Reflection (n.) Result of meditation; thought or opinion after attentive consideration or contemplation; especially, thoughts suggested by truth.
Reflection (n.) Censure; reproach cast.
Reflection (n.) The transference of an excitement from one nerve fiber to another by means of the nerve cells, as in reflex action. See Reflex action, under Reflex.
Reflective (a.) Throwing back images; as, a reflective mirror.
Reflective (a.) Capable of exercising thought or judgment; as, reflective reason.
Reflective (a.) Addicted to introspective or meditative habits; as, a reflective person.
Reflective (a.) Reflexive; reciprocal.
Reflector (n.) One who, or that which, reflects.
Reflector (n.) Something having a polished surface for reflecting light or heat, as a mirror, a speculum, etc.
Reflector (n.) A reflecting telescope.
Reflector (n.) A device for reflecting sound.
Reflex (a.) Directed back; attended by reflection; retroactive; introspective.
Reflex (a.) Produced in reaction, in resistance, or in return.
Reflex (a.) Of, pertaining to, or produced by, stimulus or excitation without the necessary intervention of consciousness.
Reflex (n.) Reflection; the light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade.
Reflex (n.) An involuntary movement produced by reflex action.
Reflex (v. t.) To reflect.
Reflex (v. t.) To bend back; to turn back.
Reflexed (a.) Bent backward or outward.
Reflexibility (n.) The quality or capability of being reflexible; as, the reflexibility of the rays of light.
Reflexible (a.) Capable of being reflected, or thrown back.
Reflexion (n.) See Reflection.
Reflexity (n.) The state or condition of being reflected.
Reflexive (a.) Bending or turned backward; reflective; having respect to something past.
Reflexive (a.) Implying censure.
Reflexive (a.) Having for its direct object a pronoun which refers to the agent or subject as its antecedent; -- said of certain verbs; as, the witness perjured himself; I bethought myself. Applied also to pronouns of this class; reciprocal; reflective.
Reflexly (adv.) In a reflex manner; reflectively.
Refloat (n.) Reflux; ebb.
Reflorescence (n.) A blossoming anew of a plant after it has apparently ceased blossoming for the season.
Reflourish (v. t. & i.) To flourish again.
Reflow (v. i.) To flow back; to ebb.
Reflower (v. i. & t.) To flower, or cause to flower, again.
Refluctuation (n.) A flowing back; refluence.
Refluence (n.) Alt. of Refluency
Refluency (n.) The quality of being refluent; a flowing back.
Refluent (a.) Flowing back; returning; ebbing.
Reflueus (a.) Refluent.
Reflux (a.) Returning, or flowing back; reflex; as, reflux action.
Reflux (n.) A flowing back, as the return of a fluid; ebb; reaction; as, the flux and reflux of the tides.
Refocillate (v. t.) To refresh; to revive.
Refocillation (n.) Restoration of strength by refreshment.
Refold (v. t.) To fold again.
Refoment (v. t.) To foment anew.
Reforestization (n.) The act or process of reforestizing.
Reforestize (v. t.) To convert again into a forest; to plant again with trees.
Reforge (v. t.) To forge again or anew; hence, to fashion or fabricate anew; to make over.
Reforger (n.) One who reforges.
Reform (v. t.) To put into a new and improved form or condition; to restore to a former good state, or bring from bad to good; to change from worse to better; to amend; to correct; as, to reform a profligate man; to reform corrupt manners or morals.
Reform (v. i.) To return to a good state; to amend or correct one's own character or habits; as, a man of settled habits of vice will seldom reform.
Reform (n.) Amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt, or depraved; reformation; as, reform of elections; reform of government.
Re-formed (imp. & p. p.) of Re-form
Re-forming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Re-form
Re-form (v. t. & i.) To give a new form to; to form anew; to take form again, or to take a new form; as, to re-form the line after a charge.
Reformable (a.) Capable of being reformed.
Reformade (n.) A reformado.
Reformado (v. t.) A monk of a reformed order.
Reformado (v. t.) An officer who, in disgrace, is deprived of his command, but retains his rank, and sometimes his pay.
