Re- (re-). [L. re-, older form (retained before vowels) red-: cf. F. re-, re-.] A prefix signifying back, against, again, anew; as recline, to lean back; recall, to call back; recede; remove; reclaim, to call out against; repugn, to fight against; recognition, a knowing again; rejoin, to join again; reiterate; reassure. Combinations containing the prefix re- are readily formed, and are for the most part of obvious signification.

Re coverance
Re cov"er•ance (- ans), n. Recovery. [Obs.]

Re proval
Re prov"al (- al), n. Reproof. Sir P. Sidney.

Re sign
Re sign", n. Resignation. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Reabsorb
Re•ab•sorb´ (re•ab•sôrb"), v. t. To absorb again; to draw in, or imbibe, again what has been effused, extravasated, or thrown off; to swallow up again; as to reabsorb chyle, lymph, etc.; — used esp. of fluids.

Reabsorption
Re•ab•sorp´tion (-sôrp"shun), n. The act or process of reabsorbing.

Reaccess
Re•ac•cess´ (re•ak•ses" or re•ak"ses), n. A second access or approach; a return. Hakewill.

Reaccuse
Re•ac•cuse´ (re•ak•kuz"), v. t. To accuse again.

Reach (rech), v. i. To retch. Cheyne.

Reach, n. An effort to vomit. [R.]

Reach, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Reached (recht) (Raught, the old preterit, is obsolete); p. pr. & vb. n. Reaching.] [OE. rechen, AS. raecan, raecean, to extend, stretch out; akin to D. reiken, G. reichen, and possibly to AS. rice powerful, rich, E. rich. rad.115.]
1. To extend; to stretch; to thrust out; to put forth, as a limb, a member, something held, or the like.
"Her tresses yellow, and long straughten, Unto her heeles down they raughten." Rom. of R.
"Reach hither thy hand and thrust it into my side." John xx. 27.
"Fruit trees, over woody, reached too far Their pampered boughs." Milton.
2. Hence, to deliver by stretching out a member, especially the hand; to give with the hand; to pass to another; to hand over; as to reach one a book.
"He reached me a full cup." 2 Esd. xiv. 39.
3. To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something held by one, so as to touch, strike, grasp, or the like; as to reach an object with the hand, or with a spear.
"O patron power, … thy present aid afford, Than I may reach the beast." Dryden.
4. To strike, hit, or touch with a missile; as to reach an object with an arrow, a bullet, or a shell.
5. Hence, to extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut, as far as.
"If these examples of grown men reach not the case of children, let them examine." Locke.
6. To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent; as his land reaches the river.
"Thy desire … leads to no excess That reaches blame." Milton.
7. To arrive at; to come to; to get as far as.
"Before this letter reaches your hands." Pope.
8. To arrive at by effort of any kind; to attain to; to gain; to be advanced to.
"The best account of the appearances of nature which human penetration can reach, comes short of its reality." Cheyne.
9. To understand; to comprehend. [Obs.]
"Do what, sir? I reach you not." Beau. & Fl.
10. To overreach; to deceive. [Obs.] South.

Reach, v. i.
1. To stretch out the hand.
"Goddess humane, reach, then, and freely taste!" Milton.
2. To strain after something; to make efforts.
"Reaching above our nature does no good." Dryden.
3. To extend in dimension, time, amount, action, influence, etc., so as to touch, attain to, or be equal to, something.
"And behold, a ladder set upon the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven." Gen. xxviii. 12.
"The new world reaches quite across the torrid zone." Boyle.
4. (Naut.) To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam. To reach after or at, to make efforts to attain to or obtain.
"He would be in the posture of the mind reaching after a positive idea of infinity." Locke.

Reach, n.
1. The act of stretching or extending; extension; power of reaching or touching with the person, or a limb, or something held or thrown; as the fruit is beyond my reach; to be within reach of cannon shot.
2. The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management; extent of force or capacity.
"Drawn by others who had deeper reaches than themselves to matters which they least intended." Hayward.
"Be sure yourself and your own reach to know." Pope.
3. Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope.
"And on the left hand, hell, With long reach, interposed." Milton.
"I am to pray you not to strain my speech To grosser issues, nor to larger reach Than to suspicion." Shak.
4. An extended portion of land or water; a stretch; a straight portion of a stream or river, as from one turn to another; a level stretch, as between locks in a canal; an arm of the sea extending up into the land. "The river’s wooded reach." Tennyson.
"The coast … is very full of creeks and reaches." Holland.
5. An artifice to obtain an advantage.
"The Duke of Parma had particular reaches and ends of his own underhand to cross the design." Bacon.
6. The pole or rod which connects the hind axle with the forward bolster of a wagon.

Reachable
Reach´a•ble (-a•b’l), a. Being within reach.

Reacher
Reach´er (-er), n.
1. One who reaches.
2. An exaggeration. [Obs.] Fuller.

Reachless
Reach´less, a. Being beyond reach; lofty.
"Unto a reachless pitch of praises hight." Bp. Hall.

React
Re•act´ (re•akt"), v. t. To act or perform a second time; to do over again; as to react a play; the same scenes were reacted at Rome.

React
Re•act´ (re•akt"), v. i.
1. To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force; as every body reacts on the body that impels it from its natural state.
2. To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition.

Reactance
Re•act´ance, n. [ React + -ance.] (Elec.) The influence of a coil of wire upon an alternating current passing through it, tending to choke or diminish the current, or the similar influence of a condenser; inductive resistance. Reactance is measured in ohms. The reactance of a circuit is equal to the component of the impressed electro-motive force at right angles to the current divided by the current, that is, the component of the impedance due to the self-inductance or capacity of the circuit.

Reactance coil (Elec.) A choking coil.

Reaction
Re•ac´tion (re•ak"shun), n. [Cf. F. reaction.]
1. Any action in resisting other action or force; counter tendency; movement in a contrary direction; reverse action.
2. (Chem.) The mutual or reciprocal action of chemical agents upon each other, or the action upon such chemical agents of some form of energy, as heat, light, or electricity, resulting in a chemical change in one or more of these agents, with the production of new compounds or the manifestation of distinctive characters. See Blowpipe reaction, Flame reaction, under Blowpipe, and Flame.
3. (Med.) An action induced by vital resistance to some other action; depression or exhaustion of vital force consequent on overexertion or overstimulation; heightened activity and overaction succeeding depression or shock.
4. (Mech.) The force which a body subjected to the action of a force from another body exerts upon the latter body in the opposite direction.
"Reaction is always equal and opposite to action, that is to say, the actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal and in opposite directions." Sir I. Newton (3d Law of Motion).
5. (Politics) Backward tendency or movement after revolution, reform, or great progress in any direction.
"The new king had, at the very moment at which his fame and fortune reached the highest point, predicted the coming reaction." Macaulay. Reaction time (Physiol.), in nerve physiology, the interval between the application of a stimulus to an end organ of sense and the reaction or resulting movement; — called also physiological time. — Reaction wheel (Mech.), a water wheel driven by the reaction of water, usually one in which the water, entering it centrally, escapes at its periphery in a direction opposed to that of its motion by orifices at right angles, or inclined, to its radii.

Reaction
Re•ac´tion, n. (Psycophysics) A regular or characteristic response to a stimulation of the nerves.

Reactionary
Re•ac´tion•a•ry (-a•ry), a. Being, causing, or favoring reaction; as reactionary movements.

Reactionary
Re•ac´tion•a•ry, n. ; pl. Reactionaries (-riz). One who favors reaction, or seeks to undo political progress or revolution.

Reactionist
Re•ac´tion•ist, n. A reactionary. C. Kingsley.

Reactive
Re•act´ive (re•akt"iv), a. [Cf. F. reactif.] Having power to react; tending to reaction; of the nature of reaction. — Re•act´ive•ly, adv. — Re•act´ive•ness, n.

Reactor
Re•act´or, n. (Elec.) A choking coil.

Read (red), n. Rennet. See 3d Reed. [Prov. Eng.]

Read (red), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Read (red); p. pr. & vb. n. Reading.] [OE. reden, raeden, AS. raedan to read, advise, counsel, fr. raed advice, counsel, raedan (imperf. reord) to advise, counsel, guess; akin to D. raden to advise, G. raten, rathen, Icel. raða, Goth. redan (in comp.), and perh. also to Skr. radh to succeed. rad.116. Cf. Riddle.]
1. To advise; to counsel. [Obs.] See Rede.
"Therefore, I read thee, get thee to God’s word, and thereby try all doctrine." Tyndale.
2. To interpret; to explain; as to read a riddle.
3. To tell; to declare; to recite. [Obs.]
"But read how art thou named, and of what kin." Spenser.
4. To go over, as characters or words, and utter aloud, or recite to one’s self inaudibly; to take in the sense of, as of language, by interpreting the characters with which it is expressed; to peruse; as to read a discourse; to read the letters of an alphabet; to read figures; to read the notes of music, or to read music; to read a book.
"Redeth [read ye] the great poet of Itaille." Chaucer.
"Well could he rede a lesson or a story." Chaucer.
5. Hence, to know fully; to comprehend.
"Who is’t can read a woman?" Shak.
6. To discover or understand by characters, marks, features, etc.; to learn by observation.
"An armed corse did lie, In whose dead face he read great magnanimity." Spenser.
"Those about her From her shall read the perfect ways of honor." Shak.
7. To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks; as to read theology or law. To read one’s self in, to read aloud the Thirty-nine Articles and the Declaration of Assent, — required of a clergyman of the Church of England when he first officiates in a new benefice.

Read, v. i.
1. To give advice or counsel. [Obs.]
2. To tell; to declare. [Obs.] Spenser.
3. To perform the act of reading; to peruse, or to go over and utter aloud, the words of a book or other like document.
"So they read in the book of the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense." Neh. viii. 8.
4. To study by reading; as he read for the bar.
5. To learn by reading.
"I have read of an Eastern king who put a judge to death for an iniquitous sentence." Swift.
6. To appear in writing or print; to be expressed by, or consist of, certain words or characters; as the passage reads thus in the early manuscripts.
7. To produce a certain effect when read; as that sentence reads queerly. To read between the lines, to infer something different from what is plainly indicated; to detect the real meaning as distinguished from the apparent meaning.

Read, n. [AS. raed counsel, fr. raedan to counsel. See Read, v. t.]
1. Saying; sentence; maxim; hence, word; advice; counsel. See Rede. [Obs.]
2. [Read, v. ] Reading. [Colloq.] Hume.
"One newswoman here lets magazines for a penny a read." Furnivall.

Read (red), imp. & p. p. of Read, v. t. & i.

Read (red), a. Instructed or knowing by reading; versed in books; learned.
"A poet … well read in Longinus." Addison.

Readability
Read•a•bil´i•ty (red•a•bil"i•ty), n. The state of being readable; readableness.

Readable
Read´a•ble (red"a•b’l), a. Such as can be read; legible; fit or suitable to be read; worth reading; interesting. — Read´a•ble•ness, n. — Read´a•bly, adv.

Readdress
Re•ad•dress´ (re•ad•dres"), v. t. To address a second time; — often used reflexively.
"He readdressed himself to her." Boyle.

Readept
Re•a•dept´ (-a•dept"), v. t. [Pref. re- + L. adeptus, p. p. of adipisci to obtain.] To regain; to recover. [Obs.]

Readeption
Re•a•dep´tion (-dep"shun), n. A regaining; recovery of something lost. [Obs.] Bacon.

Reader
Read´er (red"er), n. [AS. raedere.]
1. One who reads. Specifically: (a) One whose distinctive office is to read prayers in a church. (b) (University of Oxford, Eng.) One who reads lectures on scientific subjects. Lyell. (c) A proof reader. (d) One who reads manuscripts offered for publication and advises regarding their merit.
2. One who reads much; one who is studious.
3. A book containing a selection of extracts for exercises in reading; an elementary book for practice in a language; a reading book.

Readership
Read´er•ship, n. The office of reader. Lyell.

Readily
Read´i•ly (red"i•ly), adv.
1. In a ready manner; quickly; promptly. Chaucer.
2. Without delay or objection; without reluctance; willingly; cheerfully.
"How readily we wish time spent revoked!" Cowper.

Readiness
Read´i•ness, n. The state or quality of being ready; preparation; promptness; aptitude; willingness.
"They received the word with all readiness of mind." Acts xvii. 11.
Syn. — Facility; quickness; expedition; promptitude; promptness; aptitude; aptness; knack; skill; expertness; dexterity; ease; cheerfulness. See Facility.

Readjourn
Re•ad•journ´ (re•ad•jûrn"), v. t. To adjourn a second time; to adjourn again.

Readjournment
Re•ad•journ´ment (-m ent), n. The act of readjourning; a second or repeated adjournment.

Readjust
Re•ad•just´ (-just"), v. t. To adjust or settle again; to put in a different order or relation; to rearrange.

Readjuster
Re•ad•just´er (-er), n. One who, or that which, readjusts; in some of the States of the United States, one who advocates a refunding, and sometimes a partial repudiation, of the State debt without the consent of the State’s creditors.

Readjustment
Re•ad•just´ment (-m ent), n. A second adjustment; a new or different adjustment.

Readmission
Re•ad•mis´sion (-mish"un), n. The act of admitting again, or the state of being readmitted; as the readmission of fresh air into an exhausted receiver; the readmission of a student into a seminary.

Readmit
Re•ad•mit´ (-mit"), v. t. To admit again; to give entrance or access to again.
"Whose ear is ever open, and his eye Gracious to readmit the suppliant." Milton.

Readmittance
Re•ad•mit´tance (-t ans), n. Allowance to enter again; a second admission.

Readopt
Re•a•dopt´ (re•a•dopt"), v. t. To adopt again. Young.

Readorn
Re•a•dorn´ (-dôrn"), v. t. To adorn again or anew.

Readvance
Re•ad•vance´ (re•ad•vans"), v. i. To advance again.

Readvertency
Re•ad•vert´en•cy (-vert"en•sy), n. The act of adverting to again, or of reviewing. [R.] Norris.

Ready
Read´y (red"y), a. [ Compar. Readier (-i•er); superl. Readiest.] [AS. raede; akin to D. ge reed, be reid, G. be reit, Goth. ga ráids fixed, arranged, and possibly to E. ride, as meaning originally, prepared for riding. Cf. Array, 1st Curry.]
1. Prepared for what one is about to do or experience; equipped or supplied with what is needed for some act or event; prepared for immediate movement or action; as the troops are ready to march; ready for the journey. "When she redy was." Chaucer.
2. Fitted or arranged for immediate use; causing no delay for lack of being prepared or furnished. "Dinner was ready." Fielding.
"My oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage." Matt. xxii. 4.
3. Prepared in mind or disposition; not reluctant; willing; free; inclined; disposed.
"I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem, for the name of the Lord Jesus." Acts xxi. 13.
"If need be, I am ready to forego And quit." Milton.
4. Not slow or hesitating; quick in action or perception of any kind; dexterous; prompt; easy; expert; as a ready apprehension; ready wit; a ready writer or workman. "Ready in devising expedients." Macaulay.
"Gurth, whose temper was ready, though surly." Sir W. Scott.
5. Offering itself at once; at hand; opportune; convenient; near; easy. "The readiest way." Milton.
"A sapling pine he wrenched from out the ground, The readiest weapon that his fury found." Dryden.
6. On the point; about; on the brink; near; — with a following infinitive.
"My heart is ready to crack." Shak.
7. (Mil.) A word of command, or a position, in the manual of arms, at which the piece is cocked and held in position to execute promptly the next command, which is, aim. All ready, ready in every particular; wholly equipped or prepared. "[I] am all redy at your hest." Chaucer. — Ready money, means of immediate payment; cash. "’T is all the ready money fate can give." Cowley. — Ready reckoner, a book of tables for facilitating computations, as of interest, prices, etc. — To make ready, to make preparation; to get in readiness.
Syn. — Prompt; expeditious; speedy; unhesitating; dexterous; apt; skillful; handy; expert; facile; easy; opportune; fitted; prepared; disposed; willing; free; cheerful. See Prompt.

