Revulsive adjective [ Confer French révulsif .] Causing, or tending to, revulsion.

Revulsive noun That which causes revulsion; specifically (Medicine) , a revulsive remedy or agent.

Rew noun [ See Row a series.] A row. [ Obsolete] Chaucer. "A rew of sundry colored stones." Chapman.

Rewake transitive verb & i. To wake again.

Reward transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Rewarded ; present participle & verbal noun Rewarding .] [ Old French rewarder , another form of regarder , of German origin. The original sense is, to look at, regard, hence, to regard as worthy, give a reward to. See Ward , Regard .] To give in return, whether good or evil; -- commonly in a good sense; to requite; to recompense; to repay; to compensate.

After the deed that is done, one doom shall reward ,
Mercy or no mercy as truth will accord.

Piers Plowman.

Thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil.

1 Sam. xxiv. 17.

I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.

Deut. xxxii. 41.

God rewards those that have made use of the single talent.

Hammond.

Reward noun [ See Reward , v. , and confer Regard , noun ]
1. Regard; respect; consideration. [ Obsolete]

Take reward of thine own value.

Chaucer.

2. That which is given in return for good or evil done or received; esp., that which is offered or given in return for some service or attainment, as for excellence in studies, for the return of something lost, etc.; recompense; requital.

Thou returnest
From flight, seditious angel, to receive
Thy merited reward .

Milton.

Rewards and punishments do always presuppose something willingly done well or ill.

Hooker.

3. Hence, the fruit of one's labor or works.

The dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward .

Eccl. ix. 5.

4. (Law) Compensation or remuneration for services; a sum of money paid or taken for doing, or forbearing to do, some act. Burrill.

Syn. -- Recompense; compensation; remuneration; pay; requital; retribution; punishment.

Rewardable adjective Worthy of reward. -- Re*ward"a*ble*ness , noun -- Re*ward"a*bly , adverb

Rewarder noun One who rewards.

Rewardful adjective Yielding reward. [ R.]

Rewardless adjective Having, or affording, no reward.

Rewe (ru) transitive verb & i. To rue. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Rewel bone [ Perh. from French rouelle , dim. of roue a wheel, Latin rota .] An obsolete phrase of disputed meaning, -- perhaps, smooth or polished bone.

His saddle was of rewel boon .

Chaucer.

Rewet (ru"ĕt) noun [ See Rouet .] A gunlock. [ R.]

Rewful adjective Rueful. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Rewin transitive verb To win again, or win back.

The Palatinate was not worth the rewinning .

Fuller.

Rewle noun & v. Rule. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Rewme noun Realm. [ Obsolete] Piers Plowman.

Reword transitive verb
1. To repeat in the same words; to reëcho. [ Obsolete] Shak.

2. To alter the wording of; to restate in other words; as, to reword an idea or a passage.

Rewrite transitive verb To write again. Young.

Rewth noun Ruth. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Rex noun ; plural Reges . [ Latin ] A king.

To play rex , to play the king; to domineer. [ Obsolete]

Reyn noun Rain or rein. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Reynard noun An appelation applied after the manner of a proper name to the fox. Same as Renard .

Reyse transitive verb To raise. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Reyse intransitive verb [ Confer German reisen to travel.] To go on a military expedition. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Rez-de-chaussée noun [ French, lit., level of the street. See Raze , transitive verb , and Causey .] (Architecture) The ground story of a building, either on a level with the street or raised slightly above it; -- said esp. of buildings on the continent of Europe.

Tier above tier of neat apartments rise over the little shops which form the rez-de-chaussée .

The Century.

Rhabarbarate adjective [ From New Latin rhabarbarum , an old name of rhubarb. See Rhubarb .] Impregnated or tinctured with rhubarb. Floyer.

Rhabarbarin, Rhabarbarine noun (Chemistry) Chrysophanic acid.

