The disposition of rays of light to be refracted or turned out of a direct course, in passing out of one transparent body or medium into another. NWAD REFRANGIBILITY.2
Capable of being refracted or turned out of a direct course in passing from one medium to another; as rays of light. NWAD REFRANGIBLE.2
1. To cool; to allay heat. NWAD REFRESH.2
A dew coming after a heat refresheth. NWAD REFRESH.3
2. To give new strength to; to invigorate; to relieve after fatigue; as, to refresh the body. A man or a beast is refreshed by food and rest. Exodus 23:12. NWAD REFRESH.4
3. To revive; to reanimate after depression; to cheer; to enliven. NWAD REFRESH.5
For they have refreshed my spirit and yours. 1 Corinthians 16:18. NWAD REFRESH.6
4. To improve by new touches any thing impaired. NWAD REFRESH.7
The rest refresh the scaly snakes. NWAD REFRESH.8
5. To revive what is drooping; as, rain refreshes the plants. NWAD REFRESH.9
1. Act of refreshing; or new strength or vigor received after fatigue; relief after suffering; applied to the body. NWAD REFRESHMENT.2
2. New life or animation after depression; applied to the mind or spirits. NWAD REFRESHMENT.3
3. That which gives fresh strength or vigor, as food or rest. NWAD REFRESHMENT.4
Cooling; allaying heat. NWAD REFRIGERANT.2
1. In distillation, a vessel filled with cold water, through which the worm passes; by which means the vapors are condensed as they pass through the worm. NWAD REFRIGERATORY.3
2. Any thing internally cooling. NWAD REFRIGERATORY.4
1. Deprived; bereft. [Not in use.] NWAD REFT.2
2. pret. of reave. Took away. [Not in use.] NWAD REFT.3
1. Shelter or protection from danger or distress. NWAD REFUGE.2
- Rocks, dens and caves, but I in none of these find place or refuge. NWAD REFUGE.3
We have made lies our refuge. Isaiah 28:17. NWAD REFUGE.4
- We might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us. Hebrews 6:18. NWAD REFUGE.5
2. That which shelters or protects from danger, distress or calamity; a strong hold which protects by its strength, or a sanctuary which secures safety by its sacredness; any place inaccessible to an enemy. NWAD REFUGE.6
The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats. Psalm 104:18. NWAD REFUGE.7
The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed. Psalm 9:9. NWAD REFUGE.8
3. An expedient to secure protection or defense. NWAD REFUGE.9
This last old man - their latest refuge was to send to him. NWAD REFUGE.10
4. Expedient, in general. NWAD REFUGE.11
Light must be supplied, among graceful refuges, by terracing any story in danger of darkness. NWAD REFUGE.12
Cities of refuge, among the Israelites, certain cities appointed to secure the safety of such persons as might commit homicide without design. Of these there were three on each side of Jordan. Joshua 20:2-3. NWAD REFUGE.13
1. One who flies to a shelter or place of safety. NWAD REFUGEE.2
2. One who, in times of persecution or political commotion, flees to a foreign country for safety; as the French refugees, who left France after the revocation of the edict of Nantz, and settled in Flanders and America; the refugees from Hispaniola, in 1792; and the American refugees, who left their country at the revolution. NWAD REFUGEE.3
A conspicuous and refulgent truth. NWAD REFULGENT.2
1. To pour back. NWAD REFUND.2
Were the humors of the eye tinctured with any color, they would refund that color upon the object. [Unusual or obsolete.] NWAD REFUND.3
2. To repay; to return in payment or compensation for what has been taken; to restore; as, to refund money taken wrongfully; to refund money advanced with interest; to refund the amount advanced. NWAD REFUND.4
1. The act of refusing; denial of any thing demanded, solicited or offered for acceptance. The first refusal is not always proof that the request will not be ultimately granted. NWAD REFUSAL.2
2. The right of taking in preference to others; the choice of taking or refusing; option; pre-emption. We say, a man has the refusal of a farm or a horse, or the refusal of an employment. NWAD REFUSAL.3
1. To deny a request, demand, invitation or command; to decline to do or grant what is solicited, claimed or commanded. NWAD REFUSE.2
Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border. Numbers 20:21. NWAD REFUSE.3
2. To decline to accept what is offered; as, to refuse an office; to refuse an offer. NWAD REFUSE.4
If they refuse to take the cup at thy hand - Jeremiah 25:28. NWAD REFUSE.5
