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An American Dictionary of the English Language
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Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Rē-bīt'ing, n. p. 1094(Engraving.) The act or process of restoring worn lines in an engraved plate by the action of acid. Fairholt.Rē-blōom’, v. i. p. 1094To bloom anew. Health again resumed Its former seat, I must not say rebloomed. Crabbe.Rē-blōs'som, v. i. p. 1094To blossom again.Re-bō'ant, a. p. 1094Bellowing back; rebel-lowing; loudly resounding. [Rare.] “Their echoes reboant.” Browning.Rē/bo-ā'tion, n. p. 1094Return of a loud, bellowing sound. [R.] Patrick.Rē-boil', v. i. p. 1094To take fire; to be hot. Sir T. Elyot.Rē-boil', v. t. p. 1094To boil again.Rē-bound′, v. i. p. 1094To spring back; to start back; to be reverberated by elastic force on collision with another body; as, a rebounding echo. Bodies absolutely hard, or so soft as to be void of elasticity, will not…Rē-bound′, v. t. p. 1094To drive back; to reverberate. Silenus sung; the vales his voice rebound. Dryden.Rē-bound', n. p. 1094The act of flying back upon collision with another body; resilience. “Put back as from a rock with swift rebound.” Dryden.Rē-brāce’, v. t. p. 1094To brace again. Gray.Rē-brēathe', v. i. p. 1094To breathe again.Re-bū'cous, a. p. 1094Containing or expressing rebuke; rebuking; reproving. [Obs. and rare.] She gave unto him many rebucous words. Fabyan.Re-bŭff′, n. p. 1094Repercussion, or beating back; a quick and sudden resistance. “The strong rebuff of some tumultuous cloud.” Milton. 2. Sudden check; defeat; repellence; refusal; rejection of solicitation.Re-bŭff', v. t. p. 1094To beat back; to offer sudden resistance to; to check; to repel violently, harshly, or uncourteously.Rē-bŭf'fet, v. t. p. 1094To buffet again, or in return; to beat back.Rē-buĭld', v. t. p. 1094To build again; to renew; to build or construct, as something which has been demolished; as, to rebuild a house, a wall, a wharf, or a city.Rē-buĭld'er, n. p. 1094One who rebuilds. Bp. Hall.Re-bū'k'a-ble, a. p. 1094Worthy of rebuke or reprehension. Shak.Re-būke', v. t. p. 1094To check, silence, or put down, with reproof; to restrain by expression of disapprobation; to reprehend sharply and summarily; to chide; to reprove; to admonish. The proud he tamed, the penitent he…Re-būke’, n. p. 1094A direct and pointed reproof; reprimand; also, chastisement; punishment; affliction. For thy sake I have suffered rebuke. Jer. xv. 15. Why bear you these rebukes, and answer not? Shak. 2. Check…Re-būke'ful, a. p. 1094Containing, or abounding with, rebukes. [Obs.]Re-būke'ful-ly, adv. p. 1094With reproof or reprehension. [Obs.]Re-būk'er, n. p. 1094One who rebukes; one who reproves, chastises, or restrains; a chider.Re-būk'ing-ly, adv. p. 1094By way of rebuke.Rē-bul-li'tion, n. p. 1094The act of boiling or effervescing. [Rare.] Wotton.Ré-buoy', v. t. p. 1094To buoy again; to raise or support again.Rē-bur'y, v. t. p. 1094To bury or inter again. Ashmole.Rē′bus, n. p. 1094A mode of expressing words or phrases by pictures of objects whose names bear a resemblance to those words, or to the syllables of which they are composed; enigmatical representation of words by…Re'bus, v. t. p. 1094To try the skill of with a rebus; hence, to give a riddle to; to play a puzzle or trick upon. Is there any man has rebused your worship? Shak. 2. To mark or indicate by a rebus. He [John Morton] had…Re-būt', v. t. p. 1094To drive back; to rebuff; to repel by force. Who, rencontering fierce as hawk in flight, Perforce rebutted back. Spenser. 2. (Law.) To oppose by argument, plea, or countervailing proof.Re-būt', v. i. p. 1094To retire. [Obs.] Spenser. 