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Reflection

REFLEC'TION, noun [from reflect.]

1. The act of throwing back; as the reflection of light or colors. The angle of incidence and the angle of reflection are always equal.

2. The act of bending back.

3. That which is reflected.

As the sun in water we can bear, yet not the sun, but his reflection there.

4. The operation of the mind by which it turns its views back upon itself and its operations; the review or consideration of past thoughts, opinions or decisions of the mind, or of past events.

5. Thought thrown back on itself, on the past or on the absent; as melancholy reflections; delightful reflections.

Job's reflections on his once flourishing estate, at the same time afflicted and encouraged him.

6. The expression of thought.

7. Attentive consideration; meditation; contemplation.

This delight grows and improves under thought and reflection

8. Censure; reproach cast.

He died, and oh! may no reflection shed its pois'nous venom on the royal dead.

Reflective

REFLECT'IVE, adjective

1. Throwing back images; as a reflective mirror.

In the reflective stream the sighing bride, viewing her charms impair'd -

2. Considering the operation of the mind, or things past; as reflective reason.

Reflector

REFLECT'OR, noun

1. One who reflects or considers.

2. That which reflects.

Reflex

RE'FLEX, adjective [Latin reflexus.]

1. Directed back; as a reflex act of the soul, the turning of the intellectual eye inward upon its own actions.

2. Designating the parts of a painting illuminated by light reflected from another part of the same picture.

3. In botany, bent back; reflected.

REFLEX', noun Reflection. [Not used.]

REFLEX', verb transitive

1. To reflect.

2. To bend back; to turn back. [Little used.]

Reflexibility

REFLEXIBIL'ITY, noun The quality of being reflexible or capable of being reflected; as the reflexibility of the rays of light.

Reflexible

REFLEX'IBLE, adjective Capable of being reflected or thrown back.

The light of the sun consists of rays differently refrangible and reflexible

Reflexion

REFLEX'ION. [See Reflection.]

Reflexity

REFLEX'ITY, noun Capacity of being reflected.

Reflexive

REFLEX'IVE, adjective Having respect to something past.

Assurance reflexive cannot be a divine faith.

Reflexively

REFLEX'IVELY, adverb In a direction backward.

Refloat

RE'FLOAT, noun [re and float.] Reflux; ebb; a flowing back. [Little used.]

Reflorescence

REFLORES'CENCE, noun [re and florescence.] A blossoming anew.

Reflourish

REFLOURISH, verb intransitive reflur'ish. [re and flourish.] To flourish anew.

Reflourishing

REFLOUR'ISHING, participle present tense Flourishing again.

Reflow

REFLOW, verb intransitive [re and flow.] To flow back; to ebb.

Reflowing

REFLOWING, participle present tense Flowing backing; ebbing.

Refluctuation

REFLUCTUA'TION, noun A flowing back.

Refluence

REF'LUENCE,

REF'LUENCY, noun [from refluent.] A flowing back.

Refluency

REF'LUENCY, n. [from refluent.] A flowing back.

Refluent

REF'LUENT, adjective [Latin refluens; re and fluo.]

1. Flowing back; ebbing; as the refluent tide.

2. Flowing back; returning, as a fluid; as refluent blood.

Reflux

RE'FLUX, noun [Latin refluxus.] A flowing back; the returning of a fluid; as the flux and reflux of the tides; the flux and reflux of Euripus.

Refocillate

REFO'CILLATE, verb transitive [Latin refocillo; re and the root of focus.] To refresh; to revive; to give new vigor to. [Little used.]

Refocillation

REFOCILLA'TION, noun The act of refreshing or giving new vigor; restoration of strength by refreshment. [Little used.]

Refoment

REFOMENT', verb transitive [re and foment.]

1. To foment anew; to warm or cherish again.

2. To excite anew.

Refomented

REFOMENT'ED, participle passive Fomented or incited anew.

Refomenting

REFOMENT'ING, participle present tense Fomenting anew; exciting again.

Reform

REFORM', verb transitive [Latin reformo; re and formo, to form.]

1. To change from worse to better; to amend; to correct; to restore to a former good state, or to bring from a bad to a good state; as, to reform a profligate man; to reform corrupt manners or morals.

The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age, but that of a good one will not reform it.

2. To change from bad to good; to remove that which is bad or corrupt; as, to reform abuses; to reform the vices of the age.

REFORM', verb intransitive To abandon that which is evil or corrupt, and return to a good state; to be amended or corrected. A man of settled habits of vice will seldom reform

RE'-FORM, verb transitive [re and form; with the accent on the first syllable.] To form again; to create or shape anew.

REFORM', noun Reformation; amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt or depraved; as the reform of parliamentary elections; reform of government.

Reformation

REF'ORMATION, noun

1. The act of reforming; correction or amendment of life, manners, or of any thing vicious or corrupt; as the reformation of manners; reformation of the age; reformation of abuses.

Satire lashes vice into reformation

2. By way of eminence, the change of religion from the corruptions of popery to its primitive purity, begun by Luther, adjective D. 1517.

Reformed

REFORM'ED, participle passive Corrected; amended; restored to a good state; as a reformed profligate; the reformed church.

