Rebozo noun [ Spanish rebozo .] A kind of mantilla worn by women over the head and shoulders, and sometimes over part of the face. [ Mexico & Spanish Amer.]

Rebrace (rē*brās") transitive verb To brace again. Gray.

Rebreathe (rē*brēth") transitive verb To breathe again.

Rebucous (re*bū"kŭs) adjective Rebuking. [ Obsolete]

She gave unto him many rebucous words.

Fabyan.

Rebuff (re*bŭf") noun [ Italian ribuffo , akin to ribuffare to repulse; prefix ri- (L. re- ) + buffo puff. Confer Buff to strike, Buffet a blow.]
1. Repercussion, or beating back; a quick and sudden resistance.

The strong rebuff of some tumultuous cloud.

Milton.

2. Sudden check; unexpected repulse; defeat; refusal; repellence; rejection of solicitation.

Rebuff transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Rebuffed (re*bŭft"); present participle & verbal noun Rebuffing .] To beat back; to offer sudden resistance to; to check; to repel or repulse violently, harshly, or uncourteously.

Rebuild (rē*bĭld") transitive verb To build again, as something which has been demolished; to construct anew; as, to rebuild a house, a wall, a wharf, or a city.

Rebuilder (-ẽr) noun One who rebuilds. Bp. Bull.

Rebukable (re*būk"ȧ*b'l) adjective Worthy of rebuke or reprehension; reprehensible. Shak.

Rebuke (re*būk") transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Rebuked (-būkt"); present participle & verbal noun Rebuking .] [ Old French rebouquier to dull, blunt, French reboucher ; perhaps from prefix re- re- + bouche mouth, Old French also bouque , Latin bucca cheek; if so, the original sense was, to stop the mouth of; hence, to stop, obstruct.] To check, silence, or put down, with reproof; to restrain by expression of disapprobation; to reprehend sharply and summarily; to chide; to reprove; to admonish.

The proud he tamed, the penitent he cheered,
Nor to rebuke the rich offender feared.

Dryden.

Syn. -- To reprove; chide; check; chasten; restrain; silence. See Reprove .

Rebuke (re*būk") noun
1. A direct and pointed reproof; a reprimand; also, chastisement; punishment.

For thy sake I have suffered rebuke .

Jer. xv. 15.

Why bear you these rebukes and answer not?

Shak.

2. Check; rebuff. [ Obsolete] L'Estrange.

To be without rebuke , to live without giving cause of reproof or censure; to be blameless.

Rebukeful (-ful) adjective Containing rebuke; of the nature of rebuke. [ Obsolete] -- Re*buke"ful*ly , adverb [ Obsolete]

Rebuker (-būk"ẽr) noun One who rebukes.

Rebukingly adverb By way of rebuke.

Rebullition (rē`bŭl*lĭsh"ŭn) noun The act of boiling up or effervescing. [ R.] Sir H. Wotton.

Rebury (rē*bĕr"rȳ) transitive verb To bury again. Ashmole.

Rebus (rē"bŭs) noun ; plural Rebuses (-ĕz). [ Latin rebus by things, abl. plural of res a thing: confer French rébus . Confer 3d Real .]
1. A mode of expressing words and phrases by pictures of objects whose names resemble those words, or the syllables of which they are composed; enigmatical representation of words by figures; hence, a peculiar form of riddle made up of such representations.

» A gallant, in love with a woman named Rose Hill , had, embroidered on his gown, a rose, a hill, an eye, a loaf, and a well, signifying, Rose Hill I love well .

2. (Her.) A pictorial suggestion on a coat of arms of the name of the person to whom it belongs. See Canting arms , under Canting .

Rebus transitive verb To mark or indicate by a rebus.

He [ John Morton] had a fair library rebused with More in text and Tun under it.

Fuller.

Rebut (re*bŭt") transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Rebutted ; present participle & verbal noun Rebutting .] [ Old French rebouter to repulse, drive back; prefix re- + bouter to push, thrust. See 1st Butt , Boutade .]
1. To drive or beat back; to repulse.

Who him, rencount'ring fierce, as hawk in flight,
Perforce rebutted back.

Spenser.

2. (Law) To contradict, meet, or oppose by argument, plea, or countervailing proof. Abbott.

Rebut intransitive verb
1. To retire; to recoil. [ Obsolete] Spenser.

2. (Law) To make, or put in, an answer, as to a plaintiff's surrejoinder.

The plaintiff may answer the rejoinder by a surrejoinder; on which the defendant may rebut .

Blackstone.

Rebuttable (-tȧ*b'l) adjective Capable of being rebutted.

Rebuttal (-bŭt"t a l) noun (Law) The giving of evidence on the part of a plaintiff to destroy the effect of evidence introduced by the defendant in the same suit.

Rebutter (-tẽr) noun (Law) The answer of a defendant in matter of fact to a plaintiff's surrejoinder.

Recadency (rē*kā"d e n*sȳ) noun A falling back or descending a second time; a relapse. W. Montagu.

