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Raze
  • (n.) A Shakespearean word (used once) supposed to mean the same as race, a root.
  • (v. t.) To erase

    Razor
  • (v. t.) A keen-edged knife of peculiar shape, used in shaving the hair from the face or the head

    Reach
  • (n.) An artifice to obtain an advantage.
  • (v. i.) To extend in dimension, time, amount, action, influence, etc., so as to touch, attain to, or be equal to, something
  • (v. t.) Hence, to deliver by stretching out a member, especially the hand

    React
  • (v. i.) To act upon each other
  • (v. t.) To act or perform a second time

    Read
  • (a.) Instructed or knowing by reading
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Read
  • (n.) Rennet.
  • (v.) Reading.
  • (v. i.) To appear in writing or print
  • (v. t.) Hence, to know fully

    Reagent
  • (n.) A substance capable of producing with another a reaction, especially when employed to detect the presence of other bodies

    Real
  • (a.) Actually being or existing
  • (n.) A realist.

    Ream
  • (n.) A bundle, package, or quantity of paper, usually consisting of twenty quires or 480 sheets.
  • (v. i.) To cream
  • (v. t.) To bevel out, as the mouth of a hole in wood or metal

    Reap
  • (v.) A bundle of grain
  • (v. i.) To perform the act or operation of reaping
  • (v. t.) To clear of a crop by reaping

    Rear
  • (a.) Being behind, or in the hindmost part
  • (adv.) Early
  • (n.) Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest
  • (v. i.) To rise up on the hind legs, as a horse
  • (v. t.) To breed and raise

    Reason
  • (n.) A thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion
  • (v. t.) To arrange and present the reasons for or against

    Reassure
  • (v. t.) To assure anew

    Reata
  • (n.) A lariat.

    Reave
  • (v. i.) To take away by violence or by stealth

    Rebate
  • (n.) A kind of hard freestone used in making pavements.
  • (v. i.) To abate
  • (v. t.) To beat to obtuseness

    Rebec
  • (n.) A contemptuous term applied to an old woman.

    Rebel
  • (n.) One who rebels.
  • (v. i.) Pertaining to rebels or rebellion

    Reborn
  • (p. p.) Born again.

    Rebound
  • (n.) The act of rebounding
  • (v. i.) To bound again or repeatedly, as a horse.
  • (v. t.) To send back

    Rebozo
  • (n.) A kind of mantilla worn by women over the head and shoulders, and sometimes over part of the face

    Rebuff
  • (n.) Repercussion, or beating back
  • (v. t.) To beat back

    Rebuild
  • (v. t.) To build again, as something which has been demolished

    Rebuke
  • (n.) A direct and pointed reproof
  • (v. t.) To check, silence, or put down, with reproof

    Rebus
  • (n.) A mode of expressing words and phrases by pictures of objects whose names resemble those words, or the syllables of which they are composed
  • (v. t.) To mark or indicate by a rebus.

    Rebut
  • (v. i.) To make, or put in, an answer, as to a plaintiff's surrejoinder.
  • (v. t.) To contradict, meet, or oppose by argument, plea, or countervailing proof.

    Recalcitrant
  • (a.) Kicking back

    Recall
  • (n.) A calling back
  • (v. t.) To call back

    Recant
  • (v. i.) To revoke a declaration or proposition
  • (v. t.) To withdraw or repudiate formally and publicly (opinions formerly expressed)

    Recapitulate
  • (v. i.) To sum up, or enumerate by heads or topics, what has been previously said
  • (v. t.) To repeat, as the principal points in a discourse, argument, or essay

    Recapitulation
  • (n.) The act of recapitulating

    Recaption
  • (n.) The act of retaking, as of one who has escaped after arrest

    Recapture
  • (n.) That which is captured back
  • (v. t.) To capture again

    Recast
  • (v. t.) To compute, or cast up, a second time.

    Recede
  • (v. i.) To cede back

    Receipt
  • (n.) A formulary according to the directions of which things are to be taken or combined
  • (v. i.) To give a receipt, as for money paid.
  • (v. t.) To give a receipt for

    Receivable
  • (a.) Capable of being received.

