Reassimilate (-sĭm"ĭ*lāt) transitive verb & i. To assimilate again. -- Re`as*sim`i*la"tion (-lā"shŭn) noun

Reassociate (-sō"shĭ*āt) transitive verb & i. To associate again; to bring again into close relations.

Reassume (-sūm") transitive verb To assume again or anew; to resume. -- Re`as*sump"tion (- sŭmp"shŭn) noun

Reassurance (rē`ȧ*shur" a ns) noun
1. Assurance or confirmation renewed or repeated. Prynne.

2. (Law) Same as Reinsurance .

Reassure (rē`ȧ*shur") transitive verb
1. To assure anew; to restore confidence to; to free from fear or terror.

They rose with fear, . . .
Till dauntless Pallas reassured the rest.

Dryden.

2. To reinsure.

Reassurer (-ẽr) noun One who reassures.

Reasty (rēs"tȳ) adjective [ Etymol. uncertain.] Rusty and rancid; -- applied to salt meat. [ Obsolete or Prov. Eng.] Tusser. -- Reas"ti*ness (-tĭ*nĕs) noun [ Obsolete or Prov. Eng.]

Reata (ra*ä"tȧ) noun [ Spanish ] A lariat.

Reattach (rē`ăt*tăch") transitive verb To attach again.

Reattachment (-m e nt) noun The act of reattaching; a second attachment.

Reattain (-tān") transitive verb To attain again.

Reattainment (-m e nt) noun The act of reattaining.

Reattempt (-tĕmt"; 215) transitive verb To attempt again.

Reaume (rē"am) noun Realm. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Réaumur (ra`ō`mur") adjective Of or pertaining to René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur ; conformed to the scale adopted by Réaumur in graduating the thermometer he invented. -- noun A Réaumur thermometer or scale.

» The Réaumur thermometer is so graduated that 0° marks the freezing point and 80° the boiling point of water. Frequently indicated by R. Confer Centigrade , and Fahrenheit . See Illust. of Thermometer .

Reave (rēv) transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Reaved (rēvd), Reft (rĕft), or Raft (rȧft) (obs.); present participle & verbal noun Reaving .] [ Anglo-Saxon reáfian , from reáf spoil, plunder, clothing, reófan to break (cf. bireófan to deprive of); akin to German rauben to rob, Icelandic raufa to rob, rjūfa to break, violate, Goth. biráubōn to despoil, Latin rumpere to break; confer Sanskrit lup to break. √114. Confer Bereave , Rob , transitive verb , Robe , Rove , intransitive verb , Rupture .] To take away by violence or by stealth; to snatch away; to rob; to despoil; to bereave. [ Archaic] "To reave his life." Spenser.

He golden apples raft of the dragon.

Chaucer.

If the wooers reave
By privy stratagem my life at home.

Chapman.

To reave the orphan of his patrimony.

Shak.

The heathen caught and reft him of his tongue.

Tennyson.

Reaver (rēv"ẽr) noun One who reaves. [ Archaic]

Reawake (rē`ȧ*wāk") intransitive verb To awake again.

Rebanish (rē*băn"ĭsh) transitive verb To banish again.

Rebaptism (rē*băp"tĭz'm) noun A second baptism.

Rebaptization (-tĭ*zā"shŭn) noun [ Confer French rebaptisation .] A second baptism. [ Obsolete] Hooker.

Rebaptize (rē`băp*tīz") transitive verb [ Prefix re- + baptize : confer French rebaptiser , Latin rebaptizare .] To baptize again or a second time.

Rebaptizer (-tīz"ẽr) noun One who rebaptizes.

Rebarbarize (rē*bär"bȧ*rīz) transitive verb To reduce again to barbarism. -- Re*bar`ba*ri*za"tion (-rĭ*zā"shŭn) noun

Germany . . . rebarbarized by polemical theology and religious wars.

Sir W. Hamilton.

Rebate (re*bāt") transitive verb [ French rebattre to beat again; prefix re- re- + battre to beat, Latin batuere to beat, strike. See Abate .]
1. To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise.

But doth rebate and blunt his natural edge.

Shak.

2. To deduct from; to make a discount from, as interest due, or customs duties. Blount.

Rebated cross , a cross which has the extremities of the arms bent back at right angles, as in the fylfot.

Rebate intransitive verb To abate; to withdraw. [ Obsolete] Foxe.

Rebate noun
1. Diminution.

2. (Com.) Deduction; abatement; as, a rebate of interest for immediate payment; a rebate of importation duties. Bouvier.

Rebate noun [ See Rabbet .]
1. (Architecture) A rectangular longitudinal recess or groove, cut in the corner or edge of any body; a rabbet. See Rabbet .

2. A piece of wood hafted into a long stick, and serving to beat out mortar. Elmes.

3. An iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used for dressing and polishing wood. Elmes.

4. [ Perhaps a different word.] A kind of hard freestone used in making pavements. [ R.] Elmes.

Rebate transitive verb To cut a rebate in. See Rabbet , v.

Rebatement (-m e nt) noun [ Confer Old French rabatement , from rabatre to diminish, French rabattre .] Same as 3d Rebate .

