Redolent Red"o·lent (-l e nt) adjective [ Latin redolens , -entis , present participle of redolere to emit a scent, diffuse an odor; prefix red- , re- , re- + olere to emit a smell. See Odor .] Diffusing odor or fragrance; spreading sweet scent; scented; odorous; smelling; -- usually followed by of . "Honey redolent of spring." Dryden. -- Red"o*lent*ly , adverb

Gales . . . redolent of joy and youth.

Gray.

Redouble Re·dou"ble transitive verb [ Prefix re- + double : confer French redoubler . Confer Reduplicate .] To double again or repeatedly; to increase by continued or repeated additions; to augment greatly; to multiply.

So they
Doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe.

Shak.

Redouble Re·dou"ble intransitive verb To become greatly or repeatedly increased; to be multiplied; to be greatly augmented; as, the noise redoubles .

Redoubt Re·doubt" noun [ French redoute , fem., Italian ridotto , Late Latin reductus , literally, a retreat, from Latin reductus drawn back, retired, past participle of reducere to lead or draw back; confer French réduit , also from Late Latin reductus . See Reduce , and confer Reduct , Réduit , Ridotto .] (Fort.) (a) A small, and usually a roughly constructed, fort or outwork of varying shape, commonly erected for a temporary purpose, and without flanking defenses, -- used esp. in fortifying tops of hills and passes, and positions in hostile territory. (b) In permanent works, an outwork placed within another outwork. See F and i in Illust. of Ravelin . [ Written also redout .]

Redoubt Re·doubt" transitive verb [ French redouter , formerly also spelt redoubter ; from Latin prefix re- re- + dubitare to doubt, in Late Latin , to fear. See Doubt .] To stand in dread of; to regard with fear; to dread. [ R.]

Redoubtable Re·doubt"a·ble adjective [ French redoutable , formerly also spelt redoubtable .] Formidable; dread; terrible to foes; as, a redoubtable hero; hence, valiant; -- often in contempt or burlesque. [ Written also redoutable .]

Redoubted Re·doubt"ed adjective Formidable; dread. "Some redoubted knight." Spenser.

Lord regent, and redoubted Burgandy.

Shak.

Redoubting Re·doubt"ing noun Reverence; honor. [ Obsolete]

In redoutyng of Mars and of his glory.

Chaucer.

Redound Re·dound" intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Redounded ; present participle & verbal noun Redounding .] [ French redonder , Latin redundare ; prefix red -, re- , re- + undare to rise in waves or surges, from unda a wave. See Undulate , and confer Redundant .] 1. To roll back, as a wave or flood; to be sent or driven back; to flow back, as a consequence or effect; to conduce; to contribute; to result.

The evil, soon
Driven back, redounded as a flood on those
From whom it sprung.

Milton.

The honor done to our religion ultimately redounds to God, the author of it.

Rogers.

both . . . will devour great quantities of paper, there will no small use redound from them to that manufacture.

Addison.

2. To be in excess; to remain over and above; to be redundant; to overflow.

For every dram of honey therein found,
A pound of gall doth over it redound .

Spenser.

Redound Re·dound" noun 1. The coming back, as of consequence or effect; result; return; requital.

We give you welcome; not without redound
Of use and glory to yourselves ye come.

Tennyson.

2. Rebound; reverberation. [ R.] Codrington.

Redowa Red"ow·a noun [ French, from Bohemian.] A Bohemian dance of two kinds, one in triple time, like a waltz, the other in two-four time, like a polka. The former is most in use.

Redpole Red"pole` noun (Zoology) Same as Redpoll .

Redpoll Red"poll` noun (Zoology) (a) Any one of several species of small northern finches of the genus Acanthis (formerly Ægiothus ), native of Europe and America. The adults have the crown red or rosy. The male of the most common species ( A. linarius ) has also the breast and rump rosy. Called also redpoll linnet . See Illust. under Linnet . (b) The common European linnet. (c) The American redpoll warbler ( Dendroica palmarum ).

Redraft Re·draft" (rē*drȧft") transitive verb To draft or draw anew.

Redraft Re·draft" noun 1. A second draft or copy.

2. (Com.) A new bill of exchange which the holder of a protected bill draws on the drawer or indorsers, in order to recover the amount of the protested bill with costs and charges.

Redraw Re·draw" transitive verb [ imperfect Redrew (-dr?"); past participle Redrawn (-dr»n"); present participle & verbal noun Redrawing .] To draw again; to make a second draft or copy of; to redraft.

Redraw Re·draw" intransitive verb (Com.) To draw a new bill of exchange, as the holder of a protested bill, on the drawer or indorsers.

Redress Re·dress" transitive verb [ Prefix re- + dress .] To dress again.

Redress Re·dress" transitive verb [ French redresser to straighten; prefix re- re- + dresser to raise, arrange. See Dress. ]

1. To put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise. [ R.]

The common profit could she redress .

Chaucer.

In yonder spring of roses intermixed
With myrtle, find what to redress till noon.

