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.

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.

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.

The quality of being reducible; reducibleness.

The act of reducing, or state of being reduced; conversion to a given state or condition; diminution; conquest; as, the reduction of a body to powder; the reduction of things to order; the reduction of the expenses of government; the reduction of a rebellious province.

Tending to reduce; having the power or effect of reducing. A reductive agent.

By reduction; by consequence.

A central or retired work within any other work.

Exceeding what is natural or necessary; superabundant; exuberant; as, a redundant quantity of bile or food.

In a refundant manner.

Double; doubled; reduplicative; repeated.

The act of doubling, or the state of being doubled.

Double; formed by reduplication; reduplicate.

Any hemipterous insect of the genus Redivius, or family Reduvidae. They live by sucking the blood of other insects, and some species also attack man.

The red poppy (Papaver Rhoeas).

A European thrush (Turdus iliacus). Its under wing coverts are orange red. Called also redwinged thrush. (b) A North American passerine bird (Agelarius ph/niceus) of the family Icteridae. The male is black, with a conspicuous patch of bright red, bordered with orange, on each wing. Called also redwinged blackbird, red-winged troupial, marsh blackbird, and swamp blackbird.

A west Indian climbing shrub (Combretum Jacquini) with slender reddish branchlets.

A gigantic coniferous tree (Sequoia sempervirens) of California, and its light and durable reddish timber. See Sequoia. An East Indian dyewood, obtained from Pterocarpus santalinus, Caesalpinia Sappan, and several other trees.

To riddle; to sift; to separate or throw off.

The peele.

The echo of an echo; a repeated or second echo.

To echo back; to reverberate again; as, the hills reecho the roar of cannon.

To give echoes; to return back, or be reverberated, as an echo; to resound; to be resonant; to echo repeatedly, again and again.

Smoky; reeky; hence, begrimed with dirt.

A name given to many tall and coarse grasses or grasslike plants, and their slender, often jointed, stems, such as the various kinds of bamboo, and especially the common reed of Europe and North America (Phragmites communis).

The cat-tail.

The bobolink. One of several small Asiatic singing birds of the genera Sch/nicola and Eurycercus; -- called also reed babbler. See Rietboc.

Civered with reeds; reedy.

Consisting of a reed or reeds.

The act reedifying; the state of being reedified.

To edify anew; to build again after destruction.

A small convex molding; a reed (see Illust. (i) of Molding); one of several set close together to decorate a surface; also, decoration by means of reedings; -- the reverse of fluting.