A Dictionary of the English Language

RE-AD-MIT-TANCE, n. A second admittance, or allowance to enter again. RE-A-DORN', v. t. To adorn anew.

READ'-Y, (red'-dy,) a. Quick; prompt: not hesitating; not slow or dull; prepared; fitted; willing; cheerful; near.

READ'-Y, (red'-y,) ad. In a state of preparation, so as to need no delay.

RE-AF-FIRM', (re-af-ferm',) v. t. To affirm again. RE-AF-FIRM'-ANCE, n. A second affirmance. RE-A'-GENT, n. A substance that detects the ingredients of a mixture.

RE-AL, a. True; certain; actual; genuine. RE-AL-ISM, n. The doctrine of the Realists, who maintain that things, not words, are the objects of dialectics.

RE-AL-I-TY, n. Certainty; actual existence of any thing; truth; fact, in distinction from mere appearance; something intrinsically important; not inerely matter of show.

RE-AN-I-MA'-TION, n. Restoration of life. RE-AN-NEX', v. t. To annex again; to annex what has been separated.

RE-AN-NEX-A'-TION, n. Act of annexing again. RE-AN-NEX-ED, pp. Reunited; annexed again. REAP, v. t. or i. To cut grain with a sickle; to clear off a crop by reaping; to gather; to obtain to receive as a reward.

REAP-ED, pp. Cut with a sickle; received as

RE-AP PEAR'-ED, pret. and pp. of REAPPEAR.
RE-AP-PLI-CA'-TIÓN, n. A second application.
RE-AP-PLY, v. t. To apply a second time.
RE-AP-POINT', e. t. To appoint again.
RE-AP-POINT-MENT, n. A second appointment,
RE-AP-POR-TION, e. t. To apportion again.
RE-AP-POR-TION-ED, pp. Apportioned again.
RE-AP-POR-TION-MENT, n A second appor-

tionment.

REAR, n. [Fr. arriere.] The part behind; last body of troops; last class.

REAR, v. t. [A. S. reran.] To raise: to bring up; to elevate; to lift ufter a fall; to raise to maturity. REAR-ED, pp. Raised; educated; brought up; elevated.

REAR-AD-MI-RAL, n. The admiral of the third squadron.

REAR'-WARD, n. The rear guard.

RE-AS-CEND', v. i. To ascend or mount again.
RE-AS-CEN'-SION, n. Act of remounting.
REA'-SON, (rē'-zn,) [Ir. reasun; W. rkeswom;
Arm. resoun; Fr. raison; Sp. razon; It. ra-
gione; L. ratio; Russ. razum; A. S. rada.]
That which is thought or alledged in words as the
ground or cause of opinion, conclusion, or deter-
mination; the efficient cause; the final cause; a
faculty of the mind by which it distinguishes truth
from falsehood, and good from evil.
REA'-SON, v. t. or i. To argue; to debate; to
draw inferences.

REA'-SON-ED, pret, and pp. of REASON.
REA'-SON-A-BLE, a. Indued with reason; gov-
crned by reason; just; not immoderate.
REA'-SON-A-BLE-NESS, n. Agreeableness to rea

son.

REA'-SON-A-BLY, ad. In consistency with rea

son.

REA'-SON-ER, a. One who argues or reasons.
REA'-SON-ING, ppr. Arguing; deducing infer
ences from premises; debating; discussing.
REA'-SON-ING, n. The act or process of exercising
the faculty of reason.

REA'-SON-LESS, a. Destitute of reason.
RE-AS-SEM'-BLE, v. i. To assemble again.
RE-AS-SEM'-BLED, pp. Assembled a second

time.

RE-AS-SERT, v. t. To affirm again.

RE-AS-SER-TION, n. A second assertion of the same thing.

RE-AS-SIGN', v. t. To assign back in return.
RE-AS-SIGN'-ED, pp. Assigned back.

