Recurvation (n.) The act of recurving, or the state of being recurved; a bending or flexure backward.
Recurve (v. t.) To curve in an opposite or unusual direction; to bend back or down.
Recurved (a.) Curved in an opposite or uncommon direction; bent back; as, a bird with a recurved bill; flowers with recurved petals.
Recurviroster (n.) A bird whose beak bends upward, as the avocet.
Recurvirostral (a.) Having the beak bent upwards.
Recurvity (n.) Recurvation.
Recurvous (a.) Recurved.
Recusancy (n.) The state of being recusant; nonconformity.
Recusant (a.) Obstinate in refusal; specifically, in English history, refusing to acknowledge the supremacy of the king in the churc, or to conform to the established rites of the church; as, a recusant lord.
Recusant (n.) One who is obstinate in refusal; one standing out stubbornly against general practice or opinion.
Recusant (n.) A person who refuses to acknowledge the supremacy of the king in matters of religion; as, a Roman Catholic recusant, who acknowledges the supremacy of the pope.
Recusant (n.) One who refuses communion with the Church of England; a nonconformist.
Recusation (n.) Refusal.
Recusation (n.) The act of refusing a judge or challenging that he shall not try the cause, on account of his supposed partiality.
Recusative (a.) Refusing; denying; negative.
Recuse (v. t.) To refuse or reject, as a judge; to challenge that the judge shall not try the cause.
Recussion (n.) The act of beating or striking back.
Red () . imp. & p. p. of Read.
Red (v. t.) To put on order; to make tidy; also, to free from entanglement or embarrassement; -- generally with up; as, to red up a house.
Red (superl.) Of the color of blood, or of a tint resembling that color; of the hue of that part of the rainbow, or of the solar spectrum, which is furthest from the violet part.
Red (n.) The color of blood, or of that part of the spectrum farthest from violet, or a tint resembling these.
Red (n.) A red pigment.
Red (n.) An abbreviation for Red Republican. See under Red, a.
Red (a.) The menses.
Redact (v. t.) To reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape (matter for publication); to edit.
Redacteur (n.) See Redactor.
Redaction (n.) The act of redacting; work produced by redacting; a digest.
Redactor (n.) One who redacts; one who prepares matter for publication; an editor.
Redan (n.) A work having two parapets whose faces unite so as to form a salient angle toward the enemy.
Redan (n.) A step or vertical offset in a wall on uneven ground, to keep the parts level.
Redargued (imp. & p. p.) of Redargue
Redarguing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Redargue
Redargue (v. t.) To disprove; to refute; toconfute; to reprove; to convict.
Redargution (n.) The act of redarguing; refutation.
Redargutory (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, redargution; refutatory.
Redback (n.) The dunlin.
Redbelly (n.) The char.
Redbird (n.) The cardinal bird.
Redbird (n.) The summer redbird (Piranga rubra).
Redbird (n.) The scarlet tanager. See Tanager.
Redbreast (n.) The European robin.
Redbreast (n.) The American robin. See Robin.
Redbreast (n.) The knot, or red-breasted snipe; -- called also robin breast, and robin snipe. See Knot.
Redbreast (n.) The long-eared pondfish. See Pondfish.
Redbud (n.) A small ornamental leguminous tree of the American species of the genus Cercis. See Judas tree, under Judas.
Redcap (n.) The European goldfinch.
Redcap (n.) A specter having long teeth, popularly supposed to haunt old castles in Scotland.
Redcoat (n.) One who wears a red coat; specifically, a red-coated British soldier.
Redde () obs. imp. of Read, or Rede.
Reddened (imp. & p. p.) of Redden
Reddening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Redden
Redden (a.) To make red or somewhat red; to give a red color to.
Redden (v. i.) To grow or become red; to blush.
Reddendum (n.) A clause in a deed by which some new thing is reserved out of what had been granted before; the clause by which rent is reserved in a lease.
Reddish (a.) Somewhat red; moderately red.
