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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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