RE'-FORMED, participle passive Formed anew.

Reformer

REFORM'ER, noun

1. One who effects a reformation or amendment; as a reformer of manners or of abuses.

2. One of those who commenced the reformation of religion from popish corruption; as Luther, Melancthon, Zuinglius and Calvin.

Reforming

REFORM'ING, participle present tense Correcting what is wrong; amending; restoring to a good state.

RE'FORMING, participle present tense Forming anew.

Reformist

REFORM'IST, noun

1. One who is of the reformed religion.

2. One who proposes or favors a political reform.

Refortification

REFORTIFICA'TION, noun A fortifying a second time.

Refortify

REFOR'TIFY, verb transitive [re and fortify.] To fortify anew.

Refossion

REFOS'SION, noun The act of digging up.

Refound

REFOUND', verb transitive [re and found.] To found or cast anew.

Refract

REFRACT', v.t. [L. refractus, refringo; re and frango, to break.] To break the natural course of the rays of light; to cause to deviate from a direct course. A dense medium refracts the rays of light, as they pass into it from a rare medium.

Refractarias

REFRACTA'RIAS, noun A mineral.

Refracted

REFRACT'ED, participle passive

1. Turned from a direct course, as rays of light.

2. adjective In botany, bent back at an acute angle; as a refracted corol.

Refracting

REFRACT'ING, participle present tense

1. Turning from a direct course.

2. adjective That turns rays from a direct course; as a refracting medium.

Refraction

REFRAC'TION, noun The deviation of a moving body, chiefly rays of light, from a direct course. This is occasioned by the different densities of the mediums through which light passes.

Refraction out of a rarer medium into a denser, is made towards the perpendicular.

Refraction may be caused by a body's falling obliquely out of one medium into another.

Refraction double, the separation of a ray of light into two separate parts, by passing through certain transparent mediums, as the Iceland crystal. All crystals, except those whose primitive form is either a cube or a regular octahedron, exhibit double refraction

Refractive

REFRACT'IVE, adjective That refracts or has power to refract or turn from a direct course; as refractive densities.

Refractoriness

REFRACT'ORINESS, noun [from refractory.]

Perverse or sullen obstinacy in opposition or disobedience.

I never allowed any man's refractoriness against the privileges and orders of the house.

Refractory

REFRACT'ORY, adjective [Latin refractarius, from refragor, to resist; re and fragor, from frango.]

1. Sullen or perverse in opposition or disobedience; obstinate in non-compliance; as a refractory child; a refractory servant.

Raging appetites that are most disobedient and refractory

2. Unmanageable; obstinately unyielding; as a refractory beast.

3. Applied to metals, difficult of fusion; not easily yielding to the force of heat.

REFRACT'ORY, noun

1. A person obstinate in opposition or disobedience.

2. Obstinate opposition. [Not used.]

Refragable

REFRA'GABLE, adjective [Latin refragor; re and frango.]

That may be refuted that is, broken.

Refrain

REFRA'IN, verb transitive [Latin refaeno; re and fraeno, to curb; fraenum, a rein. See Rein.]

To hold back; to restrain; to keep from action.

My son - refrain thy foot from their path. Proverbs 1:15.

Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by. Genesis 45:1.

REFRA'IN, verb intransitive To forbear; to abstain; to keep one's self from action or interference.

Refrain from these men and let them alone. Acts 5:38.

REFRA'IN, noun The burden of a song; a kind of musical repetition.

Refrained

REFRA'INED, participle passive Held back; restrained.

Refraining

REFRA'INING, participle present tense Holding back; forbearing.

Reframe

REFRA'ME, verb transitive [re and frame.] To frame again.

Refrangibility

REFRANGIBIL'ITY, noun [from refrangible.]

The disposition of rays of light to be refracted or turned out of a direct course, in passing out of one transparent body or medium into another.

Refrangible

REFRAN'GIBLE, adjective [Latin re and frango, to break.]

Capable of being refracted or turned out of a direct course in passing from one medium to another; as rays of light.

Refrenation

REFRENA'TION, noun [See refrain.] The act of restraining. [Not used.]

Refresh

REFRESH', verb transitive [See Fresh.]

1. To cool; to allay heat.

A dew coming after a heat refresheth.

2. To give new strength to; to invigorate; to relieve after fatigue; as, to refresh the body. A man or a beast is refreshed by food and rest. Exodus 23:12.

3. To revive; to reanimate after depression; to cheer; to enliven.

For they have refreshed my spirit and yours. 1 Corinthians 16:18.

4. To improve by new touches any thing impaired.

The rest refresh the scaly snakes.

5. To revive what is drooping; as, rain refreshes the plants.

REFRESH', noun Act of refreshing. [Not used.]

Refreshed

REFRESH'ED, participle passive Cooled; invigorated; revived; cheered.

Refresher

REFRESH'ER, noun He or that which refreshes, revives or invigorates.

Refreshing

REFRESH'ING, participle present tense or adjective Cooling; invigorating; reviving; reanimating.

REFRESH'ING, noun Refreshment; relief after fatigue or suffering.

