A growing green or fresh again; renewal of youth or vigor.

That may be revised.

The act of revising, or reviewing and reexamining for correction and improvement; revision; as, the revisal of a manuscript; the revisal of a proof sheet; the revisal of a treaty.

A review; a revision.

One who revises.

The act of revising; reexamination for correction; review; as, the revision of a book or writing, or of a proof sheet; a revision of statutes.

Of or pertaining to revision; revisory.

To visit again.

The act of revisiting.

Having the power or purpose to revise; revising.

To restore vitality to; to bring back to life.

That may be revived.

The act of reviving, or the state of being revived. Renewed attention to something, as to letters or literature. Renewed performance of, or interest in, something, as the drama and literature. Renewed interest in religion, after indifference and decline; a period of religious awakening; special religious interest. Reanimation from a state of langour or depression; -- applied to the health, spirits, and the like. Renewed pursuit, or cultivation, or flourishing state of something, as of commerce, arts, agriculture. Renewed prevalence of something, as a practice or a fashion. Restoration of force, validity, or effect; renewal; as, the revival of a debt barred by limitation; the revival of a revoked will, etc. Revivification, as of a metal. See Revivification, 2.

The spirit of religious revivals; the methods of revivalists.

A clergyman or layman who promotes revivals of religion; an advocate for religious revivals; sometimes, specifically, a clergyman, without a particular charge, who goes about to promote revivals. Also used adjectively.

Pertaining to revivals.

To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate.

Revival.

One who, or that which, revives.

To revive; to recall or restore to life.

Renewal of life; restoration of life; the act of recalling, or the state of being recalled, to life.

To cause to revive.

Returning or restoring to life or vigor; reanimating.

The act of reviving, or the state of being revived; renewal of life.

Able or disposed to revive; reviving.

Revival of a suit which is abated by the death or marriage of any of the parties, -- done by a bill of revivor.

The quality of being revocable; as, the revocability of a law.

Capable of being revoked; as, a revocable edict or grant; a revocable covenant.

To recall; to call back.

The act of calling back, or the state of being recalled; recall.

Of or pertaining to revocation; tending to, or involving, a revocation; revoking; recalling.

To refurnish with a voice; to refit, as an organ pipe, so as to restore its tone.

The act of revoking.

Revocation.

One who revokes.

By way of revocation.

The act of revolting; an uprising against legitimate authority; especially, a renunciation of allegiance and subjection to a government; rebellion; as, the revolt of a province of the Roman empire.

One who revolts.

Causing abhorrence mixed with disgust; exciting extreme repugnance; loathsome; as, revolting cruelty.

Capable of revolving; rotatory; revolving.

Rolled backward or downward.

The act of revolving, or turning round on an axis or a center; the motion of a body round a fixed point or line; rotation; as, the revolution of a wheel, of a top, of the earth on its axis, etc.

A revolutionist.

One who is engaged in effecting a revolution; a revolutionist.

The state of being in revolution; revolutionary doctrines or principles.

One engaged in effecting a change of government; a favorer of revolution.

To change completely, as by a revolution; as, to revolutionize a government.

Inclined to revolve things in the mind; meditative.

That may be revolved.

To cause to turn, as on an axis.

Act of revolving.

The act or state of revolving; revolution.

One who, or that which, revolves; specifically, a firearm ( commonly a pistol) with several chambers or barrels so arranged as to revolve on an axis, and be discharged in succession by the same lock; a repeater.

Making a revolution or revolutions; rotating; -- used also figuratively of time, seasons, etc., depending on the revolution of the earth.

To pull back with force.

A strong pulling or drawing back; withdrawal.

That which causes revulsion; specifically (Med.), a revulsive remedy or agent.

A row.

To wake again.

Regard; respect; consideration.

One who rewards.

Yielding reward.

Having, or affording, no reward.

To rue.

A gunlock.

Rueful.

To win again, or win back.

Rule.

Realm.

To repeat in the same words; to reecho.

To write again.

Ruth.

A king.

Rain or rein.

An appelation applied after the manner of a proper name to the fox. Same as Renard.

To go on a military expedition.

The ground story of a building, either on a level with the street or raised slightly above it; -- said esp. of buildings on the continent of Europe.

Impregnated or tinctured with rhubarb.

Chrysophanic acid.

A minute smooth rodlike or fusiform structure found in the tissues of many Turbellaria.

A suborder of Turbellaria including those that have a simple cylindrical, or saclike, stomach, without an intestine.

Of or pertaining to the Rhabdocoela.

See Sagittal.

A minute calcareous rodlike structure found both at the surface and the bottom of the ocean; -- supposed by some to be a calcareous alga.

Same as Rabdology.

One of numerous minute rodlike structures formed of two or more cells situated behind the retinulae in the compound eyes of insects, etc. See Illust. under Ommatidium.

Same as Rabdomancy.

One of the several parts composing a rhabdom.

An extinct division of Hydrozoa which includes the graptolities.

A genus of marine Bryozoa in which the tubular cells have a centralchitinous axis and the tentacles are borne on a bilobed lophophore. It is the type of the order Pterobranchia, or Podostomata

A minute sphere composed of rhabdoliths.

See Rachialgia.

Of or pertaining to the rhachis; as, the rhachidian teeth of a mollusk.

A division of marine gastropods having a retractile proboscis and three longitudinal rows of teeth on the radula. It includes many of the large ornamental shells, as the miters, murices, olives, purpuras, volutes, and whelks. See Illust. in the Appendix.

A branch of inflorescence; the zigzag axis on which the florets are arranged in the spikelets of grasses.

Having gular teeth formed by a peculiar modification of the inferior spines of some of the vertebrae, as certain South African snakes (Dasypeltis) which swallow birds' eggs and use these gular teeth to crush them.

The spine.

See Rachitis.

Of or pertaining to Rhadamanthus; rigorously just; as, a Rhadamanthine judgment.

One of the three judges of the infernal regions; figuratively, a strictly just judge.

Rhetain.

Pertining to, or of the same horizon as, certain Mesozoic strata of the Rhetian Alps. These strata are regarded as closing the Triassic period. See the Chart of Geology.

A variety of the mineral cyanite.

See Ramadan.

Of or pertaining to a natural order of shrubs and trees (Rhamnaceae, or Rhamneae) of which the buckthorn (Rhamnus) is the type. It includes also the New Jersey tea, the supple-jack, and one of the plants called lotus (Zizyphus).

A genus of shrubs and small trees; buckthorn. The California Rhamnus Purshianus and the European Rhamnus catharticus are used in medicine. The latter is used for hedges.

A genus of pterodactyls in which the elongated tail supported a leathery expansion at the tip.

The horny covering of the bill of birds.

The continuation of the seed stalk along the side of an anatropous ovule or seed, forming a ridge or seam.

Minute transparent, often needle-shaped, crystals found in the tissues of plants.

Chrysophanic acid.

A rhapsodist.

A rhapsodist.

Of or pertaining to rhapsody; consisting of rhapsody; hence, confused; unconnected.

Anciently, one who recited or composed a rhapsody; especially, one whose profession was to recite the verses of Hormer and other epic poets.

To utter rhapsodies.

Divination by means of verses.

A recitation or song of a rhapsodist; a portion of an epic poem adapted for recitation, or usually recited, at one time; hence, a division of the Iliad or the Odyssey; -- called also a book.

The powerfully astringent root of a half-shrubby Peruvian plant (Krameria triandra). It is used in medicine and to color port wine.

Any one of three species of large South American ostrichlike birds of the genera Rhea and Pterocnemia. Called also the American ostrich.