Ready
Read´y (red"y), adv. In a state of preparation for immediate action; so as to need no delay.
"We ourselves will go ready armed." Num. xxxii. 17.

Ready
Read´y, n. Ready money; cash; — commonly with the; as he was well supplied with the ready. [Slang]
"Lord Strut was not flush in ready, either to go to law, or to clear old debts." Arbuthnot.

Ready
Read´y, v. t. To dispose in order. [Obs.] Heywood.

Ready-made
Read´y-made (-mad•), a. Made already, or beforehand, in anticipation of need; not made to order; as ready-made clothing; ready-made jokes.

Ready-witted
Read´y-wit•ted (-wit•ted), a. Having ready wit.

Reaffirm
Re•af•firm´ (re•af•ferm"), v. t. To affirm again. { Re•af•firm´ance (re•af•ferm"ans), Re•af•fir•ma´tion (re•af•fer•ma"shun), } n. A second affirmation.

Reafforest
Re•af•for´est (re•af•for"est), v. t. To convert again into a forest, as a region of country.

Reafforestation
Re•af•for•es•ta´tion (-es•ta"shun), n. The act or process of converting again into a forest.

Reagent
Re•a´gent (re•a"j ent), n. (Chem.) A substance capable of producing with another a reaction, especially when employed to detect the presence of other bodies; a test.

Reaggravation
Re•ag•gra•va´tion (- ag•gra•va"shun), n. (R. C. Ch.) The last monitory, published after three admonitions and before the last excommunication.

Reagree
Re•a•gree´ (re•a•gre"), v. i. To agree again.

Reak (rek), n. [rad.115. Cf. Wrack seaweed.] A rush. [Obs.] "Feeds on reaks and reeds." Drant.

Reak, n. [Cf. Icel. hrekkr, or E. wreak vengeance.] A prank. [Obs.] "They play such reaks." Beau. & Fl.

Real
Re´al (re"al), n. [Sp., fr. real royal, L. regalis. See Regal, and cf. Ree a coin.] A small Spanish silver coin; also a denomination of money of account, formerly the unit of the Spanish monetary system. A real of plate (coin) varied in value according to the time of its coinage, from 12½ down to 10 cents, or from 6½ to 5 pence sterling. The real vellon, or money of account, was nearly equal to five cents, or 2½ pence sterling. In 1871 the coinage of Spain was assimilated to that of the Latin Union, of which the franc is the unit.

Real
Re•al´ (ra•äl"), a. Royal; regal; kingly. [Obs.] "The blood real of Thebes." Chaucer.

Real
Re´al (re"al), a. [LL. realis, fr. L. res, rei, a thing: cf. F. reel. Cf. Rebus.]
1. Actually being or existing; not fictitious or imaginary; as a description of real life.
"Whereat I waked, and found Before mine eyes all real, as the dream Had lively shadowed." Milton.
2. True; genuine; not artificial, counterfeit, or factitious; often opposed to ostensible; as the real reason; real Madeira wine; real ginger.
"Whose perfection far excelled Hers in all real dignity." Milton.
3. Relating to things, not to persons. [Obs.]
"Many are perfect in men’s humors that are not greatly capable of the real part of business." Bacon.
4. (Alg.) Having an assignable arithmetical or numerical value or meaning; not imaginary.
5. (Law) Pertaining to things fixed, permanent, or immovable, as to lands and tenements; as real property, in distinction from personal or movable property. Chattels real (Law), such chattels as are annexed to, or savor of, the realty, as terms for years of land. See Chattel. — Real action (Law), an action for the recovery of real property. — Real assets (Law), lands or real estate in the hands of the heir, chargeable with the debts of the ancestor. — Real composition (Eccl. Law), an agreement 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. Blackstone. — Real estate or property, lands, tenements, and hereditaments; freehold interests in landed property; property in houses and land. Kent. Burrill. — Real presence (R. C. Ch.), 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; transubstantiation. In other churches there is a belief in a form of real presence, not however in the sense of transubstantiation. — Real servitude, called alsoPredial servitude (Civil Law), a burden imposed upon one estate in favor of another estate of another proprietor. Erskine. Bouvier.
Syn. — Actual; true; genuine; authentic. — Real, Actual. Real represents a thing to be a substantive existence; as a real, not imaginary, occurrence. Actual refers to it as acted or performed; and, hence, when we wish to prove a thing real, we often say, "It actually exists," "It has actually been done." Thus its reality is shown by its actuality. Actual, from this reference to being acted, has recently received a new signification, namely, present; as the actual posture of affairs; since what is now in action, or going on, has of course, a present existence. An actual fact; a real sentiment.
"For he that but conceives a crime in thought, Contracts the danger of an actual fault." Dryden.
"Our simple ideas are all real; all agree to the reality of things." Locke.

Real
Re´al (re"al), n. A realist. [Obs.] Burton.

Realgar
Re•al´gar (re•al"ger), n. [F. realgar, Sp. rejalgar, Ar. rahj al ghar powder of the mine.] (Min.) Arsenic sulphide, a mineral of a brilliant red color; red orpiment. It is also an artificial product.

Realism
Re´al•ism (re"al•iz’m), n. [Cf. F. realisme.]
1. (Philos.) (a) As opposed to nominalism, the doctrine that genera and species are real things or entities, existing independently of our conceptions. According to realism the Universal exists ante rem ( Plato), or in re ( Aristotle). (b) As opposed to idealism, the doctrine that in sense perception there is an immediate cognition of the external object, and our knowledge of it is not mediate and representative.
2. (Art & Lit.) Fidelity to nature or to real life; representation without idealization, and making no appeal to the imagination; adherence to the actual fact.

Realist
Re´al•ist, n. [Cf. F. realiste.]
1. (Philos.) One who believes in realism; esp., one who maintains that generals, or the terms used to denote the genera and species of things, represent real existences, and are not mere names, as maintained by the nominalists.
2. (Art. & Lit.) An artist or writer who aims at realism in his work. See Realism, 2.

Realistically
Re•al•is´tic•al•ly, adv. In a realistic manner.

Reality
Re•al´i•ty (re•al"i•ty), n. ; pl. Realities (- tiz). [Cf. F. realite, LL. realitas. See 3d Real, and cf. 2d Realty.]
1. The state or quality of being real; actual being or existence of anything, in distinction from mere appearance; fact.
"A man fancies that he understands a critic, when in reality he does not comprehend his meaning." Addison.
2. That which is real; an actual existence; that which is not imagination, fiction, or pretense; that which has objective existence, and is not merely an idea.
"And to realities yield all her shows." Milton.
"My neck may be an idea to you, but it is a reality to me." Beattie.
3. [See 1st Realty, 2.] Loyalty; devotion. [Obs.]
"To express our reality to the emperor." Fuller.
4. (Law) See 2d Realty, 2.

Realization
Re•al•i•za´tion (-i•za"shun), n. [Cf. F. realisation.] The act of realizing, or the state of being realized.

Realize
Re´al•ize (re"al•iz), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Realized (- izd); p. pr. & vb. n. Realizing (- i•zing).] [Cf. F. realiser.]
1. To make real; to convert from the imaginary or fictitious into the actual; to bring into concrete existence; to effectuate; to accomplish; as to realize a scheme or project.
"We realize what Archimedes had only in hypothesis, weighing a single grain against the globe of earth." Glanvill.
2. To cause to seem real; to impress upon the mind as actual; to feel vividly or strongly; to make one’s own in apprehension or experience.
"Many coincidences … soon begin to appear in them [Greek inscriptions] which realize ancient history to us." Jowett.
"We can not realize it in thought, that the object … had really no being at any past moment." Sir W. Hamilton.
3. To convert into real property; to make real estate of; as to realize his fortune.
4. To acquire as an actual possession; to obtain as the result of plans and efforts; to gain; to get; as to realize large profits from a speculation.
"Knighthood was not beyond the reach of any man who could by diligent thrift realize a good estate." Macaulay.
5. To convert into actual money; as to realize assets.

Realize
Re´al•ize, v. i. To convert any kind of property into money, especially property representing investments, as shares in stock companies, bonds, etc.
"Wary men took the alarm, and began to realize, a word now first brought into use to express the conversion of ideal property into something real." W. Irving.

Realizer
Re´al•i•zer (-i•zer), n. One who realizes. Coleridge.

Realizing
Re´al•i•zing (-zing), a. Serving to make real, or to impress on the mind as a reality; as a realizing view of the danger incurred. — Re´al•i•zing•ly, adv.

Reallege
Re•al•lege´ (-al•lej"), v. t. To allege again. Cotgrave.

Realliance
Re•al•li´ance (-li"ans), n. A renewed alliance.

Really
Re´al•ly (ra"äl•le•), adv. Royally. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Really
Re´al•ly (re"al•ly), adv. In a real manner; with or in reality; actually; in truth.
"Whose anger is really but a short fit of madness." Swift. Really is often used familiarly as a slight corroboration of an opinion or a declaration.
"Why, really, sixty-five is somewhat old." Young.

Re-ally
Re´-al•ly´ (-li"), v. t. [Pref. re- + ally, v. t.] To bring together again; to compose or form anew. Spenser.

Realm (relm), n. [OE. realme, ream, reaume, OF. reialme, roialme, F. royaume, fr. (assumed) LL. regalimen, from L. regalis royal. See Regal.]
1. A royal jurisdiction or domain; a region which is under the dominion of a king; a kingdom.
"The absolute master of realms on which the sun perpetually shone." Motley.
2. Hence, in general, province; region; country; domain; department; division; as the realm of fancy.

Realness
Re´al•ness (re"al•nes), n. The quality or condition of being real; reality.

Realty
Re´al•ty (-ty), n. [OF. realte, LL. regalitas, fr. L. regalis. See Regal.]
1. Royalty. [Obs.] Chaucer.
2. Loyalty; faithfulness. [R.] Milton.

Realty
Re´al•ty, n. [Contr. from 1st Reality.]
1. Reality. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.
2. (Law) (a) Immobility, or the fixed, permanent nature of real property; as chattels which savor of the realty; — so written in legal language for reality. (b) Real estate; a piece of real property. Blackstone.

Reamer
Ream´er (-er), n. One who, or that which, reams; specifically, an instrument with cutting or scraping edges, used, with a twisting motion, for enlarging a round hole, as the bore of a cannon, etc.

Reamputation
Re•am•pu•ta´tion (re•am•pu•ta"shun), n. (Surg.) The second of two amputations performed upon the same member.

Reanimate
Re•an´i•mate (re•an"i•mat), v. t. To animate anew; to restore to animation or life; to infuse new life, vigor, spirit, or courage into; to revive; to reinvigorate; as to reanimate a drowned person; to reanimate disheartened troops; to reanimate languid spirits. Glanvill.

Reanimation
Re•an•i•ma´tion (-ma"shun), n. The act or operation of reanimating, or the state of being reanimated; reinvigoration; revival.

Reannex
Re•an•nex´ (re•an•neks"), v. t. To annex again or anew; to reunite. "To reannex that duchy." Bacon.

Reannexation
Re•an•nex•a´tion (-a"shun), n. Act of reannexing.

Reanswer
Re•an´swer (re•an"ser), v. t. & i. To answer in return; to repay; to compensate; to make amends for.
"Which in weight to reanswer, his pettiness would bow under." Shak.

Reap (rep), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Reaped (rept); p. pr. & vb. n. Reaping.] [OE. repen, AS. ripan to seize, reap; cf. D. rapen to glean, reap, G. raufen to pluck, Goth. raupjan, or E. ripe.]
1. To cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting.
"When ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field." Lev. xix. 9.
2. To gather; to obtain; to receive as a reward or harvest, or as the fruit of labor or of works; — in a good or a bad sense; as to reap a benefit from exertions.
"Why do I humble thus myself, and, suing For peace, reap nothing but repulse and hate?" Milton.
3. To clear of a crop by reaping; as to reap a field.
4. To deprive of the beard; to shave. [R.] Shak. Reaping hook, an implement having a hook- shaped blade, used in reaping; a sickle; — in a specific sense, distinguished from a sickle by a blade keen instead of serrated.

Reap, v. i. To perform the act or operation of reaping; to gather a harvest.
"They that sow in tears shall reap in joy." Ps. cxxvi. 5.

Reap, n. [Cf. AS. rip harvest. See Reap, v. ] A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Wright.

Reapparel
Re•ap•par´el (re•ap•par"el), v. t. To clothe again.

Reappear
Re•ap•pear´ (re•ap•per"), v. i. To appear again.

Reappearance
Re•ap•pear´ance (- ans), n. A second or new appearance; the act or state of appearing again.

Reapplication
Re•ap•pli•ca´tion (re•ap•pli•ka"shun), n. The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.

Reapply
Re•ap•ply´ (re•ap•pli"), v. t. & i. To apply again.

Reappoint
Re•ap•point´ (-point"), v. t. To appoint again.

Reappointment
Re•ap•point´ment (-m ent), n. The act of reappointing, or the state of being reappointed.

Reapportion
Re•ap•por´tion (-por"shun), v. t. To apportion again.

Reapportionment
Re•ap•por´tion•ment (-m ent), n. A second or a new apportionment.

Reapproach
Re•ap•proach´ (re•ap•proch"), v. i. & t. To approach again or anew.

Rear (rer), adv. Early; soon. [Prov. Eng.]
"Then why does Cuddy leave his cot so rear?" Gay.

Rear, n. [OF. riere behind, backward, fr. L. retro. Cf. Arrear.]
1. The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last in order; — opposed to front.
"Nipped with the lagging rear of winter’s frost." Milton.
2. Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.
"When the fierce foe hung on our broken rear." Milton.

Rear, a. Being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost; as the rear rank of a company. Rear admiral, an officer in the navy, next in rank below a vice admiral and above a commodore. See Admiral. — Rear front (Mil.), the rear rank of a body of troops when faced about and standing in that position. — Rear guard (Mil.), the division of an army that marches in the rear of the main body to protect it; — used also figuratively. — Rear line (Mil.), the line in the rear of an army. — Rear rank (Mil.), the rank or line of a body of troops which is in the rear, or last in order. — Rear sight (Firearms), the sight nearest the breech. — To bring up the rear, to come last or behind.

Rear (rer), v. t. To place in the rear; to secure the rear of. [R.]

Rear, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Reared (rerd); p. pr. & vb. n. Rearing.] [AS. raeran to raise, rear, elevate, for raesan, causative of risan to rise. See Rise, and cf. Raise.]
1. To raise; to lift up; to cause to rise, become erect, etc.; to elevate; as to rear a monolith.
"In adoration at his feet I fell Submiss; he reared me." Milton.
"It reareth our hearts from vain thoughts." Barrow.
"Mine [shall be] the first hand to rear her banner." Ld. Lytton.
2. To erect by building; to set up; to construct; as to rear defenses or houses; to rear one government on the ruins of another.
"One reared a font of stone." Tennyson.
3. To lift and take up. [Obs. or R.]
"And having her from Trompart lightly reared, Upon his courser set the lovely load." Spenser.
4. To bring up to maturity, as young; to educate; to instruct; to foster; as to rear offspring.
"He wants a father to protect his youth, And rear him up to virtue." Southern.
5. To breed and raise; as to rear cattle.
6. To rouse; to stir up. [Obs.]
"And seeks the tusky boar to rear." Dryden.
Syn. — To lift; elevate; erect; raise; build; establish. See the Note under Raise, 3 (c).