    Receive
  • (v. i.) To receive visitors
  • (v. t.) Hence: To gain the knowledge of

    Recension
  • (n.) Specifically, the review of a text (as of an ancient author) by an editor

    Recent
  • (a.) Of late origin, existence, or occurrence

    Receptacle
  • (n.) An intercellular cavity containing oil or resin or other matters.

    Reception
  • (n.) Acceptance, as of an opinion or doctrine.

    Receptive
  • (a.) Having the quality of receiving

    Recess
  • (n.) A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.
  • (v. t.) To make a recess in

    Recharge
  • (v. t. & i.) To attack again

    Recidivism
  • (n.) a falling back or relapse into prior criminal habits, esp. after conviction and punishment

    Recipe
  • (n.) A formulary or prescription for making some combination, mixture, or preparation of materials

    Recipient
  • (a.) Receiving
  • (n.) A receiver

    Reciprocal
  • (a.) Done by each to the other
  • (n.) That which is reciprocal to another thing.

    Reciprocate
  • (v. i.) To move forward and backward alternately
  • (v. t.) To give and return mutually

    Reciprocity
  • (n.) Mutual action and reaction.

    Recision
  • (n.) The act of cutting off.

    Recital
  • (n.) A telling in detail and due order of the particulars of anything, as of a law, an adventure, or a series of events

    Recitation
  • (n.) The act of reciting

    Recitative
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to recitation
  • (n.) A species of musical recitation in which the words are delivered in a manner resembling that of ordinary declamation

    Recite
  • (n.) A recital.
  • (v. i.) To repeat, pronounce, or rehearse, as before an audience, something prepared or committed to memory
  • (v. t.) To rehearse, as a lesson to an instructor.

    Reck
  • (v. i.) To make account
  • (v. t.) To concern

    Reclaim
  • (n.) The act of reclaiming, or the state of being reclaimed
  • (v. i.) To bring anyone back from evil courses
  • (v. t.) Hence: To reduce to a desired state by discipline, labor, cultivation, or the like

    Reclamation
  • (n.) Representation made in opposition

    Reclinate
  • (a.) Reclined, as a leaf

    Recline
  • (v. i.) To assume, or to be in, a recumbent position
  • (v. t.) Having a reclining posture

    Recluse
  • (a.) A person who lives in seclusion from intercourse with the world, as a hermit or monk
  • (v. t.) To shut up

    Reclusive
  • (a.) Affording retirement from society.

    Recognition
  • (n.) The act of recognizing, or the state of being recognized

    Recognizance
  • (n.) Acknowledgment of a person or thing

    Recognize
  • (v. i.) To enter an obligation of record before a proper tribunal
  • (v. t.) To acknowledge acquaintance with, as by salutation, bowing, or the like.

    Recoil
  • (n.) A starting or falling back
  • (v. i.) To draw back, as from anything repugnant, distressing, alarming, or the like
  • (v. t.) To draw or go back.

    Recollect
  • (n.) A friar of the Strict Observance
  • (v. t.) Reflexively, to compose one's self
  • (v. t.) To recover or recall the knowledge of

    Recombination
  • (n.) Combination a second or additional time.

    Recombine
  • (v. t.) To combine again.

    Recommend
  • (v. t.) To commend to the favorable notice of another

    Recommit
  • (v. t.) To commit again

    Recompense
  • (n.) An equivalent returned for anything done, suffered, or given
  • (v. i.) To give recompense
  • (v. t.) To give in return

    Recompose
  • (v. t.) To compose again

    Reconcile
  • (v. i.) To become reconciled.
  • (v. t.) To adjust

    Reconciliation
  • (n.) Reduction to congruence or consistency

    Recondite
  • (a.) Dealing in things abstruse

    Reconfirm
  • (v. t.) To confirm anew.

    Reconnaissance
  • (n.) 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

    Reconnoitre
  • (v. t.) To examine with the eye to make a preliminary examination or survey of

    Reconsider
  • (v. t.) To consider again

    Reconstruct
  • (v. t.) To construct again

    Reconvene
  • (v. t. & i.) To convene or assemble again

    Reconvey
  • (v. t.) To convey back or to the former place

    Record
  • (v. i.) To reflect
  • (v. t.) 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

    Recount
  • (n.) A counting again, as of votes.
  • (v.) To tell over
  • (v. t.) To count or reckon again.

    Recourse
  • (n.) Access
  • (v. i.) To have recourse

    Recover
  • (n.) Recovery.
  • (v. i.) To make one's way
  • (v. t.) To cover again.

