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Remain(n.) State of remaining
(v. i.) To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity
(v. t.) To await
Remake(v. t.) To make anew.
Remand(n.) The act of remanding
(v. t.) To recommit
Remark(n.) Act of remarking or attentively noticing
(v. i.) To make a remark or remarks
Remedial(a.) Affording a remedy
Remedy(n.) That which corrects or counteracts an evil of any kind
Remember(v. i.) To execise or have the power of memory
(v. t.) To be capable of recalling when required
Remembrance(n.) Power of remembering
Remind(v. t.) To put (one) in mind of something
Reminiscence(n.) That which is remembered, or recalled to mind
Reminiscent(a.) Recalling to mind, or capable of recalling to mind
(n.) One who is addicted to indulging, narrating, or recording reminiscences.
Remise(n.) A giving or granting back
(v. t.) To send, give, or grant back
Remiss(a.) Not energetic or exact in duty or business
(n.) The act of being remiss
Remit(v. i.) To abate in force or in violence
(v. t.) To forgive
Remix(v. t.) To mix again or repeatedly.
Remnant(a.) An unsold end of piece goods, as cloth, ribbons, carpets, etc.
Remodel(v. t.) To model or fashion anew
Remonetize(v. t.) To restore to use as money
Remonstrance(n.) A pointing out
Remonstrant(a.) Inclined or tending to remonstrate
(n.) one of the Arminians who remonstrated against the attacks of the Calvinists in 1610, but were subsequently condemned by the decisions of the Synod of Dort in 1618
Remonstrate(v. i.) To present and urge reasons in opposition to an act, measure, or any course of proceedings
(v. t.) To point out
Remora(n.) An instrument formerly in use, intended to retain parts in their places.
Remorse(n.) Sympathetic sorrow
Remote(superl.) Hence, removed
Remount(n.) The opportunity of, or things necessary for, remounting
(v. t. & i.) To mount again.
Removable(a.) Admitting of being removed.
Removal(n.) The act of removing, or the state of being removed.
Remove(n.) That which is removed, as a dish removed from table to make room for something else.
(v. i.) To change place in any manner, or to make a change in place
(v. t.) To cause to leave a person or thing
Remunerate(v. t.) To pay an equivalent to for any service, loss, expense, or other sacrifice
Remuneration(n.) That which is given to remunerate
Remunerative(a.) Affording remuneration
Renaissance(n.) A new birth, or revival.
Renal(a.) Of or pertaining to the kidneys
Rencounter(n.) A causal combat or action
(v. i.) To meet unexpectedly
(v. t.) To attack hand to hand.
Rend(v. i.) To be rent or torn
(v. t.) To part or tear off forcibly
Renegade(n.) A common vagabond
Renege(v. i.) To deny.
(v. t.) To deny
Renew(v. i.) To become new, or as new
(v. t.) Specifically, to substitute for (an old obligation or right) a new one of the same nature
Reniform(a.) Having the form or shape of a kidney
Renitent(a.) Persistently opposed.
Rennet(n.) A name of many different kinds of apples. Cf. Reinette.
(v.) The inner, or mucous, membrane of the fourth stomach of the calf, or other young ruminant
Rennin(n.) A milk-clotting enzyme obtained from the true stomach (abomasum) of a suckling calf. Mol. wt
Renounce(n.) Act of renouncing.
(v. i.) To decline formally, as an executor or a person entitled to letters of administration, to take out probate or letters
(v. t.) To cast off or reject deliberately
Renovate(v. t.) To make over again
Renown(v.) Report of nobleness or exploits
(v. t.) To make famous
Rent(imp. & p. p.) of Rend
(n.) A certain periodical profit, whether in money, provisions, chattels, or labor, issuing out of lands and tenements in payment for the use
(v. i.) To be leased, or let for rent
(v. t.) To tear.
Renunciation(n.) Formal declination to take out letters of administration, or to assume an office, privilege, or right
Reopen(v. t. & i.) To open again.
Reorder(v. t.) To order a second time.
Reorganization(n.) The act of reorganizing
Reorganize(v. t. & i.) To organize again or anew
Reorient(a.) Rising again.
Rep(a.) Formed with a surface closely corded, or ribbed transversely
(n.) A fabric made of silk or wool, or of silk and wool, and having a transversely corded or ribbed surface
Repaid(imp. & p. p.) of Repay
Repair(n.) Condition with respect to soundness, perfectness, etc.