3. To reject; as, to refuse instruction or reproof. Proverbs 10:17. NWAD REFUSE.6
The stone which the builders refused is become the head of the corner. Psalm 118:22. NWAD REFUSE.7
[Note - Refuse expenses rejection more strongly than decline.] NWAD REFUSE.8
Too proud to ask, to humble too refuse. NWAD REFUSE.10
Literally, refused; rejected; hence, worthless; of no value; left as unworthy of reception; as the refuse parts of stone or timber. NWAD REFUSE.12
Please to bestow on him the refuse letters. NWAD REFUSE.13
The act or process of refuting or disproving; the act of proving to be false or erroneous; the overthrowing of an argument, opinion, testimony, doctrine or theory, by argument or countervailing proof. NWAD REFUTATION.2
To disprove and overthrow by argument, evidence or countervailing proof; to prove to be false or erroneous; to confute. We say, to refute arguments, to refute testimony, to refute opinions or theories, to refute a disputant. NWAD REFUTE.2
There were so many witnesses to these two miracles, that it is impossible to refute such multitudes. NWAD REFUTE.3
To gain anew; to recover what has escaped or been lost. NWAD REGAIN.2
Pertaining to a king; kingly; royal; as a regal title; regal authority; regal state, pomp or splendor; regal power or sway. But we say, a royal or kingly government, not a regal one. We never say, a regal territory, regal dominions, regal army, or regal navy. Regal expresses what is more personal. NWAD REGAL.2
To refresh; to entertain with something that delights; to gratify, as the senses; as, to regale the taste, the eye or the ear. The birds of the forest regale us with their songs. NWAD REGALE.4
1. Ensigns of royalty; the apparatus of a coronation; as the crown, scepter, etc. NWAD REGALIA.2
2. In law, the rights and prerogatives of a king. NWAD REGALIA.3
He came partly in by the sword and had high courage in all points of regality. NWAD REGALITY.2
1. To look towards; to point or be directed. NWAD REGARD.2
It is a peninsula which regardeth the main land. NWAD REGARD.3
2. To observe; to notice with some particularity. NWAD REGARD.4
If much you note him, you offend him; feed and regard him not. NWAD REGARD.5
3. To attend to with respect and estimation; to value. NWAD REGARD.6
This aspect of mine, the best regarded virgins of your clime have lov’d. NWAD REGARD.7
4. To attend to as a thing that affects our interest or happiness; to fix the mind on as a matter of importance. He does not regard the pain he feels. He does not regard the loss he has suffered. He regards only the interest of the community. NWAD REGARD.8
5. To esteem; to hold in respect and affection. The people regard their pastor, and treat him with great kindness. 2 Kings 3:14. NWAD REGARD.9
6. To keep; to observe with religious or solemn attention. NWAD REGARD.10
He that regardeth the day, regardeth it to the Lord. Romans 14:6. NWAD REGARD.11
7. To attend to as something to influence our conduct. NWAD REGARD.12
He that regardeth the clouds shall not reap. Ecclesiastes 11:4. NWAD REGARD.13
8. To consider seriously; to lay to heart. NWAD REGARD.14
They regard not the work of the Lord. Isaiah 5:12. NWAD REGARD.15
9. To notice with pity or concern. Deuteronomy 28:50. NWAD REGARD.16
10. To notice favorably or with acceptance; to hear and answer. NWAD REGARD.17
He will regard the prayer of the destitute. Psalm 102:17. NWAD REGARD.18
11. To love and esteem; to practice; as, to regard iniquity in the heart. Psalm 66:18. NWAD REGARD.19
12. To respect; to have relation to. The argument does not regard the question. NWAD REGARD.20
To regard the person, to value for outward honor, wealth or power. Matthew 22:16. NWAD REGARD.21
1. Look; aspect directed to another. NWAD REGARD.23
But her with stern regard he thus repell’d. NWAD REGARD.24
[Nearly or quite obsolete.] NWAD REGARD.25
2. Attention of the mind; respect in relation to something. He has no regard to the interest of society; his motives are wholly selfish. NWAD REGARD.26
3. Respect; esteem; reverence; that view of the mind which springs from value, estimable qualities, or any thing that excites admiration. NWAD REGARD.27
With some regard to what is just and right they’ll lead their lives. NWAD REGARD.28
To him they had regard, because of long time he had bewitched them with sorceries. Acts 8:11. NWAD REGARD.29
4. Respect; account. NWAD REGARD.30