    Recreant
  • (a.) Apostate
  • (n.) One who yields in combat, and begs for mercy

    Recreate
  • (v. i.) To take recreation.
  • (v. t.) To give fresh life to

    Recreation
  • (n.) The act of recreating, or the state of being recreated

    Recriminate
  • (v. i.) To return one charge or accusation with another
  • (v. t.) To accuse in return.

    Recrimination
  • (n.) The act of recriminating

    Recrudesce
  • (v. i.) To be in a state of recrudescence

    Recruit
  • (n.) A supply of anything wasted or exhausted
  • (v. i.) To gain new supplies of anything wasted
  • (v. t.) Hence, to restore the wasted vigor of

    Recrystallize
  • (v. i. & t.) To crystallize again.

    Rectal
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the rectum

    Rectangle
  • (a.) Rectangular.
  • (n.) A four-sided figure having only right angles

    Rectangular
  • (a.) Right-angled

    Rectifier
  • (n.) One who, or that which, rectifies.

    Rectify
  • (v. t.) To make or set right

    Rectilinear
  • (a.) Straight

    Rectitude
  • (n.) Right judgment.

    Recto
  • (n.) A writ of right.

    Rectrix
  • (n.) A governess

    Rectum
  • (n.) The terminal part of the large intestine

    Rectus
  • (n.) A straight muscle

    Recumbent
  • (a.) Leaning

    Recuperate
  • (v. i.) To recover health
  • (v. t.) To recover

    Recur
  • (v. i.) To come back

    Recusant
  • (a.) Obstinate in refusal
  • (n.) A person who refuses to acknowledge the supremacy of the king in matters of religion

    Recuse
  • (v. t.) To refuse or reject, as a judge

    Red
  • (a.) The menses.
  • (n.) An abbreviation for Red Republican.
  • (superl.) Of the color of blood, or of a tint resembling that color
  • (v. t.) To put on order

    Redact
  • (v. t.) To reduce to form, as literary matter

    Redan
  • (n.) A step or vertical offset in a wall on uneven ground, to keep the parts level.

    Redback
  • (n.) The dunlin.

    Redbird
  • (n.) The cardinal bird.

    Redbreast
  • (n.) The American robin.

    Redbud
  • (n.) A small ornamental leguminous tree of the American species of the genus Cercis.

    Redcap
  • (n.) A specter having long teeth, popularly supposed to haunt old castles in Scotland.

    Redcoat
  • (n.) One who wears a red coat

    Redden
  • (a.) To make red or somewhat red
  • (v. i.) To grow or become red

    Reddish
  • (a.) Somewhat red

    Reddle
  • (n.) Red chalk.

    Rede
  • (n.) Advice
  • (v. t.) To advise or counsel.

    Redfin
  • (n.) A small North American dace (Minnilus cornutus, or Notropis megalops). The male, in the breeding season, has bright red fins

    Redfish
  • (n.) A large California labroid food fish (Trochocopus pulcher)

    Redhead
  • (n.) A kind of milkweed (Asclepias Curassavica) with red flowers. It is used in medicine.

    Redia
  • (n.) A kind of larva, or nurse, which is prroduced within the sporocyst of certain trematodes by asexual generation

    Redingote
  • (n.) A long plain double-breasted outside coat for women.

    Redirect
  • (a.) Applied to the examination of a witness, by the party calling him, after the cross-examination

    Rediscover
  • (v. t.) To discover again.

    Redistribute
  • (v. t.) To distribute again.

    Redivivus
  • (a.) Living again

    Redolent
  • (a.) Diffusing odor or fragrance

    Redouble
  • (v. i.) To become greatly or repeatedly increased
  • (v. t.) To double again or repeatedly

    Redoubt
  • (n.) A small, and usually a roughly constructed, fort or outwork of varying shape, commonly erected for a temporary purpose, and without flanking defenses
  • (v. t.) To stand in dread of

    Redound
  • (n.) Rebound
  • (v. i.) To be in excess

    Redpoll
  • (n.) Any one of several species of small northern finches of the genus Acanthis (formerly Aegiothus), native of Europe and America

    Redraft
  • (n.) A new bill of exchange which the holder of a protected bill draws on the drawer or indorsers, in order to recover the amount of the protested bill with costs and charges
  • (v. t.) To draft or draw anew.

