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Requital

The act of requiting; also, that which requites; return, good or bad, for anything done; in a good sense, compensation; recompense; as, the requital of services; in a bad sense, retaliation, or punishment; as, the requital of evil deeds.

Requite

To repay; in a good sense, to recompense; to return (an equivalent) in good; to reward; in a bad sense, to retaliate; to return (evil) for evil; to punish.

Rerebrace

Armor for the upper part of the arm.

Reredos

A screen or partition wall behind an altar. The back of a fireplace. The open hearth, upon which fires were lighted, immediately under the louver, in the center of ancient halls.

Rerefief

A fief held of a superior feudatory; a fief held by an under tenant.

rerun re-run

A repeated broadcast, such as of a film or episode of a television series; as, the seventh rerun had a surprisingly large audience.

Res

A thing; the particular thing; a matter; a point.

Resail

To sail again; also, to sail back, as to a former port.

Resale

A sale at second hand, or at retail; also, a second sale.

Resaw

To saw again; specifically, to saw a balk, or a timber, which has already been squared, into dimension lumber, as joists, boards, etc.

Rescind

To cut off; to abrogate; to annul.

Rescission

The act of rescinding, abrogating, annulling, or vacating; as, the rescission of a law, decree, or judgment.

Rescribe

To write back; to write in reply.

Rescriptive

Pertaining to, or answering the purpose of, a rescript; hence, deciding; settling; determining.

Rescue

To free or deliver from any confinement, violence, danger, or evil; to liberate from actual restraint; to remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil; as, to rescue a prisoner from the enemy; to rescue seamen from destruction.

Rescussee

The party in whose favor a rescue is made.

Rescussor

One who makes an unlawful rescue; a rescuer.

Rese

To shake; to quake; to tremble.

Research

Diligent inquiry or examination in seeking facts or principles; laborious or continued search after truth; as, researches of human wisdom; to research a topic in the library; medical research.

research

To search or examine with continued care; to seek diligently.

Researcher

One who conducts research. In the field of scientific research, also called an investigator or scientist.

Reseat

To seat or set again, as on a chair, throne, etc.

Reseau

A network; A system of lines forming small squares of standard size, which is photographed, by a separate exposure, on the same plate with star images to facilitate measurements, detect changes of the film, etc. In lace, a ground or foundation of regular meshes, like network.

Resect

To cut or pare off; to remove by cutting.

Reseda

A genus of plants, the type of which is mignonette.

Reseize

To seize again, or a second time.

Reseizure

A second seizure; the act of seizing again.

Resell

To sell again; to sell what has been bought or sold; to retail.

Resemblance

The quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity.

Resemblant

Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling.

Resemble

To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other.

Resemblingly

So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.

Resend

To send again; as, to resend a message.

Resentful

Inclined to resent; easily provoked to anger; irritable.

Reservation

The act of reserving, or keeping back; concealment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve.

Reservative

Tending to reserve or keep; keeping; reserving.

Reservatory

A place in which things are reserved or kept.

Reserve

The act of reserving, or keeping back; reservation.

Reserved

Kept for future or special use, or for an exigency; as, reserved troops; a reserved seat in a theater.

Reservee

One to, or for, whom anything is reserved; -- contrasted with reservor.

Reservist

A member of a reserve force of soldiers or militia.

Reservoir

A place where anything is kept in store; especially, a place where water is collected and kept for use when wanted, as to supply a fountain, a canal, or a city by means of aqueducts, or to drive a mill wheel, or the like.

Reset

To harbor or secrete; to hide, as stolen goods or a criminal.

Reset re-set

To set again; as, to reset type; to reset copy; to reset a diamond.

Resettle

To settle again, or a second time.

Resettlement

Act of settling again, or state of being settled again; as, the resettlement of lees.

Reship

To engage one's self again for service on board of a vessel after having been discharged.

Reshipment

The act of reshipping; also, that which is reshipped.

Reside

To dwell permanently or for a considerable time; to have a settled abode for a time; to abide continuosly; to have one's domicile of home; to remain for a long time.

Residence

The act or fact of residing, abiding, or dwelling in a place for some continuance of time; as, the residence of an American in France or Italy for a year.

Residencia

In Spanish countries, a court or trial held, sometimes as long as six months, by a newly elected official, as the governor of a province, to examine into the conduct of a predecessor.

Resident

One who resides or dwells in a place for some time.

Residential

Of or pertaining to a residence or residents; as, residential trade; a residential part of town.

Residual

The difference of the results obtained by observation, and by computation from a formula. The difference between the mean of several observations and any one of them.

Residuary

Consisting of residue; as, residuary matter; pertaining to the residue, or part remaining; as, the residuary advantage of an estate.

Residue

That which remains after a part is taken, separated, removed, or designated; remnant; remainder.

Residuum

That which is left after any process of separation or purification; that which remains after certain specified deductions are made; residue.

Resiege

To seat again; to reinstate.

Resignation

The act of resigning or giving up, as a claim, possession, office, or the like; surrender; as, the resignation of a crown or commission.

Resigned

Submissive; yielding; not disposed to resist or murmur.

Resignee

One to whom anything is resigned, or in whose favor a resignation is made.

resile

To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose.

resiliency resilience

The act of springing back, rebounding, or resiling; as, the resilience of a ball or of sound.

Resilient

Leaping back; rebounding; recoiling.

Resin

Any one of a class of yellowish brown solid inflammable substances, of vegetable origin, which are nonconductors of electricity, have a vitreous fracture, and are soluble in ether, alcohol, and essential oils, but not in water; specif., pine resin (see Rosin).

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