Rear, v. i. To rise up on the hind legs, as a horse; to become erect. Rearing bit, a bit designed to prevent a horse from lifting his head when rearing. Knight. { Rear´dorse (-dôrs), Rear´doss (- dos) }, n. A reredos.

Rearer
Rear´er (rer"er), n. One who, or that which, rears.

Reargue
Re•ar´gue (re•är"gu), v. t. To argue anew or again.

Reargument
Re•ar´gu•ment (-gu•m ent), n. An arguing over again, as of a motion made in court.

Rear-horse
Rear´-horse (rer"hôrs•), n. [So called because it rears up when disturbed.] (Zoöl.) A mantis.

Rearly
Rear´ly, adv. Early. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Rearmost
Rear´most (-most•), a. Farthest in the rear; last. { Rear´mouse•, Rere´mouse• (-mous•) }, n. [AS. hreremus; probably fr. hreran to agitate, stir (akin to G. rühren, Icel. hraera) + mus mouse.] (Zoöl.) The leather-winged bat ( Vespertilio murinus). [Written also reermouse.]

Rearrange
Re•ar•range´ (re•ar•ranj"), v. t. To arrange again; to arrange in a different way.

Rearrangement
Re•ar•range´ment (-m ent), n. The act of rearranging, or the state of being rearranged.

Rearward
Rear´ward (rer"ward•), n. [ Rear + ward.] The last troop; the rear of an army; a rear guard. Also used figuratively. Shak.

Rearward
Rear´ward (-werd), a. & adv. At or toward the rear.

Reascend
Re•as•cend´ (re•as•send"), v. i. To rise, mount, or climb again.

Reascend
Re•as•cend´, v. t. To ascend or mount again; to reach by ascending again.
"He mounts aloft, and reascends the skies." Addison.

Reascension
Re•as•cen´sion (-sen"shun), n. The act of reascending; a remounting.

Reascent
Re•as•cent´ (-sent"), n. A returning ascent or ascension; acclivity. Cowper.

Reason
Rea´son (re"z’n), n. [OE. resoun, F. raison, fr. L. ratio (akin to Goth. raþjo number, account, ga raþjan to count, G. rede speech, reden to speak), fr. reri, ratus, to reckon, believe, think. Cf. Arraign, Rate, Ratio, Ration.]
1. A thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; a just ground for a conclusion or an action; that which is offered or accepted as an explanation; the efficient cause of an occurrence or a phenomenon; a motive for an action or a determination; proof, more or less decisive, for an opinion or a conclusion; principle; efficient cause; final cause; ground of argument.
"I ’ll give him reasons for it." Shak.
"The reason of the motion of the balance in a wheel watch is by the motion of the next wheel." Sir M. Hale.
"This reason did the ancient fathers render, why the church was called "catholic."" Bp. Pearson.
"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." Tillotson.
2. The faculty or capacity of the human mind by which it is distinguished from the intelligence of the inferior animals; the higher as distinguished from the lower cognitive faculties, sense, imagination, and memory, and in contrast to the feelings and desires. Reason comprises conception, judgment, reasoning, and the intuitional faculty. Specifically, it is the intuitional faculty, or the faculty of first truths, as distinguished from the understanding, which is called the discursive or ratiocinative faculty.
"We have no other faculties of perceiving or knowing anything divine or human, but by our five senses and our reason." P. Browne.
"In common and popular discourse, reason denotes that power by which we distinguish truth from falsehood, and right from wrong, and by which we are enabled to combine means for the attainment of particular ends." Stewart.
"Reason is used sometimes to express the whole of those powers which elevate man above the brutes, and constitute his rational nature, more especially, perhaps, his intellectual powers; sometimes to express the power of deduction or argumentation." Stewart.
"By the pure reason I mean the power by which we become possessed of principles." Coleridge.
"The sense perceives; the understanding, in its own peculiar operation, conceives; the reason, or rationalized understanding, comprehends." Coleridge.
3. Due exercise of the reasoning faculty; accordance with, or that which is accordant with and ratified by, the mind rightly exercised; right intellectual judgment; clear and fair deductions from true principles; that which is dictated or supported by the common sense of mankind; right conduct; right; propriety; justice.
"I was promised, on a time, To have reason for my rhyme." Spenser.
"But law in a free nation hath been ever public reason; the enacted reason of a parliament, which he denying to enact, denies to govern us by that which ought to be our law; interposing his own private reason, which to us is no law." Milton.
"The most probable way of bringing France to reason would be by the making an attempt on the Spanish West Indies." Addison.
4. (Math.) Ratio; proportion. [Obs.] Barrow. By reason of, by means of; on account of; because of. "Spain is thin sown of people, partly by reason of the sterility of the soil." Bacon. — In reason, In all reason, in justice; with rational ground; in a right view.
"When anything 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." Tillotson. — It is reason, it is reasonable; it is right. [Obs.]
"Yet it were great reason, that those that have children should have greatest care of future times." Bacon.
Syn. — Motive; argument; ground; consideration; principle; sake; account; object; purpose; design. See Motive, Sense.

Reason
Rea´son (re"z’n), v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Reasoned (-z’nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Reasoning.] [Cf. F. raisonner. See Reason, n. ]
1. To exercise the rational faculty; to deduce inferences from premises; to perform the process of deduction or of induction; to ratiocinate; to reach conclusions by a systematic comparison of facts.
2. Hence: To carry on a process of deduction or of induction, in order to convince or to confute; to formulate and set forth propositions and the inferences from them; to argue.
"Stand still, that I may reason with you, before the Lord, of all the righteous acts of the Lord." 1 Sam. xii. 7.
3. To converse; to compare opinions. Shak.

Reason
Rea´son, v. t.
1. To arrange and present the reasons for or against; to examine or discuss by arguments; to debate or discuss; as I reasoned the matter with my friend.
"When they are clearly discovered, well digested, and well reasoned in every part, there is beauty in such a theory." T. Burnet.
2. To support with reasons, as a request. [R.] Shak.
3. To persuade by reasoning or argument; as to reason one into a belief; to reason one out of his plan.
"Men that will not be reasoned into their senses." L’Estrange.
4. To overcome or conquer by adducing reasons; — with down; as to reason down a passion.
5. To find by logical processes; to explain or justify by reason or argument; — usually with out; as to reason out the causes of the librations of the moon.

Reasonable
Rea´son•a•ble (-a•b’l), a. [OE. resonable, F. raisonnable, fr. L. rationabilis. See Reason, n. ]
1. Having the faculty of reason; endued with reason; rational; as a reasonable being.
2. Governed by reason; being under the influence of reason; thinking, speaking, or acting rationally, or according to the dictates of reason; agreeable to reason; just; rational; as the measure must satisfy all reasonable men.
"By indubitable certainty, I mean that which doth not admit of any reasonable cause of doubting." Bp. Wilkins.
"Men have no right to what is not reasonable." Burke.
3. Not excessive or immoderate; within due limits; proper; as a reasonable demand, amount, price.
"Let … all things be thought upon That may, with reasonable swiftness, add More feathers to our wings." Shak.
Syn. — Rational; just; honest; equitable; fair; suitable; moderate; tolerable. See Rational.

Reasonable
Rea´son•a•ble, adv. Reasonably; tolerably. [Obs.]
"I have a reasonable good ear in music." Shak.

Reasonableness
Rea´son•a•ble•ness, n. Quality of being reasonable.

Reasonably
Rea´son•a•bly, adv.
1. In a reasonable manner.
2. Moderately; tolerably. "Reasonably perfect in the language." Holder.

Reasoner
Rea´son•er (-er), n. One who reasons or argues; as a fair reasoner; a close reasoner; a logical reasoner.

Reasoning
Rea´son•ing, n.
1. The act or process of adducing a reason or reasons; manner of presenting one’s reasons.
2. That which is offered in argument; proofs or reasons when arranged and developed; course of argument.
"His reasoning was sufficiently profound." Macaulay.
Syn. — Argumentation; argument. — Reasoning, Argumentation. Few words are more interchanged than these; and yet, technically, there is a difference between them. Reasoning is the broader term, including both deduction and induction. Argumentation denotes simply the former, and descends from the whole to some included part; while reasoning embraces also the latter, and ascends from the parts to a whole. See Induction. Reasoning is occupied with ideas and their relations; argumentation has to do with the forms of logic. A thesis is set down: you attack, I defend it; you insist, I reply; you deny, I prove; you distinguish, I destroy your distinctions; my replies balance or overturn your objections. Such is argumentation. It supposes that there are two sides, and that both agree to the same rules. Reasoning, on the other hand, is often a natural process, by which we form, from the general analogy of nature, or special presumptions in the case, conclusions which have greater or less degrees of force, and which may be strengthened or weakened by subsequent experience.

Reasonless
Rea´son•less, a.
1. Destitute of reason; as a reasonless man or mind. Shak.
2. Void of reason; not warranted or supported by reason; unreasonable.
"This proffer is absurd and reasonless." Shak.

Reassemblage
Re•as•sem´blage (re•as•sem"blaj), n. Assemblage a second time or again.

Reassemble
Re•as•sem´ble (-b’l), v. t. & i. To assemble again.

Reassert
Re•as•sert´ (-sert"), v. t. To assert again or anew; to maintain after an omission to do so.
"Let us hope … we may have a body of authors who will reassert our claim to respectability in literature." Walsh.

Reassertion
Re•as•ser´tion (-ser"shun), n. A second or renewed assertion of the same thing.

Reassessment
Re•as•sess´ment (-ses"m ent), n. A renewed or second assessment.

Reassign
Re•as•sign´ (-sin"), v. t. To assign back or again; to transfer back what has been assigned.

Reassignment
Re•as•sign´ment (-m ent), n. The act of reassigning.

Reassimilate
Re•as•sim´i•late (-sim"i•lat), v. t. & i. To assimilate again. — Re•as•sim•i•la´tion (-la"shun), n.

Reassociate
Re•as•so´ci•ate (-so"shi•at), v. t. & i. To associate again; to bring again into close relations.

Reassume
Re•as•sume´ (-sum"), v. t. To assume again or anew; to resume. — Re•as•sump´tion (- sump"shun), n.

Reassurance
Re•as•sur´ance (re•a•shur"ans), n.
1. Assurance or confirmation renewed or repeated. Prynne.
2. (Law) Same as Reinsurance.

Reassurer
Re•as•sur´er (-er), n. One who reassures.

Reasty
Reas´ty (res"ty), a. [Etymol. uncertain.] Rusty and rancid; — applied to salt meat. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Tusser. — Reas´ti•ness (-ti•nes), n. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

Reata
Re•a´ta (ra•ä"ta), n. [Sp.] A lariat.

Reattach
Re•at•tach´ (re•at•tach"), v. t. To attach again.

Reattachment
Re•at•tach´ment (-m ent), n. The act of reattaching; a second attachment.

Reattain
Re•at•tain´ (-tan"), v. t. To attain again.

Reattainment
Re•at•tain´ment (-m ent), n. The act of reattaining.

Reattempt
Re•at•tempt´ (-temt"; 215), v. t. To attempt again.

Reaume
Re´aume (re"am), n. Realm. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Reaumur
Re•au•mur´ (ra•o•mur"), a. Of or pertaining to Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur; conformed to the scale adopted by Reaumur in graduating the thermometer he invented. — n. A Reaumur thermometer or scale. The Reaumur thermometer is so graduated that 0° marks the freezing point and 80° the boiling point of water. Frequently indicated by R. Cf. Centigrade, and Fahrenheit. See Illust. of Thermometer.

Reawake
Re•a•wake´ (re•a•wak"), v. i. To awake again.

Rebanish
Re•ban´ish (re•ban"ish), v. t. To banish again.

Rebaptism
Re•bap´tism (re•bap"tiz’m), n. A second baptism.

Rebaptization
Re•bap•ti•za´tion (-ti•za"shun), n. [Cf. F. rebaptisation.] A second baptism. [Obs.] Hooker.

Rebaptize
Re•bap•tize´ (re•bap•tiz"), v. t. [Pref. re- + baptize: cf. F. rebaptiser, L. rebaptizare.] To baptize again or a second time.

Rebaptizer
Re•bap•tiz´er (-tiz"er), n. One who rebaptizes.

Rebarbarize
Re•bar´ba•rize (re•bär"ba•riz), v. t. To reduce again to barbarism. — Re•bar•ba•ri•za´tion (-ri•za"shun), n.
"Germany … rebarbarized by polemical theology and religious wars." Sir W. Hamilton.

Rebate
Re•bate´ (re•bat"), v. t. [F. rebattre to beat again; pref. re- re- + battre to beat, L. batuere to beat, strike. See Abate.]
1. To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise.
"But doth rebate and blunt his natural edge." Shak.
2. To deduct from; to make a discount from, as interest due, or customs duties. Blount. Rebated cross, a cross which has the extremities of the arms bent back at right angles, as in the fylfot.

Rebate
Re•bate´, v. i. To abate; to withdraw. [Obs.] Foxe.

Rebate
Re•bate´, n.
1. Diminution.
2. (Com.) Deduction; abatement; as a rebate of interest for immediate payment; a rebate of importation duties. Bouvier.

Rebate
Re•bate´, n. [See Rabbet.]
1. (Arch.) A rectangular longitudinal recess or groove, cut in the corner or edge of any body; a rabbet. See Rabbet.
2. A piece of wood hafted into a long stick, and serving to beat out mortar. Elmes.
3. An iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used for dressing and polishing wood. Elmes.
4. [Perhaps a different word.] A kind of hard freestone used in making pavements. [R.] Elmes.

Rebate
Re•bate´, v. t. To cut a rebate in. See Rabbet, v.

Rebel
Reb´el (reb"el), a. [F. rebelle, fr. L. rebellis. See Rebel, v. i.] Pertaining to rebels or rebellion; acting in revolt; rebellious; as rebel troops.
"Whoso be rebel to my judgment." Chaucer.
"Convict by flight, and rebel to all law." Milton.

Rebel
Reb´el, n. [F. rebelle.] One who rebels.
Syn. — Revolter; insurgent. — Rebel, Insurgent. Insurgent marks an early, and rebel a more advanced, stage of opposition to government. The former rises up against his rulers, the latter makes war upon them.

Rebel
Re•bel´ (re•bel"), v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Rebelled (-beld); p. pr. & vb. n. Rebelling.] [F. rebeller, fr. L. rebellare to make war again; pref. re- again + bellare to make war, fr. bellum war. See Bellicose, and cf. Revel to carouse.]
1. To renounce, and resist by force, the authority of the ruler or government to which one owes obedience. See Rebellion.
"The murmur and the churls’ rebelling." Chaucer.
"Ye have builded you an altar, that ye might rebel this day against the Lord." Josh. xxii. 16.
2. To be disobedient to authority; to assume a hostile or insubordinate attitude; to revolt.
"How could my hand rebel against my heart? How could your heart rebel against your reason?" Dryden.

Rebeller
Re•bel´ler (re•bel"ler), n. One who rebels; a rebel.

