a thicket I repos'd.
2.  To rest in confidence.  I repose on the faith and honor of a friend.
3.  To lie; to rest; as trap reposing on sand.
REPO'SE, n.
1.  A lying at rest.
2.  Sleep; rest; quiet.
3.  Rest of mind; tranquility; freedom from uneasiness.
4.  Cause of rest.
5.  In poetry, a rest; a pause.
6.  In painting, harmony of colors, as when nothing glaring appears.


Topic: Reposit
Definition:
REPOS'IT, v.t.  [L. repositus, repono.]  To lay up; to lodge, as for safety or preservation.
Others reposit their young in holes.


Topic: Repository
Definition:
REPOS'ITORY, n.  [L. repositorium, from repono.]
A place where things are or may be deposited for safety or preservation.  A granary is a repository for corn, an arsenal for arms.  The mind or memory is called the repository of ideas.


Topic: Repossess
Definition:
REPOSSESS', v.t.  [re and possess.]  To possess again.
Nor shall my father repossess the land.
To repossess one's self, to obtain possession again.


Topic: Reprehend
Definition:
REPREHEND', v.t.  [l. reprehendo; re and prehendo, to seize.]
1.  To chide; to reprove.
Pardon me for reprehending thee.
2.  To blame; to censure.
I nor advise, nor reprehend the choice.
3.  To detect of fallacy.
This color will be reprehended or encountered, by imputing to all excellencies in compositions a kind of poverty.  [Not in use.]
4.  To accuse; to charge with a fault; with of; as Aristippus, being reprehended of luxury.


Topic: Reprehensible
Definition:
REPREHEN'SIBLE, a.  [L. reprehensus.]
Blamable; culpable; censurable; deserving reproof; applied to persons or things; as a reprehensible person; reprehensible conduct.


Topic: Reprehension
Definition:
REPREHEN'SION, n.  [L. reprehensio.]  
Reproof; censure; open blame.  Faults not punishable, may deserve reprehension.


Topic: Represent
Definition:
REPRESENT', v.t. s as z.  [L. repraesento; re and Low L. praesenter, from praesens, present.]
1.  To show or exhibit by resemblance.
Before him burn seven lamps, as in a zodiac, representing the heavenly fires.
2.  To describe; to exhibit to the mind in words.
The managers of the bank at Genoa have been represented as a second kind of senate.
3.  To exhibit; to show by action; as a tragedy well represented.
4.  To personate; to act the character or to fill the place of another in a play; as, to represent the character of king Richard.
5.  To supply the place of; to act as a substitute for another.  The parliament of Great Britain represents the nation.  The congress of the United States represents the people or nation.  The senate is considered as representing the states in their corporate capacity.
6.  To show by arguments, reasoning or statement of facts.  the memorial represents the situation of the petitioner.  Represent to your son the danger of an idle life or profligate company.
7.  To stand in the place of, in the right of inheritance.
All the branches inherit the same share that their root, whom they represent, would have done.


Topic: Representation
Definition:
REPRESENTA'TION, n.
1.  The act of representing, describing or showing.
2.  That which exhibits by resemblance; image, likeness, picture or statue; as representations of God.
3.  Any exhibition of the form or operations of a thing by something resembling it.  A map is a representation of the world or a part of it.  The terrestrial globe is a representation of the earth.  An orrery is a representation of the planets and their revolutions.
4.  Exhibition, as of a play on the stage.
5.  Exhibition of a character in theatrical performance.
6.  Verbal description; statement of arguments or facts in narration, oratory, debate, petition, admonition, &c.; as the representation of a historian, of a witness or an advocate.
7.  The business of acting as a substitute for another; as the representation of a nation in a legislative body.
8.  Representatives, as a collective body.  It is expedient to have an able representation in both houses of congress.
9.  Public exhibition.
10.  The standing in the place of another, as an heir, or in the right of taking by inheritance.