Milton.

Your wish that I should redress a certain paper which you had prepared.

A. Hamilton.

2. To set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an injury; to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.

Those wrongs, those bitter injuries, . . .
I doubt not but with honor to redress .

Shak.

3. To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon. "'T is thine, O king! the afflicted to redress ." Dryden.

Will Gaul or Muscovite redress ye ?

Byron.

Redress Re·dress" noun 1. The act of redressing; a making right; reformation; correction; amendment. [ R.]

Reformation of evil laws is commendable, but for us the more necessary is a speedy redress of ourselves.

Hooker.

2. A setting right, as of wrong, injury, or opression; as, the redress of grievances; hence, relief; remedy; reparation; indemnification. Shak.

A few may complain without reason; but there is occasion for redress when the cry is universal.

Davenant.

3. One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.

Fair majesty, the refuge and redress
Of those whom fate pursues and wants oppress.

Dryden.

Redressal Re·dress"al noun Redress.

Redresser Re·dress"er noun One who redresses.

Redressible Re·dress"i·ble adjective Such as may be redressed.

Redressive Re·dress"ive adjective Tending to redress. Thomson.

Redressless Re·dress"less adjective Not having redress; such as can not be redressed; irremediable. Sherwood.

Redressment Re·dress"ment (-m e nt) noun [ Confer French redressement .] The act of redressing; redress. Jefferson.

Redroot Red"root` noun (Botany) A name of several plants having red roots, as the New Jersey tea (see under Tea ), the gromwell, the bloodroot, and the Lachnanthes tinctoria , an endogenous plant found in sandy swamps from Rhode Island to Florida.

Redsear Red`sear" intransitive verb To be brittle when red-hot; to be red-short. Moxon.

Redshank Red"shank` noun 1. (Zoology) (a) A common Old World limicoline bird ( Totanus calidris ), having the legs and feet pale red. The spotted redshank ( T. fuscus ) is larger, and has orange-red legs. Called also redshanks , redleg , and clee . (b) The fieldfare.

2. A bare-legged person; -- a contemptuous appellation formerly given to the Scotch Highlanders, in allusion to their bare legs. Spenser.

Redskin Red"skin` noun A common appellation for a North American Indian; -- so called from the color of the skin. Cooper.

Redstart Red"start` noun [ Red + start tail.] (Zoology) (a) A small, handsome European singing bird ( Ruticilla phœnicurus ), allied to the nightingale; -- called also redtail , brantail , fireflirt , firetail . The black redstart is P.tithys . The name is also applied to several other species of Ruticilla amnd allied genera, native of India. (b) An American fly-catching warbler ( Setophaga ruticilla ). The male is black, with large patches of orange-red on the sides, wings, and tail. The female is olive, with yellow patches.

Redstreak Red"streak` noun 1. A kind of apple having the skin streaked with red and yellow, -- a favorite English cider apple. Mortimer.

2. Cider pressed from redstreak apples.

Redtail Red"tail` noun (Zoology) (a) The red-tailed hawk. (b) The European redstart.

Redthroat Red"throat` noun (Zoology) A small Australian singing bird ( Phyrrholæmus brunneus ). The upper parts are brown, the center of the throat red.

Redtop Red"top` noun (Botany) A kind of grass ( Agrostis vulgaris ) highly valued in the United States for pasturage and hay for cattle; -- called also English grass , and in some localities herd's grass . See Illustration in Appendix. The tall redtop is Triodia seslerioides .

Redub Re·dub" transitive verb [ French radouber to refit or repair.] To refit; to repair, or make reparation for; hence, to repay or requite. [ Obsolete]

It shall be good that you redub that negligence.

Wyatt.

God shall give power to redub it with some like requital to the French .

Grafton.

Reduce Re·duce" (re*dūs") transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Reduced (-dūst"),; present participle & verbal noun Reducing (- dū"sĭng).] [ Latin reducere , reductum ; prefix red- . re- , re- + ducere to lead. See Duke , and confer Redoubt , noun ] 1. To bring or lead back to any former place or condition. [ Obsolete]

And to his brother's house reduced his wife.

Chapman.

The sheep must of necessity be scattered, unless the great Shephered of souls oppose, or some of his delegates reduce and direct us.

Evelyn.

2. To bring to any inferior state, with respect to rank, size, quantity, quality, value, etc.; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; to impair; as, to reduce a sergeant to the ranks; to reduce a drawing; to reduce expenses; to reduce the intensity of heat. "An ancient but reduced family." Sir W. Scott.

Nothing so excellent but a man may fasten upon something belonging to it, to reduce it.

Tillotson.

Having reduced
Their foe to misery beneath their fears.

Milton.

Hester Prynne was shocked at the condition to which she found the clergyman reduced .

Hawthorne.

3. To bring to terms; to humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture; as, to reduce a province or a fort.

4. To bring to a certain state or condition by grinding, pounding, kneading, rubbing, etc.; as, to reduce a substance to powder, or to a pasty mass; to reduce fruit, wood, or paper rags, to pulp.