(v. i.) To go
(v. t.) To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent
Repand(a.) Having a slightly undulating margin
Reparable(a.) Capable of being repaired, restored to a sound or good state, or made good
Reparation(n.) The act of making amends or giving satisfaction or compensation for a wrong, injury, etc
Repartee(n.) A smart, ready, and witty reply.
(v. i.) To make smart and witty replies.
Repast(n.) That which is taken as food
(v. t. & i.) To supply food to
Repatriate(v. t.) To restore to one's own country.
Repay(v. t.) To make return or requital for
Repeal(n.) Recall, as from exile.
(v. t.) To recall, as a deed, will, law, or statute
Repeat(n.) A mark, or series of dots, placed before and after, or often only at the end of, a passage to be repeated in performance
(v. t.) To go over again
Repel(v. i.) To act with force in opposition to force impressed
(v. t.) To drive back
Repent(a.) Prostrate and rooting
(v. i.) To be sorry for sin as morally evil, and to seek forgiveness
(v. t.) To cause to have sorrow or regret
Repercussion(n.) In a vaginal examination, the act of imparting through the uterine wall with the finger a shock to the fetus, so that it bounds upward, and falls back again against the examining finger
Repertoire(n.) A list of dramas, operas, pieces, parts, etc., which a company or a person has rehearsed and is prepared to perform
Repertory(n.) A place in which things are disposed in an orderly manner, so that they can be easily found, as the index of a book, a commonplace book, or the like
Repetend(n.) That part of a circulating decimal which recurs continually, ad infinitum:—sometimes indicated by a dot over the first and last figures
Repetition(n.) Recital from memory
Repetitious(a.) Repeating
Repetitive(a.) Containing repetition
Repine(n.) Vexation
(v. i.) To continue pining
Replace(v. t.) To place again
Replant(v. t.) To plant again.
Replenish(v. i.) To recover former fullness.
(v. t.) To fill again after having been diminished or emptied
Replete(a.) Filled again
(v. t.) To fill completely, or to satiety.
Repletion(n.) Fullness of blood
Replevin(n.) A personal action which lies to recover possession of goods and chattle wrongfully taken or detained
(v. t.) To replevy.
Replevy(n.) Replevin.
(v. t.) To bail.
Replica(v. & n.) A copy of a work of art, as of a picture or statue, made by the maker of the original
Reply(v. i.) Figuratively, to do something in return for something done
(v. t.) To return for an answer.
Report(v. i.) To furnish in writing an account of a speech, the proceedings at a meeting, the particulars of an occurrence, etc
(v. t.) An account or statement of a judicial opinion or decision, or of case argued and determined in a court of law, chancery, etc
Repose(v.) A lying at rest
(v. i.) Figuratively, to remain or abide restfully without anxiety or alarms.
Reposit(v. t.) To cause to rest or stay
Repossess(v. t.) To possess again
Reprehend(v. t.) To reprove or reprimand with a view of restraining, checking, or preventing
Reprehensible(a.) Worthy of reprehension
Reprehension(n.) Reproof
Represent(v. t.) To bring a sensation of into the mind or sensorium
(v. t.) To present again or anew
Repress(n.) The act of repressing.
(v. t.) Hence, to check
Reprieve(n.) A temporary suspension of the execution of a sentence, especially of a sentence of death
(v. t.) To delay the punishment of
Reprimand(n.) Severe or formal reproof
Reprint(n.) A second or a new impression or edition of any printed work
(v. t.) To print again
Reprisal(n.) Any act of retaliation.
Reprise(n.) A ship recaptured from an enemy or from a pirate.
(v. t.) To recompense
Reproach(v.) A cause of blame or censure
(v. t.) To attribute blame to
Reprobate(a.) Abandoned to punishment
(n.) One morally abandoned and lost.
(v. t.) To abandon to punishment without hope of pardon.
Reprobation(n.) The act of reprobating
Reproduce(v. t.) To bring forward again
Reproduction(n.) That which is reproduced.
Reproductive(a.) Tending, or pertaining, to reproduction
Reproof(n.) An expression of blame or censure
Reprove(v. t.) To chide to the face as blameworthy
Reptant(a.) Creeping
Reptilian(a.) Belonging to the reptiles.