    Redraw
  • (v. i.) To draw a new bill of exchange, as the holder of a protested bill, on the drawer or indorsers
  • (v. t.) To draw again

    Redress
  • (n.) A setting right, as of wrong, injury, or opression
  • (v. t.) To dress again.

    Redrew
  • (imp.) of Redraw

    Redroot
  • (n.) A name of several plants having red roots, as the New Jersey tea (see under Tea), the gromwell, the bloodroot, and the Lachnanthes tinctoria, an endogenous plant found in sandy swamps from Rhode Island to Florida

    Redshank
  • (n.) A bare-legged person

    Redstart
  • (n.) An American fly-catching warbler (Setophaga ruticilla). The male is black, with large patches of orange-red on the sides, wings, and tail

    Redtop
  • (n.) A kind of grass (Agrostis vulgaris) highly valued in the United States for pasturage and hay for cattle

    Reduce
  • (n.) To bring into a certain order, arrangement, classification, etc.

    Reduction
  • (n.) The act of reducing, or state of being reduced
  • (v. t.) The act, process, or result of reducing

    Reductive
  • (a.) Tending to reduce
  • (n.) A reductive agent.

    Redundancy
  • (n.) Surplusage inserted in a pleading which may be rejected by the court without impairing the validity of what remains

    Redundant
  • (a.) Exceeding what is natural or necessary

    Reduplicate
  • (a.) Double
  • (v. t.) To redouble

    Redwing
  • (n.) A European thrush (Turdus iliacus). Its under wing coverts are orange red. Called also redwinged thrush

    Redwood
  • (n.) A gigantic coniferous tree (Sequoia sempervirens) of California, and its light and durable reddish timber

    Ree
  • (v. t.) To riddle

    Reebok
  • (n.) The peele.

    Reecho
  • (n.) The echo of an echo
  • (v. i.) To give echoes
  • (v. t.) To echo back

    Reed
  • (a.) Red.
  • (n.) A frame having parallel flat stripe of metal or reed, between which the warp threads pass, set in the swinging lathe or batten of a loom for beating up the weft

    Reef
  • (n.) A chain or range of rocks lying at or near the surface of the water.
  • (v. t.) That part of a sail which is taken in or let out by means of the reef points, in order to adapt the size of the sail to the force of the wind

    Reek
  • (n.) A rick.
  • (v. i.) To emit vapor, usually that which is warm and moist

    Reel
  • (n.) A device consisting of radial arms with horizontal stats, connected with a harvesting machine, for holding the stalks of grain in position to be cut by the knives
  • (v. i.) To have a whirling sensation
  • (v. t.) To roll.

    Reenact
  • (v. t.) To enact again.

    Reenforce
  • (v.) Something which reenforces or strengthens.
  • (v. t.) To strengthen with new force, assistance, material, or support

    Reenter
  • (v. i.) To enter anew or again.
  • (v. t.) To cut deeper, as engraved lines on a plate of metal, when the engraving has not been deep enough, or the plate has become worn in printing

    Reentrant
  • (a.) Reentering

    Reentry
  • (n.) A resuming or retaking possession of what one has lately foregone

    Reeve
  • (n.) an officer, steward, bailiff, or governor
  • (v. t.) To pass, as the end of a pope, through any hole in a block, thimble, cleat, ringbolt, cringle, or the like

    Reexamine
  • (v. t.) To examine anew.

    Reexport
  • (n.) Any commodity reexported
  • (v. t.) To export again, as what has been imported.

    Refection
  • (n.) Refreshment after hunger or fatigue

    Refectory
  • (n.) A room for refreshment

    Refer
  • (v. i.) To carry the mind or thought
  • (v. t.) Hence: To send or direct away

    Refill
  • (v. t. & i.) To fill, or become full, again.

