The quality or condition of being rectangular, or right-angled.

Capable of being rectified; as, a rectifiable mistake.

The act or operation of rectifying; as, the rectification of an error; the rectification of spirits.

That which rectifies or refines; esp., a part of a distilling apparatus in which the more volatile portions are separated from the less volatile by the process of evaporation and condensation; a rectifier.

One who, or that which, rectifies.

To make or set right; to correct from a wrong, erroneous, or false state; to amend; as, to rectify errors, mistakes, or abuses; to rectify the will, the judgment, opinions; to rectify disorders.

Straight; consisting of a straight line or lines; bounded by straight lines; as, a rectineal angle; a rectilinear figure or course.

The quality or state of being rectilinear.

Rectilinear.

Having the veins or nerves straight; -- said of leaves.

See Government, n., 7.

Having a straight beak.

Arranged in exactly vertical ranks, as the leaves on stems of many kinds; -- opposed to curviserial.

Proctitis.

Straightness.

The right-hand page; -- opposed to verso.

Of or pertaining to both the rectum and the uterus.

Of or pertaining to both the rectum and the bladder.

Pertaining to a rector or governor.

The office, rank, or station of a rector; rectorship.

A governess; a rectrix.

Pertaining to a rector or a rectory; rectoral.

Government; guidance.

The province of a rector; a parish church, parsonage, or spiritual living, with all its rights, tithes, and glebes.

Of or pertaining to both the rectum and the vagina.

A rectoress.

A governess; a rectoress.

The terminal part of the large intestine; -- so named because supposed by the old anatomists to be straight. See Illust. under Digestive.

A straight muscle; as, the recti of the eye.

Recumbence.

To recoil.

Recoil.

To lean; to recline; to repose.

The act of leaning, resting, or reclining; the state of being recumbent.

Recumbence.

Leaning; reclining; lying; as, the recumbent posture of the Romans at their meals. Hence, figuratively; Resting; inactive; idle.

Recoverable.

To recover; to regain; as, to recuperate the health or strength.

Recovery, as of anything lost, especially of the health or strength.

Same as Regenerator.

Of or pertaining to recuperation; tending to recovery.

To come back; to return again or repeatedly; to come again to mind.

Cure; remedy; recovery.

Incapable of cure.

The act of recurring, or state of being recurrent; return; resort; recourse.

Returning from time to time; recurring; as, recurrent pains.

Displayed with the back toward the spectator; -- said especially of an eagle.

The act of recurring; return.

To bend or curve back; to recurve.

The act of recurving, or the state of being recurved; a bending or flexure backward.

To curve in an opposite or unusual direction; to bend back or down.

Curved in an opposite or uncommon direction; bent back; as, a bird with a recurved bill; flowers with recurved petals.

A bird whose beak bends upward, as the avocet.

Having the beak bent upwards.

Recurvation.

Recurved.

The state of being recusant; nonconformity.

One who is obstinate in refusal; one standing out stubbornly against general practice or opinion.

Refusal.

Refusing; denying; negative.

The act of beating or striking back.

The color of blood, or of that part of the spectrum farthest from violet, or a tint resembling these.

An eruption of red pimples upon the face, neck, and arms, in early infancy; tooth rash; strophulus.

Having hands red with blood; in the very act, as if with red or bloody hands; -- said of a person taken in the act of homicide; hence, fresh from the commission of crime; as, he was taken red-hand or red-handed.

Red with heat; heated to redness; as, red-hot iron; red-hot balls. Hence, figuratively, excited; violent; as, a red-hot radical.

Of or pertaining to a red letter; marked by red letters.

The European red band fish, or fireflame. See Rend fish.

Hot-short; brittle when red-hot; -- said of certain kinds of iron.

Having a red tail.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, official formality. See Red tape, under Red, a.

Strict adherence to official formalities.

One who is tenacious of a strict adherence to official formalities.

To reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape (matter for publication); to edit.

See Redactor.

The act of redacting; work produced by redacting; a digest.

One who redacts; one who prepares matter for publication; an editor.

A work having two parapets whose faces unite so as to form a salient angle toward the enemy.

To disprove; to refute; toconfute; to reprove; to convict.

The act of redarguing; refutation.

Pertaining to, or containing, redargution; refutatory.

The dunlin.

The char.

The cardinal bird. The summer redbird (Piranga rubra). The scarlet tanager. See Tanager.

The European robin. The American robin. See Robin. The knot, or red-breasted snipe; -- called also robin breast, and robin snipe. See Knot.

A small ornamental leguminous tree of the American species of the genus Cercis. See Judas tree, under Judas.

The European goldfinch.

One who wears a red coat; specifically, a red-coated British soldier.

obs. imp. of Read, or Rede.

To grow or become red; to blush.

A clause in a deed by which some new thing is reserved out of what had been granted before; the clause by which rent is reserved in a lease.

Somewhat red; moderately red.

Answering to an interrogative or inquiry; conveying a reply; as, redditive words.

Red chalk. See under Chalk.

Rigor; violence.

Advice; counsel; suggestion.

To purchase back; to regain possession of by payment of a stipulated price; to repurchase.

Redeemableness.

Capable of being redeemed; subject to repurchase; held under conditions permitting redemption; as, a pledge securing the payment of money is redeemable.

The quality or state of being redeemable; redeemability.

One who redeems.

Without rede or counsel.

To deliberate again; to reconsider.

To deliver or give back; to return.

A second deliverance.

Act of delivering back.

A demanding back; a second or renewed demand.

The transfer of an estate back to the person who demised it; reconveyance; as, the demise and redemise of an estate. See under Demise.

To demonstrate again, or anew.

Redeemable.

The act of redeeming, or the state of being redeemed; repurchase; ransom; release; rescue; deliverance; as, the redemption of prisoners taken in war; the redemption of a ship and cargo. The liberation of an estate from a mortgage, or the taking back of property mortgaged, upon performance of the terms or conditions on which it was conveyed; also, the right of redeeming and reentering upon an estate mortgaged. See Equity of redemption, under Equity. Performance of the obligation stated in a note, bill, bond, or other evidence of debt, by making payment to the holder. The procuring of God's favor by the sufferings and death of Christ; the ransom or deliverance of sinners from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law.

One who is, or may be, redeemed.

One who redeems himself, as from debt or servitude.

A monk of an order founded in 1197; -- so called because the order was especially devoted to the redemption of Christians held in captivity by the Mohammedans. Called also Trinitarian.

Serving or tending to redeem; redeeming; as, the redemptive work of Christ.

One of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, founded in Naples in 1732 by St. Alphonsus Maria de Liquori. It was introduced onto the United States in 1832 at Detroit. The Fathers of the Congregation devote themselves to preaching to the neglected, esp. in missions and retreats, and are forbidden by their rule to engage in the instruction of youth.

Paid for ransom; serving to redeem.

Redemption.

Formed like the teeth of a saw; indented.

To deposit again.

To descend again.