RE-AS-SIM'-I-LATE, v. t. To assimilate again.
RE-AS-SIM-I-LA'-TION, n. A second assimila-

tion.

RE-AS-SUME', v. t. To assume again; to re

sume.

RE-AS-SUM'-ED, pp. Resumed; taken again. RE-AS-SUMP'TIÓN, n. Act of reassuming. RE-AS-SUR-ANCE, n. A second assurance against loss, or the assurance of property by an underwr ter, to relieve himself from the risk he has taken. RE-AS-SURE', v. t. To assure again; to restore

courage.

RE-AS-SUR-ED, pp. Assured again.

RE-AS-SUR-ER, n. One who insures an under writer.

RE-AT-TACH', v. t. To attach a second time.
RE-AT-TACH'-ED, pp. Attached again.

RE-AT-TACH'-MENT, n. A second attachment,

RE-BAP-TISM, n. A second baptism.

RE-BAP-TIZE', v. t. To baptize a second time. RE-BAP-TIZ'-ED, pp. Baptized again.

RE-BATE', v. t. To blunt; to deprive of keenness.
RE-BATE',
n. Abatement; deduction;

RE-BATE-MENT, discount.
RE'-BECK, n. A three stringed fiddle.

REB'-EL, n. One who revolts from lawful authori-
ty; one who willfully violates a law.
REB'-EL, a. Rebellious; acting in revolt.
RE-BEL', v. i. To revolt from lawful government;
to rise in violent opposition against lawful author-
ity.

RE-BEL-LED, pret. and pp. of REBEL. RE-BEL-LION, (re-bel'-yun,) a. Open renunciation of allegiance, and opposition to government; open resistance to lawful authority. RE-BEL-LIOUS, (re-bel'-yus,) a. Engaged in re

bellion.

RE-BEL-LIOUS-LY, ad. In opposition to allegi

ance.

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RE-BEL-LOW, v. i. To bellow in return.
RE-BEL'-LOW-ED, pret. and pp. of REBELLOW.
RE-BLOS'-SOM, v. i. To blossom a second time.
RE-BLOS'-SOM-ED, pret. and pp. of REBLOS-

RE-BOUND', v. i. To spring or fly back.
RE-BOUND', n. The act of springing back.
RE-BUFF', n. Sudden check; a beating back.
RE-BUFF, v. t. [It. rabbuffo; Fr. rebuffade.] To
beat back; to repel; to oppose.

RE-BUILD', v. t. To build or construct anew, or
what has been demolished.

RE-BUILT, pp. Constructed anew; built again.
RE-BUK'-A-BLE, a. Deserving rebuke.

RE-BUKE', v. t. [Norm. rebuquer.] To chide; to
reprove; to reprehend for a fault; to check or re-
strain; to silence.

RE-BUKE', n. Reproof; reprehension; a chiding.
RE-BUK'-ED, pp. Reproved; checked.
RE-BUKE-FUL, a. Containing reproof.
RE-BUK'-ER, n. One that chides or reproves.
RE-BUK'-ING, ppr. Chiding; reproving.
RE-BUR'-Y, (re-ber'-ry,) v. t. To bury again.
RE-BUS, n. A kind of riddle; an enigmatical rep-
resentation of some name, by using pictures and
figures instead of words.

RE-BUT', v. t. [Fr. rebuter; Norm. rebutter.] To
repel; to oppose by argument.
RE-BUT-TED, pp. Repelled; answered.

RE-BUT-TER, n. Answer of a defendant to a plain-
tiff's sur-rejoinder.

RE-BUT-TING, ppr. Repelling; opposing.
RE-CALL', v. t. To call back; to revoke; to call
back from a place or mission; as to recall a min-
ister from a foreign court.