Rebellion
Re•bel´lion (re•bel"yun), n. [F. rebellion, L. rebellio. See Rebel, v. i. 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. The act of rebelling; open and avowed renunciation of the authority of the government to which one owes obedience, and resistance to its officers and laws, either by levying war, or by aiding others to do so; an organized uprising of subjects for the purpose of coercing or overthrowing their lawful ruler or government by force; revolt; insurrection.
"No sooner is the standard of rebellion displayed than men of desperate principles resort to it." Ames.
2. Open resistance to, or defiance of, lawful authority. Commission of rebellion (Eng. Law), a process of contempt issued on the nonappearance of a defendant, — now abolished. Wharton. Burrill.
Syn. — Insurrection; sedition; revolt; mutiny; resistance; contumacy. See Insurrection.

Rebellow
Re•bel´low (re•bel"lo), v. i. To bellow again; to repeat or echo a bellow.
"The cave rebellowed, and the temple shook." Dryden.

Rebiting
Re•bit´ing (re•bit"ing), n. (Etching) The act or process of deepening worn lines in an etched plate by submitting it again to the action of acid. Fairholt.

Rebloom
Re•bloom´ (re•bloom"), v. i. To bloom again. Crabbe.

Reblossom
Re•blos´som (re•blos"sum), v. i. To blossom again.

Reboant
Re•bo´ant (re•bo"ant), a. [L. reboans, p. pr. of reboare; pref. re- re- + boare to cry aloud.] Rebellowing; resounding loudly. [R.] Mrs. Browning.

Reboation
Re•bo•a´tion (re•bo•a"shun), n. Repetition of a bellow. [R.] Bp. Patrick.

Reboil
Re•boil´ (re•boil"), v. t. & i. [Pref. re- + boil: cf. F. rebouillir.]
1. To boil, or to cause to boil, again.
2. Fig.: To make or to become hot. [Obs.]
"Some of his companions thereat reboyleth." Sir T. Elyot.

Reborn
Re•born´ (re•bôrn"), p. p. Born again.

Rebound
Re•bound´ (re•bound"), v. i. [Pref. re- + bound: cf. F. rebondir.]
1. To spring back; to start back; to be sent back or reverberated by elastic force on collision with another body; as a rebounding echo.
"Bodies which are absolutely hard, or so soft as to be void of elasticity, will not rebound from one another." Sir I. Newton.
2. To give back an echo. [R.] T. Warton.
3. To bound again or repeatedly, as a horse. Pope. Rebounding lock (Firearms), one in which the hammer rebounds to half cock after striking the cap or primer.

Rebound
Re•bound´, v. t. To send back; to reverberate.
"Silenus sung; the vales his voice rebound." Dryden.

Rebound
Re•bound´, n. The act of rebounding; resilience.
"Flew … back, as from a rock, with swift rebound." Dryden.

Rebozo
Re•bo´zo, n. [Sp. rebozo.] A kind of mantilla worn by women over the head and shoulders, and sometimes over part of the face. [Mexico & Sp. Amer.]

Rebrace
Re•brace´ (re•bras"), v. t. To brace again. Gray.

Rebreathe
Re•breathe´ (re•breth"), v. t. To breathe again.

Rebucous
Re•bu´cous (re•bu"kus), a. Rebuking. [Obs.]
"She gave unto him many rebucous words." Fabyan.

Rebuff
Re•buff´ (re•buf"), n. [It. ribuffo, akin to ribuffare to repulse; pref. ri- (L. re-) + buffo puff. Cf. Buff to strike, Buffet a blow.]
1. Repercussion, or beating back; a quick and sudden resistance.
"The strong rebuff of some tumultuous cloud." Milton.
2. Sudden check; unexpected repulse; defeat; refusal; repellence; rejection of solicitation.

Rebuff
Re•buff´, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Rebuffed (re•buft"); p. pr. & vb. n. Rebuffing.] To beat back; to offer sudden resistance to; to check; to repel or repulse violently, harshly, or uncourteously.

Rebuilder
Re•build´er (-er), n. One who rebuilds. Bp. Bull.

Rebukable
Re•buk´a•ble (re•buk"a•b’l), a. Worthy of rebuke or reprehension; reprehensible. Shak.

Rebuke
Re•buke´ (re•buk"), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Rebuked (-bukt"); p. pr. & vb. n. Rebuking.] [OF. rebouquier to dull, blunt, F. reboucher; perhaps fr. pref. re- re- + bouche mouth, OF. also bouque, L. bucca cheek; if so, the original sense was to stop the mouth of; hence, to stop, obstruct.] To check, silence, or put down, with reproof; to restrain by expression of disapprobation; to reprehend sharply and summarily; to chide; to reprove; to admonish.
"The proud he tamed, the penitent he cheered, Nor to rebuke the rich offender feared." Dryden.
Syn. — To reprove; chide; check; chasten; restrain; silence. See Reprove.

Rebuke
Re•buke´ (re•buk"), n.
1. A direct and pointed reproof; a reprimand; also chastisement; punishment.
"For thy sake I have suffered rebuke." Jer. xv. 15.
"Why bear you these rebukes and answer not?" Shak.
2. Check; rebuff. [Obs.] L’Estrange.To be without rebuke, to live without giving cause of reproof or censure; to be blameless.

Rebukeful
Re•buke´ful (-ful), a. Containing rebuke; of the nature of rebuke. [Obs.] — Re•buke´ful•ly, adv. [Obs.]

Rebuker
Re•buk´er (-buk"er), n. One who rebukes.

Rebukingly
Re•buk´ing•ly, adv. By way of rebuke.

Rebullition
Re•bul•li´tion (re•bul•lish"un), n. The act of boiling up or effervescing. [R.] Sir H. Wotton.

Rebury
Re•bur´y (re•ber"ry), v. t. To bury again. Ashmole.

Rebus
Re´bus (re"bus), n. ; pl. Rebuses (-ez). [L. rebus by things, abl. pl. of res a thing: cf. F. rebus. Cf. 3d Real.]
1. A mode of expressing words and phrases by pictures of objects whose names resemble those words, or the syllables of which they are composed; enigmatical representation of words by figures; hence, a peculiar form of riddle made up of such representations. A gallant, in love with a woman named Rose Hill, had, embroidered on his gown, a rose, a hill, an eye, a loaf, and a well, signifying, Rose Hill I love well.
2. (Her.) A pictorial suggestion on a coat of arms of the name of the person to whom it belongs. See Canting arms, under Canting.

Rebus
Re´bus, v. t. To mark or indicate by a rebus.
"He [John Morton] had a fair library rebused with More in text and Tun under it." Fuller.

Rebut
Re•but´ (re•but"), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Rebutted; p. pr. & vb. n. Rebutting.] [OF. rebouter to repulse, drive back; pref. re- + bouter to push, thrust. See 1st Butt, Boutade.]
1. To drive or beat back; to repulse.
"Who him, rencount’ring fierce, as hawk in flight, Perforce rebutted back." Spenser.
2. (Law) To contradict, meet, or oppose by argument, plea, or countervailing proof. Abbott.

Rebut
Re•but´, v. i.
1. To retire; to recoil. [Obs.] Spenser.
2. (Law) To make, or put in, an answer, as to a plaintiff’s surrejoinder.
"The plaintiff may answer the rejoinder by a surrejoinder; on which the defendant may rebut." Blackstone.

Rebuttable
Re•but´ta•ble (-ta•b’l), a. Capable of being rebutted.

Rebuttal
Re•but´tal (-but"t al), n. (Law) The giving of evidence on the part of a plaintiff to destroy the effect of evidence introduced by the defendant in the same suit.

Rebutter
Re•but´ter (-ter), n. (Law) The answer of a defendant in matter of fact to a plaintiff’s surrejoinder.

Recadency
Re•ca´den•cy (re•ka"d en•sy), n. A falling back or descending a second time; a relapse. W. Montagu.

Recalcitrant
Re•cal´ci•trant (re•kal"si•tr ant), a. [L. recalcitrans, p. pr. of recalcitrare to kick back; pref. re- re- + calcitrare to kick, fr. calx heel. Cf. Inculcate.] Kicking back; recalcitrating; hence, showing repugnance or opposition; refractory.

Recalcitration
Re•cal•ci•tra´tion (-tra"shun), n. A kicking back again; opposition; repugnance; refractoriness.

Recall
Re•call´ (re•kal"), v. t.
1. To call back; to summon to return; as to recall troops; to recall an ambassador.
"If Henry were recalled to life again." Shak.
2. To revoke; to annul by a subsequent act; to take back; to withdraw; as to recall words, or a decree.
"Passed sentence may not be recall’d." Shak.
3. To call back to mind; to revive in memory; to recollect; to remember; as to recall bygone days.

Recall
Re•call´, n.
1. A calling back; a revocation.
"’T is done, and since ’t is done, ’t is past recall." Dryden.
2. (Mil.) A call on the trumpet, bugle, or drum, by which soldiers are recalled from duty, labor, etc. Wilhelm.

Recall
Re•call´, n. (Political Science) (a) The right or procedure by which a public official, commonly a legislative or executive official, may be removed from office, before the end of his term of office, by a vote of the people to be taken on the filing of a petition signed by a required number or percentage of qualified voters. (b) Short for recall of judicial decisions, the right or procedure by which the decision of a court may be directly reversed or annulled by popular vote, as was advocated, in 1912, in the platform of the Progressive party for certain cases involving the police power of the state.

Recallable
Re•call´a•ble (-a•b’l), a. Capable of being recalled.

Recallment
Re•call´ment (-m ent), n. Recall. [R.] R. Browning.

Recant
Re•cant´ (re•kant"), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Recanted; p. pr. & vb. n. Recanting.] [L. recantare, recantatum, to recall, recant; pref. re- re- + cantare to sing, to sound. See 3d Cant, Chant.] To withdraw or repudiate formally and publicly (opinions formerly expressed); to contradict, as a former declaration; to take back openly; to retract; to recall.
"How soon … ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void!" Milton.
Syn. — To retract; recall; revoke; abjure; disown; disavow. See Renounce.

Recant
Re•cant´, v. i. To revoke a declaration or proposition; to unsay what has been said; to retract; as convince me that I am wrong, and I will recant. Dryden.

Recantation
Re•can•ta´tion (re•kan•ta"shun), n. The act of recanting; a declaration that contradicts a former one; that which is thus asserted in contradiction; retraction.
"The poor man was imprisoned for this discovery, and forced to make a public recantation." Bp. Stillingfleet.

Recanter
Re•cant´er (re•kant"er), n. One who recants.

Recapacitate
Re•ca•pac´i•tate (re•ka•pas"i•tat), v. t. To qualify again; to confer capacity on again. Atterbury.

Recapitulate
Re•ca•pit´u•late (-pit"u•lat), v. t. [L. recapitulare, recapitulatum; pref. re- re- + capitulum a small head, chapter, section. See Capitulate.] To repeat, as the principal points in a discourse, argument, or essay; to give a summary of the principal facts, points, or arguments of; to relate in brief; to summarize.

Recapitulate
Re•ca•pit´u•late (re•ka•pit"u•lat), v. i. To sum up, or enumerate by heads or topics, what has been previously said; to repeat briefly the substance.

Recapitulation
Re•ca•pit•u•la´tion (-la"shun), n. [LL. recapitulatio: cf. F. recapitulation.] The act of recapitulating; a summary, or concise statement or enumeration, of the principal points, facts, or statements, in a preceding discourse, argument, or essay.

Recapitulator
Re•ca•pit´u•la•tor (- pit"u•la•ter), n. One who recapitulates.

Recapitulatory
Re•ca•pit´u•la•to•ry (-la•to•ry), a. Of the nature of a recapitulation; containing recapitulation.

Recapper
Re•cap´per (re•kap"per), n. (Firearms) A tool used for applying a fresh percussion cap or primer to a cartridge shell in reloading it.

Recaption
Re•cap´tion (re•kap"shun), n. (Law) The act of retaking, as of one who has escaped after arrest; reprisal; the retaking of one’s own goods, chattels, wife, or children, without force or violence, from one who has taken them and who wrongfully detains them. Blackstone. Writ of recaption (Law), a writ to recover damages for him whose goods, being distrained for rent or service, are distrained again for the same cause. Wharton.

Recaptor
Re•cap´tor (-ter), n. One who recaptures; one who takes a prize which had been previously taken.

Recapture
Re•cap´ture (-tur; 135), n.
1. The act of retaking or recovering by capture; especially, the retaking of a prize or goods from a captor.
2. That which is captured back; a prize retaken.

Recapture
Re•cap´ture, v. t. To capture again; to retake.

Recarbonize
Re•car´bon•ize (re•kär"bon•iz), v. t. (Metal.) To restore carbon to; as to recarbonize iron in converting it into steel.

Recarnify
Re•car´ni•fy (-ni•fi), v. t. To convert again into flesh. [Obs.] Howell.

Recarriage
Re•car´riage (re•kar"rij), n. Act of carrying back.

Recarry
Re•car´ry (-ry), v. t. To carry back. Walton.

Recast
Re•cast´ (re•kast"), v. t.
1. To throw again. Florio.
2. To mold anew; to cast anew; to throw into a new form or shape; to reconstruct; as to recast cannon; to recast an argument or a play.
3. To compute, or cast up, a second time.

Recche
Rec´che (rek"k e), v. i. To reck. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Reccheles
Rec´che•les (-les), a. Reckless. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Recede
Re•cede´ (re•sed"), v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Receded; p. pr. & vb. n. Receding.] [L. recedere, recessum; pref. re- re- + cedere to go, to go along: cf. F. receder. See Cede.]
1. To move back; to retreat; to withdraw.
"Like the hollow roar Of tides receding from the insulted shore." Dryden.
"All bodies moved circularly endeavor to recede from the center." Bentley.
2. To withdraw a claim or pretension; to desist; to relinquish what had been proposed or asserted; as to recede from a demand or proposition.
Syn. — To retire; retreat; return; retrograde; withdraw; desist.

Recede
Re•cede´ (re•sed"), v. t. [Pref. re- + cede. Cf. Recede, v. i.] To cede back; to grant or yield again to a former possessor; as to recede conquered territory.

Receiptment
Re•ceipt´ment (-m ent), n. (O. Eng. Law) The receiving or harboring a felon knowingly, after the commission of a felony. Burrill.

Receiptor
Re•ceipt´or (-er), n. One who receipts; specifically (Law), one who receipts for property which has been taken by the sheriff.

Receit
Re•ceit´ (re•set"), n. Receipt. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Receivability
Re•ceiv•a•bil´i•ty (re•sev•a•bil"i•ty), n. The quality of being receivable; receivableness.

Receivable
Re•ceiv´a•ble (re•sev"a•b’l), a. [Cf. F. recevable.] Capable of being received. — Re•ceiv´a•ble•ness, n. Bills receivable. See under 6th Bill.

Receivedness
Re•ceiv´ed•ness, n. The state or quality of being received, accepted, or current; as the receivedness of an opinion. Boyle.

Receiver
Re•ceiv´er (-er), n. [Cf. F. receveur.]
1. One who takes or receives in any manner.
2. (Law) A person appointed, ordinarily by a court, to receive, and hold in trust, money or other property which is the subject of litigation, pending the suit; a person appointed to take charge of the estate and effects of a corporation, and to do other acts necessary to winding up its affairs, in certain cases. Bouvier.
3. One who takes or buys stolen goods from a thief, knowing them to be stolen. Blackstone.
4. (Chem.) (a) A vessel connected with an alembic, a retort, or the like, for receiving and condensing the product of distillation. (b) A vessel for receiving and containing gases.
5. (Pneumatics) The glass vessel in which the vacuum is produced, and the objects of experiment are put, in experiments with an air pump. Cf. Bell jar, and see Illust. of Air pump.
6. (Steam Engine) (a) A vessel for receiving the exhaust steam from the high-pressure cylinder before it enters the low-pressure cylinder, in a compound engine. (b) A capacious vessel for receiving steam from a distant boiler, and supplying it dry to an engine.
7. That portion of a telephonic apparatus, or similar system, at which the message is received and made audible; — opposed to transmitter. Exhausted receiver (Physics), a receiver, as that used with the air pump, from which the air has been withdrawn; a vessel the interior of which is a more or less complete vacuum.

