A bird whose beak bends upward, as the avocet.

Having the beak bent upwards.

Recurvation.

Recurved.

The state of being recusant; nonconformity.

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

Refusal.

Refusing; denying; negative.

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.

The act of beating or striking back.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Having a red tail.

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

Strict adherence to official formalities.

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

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

See Redactor.

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

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

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

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

The act of redarguing; refutation.

Pertaining to, or containing, redargution; refutatory.

The dunlin.

The char.

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

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

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

The European goldfinch.

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

obs. imp. of Read, or Rede.

To grow or become red; to blush.

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.

Somewhat red; moderately red.

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

Red chalk. See under Chalk.

Rigor; violence.

Advice; counsel; suggestion.

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

Redeemableness.

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

The quality or state of being redeemable; redeemability.

One who redeems.

Without rede or counsel.

To deliberate again; to reconsider.

To deliver or give back; to return.

A second deliverance.

Act of delivering back.

A demanding back; a second or renewed demand.

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

To demonstrate again, or anew.

Redeemable.

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.

One who is, or may be, redeemed.

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.

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

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.

Paid for ransom; serving to redeem.

Redemption.

Formed like the teeth of a saw; indented.

To deposit again.

To descend again.

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

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.

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

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.

The European linnet.

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.

A person having red hair.

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

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

The male of the European bullfinch.

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

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.

Returning.

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

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

To diminish again.

A long plain double-breasted outside coat for women.

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

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

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

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

To discover again.

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

To disseize anew, or a second time.

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.

One who redisseizes.

To dissolve again.

To distill again.

One who distrains again.

To distribute again.

To divide into new districts.

Act of returning; return.

To divide anew.

Living again; revived; restored.

The redshank. The turnstone.

In a red manner; with redness.

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.

The quality or state of being red; red color.

The quality of being redolent; sweetness of scent; pleasant odor; fragrance.

Diffusing odor or fragrance; spreading sweet scent; scented; odorous; smelling; -- usually followed by of.

To become greatly or repeatedly increased; to be multiplied; to be greatly augmented; as, the noise redoubles.

To stand in dread of; to regard with fear; to dread.

Formidable; dread; terrible to foes; as, a redoubtable hero; hence, valiant; -- often in contempt or burlesque.

Formidable; dread.

Reverence; honor.

The coming back, as of consequence or effect; result; return; requital.

A Bohemian dance of two kinds, one in triple time, like a waltz, the other in two-four time, like a polka. The former is most in use.

Same as Redpoll.

Any one of several species of small northern finches of the genus Acanthis (formerly Aegiothus), native of Europe and America. The adults have the crown red or rosy. The male of the most common species (Acanthis linarius) has also the breast and rump rosy. Called also redpoll linnet. See Illust. under Linnet. The common European linnet. The American redpoll warbler (Dendroica palmarum).

A second draft or copy.

To draw a new bill of exchange, as the holder of a protested bill, on the drawer or indorsers.

The act of redressing; a making right; reformation; correction; amendment.