RE-CALL', n. A calling back; revocation.
RE-CALL-A-BLE, a. That may be recalled.
RE-CALL-ED, pp. Called back; revoked.
RE-CANT', v. t. or i. To retract an opinion.
RE-CANT-A'-TION, n. Act of retracting.
RE-CA-PAC-I-TATE, v. t. To qualify again.
RE-CA-PIT-U-LATE v. t. To repeat in a sum-
mary manner; to give a summary of the principal
things mentioned.

RE-CA-PIT-U-LA'-TION, n. A summary.
RE-CAP-TION, n. A retaking; reprisal; the re-
taking of one's own goods, chattels, &c., from one
who wrongfully detains them.

RE-CAP-TOR, n. One who retakes; one who
takes a prize which has been previously taken.
RE-CAPTURE, n. Act of retaking; a prize re-
taken.

RE-CAP-TURE, v. t. To retake, as a prize which
had been previously taken.

RE-CAP-TUR-ED, pp. Retaken.

RE-CAR'-RI-ED, pp. Carried back, or again.

RE-CAR'-RY, v. t. To carry back, or again.

RE-CAR'-RY-ING, ppr. Carrying back.

RE-CAST', To cast, mold, or compute a second

RE-CEIV'-ING, n. The act of receiving; that
which is received.

RE-CEL-E-BRATE, v. t. To celebrate again.
RE'-CEN-CY, n. Newness; late origin; lateness
in time; freshness.

RE-CENSE', v. t. To review; to revise.
RE-CEN'-SION, n. Enumeration; review.

RE-CENT, a. New; late; fresh; not long past;
of late occurrence.

RE'-CENT-LY, ad. Newly; lately; freshly; not
long since.

RE-CENT-NESS, n. Newness; freshness; late
ness of origin or occurrence.

RE-CEP'-TA-ELE, n. A place to receive things in
the base of the fructification in plants.
RE-CEP-TAC-U-LAR, a. Pertaining to the recep

RECK'ON-ING, ppr. Computing; esteeming; sta-
ting an account mutually.
RECK'-ON-ING, n. Computation; bill of expenses.
RE-CLAIM', v. t. To claim to have restored; to

recall; to reform; to reduce from a wild to a tame or domestic state; to recover. RE-CLAIM'-A-BLE, a. That may be recalled, or reformed, or tamed.

RE-CLAIM'-ANT, n. One who reclaims or op

RE-CLOSE', v. t. To shut or close again.
RE-CLOS' ED, pp. Closed again.

RE-ELUSE', a. [Fr. reclus.] Living in retirement; retired from the world; solitary.

RE-CLÜSE', n. One who lives in seclusion from society.

RE-CLOSE-LY, ad. In retirement or seclusion from society.

RE-CLOSE-NESS, n. Seclusion from company. RE-CLÜ'-SION, n. A state of retirement from the world seclusion.

RE-CLU'-SIVE, a. Affording retirement.
RE-COЄ'-TION, n. A second coction or prepara-

tion.

RE-COG-NI"-TION, n. An acknowledgment. RE-COGʻ-NI-ZA-BLE, or RE-COGN'-I-ZA-BLE, a. That may be acknowledged. RE-COGʻ-NI-ZANCE, or RE-COGN'-I-ZANCE, n. An acknowledgment; bond of record. RE€'-OG-NIZE, or RE€'-OGN-IZE, v. t. To recollect the knowledge of; to acknowledge; to review; to re-examine.

REC-OG-NIZ-ED, pp. Acknowledged. RE-COG-NI-ZEE', or RE-COGN-I-ZEE', n. One to whom a bond of record is made. RE-COG'-NI-ZOR, or RECOGN'-I-ZOR, n. One who enters into a bond of record.

RE-COIL', v. i. [Fr. reculer, to draw back.] To rush or fall back; to rebound; to retire; to start back; to shrink.

RE-COIL', n. Rebound; movement backward.
RE-COIL-ED, pret. and pp. of RECOIL.
RE-COIL'-ER, n. One who falls back from his
promise or profession.

