RECUMB — REDOUNDING NWAD RECUMB.1
RECUMB, v.i. [L. recumbo; re and cumbo, to lie down.] To lean; to recline; to repose. NWAD RECUMB.1
RECUMBENCE, n. [from L. recumbens.] The act of reposing or resting in confidence. NWAD RECUMBENCE.1
RECUMBENCY, n. NWAD RECUMBENCY.1
1. The posture of leaning, reclining or lying. NWAD RECUMBENCY.2
2. Rest; repose; idle state. NWAD RECUMBENCY.3
RECUMBENT, a. [L. recumbens.] NWAD RECUMBENT.1
1. Leaning; reclining; as the recumbent posture of the Romans at their meals. NWAD RECUMBENT.2
2. Reposing; inactive; idle. NWAD RECUMBENT.3
RECUPERATION, n. [L. recuperatio.] Recovery, as of any thing lost. NWAD RECUPERATION.1
RECUPERATIVE, RECUPERATORY, a. Tending to recovery; pertaining to recovery. NWAD RECUPERATIVE.1
RECUR, v.i. [L. recurro; re and curro, to run.] NWAD RECUR.1
1. To return to the thought or mind. NWAD RECUR.2
When any word has been used to signify an idea, the old idea will recur in the mind, when the word is heard. NWAD RECUR.3
2. To resort; to have recourse. NWAD RECUR.4
If to avoid succession in eternal existence, they recur to the punctum stans of the schools, they will very little help us to a more positive idea of infinite duration. NWAD RECUR.5
RECURE, v.t. [re and cure.] To cure; to recover. [Not in use.] NWAD RECURE.1
RECURE, n. Cure; recovery. [Not in use.] NWAD RECURE.2
RECURELESS, a. Incapable of cure or remedy. [Not in use.] NWAD RECURELESS.1
1. Return; as the recurrence of error. NWAD RECURRENCE.2
2. Resort; the having recourse. NWAD RECURRENCE.3
RECURRENT, a. [L. recurrens.] NWAD RECURRENT.1
1. Returning from time to time; as recurrent pains of a disease. NWAD RECURRENT.2
2. In crystallography, a recurrent crystal is one whose faces, being counted in annular ranges from one extremity to the other, furnish two different numbers which succeed each other times, as 4, 8, 4, 8, 4. NWAD RECURRENT.3
3. In anatomy, the recurrent nerve is a branch of the par vagum, given off in the upper part of the thorax, which is reflected and runs up along the trachea to the larynx. NWAD RECURRENT.4
RECURSION, n. [L. recursus, recurro; re and curro, to run.] Return. [Little used.] NWAD RECURSION.1
RECURVATE, v.t. [L. recurro; re and curvo, to bend.] To bend back. NWAD RECURVATE.1
RECURVATE, a. NWAD RECURVATE.2
1. In botany, bent, bowed or curved downwards; as a recurvate leaf. NWAD RECURVATE.3
2. Bent outward; as a recurvate prickle, awn, petiole, calyx or corol. NWAD RECURVATE.4
RECURVATION, RECURVITY, n. A bending or flexure backwards. NWAD RECURVATION.1
RECURVE, v.t. recurv’. [L. recurvo, supra.] To bend back. NWAD RECURVE.1
RECURVED, pp. Bent back or downwards; as a recurved leaf. NWAD RECURVED.1
RECURVIROSTER, n. [L. recurvus, bent back, and rostrum, a beak.] NWAD RECURVIROSTER.1
A fowl whose beak or bill bends upwards, as the avoset. NWAD RECURVIROSTER.2
RECURVOUS, a. [L. recurvus.] Bent backwards. NWAD RECURVOUS.1
RECUSANCY, n. Non-conformity. [See Recusant.] NWAD RECUSANCY.1
RECUSANT, a. s as z. [L. recusans, recuso, to refuse; re and the root of causa, signifying to drive. The primary sense is to repel or drive back.] NWAD RECUSANT.1
Refusing to acknowledge the supremacy of the king, or to conform to the established rites of the church; as a recusant lord. NWAD RECUSANT.2
RECUSANT, n. [supra.] NWAD RECUSANT.3
1. In English history, a person who refuses to acknowledge the supremacy of the king in matters of religion; as a popish recusant, who acknowledges the supremacy of the pope. NWAD RECUSANT.4
2. One who refuses communion with the church of England; a non-conformist. NWAD RECUSANT.5