Topic: Representative
Definition:
REPRESENT'ATIVE, a.
1.  Exhibiting a similitude.
They own the legal sacrifices, though representative, to be proper and real.
2.  Bearing the character or power of another; as a council representative of the people.
REPRESENT'ATIVE, n.  
1.  One that exhibits the likeness of another.
A statue of Rumor, whispering an idiot in the ear, who was the representative of credulity.
2.  In legislative or other business, an agent, deputy or substitute who supplies the place of another or others, being invested with his or their authority.  An attorney is the representative of his client or employer.  A member of the house of commons is the representative of his constituents and of the nation.  In matters concerning his constituents only, he is supposed to be bound by their instructions, but in the enacting of laws for the nation, he is supposed not to be bound by their instructions, as he acts for the whole nation.
3.  In law, one that stands in the place of another as heir, or in the right of succeeding to an estate of inheritance, or to a crown.
4.  That by which any thing is exhibited or shown.
This doctrine supposes the perfections of God to be the representatives to us of whatever we perceive in the creatures.


Topic: Representatively
Definition:
REPRESENT'ATIVELY, adv.
1.  In the character of another; by a representative.
2.  By substitution; by delegation of power.


Topic: Representativeness
Definition:
REPRESENT'ATIVENESS, n.  The state or quality of being representative.
Dr. Burnet observes that every thought is attended with consciousness and representativeness.


Topic: Representer
Definition:
REPRESENT'ER, n.
1.  One who shows, exhibits or describes.
2.  A representative; one that acts by deputation.  [Little used.]


Topic: Representing
Definition:
REPRESENT'ING, ppr.  Showing; exhibiting; describing; acting in another's character; acting in the place of another.


Topic: Representment
Definition:
REPRESENT'MENT, n.  Representation; image; an idea proposed as exhibiting the likeness of something.


Topic: Repress
Definition:
REPRESS', v.t.  [L. repressus, reprimo; re and premo, to press.]
1.  To crush; to quell; to put down; to subdue; to suppress; as, to repress sedition or rebellion; to repress the first risings of discontent.
2.  To check; to restrain.
Such kings favor the innocent, repress the bold.
REPRESS', n.  The act of subduing.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Reprieve
Definition:
REPRIE'VE, v.t.  [I know not the origin of this word.]
1.  To respit after sentence of death; to suspend or delay the execution of for a time; as, to reprieve a criminal for thirty days.
He reprieves the sinner from time to time.
2.  To grant a respit to; to relieve for a time for any suffering.
Company, though it may reprieve a man from his melancholy, yet cannot secure a man from his conscience.
REPRIE'VE, n.
1.  The temporary suspension of the execution of sentence of death on a criminal.
2.  Respit; interval of ease or relief.
All that I ask is but a short reprieve, till I forgot to love, and learn to grieve.


Topic: Reprimand
Definition:
REP'RIMAND, v.t.  [If this word is from L. reprimo, it must be formed from the participle reprimendus.]
1.  To reprove severely; to reprehend; to chide for a fault.
Germanicus was severely reprimanded by Tiberius, for traveling into Egypt without his permission.
2.  To reprove publicly and officially, in execution of a sentence.  The court ordered the officer to be reprimanded.
REP'RIMAND, n.  Severe reproof for a fault; reprehension, private or public.


Topic: Reprint
Definition:
REPRINT', v.t.  [re and print.]
1.  To print again; to print a second or any new edition.
2.  To renew the impression of any thing.
The business of redemption is - to reprint God's image on the soul.


Topic: Reprisal
Definition:
REPRI'SAL, n. s as z.  [L. prendo.]
1.  The seizure or taking of any thing from an enemy by way of retaliation or indemnification for something taken or detained by him.
2.  That which is taken from an enemy to indemnify an owner for something of his which the enemy has seized.  Reprisals may consist of persons or of goods.  Letters of marque and reprisal may be obtained in order to seize the bodies or goods of the subjects of an offending state, until satisfaction shall be made.
3.  Recaption; a retaking of a man's own goods or any of his family, wife, child or servant, wrongfully taken from him or detained by another.  In this case, the owner may retake the goods or persons wherever he finds them.
Letters of marque and reprisal, a commission granted by the supreme authority of a state to a subject, empowering him to pass the frontiers [marque,] that is, enter an enemy's territories and capture the goods and persons of the enemy, in return for goods or persons taken by him.
4.  The act of retorting on an enemy by inflicting suffering or death on a prisoner taken from him, in retaliation of an act of inhumanity.


Topic: Reprise
Definition:
REPRI'SE, n. s as z.  A taking by way of retaliation.  Obs.
REPRI'SE, v.t. s as z. 
1.  To take again.  obs.
2.  To recompense; to pay.  Obs.