Refreshment

REFRESH'MENT, noun

1. Act of refreshing; or new strength or vigor received after fatigue; relief after suffering; applied to the body.

2. New life or animation after depression; applied to the mind or spirits.

3. That which gives fresh strength or vigor, as food or rest.

Refret

REFRET', noun The burden of a song.

Refrigerant

REFRIG'ERANT, adjective [See Refrigerate.]

Cooling; allaying heat.

REFRIG'ERANT, noun Among physicians, a medicine which abates heat and refreshes the patient.

Refrigerate

REFRIG'ERATE, verb transitive [Latin refrigero; re and frigus, cold.] To cool; to allay the heat of; to refresh.

Refrigerated

REFRIG'ERATED, participle passive Cooled.

Refrigerating

REFRIG'ERATING, participle present tense Allaying heat; cooling.

Refrigeration

REFRIGERA'TION, noun The act of cooling; the abatement of heat; state of being cooled.

Refrigerative

REFRIG'ERATIVE, adjective Cooling.

REFRIG'ERATIVE, noun A remedy that allays heat.

Refrigeratory

REFRIG'ERATORY, adjective Cooling; mitigating heat.

REFRIG'ERATORY, noun

1. In distillation, a vessel filled with cold water, through which the worm passes; by which means the vapors are condensed as they pass through the worm.

2. Any thing internally cooling.

Refrigerium

REFRIGE'RIUM, noun [Latin] Cooling refreshment; refrigeration. [Not in use.]

Reft

REFT, participle passive of reave.

1. Deprived; bereft. [Not in use.]

2. preterit tense of reave. Took away. [Not in use.]

REFT, noun A chink. [See rift.]

Refuge

REF'UGE, noun [Latin refugium, refugio; re and fugio, to flee.]

1. Shelter or protection from danger or distress.

- Rocks, dens and caves, but I in none of these find place or refuge

We have made lies our refuge Isaiah 28:15.

- We might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us. Hebrews 6:18.

2. That which shelters or protects from danger, distress or calamity; a strong hold which protects by its strength, or a sanctuary which secures safety by its sacredness; any place inaccessible to an enemy.

The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats. Psalms 104:18.

The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed. Psalms 9:9.

3. An expedient to secure protection or defense.

This last old man - their latest refuge was to send to him.

4. Expedient, in general.

Light must be supplied, among graceful refuges, by terracing any story in danger of darkness.

Cities of refuge among the Israelites, certain cities appointed to secure the safety of such persons as might commit homicide without design. Of these there were three on each side of Jordan. Joshua 20:2.

REF'UGE, verb transitive To shelter; to protect.

Refugee

REFUGEE', noun

1. One who flies to a shelter or place of safety.

2. One who, in times of persecution or political commotion, flees to a foreign country for safety; as the French refugees, who left France after the revocation of the edict of Nantz, and settled in Flanders and America; the refugees from Hispaniola, in 1792; and the American refugees, who left their country at the revolution.

Refulgence

REFUL'GENCE,

REFUL'GENCY, noun [Latin refulgens, refulgeo; re and fulgeo, to shine.] A flood of light; splendor.

Refulgency

REFUL'GENCY, n. [L. refulgens, refulgeo; re and fulgeo, to shine.] A flood of light; splendor.

Refulgent

REFUL'GENT, adjective Casting a bright light; shining; splendid; as refulgent beams; refulgent light; refulgent arms.

A conspicuous and refulgent truth.

Refulgently

REFUL'GENTLY, adverb With a flood of light; with great brightness.

Refund

REFUND', verb transitive [Latin refundo; re and fundo, to pour.]

1. To pour back.

Were the humors of the eye tinctured with any color, they would refund that color upon the object. [Unusual or obsolete.]

2. To repay; to return in payment or compensation for what has been taken; to restore; as, to refund money taken wrongfully; to refund money advanced with interest; to refund the amount advanced.

Refunded

REFUND'ED, participle passive Poured back; repaid.

Refunding

REFUND'ING, participle present tense Pouring back; returning by payment or compensation.

Refusable

REFU'SABLE, adjective s as z. [from refuse.] That may be refused.

Refusal

REFU'SAL, noun s as z.

1. The act of refusing; denial of any thing demanded, solicited or offered for acceptance. The first refusal is not always proof that the request will not be ultimately granted.

2. The right of taking in preference to others; the choice of taking or refusing; option; pre-emption. We say, a man has the refusal of a farm or a horse, or the refusal of an employment.

Refuse

REFU'SE, verb transitive s as z. [Latin recuso; re and the root of causor, to accuse; causa, cause. The primary sense of causor is to drive, to throw or thrust at, and recuso is to drive back, to repel or repulse, the sense of refuse ]

1. To deny a request, demand, invitation or command; to decline to do or grant what is solicited, claimed or commanded.

Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border. Numbers 20:21.

2. To decline to accept what is offered; as, to refuse an office; to refuse an offer.

If they refuse to take the cup at thy hand - Jeremiah 25:28.

3. To reject; as, to refuse instruction or reproof.

Proverbs 10:1.

The stone which the builders refused is become the head of the corner. Psalms 118:22.

