Re-resolve Re`-re·solve" transitive verb & i. To resolve again.

Resolves, and re-resolves , then dies the same.

Young.

Re-search Re-search" transitive verb [ Prefix re- + search .] To search again; to examine anew.

Re-sign Re-sign" transitive verb [ Prefix re- + sign .] To affix one's signature to, a second time; to sign again.

Re-sound Re-sound" transitive verb & i. [ Prefix re- + sound .] To sound again or anew.

Re-store Re-store" transitive verb [ Prefix re- + store .] To store again; as, the goods taken out were re-stored .

Re-turn Re-turn" transitive verb & i. To turn again.

Re*lax Re·*lax" adjective Relaxed; lax; hence, remiss; careless.

Re*mindful Re·*mind"ful adjective Tending or adapted to remind; careful to remind. Southey.

Re*munerable Re·*mu"ner·a·ble adjective [ See Remunerate .] Admitting, or worthy, of remuneration. -- Re*mu`ner*a*bil"i*ty (r...-m..."n...r- ...-b...l"i-t...) noun

Re*pel Re·*pel" transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Repelled (-p?ld"); present participle & verbal noun Repelling .] [ Latin repellere , repulsum ; prefix re- re- + pellere to drive. See Pulse a beating, and confer Repulse , Repeal .] 1. To drive back; to force to return; to check the advance of; to repulse as, to repel an enemy or an assailant.

Hippomedon repelled the hostile tide.

Pope.

They repelled each other strongly, and yet attracted each other strongly.

Macaulay.

2. To resist or oppose effectually; as, to repel an assault, an encroachment, or an argument.

[ He] gently repelled their entreaties.

Hawthorne.

Syn. -- Tu repulse; resist; oppose; reject; refuse.

Reabsorb Re`ab·sorb" (rē`ăb*sôrb") transitive verb To absorb again; to draw in, or imbibe, again what has been effused, extravasated, or thrown off; to swallow up again; as, to reabsorb chyle, lymph, etc.; -- used esp. of fluids.

Reabsorption Re`ab·sorp"tion (-sôrp"shŭn) noun The act or process of reabsorbing.

Reaccess Re`ac·cess" (rē`ăk*sĕs" or re*ăk"sĕs) noun A second access or approach; a return. Hakewill.

Reaccuse Re`ac·cuse" (rē`ăk*kūz") transitive verb To accuse again.

Reach Reach (rēch) intransitive verb To retch. Cheyne.

Reach Reach noun An effort to vomit. [ R.]

Reach Reach transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Reached (rēcht) ( Raught , the old preterit, is obsolete); present participle & verbal noun Reaching .] [ Middle English rechen , Anglo-Saxon rǣcan , rǣcean , to extend, stretch out; akin to Dutch reiken , German reichen , and possibly to Anglo-Saxon rīce powerful, rich, English rich . √115.] 1. To extend; to stretch; to thrust out; to put forth, as a limb, a member, something held, or the like.

Her tresses yellow, and long straughten,
Unto her heeles down they raughten .

Rom. of R.

Reach hither thy hand and thrust it into my side.

John xx. 27.

Fruit trees, over woody, reached too far
Their pampered boughs.

Milton.

2. Hence, to deliver by stretching out a member, especially the hand; to give with the hand; to pass to another; to hand over; as, to reach one a book.

He reached me a full cup.

2 Esd. xiv. 39.

3. To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something held by one, so as to touch, strike, grasp, or the like; as, to reach an object with the hand, or with a spear.

O patron power, . . . thy present aid afford,
Than I may reach the beast.

Dryden.

4. To strike, hit, or touch with a missile; as, to reach an object with an arrow, a bullet, or a shell.

5. Hence, to extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut, as far as.

If these examples of grown men reach not the case of children, let them examine.

Locke.

6. To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent; as, his land reaches the river.

Thy desire . . . leads to no excess
That reaches blame.

Milton.

