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.

The act of referring; reference.

One who refers.

Referable.

To figure again.

To fill, or become full, again.

To find again; to get or experience again.

To become pure; to be cleared of feculent matter.

Freed from impurities or alloy; purifed; polished; cultured; delicate; as; refined gold; refined language; refined sentiments.

The act of refining, or the state of being refined; as, the refinement or metals; refinement of ideas.

One who, or that which, refines.

The building and apparatus for refining or purifying, esp. metals and sugar.

To obtain repairs or supplies; as, the fleet returned to refit.

The act of refitting, or the state of being refitted.

To fix again or anew; to establish anew.

To kindle again into flame.

To throw back light, heat, or the like; to return rays or beams.

Thrown back after striking a surface; as, reflected light, heat, sound, etc.

Bending or flying back; reflected.

Capable of being reflected, or thrown back; reflexible.

Throwing back light, heat, etc., as a mirror or other surface.

With reflection; also, with censure; reproachfully.

The act of reflecting, or turning or sending back, or the state of being reflected. The return of rays, beams, sound, or the like, from a surface. See Angle of reflection, below.

Throwing back images; as, a reflective mirror.

One who, or that which, reflects.

To reflect.

Bent backward or outward.

The quality or capability of being reflexible; as, the reflexibility of the rays of light.

Capable of being reflected, or thrown back.

See Reflection.

The state or condition of being reflected.

Bending or turned backward; reflective; having respect to something past.

In a reflex manner; reflectively.

Reflux; ebb.

A blossoming anew of a plant after it has apparently ceased blossoming for the season.

To flourish again.

To flow back; to ebb.

To flower, or cause to flower, again.

A flowing back; refluence.

The quality of being refluent; a flowing back.

Flowing back; returning; ebbing.

Refluent.

A flowing back, as the return of a fluid; ebb; reaction; as, the flux and reflux of the tides.

To refresh; to revive.

Restoration of strength by refreshment.

To fold again.

To foment anew.

To replant with trees; to reafforest; to reforestize.

replanting with trees; reconversion into a forest; the act of reforesting.

The act or process of reforestizing.

To convert again into a forest; to plant again with trees.

To forge again or anew; hence, to fashion or fabricate anew; to make over.

One who reforges.

Amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt, or depraved; reformation; as, reform of elections; reform of government.

Capable of being reformed.

A reformado.

A monk of a reformed order.

To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.

The act of reforming, or the state of being reformed; change from worse to better; correction or amendment of life, manners, or of anything vicious or corrupt; as, the reformation of manners; reformation of the age; reformation of abuses.

Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory.

An institution for promoting the reformation of offenders.

Corrected; amended; restored to purity or excellence; said, specifically, of the whole body of Protestant churches originating in the Reformation. Also, in a more restricted sense, of those who separated from Luther on the doctrine of consubstantiation, etc., and carried the Reformation, as they claimed, to a higher point. The Protestant churches founded by them in Switzerland, France, Holland, and part of Germany, were called the Reformed churches.

One who effects a reformation or amendment; one who labors for, or urges, reform; as, a reformer of manners, or of abuses.

A reformer.

In the manner of a reform; for the purpose of reform.

A fortifying anew, or a second time.

To fortify anew.

The act of digging up again.

imp. p. p. of Refind, v. t.

One who refounds.

To bend sharply and abruptly back; to break off.

Capable of being refracted.

Bent backward angularly, as if half-broken; as, a refracted stem or leaf.

Serving or tending to refract; as, a refracting medium.

The act of refracting, or the state of being refracted.

Serving or having power to refract, or turn from a direct course; pertaining to refraction; as, refractive surfaces; refractive powers.

The quality or condition of being refractive.

A contrivance for exhibiting and measuring the refraction of light.

Anything that refracts A refracting telescope, in which the image to be viewed is formed by the refraction of light in passing through a convex lens.

In a refractory manner; perversely; obstinately.

The quality or condition of being refractory.

A refractory person.

To break again, as a bone.

Capable of being refuted; refutable.

To oppose.