Reimburse transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Reimbursed (-b?rst"); present participle & verbal noun Reimbursing .] [ Prefix re- + imburse : confer French rembourser .]
1. To replace in a treasury or purse, as an equivalent for what has been taken, lost, or expended; to refund; to pay back; to restore; as, to reimburse the expenses of a war.

2. To make restoration or payment of an equivalent to (a person); to pay back to; to indemnify; -- often reflexive; as, to reimburse one's self by successful speculation. Paley.

Reimbursement noun [ Confer French rembursement .] The act reimbursing. A. Hamilton.

Reimburser noun One who reimburses.

Reimplant transitive verb To implant again.

Reimport transitive verb [ Prefix re- + import : confer French remporter .] To import again; to import what has been exported; to bring back. Young.

Reimportation noun The act of reimporting; also, that which is reimported.

Reimportune transitive verb To importune again.

Reimpose transitive verb To impose anew.

Reimpregnate transitive verb To impregnate again or anew. Sir T. Browne.

Reimpress transitive verb To impress anew.

Reimpression noun A second or repeated impression; a reprint.

Reimprint transitive verb To imprint again.

Reimprison transitive verb To imprison again.

Reimprisonment (-m e nt) noun The act of reimprisoning, or the state of being reimprisoned.

Rein noun [ French rêne , from (assumed) Late Latin retina , from Latin retinere to hold back. See Retain .]
1. The strap of a bridle, fastened to the curb or snaffle on each side, by which the rider or driver governs the horse.

This knight laid hold upon his reyne .

Chaucer.

2. Hence, an instrument or means of curbing, restraining, or governing; government; restraint. "Let their eyes rove without rein ." Milton.

To give rein , To give the rein to , to give license to; to leave withouut restrain. -- To take the reins , to take the guidance or government; to assume control.

Rein transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Reined (r?nd); present participle & verbal noun Reining .]
1. To govern or direct with the reins; as, to rein a horse one way or another.

He mounts and reins his horse.

Chapman.

2. To restrain; to control; to check.

Being once chafed, he can not
Be reined again to temperance.

Shak.

To rein in or rein up , to check the speed of, or cause to stop, by drawing the reins.

Rein intransitive verb To be guided by reins. [ R.] Shak.

Reinaugurate transitive verb To inaugurate anew.

Reincit transitive verb To incite again.

Reincorporate transitive verb To incorporate again.

Reincrease transitive verb To increase again.

Reincur transitive verb To incur again.

Reindeer noun [ Icelandic hreinn reindeer + English deer . Icelandic hreinn is of Lapp or Finnish origin; confer Lappish reino pasturage.] [ Formerly written also raindeer , and ranedeer .] (Zool.) Any ruminant of the genus Rangifer , of the Deer family, found in the colder parts of both the Eastern and Western hemispheres, and having long irregularly branched antlers, with the brow tines palmate.

» The common European species ( R. tarandus ) is domesticated in Lapland. The woodland reindeer or caribou ( R. caribou ) is found in Canada and Maine (see Caribou .) The Barren Ground reindeer or caribou ( R. Grœnlandicus ), of smaller size, is found on the shores of the Arctic Ocean, in both hemispheries.

Reindeer moss (Botany) , a gray branching lichen ( Cladonia rangiferina ) which forms extensive patches on the ground in arctic and even in north temperature regions. It is the principal food of the Lapland reindeer in winter. -- Reindeer period (Geol.) , a name sometimes given to a part of the Paleolithic era when the reindeer was common over Central Europe.

Reinduce transitive verb To induce again.

Reinette noun [ French See 1st Rennet .] (Botany) A name given to many different kinds of apples, mostly of French origin.

Reinfect transitive verb [ Prefix re- + infect : confer French réinfecter .] To infect again.

Reinfectious adjective Capable of reinfecting.

Reinforce transitive verb See Reënforce , transitive verb

Reinforce noun See Reënforce , noun

Reinforcement (-m e nt) noun See Reënforcement .

Reinfund intransitive verb [ Prefix re- + Latin infundere to pour in.] To flow in anew. [ Obsolete] Swift.

Reingratiate transitive verb To ingratiate again or anew. Sir. T. Herbert.

Reinhabit transitive verb To inhabit again. Mede.

Reinless adjective Not having, or not governed by, reins; hence, not checked or restrained.

Reins (rānz) noun plural [ French rein , plural reins , from Latin ren , plural renes .]
1. The kidneys; also, the region of the kidneys; the loins.

2. The inward impulses; the affections and passions; -- so called because formerly supposed to have their seat in the part of the body where the kidneys are.

My reins rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.

Prov. xxiii. 16.

I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts.

Rev. ii. 23.

Reins of a vault (Architecture) , the parts between the crown and the spring or abutment, including, and having especial reference to, the loading or filling behind the shell of the vault. The reins are to a vault nearly what the haunches are to an arch, and when a vault gives way by thrusting outward, it is because its reins are not sufficiently filled up.

Reinsert transitive verb To insert again.

Reinsertion noun The act of reinserting.

Reinspect transitive verb To inspect again.

Reinspection noun The act of reinspecting.

Reinspire transitive verb To inspire anew. Milton.

Reinspirit transitive verb To give fresh spirit to.

Reinstall transitive verb [ Prefix re- + install : confer French réinstaller .] To install again. Milton.

Reinstallment (-m e nt) noun A renewed installment.

Reinstate transitive verb To place again in possession, or in a former state; to restore to a state from which one had been removed; to instate again; as, to reinstate a king in the possession of the kingdom.

For the just we have said already thet some of them were reinstated in their pristine happiness and felicity.

Glanvill.

Reinstatement (-m e nt) noun The act of reinstating; the state of being reinstated; re...stablishment.

Reinstation noun Reinstatement. [ R.]

Reinstruct transitive verb To instruct anew.

Reinsurance noun
1. Insurance a second time or again; renewed insurance.

2. A contract by which an insurer is insured wholly or in part against the risk he has incurred in insuring somebody else. See Reassurance .

Reinsure transitive verb
1. To insure again after a former insuranse has ceased; to renew insurance on.

2. To insure, as life or property, in favor of one who has taken an insurance risk upon it.

The innsurer may cause the property insured to be reinsured by other persons.

Walsh.

Reinsurer noun One who gives reinsurance.