Rebato (re*bā"to) noun Same as Rabato . Burton.

Rebec (rē"bĕk) noun [ French, from Italian ribeca , ribeba , from Arabic rabāb a musical instrument of a round form.]
1. (Mus.) An instrument formerly used which somewhat resembled the violin, having three strings, and being played with a bow. [ Written also rebeck .] Milton.

He turn'd his rebec to a mournful note.

Drayton.

2. A contemptuous term applied to an old woman. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Rebel (rĕb"ĕl) adjective [ French rebelle , from Latin rebellis . See Rebel , intransitive verb ] Pertaining to rebels or rebellion; acting in revolt; rebellious; as, rebel troops.

Whoso be rebel to my judgment.

Chaucer.

Convict by flight, and rebel to all law.

Milton.

Rebel noun [ French rebelle .] One who rebels.

Syn. -- Revolter; insurgent. -- Rebel , Insurgent . Insurgent marks an early, and rebel a more advanced, stage of opposition to government. The former rises up against his rulers, the latter makes war upon them.

Rebel (re*bĕl") intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Rebelled (-bĕld); present participle & verbal noun Rebelling .] [ French rebeller , from Latin rebellare to make war again; prefix re- again + bellare to make war, from bellum war. See Bellicose , and confer Revel to carouse.]
1. To renounce, and resist by force, the authority of the ruler or government to which one owes obedience. See Rebellion .

The murmur and the churls' rebelling .

Chaucer.

Ye have builded you an altar, that ye might rebel this day against the Lord.

Josh. xxii. 16.

2. To be disobedient to authority; to assume a hostile or insubordinate attitude; to revolt.

How could my hand rebel against my heart?
How could your heart rebel against your reason?

Dryden.

Rebeldom (rĕb"ĕl*dŭm) noun A region infested by rebels; rebels, considered collectively; also, conduct or quality characteristic of rebels. Thackeray.

Rebeller (re*bĕl"lẽr) noun One who rebels; a rebel.

Rebellion (re*bĕl"yŭn) noun [ French rébellion , Latin rebellio . See Rebel , intransitive verb Among the Romans rebellion was originally a revolt or open resistance to their government by nations that had been subdued in war. It was a renewed war.]
1. The act of rebelling; open and avowed renunciation of the authority of the government to which one owes obedience, and resistance to its officers and laws, either by levying war, or by aiding others to do so; an organized uprising of subjects for the purpose of coercing or overthrowing their lawful ruler or government by force; revolt; insurrection.

No sooner is the standard of rebellion displayed than men of desperate principles resort to it.

Ames.

2. Open resistance to, or defiance of, lawful authority.

Commission of rebellion (Eng. Law) , a process of contempt issued on the nonappearance of a defendant, -- now abolished. Wharton. Burrill.

Syn. -- Insurrection; sedition; revolt; mutiny; resistance; contumacy. See Insurrection .

Rebellious (re*bĕl"yŭs) adjective Engaged in rebellion; disposed to rebel; of the nature of rebels or of rebellion; resisting government or lawful authority by force. "Thy rebellious crew." "Proud rebellious arms." Milton. -- Re*bel"lious*ly , adverb -- Re*bel"lious*ness , noun

Rebellow (rē*bĕl"lo) intransitive verb To bellow again; to repeat or echo a bellow.

The cave rebellowed , and the temple shook.

Dryden.

Rebiting (rē*bīt"ĭng) noun (Etching) The act or process of deepening worn lines in an etched plate by submitting it again to the action of acid. Fairholt.

Rebloom (rē*blōm") intransitive verb To bloom again. Crabbe.

Reblossom (rē*blŏs"sŭm) intransitive verb To blossom again.

Reboant (re*bō" a nt) adjective [ Latin reboans , present participle of reboare ; prefix re- re- + boare to cry aloud.] Rebellowing; resounding loudly. [ R.] Mrs. Browning.

Reboation (rē`bo*ā"shŭn) noun Repetition of a bellow. [ R.] Bp. Patrick.

Reboil (rē*boil") transitive verb & i. [ Prefix re- + boil : confer French rebouillir .]
1. To boil, or to cause to boil, again.

2. Fig.: To make or to become hot. [ Obsolete]

Some of his companions thereat reboyleth .

Sir T. Elyot.

Reborn (rē*bôrn") past participle Born again.

Rebound (re*bound") intransitive verb [ Prefix re- + bound : confer French rebondir .]
1. To spring back; to start back; to be sent back or reverberated by elastic force on collision with another body; as, a rebounding echo.

Bodies which are absolutely hard, or so soft as to be void of elasticity, will not rebound from one another.

Sir I. Newton.

2. To give back an echo. [ R.] T. Warton.

3. To bound again or repeatedly, as a horse. Pope.

Rebounding lock (Firearms) , one in which the hammer rebounds to half cock after striking the cap or primer.

Rebound transitive verb To send back; to reverberate.

Silenus sung; the vales his voice rebound .

Dryden.

Rebound noun The act of rebounding; resilience.

Flew . . . back, as from a rock, with swift rebound .

Dryden.