Loading earlier words…
Recuperation

Recovery, as of anything lost, especially of the health or strength.

Recur

To come back; to return again or repeatedly; to come again to mind.

Recurrent

Returning from time to time; recurring; as, recurrent pains.

Recursant

Displayed with the back toward the spectator; -- said especially of an eagle.

Recurvation

The act of recurving, or the state of being recurved; a bending or flexure backward.

Recurve

To curve in an opposite or unusual direction; to bend back or down.

Recurved

Curved in an opposite or uncommon direction; bent back; as, a bird with a recurved bill; flowers with recurved petals.

Recusancy

The state of being recusant; nonconformity.

Recusant

One who is obstinate in refusal; one standing out stubbornly against general practice or opinion.

recuse

To withdraw oneself from serving as a judge or other decision-maker in order to avoid a real or apparent conflict of interest; -- often used with the reflexive; as, the judge recused himself due to a financial interest in the matter.

Recussion

The act of beating or striking back.

Red

The color of blood, or of that part of the spectrum farthest from violet, or a tint resembling these.

Red-gum

An eruption of red pimples upon the face, neck, and arms, in early infancy; tooth rash; strophulus.

Red-handed Red-hand

Having hands red with blood; in the very act, as if with red or bloody hands; -- said of a person taken in the act of homicide; hence, fresh from the commission of crime; as, he was taken red-hand or red-handed.

Red-hot

Red with heat; heated to redness; as, red-hot iron; red-hot balls. Hence, figuratively, excited; violent; as, a red-hot radical.

Red-letter

Of or pertaining to a red letter; marked by red letters.

Red-riband

The European red band fish, or fireflame. See Rend fish.

Red-short

Hot-short; brittle when red-hot; -- said of certain kinds of iron.

Red-tape

Pertaining to, or characterized by, official formality. See Red tape, under Red, a.

Red-tapism

Strict adherence to official formalities.

Red-tapist

One who is tenacious of a strict adherence to official formalities.

Redact

To reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape (matter for publication); to edit.

Redaction

The act of redacting; work produced by redacting; a digest.

Redactor

One who redacts; one who prepares matter for publication; an editor.

Redan

A work having two parapets whose faces unite so as to form a salient angle toward the enemy.

Redargue

To disprove; to refute; toconfute; to reprove; to convict.

Redargutory

Pertaining to, or containing, redargution; refutatory.

Redbird

The cardinal bird. The summer redbird (Piranga rubra). The scarlet tanager. See Tanager.

Redbreast

The European robin. The American robin. See Robin. The knot, or red-breasted snipe; -- called also robin breast, and robin snipe. See Knot.

Redbud

A small ornamental leguminous tree of the American species of the genus Cercis. See Judas tree, under Judas.

Redcoat

One who wears a red coat; specifically, a red-coated British soldier.

Redde

obs. imp. of Read, or Rede.

Redden

To grow or become red; to blush.

Reddendum

A clause in a deed by which some new thing is reserved out of what had been granted before; the clause by which rent is reserved in a lease.

Reddish

Somewhat red; moderately red.

Redditive

Answering to an interrogative or inquiry; conveying a reply; as, redditive words.

Reddle

Red chalk. See under Chalk.

Rede

Advice; counsel; suggestion.

Redeem

To purchase back; to regain possession of by payment of a stipulated price; to repurchase.

Redeemable

Capable of being redeemed; subject to repurchase; held under conditions permitting redemption; as, a pledge securing the payment of money is redeemable.

Redeemableness

The quality or state of being redeemable; redeemability.

Redemand

A demanding back; a second or renewed demand.

Redemise

The transfer of an estate back to the person who demised it; reconveyance; as, the demise and redemise of an estate. See under Demise.

redemption

The act of redeeming, or the state of being redeemed; repurchase; ransom; release; rescue; deliverance; as, the redemption of prisoners taken in war; the redemption of a ship and cargo. The liberation of an estate from a mortgage, or the taking back of property mortgaged, upon performance of the terms or conditions on which it was conveyed; also, the right of redeeming and reentering upon an estate mortgaged. See Equity of redemption, under Equity. Performance of the obligation stated in a note, bill, bond, or other evidence of debt, by making payment to the holder. The procuring of God's favor by the sufferings and death of Christ; the ransom or deliverance of sinners from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law.

Redemptioner

One who redeems himself, as from debt or servitude.

Redemptionist

A monk of an order founded in 1197; -- so called because the order was especially devoted to the redemption of Christians held in captivity by the Mohammedans. Called also Trinitarian.

Redemptive

Serving or tending to redeem; redeeming; as, the redemptive work of Christ.

Redemptorist

One of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, founded in Naples in 1732 by St. Alphonsus Maria de Liquori. It was introduced onto the United States in 1832 at Detroit. The Fathers of the Congregation devote themselves to preaching to the neglected, esp. in missions and retreats, and are forbidden by their rule to engage in the instruction of youth.

Redented

Formed like the teeth of a saw; indented.

Redevelop

To develop again; to intensify (a developed image), as by bleaching with mercuric chloride and subsequently subjecting anew to a developing agent.

Redevelopment

the rebuilding of an urban area, usually a commercial district but sometimes residential or industrial, and typically involving some portion of government involvement and expenditure; to organize a municipal redevelopment agency.

Redeye

The rudd. Same as Redfish (d). The goggle-eye, or fresh-water rock bass.

Redfin

A small North American dace (Minnilus cornutus, or Notropis megalops). The male, in the breeding season, has bright red fins. Called also red dace, and shiner. Applied also to Notropis ardens, of the Mississippi valley.

Redfish

The blueback salmon of the North Pacific; -- called also nerka. See Blueback (b). The rosefish. A large California labroid food fish (Trochocopus pulcher); -- called also fathead. The red bass, red drum, or drumfish. See the Note under Drumfish.

Redhibition

The annulling of a sale, and the return by the buyer of the article sold, on account of some defect.

Redhibitory

Of or pertaining to redhibition; as, a redhibitory action or fault.

Redhoop

The male of the European bullfinch.

Redhorn

Any species of a tribe of butterflies (Fugacia) including the common yellow species and the cabbage butterflies. The antennae are usually red.

Redia

A kind of larva, or nurse, which is prroduced within the sporocyst of certain trematodes by asexual generation. It in turn produces, in the same way, either another generation of rediae, or else cercariae within its own body. Called also proscolex, and nurse. See Illustration in Appendix.

Redif

A reserve force in the Turkish army, or a soldier of the reserve. See Army organization, above.

Redigest

To digest, or reduce to form, a second time.

Redingote

A long plain double-breasted outside coat for women.

Redintegrate

To make whole again; a renew; to restore to integrity or soundness.

Redintegration

Restoration to a whole or sound state; renewal; renovation.

Redirect

Applied to the examination of a witness, by the party calling him, after the cross-examination.

Redisburse

To disburse anew; to give, or pay, back.

Redispose

To dispose anew or again; to readjust; to rearrange.

Redisseizin

A disseizin by one who once before was adjudged to have dassezed the same person of the same lands, etc.; also, a writ which lay in such a case.

Redly

In a red manner; with redness.

Redmouth

Any one of several species of marine food fishes of the genus Diabasis, or Haemulon, of the Southern United States, having the inside of the mouth bright red. Called also flannelmouth, and grunt.

Redness

The quality or state of being red; red color.

Loading more words…