7. To arrive at; to come to; to get as far as.

Before this letter reaches your hands.

Pope.

8. To arrive at by effort of any kind; to attain to; to gain; to be advanced to.

The best account of the appearances of nature which human penetration can reach , comes short of its reality.

Cheyne.

9. To understand; to comprehend. [ Obsolete]

Do what, sir? I reach you not.

Beau. & Fl.

10. To overreach; to deceive. [ Obsolete] South.

Reach Reach intransitive verb 1. To stretch out the hand.

Goddess humane, reach , then, and freely taste!

Milton.

2. To strain after something; to make efforts.

Reaching above our nature does no good.

Dryden.

3. To extend in dimension, time, amount, action, influence, etc., so as to touch, attain to, or be equal to, something.

And behold, a ladder set upon the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven.

Gen. xxviii. 12.

The new world reaches quite across the torrid zone.

Boyle.

4. (Nautical) To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam.

To reach after or at , to make efforts to attain to or obtain.

He would be in the posture of the mind reaching after a positive idea of infinity.

Locke.

Reach Reach noun 1. The act of stretching or extending; extension; power of reaching or touching with the person, or a limb, or something held or thrown; as, the fruit is beyond my reach ; to be within reach of cannon shot.

2. The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management; extent of force or capacity.

Drawn by others who had deeper reaches than themselves to matters which they least intended.

Hayward.

Be sure yourself and your own reach to know.

Pope.

3. Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope.

And on the left hand, hell,
With long reach , interposed.

Milton.

I am to pray you not to strain my speech
To grosser issues, nor to larger reach
Than to suspicion.

Shak.

4. An extended portion of land or water; a stretch; a straight portion of a stream or river, as from one turn to another; a level stretch, as between locks in a canal; an arm of the sea extending up into the land. "The river's wooded reach ." Tennyson.

The coast . . . is very full of creeks and reaches .

Holland.

5. An artifice to obtain an advantage.

The Duke of Parma had particular reaches and ends of his own underhand to cross the design.

Bacon.

6. The pole or rod which connects the hind axle with the forward bolster of a wagon.

Reachable Reach"a·ble (-ȧ*b'l) adjective Being within reach.

Reacher Reach"er (-ẽr) noun 1. One who reaches.

2. An exaggeration. [ Obsolete] Fuller.

Reachless Reach"less adjective Being beyond reach; lofty.

Unto a reachless pitch of praises hight.

Bp. Hall.

React Re·act" (rē*ăkt") transitive verb To act or perform a second time; to do over again; as, to react a play; the same scenes were reacted at Rome.

React Re·act" (re*ăkt") intransitive verb 1. To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force; as, every body reacts on the body that impels it from its natural state.

2. To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition.

Reactance Re·act"ance noun [ React + -ance .] (Electricity) The influence of a coil of wire upon an alternating current passing through it, tending to choke or diminish the current, or the similar influence of a condenser; inductive resistance. Reactance is measured in ohms. The reactance of a circuit is equal to the component of the impressed electro-motive force at right angles to the current divided by the current, that is, the component of the impedance due to the self-inductance or capacity of the circuit.

Reactance coil Reactance coil (Electricity) A choking coil.

Reaction Re·ac"tion (re*ăk"shŭn) noun [ Confer French réaction .] 1. Any action in resisting other action or force; counter tendency; movement in a contrary direction; reverse action.

2. (Chemistry) The mutual or reciprocal action of chemical agents upon each other, or the action upon such chemical agents of some form of energy, as heat, light, or electricity, resulting in a chemical change in one or more of these agents, with the production of new compounds or the manifestation of distinctive characters. See Blowpipe reaction , Flame reaction , under Blowpipe , and Flame .

3. (Medicine) An action induced by vital resistance to some other action; depression or exhaustion of vital force consequent on overexertion or overstimulation; heightened activity and overaction succeeding depression or shock.