[Note - refuse expenses rejection more strongly than decline.]

REFU'SE, verb intransitive s as z. To decline to accept; not to comply.

Too proud to ask, to humble too refuse

REF'USE, adjective

Literally, refused; rejected; hence, worthless; of no value; left as unworthy of reception; as the refuse parts of stone or timber.

Please to bestow on him the refuse letters.

REF'USE, noun That which is refused or rejected as useless; waste matter.

REFU'SE, noun Refusal. obsolete

Refused

REFU'SED, participle passive Denied; rejected; not accepted.

Refuser

REFU'SER, noun One that refuses or rejects.

Refusing

REFU'SING, participle present tense Denying; declining to accept; rejecting.

Refutable

REFU'TABLE, adjective [from refute.] That may be refuted or disproved; that may be proved false or erroneous.

Refutal

REFU'TAL, noun Refutation. [Not used.]

Refutation

REFUTA'TION, noun [Latin refutatio. See Refute.]

The act or process of refuting or disproving; the act of proving to be false or erroneous; the overthrowing of an argument, opinion, testimony, doctrine or theory, by argument or countervailing proof.

Refute

REFU'TE, verb transitive [Latin refuto; re and futo, obsolete The primary sense of futo, is to drive or thrust, to beat back.]

To disprove and overthrow by argument, evidence or countervailing proof; to prove to be false or erroneous; to confute. We say, to refute arguments, to refute testimony, to refute opinions or theories, to refute a disputant.

There were so many witnesses to these two miracles, that it is impossible to refute such multitudes.

Refuted

REFU'TED, participle passive Disproved; proved to be false or erroneous.

Refuter

REFU'TER, noun One that refutes.

Refuting

REFU'TING, participle present tense Proving to be false or erroneous; confuting.

Regain

REGA'IN, verb transitive [re and gain.]

To gain anew; to recover what has escaped or been lost.

Regained

REGA'INED, participle passive Recovered; gained anew.

Regaining

REGA'INING, participle present tense Gaining anew; recovering.

Regal

RE'GAL, adjective [Latin regalis, from rex, Latin rectus. See Reck and Reckon.]

Pertaining to a king; kingly; royal; as a regal title; regal authority; regal state, pomp or splendor; regal power or sway. But we say, a royal or kingly government, not a regal one. We never say, a regal territory, regal dominions, regal army, or regal navy. regal expresses what is more personal.

RE'GAL, noun A musical instrument.

Regale

REGA'LE, noun The prerogative of monarchy.

REGA'LE, noun [See the verb, below.] A magnificent entertainment or treat given to embassadors and other persons of distinction.

REGA'LE, verb transitive [Eng. gale, gallant, jolly; Gr.]

To refresh; to entertain with something that delights; to gratify, as the senses; as, to regale the taste, the eye or the ear. The birds of the forest regale us with their songs.

REGA'LE, verb transitive To feast; to fare sumptuously.

Regaled

REGA'LED, participle passive Refreshed; entertained; gratified.

Regalement

REGA'LEMENT, noun Refreshment; entertainment; gratification.

Regalia

REGA'LIA, noun [Latin from rex, king.]

1. Ensigns of royalty; the apparatus of a coronation; as the crown, scepter, etc.

2. In law, the rights and prerogatives of a king.

Regaling

REGA'LING, participle present tense Refreshing; entertaining; gratifying.

Regality

REGAL'ITY, noun [from Latin regalis.] Royalty; sovereignty; kingship.

He came partly in by the sword and had high courage in all points of regality

Regally

RE'GALLY, adverb In a royal manner.

Regard

REG'ARD, verb transitive

1. To look towards; to point or be directed.

It is a peninsula which regardeth the main land.

2. To observe; to notice with some particularity.

If much you note him, you offend him; feed and regard him not.

3. To attend to with respect and estimation; to value.

This aspect of mine, the best regarded virgins of your clime have lov'd.

4. To attend to as a thing that affects our interest or happiness; to fix the mind on as a matter of importance. He does not regard the pain he feels. He does not regard the loss he has suffered. He regards only the interest of the community.

5. To esteem; to hold in respect and affection. The people regard their pastor, and treat him with great kindness. 2 Kings 3:14.

6. To keep; to observe with religious or solemn attention.

He that regardeth the day, regardeth it to the Lord.

Romans 14:6.

7. To attend to as something to influence our conduct.

He that regardeth the clouds shall not reap. Ecclesiastes 11:4.

8. To consider seriously; to lay to heart.

They regard not the work of the Lord. Isaiah 5:12.

9. To notice with pity or concern. Deuteronomy 28:50.

10. To notice favorably or with acceptance; to hear and answer.

He will regard the prayer of the destitute. Psalms 102:17.

11. To love and esteem; to practice; as, to regard iniquity in the heart. Psalms 66:18.

12. To respect; to have relation to. The argument does not regard the question.

To regard the person, to value for outward honor, wealth or power. Matthew 22:16.

REG'ARD, noun

1. Look; aspect directed to another.

But her with stern regard he thus repell'd.

[Nearly or quite obsolete.]

