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Reappointment

The act of reappointing, or the state of being reappointed.

Rear

To rise up on the hind legs, as a horse; to become erect.

Rearer

One who, or that which, rears.

Reargue re-argue

To argue anew or again; as, This politician will be forced into re-arguing an old national campaign. Usually used without the hyphen.

Reargument

An arguing over again, as of a motion made in court.

rearm re-arm

To become armed again; as, after the war, the defeated country rapidly rearmed. Usually used without the hyphen.

Rearrange re-arrange

To arrange again; to put into a different order; to arrange in a different way; as, Please re-arrange these files in alphabetical order. Usually used without the hyphen.

Rearrangement

The act of rearranging, or the state of being rearranged.

Reascend

To ascend or mount again; to reach by ascending again.

Reascent

A returning ascent or ascension; acclivity.

Reason

To arrange and present the reasons for or against; to examine or discuss by arguments; to debate or discuss; as, I reasoned the matter with my friend.

Reasoner

One who reasons or argues; as, a fair reasoner; a close reasoner; a logical reasoner.

Reasoning

The act or process of adducing a reason or reasons; manner of presenting one's reasons.

Reasonless

Destitute of reason; as, a reasonless man or mind.

reassail re-assail

To assail again; as, Her old fears reassailed her. Usually used without the hyphen.

Reassemble re-assemble

To assemble again; -- usually after having taking something apart. Usually used without the hyphen.

Reassert

To assert again or anew; to maintain after an omission to do so.

Reassertion

A second or renewed assertion of the same thing.

Reassign

To assign back or again; to transfer back what has been assigned.

Reassociate

To associate again; to bring again into close relations.

Reassume

To assume again or anew; to resume.

Reassurance

Assurance or confirmation renewed or repeated.

Reassure

To assure anew; to restore confidence to; to free from fear or terror.

Reasty

Rusty and rancid; -- applied to salt meat.

Reaumur

Of or pertaining to Ren/ Antoine Ferchault de R/aumur; conformed to the scale adopted by R/aumur in graduating the thermometer he invented. A R/aumur thermometer or scale.

Reave

To take away by violence or by stealth; to snatch away; to rob; to despoil; to bereave. [Archaic].

Rebate

To cut a rebate in. See Rabbet, v.

Rebec

An instrument formerly used which somewhat resembled the violin, having three strings, and being played with a bow.

Rebel

To renounce, and resist by force, the authority of the ruler or government to which one owes obedience. See Rebellion.

Rebeldom

A region infested by rebels; rebels, considered collectively; also, conduct or quality characteristic of rebels.

Rebellion

The act of rebelling; open and avowed renunciation of the authority of the government to which one owes obedience, and resistance to its officers and laws, either by levying war, or by aiding others to do so; an organized uprising of subjects for the purpose of coercing or overthrowing their lawful ruler or government by force; revolt; insurrection.

Rebellious

Engaged in rebellion; disposed to rebel; of the nature of rebels or of rebellion; resisting government or lawful authority by force.

Rebellow

To bellow again; to repeat or echo a bellow.

rebind re-bind

To provide with a new binding, as of books. Usually used without the hyphen.

Rebiting

The act or process of deepening worn lines in an etched plate by submitting it again to the action of acid.

Reboant

Rebellowing; resounding loudly.

Reboil

To boil, or to cause to boil, again.

Rebound

The act of rebounding; resilience.

Rebozo

A kind of mantilla worn by women over the head and shoulders, and sometimes over part of the face.

Rebuff

To beat back; to offer sudden resistance to; to check; to repel or repulse violently, harshly, or uncourteously.

Rebuild re-build

To build again, as something which has been demolished; to construct anew; as, to rebuild a house, a wall, a wharf, or a city. Usually used without the hyphen.

Rebukable

Worthy of rebuke or reprehension; reprehensible.

Rebuke

A direct and pointed reproof; a reprimand; also, chastisement; punishment.

Rebukeful

Containing rebuke; of the nature of rebuke.

Rebus

To mark or indicate by a rebus.

Rebut

To retire; to recoil.

Rebuttal

The giving of evidence on the part of a plaintiff to destroy the effect of evidence introduced by the defendant in the same suit.

Rebutter

The answer of a defendant in matter of fact to a plaintiff's surrejoinder.

Recadency

A falling back or descending a second time; a relapse.

Recalcitrant

Kicking back; recalcitrating; hence, showing repugnance or opposition; refractory.

Recalcitrate

To kick back; to kick against anything; hence, to express repugnance or opposition.

Recalcitration

A kicking back again; opposition; repugnance; refractoriness.

Recall

A calling back; a revocation.

Recant

To revoke a declaration or proposition; to unsay what has been said; to retract; as, convince me that I am wrong, and I will recant.

Recantation

The act of recanting; a declaration that contradicts a former one; that which is thus asserted in contradiction; retraction.

Recapitulate

To sum up, or enumerate by heads or topics, what has been previously said; to repeat briefly the substance.

Recapitulation

The act of recapitulating; a summary, or concise statement or enumeration, of the principal points, facts, or statements, in a preceding discourse, argument, or essay.

Recapitulatory

Of the nature of a recapitulation; containing recapitulation.

Recapper

A tool used for applying a fresh percussion cap or primer to a cartridge shell in reloading it.

Recaption

The act of retaking, as of one who has escaped after arrest; 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.

Recaptor

One who recaptures; one who takes a prize which had been previously taken.

Recarbonize

To restore carbon to; as, to recarbonize iron in converting it into steel.

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