All that are recusants of holy rites. NWAD RECUSANT.6
RECUSATION, n. [L. recusatio.] NWAD RECUSATION.1
1. Refusal. NWAD RECUSATION.2
2. In law, the act of refusing a judge, or challenging that he shall not try the cause, on account of his supposed partiality. [This practice is now obsolete.] NWAD RECUSATION.3
RECUSE, v.t. s as z. [L. recuso.] To refuse or reject, as a judge; to challenge that the judge shall not try the cause. [The practice and the word are obsolete.] NWAD RECUSE.1
RED, a. [Gr red, and a rose, from its color. Heb. to descend, to bring down. L. gradior, also to correct, to teach, erudio. See also Rad.] NWAD RED.1
Of a bright color, resembling blood. Red is a simple or primary color, but of several different shades or hues, as scarlet, crimson, vermilion, orange red, etc. We say red color, red cloth, red flame, red eyes, red cheeks, red lead, etc. NWAD RED.2
Red book of the exchequer, an ancient English record or manuscript containing various treatises relating to the times before the conquest. NWAD RED.3
Red men, red people, red children, the aboriginals of America, as distinguished from the whites. NWAD RED.4
RED, n. A red color; as a brighter color, the best of all the reds. NWAD RED.5
REDACT, v.t. [L. redactus, redigo; red, re, and ago.] NWAD REDACT.1
To force; to reduce to form. [Not used.] NWAD REDACT.2
REDAN, n. [written sometimes redent and redens; said to be contracted from L. recedens. Lunier.] NWAD REDAN.1
In fortification, a work indented, or formed with salient and re-entering angles, so that one part may flank and defend another. NWAD REDAN.2
REDARGUE, v.t. [L. redarguo; red, re, and arguo.] To refute. [Not in use.] NWAD REDARGUE.1
REDARGUTION, n. [supra.] Refutation; conviction. [Not in use.] NWAD REDARGUTION.1
RED-BERRIED, a. Having or bearing red berries; as red-berried shrub cassia. NWAD RED-BERRIED.1
RED-BIRD, n. The popular name of several birds in the United States, as the Tanagra aestiva or summer red-bird, the Tanagra rubra, and the Baltimore oriole or hangnest. NWAD RED-BIRD.1
REDBREAST, n. A bird so called from the color of its breast, a species of Motacilla. In America, this name is given to the robin, so called, a species of Turdus. NWAD REDBREAST.1
REDBUD, n. A plant or tree of the genus Cercis. NWAD REDBUD.1
RED-CHALK, n. A kind of clay ironstone; reddle. NWAD RED-CHALK.1
RED-COAT, n. A name given to a soldier who wears a red coat. NWAD RED-COAT.1
REDDEN, v.t. red’n. [from red.] To make red. NWAD REDDEN.1
REDDEN, v.i. red’n. NWAD REDDEN.2
1. To grow or become red. NWAD REDDEN.3
- The coral redden and the ruby glow. NWAD REDDEN.4
2. To blush. NWAD REDDEN.5
Appius reddens at each word you speak. NWAD REDDEN.6
REDDENDUM, n. In law, the clause by which rent is reserved in a lease. NWAD REDDENDUM.1
REDDISH, a. Somewhat red; moderately red. Leviticus 13:19. NWAD REDDISH.1
REDDISHNESS, n. Redness in a moderate degree. NWAD REDDISHNESS.1
REDDITION, n. [L. reddo, to return.] NWAD REDDITION.1
1. A returning of any thing; restitution; surrender. NWAD REDDITION.2
2. Explanation; representation. NWAD REDDITION.3
REDDITIVE, a. [L. redditivus, from reddo.] NWAD REDDITIVE.1
Returning; answering to an interrogative; a term of grammar. NWAD REDDITIVE.2
REDDLE, n. [from red.] Red chalk, commonly used as a pigment. It is a mineral of a florid color, but not of a deep red. NWAD REDDLE.1
REDE, n. Counsel; advice. Obs. NWAD REDE.1
REDE, v.t. To counsel or advise. Obs. NWAD REDE.2
REDEEM, v.t. [L. redimo; red, re, and emo, to obtain or purchase.] NWAD REDEEM.1