2. Attention of the mind; respect in relation to something. He has no regard to the interest of society; his motives are wholly selfish.

3. Respect; esteem; reverence; that view of the mind which springs from value, estimable qualities, or any thing that excites admiration.

With some regard to what is just and right they'll lead their lives.

To him they had regard because of long time he had bewitched them with sorceries. Acts 8:11.

4. Respect; account.

Change was thought necessary, in regard of the injury the church received by a number of things then in use.

5. Relation; reference.

To persuade them to pursue and preserve in virtue, in regard to themselves; in justice and goodness, in regard to their neighbors; and piety towards God.

6. Note; eminence; account.

Mac Ferlagh was a man of meanest regard among them.

7. Matter demanding notice.

8. Prospect; object of sight. [Not proper nor in use.]

9. In the forest laws, view; inspection.

Court of regard or survey of dogs, a forest court in England, held every third year for the lawing or expeditation of mastifs, that is, for cutting off the claws and ball of the fore feet, to prevent them from running after deer.

Regardable

REG'ARDABLE, adjective Observable; worthy of notice.

Regardant

REG'ARDANT, adjective

1. In law, a villain regardant is one annexed to the manor or land.

2. In heraldry, looking behind, as a lion or other beast.

Regarded

REG'ARDED, participle passive Noticed; observed; esteemed; respected.

Regarder

REG'ARDER, noun

1. One that regards.

2. In law, the regarder of the forest is an officer whose business is to view the forest, inspect the officers, and inquire of all offenses and defaults.

Regardful

REG'ARDFUL, adjective Taking notice; heedful; observing with care; attentive.

Let a man be very tender and regardful of every pious motion made by the Spirit of God on his heart.

Regardfully

REG'ARDFULLY, adverb

1. Attentively; heedfully.

2. Respectfully.

Regarding

REG'ARDING, participle present tense

1. Noticing; considering with care; attending to; observing; esteeming; caring for.

2. Respecting; concerning; relating to.

Regardless

REG'ARDLESS, adjective

1. Not looking or attending to; heedless; negligent; careless; as regardless of life or of health; regardless of danger; regardless of consequences.

Regardless of the bliss wherein he sat.

2. Not regarded; slighted.

Regardlessly

REG'ARDLESSLY, adverb Heedlessly; carelessly; negligently.

Regardlessness

REG'ARDLESSNESS, noun Heedlessness; inattention; negligence.

Regata

REGA'TA,

REGATH'ER, verb transitive To gather or collect a second time.

Regathered

REGATH'ERED, participle passive Collected again.

Regathering

REGATH'ERING, participle present tense Gathering a second time.

Regatta

REGAT'TA, noun In Venice, a grand rowing match in which many boats are rowed for a prize.

Regel

REG'EL,

RE'GENCY, noun [Latin regens, from rego, to govern.]

1. Rule' authority; government.

2. Vicarious government.

3. The district under the jurisdiction of a vicegerent.

4. The body of men entrusted with vicarious government; as a regency constituted during a king's minority, insanity, or absence from the kingdom.

Regeneracy

REGEN'ERACY, noun [See Regenerate.] The state of being regenerated.

Regenerate

REGEN'ERATE, verb transitive [Latin regenero; re and genero. See Generate.]

1. To generate or produce anew; to reproduce.

Through all the soil a genial ferment spreads, regenerates the plants and new adorns the meads.

2. In theology, to renew the heart by a change of affections; to change the heart and affections from natural enmity to the love of God; to implant holy affections in the heart.

REGEN'ERATE, adjective [Latin regeneratus.]

1. Reproduced.

2. Born anew; renovated in heart; changed from a natural to a spiritual state.

Regenerated

REGEN'ERATED, participle passive

1. Reproduced.

2. Renewed; born again.

Regenerateness

REGEN'ERATENESS, noun The state of being regenerated.

Regenerating

REGEN'ERATING, participle present tense

1. Reproducing.

2. Renovating the nature by the implantation of holy affections in the heart.

Regeneration

REGENERA'TION, noun

1. Reproduction; the act of producing anew.

2. In theology, new birth by the grace of God; that change by which the will and natural enmity of man to God and his law are subdued, and a principle of supreme love to God and his law, or holy affections, are implanted in the heart.

He saved us by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit. Titus 3:5.

Regeneratory

REGEN'ERATORY, adjective Renewing; having the power to renew; tending to reproduce or renovate.

Regent

RE'GENT, adjective [Latin regens, from rego, to rule.

1. Ruling; governing; as a regent principle.

2. Exercising vicarious authority.

Queen regent a queen who governs; opposed to queen consort.

RE'GENT, noun

1. A governor; a ruler; in a general sense; as Uriel, regent of the sun.

2. One invested with vicarious authority; one who governs a kingdom in the minority, absence or disability of the king.

3. In colleges, a teacher of arts and sciences, having pupils under his care, generally of the lower classes; those who instruct the higher classes being called professors.

4. In English universities, a master of arts under five years standing, and a doctor under two.

5. In the state of New york, the member of a corporate body which is invested with the superintendence of all the colleges, academies and schools in the state. This board consists of twenty one members, who are called 'the regents of the university of the state of New York.' They are appointed and removable by the legislature. They have power to grant acts of incorporation for colleges, to visit and inspect all colleges, academies and schools, and to make regulations for governing the same.