Reformalize (v. i.) To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
Reformation (n.) The act of reforming, or the state of being reformed; change from worse to better; correction or amendment of life, manners, or of anything vicious or corrupt; as, the reformation of manners; reformation of the age; reformation of abuses.
Reformation (n.) Specifically (Eccl. Hist.), the important religious movement commenced by Luther early in the sixteenth century, which resulted in the formation of the various Protestant churches.
Re-formation (n.) The act of forming anew; a second forming in order; as, the reformation of a column of troops into a hollow square.
Reformative (a.) Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory.
Reformatory (a.) Tending to produce reformation; reformative.
-ries (pl. ) of Reformatory
Reformatory (n.) An institution for promoting the reformation of offenders.
Reformed (a.) Corrected; amended; restored to purity or excellence; said, specifically, of the whole body of Protestant churches originating in the Reformation. Also, in a more restricted sense, of those who separated from Luther on the doctrine of consubstantiation, etc., and carried the Reformation, as they claimed, to a higher point. The Protestant churches founded by them in Switzerland, France, Holland, and part of Germany, were called the Reformed churches.
Reformed (a.) Amended in character and life; as, a reformed gambler or drunkard.
Reformed (a.) Retained in service on half or full pay after the disbandment of the company or troop; -- said of an officer.
Reformer (n.) One who effects a reformation or amendment; one who labors for, or urges, reform; as, a reformer of manners, or of abuses.
Reformer (n.) One of those who commenced the reformation of religion in the sixteenth century, as Luther, Melanchthon, Zwingli, and Calvin.
Reformist (n.) A reformer.
Reformly (adv.) In the manner of a reform; for the purpose of reform.
Refortification (n.) A fortifying anew, or a second time.
Refortify (v. t.) To fortify anew.
Refossion (n.) The act of digging up again.
Refound (v. t.) To found or cast anew.
Refound (v. t.) To found or establish again; to re/stablish.
Refound () imp. & p. p. of Refind, v. t.
Refounder (n.) One who refounds.
Refracted (imp. & p. p.) of Refract
Refracting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Refract
Refract (n.) To bend sharply and abruptly back; to break off.
Refract (n.) To break the natural course of, as rays of light orr heat, when passing from one transparent medium to another of different density; to cause to deviate from a direct course by an action distinct from reflection; as, a dense medium refrcts the rays of light as they pass into it from a rare medium.
Refractable (a.) Capable of being refracted.
Refracted (a.) Bent backward angularly, as if half-broken; as, a refracted stem or leaf.
Refracted (a.) Turned from a direct course by refraction; as, refracted rays of light.
Refracting (a.) Serving or tending to refract; as, a refracting medium.
Refraction (n.) The act of refracting, or the state of being refracted.
Refraction (n.) The change in the direction of ray of light, heat, or the like, when it enters obliquely a medium of a different density from that through which it has previously moved.
Refraction (n.) The change in the direction of a ray of light, and, consequently, in the apparent position of a heavenly body from which it emanates, arising from its passage through the earth's atmosphere; -- hence distinguished as atmospheric refraction, or astronomical refraction.
Refraction (n.) The correction which is to be deducted from the apparent altitude of a heavenly body on account of atmospheric refraction, in order to obtain the true altitude.
Refractive (a.) Serving or having power to refract, or turn from a direct course; pertaining to refraction; as, refractive surfaces; refractive powers.
Refractiveness (n.) The quality or condition of being refractive.
Refractometer (n.) A contrivance for exhibiting and measuring the refraction of light.
Refractor (n.) Anything that refracts
Refractor (n.) A refracting telescope, in which the image to be viewed is formed by the refraction of light in passing through a convex lens.
Refractorily (adv.) In a refractory manner; perversely; obstinately.
Refractoriness (n.) The quality or condition of being refractory.
Refractory (a.) Obstinate in disobedience; contumacious; stubborn; unmanageable; as, a refractory child; a refractory beast.
Refractory (a.) Resisting ordinary treatment; difficult of fusion, reduction, or the like; -- said especially of metals and the like, which do not readily yield to heat, or to the hammer; as, a refractory ore.