1. To purchase back; to ransom; to liberate or rescue from captivity or bondage, or from any obligation or liability to suffer or to be forfeited, by paying an equivalent; as, to redeem prisoners or captured goods; to redeem a pledge. NWAD REDEEM.2
2. To repurchase what has been sold; to regain possession of a thing alienated, by repaying the value of it to the possessor. NWAD REDEEM.3
If a man [shall] sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold. Leviticus 25:29. NWAD REDEEM.4
3. To rescue; to recover; to deliver from. NWAD REDEEM.5
Th’ Almighty from the grave hath me redeem’d. NWAD REDEEM.6
Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles. Psalm 25:22; Deuteronomy 7:8. NWAD REDEEM.7
The mass of earth not yet redeemed from chaos. NWAD REDEEM.8
4. To compensate; to make amends for. NWAD REDEEM.9
It is a chance which does redeem all sorrows. NWAD REDEEM.10
By lesser ills the greater to redeem. NWAD REDEEM.11
5. To free by making atonement. NWAD REDEEM.12
Thou hast one daughter who redeems nature from the general curse. NWAD REDEEM.13
6. To pay the penalty of. NWAD REDEEM.14
Which of you will be mortal to redeem man’s mortal crime? NWAD REDEEM.15
7. To save. NWAD REDEEM.16
He could not have redeemed a portion of his time for contemplating the powers of nature. NWAD REDEEM.17
8. To perform what has been promised; to make good by performance. He has redeemed his pledge or promise. NWAD REDEEM.18
9. In law, to recall an estate, or to obtain the right to re-enter upon a mortgaged estate by paying to the mortgagee his principal, interest, and expenses or costs. NWAD REDEEM.19
10. In theology, to rescue and deliver from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God’s violated law, by obedience and suffering in the place of the sinner, or by doing and suffering that which is accepted in lieu of the sinner’s obedience. NWAD REDEEM.20
Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us. Galatians 3:13; Titus 2:14. NWAD REDEEM.21
11. In commerce, to purchase or pay the value in specie, of any promissory note, bill or other evidence of debt, given by the state, by a company or corporation, or by an individual. The credit of a state, a banking company or individuals, is good when they can redeem all their stock, notes or bills, at par. NWAD REDEEM.22
To redeem time, is to use more diligence in the improvement of it; to be diligent and active in duty and preparation. Ephesians 5:16. NWAD REDEEM.23
REDEEMABLE, a. NWAD REDEEMABLE.1
1. That may be redeemed; capable of redemption. NWAD REDEEMABLE.2
2. That may be purchased or paid for in gold and silver, and brought into the possession of government or the original promiser. NWAD REDEEMABLE.3
The capital of the debt of the United States may be considered in the light of an annuity redeemable at the pleasure of the government. NWAD REDEEMABLE.4
REDEEMABLENESS, n. The state of being redeemable. NWAD REDEEMABLENESS.1
REDEEMED, pp. Ransomed; delivered from bondage, distress, penalty, liability, or from the possession of another, by paying an equivalent. NWAD REDEEMED.1
REDEEMER, n. NWAD REDEEMER.1
1. One who redeems or ransoms. NWAD REDEEMER.2
2. The Savior of the world, Jesus Christ. NWAD REDEEMER.3
REDEEMING, ppr. Ransoming; procuring deliverance from captivity, capture, bondage, sin, distress or liability to suffer, by the payment of an equivalent. NWAD REDEEMING.1
REDELIBERATE, v.i. [re and deliberate.] To deliberate again. NWAD REDELIBERATE.1
REDELIBERATE, v.t. To reconsider. [Not in use.] NWAD REDELIBERATE.2
REDELIVER, v.t. [re and deliver.] NWAD REDELIVER.1