Topic: Reproach
Definition:
REPROACH, v.t.  [L. prox, in proximus.]
1.  To censure in terms of opprobrium or contempt.
Mezentius with his ardor warm'd his fainting friends, reproach'd their shameful flight, repell'd the victors.
2.  To charge with a fault in severe language.
That shame there sit not, and reproach us as unclean.
3.  To upbraid; to suggest blame for any thing.  A man's conscience will reproach him for a criminal, mean or unworthy action.
4.  To treat with scorn or contempt.  Luke 6.
REPROACH, n.
1.  Censure mingled with contempt or derision; contumelious or opprobrious language towards any person; abusive reflections; as foul-mouthed reproach.
2.  Shame; infamy; disgrace.
Give not thine heritage to reproach.  Joel 2.  Is. 4.
3.  Object of contempt, scorn or derision.
Come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we may be no more a reproach.  Neh. 2.
4.  That which is the cause of shame or disgrace.  Gen. 30.


Topic: Reproachful
Definition:
REPROACHFUL, a.  
1.  Expressing censure with contempt; scurrilous; opprobrious; as reproachful words.
2.  Shameful; bringing or casting reproach; infamous; base; vile; as reproachful conduct; a reproachful life.


Topic: Reproachfully
Definition:
REPROACHFULLY, adv.
1.  In terms of reproach; opprobriously; scurrilously  
1Tim. 5.
2.  Shamefully; disgracefully; contemptuously.


Topic: Reprobate
Definition:
REPROBATE, a.  [L. reprobatus, reprobo, to disallow; re and probo, to prove.]
1.  Not enduring proof or trial; not of standard purity or fineness; disallowed; rejected.
Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them.  Jer. 6.
2.  Abandoned in sin; lost to virtue or grace.
They profess that they know God, but in works deny him, being abominable and disobedient, and to every good work reprobate.  Titus 1.
3.  Abandoned to error, or in apostasy.  2Tim. 3.


Topic: Reprobating
Definition:
REP'ROBATING, ppr.  Disapproving with extreme dislike; rejecting; abandoning to wickedness or to destruction.


Topic: Reprobation
Definition:
REPROBA'TION, n.  [L. reprobatio.]
1.  The act of disallowing with detestation, or of expressing extreme dislike.
2.  The act of abandoning or state of being abandoned to eternal destruction.
When a sinner is so hardened as to feel no remorse or misgiving of conscience, it is considered as a sign of reprobation.
3.  A condemnatory sentence; rejection.
Set a brand of reprobation on clipped poetry and false coin.


Topic: Reproduce
Definition:
REPRODU'CE, v.t.  [re and produce.]  To produce again; to renew the production of a thing destroyed.  Trees are reproduced by new shoots from the roots or stump; and certain animals, as the polype, are reproduced from cuttings.


Topic: Reproduction
Definition:
REPRODUC'TION, n.  The act or process of reproducing that which has been destroyed; as the reproduction of plants or animals from cuttings or slips.  The reproduction of several parts of lobsters and crabs is one of the greatest curiosities in natural history.


Topic: Reproof
Definition:
REPROOF', n.  [from reprove.  
1.  Blame expressed to the face; censure for a fault; reprehension.
Those best can bear reproof, who merit praise.
He that hateth reproof is brutish.  Prov 12.
2.  Blame cast; censure directed to a person.


Topic: Reprove
Definition:
REPROVE, v.t.  [L. reprobo; re and probo, to prove.]
1.  To blame; to censure.
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices - Ps. 50.
2.  To charge with a fault to the face; to chide; to reprehend.  Luke 3.
3.  To blame for; with of; as, to reprove one of laziness.
4.  To convince of a fault, or to make it manifest.  
John 16.
5.  To refute; to disprove.  [Not in use.]
6.  To excite a sense of guilt.  The heart or conscience reproves us.
7.  To manifest silent disapprobation or blame.
The vicious cannot bear the presence of the good, whose very looks reprove them, and whose life is a severe, though silent admonition.