Rhabdite noun [ Greek "ra`bdos a rod.]
1. (Zoology) A minute smooth rodlike or fusiform structure found in the tissues of many Turbellaria.

2. (Zoology) One of the hard parts forming the ovipositor of insects.

Rhabdocœla (răb`do*sē"lȧ) noun plural [ New Latin , from Greek "ra`bdos a rod + koi^los hollow.] (Zoology) A suborder of Turbellaria including those that have a simple cylindrical, or saclike, stomach, without an intestine.

Rhabdocœlous (-lŭs) adjective (Zoology) Of or pertaining to the Rhabdocœla.

Rhabdoidal adjective See Sagittal .

Rhabdolith noun [ Greek "ra`bdos a rod + -lith .] A minute calcareous rodlike structure found both at the surface and the bottom of the ocean; -- supposed by some to be a calcareous alga.

Rhabdology noun Same as Rabdology .

Rhabdom (răb"dŏm) noun [ Greek "ra`bdwma a bundle of rods, from "ra`bdos a rod.] (Zoology) One of numerous minute rodlike structures formed of two or more cells situated behind the retinulæ in the compound eyes of insects, etc. See Illust. under Ommatidium .

Rhabdomancy noun Same as Rabdomancy .

Rhabdomere noun [ Rhabdom + -mere .] (Zoology) One of the several parts composing a rhabdom.

Rhabdophora noun plural [ New Latin , from Greek "ra`bdos a rod + ......... to bear.] (Zoology) An extinct division of Hydrozoa which includes the graptolities.

Rhabdopleura noun [ New Latin , from Greek "ra`bdos a rod + ............ the side.] (Zoology) A genus of marine Bryozoa in which the tubular cells have a centralchitinous axis and the tentacles are borne on a bilobed lophophore. It is the type of the order Pterobranchia, or Podostomata

Rhabdosphere noun [ Greek "ra`bdos a rod + English sphere .] A minute sphere composed of rhabdoliths.

Rhachialgia noun [ New Latin ] See Rachialgia .

Rhachidian adjective Of or pertaining to the rhachis; as, the rhachidian teeth of a mollusk.

Rhachiglossa noun plural [ New Latin See Rhachis , and Glossa .] (Zoology) A division of marine gastropods having a retractile proboscis and three longitudinal rows of teeth on the radula. It includes many of the large ornamental shells, as the miters, murices, olives, purpuras, volutes, and whelks. See Illust. in Append.

Rhachilla noun [ New Latin , from Greek "ra`chis the spine.] (Botany) A branch of inflorescence; the zigzag axis on which the florets are arranged in the spikelets of grasses.

Rhachiodont adjective [ Greek "ra`chis , -ios , the spine + ........., ........., a tooth.] (Zoology) Having gular teeth formed by a peculiar modification of the inferior spines of some of the vertebræ, as certain South African snakes ( Dasypeltis ) which swallow birds' eggs and use these gular teeth to crush them.

Rhachis noun ; plural English Rhachises , Latin Rhachides . [ See Rachis .] [ Written also rechis .]
1. (Anat.) The spine.

2. (Botany) (a) The continued stem or midrib of a pinnately compound leaf, as in a rose leaf or a fern. (b) The principal axis in a raceme, spike, panicle, or corymb.

3. (Zoology) (a) The shaft of a feather. The rhachis of the after-shaft, or plumule, is called the hyporhachis . (b) The central cord in the stem of a crinoid. (c) The median part of the radula of a mollusk. (d) A central cord of the ovary of nematodes.

Rhachitis noun [ New Latin ] See Rachitis .

Rhadamanthine adjective Of or pertaining to Rhadamanthus; rigorously just; as, a Rhadamanthine judgment.

Rhadamanthus noun [ Latin , from Greek ..........] (Greek Mythol.) One of the three judges of the infernal regions; figuratively, a strictly just judge.

Rhætian a & noun Rhetain.