Regentess

RE'GENTESS, noun A protectress of a kingdom.

Regentship

RE'GENTSHIP, noun

1. The power of governing, or the office of a regent.

2. Deputed authority.

Regerminate

REGERM'INATE, verb intransitive [re and germinate.]

To germinate again.

Perennial plants regerminate several years successively.

Regerminating

REGERM'INATING, participle present tense Germinating anew.

Regermination

REGERMINA'TION, noun A sprouting or germination anew.

Regest

REGEST', noun A register. [Not in use.]

Regible

REG'IBLE, adjective Governable. [Not in use.]

Regimental

REGIMENT'AL, adjective Belonging to a regiment; as regimental officers; regimental clothing.

Regimentals

REGIMENT'ALS, noun plural The uniform worn by the troops of a regiment.

Region

REGION, noun re'jun. [Latin regio, rego.]

1. A tract of land or space of indefinite extent, usually a tract of considerable extent. It is sometimes nearly synonymous with country; as all the region of Argob. Deuteronomy 3:4.

He had dominion over all the region on this side the river. 1 Kings 4:11.

So we speak of the airy region the etherial regions, the upper regions, the lower regions.

2. The inhabitants of a region or district of country. Matthew 3:5.

3. A part of the body; as the region of the heart or liver.

4. Place; rank.

He is of too high a region [Unusual.]

Registration

REGISTRA'TION, noun The act of inserting in a register.

Regorge

REGORGE, verb transitive regorj'.

1. To vomit up; to eject from the stomach; to throw back or out again.

2. To swallow again.

3. To swallow eagerly.

Regrade

REGRA'DE, verb intransitive [Latin regredior; re and gradior, to go.] To retire; to go back. [Not used.]

Regraft

REGR'AFT, verb transitive [re and graft.] To graft again.

Regrafted

REGR'AFTED, participle passive Grafted again.

Regrafting

REGR'AFTING, participle present tense Grafting anew.

Regrant

REGR'ANT, verb transitive [re and grant.] To grant back.

REGR'ANT, noun The act of granting back to a former proprietor.

Regranted

REGR'ANTED, participle passive Granted back.

Regranting

REGR'ANTING, participle present tense Granting back.

Regrate

REGRA'TE, verb transitive

1. To offend; to shock. [Little used.]

2. To buy provisions and sell them again in the same market or fair; a practice which, by raising the price is a public offense and punishable. Regrating differs from engrossing and monopolizing, which signify the buying the whole of certain articles, or large quantities, and from forestalling, which signifies the purchase of provisions on the way, before they reach the market.

Regrater

REGRA'TER, noun One who buys provisions and sells them in the same market or fair.

Regrating

REGRA'TING, participle present tense Purchasing provisions and selling them in the same market.

Regreet

REGREE'T, verb transitive [re and greet.] To greet again; to resalute.

REGREET, noun A return or exchange of salutation.

Regreeted

REGREE'TED, participle passive Greeting again or in return.

Regreeting

REGREE'TING, participle present tense Greeting again; resaluting.

Regress

RE'GRESS, noun [Latin regressus, regredior.]

1. Passage back; return; as ingress and regress

2. The power of returning or passing back.

REGRESS', verb intransitive To go back; to return to a former place or state.

Regression

REGRES'SION, noun The act of passing back or returning.

Regressive

REGRESS'IVE, adjective Passing back; returning.

Regressively

REGRESS'IVELY, adverb In a backward way or manner; by return.

Regret

REGRET', noun

1. Grief; sorrow; pain of mind. We feel regret at the loss of friends, regret for our own misfortunes, or for the misfortunes of others.

Never any prince expressed a more lively regret for the loss of a servant.

Her piety itself would blame, if her regrets should waken thine.

2. Pain of conscience; remorse; as a passionate regret at sin.

3. Dislike; aversion. [Not proper nor in use.]

REGRET', verb transitive

1. To grieve at; to lament; to be sorry for; to repent.

Calmly he look'd on either life, and here saw nothing to regret or there to fear.

2. To be uneasy at. [Not proper nor in use.]

Regretful

REGRET'FUL, adjective Full of regret.

Regretfully

REGRET'FULLY, adverb With regret.

Regretted

REGRET'TED, participle passive Lamented.

Regretting

REGRET'TING, participle present tense Lamenting; grieving at; repenting.

Reguerdon

REGUERDON, noun regerd'on. [See Reward.]

A reward; a recompense. [Not in use.]

REGUERDON, verb transitive regerd'on. To reward. [Not in use.]

Regular

REG'ULAR, adjective [Latin regularis, from regula, a rule, from rego, to rule.]

1. Conformed to a rule; agreeable to an established rule, law or principle, to a prescribed mode or to established customary forms; as a regular epic poem; a regular verse in poetry; a regular piece of music; regular practice of law or medicine; a regular plan; a regular building.

2. Governed by rule or rules; steady or uniform in a course or practice; as regular in diet; regular in attending on divine worship.

