Rebel (v. i.) Pertaining to rebels or rebellion; acting in revolt; rebellious; as, rebel troops.
Rebel (n.) One who rebels.
Rebelled (imp. & p. p.) of Rebel
Rebelling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rebel
Rebel (v. i.) To renounce, and resist by force, the authority of the ruler or government to which one owes obedience. See Rebellion.
Rebel (v. i.) To be disobedient to authority; to assume a hostile or insubordinate attitude; to revolt.
Rebeldom (n.) A region infested by rebels; rebels, considered collectively; also, conduct or quality characteristic of rebels.
Rebeller (n.) One who rebels; a rebel.
Rebellion (v. i.) 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.
Rebellion (v. i.) Open resistance to, or defiance of, lawful authority.
Rebellious (a.) Engaged in rebellion; disposed to rebel; of the nature of rebels or of rebellion; resisting government or lawful authority by force.
Rebellow (v. i.) To bellow again; to repeat or echo a bellow.
Rebiting (n.) The act or process of deepening worn lines in an etched plate by submitting it again to the action of acid.
Rebloom (v. i.) To bloom again.
Reblossom (v. i.) To blossom again.
Reboant (a.) Rebellowing; resounding loudly.
Reboation (n.) Repetition of a bellow.
Reboil (v. t. & i.) To boil, or to cause to boil, again.
Reboil (v. t. & i.) Fig.: To make or to become hot.
Reborn (p. p.) Born again.
Rebound (v. i.) To spring back; to start back; to be sent back or reverberated by elastic force on collision with another body; as, a rebounding echo.
Rebound (v. i.) To give back an echo.
Rebound (v. i.) To bound again or repeatedly, as a horse.
Rebound (v. t.) To send back; to reverberate.
Rebound (n.) The act of rebounding; resilience.
Rebrace (v. t.) To brace again.
Rebreathe (v. t.) To breathe again.
Rebucous (a.) Rebuking.
Rebuff (n.) Repercussion, or beating back; a quick and sudden resistance.
Rebuff (n.) Sudden check; unexpected repulse; defeat; refusal; repellence; rejection of solicitation.
Rebuffed (imp. & p. p.) of Rebuff
Rebuffing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rebuff
Rebuff (v. t.) To beat back; to offer sudden resistance to; to check; to repel or repulse violently, harshly, or uncourteously.
Rebuild (v. t.) 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 (n.) One who rebuilds.
Rebukable (a.) Worthy of rebuke or reprehension; reprehensible.
Rebuked (imp. & p. p.) of Rebuke
Rebuking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rebuke
Rebuke (v. t.) 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.
Rebuke (n.) A direct and pointed reproof; a reprimand; also, chastisement; punishment.
Rebuke (n.) Check; rebuff.
Rebukeful (a.) Containing rebuke; of the nature of rebuke.
Rebuker (n.) One who rebukes.
Rebukingly (adv.) By way of rebuke.
Rebullition (n.) The act of boiling up or effervescing.
Rebury (v. t.) To bury again.
Rebuses (pl. ) of Rebus
Rebus (n.) 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.
Rebus (n.) A pictorial suggestion on a coat of arms of the name of the person to whom it belongs. See Canting arms, under Canting.
Rebus (v. t.) To mark or indicate by a rebus.
Rebutted (imp. & p. p.) of Rebut
Rebutting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rebut
Rebut (v. t.) To drive or beat back; to repulse.
Rebut (v. t.) To contradict, meet, or oppose by argument, plea, or countervailing proof.
Rebut (v. i.) To retire; to recoil.
Rebut (v. i.) To make, or put in, an answer, as to a plaintiff's surrejoinder.
Rebuttable (a.) Capable of being rebutted.
Rebuttal (n.) 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 (n.) The answer of a defendant in matter of fact to a plaintiff's surrejoinder.
Recadency (n.) A falling back or descending a second time; a relapse.
Recalcitrant (a.) Kicking back; recalcitrating; hence, showing repugnance or opposition; refractory.
Recalcitrate (v. t.) To kick against; to show repugnance to; to rebuff.
Recalcitrate (v. i.) To kick back; to kick against anything; hence, to express repugnance or opposition.
Recalcitration (n.) A kicking back again; opposition; repugnance; refractoriness.
Recall (v. t.) To call back; to summon to return; as, to recall troops; to recall an ambassador.
Recall (v. t.) To revoke; to annul by a subsequent act; to take back; to withdraw; as, to recall words, or a decree.
Recall (v. t.) To call back to mind; to revive in memory; to recollect; to remember; as, to recall bygone days.
Recall (n.) A calling back; a revocation.
Recall (n.) A call on the trumpet, bugle, or drum, by which soldiers are recalled from duty, labor, etc.
Recallable (a.) Capable of being recalled.
Recallment (n.) Recall.
Recanted (imp. & p. p.) of Recant
Recanting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Recant
Recant (v. t.) To withdraw or repudiate formally and publicly (opinions formerly expressed); to contradict, as a former declaration; to take back openly; to retract; to recall.
Recant (v. i.) 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.
Recantation (n.) The act of recanting; a declaration that contradicts a former one; that which is thus asserted in contradiction; retraction.
Recanter (n.) One who recants.
Recapacitate (v. t.) To qualify again; to confer capacity on again.
Recapitulate (v. t.) 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 (v. i.) To sum up, or enumerate by heads or topics, what has been previously said; to repeat briefly the substance.
Recapitulation (n.) 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 (n.) One who recapitulates.
Recapitulatory (a.) Of the nature of a recapitulation; containing recapitulation.
Recapper (n.) A tool used for applying a fresh percussion cap or primer to a cartridge shell in reloading it.
Recaption (n.) 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.
Recaptor (n.) One who recaptures; one who takes a prize which had been previously taken.
Recapture (n.) The act of retaking or recovering by capture; especially, the retaking of a prize or goods from a captor.
Recapture (n.) That which is captured back; a prize retaken.
Recapture (v. t.) To capture again; to retake.
Recarbonize (v. t.) To restore carbon to; as, to recarbonize iron in converting it into steel.
Recarnify (v. t.) To convert again into flesh.
Recarriage (n.) Act of carrying back.
Recarry (v. t.) To carry back.
Recast (v. t.) To throw again.
Recast (v. t.) To mold anew; to cast anew; to throw into a new form or shape; to reconstruct; as, to recast cannon; to recast an argument or a play.
Recast (v. t.) To compute, or cast up, a second time.
Recche (v. i.) To reck.
Reccheles (a.) Reckless.
Receded (imp. & p. p.) of Recede
Receding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Recede