(n.) One of the Reptilia
Republic(a.) A state in which the sovereign power resides in the whole body of the people, and is exercised by representatives elected by them
Republish(v. t.) To publish anew
Repudiate(v. t.) To cast off
Repudiation(n.) One who favors repudiation, especially of a public debt.
Repugn(v. t.) To fight against
Repulse(n.) Figuratively: Refusal
(v. t.) To repel
Repulsion(n.) A feeling of violent offence or disgust
Repulsive(a.) Cold
Reputable(a.) Having, or worthy of, good repute
Reputation(v. t.) Account
Repute(n.) Character reputed or attributed
(v. t.) To hold in thought
Request(n.) A state of being desired or held in such estimation as to be sought after or asked for
(v. t.) To address with a request
Requiem(n.) A mass said or sung for the repose of a departed soul.
Require(v. t.) To ask as a favor
Requisite(a.) Required by the nature of things, or by circumstances
(n.) That which is required, or is necessary
Requisition(n.) A demand by the invader upon the people of an invaded country for supplies, as of provision, forage, transportation, etc
(v. t.) To make a reqisition on or for
Requital(n.) The act of requiting
Requite(v. t.) To repay
Reredos(n.) A screen or partition wall behind an altar.
Res(n.) A thing
Resale(n.) A sale at second hand, or at retail
Rescind(v. t.) Specifically, to vacate or make void, as an act, by the enacting authority or by superior authority
Rescission(n.) The act of rescinding, abrogating, annulling, or vacating
Rescissory(a.) Tending to rescind
Rescript(v. t.) A counterpart.
Rescue(v.) The act of rescuing
(v. t.) To free or deliver from any confinement, violence, danger, or evil
Research(n.) Diligent inquiry or examination in seeking facts or principles
(v. t.) To search or examine with continued care
Reseat(v. t.) To put a new seat, or new seats, in
Reseau(n.) A network
Resect(v. t.) To cut or pare off
Reseda(n.) A genus of plants, the type of which is mignonette.
Resemblance(n.) A comparison
Resemble(v. t.) To be like or similar to
Resend(v. t.) To send again
Resent(v. i.) To feel resentment.
(v. t.) In a bad sense, to take ill
Reservation(n.) A clause in an instrument by which some new thing is reserved out of the thing granted, and not in esse before
Reserve(n.) A body of troops in the rear of an army drawn up for battle, reserved to support the other lines as occasion may require
(v. t.) Hence, to keep in store for future or special use
Reservist(n.) A member of a reserve force of soldiers or militia.
Reservoir(n.) A place where anything is kept in store
Reset(n.) That which is reset
(v. t.) To harbor or secrete
Reshape(v. t.) To shape again.
Reside(v. i.) To dwell permanently or for a considerable time
Residual(a.) Pertaining to a residue
(n.) The difference between the mean of several observations and any one of them.
Residuary(a.) Consisting of residue
Residue(n.) Any positive or negative number that differs from a given number by a multiple of a given modulus
Residuum(n.) That which is left after any process of separation or purification
Re sign(n.) Resignation.
Resign(v. t.) To commit to the care of
Resile(v. i.) To start back
Resilient(a.) Leaping back
Resin(n.) Any one of a class of yellowish brown solid inflammable substances, of vegetable origin, which are nonconductors of electricity, have a vitreous fracture, and are soluble in ether, alcohol, and essential oils, but not in water
Resist(n.) A substance applied to a surface, as of metal, to prevent the action on it of acid or other chemical agent
(v. i.) To make opposition.
(v. t.) To be distasteful to.
Resoluble(a.) Admitting of being resolved
Resolute(n.) One who is resolute
(v. t. & i.) Convinced
Resolution(n.) A breaking up, disappearance
Resolve(n.) That which has been resolved on or determined
(v. i.) To be separated into its component parts or distinct principles
Resonance(n.) An electric phenomenon corresponding to that of acoustic resonance, due to the existance of certain relations of the capacity, inductance, resistance, and frequency of an alternating circuit
Resonant(a.) Adjusted as to dimensions (as an electric circuit) so that currents or electric surgings are produced by the passage of electric waves of a given frequency
Resonator(n.) An open box for containing a sounder and designed to concentrate and amplify the sound.
Resorb(v. t.) To swallow up.
Resorption(n.) The act of resorbing
Resort(n.) Active power or movement
(v.) A place to which one betakes himself habitually
(v. i.) To fall back
Resound(n.) Return of sound
(v. i.) To be echoed
(v. t.) To praise or celebrate with the voice, or the sound of instruments
Resource(n.) Pecuniary means
Respect(v.) An expression of respect of deference
(v. t.) To consider worthy of esteem
Respell(v. t.) To spell again.
