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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.

Relais

A narrow space between the foot of the rampart and the scarp of the ditch, serving to receive the earth that may crumble off or be washed down, and prevent its falling into the ditch.

Reland

To go on shore after having embarked; to land again.

Relapse

A sliding or falling back, especially into a former bad state, either of body or morals; backsliding; the state of having fallen back.

Relapsing

Marked by a relapse; falling back; tending to return to a former worse state.

Relate

To stand in some relation; to have bearing or concern; to pertain; to refer; -- with to.

Related

Allied by kindred; connected by blood or alliance, particularly by consanguinity; as, persons related in the first or second degree.

Relatedness

The state or condition of being related; relationship; affinity.

Relater

One who relates or narrates.

Relation

The act of relating or telling; also, that which is related; recital; account; narration; narrative; as, the relation of historical events.

Relationship

The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance.

Relative

One who, or that which, relates to, or is considered in its relation to, something else; a relative object or term; one of two object or term; one of two objects directly connected by any relation. A person connected by blood or affinity; strictly, one allied by blood; a relation; a kinsman or kinswoman. A relative pronoun; a word which relates to, or represents, another word or phrase, called its antecedent; as, the relatives /who/, /which/, /that/.

Relatively

In a relative manner; in relation or respect to something else; not absolutely.

Relativeness

The state of being relative, or having relation; relativity.

Relativistic

of, pertaining to, or in conformity with the theory of relativity; as, the relativistic increase of mass with velocity.

Relativistic mass equation

an equation expressing the mass of an object as a function of its velocity: as the velocity v of an object increases, its mass m increases from its rest mass m0 according to the equation: m = m0/1 - v2/c2

relativity

The state of being relative; as, the relativity of a subject.

Relax

Relaxed; lax; hence, remiss; careless.

Relaxant

A medicine that relaxes; a laxative.

Relaxation

The act or process of relaxing, or the state of being relaxed; as, relaxation of the muscles; relaxation of a law.

Relaxative

Having the quality of relaxing; laxative. A relaxant.

Relay

Relating to, or having the characteristics of, an auxiliary apparatus put into action by a feeble force but itself capable of exerting greater force, used to control a comparatively powerful machine or appliance.

Relbun

The roots of the Chilian plant Calceolaria arachnoidea, -- used for dyeing crimson.

Release

The act of letting loose or freeing, or the state of being let loose or freed; liberation or discharge from restraint of any kind, as from confinement or bondage.

Releasement

The act of releasing, as from confinement or obligation.

Relegate

To remove, usually to an inferior position; to consign; to transfer; specifically, to send into exile; to banish.

Relegation

The act of relegating, or the state of being relegated; removal; banishment; exile.

Relentless

Unmoved by appeals for sympathy or forgiveness; insensible to the distresses of others; destitute of tenderness; unrelenting; unyielding; unpitying; as, a prey to relentless despotism.

Relentment

The act or process of relenting; the state of having relented.

Relevant

Relieving; lending aid or support.

Reliability

The state or quality of being reliable; reliableness.

Reliable

Suitable or fit to be relied on; worthy of dependance or reliance; trustworthy.

Reliance

The act of relying, or the condition or quality of being reliant; dependence; confidence; trust; repose of mind upon what is deemed sufficient support or authority.

Reliant

Having, or characterized by, reliance; confident; trusting.

Relic

That which remains; that which is left after loss or decay; a remaining portion; a remnant.

Relict

A woman whose husband is dead; a widow.

Relicted

Left uncovered, as land by recession of water.

Reliction

A leaving dry; a recession of the sea or other water, leaving dry land; land left uncovered by such recession.

Relief

The act of relieving, or the state of being relieved; the removal, or partial removal, of any evil, or of anything oppressive or burdensome, by which some ease is obtained; succor; alleviation; comfort; ease; redress.

Relievable

Capable of being relieved; fitted to recieve relief.

Relieve

To lift up; to raise again, as one who has fallen; to cause to rise.

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