2. (Law.) To make an answer, as to a plaintiff's surrejoinder. The plaintiff may answer the rejoinder by a surrejoinder; on which the defendant may rebut. Blackstone.Re-bŭt'ter, n. p. 1094(Law.) The answer of a defendant in matter of fact to a plaintiff's surrejoinder. Blackstone.Rē-cā'den-cy, n. p. 1094A falling or descending a second time.Rē-cāl'ci-trant, a. p. 1094Kicking back; recalcitrating; hence, showing repugnance or opposition.Rē-cāl'ci-trāte, v. t. p. 1094To kick against; to show repugnance to; to rebuff. The more heartily did one disdain his disdain, and recalcitrate his tricks. De Quincey.Rē-cāl'ci-trāte, v. i. p. 1094To kick back; to kick against any thing; hence, to express repugnance.Rē-cāl'ci-trā'tion, n. p. 1094A kicking back again; opposition; repugnance. W. Scott.Re-cāll', v. t. p. 1094To call back; to take back; to summon to return; as, to recall troops. “If Henry were recalled to life again.” Shak. 2. To revoke; to annul by a subsequent act; to recant; as, to recall words, or a…Re-cāll', n. p. 1094A calling back; revocation. 'Tis done; and since 'tis done, 'tis past recall. Dryden.Re-cāl'la-ble, a. p. 1094Capable of being recalled. “Delegates recallable at pleasure.” Madison.Re-cāll'ment, n. p. 1094The act of recalling; recall; also, the state of being recalled. [Obs.]Re-cānt', v. t. p. 1094To assert in opposition to something previously asserted; to contradict, as a former declaration; to take back by one's own act; to retract; to recall. How soon would ease recant Vows made in pain…Re-cānt′, v. i. p. 1094To revoke a declaration or proposition; to unsay what has been said; as, convince me I am wrong, and I will recant.Rē'can-tā'tion, n. p. 1094The act of recanting; a declaration that contradicts a former one; that which is thus asserted in contradiction; retraction. The poor man was . . . forced to make a public recantation. Stillingfleet.Re-cānt’er, n. p. 1094One who recants.Rē'ea-păç'i-tāte, v. t. p. 1094To qualify again; to confer capacity on again. Atterbury.Rē-ca-pīt'ū-lāte, v. t. p. 1094To repeat, as the principal things mentioned in a preceding discourse, argument, or essay; to give a summary of the principal facts, points, or arguments of; to relate in brief. Syn.—To reiterate…Rēä-pīt'ū-lāte, v. i. p. 1094To sum up what has been previously said or defended.Rē'ca-pĭt'ū-lā'tion, n. p. 1094The act of recapitulating; a summary or concise statement or enumeration of the principal points or facts in a preceding discourse, argument, or essay.Rē/cap-it'ū-la-to-ry, a. p. 1094Repeating again; containing recapitulation.Rē-cāp'tion, n. p. 1094The act of retaking; reprisal; the retaking of one's own goods, chattels, wife, or children, without force or violence, from one who has taken them and who wrongfully detains them. Blackstone.Writ of recaption p. 1095a writ to recover damages for him whose goods, being distrained for rent or service, are distrained again for the same cause. Craig. Wharton.Rē-cāp'tor, n. p. 1095One who retakes; one who takes a prize which had been previously taken.Rē-căpt'ūre, n. p. 1095The act of retaking; especially, the retaking of a prize or goods from a captor. 2. That which is captured back; a prize retaken.Rē-căpt’ūre, v. t. p. 1095To retake; especially, to retake a prize which had been previously taken.Rē-cār'bon-īze, v. t. p. 1095To restore carbon to, as to that from which it has been extracted; to carbonize anew; as, to recarbonize steel.Rē-cār'nī-fy, v. t. p. 1095To convert again into flesh. [Obs.] Howell.Rē-cār'ry, v. t. p. 1095To carry back. Walton.Rē-cāst', v. t. p. 1095To throw again. Florio. 2. To mold anew; to cast anew; to throw into a new form or shape; to reconstruct; as, to recast an argument or play; to recast a cannon. 3. To compute a second time.