Respirable(a.) Suitable for being breathed
Respiration(n.) Interval
Respirator(n.) A divice of gauze or wire, covering the mouth or nose, to prevent the inhalation of noxious substances, as dust or smoke
Respire(v. i.) To breathe
(v. t.) To breathe in and out
Respite(n.) A putting off of that which was appointed
Resplendent(a.) Shining with brilliant luster
Respond(n.) A half pier or pillar attached to a wall to support an arch.
(v. i.) To render satisfaction
(v. t.) To answer
Response(n.) A kind of anthem sung after the lessons of matins and some other parts of the office.
Responsibility(n.) Ability to answer in payment
Responsible(a.) Able to respond or answer for one's conduct and obligations
Responsive(a.) Responsible.
Responsory(a.) Containing or making answer
(n.) An antiphonary
Rest(n.) A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode
(v. i.) To be left
(v. t.) To arrest.
Result(n.) A flying back
(v. i.) To come out, or have an issue
Resume(n.) A summing up
(v. t.) To begin again
Resumption(n.) The act of resuming
Resupinate(a.) Inverted in position
Resurgent(a.) Rising again, as from the dead.
(n.) One who rises again, as from the dead.
Resurrect(v. t.) To reanimate
Resuscitate(a.) Restored to life.
(v. i.) To come to life again
(v. t.) To revivify
Resuscitator(n.) One who, or that which, resuscitates.
Retable(n.) A shelf behind the altar, for display of lights, vases of wlowers, etc.
Retail(a.) Done at retail
(n.) To distribute in small portions or at second hand
(v.) The sale of commodities in small quantities or parcels
Retain(v. i.) To belong
(v. t.) To continue to hold
Retake(v. t.) To take from a captor
Retaliate(v. i.) To return like for like
(v. t.) To return the like for
Retch(v. i.) To make an effort to vomit
(v. t. & i.) To care for
Rete(n.) A net or network
Reticence(n.) A figure by which a person really speaks of a thing while he makes a show as if he would say nothingon the subject
Reticent(a.) Inclined to keep silent
Reticle(n.) A reticule.
Reticular(a.) Having the form of a net, or of network
Reticule(n..) A little bag, originally of network
Reticulum(n.) The neuroglia.
Retina(n.) The delicate membrane by which the back part of the globe of the eye is lined, and in which the fibers of the optic nerve terminate
Retinite(n.) An inflammable mineral resin, usually of a yellowish brown color, found in roundish masses, sometimes with coal
Retinitis(n.) Inflammation of the retina.
Retinol(n.) A hydrocarbon oil obtained by the distillation of resin
Retinoscopy(n.) The study of the retina of the eye by means of the ophthalmoscope.
Retinue(n.) The body of retainers who follow a prince or other distinguished person
Retire(n.) A call sounded on a bugle, announcing to skirmishers that they are to retire, or fall back
(v. i.) To go back or return
(v. t.) To cause to retire
Retiring(a.) Of or pertaining to retirement
Retort(n.) To bend or curve back
(v. i.) To return an argument or a charge
(v. t.) A vessel in which substances are subjected to distillation or decomposition by heat. It is made of different forms and materials for different uses, as a bulb of glass with a curved beak to enter a receiver for general chemical operations, or a cylinder or semicylinder of cast iron for the manufacture of gas in gas works
Retouch(n.) A partial reworking,as of a painting, a sculptor's clay model, or the like.
(v. t.) To correct or change, as a negative, by handwork.
Retrace(v. t.) To go back, in or over (a previous course)
Retract(n.) The pricking of a horse's foot in nailing on a shoe.
(v. i.) To draw back
(v. t.) To draw back
Retread(v. t. & i.) To tread again.
Retreat(n.) A period of several days of withdrawal from society to a religious house for exclusive occupation in the duties of devotion
(v. i.) To make a retreat
Retrench(v. i.) To cause or suffer retrenchment
(v. t.) To confine
Retrial(n.) A secdond trial, experiment, or test
Retribution(n.) Specifically, reward and punishment, as distributed at the general judgment.
Retrieval(n.) The act retrieving.