Topic: Reptile
Definition:
REP'TILE, a.  [L. reptilis, from repo, to creep, Gr.  See Creep.]
1.  Creeping; moving on the belly, or with many small feet.
2.  Groveling; low; vulgar; as a reptile race or crew; reptile vices.
REP'TILE, n.  
1.  An animal that moves on its belly, or by means of small short legs, as earth-worms, caterpillars, snakes and the like.
In zoology, the reptiles constitute an order of the class Amphibian, including all such as are furnished with limbs or articulated extremities, as tortoises, lizards and frogs.
2.  A groveling or very mean person; a term of contempt.


Topic: Republic
Definition:
REPUB'LIC, n.  [L. respublica; res and publica; public affairs.]
1.  A commonwealth; a state in which the exercise of the sovereign power is lodged in representatives elected by the people.  In modern usage, it differs from a democracy or democratic state, in which the people exercise the powers of sovereignty in person.  Yet the democracies of Greece are often called republics.
2.  Common interest; the public.  [Not in use.]
Republic of letters, the collective body of learned men.


Topic: Republican
Definition:
REPUB'LICAN, a.
1.  Pertaining to a republic; consisting of a commonwealth; as a republican constitution or government.
2.  Consonant to the principles of a republic; as republican sentiments or opinions; republican manners.
REPUB'LICAN, n.  One who favors or prefers a republican form of government.


Topic: Republicanism
Definition:
REPUB'LICANISM, n.  
1.  A republican form or system of government.
2.  Attachment to a republican form of government.


Topic: Republicanize
Definition:
REPUB'LICANIZE, v.t.  To convert to republican principles; as, to republicanize the rising generation.


Topic: Republication
Definition:
REPUBLICA'TION, n.  [re and publication.]
1.  A second publication, or a new publication of something before published.
2.  A second publication, as of a former will, renewal.
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.


Topic: Republish
Definition:
REPUB'LISH, v.t.  [re and publish.]
1.  To publish a second time, or to publish a new edition of a work before published.
2.  To publish anew.
Unless, subsequent to the purchase or contract, the devisor republishes his will.


Topic: Repudiate
Definition:
REPU'DIATE, v.t.  [L. repudio.]
1.  To cast away; to reject; to discard.
Atheists - repudiate all title to the kingdom of heaven.
2.  Appropriately, to put away; to divorce; as a wife.


Topic: Repugnant
Definition:
REPUG'NANT, a.  [L. repugnans.]
1.  Opposite; contrary; inconsistent; properly followed by to.  Every sin is repugnant to the will of God.  Every thing morally wrong, is repugnant both to the honor, as well as to the interest of the offender.
2.  Disobedient; not obsequious.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Repulse
Definition:
REPULSE, n. repuls'.  [L. repulsa, from repello; re and pello, to drive.]
1.  A being checked in advancing, or driven back by force.  The enemy met with a repulse and retreated.
2.  Refusal; denial.
REPULSE, v.t.  repuls'.  [L. repulsus, repello.]
To repel; to beat or drive back as, to repulse an assailant or advancing enemy.


Topic: Repulsion
Definition:
REPUL'SION, n.  
1.  In physics, the power of repelling or driving off; that property of bodies which causes them to recede from each other or avoid coming in contact.
2.  The act of repelling.


Topic: Repulsive
Definition:
REPULS'IVE, a.
1.  Repelling; driving off, or keeping from approach.  The repulsive power of the electric fluid is remarkable.
2.  Cold; reserved; forbidding; as repulsive manners.


Topic: Repurchase
Definition:
REPUR'CHASE, v.t.  [re and purchase.]  To buy again; to buy back; to regain by purchase or expense.
REPUR'CHASE, n.  The act of buying again; the purchase again of what has been sold.


Topic: Repurchased
Definition:
REPUR'CHASED, pp.  Bought back or again; regained by expense; as a throne repurchased with the blood of enemies.


Topic: Reputable
Definition:
REP'UTABLE, a.  [from repute.]
1.  Being in good repute; held in esteem; as a reputable man or character; reputable conduct.  It expresses less than respectable and honorable, denoting the good opinion of men, without distinction or great qualities.
2.  Consistent with reputation; not mean or disgraceful.  It is evidence of extreme depravity that vice is in any case reputable.
In the article of danger, it is as reputable to elude an enemy as to defeat one.


