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.

One who redeems himself, as from debt or servitude.

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.

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.

Redress.

One who redresses.

Such as may be redressed.

Tending to redress.

Not having redress; such as can not be redressed; irremediable.

The act of redressing; redress.

A name of several plants having red roots, as the New Jersey tea (see under Tea), the gromwell, the bloodroot, and the Lachnanthes tinctoria, an endogenous plant found in sandy swamps from Rhode Island to Florida.

To be brittle when red-hot; to be red-short.

A common Old World limicoline bird (Totanus calidris), having the legs and feet pale red. The spotted redshank (Totanus fuscus) is larger, and has orange-red legs. Called also redshanks, redleg, and clee. The fieldfare.

A common appellation for a North American Indian; -- so called from the color of the skin. It is now considered pejorative by some persons of North American Indian heritage.

A small, handsome European singing bird (Phoenicurus phoenicurus, formerly Ruticilla phoenicurus), allied to the nightingale; -- called also redtail, brantail, fireflirt, firetail. The black redstart is Phoenicurus ochruros (formerly Phoenicurus tithys), and is now rare and protected by law in England. The name is also applied to several other species of Ruticilla and allied genera, native of India. An American fly-catching warbler (Setophaga ruticilla). The male is black, with large patches of orange-red on the sides, wings, and tail. The female is olive, with yellow patches.

A kind of apple having the skin streaked with red and yellow, -- a favorite English cider apple.

The red-tailed hawk. The European redstart.

A small Australian singing bird (Phyrrholaemus brunneus). The upper parts are brown, the center of the throat red.

A kind of grass (Agrostis vulgaris) highly valued in the United States for pasturage and hay for cattle; -- called also English grass, and in some localities herd's grass. See Illustration in Appendix. The tall redtop is Triodia seslerioides.

To refit; to repair, or make reparation for; hence, to repay or requite.

To bring or lead back to any former place or condition.

Reduction.

Tending to reduce. A reducent agent.

One who, or that which, reduces.

Capable of being reduced.

Quality of being reducible.

a n. from Reduce.

a substance that causes reduction of another substance in a chemical reaction, as by donating electrons or adding hydrogen atoms; as, lithium hydride is a powerful reducing agent.

To reduce.