    Refine
  • (v. i.) To affect nicety or subtilty in thought or language.
  • (v. t.) To purify from what is gross, coarse, vulgar, inelegant, low, and the like

    Refit
  • (v. i.) To obtain repairs or supplies
  • (v. t.) To fit or prepare for use again

    Reflect
  • (v.) To bend back
  • (v. i.) To be sent back

    Reflet
  • (n.) Luster

    Reflex
  • (a.) Directed back
  • (n.) An involuntary movement produced by reflex action.
  • (v. t.) To bend back

    Refluent
  • (a.) Flowing back

    Reflux
  • (a.) Returning, or flowing back
  • (n.) A flowing back, as the return of a fluid

    Reforest
  • (v. t.) To replant with trees

    Reform
  • (n.) Amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt, or depraved
  • (v. i.) To return to a good state
  • (v. t.) To put into a new and improved form or condition

    Refract
  • (n.) To bend sharply and abruptly back

    Refrain
  • (v.) The burden of a song
  • (v. i.) To keep one's self from action or interference
  • (v. t.) To abstain from

    Refrangible
  • (a.) Capable of being refracted, or turned out of a direct course, in passing from one medium to another, as rays of light

    Refresh
  • (a.) To make as if new
  • (n.) The act of refreshing.

    Refrigerant
  • (a.) Cooling
  • (n.) That which makes to be cool or cold

    Refrigerate
  • (v. t.) To cause to become cool

    Refrigerator
  • (n.) A box or room for keeping food or other articles cool, usually by means of ice.

    Refringent
  • (a.) Pertaining to, or possessing, refringency

    Reft
  • (imp. & p. p.) Bereft.
  • (n.) A chink

    Refuge
  • (n.) An expedient to secure protection or defense
  • (v. t.) To shelter

    Refulgent
  • (a.) Casting a bright light

    Refund
  • (v. t.) To fund again or anew

    Refurbish
  • (v. t.) To furbish anew.

    Refusal
  • (n.) The act of refusing

    Refuse
  • (a.) Refused
  • (n.) Refusal.
  • (v. i.) To deny compliance
  • (v. t.) To decline to accept

    Refutation
  • (n.) The act or process of refuting or disproving, or the state of being refuted

    Refute
  • (v. t.) To disprove and overthrow by argument, evidence, or countervailing proof

    Regain
  • (v. t.) To gain anew

    Regal
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a king
  • (n.) A small portable organ, played with one hand, the bellows being worked with the other

    Regard
  • (v. i.) To look attentively
  • (v. t.) A look

    Regatta
  • (n.) Originally, a gondola race in Venice

    Regelation
  • (n.) The act or process of freezing anew, or together,as two pieces of ice.

    Regency
  • (a.) A body of men intrusted with vicarious government

    Regenerate
  • (a.) Born anew
  • (v. t.) Hence, to make a radical change for the better in the character or condition of

    Regeneration
  • (n.) The act of regenerating, or the state of being regenerated.

    Regent
  • (a.) A resident master of arts of less than five years' standing, or a doctor of less than twwo

    Regicide
  • (n.) One who kills or who murders a king

    Regime
  • (n.) Mode or system of rule or management

    Region
  • (n.) One of the grand districts or quarters into which any space or surface, as of the earth or the heavens, is conceived of as divided

    Register
  • (n.) A certificate issued by the collector of customs of a port or district to the owner of a vessel, containing the description of a vessel, its name, ownership, and other material facts
  • (v. i.) A stop or set of pipes in an organ.
  • (v. t.) To enter the name of the owner of (a share of stock, a bond, or other security) in a register, or record book

    Registrant
  • (n.) One who registers

    Registrar
  • (n.) One who registers

    Registration
  • (v.) The act of registering

    Registry
  • (n.) A record

    Reglet
  • (n.) A flat, narrow molding, used chiefly to separate the parts or members of compartments or panels from one another, or doubled, turned, and interlaced so as to form knots, frets, or other ornaments

    Regnal
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the reign of a monarch

    Regnant
  • (a.) Exercising regal authority

    Regorge
  • (v. t.) To swallow again

    Regress
  • (n.) The act of passing back
  • (v. i.) To go back

    Regret
  • (v.) Dislike
  • (v. t.) To experience regret on account of

    Regrow
  • (v. i. & t.) To grow again.

    Regular
  • (a.) A member of any religious order or community who has taken the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, and who has been solemnly recognized by the church

    Regulate
  • (v. t.) To adjust, or maintain, with respect to a desired rate, degree, or condition

    Regulation
  • (n.) A rule or order prescribed for management or government

    Regulator
  • (n.) A clock, or other timepiece, used as a standard of correct time.