Topic: Reputation
Definition:
REPUTA'TION, n.  [L. reputatio.]
1.  Good name; the credit, honor or character which is derived from a favorable public opinion or esteem.  Reputation is a valuable species of property or right, which should never be violated.  With the loss of reputation, a man and especially a woman, loses most of the enjoyments of life.
The best evidence of reputation is a man's whole life.
2.  Character by report; in a good or bad sense; as, a man has the reputation of being rich or poor, or of being a thief.


Topic: Repute
Definition:
REPU'TE, v.t.  [L. reputo; re and puto, to think.]
To think; to account; to hold; to reckon.
The king was reputed a prince most prudent.
Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight.  Job. 18.
REPU'TE, n.
1.  Reputation; good character; the credit or honor derived from common or public opinion; as men of repute.
2.  Character; in a bad sense; as a man held in bad repute.
3.  Established opinion; as upheld by old repute.


Topic: Request
Definition:
REQUEST', n.  [L. requisitus, requiro; re and quaero, to seek.  See Quest, Question.]
1.  The expression of desire to some person for something to be granted or done; an asking; a petition.
Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen.  Esther 7.
2.  Prayer; the expression of desire to a superior or to the Almighty.  Phil. 4.
3.  The thing asked for or requested.
I will both hear and grant you your requests.
He gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul.  Ps. 104.
4.  A state of being desired or held in such estimation as to be sought after or pursued.
Knowledge and fame were in as great request as wealth among us now.
In request, in demand; in credit or reputation.
Coriolanus being now in no request.
Request expresses less earnestness than entreaty and supplication, and supposes a right in the person requested to deny or refuse to grant.  In this it differs from demand.
REQUEST', v.t.  
1.  To ask; to solicit; to express desire for.
The weight of the golden ear-rings which he requested, was a thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold.  Judges. 8.
2.  To express desire to; to ask.  We requested a friend to accompany us.
Court of requests, in England, a court of equity for the relief of such persons as addressed his majesty by supplication.
3.  A court of conscience for the recovery of small debts, held by two aldermen and four commoners, who try causes by the oath of parties and of other witnesses.


Topic: Requiem
Definition:
RE'QUIEM, n.  [L.]
1.  In the Romish church, a hymn or mass sung for the dead, for the rest of his soul; so called from the first word.
2.  Rest; quiet; peace.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Require
Definition:
REQUI'RE, v.t.  [L. requiro; re and quaero, to seek.  See Query.]
1.  To demand; to ask, as of right and by authority.  We require a person to do a thing, and we require a thing to be done.
Why then doth my lord require this thing?  1Chron. 21.
2.  To claim; to render necessary; as a duty or any thing indispensable; as, the law of God requires strict obedience.
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 8.
[In this sense, the word is rarely used.]
4.  To call to account for.
I will require my flock at their hand.  Ezek. 34.
5.  To make necessary; to need; to demand.
The king's business required haste.  1Sam. 21.
6.  To avenge; to take satisfaction for.  1Sam. 20.


Topic: Requirement
Definition:
REQUI'REMENT, n.  Demand; requisition.
This ruler was one of those who believe that they can fill us every requirement contained in the rule of righteousness.
The Bristol water is of service where the secretions exceed the requirements of health.


Topic: Requisite
Definition:
REQ'UISITE, a.  s as z.  [L. requiitus, from requiro.]
Required by the nature of things or by circumstances; necessary; so needful that it cannot be dispensed with.  Repentance and faith are requisite to salvation.  Air is requisite to support life.  Heat is requisite to vegetation.
REQ'UISITE, n.  That which is necessary; something indispensable.  Contentment is a requisite to a happy life.
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.


Topic: Requisition
Definition:
REQUISI'TION, n.  [See Require.]
Demand; application made as of right.  Under the old confederation of the American states, congress often made requisitions on the states for money to supply the treasury; but they had no power to enforce their requisitions, and the states neglected or partially complied with them.


Topic: Requital
Definition:
REQUI'TAL, n.  [from requite.]
1.  Return for any office, good or bad; in a good sense,  compensation; recompense; as the requital of services; in a bad sense, retaliation or punishment, as the requital of evil deeds.
2.  Return; reciprocal action.
No merit their aversion can remove, nor ill requital can efface their love.