Receiver
Re•ceiv´er, n. (Firearms) In portable breech-loading firearms, the steel frame screwed to the breech end of the barrel, which receives the bolt or block, gives means of securing for firing, facilitates loading, and holds the ejector, cut-off, etc.

Receiver’s certificate
Re•ceiv"er’s cer•tif"i•cate An acknowledgement of indebtedness made by a receiver under order of court to obtain funds for the preservation of the assets held by him, as for operating a railroad. Receivers’ certificates are ordinarily a first lien on the assets, prior to that of bonds or other securities.

Receivership
Re•ceiv´er•ship, n. The state or office of a receiver.

Recelebrate
Re•cel´e•brate (re•sel"e•brat), v. t. To celebrate again, or anew. — Re•cel•e•bra´tion (-bra"shun), n.

Recency
Re´cen•cy (re"s en•sy), n. [LL. recentia, fr. L. recens. See Recent.] The state or quality of being recent; newness; new state; late origin; lateness in time; freshness; as the recency of a transaction, of a wound, etc.

Recension
Re•cen´sion (re•sen"shun), n. [L. recensio: cf. F. recension.]
1. The act of reviewing or revising; review; examination; enumeration. Barrow.
2. Specifically, the review of a text (as of an ancient author) by an editor; critical revisal and establishment.
3. The result of such a work; a text established by critical revision; an edited version.

Recensionist
Re•cen´sion•ist, n. One who makes recensions; specifically, a critical editor.

Recent
Re´cent (re"s ent), a. [L. recens, -entis: cf. F. recent.]
1. Of late origin, existence, or occurrence; lately come; not of remote date, antiquated style, or the like; not already known, familiar, worn out, trite, etc.; fresh; novel; new; modern; as recent news.
"The ancients were of opinion, that a considerable portion of that country [Egypt] was recent, and formed out of the mud discharged into the neighboring sea by the Nile." Woodward.
2. (Geol.) Of or pertaining to the present or existing epoch; as recent shells.

Recenter
Re•cen´ter (re•sen"ter), v. t. [Pref. re- + center.] To center again; to restore to the center. Coleridge.

Recently
Re´cent•ly (re"s ent•ly), adv. Newly; lately; freshly; not long since; as advices recently received.

Recentness
Re´cent•ness, n. Quality or state of being recent.

Receptacle
Re•cep´ta•cle (re•sep"ta•k’l), n. [F. receptacle, L. receptaculum, fr. receptare, v. intens. fr. recipere to receive. See Receive.]
1. That which serves, or is used, for receiving and containing something, as a basket, a vase, a bag, a reservoir; a repository.
"O sacred receptacle of my joys!" Shak.
2. (Bot.) (a) The apex of the flower stalk, from which the organs of the flower grow, or into which they are inserted. See Illust. of Flower, and Ovary. (b) The dilated apex of a pedicel which serves as a common support to a head of flowers. (c) An intercellular cavity containing oil or resin or other matters. (d) A special branch which bears the fructification in many cryptogamous plants.

Receptaculum
Rec•ep•tac´u•lum (-lum), n. ; pl. Receptacula (-la). [L.] (Anat.) A receptacle; as the receptaculum of the chyle.

Receptary
Rec´ep•ta•ry (res"ep•ta•ry), a. Generally or popularly admitted or received. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Receptary
Rec´ep•ta•ry, n. That which is received. [Obs.] "Receptaries of philosophy." Sir T. Browne.

Receptibility
Re•cep•ti•bil´i•ty (re•sep•ti•bil"i•ty), n.
1. The quality or state of being receptible; receivableness.
2. A receptible thing. [R.] Glanvill.

Receptible
Re•cep´ti•ble (re•sep"ti•b’l), a. [L. receptibilis.] Such as may be received; receivable.

Reception
Re•cep´tion (-shun), n. [F. reception, L. receptio, fr. recipere, receptum. See Receive.]
1. The act of receiving; receipt; admission; as the reception of food into the stomach; the reception of a letter; the reception of sensation or ideas; reception of evidence.
2. The state of being received.
3. The act or manner of receiving, esp. of receiving visitors; entertainment; hence, an occasion or ceremony of receiving guests; as a hearty reception; an elaborate reception.
"What reception a poem may find." Goldsmith.
4. Acceptance, as of an opinion or doctrine.
"Philosophers who have quitted the popular doctrines of their countries have fallen into as extravagant opinions as even common reception countenanced." Locke.
5. A retaking; a recovery. [Obs.] Bacon.

Receptivity
Rec•ep•tiv´i•ty (res•ep•tiv"i•ty or re•sep- ), n. [Cf. F. receptivite.]
1. The state or quality of being receptive.
2. (Kantian Philos.) The power or capacity of receiving impressions, as those of the external senses.

Receptory
Re•cep´to•ry (re•sep"to•ry; 277), n. [Cf. L. receptorium a place of shelter.] Receptacle. [Obs.] Holland.

Recess
Re•cess´ (re•ses"), n. [L. recessus, fr. recedere, recessum. See Recede.]
1. A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as the recess of the tides.
"Every degree of ignorance being so far a recess and degradation from rationality." South.
"My recess hath given them confidence that I may be conquered." Eikon Basilike.
2. The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.
"In the recess of the jury they are to consider the evidence." Sir M. Hale.
"Good verse recess and solitude requires." Dryden.
3. Remission or suspension of business or procedure; intermission, as of a legislative body, court, or school.
"The recess of … Parliament lasted six weeks." Macaulay.
4. Part of a room formed by the receding of the wall, as an alcove, niche, etc.
"A bed which stood in a deep recess." W. Irving.
5. A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion.
"Departure from this happy place, our sweet Recess, and only consolation left." Milton.
6. Secret or abstruse part; as the difficulties and recesses of science. I. Watts.
7. (Bot. & Zoöl.) A sinus.

Recess
Re•cess´, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Recessed; p. pr. & vb. n. Recessing.] To make a recess in; as to recess a wall.

Recess
Re•cess´, n. [G.] A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire. Brande & C.

Recessed
Re•cessed´ (re•sest"), a.
1. Having a recess or recesses; as a recessed arch or wall.
2. Withdrawn; secluded. [R.] "Comfortably recessed from curious impertinents." Miss Edgeworth. Recessed arch (Arch.), one of a series of arches constructed one within another so as to correspond with splayed jambs of a doorway, or the like.

Recession
Re•ces´sion (re•sesh"un), n. [L. recessio, fr. recedere, recessum. See Recede.] The act of receding or withdrawing, as from a place, a claim, or a demand. South.
"Mercy may rejoice upon the recessions of justice." Jer. Taylor.

Recession
Re•ces´sion, n. [Pref. re- + cession.] The act of ceding back; restoration; repeated cession; as the recession of conquered territory to its former sovereign.

Recessional
Re•ces´sion•al (- al), a. Of or pertaining to recession or withdrawal. Recessional hymn, a hymn sung in a procession returning from the choir to the robing room.

Recessive
Re•ces´sive (re•ses"siv), a. Going back; receding.

Rechabite
Re´chab•ite (re"kab•it), n. (Jewish Hist.) One of the descendants of Jonadab, the son of Rechab, all of whom by his injunction abstained from the use of intoxicating drinks and even from planting the vine. Jer. xxxv. 2-19. also in modern times, a member of a certain society of abstainers from alcoholic liquors.

Rechange
Re•change´ (re•chanj"), v. t. & i. To change again, or change back.

Recharge
Re•charge´ (re•chärj"), v. t. & i. [Pref. re- + charge: cf. F. recharger.]
1. To charge or accuse in return.
2. To attack again; to attack anew. Dryden.

Recharter
Re•char´ter (re•chär"ter), n. A second charter; a renewal of a charter. D. Webster.

Recharter
Re•char´ter, v. t. To charter again or anew; to grant a second or another charter to.

Rechase
Re•chase´ (re•chas"), v. t. [Pref. re- + chase: cf. F. rechasser.] To chase again; to chase or drive back.

Rechauffe
Re•chauf•fe´, n. [F., orig. p.p. of rechauffer 8warm over. See Chafe, v. t.] A dish of food that has been warmed again, hence, fig., something made up from old material; a rehash.
"It is merely a rechauffe of ancient philosophies." F. W. H. Myers.

Recherche
Re•cher•che´ (r e•shâr•sha"), a. [F.] Sought out with care; choice. Hence: of rare quality, elegance, or attractiveness; peculiar and refined in kind.

Rechless
Rech´less (rek"les), a. Reckless. [Obs.] P. Plowman.

Rechoose
Re•choose´ (re•chooz"), v. t. To choose again.

Recidivate
Re•cid´i•vate (re•sid"i•vat), v. i. [LL. recidivare. See Recidivous.] To backslide; to fall again. [Obs.]

Recidivism
Re•cid´i•vism, n. The state or quality of being recidivous; relapse, specif. (Criminology), a falling back or relapse into prior criminal habits, esp. after conviction and punishment.
"The old English system of recognizances, in which the guilty party deposits a sum of money, is an excellent guarantee to society against recidivism." Havelock Ellis.

Recidivist
Re•cid´i•vist, n. One who is recidivous or is characterized by recidivism; an incorrigible criminal. — Re•cid•i•vis´tic (#), a.
"The criminal by passion never becomes a recidivist, it is the social, not the antisocial, instincts that are strong within him, his crime is a solitary event in his life." Havelock Ellis.

Recidivous
Re•cid´i•vous (re•sid"i•vus), a. [L. recidivus, fr. recidere to fall back.] Tending or liable to backslide or relapse to a former condition or habit.

Recipe
Rec´i•pe (res"i•pe), n. ; pl. Recipes (- pez). [L., imperative of recipere to take back, take in, receive. See Receive.] A formulary or prescription for making some combination, mixture, or preparation of materials; a receipt; especially, a prescription for medicine.

Recipient
Re•cip´i•ent (- ent), n. [L. recipiens, -entis, receiving, p. pr. of recipere to receive: cf. F. recipient. See Receive.] A receiver; the person or thing that receives; one to whom, or that to which, anything is given or communicated; specifically, the receiver of a still.

Recipient
Re•cip´i•ent, a. Receiving; receptive.

Reciprocal
Re•cip´ro•cal (-ro•k al), a. [L. reciprocus; of unknown origin.]
1. Recurring in vicissitude; alternate.
2. Done by each to the other; interchanging or interchanged; given and received; due from each to each; mutual; as reciprocal love; reciprocal duties.
"Let our reciprocal vows be remembered." Shak.
3. Mutually interchangeable.
"These two rules will render a definition reciprocal with the thing defined." I. Watts.
4. (Gram.) Reflexive; — applied to pronouns and verbs, but sometimes limited to such pronouns as express mutual action.
5. (Math.) Used to denote different kinds of mutual relation; often with reference to the substitution of reciprocals for given quantities. See the Phrases below. Reciprocal equation (Math.), one which remains unchanged in form when the reciprocal of the unknown quantity is substituted for that quantity. — Reciprocal figures (Geom.), two figures of the same kind (as triangles, parallelograms, prisms, etc.), so related that two sides of the one form the extremes of a proportion of which the means are the two corresponding sides of the other; in general, two figures so related that the first corresponds in some special way to the second, and the second corresponds in the same way to the first. — Reciprocal proportion (Math.), a proportion such that, of four terms taken in order, the first has to the second the same ratio which the fourth has to the third, or the first has to the second the same ratio which the reciprocal of the third has to the reciprocal of the fourth. Thus, 2:5: :20:8 form a reciprocal proportion, because 2:5: :1/20:1/8. — Reciprocal quantities (Math.), any two quantities which produce unity when multiplied together. — Reciprocal ratio (Math.), the ratio between the reciprocals of two quantities; as the reciprocal ratio of 4 to 9 is that of ¼ to &frac19;. — Reciprocal terms (Logic), those terms which have the same signification, and, consequently, are convertible, and may be used for each other.
Syn. — Mutual; alternate. — Reciprocal, Mutual. The distinctive idea of mutual is, that the parties unite by interchange in the same act; as a mutual covenant; mutual affection, etc. The distinctive idea of reciprocal is, that one party acts by way of return or response to something previously done by the other party; as a reciprocal kindness; reciprocal reproaches, etc. Love is reciprocal when the previous affection of one party has drawn forth the attachment of the other. To make it mutual in the strictest sense, the two parties should have fallen in love at the same time; but as the result is the same, the two words are here used interchangeably. The ebbing and flowing of the tide is a case where the action is reciprocal, but not mutual.

Reciprocal
Re•cip´ro•cal, n.
1. That which is reciprocal to another thing.
"Corruption is a reciprocal to generation." Bacon.
2. (Arith. & Alg.) The quotient arising from dividing unity by any quantity; thus, ¼ is the reciprocal of 4; 1/(a +b) is the reciprocal of a + b. The reciprocal of a fraction is the fraction inverted, or the denominator divided by the numerator.

Reciprocality
Re•cip•ro•cal´i•ty (-kal"i•ty), n. The quality or condition of being reciprocal; reciprocalness. [R.]

Reciprocally
Re•cip´ro•cal•ly (re•sip"ro•k al•ly), adv.
1. In a reciprocal manner; so that each affects the other, and is equally affected by it; interchangeably; mutually.
"These two particles do reciprocally affect each other with the same force." Bentley.
2. (Math.) In the manner of reciprocals. Reciprocally proportional (Arith. & Alg.), proportional, as two variable quantities, so that the one shall have a constant ratio to the reciprocal of the other.

Reciprocalness
Re•cip´ro•cal•ness (re•sip"ro•k al•nes), n. The quality or condition of being reciprocal; mutual return; alternateness.

Reciprocate
Re•cip´ro•cate (-kat), v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Reciprocated (- ka•ted); p. pr. & vb. n. Reciprocating.] [L. reciprocatus, p. p. of reciprocare. See Reciprocal.] To move forward and backward alternately; to recur in vicissitude; to act interchangeably; to alternate.
"One brawny smith the puffing bellows plies, And draws and blows reciprocating air." Dryden. Reciprocating engine, a steam, air, or gas engine, etc., in which the piston moves back and forth; — in distinction from a rotary engine, in which the piston travels continuously in one direction in a circular path. — Reciprocating motion (Mech.), motion alternately backward and forward, or up and down, as of a piston rod.

Reciprocate
Re•cip´ro•cate, v. t. To give and return mutually; to make return for; to give in return; to interchange; to alternate; as to reciprocate favors. Cowper.

Reciprocation
Re•cip•ro•ca´tion (-ka"shun), n. [L. reciprocatio: cf. F. reciprocation.]
1. The act of reciprocating; interchange of acts; a mutual giving and returning; as the reciprocation of kindnesses.
2. Alternate recurrence or action; as the reciprocation of the sea in the flow and ebb of tides. Sir T. Browne.

Reciprocity
Rec•i•proc´i•ty (res•i•pros"i•ty), n. [Cf. F. reciprocite. See Reciprocal.]
1. Mutual action and reaction.
2. Reciprocal advantages, obligations, or rights; reciprocation. Reciprocity treaty, or Treaty of reciprocity, a treaty concluded between two countries, conferring equal privileges as regards customs or charges on imports, or in other respects.
Syn. — Reciprocation; interchange; mutuality.