Reddition (n.) Restoration: restitution: surrender.
Reddition (n.) Explanation; representation.
Redditive (a.) Answering to an interrogative or inquiry; conveying a reply; as, redditive words.
Reddle (n.) Red chalk. See under Chalk.
Reddour (n.) Rigor; violence.
Rede (v. t.) To advise or counsel.
Rede (v. t.) To interpret; to explain.
Rede (n.) Advice; counsel; suggestion.
Rede (n.) A word or phrase; a motto; a proverb; a wise saw.
Redeemed (imp. & p. p.) of Redeem
Redeeming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Redeem
Redeem (v. t.) To purchase back; to regain possession of by payment of a stipulated price; to repurchase.
Redeem (v. t.) To recall, as an estate, or to regain, as mortgaged property, by paying what may be due by force of the mortgage.
Redeem (v. t.) To regain by performing the obligation or condition stated; to discharge the obligation mentioned in, as a promissory note, bond, or other evidence of debt; as, to redeem bank notes with coin.
Redeem (v. t.) To ransom, liberate, or rescue from captivity or bondage, or from any obligation or liability to suffer or to be forfeited, by paying a price or ransom; to ransom; to rescue; to recover; as, to redeem a captive, a pledge, and the like.
Redeem (v. t.) Hence, to rescue and deliver from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law.
Redeem (v. t.) To make good by performing fully; to fulfill; as, to redeem one's promises.
Redeem (v. t.) To pay the penalty of; to make amends for; to serve as an equivalent or offset for; to atone for; to compensate; as, to redeem an error.
Redeemability (n.) Redeemableness.
Redeemable (a.) Capable of being redeemed; subject to repurchase; held under conditions permitting redemption; as, a pledge securing the payment of money is redeemable.
Redeemable (a.) Subject to an obligation of redemtion; conditioned upon a promise of redemtion; payable; due; as, bonds, promissory notes, etc. , redeemabble in gold, or in current money, or four months after date.
Redeemableness (n.) The quality or state of being redeemable; redeemability.
Redeemer (n.) One who redeems.
Redeemer (n.) Specifically, the Savior of the world, Jesus Christ.
Redeless (a.) Without rede or counsel.
Redeliberate (v. t. & i.) To deliberate again; to reconsider.
Redeliver (v. t.) To deliver or give back; to return.
Redeliver (v. t.) To deliver or liberate a second time or again.
Redeliver (v. t.) To report; to deliver the answer of.
Redeliverance (n.) A second deliverance.
Redelivery (n.) Act of delivering back.
Redelivery (n.) A second or new delivery or liberation.
Redemand (v. t.) To demand back; to demand again.
Redemand (n.) A demanding back; a second or renewed demand.
Redemise (v. t.) To demise back; to convey or transfer back, as an estate.
Redemise (n.) The transfer of an estate back to the person who demised it; reconveyance; as, the demise and redemise of an estate. See under Demise.
Redemonstrate (v. t.) To demonstrate again, or anew.
Redemptible (a.) Redeemable.
Re-demption (n.) The act of redeeming, or the state of being redeemed; repurchase; ransom; release; rescue; deliverance; as, the redemption of prisoners taken in war; the redemption of a ship and cargo.
Re-demption (n.) The liberation of an estate from a mortgage, or the taking back of property mortgaged, upon performance of the terms or conditions on which it was conveyed; also, the right of redeeming and reentering upon an estate mortgaged. See Equity of redemption, under Equity.
Re-demption (n.) Performance of the obligation stated in a note, bill, bond, or other evidence of debt, by making payment to the holder.
Re-demption (n.) The procuring of God's favor by the sufferings and death of Christ; the ransom or deliverance of sinners from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law.
Redemptionary (n.) One who is, or may be, redeemed.
Redemptioner (n.) One who redeems himself, as from debt or servitude.
Redemptioner (n.) Formerly, one who, wishing to emigrate from Europe to America, sold his services for a stipulated time to pay the expenses of his passage.