Retrieve(n.) A seeking again
(v. i.) To discover and bring in game that has been killed or wounded
(v. t.) To find again
Retroaction(n.) Action returned, or action backward.
Retroactive(a.) Fitted or designed to retroact
Retrocede(v. i.) To go back.
(v. t.) To cede or grant back
Retrochoir(n.) Any extension of a church behind the high altar, as a chapel
Retroflexion(n.) The act of reflexing
Retrograde(a.) Apparently moving backward, and contrary to the succession of the signs, that is, from east to west, as a planet
(v. i.) Hence, to decline from a better to a worse condition, as in morals or intelligence.
Retrogress(n.) Retrogression.
Retrorse(a.) Bent backward or downward.
Retrospect(n.) A looking back on things past
(v. i.) To look backward
Retroversion(n.) A turning or bending backward
Retry(v. t.) To try (esp. judicially) a second time
Return(n.) A day in bank.
(v. i.) To come back, or begin again, after an interval, regular or irregular
(v. t.) Hence, to elect according to the official report of the election officers.
Retuse(a.) Having the end rounded and slightly indented
Reunion(n.) An assembling of persons who have been separated, as of a family, or the members of a disbanded regiment
Reunite(v. t. & i.) To unite again
Revamp(v. t.) To vamp again
Reveal(n.) A revealing
(v. t.) Specifically, to communicate (that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural instruction or agency)
Reveille(n.) The beat of drum, or bugle blast, about break of day, to give notice that it is time for the soldiers to rise, and for the sentinels to forbear challenging
Revel(v. i.) A feast with loose and noisy jollity
(v. t.) To draw back
Revenge(n.) The act of revenging
(v. i.) To take vengeance
(v. t.) To inflict harm in return for, as an injury, insult, etc.
Revenue(n.) Hence, return
Reverb(v. t.) To echo.
Revere(v. t.) To regard with reverence, or profound respect and affection, mingled with awe or fear
Revers(n.) A part turned or folded back so as to show the inside, or a piece put on in imitation of such a part, as the lapel of a coat
Revert(n.) One who, or that which, reverts.
(v. i.) To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse
(v. t.) To change back.
Revest(v. i.) To take effect or vest again, as a title
(v. t.) To clothe again
Revet(v. t.) To face, as an embankment, with masonry, wood, or other material.
Review(n.) A critical examination of a publication, with remarks
(v. i.) To look back
Revile(n.) Reproach
(v. t. & i.) To address or abuse with opprobrious and contemptuous language
Revise(n.) A review
(v. t.) To compare (a proof) with a previous proof of the same matter, and mark again such errors as have not been corrected in the type
Revision(n.) That which is made by revising.
Revisit(v. t.) To revise.
Revisory(a.) Having the power or purpose to revise
Revitalize(v. t.) To restore vitality to
Revival(n.) Reanimation from a state of langour or depression
Revive(v. i.) Hence, to recover from a state of neglect or disuse
Revivify(v. t.) To cause to revive.
Revocable(a.) Capable of being revoked
Revocation(n.) The act by which one, having the right, annuls an act done, a power or authority given, or a license, gift, or benefit conferred
Revoke(n.) The act of revoking.
(v. i.) To fail to follow suit when holding a card of the suit led, in violation of the rule of the game
(v. t.) Hence, to annul, by recalling or taking back
Revolt(n.) A revolter.
(v. t.) To cause to turn back
Revolute(a.) Rolled backward or downward.
Revolution(n.) A fundamental change in political organization, or in a government or constitution
Revolve(v. i.) To move in a curved path round a center
(v. t.) Hence, to turn over and over in the mind
Revulsion(n.) A strong pulling or drawing back
Rewake(v. t. & i.) To wake again.
Reward(n.) Compensation or remuneration for services
(v. t.) To give in return, whether good or evil
Reword(v. t.) To alter the wording of
Rewrite(v. t.) To write again.
Rex(n.) A king.
Rhabdom(n.) One of numerous minute rodlike structures formed of two or more cells situated behind the retinulae in the compound eyes of insects, etc
Rhadamanthus(n.) One of the three judges of the infernal regions
Rhapsode(n.) A rhapsodist.
Rhapsodist(n.) Anciently, one who recited or composed a rhapsody
Rhapsodize(v. i.) To utter rhapsodies.
(v. t.) To utter as a rhapsody, or in the manner of a rhapsody
Rhapsody(n.) A composition irregular in form, like an improvisation
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