Reciprocous
Re•cip´ro•cous (re•sip"ro•kus), a. Reciprocal. [Obs.]

Reciprok
Rec´i•prok (res"i•prok), a. [F. reciproque, L. reciprocus.] Reciprocal. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Reciproque
Rec´i•proque (res"i•prok), a. & n. [F. reciproque.] Reciprocal. Bacon.

Recision
Re•ci´sion (re•sizh"un), n. [L. recisio, fr. recidere, recisum, to cut off; pref. re- re- + caedere to cut.] The act of cutting off. Sherwood.

Recital
Re•cit´al (re•sit"al), n. [From Recite.]
1. The act of reciting; the repetition of the words of another, or of a document; rehearsal; as the recital of testimony.
2. A telling in detail and due order of the particulars of anything, as of a law, an adventure, or a series of events; narration. Addison.
3. That which is recited; a story; a narration.
4. (Mus.) A vocal or instrumental performance by one person; — distinguished from concert; as a song recital; an organ, piano, or violin recital.
5. (Law) The formal statement, or setting forth, of some matter of fact in any deed or writing in order to explain the reasons on which the transaction is founded; the statement of matter in pleading introductory to some positive allegation. Burn.
Syn. — Account; rehearsal; recitation; narration; description; explanation; enumeration; detail; narrative. See Account.

Recitativo
Rec•i•ta•ti´vo (-te"vo), n. [It.] (Mus.) Recitative.

Recite
Re•cite´ (re•sit"), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Recited; p. pr. & vb. n. Reciting.] [F. reciter, fr. L. recitare, recitatum; pref. re- re- + citare to call or name, to cite. See Cite.]
1. To repeat, as something already prepared, written down, committed to memory, or the like; to deliver from a written or printed document, or from recollection; to rehearse; as to recite the words of an author, or of a deed or covenant.
2. To tell over; to go over in particulars; to relate; to narrate; as to recite past events; to recite the particulars of a voyage.
3. To rehearse, as a lesson to an instructor.
4. (Law) To state in or as a recital. See Recital, 5.
Syn. — To rehearse; narrate; relate; recount; describe; recapitulate; detail; number; count.

Recite
Re•cite´, v. i. To repeat, pronounce, or rehearse, as before an audience, something prepared or committed to memory; to rehearse a lesson learned.

Recite
Re•cite´, n. A recital. [Obs.] Sir W. Temple.

Reciter
Re•cit´er (-sit"er), n. One who recites; also a book of extracts for recitation.

Reck (rek), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Recked (rekt) ( obs. imp. Roughte); p. pr. & vb. n. Recking.] [AS. reccan, recan, to care for; akin to OS. rokian, OHG. ruochan, G. geruhen, Icel. raekja, also to E. reckon, rake an implement. See Rake, and cf. Reckon.]
1. To make account of; to care for; to heed; to regard. [Archaic]
"This son of mine not recking danger." Sir P. Sidney.
"And may you better reck the rede Than ever did the adviser." Burns.
2. To concern; — used impersonally. [Poetic]
"What recks it them?" Milton.

Reck (rek), v. i. To make account; to take heed; to care; to mind; — often followed by of. [Archaic]
"Then reck I not, when I have lost my life." Chaucer.
"I reck not though I end my life to- day." Shak.
"Of me she recks not, nor my vain desire." M. Arnold.

Reckless
Reck´less, a. [AS. recceleás, receleás.]
1. Inattentive to duty; careless; neglectful; indifferent. Chaucer.
2. Rashly negligent; utterly careless or heedless.
"It made the king as reckless as them diligent." Sir P. Sidney.
Syn. — Heedless; careless; mindless; thoughtless; negligent; indifferent; regardless; unconcerned; inattentive; remiss; rash. — Reck´less•ly, adv. — Reck´less•ness, n.

Reckling
Reck´ling (-ling), a. Needing care; weak; feeble; as a reckling child. H. Taylor. — n. A weak child or animal. Tennyson.

Reckon
Reck´on (rek"’n), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Reckoned (-’nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Reckoning.] [OE. rekenen, AS. gerecenian to explain; akin to D. rekenen to reckon, G. rechnen, OHG. rehhanon (cf. Goth. rahnjan), and to E. reck, rake an implement; the original sense probably being, to bring together, count together. See Reck, v. t.]
1. To count; to enumerate; to number; also to compute; to calculate.
"The priest shall reckon to him the money according to the years that remain." Lev. xxvii. 18.
"I reckoned above two hundred and fifty on the outside of the church." Addison.
2. To count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation; to account; to esteem; to repute.
"He was reckoned among the transgressors." Luke xxii. 37.
"For him I reckon not in high estate." Milton.
3. To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.
"Faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness." Rom. iv. 9.
"Without her eccentricities being reckoned to her for a crime." Hawthorne.
4. To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; — followed by an objective clause; as I reckon he won’t try that again. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S.]
Syn. — To number; enumerate; compute; calculate; estimate; value; esteem; account; repute. See Calculate, Guess.

Reckon
Reck´on, v. i.
1. To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing. Shak.
2. To come to an accounting; to make up accounts; to settle; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust relations of desert or penalty.
""Parfay," sayst thou, "sometime he reckon shall."" Chaucer. To reckon for, to answer for; to pay the account for. "If they fail in their bounden duty, they shall reckon for it one day." Bp. Sanderson. — To reckon on or upon, to count or depend on. — To reckon with, to settle accounts or claims with; — used literally or figuratively.
"After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth with them." Matt. xxv. 19. — To reckon without one’s host, to ignore in a calculation or arrangement the person whose assent is essential; hence, to reckon erroneously.

Reckoner
Reck´on•er (-er), n. One who reckons or computes; also a book of calculations, tables, etc., to assist in reckoning.
"Reckoners without their host must reckon twice." Camden.

Reckoning
Reck´on•ing, n.
1. The act of one who reckons, counts, or computes; the result of reckoning or counting; calculation. Specifically: (a) An account of time. Sandys. (b) Adjustment of claims and accounts; settlement of obligations, liabilities, etc.
"Even reckoning makes lasting friends, and the way to make reckonings even is to make them often." South.
"He quitted London, never to return till the day of a terrible and memorable reckoning had arrived." Macaulay.
2. The charge or account made by a host at an inn.
"A coin would have a nobler use than to pay a reckoning." Addison.
3. Esteem; account; estimation.
"You make no further reckoning of it [beauty] than of an outward fading benefit nature bestowed." Sir P. Sidney.
4. (Navigation) (a) The calculation of a ship’s position, either from astronomical observations, or from the record of the courses steered and distances sailed as shown by compass and log, — in the latter case called dead reckoning (see under Dead); — also used for dead reckoning in contradistinction to observation. (b) The position of a ship as determined by calculation. To be out of her reckoning, to be at a distance from the place indicated by the reckoning; — said of a ship.

Reclaimable
Re•claim´a•ble (-a•b’l), a. That may be reclaimed.

Reclaimant
Re•claim´ant (- ant), n. [Cf. F. reclamant, p. pr.] One who reclaims; one who cries out against or contradicts. Waterland.

Reclaimer
Re•claim´er (-er), n. One who reclaims.

Reclaimless
Re•claim´less, a. That can not be reclaimed.

Reclamation
Rec•la•ma´tion (rek•la•ma"shun), n. [F. reclamation, L. reclamatio. See Reclaim.]
1. The act or process of reclaiming.
2. Representation made in opposition; remonstrance.
"I would now, on the reclamation both of generosity and of justice, try clemency." Landor.

Reclinant
Re•clin´ant (re•klin"ant), a. [L. reclinans, p. pr. See Recline.] Bending or leaning backward.

Reclination
Rec•li•na´tion (rek•li•na"shun), n. [Cf. F. reclinaison.]
1. The act of leaning or reclining, or the state of being reclined.
2. (Dialing) The angle which the plane of the dial makes with a vertical plane which it intersects in a horizontal line. Brande & C.
3. (Surg.) The act or process of removing a cataract, by applying the needle to its anterior surface, and depressing it into the vitreous humor in such a way that the front surface of the cataract becomes the upper one and its back surface the lower one. Dunglison.

Recline
Re•cline´ (re•klin"), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Reclined (-klind"); p. pr. & vb. n. Reclining.] [L. reclinare; pref. re- re- + clinare to lean, incline. See Incline, Lean to incline.] To cause or permit to lean, incline, rest, etc.; to place in a recumbent position; as to recline the head on the hand.
"The mother Reclined her dying head upon his breast." Dryden.

Recline
Re•cline´, v. i.
1. To lean or incline; as to recline against a wall.
2. To assume, or to be in, a recumbent position; as to recline on a couch.

Recline
Re•cline´, a. [L. reclinis. See Recline, v. t.] Having a reclining posture; leaning; reclining. [R.]
"They sat, recline On the soft downy bank, damasked with flowers." Milton.

Recliner
Re•clin´er (re•klin"er), n. One who, or that which, reclines.

Reclining
Re•clin´ing, a. (Bot.) (a) Bending or curving gradually back from the perpendicular. (b) Recumbent. Reclining dial, a dial whose plane is inclined to the vertical line through its center. Davies & Peck (Math. Dict.).

Reclose
Re•close´ (re•kloz"), v. t. To close again. Pope.

Reclothe
Re•clothe´ (re•kloth"), v. t. To clothe again.

Reclude
Re•clude´ (re•klud"), v. t. [L. recludere to unclose, open; pref. re- again, back, un- + claudere to shut.] To open; to unclose. [R.] Harvey.

Recluse
Re•cluse´ (re•klus"), a. [F. reclus, L. reclusus, from recludere, reclusum, to unclose, open, in LL., to shut up. See Close.] Shut up; sequestered; retired from the world or from public notice; solitary; living apart; as a recluse monk or hermit; a recluse life.
"In meditation deep, recluse From human converse." J. Philips.

Recluse
Re•cluse´, n. [F. reclus, LL. reclusus. See Recluse, a. ]
1. A person who lives in seclusion from intercourse with the world, as a hermit or monk; specifically, one of a class of secluded devotees who live in single cells, usually attached to monasteries.
2. The place where a recluse dwells. [Obs.] Foxe.

Recluse
Re•cluse´, v. t. To shut up; to seclude. [Obs.]

Reclusely
Re•cluse´ly, adv. In a recluse or solitary manner.

Recluseness
Re•cluse´ness, n. Quality or state of being recluse.

Reclusion
Re•clu´sion (-klu"zhun), n. [LL. reclusio: cf. F. reclusion.] A state of retirement from the world; seclusion.

Reclusive
Re•clu´sive (-siv), a. Affording retirement from society. "Some reclusive and religious life." Shak.

Reclusory
Re•clu´so•ry (-so•ry), n. [LL. reclusorium.] The habitation of a recluse; a hermitage.

Recoct
Re•coct´ (re•kokt"), v. t. [L. recoctus, p. p. of recoquere to cook or boil over again. See Re-, and 4th Cook.] To boil or cook again; hence, to make over; to vamp up; to reconstruct. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

Recognition
Rec•og•ni´tion (rek•og•nish"un), n. [L. recognitio: cf. F. recognition. See Recognizance.] The act of recognizing, or the state of being recognized; acknowledgment; formal avowal; knowledge confessed or avowed; notice.
"The lives of such saints had, at the time of their yearly memorials, solemn recognition in the church of God." Hooker.

Recognitory
Re•cog´ni•to•ry (-to•ry), a. Pertaining to, or connected with, recognition. Lamb.

Recognizability
Rec•og•ni•za•bil´i•ty (rek•og•ni•za•bil"i•ty), n. The quality or condition of being recognizable.

Recognizable
Rec´og•ni•za•ble (rek"og•ni•za•b’l or re•kog"ni-; 277), a. Capable of being recognized. [Written also recognisable.] — Rec´og•ni•za•bly, adv.

Recognizance
Re•cog´ni•zance (re•kog"ni•z ans or re•kon"i-), n. [F. reconnaissance, OF. recognoissance, fr. recognoissant, p. pr. of recognoistre to recognize, F. reconnaître, fr. L. recognoscere; pref. re- re- + cognoscere to know. See Cognizance, Know, and cf. Recognize, Reconnoissance.] [Written also recognisance.]
1. (Law) (a) An obligation of record entered into before some court of record or magistrate duly authorized, with condition to do some particular act, as to appear at the same or some other court, to keep the peace, or pay a debt. A recognizance differs from a bond, being witnessed by the record only, and not by the party’s seal. (b) The verdict of a jury impaneled upon assize. Cowell. Among lawyers the g in this and the related words (except recognize) is usually silent.
2. A token; a symbol; a pledge; a badge.
"That recognizance and pledge of love Which I first gave her." Shak.
3. Acknowledgment of a person or thing; avowal; profession; recognition.

Recognize
Rec´og•nize (rek"og•niz), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Recognized (- nizd); p. pr. & vb. n. Recognizing (- ni•zing).] [From Recognizance; see Cognition, and cf. Reconnoiter.] [Written also recognise.]
1. To know again; to perceive the identity of, with a person or thing previously known; to recover or recall knowledge of.
"Speak, vassal; recognize thy sovereign queen." Harte.
2. To avow knowledge of; to allow that one knows; to consent to admit, hold, or the like; to admit with a formal acknowledgment; as to recognize an obligation; to recognize a consul.
3. To acknowledge acquaintance with, as by salutation, bowing, or the like.
4. To show appreciation of; as to recognize services by a testimonial.
5. To review; to reëxamine. [Obs.] South.
6. To reconnoiter. [Obs.] R. Monro.
Syn. — To acknowledge; avow; confess; own; allow; concede. See Acknowledge.

Recognize
Rec´og•nize, v. i. (Law) To enter an obligation of record before a proper tribunal; as A B recognized in the sum of twenty dollars. [Written also recognise.] In legal usage in the United States the second syllable is often accented.

Recognizee
Re•cog•ni•zee´ (re•kog•ni•ze" or re•kon•i•ze"), n. (Law) The person in whose favor a recognizance is made. [Written also recognisee.] Blackstone.

Recognizer
Rec´og•ni•zer (rek"og•ni•zer), n. One who recognizes; a recognizor. [Written also recogniser.]

Recognizor
Re•cog•ni•zor´ (re•kog•ni•zôr" or re•kon•i•zôr"), n. (Law) One who enters into a recognizance. [Written also recognisor.] Blackstone.

Recognosce
Rec´og•nosce (rek"og•nos), v. t. [L. recognoscere. See Recognizance.] To recognize. [R. & Obs.] Boyle.

Recoilingly
Re•coil´ing•ly, adv. In the manner of a recoil.

Recoilment
Re•coil´ment, n. [Cf. F. reculement.] Recoil. [R.]

Recoin
Re•coin´ (re•koin"), v. t. To coin anew or again.

Recoinage
Re•coin´age (-aj), n.
1. The act of coining anew.
2. That which is coined anew.

Recollect
Rec•ol•lect´ (rek•ol•lekt"), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Recollected; p. pr. & vb. n. Recollecting.] [Pref. re- + collect: cf. L. recolligere, recollectum, to collect. Cf. Recollet.]
1. To recover or recall the knowledge of; to bring back to the mind or memory; to remember.
2. Reflexively, to compose one’s self; to recover self-command; as to recollect one’s self after a burst of anger; — sometimes, formerly, in the perfect participle.
"The Tyrian queen … Admired his fortunes, more admired the man; Then recollected stood." Dryden.

Recollect
Rec´ol•lect (rek"ol•lekt), n. [See Recollet.] (Eccl.) A friar of the Strict Observance, — an order of Franciscans. [Written also Recollet.] Addis & Arnold.