RE-COIL-ING, ppr. Falling back; retiring.
RE-COIL-ING, n The act of starting back from
one's promise or profession.

RE-COIL'-MENT, n. The act of recoiling.
RE-COIN', v. t. To coin a second time.
RE-COIN-AGE, n. A coining again; that which is
recoined.

RE-COIN-ED, pp. Coined a second time.
REC-OL-LEET, v. t. To recall to mind; to re-
cover or recall the knowledge of, to bring to the
mind or memory; to recover resolution or compo-
sure of mind.

RE-COL-LECT', v. t. To collect again. REC-OL-LEET-ED, pp. Recalled to mind. REC-OL-LEET'-ING, ppr. Recalling to the mind. REC-OL-LEЄ'-TION, n. A recalling to the memory. Recollection differs from remembrance, as it is the consequence of volition, or an effort of the mind to review ideas; whereas, remembrance implies no such volition.

REC-OL-LEET-IVE, a. Having power to recol

lect.

RE-COL-O-NIZ-A'-TION, n. A second colonizz.

tion.

RE-COL'-O-NIZE, v. t. To colonize a second time.
RE-COM-BI-NA'-TION, n. A second combination
RE-COM-BINE', v. t. To combine again.
RE-COM-BIN'-ED, pp. Combined anew.
RE-COM-FORT, v. t. To comfort again.
RE-COM-MENCE', v. t. To begin again.
RE-COM-MENC'-ED, pp. Commenced anew.
REC-OM-MEND', v. t. To commend to another; to
make acceptable.

REC-OM-MEND'-A-BLE, a. Worthy of praise.
REC-OM-MEND-A'-TION, n. Act of praising;
that which commends to favor; that which pro-
cures a kind or favorable reception.
REC-OM-MEND'-A-TO-RY, a. That recommends.
REC-OM-MEND'-ED, pp. Praised; commended to

another.

RE-COM-MIS'-SION, v. t. To commission again. RE-COM-MIS'-SION-ED, pp. Commissioned again. RE-COM-MIT, v. t. To commit anew; to refer again to a committee.

RE-COM-MIT-MENT, n. A second commitment; a renewed reference to a committee. RE-COM-MÜ'-NI-¤ATE, v. t. To impart or send

again.

RE-COM-PAЄT', v. t. To join anew. REC'-OM-PENSE, n. Reward; compensation; a requital; a return of evil, or suffering, or other equivalent.

REC'-OM-PENSE, v. t. To repay; to requite; to compensate; to make an equivalent return in profit or produce.

REC-OM-PENS-ED, pp. Rewarded; requited.
RE-COM-PILE-MENT, n. A new compilation of

digest.

RE-COM-POSE', v. t. To compose or quiet anew. RE-COM-POS-ED, pp. Formed or quieted anew. RE-COM-PO-SI"-TION, n. A second composition. REC-ON-CIL'-A-BLE, a. That may be adjusted or made to agree.

REC-ON-CIL'-A-BLE-NESS, n. Quality of being made to agree.

REC-ON-CILE', v. t. [Fr. reconcilier; L. reconcilio.] To concilitate anew; to bring to agree ment; to bring to acquiescence; to make consistent; to adjust.

REC-ON-CIL-ED, pp. Made to agree, or consistent. REC-ON-CILE'-MENT, n. Renewal of friendship. REE-ON-CIL'-ER, n. One who reconciles; one who brings parties at variance into renewed friendship. REE-ON-CIL-I-A'-TION, n. Renewal of friendship; act of reconciling parties at variance. In Scripture, the means by which sinners are reconciled to God; atonement; expiation. REC-ON-CIL'-I-A-TO-RY, a. Able or tending to

reconcile.

REC-ON-CIL-ING, ppr. Bringing to agreement. RE-CON-DENS-A'-TION, n. Act of recondensing RE-CON-DENSE', (re-eon-dens',) v. t. To con dense anew.