Recalcitrant (re*kăl"sĭ*tr a nt) adjective [ Latin recalcitrans , present participle of recalcitrare to kick back; prefix re- re- + calcitrare to kick, from calx heel. Confer Inculcate .] Kicking back; recalcitrating; hence, showing repugnance or opposition; refractory.

Recalcitrate (-trāt) transitive verb To kick against; to show repugnance to; to rebuff.

The more heartily did one disdain his disdain, and recalcitrate his tricks.

De Quincey.

Recalcitrate intransitive verb To kick back; to kick against anything; hence, to express repugnance or opposition.

Recalcitration (-trā"shŭn) noun A kicking back again; opposition; repugnance; refractoriness.

Recall (re*kal") transitive verb
1. To call back; to summon to return; as, to recall troops; to recall an ambassador.

If Henry were recalled to life again.

Shak.

2. To revoke; to annul by a subsequent act; to take back; to withdraw; as, to recall words, or a decree.

Passed sentence may not be recall'd .

Shak.

3. To call back to mind; to revive in memory; to recollect; to remember; as, to recall bygone days.

Recall noun
1. A calling back; a revocation.

'T is done, and since 't is done, 't is past recall .

Dryden.

2. (Mil.) A call on the trumpet, bugle, or drum, by which soldiers are recalled from duty, labor, etc. Wilhelm.

Recall noun (Political Science) (a) The right or procedure by which a public official, commonly a legislative or executive official, may be removed from office, before the end of his term of office, by a vote of the people to be taken on the filing of a petition signed by a required number or percentage of qualified voters. (b) Short for recall of judicial decisions , the right or procedure by which the decision of a court may be directly reversed or annulled by popular vote, as was advocated, in 1912, in the platform of the Progressive party for certain cases involving the police power of the state.

Recallable (-ȧ*b'l) adjective Capable of being recalled.

Recallment (-m e nt) noun Recall. [ R.] R. Browning.

Recant (re*kănt") transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Recanted ; present participle & verbal noun Recanting .] [ Latin recantare , recantatum , to recall, recant; prefix re- re- + cantare to sing, to sound. See 3d Cant , Chant .] To withdraw or repudiate formally and publicly (opinions formerly expressed); to contradict, as a former declaration; to take back openly; to retract; to recall.

How soon . . . ease would recant
Vows made in pain, as violent and void!

Milton.

Syn. -- To retract; recall; revoke; abjure; disown; disavow. See Renounce .

Recant intransitive verb To revoke a declaration or proposition; to unsay what has been said; to retract; as, convince me that I am wrong, and I will recant . Dryden.

Recantation (rē`kăn*tā"shŭn) noun The act of recanting; a declaration that contradicts a former one; that which is thus asserted in contradiction; retraction.

The poor man was imprisoned for this discovery, and forced to make a public recantation .

Bp. Stillingfleet.

Recanter (re*kănt"ẽr) noun One who recants.

Recapacitate (rē`kȧ*păs"ĭ*tāt) transitive verb To qualify again; to confer capacity on again. Atterbury.

Recapitulate (-pĭt"u*lāt) transitive verb [ Latin recapitulare , recapitulatum ; prefix re- re- + capitulum a small head, chapter, section. See Capitulate .] To repeat, as the principal points in a discourse, argument, or essay; to give a summary of the principal facts, points, or arguments of; to relate in brief; to summarize.

Recapitulate (rē`kȧ*pĭt"u*lāt) intransitive verb To sum up, or enumerate by heads or topics, what has been previously said; to repeat briefly the substance.

Recapitulation (-lā"shŭn) noun [ Late Latin recapitulatio : confer French recapitulation .] The act of recapitulating; a summary, or concise statement or enumeration, of the principal points, facts, or statements, in a preceding discourse, argument, or essay.

Recapitulator (- pĭt"u*lā`tẽr) noun One who recapitulates.

Recapitulatory (-lȧ*to*rȳ) adjective Of the nature of a recapitulation; containing recapitulation.

Recapper (re*kăp"pẽr) noun (Firearms) A tool used for applying a fresh percussion cap or primer to a cartridge shell in reloading it.

Recaption (re*kăp"shŭn) noun (Law) The act of retaking, as of one who has escaped after arrest; reprisal; the retaking of one's own goods, chattels, wife, or children, without force or violence, from one who has taken them and who wrongfully detains them. Blackstone.

Writ of recaption (Law) , a writ to recover damages for him whose goods, being distrained for rent or service, are distrained again for the same cause. Wharton.

Recaptor (-tẽr) noun One who recaptures; one who takes a prize which had been previously taken.

Recapture (-tur; 135) noun
1. The act of retaking or recovering by capture; especially, the retaking of a prize or goods from a captor.

2. That which is captured back; a prize retaken.

Recapture transitive verb To capture again; to retake.

Recarbonize (re*kär"bŏn*īz) transitive verb (Metal.) To restore carbon to; as, to recarbonize iron in converting it into steel.

Recarnify (-nĭ*fī) transitive verb To convert again into flesh. [ Obsolete] Howell.