Redressal (n.) Redress.
Redresser (n.) One who redresses.
Redressible (a.) Such as may be redressed.
Redressive (a.) Tending to redress.
Redressless (a.) Not having redress; such as can not be redressed; irremediable.
Redressment (n.) The act of redressing; redress.
Red-riband (n.) The European red band fish, or fireflame. See Rend fish.
Redroot (n.) 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 (v. i.) To be brittle when red-hot; to be red-short.
Redshank (n.) 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.
Redshank (n.) The fieldfare.
Redshank (n.) A bare-legged person; -- a contemptuous appellation formerly given to the Scotch Highlanders, in allusion to their bare legs.
Red-short (a.) Hot-short; brittle when red-hot; -- said of certain kinds of iron.
Redskin (n.) A common appellation for a North American Indian; -- so called from the color of the skin.
Redstart (n.) A small, handsome European singing bird (Ruticilla phoenicurus), 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.
Redstart (n.) 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 (n.) A kind of apple having the skin streaked with red and yellow, -- a favorite English cider apple.
Redstreak (n.) Cider pressed from redstreak apples.
Redtail (n.) The red-tailed hawk.
Redtail (n.) The European redstart.
Red-tailed (a.) Having a red tail.
Red-tape (a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, official formality. See Red tape, under Red, a.
Red-tapism (n.) Strict adherence to official formalities.
Red-tapist (n.) One who is tenacious of a strict adherence to official formalities.
Redthroat (n.) A small Australian singing bird (Phyrrholaemus brunneus). The upper parts are brown, the center of the throat red.
Redtop (n.) 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 (v. t.) To refit; to repair, or make reparation for; hence, to repay or requite.
Reduced (imp. & p. p.) of Reduce
Reducing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reduce
Reduce (n.) To bring or lead back to any former place or condition.
Reduce (n.) 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.
Reduce (n.) To bring to terms; to humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture; as, to reduce a province or a fort.
Reduce (n.) 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.
Reduce (n.) 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.
Reduce (n.) 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.
Reduce (n.) 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.
Reduce (n.) 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.
Reduce (n.) To restore to its proper place or condition, as a displaced organ or part; as, to reduce a dislocation, a fracture, or a hernia.
Reducement (n.) Reduction.
Reducent (a.) Tending to reduce.
Reducent (n.) A reducent agent.
Reducer (n.) One who, or that which, reduces.
Reducible (a.) Capable of being reduced.
Reducibleness (n.) Quality of being reducible.
Reducing () a & n. from Reduce.
Reduct (v. t..) To reduce.
Reductibility (n.) The quality of being reducible; reducibleness.
Reduction (n.) 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.
Reduction (n.) The act or process of reducing. See Reduce, v. t., 6. and To reduce an equation, To reduce an expression, under Reduce, v. t.
Reduction (v. t.) The correction of observations for known errors of instruments, etc.
Reduction (v. t.) The preparation of the facts and measurements of observations in order to deduce a general result.
Reduction (v. t.) The process of making a copy of something, as a figure, design, or draught, on a smaller scale, preserving the proper proportions.
Reduction (v. t.) The bringing of a syllogism in one of the so-called imperfect modes into a mode in the first figure.
Reduction (v. t.) The act, process, or result of reducing; as, the reduction of iron from its ores; the reduction of aldehyde from alcohol.
Reduction (v. t.) The operation of restoring a dislocated or fractured part to its former place.
Reductive (a.) Tending to reduce; having the power or effect of reducing.
Reductive (n.) A reductive agent.
Reductively (adv.) By reduction; by consequence.
Reduit (n.) A central or retired work within any other work.
Redundance (n.) Alt. of Redundancy
Redundancy (n.) The quality or state of being redundant; superfluity; superabundance; excess.
Redundancy (n.) That which is redundant or in excess; anything superfluous or superabundant.
Redundancy (n.) Surplusage inserted in a pleading which may be rejected by the court without impairing the validity of what remains.
Redundant (a.) Exceeding what is natural or necessary; superabundant; exuberant; as, a redundant quantity of bile or food.
Redundant (a.) Using more worrds or images than are necessary or useful; pleonastic.
Redundantly (adv.) In a refundant manner.
Reduplicate (a.) Double; doubled; reduplicative; repeated.
Reduplicate (a.) Valvate with the margins curved outwardly; -- said of the /stivation of certain flowers.
Reduplicate (v. t.) To redouble; to multiply; to repeat.
Reduplicate (v. t.) To repeat the first letter or letters of (a word). See Reduplication, 3.
Reduplication (n.) The act of doubling, or the state of being doubled.
Reduplication (n.) A figure in which the first word of a verse is the same as the last word of the preceding verse.
Reduplication (n.) The doubling of a stem or syllable (more or less modified), with the effect of changing the time expressed, intensifying the meaning, or making the word more imitative; also, the syllable thus added; as, L. tetuli; poposci.
Reduplicative (a.) Double; formed by reduplication; reduplicate.
Reduvid (n.) Any hemipterous insect of the genus Redivius, or family Reduvidae. They live by sucking the blood of other insects, and some species also attack man.
Redweed (n.) The red poppy (Papaver Rhoeas).
Redwing (n.) A European thrush (Turdus iliacus). Its under wing coverts are orange red. Called also redwinged thrush. (b) A North American passerine bird (Agelarius ph/niceus) of the family Icteridae. The male is black, with a conspicuous patch of bright red, bordered with orange, on each wing. Called also redwinged blackbird, red-winged troupial, marsh blackbird, and swamp blackbird.
Redwithe (n.) A west Indian climbing shrub (Combretum Jacquini) with slender reddish branchlets.
Redwood (n.) A gigantic coniferous tree (Sequoia sempervirens) of California, and its light and durable reddish timber. See Sequoia.
Redwood (n.) An East Indian dyewood, obtained from Pterocarpus santalinus, Caesalpinia Sappan, and several other trees.
Ree (n.) See Rei.
Ree (v. t.) To riddle; to sift; to separate or throw off.
Reebok (n.) The peele.
Reecho (v. t.) To echo back; to reverberate again; as, the hills reecho the roar of cannon.
Reecho (v. i.) To give echoes; to return back, or be reverberated, as an echo; to resound; to be resonant.
Reecho (n.) The echo of an echo; a repeated or second echo.
Reechy (a.) Smoky; reeky; hence, begrimed with dirt.
Reed (a.) Red.
Reed (v. & n.) Same as Rede.
Reed (n.) The fourth stomach of a ruminant; rennet.
Reed (n.) A name given to many tall and coarse grasses or grasslike plants, and their slender, often jointed, stems, such as the various kinds of bamboo, and especially the common reed of Europe and North America (Phragmites communis).
Reed (n.) A musical instrument made of the hollow joint of some plant; a rustic or pastoral pipe.
Reed (n.) An arrow, as made of a reed.
Reed (n.) Straw prepared for thatching a roof.
Reed (n.) A small piece of cane or wood attached to the mouthpiece of certain instruments, and set in vibration by the breath. In the clarinet it is a single fiat reed; in the oboe and bassoon it is double, forming a compressed tube.
Reed (n.) One of the thin pieces of metal, the vibration of which produce the tones of a melodeon, accordeon, harmonium, or seraphine; also attached to certain sets or registers of pipes in an organ.
Reed (n.) A frame having parallel flat stripe of metal or reed, between which the warp threads pass, set in the swinging lathe or batten of a loom for beating up the weft; a sley. See Batten.
Reed (n.) A tube containing the train of powder for igniting the charge in blasting.
Reed (n.) Same as Reeding.
Reedbird (n.) The bobolink.