3. In geometry, a regular figure is one whose sides and angles are equal, as a square, a cube, or an equilateral triangle. regular figures of more than three or four sides are usually called regular polygons.

4. Instituted or initiated according to established forms or discipline; as a regular physician.

5. Methodical; orderly; as a regular kind of sensuality or indulgence.

6. Periodical; as the regular return of day and night; a regular trade wind or monsoon.

7. Pursued with uniformity or steadiness; as a regular trade.

8. Belonging to a monastic order; as regular clergy, in distinction from the secular clergy.

Regular troops, troops of a permanent army; opposed to militia.

REG'ULAR, noun

1. In a monastery, one who has taken the vows, and who is bound to follow the rules of the order.

2. A soldier belonging to a permanent army.

Regularity

REGULAR'ITY, noun

1. Agreeableness to a rule or to established order; as the regularity of legal proceedings.

2. Method; certain order. regularity is the life of business.

3. Conformity to certain principles; as the regularity of a figure.

4. Steadiness or uniformity in a course; as the regularity of the motion of a heavenly body. There is no regularity in the vicissitudes of the weather.

Regularly

REG'ULARLY, adverb

1. In a manner accordant to a rule or established mode; as a physician or lawyer regularly admitted to practice; a verse regularly formed.

2. In uniform order; at certain intervals or periods; as day and night regularly returning.

3. Methodically; in due order; as affairs regularly performed.

Regulate

REG'ULATE, verb transitive

1. To adjust by rule, method or established mode; as, to regulate weights and measures; to regulate the assize of bread; to regulate our moral conduct by the laws of God and of society; to regulate our manners by the customary forms.

2. To put in good order; as, to regulate the disordered state of a nation or its finances.

3. To subject to rules or restrictions; as, to regulate trade; to regulate diet.

Regulated

REG'ULATED, participle passive Adjusted by rule, method or forms; put in good order; subjected to rules or restrictions.

Regulating

REG'ULATING, participle present tense Adjusting by rule, method or forms; reducing to order; subjecting to rules or restrictions.

Regulation

REGULA'TION, noun

1. The act of regulating or reducing to order.

2. A rule or order prescribed by a superior for the management of some business, or for the government of a company or society.

Regulator

REG'ULATOR, noun

1. One who regulates.

2. The small spring of a watch, which regulates its motions by retarding or accelerating them.

3. Any part of a machine which regulates its movements.

Reguline

REG'ULINE, adjective [See Regulus.] Pertaining to regulus or pure metal.

Bodies which we can reduce to the metallic or reguline state.

Regulize

REG'ULIZE, verb transitive To reduce to regulus or pure metal; to separate pure metal from extraneous matter.

Regulus

REG'ULUS, noun [Latin a petty king.]

In chimistry, the finer or pure part of a metallic substance, which, in the melting of ores, falls to the bottom of the crucible.

Regurgitate

REGURG'ITATE, verb transitive [Latin re and gurges.]

To throw or pour back as from a deep or hollow place; to pour or throw back in great quantity.

REGURG'ITATE, verb intransitive To be thrown or poured back.

Regurgitated

REGURG'ITATED, participle passive Thrown or poured back.

Regurgitating

REGURG'ITATING, participle present tense Throwing or pouring back.

Regurgitation

REGURGITA'TION, noun

1. The act of pouring back.

2. The act of swallowing again; reabsorption.

Rehabilitate

REHABIL'ITATE, verb transitive

To restore to a former capacity; to reinstate; to qualify again; to restore, as a delinquent to a former right, rank or privilege lost or forfeited; a term of the civil and canon law.

Rehabilitated

REHABIL'ITATED, participle passive Restored to a former rank, right privilege or capacity; reinstated.

Rehabilitating

REHABIL'ITATING, participle present tense Restoring to a former right, rank, privilege or capacity; reinstating.

Rehabilitation

REHABILITA'TION, noun The act of reinstating in a former rank or capacity; restoration to former rights.

Rehear

REHE'AR, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive reheard. [re and hear.]

To hear again; to try a second time; as, to rehear a cause in the court of king's bench.

Reheard

REHE'ARD, participle passive Heard again.

Rehearing

REHE'ARING, participle present tense Hearing a second time.

REHE'ARING, noun

1. A second hearing.

2. In law, a second hearing or trial.

Rehearsal

REHEARSAL, noun rehers'al. [from rehearse.]

1. Recital; repetition of the words of another or of a written work; as the rehearsal of the Lord's prayer.

2. Narration; a telling or recounting, as of particulars in detail; as the rehearsal of a soldier's adventures.

3. The recital of a place before the public exhibition of it; as the rehearsal of a comedy.

Rehearse

REHEARSE, verb transitive rehers.'

1. To recite; to repeat the words of a passage or composition; to repeat the words of another.

When the words were heard which David spoke, they rehearsed them before Saul. 1 Samuel 17:31.

2. To narrate or recount events or transactions.

There shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord. Judges 5:11. Acts 11:4.

3. To recite or repeat in private for experiment and improvement, before a public representation; as, to rehearse a tragedy.