1. To deliver back. NWAD REDELIVER.2
2. To deliver again; to liberate a second time. NWAD REDELIVER.3
REDELIVERANCE, n. A second deliverance. NWAD REDELIVERANCE.1
REDELIVERED, pp. Delivered back; liberated again. NWAD REDELIVERED.1
REDELIVERING, ppr. Delivering back; liberating again. NWAD REDELIVERING.1
REDELIVERY, n. The act of delivering back; also, a second delivery or liberation. NWAD REDELIVERY.1
REDEMAND, v.t. [re and demand.] NWAD REDEMAND.1
To demand back; to demand again. NWAD REDEMAND.2
REDEMAND, n. A demanding back again. NWAD REDEMAND.3
REDEMANDABLE, a. That may be demanded back. NWAD REDEMANDABLE.1
REDEMANDED, pp. Demanded back or again. NWAD REDEMANDED.1
REDEMANDING, ppr. Demanding back or again. NWAD REDEMANDING.1
REDEMISE, v.t. s as z. [re and demise.] To convey or transfer back, as an estate in fee simple, fee tail, for life or a term of years. NWAD REDEMISE.1
REDEMISE, n. Reconveyance; the transfer of an estate back to the person who has demised it; as the demise and redemise of an estate in fee simple, fee tail, or for life or years, by mutual leases. NWAD REDEMISE.2
REDEMISED, pp. Reconveyed, as an estate. NWAD REDEMISED.1
REDEMISING, ppr. Reconveying. NWAD REDEMISING.1
REDEMPTION, n. [L. redemptio. See Redeem.] NWAD REDEMPTION.1
1. Repurchase of captured goods or prisoners; the act of procuring the deliverance of persons or things from the possession and power of captors by the payment of an equivalent; ransom; release; as the redemption of prisoners taken in war; the redemption of a ship and cargo. NWAD REDEMPTION.2
2. Deliverance from bondage, distress, or from liability to any evil or forfeiture, either by money, labor or other means. NWAD REDEMPTION.3
3. Repurchase, as of lands alienated. Leviticus 25:24; Jeremiah 32:7-8. NWAD REDEMPTION.4
4. The liberation of an estate from a mortgage; or the purchase of the right to re-enter upon it by paying the principal sum for which it was mortgaged with interest and cost; also, the right of redeeming and re-entering. NWAD REDEMPTION.5
5. Repurchase of notes, bills or other evidence of debt by paying their value in specie to their holders. NWAD REDEMPTION.6
6. In theology, the purchase of God’s favor by the death and sufferings of Christ; the ransom or deliverance of sinners from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God’s violated law by the atonement of Christ. NWAD REDEMPTION.7
In whom we have redemption through his blood. Ephesians 1:7; Colossians 1:14. NWAD REDEMPTION.8
REDEMPTIONER, n. One who redeems himself, or purchases his release from debt or obligation to the master of a ship by his services; or one whose services are sold to pay the expenses of his passage to America. NWAD REDEMPTIONER.1
REDEMPTORY, a. Paid for ransom; as Hector’s redemptory price. NWAD REDEMPTORY.1
REDENTED, a. Formed like the teeth of a saw; indented. NWAD REDENTED.1
REDESCEND, v.i. [re and descent.] To descend again. NWAD REDESCEND.1
REDESCENDING, ppr. Descending again. NWAD REDESCENDING.1
REDEYE, n. [red and eye.] A fish of a red color, particularly the iris. NWAD REDEYE.1
REDGUM, n. A disease of new born infants; an eruption of red pimples in early infancy. NWAD REDGUM.1
RED-HAIRED, a. Having hair of a red or sandy color. NWAD RED-HAIRED.1
RED-HOT, n. Red with heat; heated to redness; as red-hot iron; red-hot balls. NWAD RED-HOT.1
REDIENT, a. [L. rediens, redeo, to return.] Returning. NWAD REDIENT.1
REDIGEST, v.t. To digest or reduce to form a second time. NWAD REDIGEST.1
REDIGESTED, pp. Digested again. NWAD REDIGESTED.1
