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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.

Recede

To cede back; to grant or yield again to a former possessor; as, to recede conquered territory.

Receipt

To give a receipt, as for money paid.

Receiptment

The receiving or harboring a felon knowingly, after the commission of a felony.

Receiptor

One who receipts; specifically (Law), one who receipts for property which has been taken by the sheriff.

Receive

To receive visitors; to be at home to receive calls; as, she receives on Tuesdays.

Receivedness

The state or quality of being received, accepted, or current; as, the receivedness of an opinion.

Receiver

One who takes or receives in any manner.

Recency

The state or quality of being recent; newness; new state; late origin; lateness in time; freshness; as, the recency of a transaction, of a wound, etc.

Recension

The act of reviewing or revising; review; examination; enumeration.

Recensionist

One who makes recensions; specifically, a critical editor.

Recent

Of late origin, existence, or occurrence; lately come; not of remote date, antiquated style, or the like; not already known, familiar, worn out, trite, etc.; fresh; novel; new; modern; as, recent news.

Recenter

To center again; to restore to the center.

Recently

Newly; lately; freshly; not long since; as, advices recently received.

Receptacle

That which serves, or is used, for receiving and containing something, as for examople, a basket, a vase, a bag, a reservoir; a repository.

Receptacular

Pertaining to the receptacle, or growing on it; as, the receptacular chaff or scales in the sunflower.

Receptaculum

A receptacle; as, the receptaculum of the chyle.

Receptibility

The quality or state of being receptible; receivableness.

Reception

The act of receiving; receipt; admission; as, the reception of food into the stomach; the reception of a letter; the reception of sensation or ideas; reception of evidence.

Receptive

Having the quality of receiving; able or inclined to take in, absorb, hold, or contain; receiving or containing; as, a receptive mind.

Recess

A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.

Recessed

Having a recess or recesses; as, a recessed arch or wall.

Recession

The act of ceding back; restoration; repeated cession; as, the recession of conquered territory to its former sovereign.

Recessional

Of or pertaining to recession or withdrawal.

recessional

a hymn or other piece of music sung or played while a church congregation is leaving a service, or a choir is returning to the cloak room; a recessional hymn.

Recessive

A genetic trait determined by a recessive{2} allele; a trait not appearing in the phenotype unless both chromosomes of the organism have the same allele; also, an allele which is recessive{2}.

Rechabite

One of the descendants of Jonadab, the son of Rechab, all of whom by his injunction abstained from the use of intoxicating drinks and even from planting the vine. Jer. xxxv. 2-19. Also, in modern times, a member of a certain society of abstainers from alcoholic liquors.

Rechange

To change again, or change back.

Recharter

To charter again or anew; to grant a second or another charter to.

Rechase

To chase again; to chase or drive back.

Rechauff/

A dish of food that has been warmed again, hence, fig., something made up from old material; a rehash.

Recherche

Sought out with care; choice. of rare quality, elegance, or attractiveness; peculiar and refined in kind.

Recidivism

The state or quality of being recidivous; relapse, a falling back or relapse into prior criminal habits, esp. after conviction and punishment.

Recidivist

One who is recidivous or is characterized by recidivism; an incorrigible criminal.

Recidivous

Tending or liable to backslide or relapse to a former condition or habit.

Recipe

A formulary or prescription for making some combination, mixture, or preparation of materials; a receipt.

Recipiangle

An instrument with two arms that are pivoted together at one end, and a graduated arc, -- used by military engineers for measuring and laying off angles of fortifications.

Reciprocal

That which is reciprocal to another thing.

Reciprocality

The quality or condition of being reciprocal; reciprocalness.

Reciprocally

In a reciprocal manner; so that each affects the other, and is equally affected by it; interchangeably; mutually.

Reciprocalness

The quality or condition of being reciprocal; mutual return; alternateness.

Reciprocate

To give and return mutually; to make return for; to give in return; to interchange; to alternate; as, to reciprocate favors.

Reciprocation

The act of reciprocating; interchange of acts; a mutual giving and returning; as, the reciprocation of kindness.

Reciprocornous

Having horns turning backward and then forward, like those of a ram.

Recital

The act of reciting; the repetition of the words of another, or of a document; rehearsal; as, the recital of testimony.

Recitation

The act of reciting; rehearsal; repetition of words or sentences.

Recitative

Of or pertaining to recitation; intended for musical recitation or declamation; in the style or manner of recitative.

Reciter

One who recites; also, a book of extracts for recitation.

Reck

To make account; to take heed; to care; to mind; -- often followed by of.

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