Recollection
Rec•ol•lec´tion (r?k•?l•l?k"sh?n), n. [Cf. F. recollection.]
1. The act of recollecting, or recalling to the memory; the operation by which objects are recalled to the memory, or ideas revived in the mind; reminiscence; remembrance.
2. The power of recalling ideas to the mind, or the period within which things can be recollected; remembrance; memory; as an event within my recollection.
3. That which is recollected; something called to mind; reminiscence. "One of his earliest recollections." Macaulay.
4. The act or practice of collecting or concentrating the mind; concentration; self-control. [Archaic]
"From such an education Charles contracted habits of gravity and recollection." Robertson.
Syn. — Reminiscence; remembrance. See Memory.

Recollet
Rec´ol•let (r?k"?l•l?t; F. r?•k?•l?"), n. [F. recollet, fr. L. recollectus, p. p. of recolligere to gather again, to gather up; NL., to collect one’s self, esp. for religious contemplation.] (Eccl.) Same as Recollect, n.

Recolonize
Re•col´o•nize (r?•k?l"?•n?z), v. t. To colonize again.

Recombination
Re•com•bi•na´tion (r?•k?m•b?•n?"sh?n), n. Combination a second or additional time.

Recombine
Re•com•bine´ (r?•k?m•b?n"), v. t. To combine again.

Recomfort
Re•com´fort (r?•k?m"f?rt), v. t. [Pref. re- + comfort: cf. F. reconforter.] To comfort again; to console anew; to give new strength to. Bacon.
"Gan her recomfort from so sad affright." Spenser.

Recomfortless
Re•com´fort•less, a. Without comfort. [Obs.]

Recomforture
Re•com´for•ture (-f?r•t?r;135), n. The act of recomforting; restoration of comfort. [Obs.] Shak.

Recommence
Re•com•mence´ (r?•k?m•m?ns"), v. i.
1. To commence or begin again. Howell.
2. To begin anew to be; to act again as. [Archaic.]
"He seems desirous enough of recommencing courtier." Johnson.

Recommence
Re•com•mence´, v. t. [Pref. re- + commence: cf. F. recommencer.] To commence again or anew.

Recommencement
Re•com•mence´ment (-m ent), n. A commencement made anew.

Recommend
Rec•om•mend´ (r?k•?m•m?nd"), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Recommended; p. pr. & vb. n. Recommending.] [Pref. re- + commend: cf. F. recommander.]
1. To commend to the favorable notice of another; to commit to another’s care, confidence, or acceptance, with favoring representations; to put in a favorable light before any one; to bestow commendation on; as he recommended resting the mind and exercising the body.
"Maecenas recommended Virgil and Horace to Augustus, whose praises … have made him precious to posterity." Dryden.
2. To make acceptable; to attract favor to.
"A decent boldness ever meets with friends, Succeeds, and e’en a stranger recommends." Pope.
3. To commit; to give in charge; to commend.
"Paul chose Silas and departed, being recommended by the brethren unto the grace of God." Acts xv. 40.

Recommendation
Rec•om•men•da´tion (r?k•?m•m?n•d?"sh?n), n. [Cf. F. recommandation.]
1. The act of recommending.
2. That which recommends, or commends to favor; anything procuring, or tending to procure, a favorable reception, or to secure acceptance and adoption; as he brought excellent recommendations.
3. The state of being recommended; esteem. [R.]
"The burying of the dead … hath always been had in an extraordinary recommendation amongst the ancient." Sir T. North.

Recommendative
Rec•om•mend´a•tive (-m?nd"?•t?v), n. That which recommends; a recommendation. [Obs.]

Recommendatory
Rec•om•mend´a•to•ry (-?•t?•r?), a. Serving to recommend; recommending; commendatory. Swift.

Recommender
Rec•om•mend´er (-?r), n. One who recommends.

Recommission
Re•com•mis´sion (r?•k?m•m?sh?n), v. t. To commission again; to give a new commission to.
"Officers whose time of service had expired were to be recommissioned." Marshall.

Recommit
Re•com•mit´ (-m?t"), v. t. To commit again; to give back into keeping; specifically, to refer again to a committee; as to recommit a bill to the same committee. { Re•com•mit´ment (-m ent), Re•com•mit´tal (-?l), } n. A second or renewed commitment; a renewed reference to a committee.

Recompact
Re•com•pact´ (-p?kt"), v. t. To compact or join anew. "Recompact my scattered body." Donne.

Recompensation
Re•com•pen•sa´tion (r?•k?m•p?n•s?"sh?n), n. [Cf. LL. recompensatio.]
1. Recompense. [Obs.]
2. (Scots Law) Used to denote a case where a set-off pleaded by the defendant is met by a set-off pleaded by the plaintiff.

Recompense
Rec´om•pense (rek"om•pens), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Recompensed (-p?nst); p. pr. & vb. n. Recompensing (-p?n•s?ng).] [F. recompenser, LL. recompensare, fr.L. pref. re- re- + compensare to compensate. See Compensate.]
1. To render an equivalent to, for service, loss, etc.; to requite; to remunerate; to compensate.
"He can not recompense me better." Shak.
2. To return an equivalent for; to give compensation for; to atone for; to pay for.
"God recompenseth the gift." Robynson (More’s Utopia).
"To recompense My rash, but more unfortunate, misdeed." Milton.
3. To give in return; to pay back; to pay, as something earned or deserved. [R.]
"Recompense to no man evil for evil." Rom. xii. 17.
Syn. — To repay; requite; compensate; reward; remunerate.

Recompense
Rec´om•pense (r?k"?m•p?ns), v. i. To give recompense; to make amends or requital. [Obs.]

Recompense
Rec´om•pense, n. [Cf. F. recompense.] An equivalent returned for anything done, suffered, or given; compensation; requital; suitable return.
"To me belongeth vengeance, and recompense." Deut. xxii. 35.
"And every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward." Heb. ii. 2.
Syn. — Repayment; compensation; remuneration; amends; satisfaction; reward; requital.

Recompensement
Rec´om•pense•ment (-p?ns•m?nt), n. Recompense; requital. [Obs.] Fabyan.

Recompenser
Rec´om•pen•ser (-p?n•s?r), n. One who recompenses.
"A thankful recompenser of the benefits received." Foxe.

Recompensive
Rec´om•pen•sive (-s?v), a. Of the nature of recompense; serving to recompense. Sir T. Browne.

Recompilation
Re•com•pi•la´tion (r?•k?m•p?•l?"tion), n. A new compilation.

Recompile
Re•com•pile´ (re•kom•pil"), v. t. To compile anew.

Recompilement
Re•com•pile´ment (-m ent), n. The act of recompiling; new compilation or digest; as a recompilement of the laws. Bacon.

Recompose
Re•com•pose´ (-p?z"), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Recomposed (-p?zd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Recomposing.] [Pref. re- + compose: cf. F. recomposer.]
1. To compose again; to form anew; to put together again or repeatedly.
"The far greater number of the objects presented to our observation can only be decomposed, but not actually recomposed." Sir W. Hamilton.
2. To restore to composure; to quiet anew; to tranquilize; as to recompose the mind. Jer. Taylor.

Recomposition
Re•com•po•si´tion (r?•k?m•p?z?sh?n), n. [Cf. F. recomposition.] The act of recomposing.

Reconcentrado
Re•con•cen•tra´do, n. [Sp., p.p. of reconcentrar to inclose, to reconcentrate.] Lit., one who has been reconcentrated; specif., in Cuba, the Philippines, etc., during the revolution of 1895-98, one of the rural noncombatants who were concentrated by the military authorities in areas surrounding the fortified towns, and later were reconcentrated in the smaller limits of the towns themselves.

Reconcentrate
Re•con•cen´trate, v. t. & i. To concentrate again; to concentrate thoroughly.

Reconcentration
Re•con•cen•tra´tion, n. The act of reconcentrating or the state of being reconcentrated; esp., the act or policy of concentrating the rural population in or about towns and villages for convenience in political or military administration, as in Cuba during the revolution of 1895-98.

Reconcilable
Rec´on•ci•la•ble (r?k"?n•s?•l?•b’l), a. [Cf. F. reconciliable.] Capable of being reconciled; as reconcilable adversaries; an act reconciable with previous acts.
"The different accounts of the numbers of ships are reconcilable." Arbuthnot. — Rec´on•ci•la•ble•ness, n. — Rec´on•ci•la•bly, adv.

Reconcile
Rec´on•cile (-s?l•), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Reconciled (-s?ld•); p. pr. & vb. n. Reconciling.] [F. reconcilier, L. reconciliare; pref. re- re- + conciliare to bring together, to unite. See Conciliate.]
1. To cause to be friendly again; to conciliate anew; to restore to friendship; to bring back to harmony; to cause to be no longer at variance; as to reconcile persons who have quarreled.
"Propitious now and reconciled by prayer." Dryden.
"The church [if defiled] is interdicted till it be reconciled [i.e., restored to sanctity] by the bishop." Chaucer.
"We pray you … be ye reconciled to God." 2 Cor. v. 20.
2. To bring to acquiescence, content, or quiet submission; as to reconcile one’s self to affictions.
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." Locke.
"Some figures monstrous and misshaped appear, Considered singly, or beheld too near; Which, but proportioned to their light or place, Due distance reconciles to form and grace." Pope.
4. To adjust; to settle; as to reconcile differences.
Syn. — To reunite; conciliate; placate; propitiate; pacify; appease.

Reconcile
Rec´on•cile, v. i. To become reconciled. [Obs.]

Reconcilement
Rec´on•cile•ment (-m ent), n. Reconciliation. Milton.

Reconciler
Rec´on•ci•ler (-s?•l?r), n. One who reconciles.

Reconciliation
Rec•on•cil•i•a´tion (-s?l•?•?"sh?n), n. [F. reconciliation, L. reconciliatio.]
1. The act of reconciling, or the state of being reconciled; reconcilenment; restoration to harmony; renewal of friendship.
"Reconciliation and friendship with God really form the basis of all rational and true enjoyment." S. Miller.
2. Reduction to congruence or consistency; removal of inconsistency; harmony.
"A clear and easy reconciliation of those seeming inconsistencies of Scripture." D. Rogers.
Syn. — Reconcilement; reunion; pacification; appeasement; propitiation; atonement; expiation.

Reconciliatory
Rec•on•cil´i•a•to•ry (-s?l"?•?•t?•r?), a. Serving or tending to reconcile. Bp. Hall.

Recondensation
Re•con•den•sa´tion (r?•k?n•d?n•s?"sh?n), n. The act or process of recondensing.

Recondense
Re•con•dense´ (re•kon•dens"), v. t. To condense again.

Recondite
Rec´on•dite (r?k"?n•d?t or r?•k?n"d?t; 277), a. [L. reconditus, p. p. of recondere to put up again, to lay up, to conceal; pref. re- re- + condere to bring or lay together. See Abscond.]
1. Hidden from the mental or intellectual view; secret; abstruse; as recondite causes of things.
2. Dealing in things abstruse; profound; searching; as recondite studies. "Recondite learning." Bp. Horsley.

Reconduct
Re•con•duct´ (re•kon•dukt"), v. t. To conduct back or again. "A guide to reconduct thy steps." Dryden.

Reconfirm
Re•con•firm´ (-f?rm"), v. t. [Pref. re- + confirm: cf. F. reconfirmer.] To confirm anew. Clarendon.

Reconfort
Re•con•fort´ (-f?rt"), v. t. [F. reconforter.] To recomfort; to comfort. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Reconjoin
Re•con•join´ (r?•k?n•join"), v. t. To join or conjoin anew. Boyle. { Re•con´nois•sance, Re•con´nais•sance } (r?- k?n"n?s-s?ns), n. [F. See Recognizance.] The act of reconnoitering; preliminary examination or survey. Specifically: (a) (Geol.) An examination or survey of a region in reference to its general geological character. (b) (Engin.) An examination of a region as to its general natural features, preparatory to a more particular survey for the purposes of triangulation, or of determining the location of a public work. (c) (Mil.) An examination of a territory, or of an enemy’s position, for the purpose of obtaining information necessary for directing military operations; a preparatory expedition. Reconnoissance in force (Mil.), a demonstration or attack by a large force of troops for the purpose of discovering the position and strength of an enemy. { Rec•on•noi´ter, Rec•on•noi´tre } (r?k•?n•noi"t?r), v. t. [F. reconnoitre, a former spelling of reconnaître. See Recognize.]
1. To examine with the eye to make a preliminary examination or survey of; esp., to survey with a view to military or engineering operations.
2. To recognize. [Obs.] Sir H. Walpole.

Reconquest
Re•con´quest (-kw?st), n. A second conquest.

Reconsecrate
Re•con´se•crate (-k?n"s?•kr?t), v. t. To consecrate anew or again.

Reconsecration
Re•con•se•cra´tion, n. Renewed consecration.

Reconsider
Re•con•sid´er (r?•k?n•s?d"?r), v. t.
1. To consider again; as to reconsider a subject.
2. (Parliamentary Practice) To take up for renewed consideration, as a motion or a vote which has been previously acted upon.

Reconsideration
Re•con•sid•er•a´tion (-?"sh?n), n. The act of reconsidering, or the state of being reconsidered; as the reconsideration of a vote in a legislative body.

Reconsolate
Re•con´so•late (r?•k?n"s?•l?t), v. t. To console or comfort again. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

Reconsolidate
Re•con•sol´i•date (r?•k?n•s?l"?•d?t), v. t. To consolidate anew or again.

Reconsolidation
Re•con•sol•i•da´tion (-d?"sh?n), n. The act or process of reconsolidating; the state of being reconsolidated.

Reconstruct
Re•con•struct´ (-str?kt"), v. t. To construct again; to rebuild; to remodel; to form again or anew.
"Regiments had been dissolved and reconstructed." Macaulay.

Reconstruction
Re•con•struc´tion (-str?k"sh?n), n.
1. The act of constructing again; the state of being reconstructed.
2. (U.S. Politics) The act or process of reorganizing the governments of the States which had passed ordinances of secession, and of reëstablishing their constitutional relations to the national government, after the close of the Civil War.

Reconstructive
Re•con•struct´ive (-str?k"t?v), a. Reconstructing; tending to reconstruct; as a reconstructive policy.

Recontinuance
Re•con•tin´u•ance (-t?n"?•?ns), n. The act or state of recontinuing.

Recontinue
Re•con•tin´ue (-?), v. t. & i. To continue anew.

Reconvene
Re•con•vene´ (r?•k?n•v?n"), v. t. & i. To convene or assemble again; to call or come together again.

Reconvention
Re•con•ven´tion (-v?n"sh?n), n. (Civil Law) A cross demand; an action brought by the defendant against the plaintiff before the same judge. Burrill. Bouvier.

Reconversion
Re•con•ver´sion (-v?r"sh?n), n. A second conversion.

Reconvert
Re•con•vert´ (-v?rt"), v. t. To convert again. Milton.

Reconvert
Re•con´vert (r?•k?n"v?rt), n. A person who has been reconverted. Gladstone.

Reconvertible
Re•con•vert´i•ble (r?•k?n•v?rt"?•b’l), a. (Chem.) Capable of being reconverted; convertible again to the original form or condition.

Reconvey
Re•con•vey´ (-v?"), v. t.
1. To convey back or to the former place; as to reconvey goods.
2. To transfer back to a former owner; as to reconvey an estate.

Reconveyance
Re•con•vey´ance (-v?"?ns), n. Act of reconveying.

Recopy
Re•cop´y (r?•k?p"?), v. t. To copy again.