RE-CON-DENS'-ED, pp. Condensed again.
REC'-ON-DITE, a. Secret; abstruse; hidden from
the view or intellect; profound; dealing in things
abstruse.

RE-CON-DUЄT', v. t. To conduct back.
RE-CON-JOIN,' v. t. To join in.
RE-CON-JOIN'-ED, pp. Joined anew.
RE-CON-NOIS-SANCE, [Fr.] Acknowledg
ment; a reconnoitering.

RE-CON-NOIT-ER, v. t. To survey again; to view; to examine by the eye, particularly in military affairs; to examine the state of an enemy's army or camp, or the ground for military opera

tions.

RE-CON-NOIT-ER-ED, pp. Carefully examined. RE-CON-NOIT-ER-ING, ppr. Viewing; examin ing by personal observation.

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RE-CON'-QUER, (re-konk'-er,) v. t. To conquer again. RE-CON'-QUER-ED, pp. Regained by conquest. RE-CON'-SE-CRATE, v. t. To consecrate anew. RE-CON-SID-ER, v. t. To consider again; to rescind; to take into consideration again, as, to reconsider a motion in a legislative body. RE-CON-SID-ER-A'-TION, n. Renewed consider

RE-CON-SID-ER-ED, pp. Reviewed; rescinded.
RE-CON-STRUCT', v. t. To construct again; to
rebuild.

RE-CON-VENE', v. t. or i. To convene again.
RE-CON-VEN'-ED, pp. Assembled again.
RE-CON-VER'-SION, n. A second conversion.
RE-CON-VERT', v. t. To convert again.
RE-CON-VERT"-ED, pp. Converted again.
RE-CON-VEY', (re-eon-va',) v. t. To convey back
or a second time.

RE-CON-VEY'-ED, pp. Transferred back.
RE-CON-VEY-ANCE, n. A transferring back.
RE-CON-VEY-ING, ppr. Conveying back.
RE-CORD', v. t. To register; to enroll; to imprint
deeply on the mind or memory; to cause to be re-
membered.

REC'-ORD, n. Authentic register or enrollment; act
of placing on record; a record.

RE-CORD-ED, pp. Registered; officially entered in a book or parchment; imprinted on the book or

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RE-CROIT', n. A new enlisted soldier; supply of
any thing wanted.

RE-CRUIT-ING, n. The business of supplying the
want of soldiers by enlistments.

RE-CROIT-MENT, n. Act of recruiting.

RE-CRYS-TAL-LI-ZA'-TION, n. The process of
a second crystallization.

RE-CRYSTAL-LIZE, v. t. To crystallize again.
RECT-AN"-GLE, n. A right-angled parallelogram.
In arithmetic, the product of two lines multiplied
into each other.

RECT-AN"-GLED, pp. Having right angles, or an
gles of ninety degrees.

RECT-AN"-GU-LAR, a. Having right angles.
REC'-TI-FI-A-BLE, a. That may be corrected.
REC-TI-FI-CA-TION, n. Act of correcting or re-
fining. In chemistry, the process of refining any
substance by repeated distillation.

REC-TI-FI-ED, pret. and pp. of RECTIFY.
REC-TI-FI-ER, n. He or that which rectifies.
REC'-TI-FY, v. t. To correct; to amend; to refine.
REC-TI-LIN'-E-AL, a. Right-lined; consisting
of right lines.
REC-TI-LIN'-E-AR, (
REC-TI-TUDE, n. Rightness; uprightness; just

REC'-TOR, n. [L. rector, from rego, rectum.] A
minister of a parish; a ruling officer of a convent
or religious house.

REC-TO-RI-AL, a. Belonging to a rector.
REC-TOR-SHIP, n. The office of a rector.
REC-TOR-Y, n. A parish church; parsonage or

spiritual living, with all its rights, tithes, and glebes;
a rector's mansion, or parsonage house.
REC-TUM, n. [L.] In anatomy, the third and last
of the large intestines.