    Regulus
  • (n.) A petty king

    Regurgitate
  • (v. i.) To be thrown or poured back
  • (v. t.) To throw or pour back, as from a deep or hollow place

    Rehabilitate
  • (v. t.) To invest or clothe again with some right, authority, or dignity

    Rehabilitation
  • (n.) The act of rehabilitating, or the state of being rehabilitated.

    Rehash
  • (n.) Something hashed over, or made up from old materials.
  • (v. t.) To hash over again

    Rehear
  • (v. t.) To hear again

    Reheat
  • (v. t.) To heat again.

    Reichstag
  • (n.) The Diet, or House of Representatives, of the German empire, which is composed of members elected for a term of three years by the direct vote of the people

    Reign
  • (n.) Hence, to be predominant

    Reimburse
  • (v. t.) To make restoration or payment of an equivalent to (a person)

    Reimport
  • (v. t.) To import again

    Reimpression
  • (n.) A second or repeated impression

    Rein
  • (n.) Hence, an instrument or means of curbing, restraining, or governing
  • (v. i.) To be guided by reins.
  • (v. t.) To govern or direct with the reins

    Reis
  • (n.) A common title in the East for a person in authority, especially the captain of a ship.

    Reit
  • (n.) Sedge

    Reject
  • (v. t.) To cast from one

    Rejoice
  • (n.) The act of rejoicing.
  • (v. i.) To feel joy
  • (v. t.) To enjoy.

    Rejoin
  • (v. i.) To answer, as the defendant to the plaintiff's replication.
  • (v. t.) To come, or go, again into the presence of

    Rejuvenate
  • (v. t.) To render young again.

    Rekindle
  • (v. t. & i.) To kindle again.

    Relapse
  • (v.) A sliding or falling back, especially into a former bad state, either of body or morals
  • (v. i.) To fall from Christian faith into paganism, heresy, or unbelief

    Relate
  • (v. i.) To make reference
  • (v. t.) To ally by connection or kindred.

    Relation
  • (n.) A person connected by cosanguinity or affinity

    Relative
  • (a.) Arising from relation
  • (n.) A person connected by blood or affinity

    Relativity
  • (n.) The state of being relative

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

    Relax
  • (a.) Relaxed
  • (n.) Hence, to relieve from attention or effort
  • (v. i.) To abate in severity

    Relay
  • (a.) Relating to, or having the characteristics of, an auxiliary apparatus put into action by a feeble force but itself capable of exerting greater force, used to control a comparatively powerful machine or appliance
  • (n.) A number of men who relieve others in carrying on some work.
  • (v. t.) To lay again

    Release
  • (n.) A catch on a motor-starting rheostat, which automatically releases the rheostat arm and so stops the motor in case of a break in the field circuit
  • (v. t.) To lease again

    Relegate
  • (v. t.) To remove, usually to an inferior position

    Relent
  • (n.) Stay
  • (v. i.) To become less rigid or hard
  • (v. t.) To mollify

    Relevant
  • (a.) Bearing upon, or properly applying to, the case in hand

    Reliable
  • (a.) Suitable or fit to be relied on

    Reliance
  • (n.) Anything on which to rely

    Reliant
  • (a.) Having, or characterized by, reliance

    Relic
  • (n.) Hence, a memorial

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

    Relieve
  • (v. t.) To cause to seem to rise

    Religion
  • (n.) A monastic or religious order subject to a regulated mode of life

    Religious
  • (a.) Belonging to a religious order
  • (n.) A person bound by monastic vows, or sequestered from secular concern, and devoted to a life of piety and religion

    Relinquish
  • (v. t.) To give up

    Reliquary
  • (n.) A depositary, often a small box or casket, in which relics are kept.

    Reliquiae
  • (n. pl.) Remains of the dead

    Relish
  • (n.) A pleasing taste
  • (v. i.) To have a pleasing or appetizing taste
  • (v. t.) To give a relish to

    Relive
  • (v. i.) To live again
  • (v. t.) To recall to life

    Relocate
  • (v. t.) To locate again.

    Relucent
  • (a.) Reflecting light

    Reluct
  • (v. i.) To strive or struggle against anything

    Relume
  • (v. t.) To rekindle

    Rely
  • (v. i.) To rest with confidence, as when fully satisfied of the veracity, integrity, or ability of persons, or of the certainty of facts or of evidence


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