Record
Re•cord´ (r?•k?rd"), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Recorded; p. pr. & vb. n. Recording.] [OE. recorden to repeat, remind, F. recorder, fr. L. recordari to remember; pref. re- re- + cor, cordis, the heart or mind. See Cordial, Heart.]
1. To recall to mind; to recollect; to remember; to meditate. [Obs.] "I it you record." Chaucer.
2. To repeat; to recite; to sing or play. [Obs.]
"They longed to see the day, to hear the lark Record her hymns, and chant her carols blest." Fairfax.
3. To preserve the memory of, by committing to writing, to printing, to inscription, or the like; to make note of; to write or enter in a book or on parchment, for the purpose of preserving authentic evidence of; to register; to enroll; as to record the proceedings of a court; to record historical events.
"Those things that are recorded of him … are written in the chronicles of the kings." 1 Esd. i. 42.To record a deed, mortgage, lease, etc., to have a copy of the same entered in the records of the office designated by law, for the information of the public.

Record
Re•cord´, v. i.
1. To reflect; to ponder. [Obs.]
"Praying all the way, and recording upon the words which he before had read." Fuller.
2. To sing or repeat a tune. [Obs.] Shak.
"Whether the birds or she recorded best." W. Browne.

Record
Rec´ord (rek"erd), n. [OF. recort, record, remembrance, attestation, record. See Record, v. t.]
1. A writing by which some act or event, or a number of acts or events, is recorded; a register; as a record of the acts of the Hebrew kings; a record of the variations of temperature during a certain time; a family record.
2. Especially: (a) An official contemporaneous writing by which the acts of some public body, or public officer, are recorded; as a record of city ordinances; the records of the receiver of taxes. (b) An authentic official copy of a document which has been entered in a book, or deposited in the keeping of some officer designated by law. (c) An official contemporaneous memorandum stating the proceedings of a court of justice; a judicial record. (d) The various legal papers used in a case, together with memoranda of the proceedings of the court; as it is not permissible to allege facts not in the record.
3. Testimony; witness; attestation.
"John bare record, saying." John i. 32.
4. That which serves to perpetuate a knowledge of acts or events; a monument; a memorial.
5. That which has been, or might be, recorded; the known facts in the course, progress, or duration of anything, as in the life of a public man; as a politician with a good or a bad record.
6. That which has been publicly achieved in any kind of competitive sport as recorded in some authoritative manner, as the time made by a winning horse in a race. Court of record ( pron. r•krd" in Eng. ), a court whose acts and judicial proceedings are written on parchment or in books for a perpetual memorial. — Debt of record, a debt which appears to be due by the evidence of a court of record, as upon a judgment or a cognizance. — Trial by record, a trial which is had when a matter of record is pleaded, and the opposite party pleads that there is no such record. In this case the trial is by inspection of the record itself, no other evidence being admissible. Blackstone. — To beat, or break, the record (Sporting), to surpass any performance of like kind as authoritatively recorded; as to break the record in a walking match.

Recordation
Rec•or•da´tion (r?k•?r•d?"sh?n), n. [L. recordatio: cf. F. recordation. See Record, v. t.] Remembrance; recollection; also a record. [Obs.] Shak.

Recordership
Re•cord´er•ship, n. The office of a recorder.

Recording
Re•cord´ing, a. Keeping a record or a register; as a recording secretary; — applied to numerous instruments with an automatic appliance which makes a record of their action; as a recording gauge or telegraph.

Recorporification
Re•cor•por•i•fi•ca´tion (r?•k?r•p?r•?•f?•k?"sh?n), n. The act of investing again with a body; the state of being furnished anew with a body. [R.] Boyle.

Recouch
Re•couch´ (r?•kouch"), v. i. [Pref. re- + couch: cf. F. recoucher.] To retire again to a couch; to lie down again. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

Recount
Re•count´ (re•kount"), v. t. [Pref. re- + count.] To count or reckon again.

Recount
Re•count´, n. A counting again, as of votes.

Recount
Re•count´ (re•kount"), v. t. [F. raconter to relate, to recount; pref. re- again + (L. a. .) + conter to relate. See Count, v. ] To tell over; to relate in detail; to recite; to tell or narrate the particulars of; to rehearse; to enumerate; as to recount one’s blessings. Dryden.
"To all his angels, who, with true applause, Recount his praises." Milton.

Recouper
Re•coup´er (r?•k??p"?r), n. One who recoups. Story.

Recoupment
Re•coup´ment (-m ent), n. The act of recouping. Recoupment applies to equities growing out of the very affair from which thw principal demand arises, set-off to cross-demands which may be independent in origin. Abbott.

Recourse
Re•course´ (r?•k?rs"), n. [F. recours, L. recursus a running back, return, fr. recurrere, recursum, to run back. See Recur.]
1. A coursing back, or coursing again, along the line of a previous coursing; renewed course; return; retreat; recurence. [Obs.] "Swift recourse of flushing blood." Spenser.
"Unto my first I will have my recourse." Chaucer.
"Preventive physic … preventeth sickness in the healthy, or the recourse thereof in the valetudinary." Sir T. Browne.
2. Recurrence in difficulty, perplexity, need, or the like; access or application for aid; resort.
"Thus died this great peer, in a time of great recourse unto him and dependence upon him." Sir H. Wotton.
"Our last recourse is therefore to our art." Dryden.
3. Access; admittance. [Obs.]
"Give me recourse to him." Shak. Without recourse (Commerce), words sometimes added to the indorsement of a negotiable instrument to protect the indorser from liability to the indorsee and subsequent holders. It is a restricted indorsement.

Recourse
Re•course´, v. i.
1. To return; to recur. [Obs.]
"The flame departing and recoursing." Foxe.
2. To have recourse; to resort. [Obs.] Bp. Hacket.

Recourseful
Re•course´ful (-f?l), a. Having recurring flow and ebb; moving alternately. [Obs.] Drayton.

Recover
Re•cov´er (r?•k?v"?r), v. t. [Pref. re- + cover: cf. F. recouvrir.] To cover again. Sir W. Scott.

Recover
Re•cov´er (r?•k?v"?r), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Recovered (-?rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Recovering. ] [OE. recoveren, OF. recovrer, F. recouvrer, from L. recuperare; pref. re- re + a word of unknown origin. Cf.Recuperate.]
1. To get or obtain again; to get renewed possession of; to win back; to regain.
"David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away." 1. Sam. xxx. 18.
2. To make good by reparation; to make up for; to retrieve; to repair the loss or injury of; as to recover lost time. "Loss of catel may recovered be." Chaucer.
"Even good men have many failings and lapses to lament and recover." Rogers.
3. To restore from sickness, faintness, or the like; to bring back to life or health; to cure; to heal.
"The wine in my bottle will recover him." Shak.
4. To overcome; to get the better of, — as a state of mind or body.
"I do hope to recover my late hurt." Cowley.
"When I had recovered a little my first surprise." De Foe.
5. To rescue; to deliver.
"That they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him." 2. Tim. ii. 26.
6. To gain by motion or effort; to obtain; to reach; to come to. [Archaic]
"The forest is not three leagues off; If we recover that, we’re sure enough." Shak.
"Except he could recover one of the Cities of Refuge he was to die." Hales.
7. (Law) To gain as a compensation; to obtain in return for injury or debt; as to recover damages in trespass; to recover debt and costs in a suit at law; to obtain title to by judgement in a court of law; as to recover lands in ejectment or common recovery; to gain by legal process; as to recover judgement against a defendant. Recover arms (Mil. Drill), a command whereby the piece is brought from the position of "aim" to that of "ready."
Syn. — To regain; repossess; resume; retrieve; recruit; heal; cure.

Recover
Re•cov´er (r?•k?v"?r), v. i.
1. To regain health after sickness; to grow well; to be restored or cured; hence, to regain a former state or condition after misfortune, alarm, etc.; — often followed by of or from; as to recover from a state of poverty; to recover from fright.
"Go, inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover of this disease." 2 Kings i. 2.
2. To make one’s way; to come; to arrive. [Obs.]
"With much ado the Christians recovered to Antioch." Fuller.
3. (Law) To obtain a judgement; to succeed in a lawsuit; as the plaintiff has recovered in his suit.

Recover
Re•cov´er, n. Recovery. Sir T. Malory.

Recoverable
Re•cov´er•a•ble (-?•b’l), a. [Cf. F. recouvrable.] Capable of being recovered or regained; capable of being brought back to a former condition, as from sickness, misfortune, etc.; obtainable from a debtor or possessor; as the debt is recoverable; goods lost or sunk in the ocean are not recoverable.
"A prodigal course Is like the sun’s; but not, like his, recoverable." Shak.
"If I am recoverable, why am I thus?" Cowper. — Re•cov´er•a•ble•ness, n.

Recoveree
Re•cov•er•ee´ (-e"), n. (Law) The person against whom a judgment is obtained in common recovery.

Recoverer
Re•cov´er•er (r?•k?v"?r•?r), n. One who recovers.

Recoveror
Re•cov•er•or´ (-?r), n. (Law) The demandant in a common recovery after judgment. Wharton.

Recovery
Re•cov´er•y (r?•k?v"?r•?), n.
1. The act of recovering, regaining, or retaking possession.
2. Restoration from sickness, weakness, faintness, or the like; restoration from a condition of mistortune, of fright, etc.
3. (Law) The obtaining in a suit at law of a right to something by a verdict and judgment of court.
4. The getting, or gaining, of something not previously had. [Obs.] "Help be past recovery." Tusser.
5. In rowing, the act of regaining the proper position for making a new stroke. Common recovery (Law), a species of common assurance or mode of conveying lands by matter of record, through the forms of an action at law, formerly in frequent use, but now abolished or obsolete, both in England and America. Burrill. Warren.

Recovery
Re•cov´er•y, n.
1. Act of regaining the natural position after curtseying.
2. (Fencing, Sparring, etc.) Act of regaining the position of guard after making an attack.

Recreance
Rec´re•ance (r?k"r?•?ns), n. Recreancy.

Recreancy
Rec´re•an•cy (- an•s?), n. The quality or state of being recreant.

Recreant
Rec´re•ant (- ant), a. [OF., cowardly, fr. recroire, recreire, to forsake, leave, tire, discourage, regard as conquered, LL. recredere se to declare one’s self conquered in combat; hence, those are called recrediti or recreanti who are considered infamous; L. pref. re- again, back + credere to believe, to be of opinion; hence, originally, to disavow one’s opinion. See Creed.]
1. Crying for mercy, as a combatant in the trial by battle; yielding; cowardly; mean-spirited; craven. "This recreant knight." Spenser.
2. Apostate; false; unfaithful.
"Who, for so many benefits received, Turned recreant to God, ingrate and false." Milton.

Recreant
Rec´re•ant, n. One who yields in combat, and begs for mercy; a mean-spirited, cowardly wretch. Blackstone.
"You are all recreants and dastards!" Shak.

Recreate
Rec´re•ate (rk"r•t), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Recreated (-•td); p. pr. & vb. n. Recreating.] [L. recreatus, p. p. of recreate to create anew, to refresh; pref. re- re- + creare to create. See Create.] To give fresh life to; to reanimate; to revive; especially, to refresh after wearying toil or anxiety; to relieve; to cheer; to divert; to amuse; to gratify.
"Painters, when they work on white grounds, place before them colors mixed with blue and green, to recreate their eyes, white wearying … the sight more than any." Dryden.
"St. John, who recreated himself with sporting with a tame partridge." Jer. Taylor.
"These ripe fruits recreate the nostrils with their aromatic scent." Dr. H. More.

Recreate
Rec´re•ate, v. i. To take recreation. L. Addison.

Re-create
Re•-cre•ate´ (r?•kr?•?t"), v. t. [Pref. re- + create.] To create or form anew.
"On opening the campaign of 1776, instead of reënforcing, it was necessary to re-create, the army." Marshall.

Recreation
Rec´re•a´tion (-?"sh?n), n. [F. recreation, L. recreatio.] The act of recreating, or the state of being recreated; refreshment of the strength and spirits after toil; amusement; diversion; sport; pastime.

Re-creation
Re•-cre•a´tion (r?•kr?•?sh?n), n. [See Re-create.] A forming anew; a new creation or formation.

Recrement
Rec´re•ment (r?k"r?•m ent), n. [L. recrementum; pref. re- re- + cernere, cretum, to separate, sift: cf. F. recrement.]
1. Superfluous matter separated from that which is useful; dross; scoria; as the recrement of ore.
2. (Med.) (a) Excrement. [Obs.] (a) A substance secreted from the blood and again absorbed by it.

Recremental
Rec•re•men´tal (-m?n"t al), a. Recrementitious.

Recrementitial
Rec•re•men•ti´tial (-m?n•t?sh"al), a. [Cf. F. recrementitiel.] (Med.) Of the nature of a recrement. See Recrement, 2 (b). "Recrementitial fluids." Dunglison.

Recriminate
Re•crim´i•nate (r?•kr?m"?•n?t), v. i. [Pref. re- + criminate: cf. F. recriminer, LL. recriminare.] To return one charge or accusation with another; to charge back fault or crime upon an accuser.
"It is not my business to recriminate, hoping sufficiently to clear myself in this matter." Bp. Stillingfleet.

Recriminate
Re•crim´i•nate, v. t. To accuse in return. South.

Recrimination
Re•crim•i•na´tion (-n?"sh?n), n. [F. recrimination, LL. recriminatio.] The act of recriminating; an accusation brought by the accused against the accuser; a counter accusation.
"Accusations and recriminations passed backward and forward between the contending parties." Macaulay.

Recriminative
Re•crim´i•na•tive (-n?•t?v), a. Recriminatory.

Recriminator
Re•crim´i•na•tor (-n?•t?r), n. One who recriminates.

Recriminatory
Re•crim´i•na•to•ry (-n?•t?•r?), a. [Cf. F. recriminatoire.] Having the quality of recrimination; retorting accusation; recriminating.

Recross
Re•cross´ (r?•kr?s";115), v. t. To cross a second time.

Recrudency
Re•cru´den•cy (re•kru"d en•sy), n. Recrudescence. { Re•cru•des´cence (r?•kr?•d?s"s ens), Re•cru•des•cen•cy (-d?s"s en•s?), } n. [Cf. F. recrudescence.]
1. The state or condition of being recrudescent.
"A recrudescence of barbarism may condemn it [land] to chronic poverty and waste." Duke of Argyll.
2. (Med.) Increased severity of a disease after temporary remission. Dunglison.

Recrudesce
Re•cru•desce´, v. i. [See Recrudescent.] To be in a state of recrudescence; esp., to come into renewed freshness, vigor, or activity; to revive.
"The general influence … which is liable every now and then to recrudesce in his absence." Edmund Gurney.

Recruit
Re•cruit´ (r?•kr?t"), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Recruited; p. pr. & vb. n. Recruiting.] [F. recruter, corrupted (under influence of recrue recruiting, recruit, from recroî/tre, p. p. recrû, to grow again) from an older recluter, properly, to patch, to mend (a garment); pref. re- + OF. clut piece, piece of cloth; cf. Icel. klutr kerchief, E. clout.]
1. To repair by fresh supplies, as anything wasted; to remedy lack or deficiency in; as food recruits the flesh; fresh air and exercise recruit the spirits.
"Her cheeks glow the brighter, recruiting their color." Glanvill.
2. Hence, to restore the wasted vigor of; to renew in strength or health; to reinvigorate.
3. To supply with new men, as an army; to fill up or make up by enlistment; as he recruited two regiments; the army was recruited for a campaign; also to muster; to enlist; as he recruited fifty men. M. Arnold.