Topic: Requite
Definition:
REQUI'TE, v.t.  [from quit, L. cedo.]
1.  To repay either good or evil; in a good sense, to recompense; to return an equivalent in good; to reward.
I also will requite you this kindness.  2Sam. 2.  1Tim. 5.
In a bad sense, to retaliate; to return evil for evil; to punish.
Joseph will certainly requite us all the evil which we did to him.  Gen. 1.
2.  To do or give in return.
He hath requited me evil for good.  1Sam. 25.


Topic: Rere-ward
Definition:
RE'RE-WARD, n. [rear and ward.]  The part of an army that marches in the rear, as the guard; the rear guard. [The latter othography is to be preferred.]   Num. 10. Is. 52.


Topic: Resalute
Definition:
RESALU'TE, v.t.  [L. resaluto; re and saluto, to salute.]
1.  To salute or greet anew.
2.  To return a salutation.


Topic: Rescind
Definition:
RESCIND', v.t.  [L. rescindo; re and scindo; to cut.]
1.  To abrogate; to revoke; to annul; to vacate an act by the enacting authority or by superior authority; as, to rescind a law, a resolution or a vote; to rescind an edict or decree; to rescind a judgment.
2.  To cut off.  [Not used.]


Topic: Rescission
Definition:
RESCISSION, n.  resizh'on.  [L. rescissus.]
1.  The act of abrogating, annulling or vacating; as the rescission of a law, decree or judgment.
2.  A cutting off.


Topic: Rescribe
Definition:
RESCRI'BE, v.t.  [L. rescribo; re and scribo, to write.]
1.  To write back.
2.  To write over again.


Topic: Rescript
Definition:
RE'SCRIPT, n.  [L. rescriptum, rescribo.]  The answer of an emperor, when consulted by particular persons on some difficult question.  This answer serves as a decision of the question, and is therefore equivalent to an edict or decree.


Topic: Rescue
Definition:
RESCUE, v.t. res'cu.[L. re and quatio.]
To free or deliver from any confinement, violence, danger or evil; to liberate from actual restraint, or to remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil; as, to rescue a prisoner from an officer; to rescue seamen from destruction by shipwreck.
So the people rescued Jonathan that he died not.  
1Sam. 14. 30.  Ps. 35.
Cattle taken by distress contrary to law, may be rescued by the owner, while on their way to the pound.
Estimate the value of one soul rescued from eternal guilt and agony, and destined to grow forever in the knowledge and likeness of God.


Topic: Research
Definition:
RESEARCH, n.  reserch'.  Diligent inquiry or examination in seeking facts or principles; laborious or continued search after truth; as researches of human wisdom.
RESEARCH, v.t.  reserch'.
1.  To search or examine with continued care; to seek diligently for the truth.
It is not easy to research with due distinction, in the actions of eminent personages, both how much may have been blemished by the envy of others, and what was corrupted by their own felicity.  [Unusual.]
2.  To search again; to examine anew.


Topic: Reseize
Definition:
RESE'IZE, v.t.  [re and seize.]
1.  To seize again; to seize a second time.
2.  In law, to take possession of lands and tenements which have been disseized.
Whereupon 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.


Topic: Resemblance
Definition:
RESEM'BLANCE, n.  [See Resemble.]
1.  Likeness; similitude, either of external form or of qualities.  We observe a resemblance between persons, a resemblance in shape, a resemblance in manners, a resemblance in dispositions.  Painting and poetry bear a great resemblance to each other, as one object of both is to please.
2.  Something similar; similitude; representation.
These sensible things which religion hath allowed, are resemblances formed according to things spiritual.
Fairest resemblance of thy Maker fair -


Topic: Resemble
Definition:
RESEM'BLE, v.t.  s as z.  [See similar.]
1.  To have the likeness of; to bear the similitude of something, either in form, figure or qualities.  One man may resemble another in features; he may resemble a third person in temper or deportment.
Each one resembled the children of a king.  Judges 8.
2.  To liken; to compare; to represent as like something else.
The torrid parts of Africa are resembled to a libbard's skin, the distance of whose spots represents the dispersed situation of the habitations.


Topic: Resent
Definition:
RESENT', v.t. s as z.  [L. sentio.]
1.  To take well; to receive with satisfaction.  Obs.
2.  To take ill; to consider as an injury or affront; to be in some degree angry or provoked at.
Thou with scorn and anger would'st resent the offer'd wrong.


Topic: Resenter
Definition:
RESENT'ER, n.
1.  One who resents; one that feels an injury deeply.
2.  In the sense of one that takes a thing well.  Obs.