RE-CUM-BEN-CY, n. A leaning, or lying down;
rest; repose.

RE-CUM-BENT, a. Leaning; reclining; reposing,
idle; inactive.

RE-CU-PER-A-TION, n. Recovery of any thing

RE-CUR', v. i. [L. recurro.] To resort; to return
to the thought and mind; to have recourse
RE-CUR-RED, pret. and pp. of RECUR.
RE-CUR-RENCE, n. Return; resort.
RE-CUR-RENT, a. Returning; running back
RE-CURV'-ATE, a. Bent downward.

RE-CURV-A-TION, n. A bending or flexure
RE-CURV'-I-TY,

RE-CURV-ED, d. Bent backward or downward.
RE-CURV-OUS, a. Bent backward.
RE-CU-SAN-CY, n. Non-conformity.
RE-CU-SANT, a. [L. recusans.] Refusing to ac-
knowledge the supremacy of the king, or to con-
form to the established rites of the church.
RE-CU-SANT, n. One who refuses to conform to
the rites of the established church, [Eng.]
RED, a. [A. S. red, reod; D. rood; Goth. roth:
W. rhuz.] Of a bright color; like blood.
RED-BREAST, n. A small bird; a robin.
A kind of iron
RED-CHALK', (red-chawk,) n

RED-DEN, v. t. or i. To make or grow red; to

RED-DEN-ED, pret. and pp. of REDDEN.
RED'-DEN-ING, ppr. Making or becoming red;
blushing.

RED'-DISH, a. Moderately red.

RED'-DISH-NESS, n. Moderate redness.
RED-DI"-TION, n. Restitution; surrender; a re-
turning of any thing; explanation; representa-

RED-DI-TIVE, a. Returning; answering to an in
terrogative; a term in grammar.

RED-DLE, n. Red chalk; a pigment.
RE-DEEM', v. t. To ransom; to repurchase from
slavery; to rescue; to recover; to save; to per-
form what has been promised.

RE-DEEM'-A-BLE, a. That may be redeemed.
RE-DEEM'-ED, pp. Ransomed; purchased back.
RE-DEEM'-ER, n. One who ransoms; the Savior.

BOOK; TUNE, PULL, USE. € like K; CH like SH; & like J; $ like Z; TH as in thou

RE-DEEM'-ING, ppr. Ransoming from bondage; a. that does or may redeem. RE-DE-LIV'-ER, v. t. To deliver again; to liberate a second time.

RE-DE-LIV'-ER-ED, pp. Delivered back. RE-DE-LIV-ER-Y, n. A delivering back; a second delivery or liberation.

RE-DE-MAND', v. t. To demand again. RE-DE-MISE', v. t. To convey or transfer back. RE-DE-MISE', n. Reconveyance; the transfer of an estate back to the person who has demised it. RE-DE-MIS-ED, pp. Reconveyed, as an estate. RE-DEMPTION, n. [Fr.; It. redenzione; Sp. redencion, from L. redemptio.] Repurchase of captured goods or prisoners; deliverance from bondage, distress, or from liability to any evil; liberation of an estate from a mortgage; repurchase of notes, bills, or other evidence of debt. In theology, the purchase of God's favor by the death and sufferings of Christ.

RE-DEMPTION-ER, n. One who redeems himself by services.

RE-DEMP-TO-RY, a. Paid for a ransom.
RE-DE-SCEND', v. i. To descend again.
RED'-GUM, n. A disease of infants; an eruption
of red pimples in infancy.

RED'-HÁIR-ED, pp. Having red hair, or hair of a sandy color.

RED'-HOT, a. Heated to redness.

RE-DI-ENT, a. Returning.

RE-DI-GEST', v. t. To reduce; to form again.
RED-IN-TE-GRATE, v. t. To renew; to make
whole again; to restore to a perfect state.
RED-IN-TE-GRA'-TION, n. Renovation;

newal.

