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.

Luster; special brilliancy of surface; -- used esp. in ceramics to denote the peculiar metallic brilliancy seen in lustered pottery such as majolica; as, silver reflet; gold reflet.

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.

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.

The burden of a song; a phrase or verse which recurs at the end of each of the separate stanzas or divisions of a poetic composition.

One who refrains.

Act of refraining.

To frame again or anew.

The quality of being refrangible.

Capable of being refracted, or turned out of a direct course, in passing from one medium to another, as rays of light.

The act of refraining.

The act of refreshing.

One who, or that which, refreshes.

Full of power to refresh; refreshing.

Reviving; reanimating.

The act of refreshing, or the state of being refreshed; restoration of strength, spirit, vigor, or liveliness; relief after suffering; new life or animation after depression.

Refrain.

To chill; to cool.

A rubbing up afresh; a brightening.

That which makes to be cool or cold; specifically, a medicine or an application for allaying fever, or the symptoms of fever; -- used also figuratively.

To cause to become cool; to make or keep cold or cool.

The act or process of refrigerating or cooling, or the state of being cooled.

Cooling; allaying heat. A refrigerant.

That which refrigerates or makes cold; that which keeps cool. A box or room for keeping food or other articles cool, usually by means of ice. An apparatus for rapidly cooling heated liquids or vapors, connected with a still, etc.

That which refrigerates or cools. In distillation, a vessel filled with cold water, surrounding the worm, the vapor in which is thereby condensed. The chamber, or tank, in which ice is formed, in an ice machine.

Cooling refreshment; refrigeration.

The power possessed by a substance to refract a ray; as, different substances have different refringencies.

Pertaining to, or possessing, refringency; refractive; refracting; as, a refringent prism of spar.

A chink; a rift. See Rift.

To shelter; to protect.

One who flees to a shelter, or place of safety.