4. (Mech.) The force which a body subjected to the action of a force from another body exerts upon the latter body in the opposite direction.

Reaction is always equal and opposite to action, that is to say, the actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal and in opposite directions.

Sir I. Newton (3d Law of Motion).

5. (Politics) Backward tendency or movement after revolution, reform, or great progress in any direction.

The new king had, at the very moment at which his fame and fortune reached the highest point, predicted the coming reaction .

Macaulay.

Reaction time (Physiol.) , in nerve physiology, the interval between the application of a stimulus to an end organ of sense and the reaction or resulting movement; -- called also physiological time . -- Reaction wheel (Mech.) , a water wheel driven by the reaction of water, usually one in which the water, entering it centrally, escapes at its periphery in a direction opposed to that of its motion by orifices at right angles, or inclined, to its radii.

Reaction Re·ac"tion noun (Psycophysics) A regular or characteristic response to a stimulation of the nerves.

Reactionary Re·ac"tion·a·ry (-a*rȳ) adjective Being, causing, or favoring reaction; as, reactionary movements.

Reactionary Re·ac"tion·a·ry noun ; plural Reactionaries (-rĭz). One who favors reaction, or seeks to undo political progress or revolution.

Reactionist Re·ac"tion·ist noun A reactionary. C. Kingsley.

Reactive Re·act"ive (re*ăkt"ĭv) adjective [ Confer French réactif .] Having power to react; tending to reaction; of the nature of reaction. -- Re*act"ive*ly , adverb -- Re*act"ive*ness , noun

Reactor Re·act"or noun (Electricity) A choking coil.

Read Read (rēd) noun Rennet. See 3d Reed . [ Prov. Eng.]

Read Read (rēd) transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Read (rĕd); present participle & verbal noun Reading .] [ Middle English reden , ræden , Anglo-Saxon rǣdan to read, advise, counsel, from rǣd advice, counsel, rǣdan (imperf. reord ) to advise, counsel, guess; akin to Dutch raden to advise, German raten , rathen , Icelandic rāða , Goth. rēdan (in comp.), and perhaps also to Sanskrit rādh to succeed. √116. Confer Riddle .] 1. To advise; to counsel. [ Obsolete] See Rede .

Therefore, I read thee, get thee to God's word, and thereby try all doctrine.

Tyndale.

2. To interpret; to explain; as, to read a riddle.

3. To tell; to declare; to recite. [ Obsolete]

But read how art thou named, and of what kin.

Spenser.

4. To go over, as characters or words, and utter aloud, or recite to one's self inaudibly; to take in the sense of, as of language, by interpreting the characters with which it is expressed; to peruse; as, to read a discourse; to read the letters of an alphabet; to read figures; to read the notes of music, or to read music; to read a book.

Redeth [ read ye] the great poet of Itaille.

Chaucer.

Well could he rede a lesson or a story.

Chaucer.

5. Hence, to know fully; to comprehend.

Who is't can read a woman?

Shak.

6. To discover or understand by characters, marks, features, etc.; to learn by observation.

An armed corse did lie,
In whose dead face he read great magnanimity.

Spenser.

Those about her
From her shall read the perfect ways of honor.

Shak.

7. To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks; as, to read theology or law.

To read one's self in , to read aloud the Thirty-nine Articles and the Declaration of Assent, -- required of a clergyman of the Church of England when he first officiates in a new benefice.

Read Read intransitive verb 1. To give advice or counsel. [ Obsolete]

2. To tell; to declare. [ Obsolete] Spenser.

3. To perform the act of reading; to peruse, or to go over and utter aloud, the words of a book or other like document.

So they read in the book of the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense.

Neh. viii. 8.

4. To study by reading; as, he read for the bar.

5. To learn by reading.

I have read of an Eastern king who put a judge to death for an iniquitous sentence.

Swift.

6. To appear in writing or print; to be expressed by, or consist of, certain words or characters; as, the passage reads thus in the early manuscripts.

