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.

The quality of being refulgent; brilliancy; splender; radiance.

Casting a bright light; radiant; brilliant; resplendent; shining; splendid; as, refulgent beams.

To pour back.

One who refunds.

The act of refunding; also, that which is refunded.

To furbish anew.

To furnish again.

The act of refurnishing, or state of being refurnished.

Capable of being refused; admitting of refusal.

The act of refusing; denial of anything demanded, solicited, or offered for acceptance.

Refused; rejected; hence; left as unworthy of acceptance; of no value; worthless.

Refuge.

The quality of being refutable.

Admitting of being refuted or disproved; capable of being proved false or erroneous.

Act of refuting; refutation.

The act or process of refuting or disproving, or the state of being refuted; proof of falsehood or error; the overthrowing of an argument, opinion, testimony, doctrine, or theory, by argument or countervailing proof.

Tending to refute; refuting.

To disprove and overthrow by argument, evidence, or countervailing proof; to prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; as, to refute arguments; to refute testimony; to refute opinions or theories; to refute a disputant.

One who, or that which, refutes.

To gain anew; to get again; to recover, as what has escaped or been lost; to reach again.

A small portable organ, played with one hand, the bellows being worked with the other, -- used in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

A sumptuous repast; a banquet.

The act of regaling; anything which regales; refreshment; entertainment.

One who regales.

A kind of cigar of large size and superior quality; also, the size in which such cigars are classed.

Pertaining to regalia; pertaining to the royal insignia or prerogatives.

The doctrine of royal prerogative or supremacy.

In a regal or royal manner.

A look; aspect directed to another; view; gaze.

Worthy of regard or notice; to be regarded; observable.

Looking behind; looking backward watchfully.

One who regards.

Heedful; attentive; observant.

Concerning; respecting.

Having no regard; heedless; careless; as, regardless of life, consequences, dignity.

To gather again.

Originally, a gondola race in Venice; now, a rowing or sailing race, or a series of such races.

See Rigel.

To freeze together again; to undergo regelation, as ice.

The act or process of freezing anew, or together,as two pieces of ice.

Rule.

The office of ruler; rule; authority; government.

The state of being regenerated.

To generate or produce anew; to reproduce; to give new life, strength, or vigor to.

The quality or state of being rgenerate.

The act of regenerating, or the state of being regenerated.

Of or pertaining to regeneration; tending to regenerate; as, regenerative influences.

So as to regenerate.

One who, or that which, regenerates.

Having power to renew; tending to reproduce; regenerating.

New birth; renewal.

One who rules or reigns; a governor; a ruler.

A female regent.

The office of a regent; regency.

To germinate again.

A germinating again or anew.

A register.

To get again.

An upholder of kingly authority; a royalist.

Governable; tractable.

Pertaining to regicide, or to one committing it; having the nature of, or resembling, regicide.

One who kills or who murders a king; specifically (Eng. Hist.), one of the judges who condemned Charles I. to death.

One of a body of officers charged with the government of Spanish municipalities, corresponding to the English alderman.

Direct management of public finance or public works by agents of the government for government account; -- opposed to the contract system.

To gild anew.

Mode or system of rule or management; character of government, or of the prevailing social system.

Orderly government; system of order; adminisration.

To form into a regiment or into regiments.

Belonging to, or concerning, a regiment; as, regimental officers, clothing.

In or by a regiment or regiments; as, troops classified regimentally.

The uniform worn by the officers and soldiers of a regiment; military dress; -- formerly used in the singular in the same sense.