Rehearsed

REHEARSED, participle passive rehers'ed. Recited; repeated; as words; narrated.

Rehearser

REHEARSER, noun rehers'er. One who recites or narrates.

Rehearsing

REHEARSING, participle present tense rehers'ing. Reciting; repeating words; recounting; telling; narrating.

Reigle

RE'IGLE, noun A hollow cut or channel for guiding any thing; as the reigle of a side post for a flood gate.

Reign

REIGN, verb intransitive rane. [Latin regno, a derivative of rego, regnum.]

1. To possess or exercise sovereign power or authority; to rule; to exercise government, as a king or emperor; or to hold the supreme power. George the third reigned over Great Britain more than fifty years.

Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness. Isaiah 32:1.

2. To be predominant; to prevail.

Pestilent diseases which commonly reign in summer or autumn.

3. To rule; to have superior or uncontrolled dominion. Romans 6:12.

[This word is never applied to the exercise of supreme power by a legislative body or the executive administration, in the United States.]

REIGN, noun rane. [Latin regnum.]

1. Royal authority; supreme power; sovereignty.

He who like a father held his reign

2. The time during which a king, queen or emperor possesses the supreme authority. The Spanish armada was equipped to invade England in the reign of queen Elizabeth. Magna Charta was obtained in the reign of king John.

3. Kingdom; dominion.

Saturn's sons received the threefold reign of heav'n, of ocean, and deep hell beneath.

4. Power; influence.

5. Prevalence.

Reigning

REIGNING, participle present tense ra'ning.

1. Holding or exercising supreme power; ruling; governing as king, queen or emperor.

2. adjective Predominating; prevailing; as a reigning vice or disease.

Reimbark

REIMBARK. [See Re-embark.]

Reimbody

REIMBOD'Y, verb intransitive [re and imbody or embody.]

To imbody again; to be formed into a body anew.

Reimbursable

REIMBURS'ABLE, adjective That may be repaid.

A loan has been made of two million of dollars, reimbursable in ten years.

Reimburse

REIMBURSE, verb transitive reimburs'.

To refund; to replace in a treasury or in a private coffer, an equivalent to the sum taken from it, lost or expended; as, to reimburse the expenses of a war or a canal. The word is used before the person expending, or the treasury from which the advances are made, or before the expenses. We say, to reimburse the individual, to reimburse the treasury, or to reimburse the expenses. To reimburse the person, is to repay to him his losses, expenses or advances; to reimburse the treasury, is to refund to it the sum drawn from it; to reimburse losses or expenses, is to repay them or make them good.

Reimbursed

REIMBURS'ED, participle passive Repaid; refunded; made good, as loss or expense.

Reimbursement

REIMBURSEMENT, noun reimburs'ment. The act of repaying or refunding; repayment; as the reimbursement of principal and interest.

Reimburser

REIMBURS'ER, noun One who repays or refunds what has been lost or expended.

Reimbursing

REIMBURS'ING, participle present tense Repaying; refunding; making good, as loss or expense.

Reimplant

REIMPLANT', verb transitive [re and implant.] To implant again.

Reimplanted

REIMPLANT'ED, participle passive Implanted anew.

Reimplanting

REIMPLANT'ING, participle present tense Implanting again.

Reimportune

REIMPORTU'NE, verb transitive [re and importune.] To importune again.

Reimportuned

REIMPORTU'NED, participle passive Importuned again.

Reimportuning

REIMPORTU'NING, participle present tense Importuning again.

Reimpregnate

REIMPREG'NATE, verb transitive [re and impregnate.]

To impregnate again.

Reimpregnated

REIMPREG'NATED, participle passive Impregnated again.

Reimpregnating

REIMPREG'NATING, participle present tense Impregnating again.

Reimpress

REIMPRESS', verb transitive [re and impress.] To impress anew.

Reimpressed

REIMPRESS'ED, participle passive Impressed again.

Reimpressing

REIMPRESS'ING, participle present tense Impressing again.

Reimpression

REIMPRES'SION, noun A second or repeated impression.

Reimprint

REIMPRINT', verb transitive [re and imprint.] To imprint again.

Reimprinted

REIMPRINT'ED, participle passive Imprinted again.

Reimprinting

REIMPRINT'ING, participle present tense Imprinting anew.

Rein

REIN, noun [Latin retina, retinaculum. If contracted from the Latin, it is from retineo, otherwise from the root of arrest.]

1. The strap of a bridle, fastened to the curb or snaffle on each side, by which the rider of a horse restrains and governs him.

2. The instrument of curbing, restraining or governing; government.

To give the reins, to give license; to leave without restraint.

To take the reins, to take the guidance or government.

REIN, verb transitive

1. To govern by a bridle.

2. To restrain; to control.

Reindeer

REINDEER, noun

A species of the cervine genus; more correctly written ranedeer, or rather rane, which is the true name.

Reinfect

REINFECT', verb intransitive [re and infect.] To infect again.

Reinfected

REINFECT'ED, participle passive Infected again.

Reinfecting

REINFECT'ING, participle present tense Infecting again.

Reinfectious

REINFEC'TIOUS, adjective Capable of infecting again.