7. To produce a certain effect when read; as, that sentence reads queerly.

To read between the lines , to infer something different from what is plainly indicated; to detect the real meaning as distinguished from the apparent meaning.

Read Read noun [ Anglo-Saxon rǣd counsel, from rǣdan to counsel. See Read , transitive verb ] 1. Saying; sentence; maxim; hence, word; advice; counsel. See Rede . [ Obsolete]

2. [ Read , v. ] Reading. [ Colloq.] Hume.

One newswoman here lets magazines for a penny a read .

Furnivall.

Read Read (rĕd), imperfect & past participle of Read , transitive verb & i.

Read Read (rĕd) adjective Instructed or knowing by reading; versed in books; learned.

A poet . . . well read in Longinus.

Addison.

Readability Read`a·bil"i·ty (rēd`ȧ*bĭl"ĭ*tȳ) noun The state of being readable; readableness.

Readable Read"a·ble (rēd"ȧ*b'l) adjective Such as can be read; legible; fit or suitable to be read; worth reading; interesting. -- Read"a*ble*ness , noun -- Read"a*bly , adverb

Readdress Re`ad·dress" (rē`ăd*drĕs") transitive verb To address a second time; -- often used reflexively.

He readdressed himself to her.

Boyle.

Readept Re`a·dept" (-ȧ*dĕpt") transitive verb [ Prefix re- + Latin adeptus , past participle of adipisci to obtain.] To regain; to recover. [ Obsolete]

Readeption Re`a·dep"tion (-dĕp"shŭn) noun A regaining; recovery of something lost. [ Obsolete] Bacon.

Reader Read"er (rēd"ẽr) noun [ Anglo-Saxon rǣdere .] 1. One who reads. Specifically: (a) One whose distinctive office is to read prayers in a church. (b) (University of Oxford, Eng.) One who reads lectures on scientific subjects. Lyell. (c) A proof reader. (d) One who reads manuscripts offered for publication and advises regarding their merit.

2. One who reads much; one who is studious.

3. A book containing a selection of extracts for exercises in reading; an elementary book for practice in a language; a reading book.

Readership Read"er·ship noun The office of reader. Lyell.

Readily Read"i·ly (rĕd"ĭ*lȳ) adverb 1. In a ready manner; quickly; promptly. Chaucer.

2. Without delay or objection; without reluctance; willingly; cheerfully.

How readily we wish time spent revoked!

Cowper.

Readiness Read"i·ness noun The state or quality of being ready; preparation; promptness; aptitude; willingness.

They received the word with all readiness of mind.

Acts xvii. 11.

Syn. -- Facility; quickness; expedition; promptitude; promptness; aptitude; aptness; knack; skill; expertness; dexterity; ease; cheerfulness. See Facility .

Reading Read"ing (rēd"ĭng) noun 1. The act of one who reads; perusal; also, printed or written matter to be read.

2. Study of books; literary scholarship; as, a man of extensive reading .

3. A lecture or prelection; public recital.

The Jews had their weekly readings of the law.

Hooker.

4. The way in which anything reads; force of a word or passage presented by a documentary authority; lection; version.

5. Manner of reciting, or acting a part, on the stage; way of rendering. [ Cant]

6. An observation read from the scale of a graduated instrument; as, the reading of a barometer.

Reading of a bill (Legislation) , its formal recital, by the proper officer, before the House which is to consider it.

Reading Read"ing adjective 1. Of or pertaining to the act of reading; used in reading.

2. Addicted to reading; as, a reading community.

Reading book , a book for teaching reading; a reader. -- Reading desk , a desk to support a book while reading; esp., a desk used while reading the service in a church. -- Reading glass , a large lens with more or less magnifying power, attached to a handle, and used in reading, etc. -- Reading man , one who reads much; hence, in the English universities, a close, industrious student. -- Reading room , a room appropriated to reading; a room provided with papers, periodicals, and the like, to which persons resort.

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