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Rei

A portuguese money of account, in value about one tenth of a cent.

Reichsrath

The parliament of Austria (exclusive of Hungary, which has its own diet, or parliament). It consists of an Upper and a Lower House, or a House of Lords and a House of Representatives.

Reichstag

The Diet, or House of Representatives, of the German empire (and of the Weimar Republic), which was composed of members elected for a term of three years by the direct vote of the people. This term is no longer (in 1997) applied to the German parliament. See also Bundesrath.

Reign

To possess or exercise sovereign power or authority; to exercise government, as a king or emperor;; to hold supreme power; to rule.

Reillume

To light again; to cause to shine anew; to relume; to reillumine.

Reim

A strip of oxhide, deprived of hair, and rendered pliable, -- used for twisting into ropes, etc.

Reimburse

To replace in a treasury or purse, as an equivalent for what has been taken, lost, or expended; to refund; to pay back; to restore; as, to reimburse the expenses of a war.

Reimport

To import again; to import what has been exported; to bring back.

Reimportation

The act of reimporting; also, that which is reimported.

Reimprisonment

The act of reimprisoning, or the state of being reimprisoned.

Rein

To be guided by reins.

Reindeer

Any ruminant of the genus Rangifer, of the Deer family, found in the colder parts of both the Eastern and Western hemispheres, and having long irregularly branched antlers, with the brow tines palmate.

Reinette

A name given to many different kinds of apples, mostly of French origin.

Reinless

Not having, or not governed by, reins; hence, not checked or restrained.

Reins

The kidneys; also, the region of the kidneys; the loins.

reinstall re-install

To install again; as, She reinstalled the the washer after it had been repaired.

Reinstate

To place again in possession, or in a former state; to restore to a state from which one had been removed; to instate again; as, to reinstate a king in the possession of the kingdom.

Reinstatement

The act of reinstating; the state of being reinstated; re/stablishment.

Reinsurance

Insurance a second time or again; renewed insurance.

Reinsure

To insure again after a former insurance has ceased; to renew insurance on.

Reintegrate

To renew with regard to any state or quality; to restore; to bring again together into a whole, as the parts of anything; to reestablish; as, to reintegrate a nation.

Reintegration

A renewing, or making whole again. See Redintegration.

Reinvestment

The act of investing anew; a second or repeated investment.

Reis

A common title in the East for a person in authority, especially the captain of a ship.

Reiter

A German cavalry soldier of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

Reiteration

The act of reiterating; that which is reiterated.

Reiterative

A word expressing repeated or reiterated action.

Reject

To cast from one; to throw away; to discard.

Rejectable

Capable of being, or that ought to be, rejected.

Rejectamenta

Things thrown out or away; especially, things excreted by a living organism.

Rejection

Act of rejecting, or state of being rejected.

Rejectment

Act of rejecting; matter rejected, or thrown away.

Rejoint

To reunite the joints of; to joint anew.

Rejudge

To judge again; to reexamine; to review; to call to a new trial and decision.

Rejuvenescence

A renewing of youth; the state of being or growing young again.

Rejuvenescent

Becoming, or causing to become, rejuvenated; rejuvenating.

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