Topic: Resentingly
Definition:
RESENT'INGLY, adv.
1.  With a sense of wrong or affront; with a degree of anger.
2.  With deep sense or strong perception.  Obs.


Topic: Resentment
Definition:
RESENT'MENT, n.
1.  The excitement of passion which proceeds from a sense of wrong offered to ourselves, or to those who are connected with us; anger.  This word usually expresses less excitement than anger, though it is often synonymous with it.  It expresses much less than wrath, exasperation, and indignation.  In this use, resentment is not the sense or perception of injury, but the excitement which is the effect of it.
Can heavenly minds such high resentment show?
2.  Strong perception of good.  [Not in use.]


Topic: Reservation
Definition:
RESERVA'TION, n. s as z.  [L. reservo.]
1.  The act of reserving or keeping back or in the mind; reserve; concealment or withholding from disclosure; as mental reservation.
2.  Something withheld, either not expressed or disclosed, or not given up or brought forward.
With reservation of a hundred knights.
In the United States, a tract of land not sold with the rest, is called a reservation.
3.  Custody; state of being treasured up or kept in store.
4.  In law, a clause or part of an instrument by which something is reserved, not conceded or granted; also, a proviso.
Mental reservation is the withholding of expression or disclosure of something that affects a proposition or statement, and which if disclosed, would materially vary its import.
Mental reservations are the refuge of hypocrites.


Topic: Reserve
Definition:
RESERVE, v.t. rezerv'.  [L. reservo; re and servo, to keep.]
1.  To keep in store for future or other use; to withhold from present use for another purpose.  The farmer sells his corn, reserving only what is necessary for his family.
Hast thou seen the treasures of hail, which I have reserved against the day of trouble?  Job 38.
2.  To keep; to hold; to retain.
Will he reserve his anger for ever?  Jer. 3.
3.  To lay up and keep for a future time.  2Peter 2.
Reserve your kind looks and language for private hours.
RESERVE, n.  rezerv'.
1.  That which is kept for other or future use; that which is retained from present use or disposal.
The virgins, besides the oil in their lamps, carried likewise a reserve in some other vessel for a continual supply.
2.  Something in the mind withheld from disclosure.
However any one may concur in the general scheme, it is still with certain reserves and deviations.
3.  Exception; something withheld.
Is knowledge so despis'd? or envy, or what reserve forbids to taste?
4.  Exception in favor.
Each has some darling lust, which pleads for a reserve.
5.  Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior.  Reserve may proceed from modesty, bashfulness, prudence, prudery or sullenness.
My soul surpris'd, and from her sex disjoin'd, left all reserve, and all the sex behind.
6.  In law, reservation.
In reserve, in store; in keeping for other or future use.  He has large quantities of wheat in reserve.  He has evidence or arguments in reserve.
Body of reserve, in military affairs, the third or last line of an army drawn up for battle, reserved to sustain the other lines as occasion may require; a body of troops kept for an exigency.


Topic: Reserved
Definition:
RESERV'ED,  pp.  
1.  Kept for another or future use; retained.
2.  a.  Restrained from freedom in words or actions; backward in conversation; not free or frank.
To all obliging, yet reserv'd to all.
Nothing reserv'd or sullen was to see.


Topic: Reservedly
Definition:
RESERV'EDLY, adv.  
1.  With reserve; with backwardness; not with openness or frankness.
2.  Scrupulously; cautiously; coldly.


Topic: Reservedness
Definition:
RESERV'EDNESS, n.  Closeness; want of frankness, openness or freedom.  A man may guard himself by that silence and reservedness which every one may innocently practice.


Topic: Reservoir
Definition:
RESERVOIR', n.  A place where any thing is kept in store, particularly 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 and the like; a cistern; a mill-pond; a bason.


Topic: Resettle
Definition:
RESET'TLE, v.t.  [re and settle.]
1.  To settle again.
2.  To install, as a minister of the gospel.
RESET'TLE, v.i.  to settle in the ministry a second time; to be installed.


Topic: Resettlement
Definition:
RESET'TLEMENT, n.  
1.  The act of settling or composing again.
The resettlement of my discomposed soul.
2.  The state of settling or subsiding again; as the resettlement of lees.
3.  A second settlement in the ministry.