Change was thought necessary, in regard of the injury the church received by a number of things then in use. NWAD REGARD.31
5. Relation; reference. NWAD REGARD.32
To persuade them to pursue and preserve in virtue, in regard to themselves; in justice and goodness, in regard to their neighbors; and piety towards God. NWAD REGARD.33
6. Note; eminence; account. NWAD REGARD.34
Mac Ferlagh was a man of meanest regard among them. NWAD REGARD.35
7. Matter demanding notice. NWAD REGARD.36
8. Prospect; object of sight. [Not proper nor in use.] NWAD REGARD.37
9. In the forest laws, view; inspection. NWAD REGARD.38
Court of regard, or survey of dogs, a forest court in England, held every third year for the lawing or expeditation of mastifs, that is, for cutting off the claws and ball of the fore feet, to prevent them from running after deer. NWAD REGARD.39
1. In law, a villain regardant is one annexed to the manor or land. NWAD REGARDANT.2
2. In heraldry, looking behind, as a lion or other beast. NWAD REGARDANT.3
1. One that regards. NWAD REGARDER.2
2. In law, the regarder of the forest is an officer whose business is to view the forest, inspect the officers, and inquire of all offenses and defaults. NWAD REGARDER.3
Let a man be very tender and regardful of every pious motion made by the Spirit of God on his heart. NWAD REGARDFUL.2
1. Attentively; heedfully. NWAD REGARDFULLY.2
2. Respectfully. NWAD REGARDFULLY.3
1. Noticing; considering with care; attending to; observing; esteeming; caring for. NWAD REGARDING.2
2. Respecting; concerning; relating to. NWAD REGARDING.3
1. Not looking or attending to; heedless; negligent; careless; as regardless of life or of health; regardless of danger; regardless of consequences. NWAD REGARDLESS.2
Regardless of the bliss wherein he sat. NWAD REGARDLESS.3
2. Not regarded; slighted. NWAD REGARDLESS.4
1. Rule’ authority; government. NWAD REGENCY.2
2. Vicarious government. NWAD REGENCY.3
3. The district under the jurisdiction of a vicegerent. NWAD REGENCY.4
4. The body of men entrusted with vicarious government; as a regency constituted during a king’s minority, insanity, or absence from the kingdom. NWAD REGENCY.5
1. To generate or produce anew; to reproduce. NWAD REGENERATE.2
Through all the soil a genial ferment spreads, regenerates the plants and new adorns the meads. NWAD REGENERATE.3
2. In theology, to renew the heart by a change of affections; to change the heart and affections from natural enmity to the love of God; to implant holy affections in the heart. NWAD REGENERATE.4
1. Reproduced. NWAD REGENERATE.6
2. Born anew; renovated in heart; changed from a natural to a spiritual state. NWAD REGENERATE.7
1. Reproduced. NWAD REGENERATED.2
2. Renewed; born again. NWAD REGENERATED.3
1. Reproducing. NWAD REGENERATING.2
2. Renovating the nature by the implantation of holy affections in the heart. NWAD REGENERATING.3
1. Reproduction; the act of producing anew. NWAD REGENERATION.2
2. In theology, new birth by the grace of God; that change by which the will and natural enmity of man to God and his law are subdued, and a principle of supreme love to God and his law, or holy affections, are implanted in the heart. NWAD REGENERATION.3
He saved us by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit. Titus 3:5. NWAD REGENERATION.4
1. Ruling; governing; as a regent principle. NWAD REGENT.2
2. Exercising vicarious authority. NWAD REGENT.3
Queen regent, a queen who governs; opposed to queen consort. NWAD REGENT.4
1. A governor; a ruler; in a general sense; as Uriel, regent of the sun. NWAD REGENT.6
2. One invested with vicarious authority; one who governs a kingdom in the minority, absence or disability of the king. NWAD REGENT.7
3. In colleges, a teacher of arts and sciences, having pupils under his care, generally of the lower classes; those who instruct the higher classes being called professors. NWAD REGENT.8
4. In English universities, a master of arts under five years standing, and a doctor under two. NWAD REGENT.9
5. In the state of New york, the member of a corporate body which is invested with the superintendence of all the colleges, academies and schools in the state. This board consists of twenty one members, who are called “the regents of the university of the state of New York.” They are appointed and removable by the legislature. They have power to grant acts of incorporation for colleges, to visit and inspect all colleges, academies and schools, and to make regulations for governing the same. NWAD REGENT.10
