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.

Destitute of reeds; as, reedless banks.

The European bearded titmouse (Panurus biarmicus); -- called also reed bunting, bearded pinnock, and lesser butcher bird.

A collective name for the reed stops of an organ.

Abounding with reeds; covered with reeds.

To reduce the extent of (as a sail) by rolling or folding a certain portion of it and making it fast to the yard or spar.

A piece of canvas sewed across a sail to strengthen it in the part where the eyelet holes for reefing are made.

One who reefs; -- a name often given to midshipmen.

The process of taking in a reef.

Full of reefs or rocks.

To emit vapor, usually that which is warm and moist; to be full of fumes; to steam; to smoke; to exhale.

Soiled with smoke or steam; smoky; foul.

The act or motion of reeling or staggering; as, a drunken reel.

To elect again; as, to reelect the former governor.

Election a second time, or anew; as, the reelection of a former chief.

One who reels.

Eligible again; capable of reelection; as, reeligible to the same office.

To open (the seams of a vessel's planking) for the purpose of calking them.

To put, or go, on board a vessel again; to embark again.

A putting, or going, on board a vessel again.

To embody again.

To embrace again.

To emerge again.

Act of reemerging.

To emphasize again.

To enact again.

The act of reenacting; the state of being reenacted.

The enacting or passing of a law a second time; the renewal of a law.

To endow again.

Something which reenforces or strengthens. That part of a cannon near the breech which is thicker than the rest of the piece, so as better to resist the force of the exploding powder. See Illust. of Cannon. An additional thickness of canvas, cloth, or the like, around an eyelet, buttonhole, etc.

To strengthen with new force, assistance, material, or support; as, to reenforce an argument; to reenforce a garment; to strengthen with additional troops, as an army or a fort, or with additional ships, as a fleet.

The act of reenforcing, or the state of being reenforced.

To engage a second time or again.

A renewed or repeated engagement.

To engrave anew.

To enjoy anew.

Renewed enjoyment.

To enkindle again.

To enlist again.

A renewed enlistment.

To enslave again.

To enter anew or again.

To enter again; as, You cannot re-enter the country with this visa.

The process of applying additional colors, by applications of printing blocks, to patterns already partly colored.

To enthrone again; to replace on a throne.

A second enthroning.

The act entering again; reentry.

Reentering; pointing or directed inwards; as, a reentrant angle.

A second or new entry; as, a reentry into public life.

to furnish with new equipment. Forms with and without the hyphen are common.

To erect again.

See Rearmouse.

To establish anew; to fix or confirm again; to restore; as, to reestablish a covenant; to reestablish health.

One who establishes again.

The act reestablishing; the state of being reestablished.

To reestablish.

To revise or renew one's assessment; to evaluate again.

The female of the ruff.

A repeated examination. See under Examination.

To examine anew.

A renewed exchange; a reversal of an exchange.

To exhibit again.

To expel again.

A renewed or repeated experience.

To explain or interpret from a different viewpoint. The form without the hyphen is more common.

to explore again; as, We need to re-explore Colonialism.

Any commodity reexported; -- chiefly in the plural.

The act of reexporting, or of exporting an import.

Renewed or repeated expulsion.

Grown rank; rancid; rusty.

Recompense; atonement; retribution.

A drawn game; A state of the game in which the aggregate pip value of cards dealt to red equals that of those dealt to black. All bets are then off; unless the value is 31, in which case the banker wins half the stakes.

To go over again; to repeat.

To fashion anew; to form or mold into shape a second time.

The act of refashioning, or the state of being refashioned.

To fasten again.

To restore after hunger or fatigue; to refresh.

Refreshment after hunger or fatigue; a repast; a lunch.

That which refreshes.

A room for refreshment; originally, a dining hall in monasteries or convents.

To refute; to disprove; as, to refel the tricks of a sophister.

To have recourse; to apply; to appeal; to betake one's self; as, to refer to a dictionary.

Capable of being referred, or considered in relation to something else; assignable; ascribable.

One to whom a thing is referred; a person to whom a matter in dispute has been referred, in order that he may settle it.

The act of referring, or the state of being referred; as, reference to a chart for guidance.

One to whose decision a cause is referred; a referee.

A diplomatic agent's note asking for instructions from his government concerning a particular matter or point.

Containing a reference; pointing to something out of itself; as, notes for referential use.