It were but right
And equal to reduce me to my dust.

Milton.

5. To bring into a certain order, arrangement, classification, etc.; to bring under rules or within certain limits of descriptions and terms adapted to use in computation; as, to reduce animals or vegetables to a class or classes; to reduce a series of observations in astronomy; to reduce language to rules.

6. (Arith.) (a) To change, as numbers, from one denomination into another without altering their value, or from one denomination into others of the same value; as, to reduce pounds, shillings, and pence to pence, or to reduce pence to pounds; to reduce days and hours to minutes, or minutes to days and hours. (b) To change the form of a quantity or expression without altering its value; as, to reduce fractions to their lowest terms, to a common denominator, etc.

7. (Chemistry) To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from their ores; -- opposed to oxidize .

8. (Medicine) To restore to its proper place or condition, as a displaced organ or part; as, to reduce a dislocation, a fracture, or a hernia.

Reduced iron (Chemistry) , metallic iron obtained through deoxidation of an oxide of iron by exposure to a current of hydrogen or other reducing agent. When hydrogen is used the product is called also iron by hydrogen . -- To reduce an equation (Alg.) , to bring the unknown quantity by itself on one side, and all the known quantities on the other side, without destroying the equation. -- To reduce an expression (Alg.) , to obtain an equivalent expression of simpler form. -- To reduce a square (Mil.) , to reform the line or column from the square.

Syn. -- To diminish; lessen; decrease; abate; shorten; curtail; impair; lower; subject; subdue; subjugate; conquer.

Reducement Re·duce"ment noun Reduction. Milton.

Reducent Re·du"cent adjective [ Latin reducens , present participle of reducere .] Tending to reduce. -- noun A reducent agent.

Reducer Re·du"cer noun One who, or that which, reduces.

Reducer Re·duc"er noun 1. (Machinery) (a) A contrivance for reducing the dimensions of one part so as to fit it to another, as a reducing coupling, or a device for holding a drilling a chuck. (b) A reducing motion. (c) A reducing valve. (d) A hydraulic device for reducing pressure and hence increasing movement, used to transmit the load from the hydraulic support of the lower shackle to the lever weighing apparatus in some kinds of heavy testing machines.

2. (Photog.) A reducing agent, either a developer or an agent for reducing density.

Reducible Re·du"ci·ble adjective Capable of being reduced.

Reducibleness Re·du"ci·ble·ness noun Quality of being reducible.

Reducing Re·du"cing (r?*d?"s?ng), a & noun from Reduce .

Reducing furnace (Metal.) , a furnace for reducing ores. -- Reducing pipe fitting , a pipe fitting, as a coupling, an elbow, a tee, etc., for connecting a large pipe with a smaller one. -- Reducing valve , a device for automatically maintaining a diminished pressure of steam, air, gas, etc., in a pipe, or other receiver, which is fed from a boiler or pipe in which the pressure is higher than is desired in the receiver.

Reduct Re·duct" transitive verb . [ Latin reductus , past participle of reducere . See Reduce .] To reduce. [ Obsolete] W. Warde.

Reductibility Re·duc`ti·bil"i·ty noun The quality of being reducible; reducibleness.

Reduction Re·duc"tion noun [ French réduction , Latin reductio . See Reduce .] 1. The act of reducing, or state of being reduced; conversion to a given state or condition; diminution; conquest; as, the reduction of a body to powder; the reduction of things to order; the reduction of the expenses of government; the reduction of a rebellious province.

2. (Arith. & Alq.) The act or process of reducing. See Reduce , transitive verb , 6. and To reduce an equation , To reduce an expression , under Reduce , transitive verb

3. (Astron.) (a) The correction of observations for known errors of instruments, etc. (b) The preparation of the facts and measurements of observations in order to deduce a general result.

4. The process of making a copy of something, as a figure, design, or draught, on a smaller scale, preserving the proper proportions. Fairholt.

5. (Logic) The bringing of a syllogism in one of the so-called imperfect modes into a mode in the first figure.

6. (Chem. & Metal.) The act, process, or result of reducing; as, the reduction of iron from its ores; the reduction of aldehyde from alcohol.

7. (Medicine) The operation of restoring a dislocated or fractured part to its former place.

Reduction ascending (Arith.) , the operation of changing numbers of a lower into others of a higher denomination, as cents to dollars. -- Reduction descending (Arith.) , the operation of changing numbers of a higher into others of a lower denomination, as dollars to cents.

Syn. -- Diminution; decrease; abatement; curtailment; subjugation; conquest; subjection.

Reductive Re·duc"tive adjective [ Confer French réductif .] Tending to reduce; having the power or effect of reducing. -- noun A reductive agent. Sir M. Hale.

Reductively Re·duc"tive·ly adverb By reduction; by consequence.

Réduit Ré`duit" noun [ French See Redoubt , noun ] (Fort.) A central or retired work within any other work.

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