1. The power of governing, or the office of a regent. NWAD REGENTSHIP.2
2. Deputed authority. NWAD REGENTSHIP.3
To germinate again. NWAD REGERMINATE.2
Perennial plants regerminate several years successively. NWAD REGERMINATE.3
1. A king-killer; one who murders a king. NWAD REGICIDE.2
2. The killing or murder of a king. NWAD REGICIDE.3
1. In medicine, the regulation of diet with a view to the preservation or restoration of health; or in a more general sense, the regulation of all the non-naturals for the same purposes. NWAD REGIMEN.2
2. Any regulation or remedy which is intended to produce beneficial effects by gradual operation. NWAD REGIMEN.3
3. In grammar, government; that part of syntax or construction, which regulates the dependency of words, and the alterations which one occasions or requires in another in connection with it; the words governed. NWAD REGIMEN.4
4. Orderly government; system of order. NWAD REGIMEN.5
1. In military affairs, a body of men, either horse, foot or artillery, commanded by a colonel or lieutenant colonel and major, and consisting of a number of companies, usually from eight to ten. NWAD REGIMENT.2
2. Government; mode of ruling; rule; authority; as used by Hooker, Hale and others. [Wholly obsolete.] NWAD REGIMENT.3
1. A tract of land or space of indefinite extent, usually a tract of considerable extent. It is sometimes nearly synonymous with country; as all the region of Argob. Deuteronomy 3:4. NWAD REGION.2
He had dominion over all the region on this side the river. 1 Kings 4:24. NWAD REGION.3
So we speak of the airy region, the etherial regions, the upper regions, the lower regions. NWAD REGION.4
2. The inhabitants of a region or district of country. Matthew 3:5. NWAD REGION.5
3. A part of the body; as the region of the heart or liver. NWAD REGION.6
4. Place; rank. NWAD REGION.7
He is of too high a region. [Unusual.] NWAD REGION.8
1. A written account or entry of acts, judgments or proceedings, for preserving and conveying to future times an exact knowledge of transactions. The word appropriately denotes an official account of the proceedings of a public body, a prince, a legislature, a court an incorporated company and the like, and in this use it is synonymous with record. But in a lax sense, it signifies any account entered on paper to preserve the remembrance of what is done. NWAD REGISTER.2
2. The book in which a register or record is kept, as a parish register; also, a list, as the register of seamen. NWAD REGISTER.3
3. [Low L. registrarius.] The officer or person whose business is to write or enter in a book accounts of transactions, particularly of the acts and proceedings of courts or other public bodies; as the register of a court of probate; a register of deeds. NWAD REGISTER.4
4. In chimistry and the arts, an aperture with a lid, stopper or sliding plate, in a furnace, stove, etc. for regulating the admission of air and the heat of the fire. NWAD REGISTER.5
5. The inner part of the mold in which types are cast. NWAD REGISTER.6
6. In printing, the correspondence of columns on the opposite sides of the sheet. NWAD REGISTER.7
7. A sliding piece of wood, used as a stop in an organ. NWAD REGISTER.8
Parish register, a book in which are recorded the baptisms of children and the marriages and burials of the parish. NWAD REGISTER.9
Register ship, a ship which obtains permission to trade to the Spanish West Indies and is registered before sailing. NWAD REGISTER.10
1. To record; to write in a book for preserving an exact account of facts and proceedings. The Greeks and Romans registered the names of all children born. NWAD REGISTER.12
2. To enroll; to enter in a list. NWAD REGISTER.13
1. The act of recording or writing in a register. NWAD REGISTRY.2
2. The place where a register is kept. NWAD REGISTRY.3
3. A series of facts recorded. NWAD REGISTRY.4
A ledge of wood exactly planed, used by printers to separate lines and make the work more open. NWAD REGLET.2
1. Reigning; exercising regal authority; as a queen regnant. The modern phrase is queen regent. NWAD REGNANT.2
2. Ruling; predominant; prevalent; having the chief power; as vices regnant. We now say, reigning vices. NWAD REGNANT.3
1. To vomit up; to eject from the stomach; to throw back or out again. NWAD REGORGE.2
2. To swallow again. NWAD REGORGE.3
3. To swallow eagerly. NWAD REGORGE.4