RE-DOUB'-LE, (re-dub'l,) v. t. To repeat again. RE-DOUB'-LED. (re-dub'ld,) pp. Repeated again. RE-DOUB'-LING, (re-dub'-ling,) ppr. Repeating in return; repeating again and again. RE-DOUND', v. i. To conduce; to contribute; to proceed in the consequence or effect; to result. RE-DOUND-ING, ppr. Conducing; contributing; resulting.

RE-DOUBT, n. [It. ridotto; Port. reduto; Fr. redoute.] In fortification, a small square fort without any defense except in front; used to defend passages.

RE-DOUBT'-A-BLE, a. Formidable; to be dreaded.
RE-DRÄFT', v. t. To draw or draft again.
RE-DRAFT', n. A second draft.

RE-DRAW', v. t. To draw again, or a second draft.

RE-DRESS', v. t. To relieve; to amend; to repair.

RE-DRESS', n. Relief; remedy for wrong; reparation; indemnification.

RE-DRESS'-ED, pp. Remedied; relieved; indemnified.

RE-DRESS'-ER, n. One who gives redress.

RE-DRESS-ING, ppr. Setting right; relieving.

RE-DRESS'-IVE, a. Tending to redress.

RE-DRESS-MENT, n. Redress; act of redressing.

RE-DRESS-LESS, a. Having no redress.

RED-SEAR', v. i. To break or crack when too hot,

as iron under a hammer.

RE-DU-PLI-CATE, v. t. To double.

RE-DU-PLI-CA'-TION, n. The act of doubling. RED'-WING, n. A small bird.

REE, n. Portuguese coin; little more than a RE,

cent.

RE-ECH'-O, (re-ek'-o,) v. t. To echo back again.
RE-ECH'-O, n. The echo of an echo.
RE-ECH'-O-ED, pp. Reverberated again.
RE-ECH'-O-ING, ppr. Reverberating again.
REECH'-Y, (a misspelling of Reeky,) a. Tarnished
with smoke; sooty.

REED, n. [A. S. hrcod; G. rieth; D. riet.] A plant; a musical pipe; an arrow; a weaver's

utensil.

REED-CROWN-ED, a. Crowned with reeds.
REED'-ED, a. Covered with reeds; channeled.
REED-EN, a. Consisting of a reed or reeds.
RE-ED-I-FI-CA-TION, n. A rebuilding.
RE-ED-I-FI-ED, pp. Rebuilt.

RE-ED'-I-FI-ER, n. He that rebuilds.

RE-ED'-I-FY, v. t. To build again; to rebuild after destruction.

REED'-LESS, a. Destitute of reeds.

REED' Y, a. Full of reeds; having the quality of

reed in tones.

REEF-Y, a. Full of reefs or rocks.

REEK, n. [A. S. rec; D. rook; G. rauch.] Steam; vapor; of moist substances.

REEK, v. i. [A. S. recan; G. rauchen; Sw. roka,
Dan. roger.] To send forth steam or vapor.
REEK-ED, pret. and pp. of REEK.
REEK'-Y, a. Smoky; soiled with steam; foul.
REEL, n. A frame to wind yarn on; a dance.
REEL, v. t. To wind on a reel; to gather yarn from
the spindle.

REEL, v. i. To stagger; to vacillate in walking.
REEL-ED, pret. and pp. of REEL..

RE-E-LECT", v. t. To elect a second time.
RE-E-LEE-TION, n. Election a second time.
RE-EL-I-GI-BIL-I-TY, n. Capacity of being elect
ed again to the same office.

RE-EL-I-GI-BLE, a. That may be re-elected.
RE-EM-BARK', v. t. or i. To embark again.
RE-EM-BARK-A'-TION, n. A putting on board of
a going on board again.

RE-EM-BARK-ED, pp. Put on board again.
RE-EM-BÄRK'-ING, ppr. Going on board again

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