REDIGESTING, ppr. Digesting a second time; reducing again to order. NWAD REDIGESTING.1
REDINTEGRATE, v.t. [L. redintegro; red, re, and integro, from integer, whole.] NWAD REDINTEGRATE.1
To make whole again; to renew; to restore to a perfect state. NWAD REDINTEGRATE.2
REDINTEGRATE, a. Renewed; restored to wholeness or a perfect state. NWAD REDINTEGRATE.3
REDINTEGRATED, pp. Renewed; restored to entireness. NWAD REDINTEGRATED.1
REDINTEGRATING, ppr. Restoring to a perfect state. NWAD REDINTEGRATING.1
1. Renovation; restoration to a whole or sound state. NWAD REDINTEGRATION.2
2. In chimistry, the restoration of any mixed body or matter to its former nature and constitution. NWAD REDINTEGRATION.3
REDISBURSE, v.t. redisburs’. [re and disburse.] To repay or refund. NWAD REDISBURSE.1
REDISPOSE, v.t. s as z. [re and dispose.] To dispose or adjust again. NWAD REDISPOSE.1
REDISPOSED, pp. Disposed anew. NWAD REDISPOSED.1
REDISPOSING, ppr. Disposing or adjusting anew. NWAD REDISPOSING.1
REDISSEIZIN, n. [re and disseizin.] In law, a writ of redisseizin, is a writ to recover seizin of lands or tenements against a redisseizor. NWAD REDISSEIZIN.1
REDISSEIZOR, n. [re and disseizor.] A person who disseizes lands or tenements a second time, or after a recovery of the same from him in an action of novel disseizin. NWAD REDISSEIZOR.1
REDISSOLVE, v.t. redizolv’. [re and dissolve.] To dissolve again. NWAD REDISSOLVE.1
REDISSOLVED, pp. Dissolved a second time. NWAD REDISSOLVED.1
REDISSOLVING, ppr. Dissolving again. NWAD REDISSOLVING.1
REDISTRIBUTE, v.t. [re and distribute.] To distribute again; to deal back again. NWAD REDISTRIBUTE.1
REDISTRIBUTED, pp. Distributed again or back. NWAD REDISTRIBUTED.1
REDISTRIBUTING, pp. Distributing again or back. NWAD REDISTRIBUTING.1
REDISTRIBUTION, n. A dealing back, or a second distribution. NWAD REDISTRIBUTION.1
RED-LED, n. red-led. [red and lead.] Minium, or red oxyd of lead, composed of 88 parts of lead and 12 of oxygen. NWAD RED-LED.1
REDLY, adv. With redness. NWAD REDLY.1
REDNESS, n. [See Red.] The quality of being red; red color. NWAD REDNESS.1
REDOLENCE, REDOLENCY, n. [from redolent.] Sweet scent. NWAD REDOLENCE.1
REDOLENT, a. [L. redolens, redoleo; red, re, and oleo, to smell.] NWAD REDOLENT.1
Having or diffusing a sweet scent. NWAD REDOLENT.2
REDOUBLE, v.t. redub’l. [re and double.] NWAD REDOUBLE.1
1. To repeat in return. NWAD REDOUBLE.2
2. To repeat often; as, to redouble blows. NWAD REDOUBLE.3
3. To increase by repeated or continued additions. NWAD REDOUBLE.4
And AEtna rages with redoubl’d heat. NWAD REDOUBLE.5
REDOUBLE, v.i. redub’l. To become twice as much. NWAD REDOUBLE.6
The argument redoubles upon us. NWAD REDOUBLE.7
REDOUBLED, pp. redub’ld. Repeated in return; repeated over and over; increased by repeated or continued additions. NWAD REDOUBLED.1
REDOUBLING, ppr. redub’ling. Repeating in return; repeating again and again; increasing by repeated or continued additions. NWAD REDOUBLING.1
REDOUND, v.i. [L. redundo; red, re, and undo, to rise or swell, as waves.] NWAD REDOUND.1
1. To be sent, rolled or driven back. NWAD REDOUND.2
The evil, soon driven back, redounded as a flood on those from whom it sprung. NWAD REDOUND.3
2. To conduce in the consequence; to contribute; to result. NWAD REDOUND.4
The honor done to our religion ultimately redounds to God the author of it. NWAD REDOUND.5
3. To proceed in the consequence or effect; to result. NWAD REDOUND.6
There will no small use redound from them to that manufactures. NWAD REDOUND.7
REDOUNDING, ppr. Conducing; contributing; resulting. NWAD REDOUNDING.1