Refractory (n.) A refractory person.
Refractory (n.) Refractoriness.
Refractory (n.) OPottery) A piece of ware covered with a vaporable flux and placed in a kiln, to communicate a glaze to the other articles.
Refracture (n.) A second breaking (as of a badly set bone) by the surgeon.
Refracture (v. t.) To break again, as a bone.
Refragable (a.) Capable of being refuted; refutable.
Refragate (v. i.) To oppose.
Refrained (imp. & p. p.) of Refrain
Refraining (p. pr. & vb/ n.) of Refrain
Refrain (v. t.) To hold back; to restrain; to keep within prescribed bounds; to curb; to govern.
Refrain (v. t.) To abstain from
Refrain (v. i.) To keep one's self from action or interference; to hold aloof; to forbear; to abstain.
Refrain (v.) The burden of a song; a phrase or verse which recurs at the end of each of the separate stanzas or divisions of a poetic composition.
Refrainer (n.) One who refrains.
Refrainment (n.) Act of refraining.
Reframe (v. t.) To frame again or anew.
Refrangibility (n.) The quality of being refrangible.
Refrangible (a.) Capable of being refracted, or turned out of a direct course, in passing from one medium to another, as rays of light.
Refrenation (v. t.) The act of refraining.
Refreshed (imp. & p. p.) of Refresh
Refreshing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Refresh
Refresh (a.) To make fresh again; to restore strength, spirit, animation, or the like, to; to relieve from fatigue or depression; to reinvigorate; to enliven anew; to reanimate; as, sleep refreshes the body and the mind.
Refresh (a.) To make as if new; to repair; to restore.
Refresh (n.) The act of refreshing.
Refresher (n.) One who, or that which, refreshes.
Refresher (n.) An extra fee paid to counsel in a case that has been adjourned from one term to another, or that is unusually protracted.
Refreshful (a.) Full of power to refresh; refreshing.
Refreshing (a.) Reviving; reanimating.
Refreshment (n.) The act of refreshing, or the state of being refreshed; restoration of strength, spirit, vigor, or liveliness; relief after suffering; new life or animation after depression.
Refreshment (n.) That which refreshes; means of restoration or reanimation; especially, an article of food or drink.
Refret (n.) Refrain.
Refreyd (v. t.) To chill; to cool.
Refrication (n.) A rubbing up afresh; a brightening.
Refrigerant (a.) Cooling; allaying heat or fever.
Refrigerant (n.) That which makes to be cool or cold; specifically, a medicine or an application for allaying fever, or the symptoms of fever; -- used also figuratively.
Refrigerated (imp. & p. p.) of Refrigerate
Refrigerating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Refrigerate
Refrigerate (v. t.) To cause to become cool; to make or keep cold or cool.
Refrigeration (n.) The act or process of refrigerating or cooling, or the state of being cooled.
Refrigerative (a.) Cooling; allaying heat.
Refrigerative (n.) A refrigerant.
Refrigerator (n.) That which refrigerates or makes cold; that which keeps cool.
Refrigerator (n.) A box or room for keeping food or other articles cool, usually by means of ice.
Refrigerator (n.) An apparatus for rapidly cooling heated liquids or vapors, connected with a still, etc.
Refrigeratory (a.) Mitigating heat; cooling.
-ries (pl. ) of Refrigeratory
Refrigeratory (n.) That which refrigerates or cools.
Refrigeratory (n.) In distillation, a vessel filled with cold water, surrounding the worm, the vapor in which is thereby condensed.
Refrigeratory (n.) The chamber, or tank, in which ice is formed, in an ice machine.
Refrigerium (n.) Cooling refreshment; refrigeration.
Refringency (n.) The power possessed by a substance to refract a ray; as, different substances have different refringencies.
Refringent (a.) Pertaining to, or possessing, refringency; refractive; refracting; as, a refringent prism of spar.
Reft (imp. & p. p.) Bereft.
Reft (n.) A chink; a rift. See Rift.
Refuge (n.) Shelter or protection from danger or distress.
Refuge (n.) That which shelters or protects from danger, or from distress or calamity; a stronghold which protects by its strength, or a sanctuary which secures safety by its sacredness; a place inaccessible to an enemy.
Refuge (n.) An expedient to secure protection or defense; a device or contrivance.
Refuge (v. t.) To shelter; to protect.
Refugee (n.) One who flees to a shelter, or place of safety.
Refugee (n.) Especially, one who, in times of persecution or political commotion, flees to a foreign power or country for safety; as, the French refugees who left France after the revocation of the edict of Nantes.
Refulgence (n.) Alt. of Refulgency
Refulgency (n.) The quality of being refulgent; brilliancy; splender; radiance.
Refulgent (a.) Casting a bright light; radiant; brilliant; resplendent; shining; splendid; as, refulgent beams.
Refund (v. t.) To fund again or anew; to replace (a fund or loan) by a new fund; as, to refund a railroad loan.
Refund (v. t.) To pour back.
Refund (v. t.) To give back; to repay; to restore.
Refund (v. t.) To supply again with funds; to reimburse.
Refunder (n.) One who refunds.
Refundment (n.) The act of refunding; also, that which is refunded.
Refurbish (v. t.) To furbish anew.
Refurnish (v. t.) To furnish again.
Refurnishment (n.) The act of refurnishing, or state of being refurnished.
Refusable (a.) Capable of being refused; admitting of refusal.
Refusal (n.) The act of refusing; denial of anything demanded, solicited, or offered for acceptance.
Refusal (n.) The right of taking in preference to others; the choice of taking or refusing; option; as, to give one the refusal of a farm; to have the refusal of an employment.
Refused (imp. & p. p.) of Refuse
Refusing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Refuse
Refuse (v. t.) To deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant.
Refuse (v. t.) To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the center, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular aligment when troops ar/ about to engage the enemy; as, to refuse the right wing while the left wing attacks.
Refuse (v. t.) To decline to accept; to reject; to deny the request or petition of; as, to refuse a suitor.
Refuse (v. t.) To disown.
Refuse (v. i.) To deny compliance; not to comply.
Refuse (n.) Refusal.
Refuse (n.) That which is refused or rejected as useless; waste or worthless matter.
Refuse (a.) Refused; rejected; hence; left as unworthy of acceptance; of no value; worthless.
Refuser (n.) One who refuses or rejects.
Refusion (n.) New or repeated melting, as of metals.
Refusion (n.) Restoration.
Refut (n.) Refuge.
Refutability (n.) The quality of being refutable.
Refutable (a.) Admitting of being refuted or disproved; capable of being proved false or erroneous.
Refutal (n.) Act of refuting; refutation.
Refutation (n.) The act or process of refuting or disproving, or the state of being refuted; proof of falsehood or error; the overthrowing of an argument, opinion, testimony, doctrine, or theory, by argument or countervailing proof.
Refutatory (a.) Tending tu refute; refuting.
Refuted (imp. & p. p.) of Refute
Refuting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Refute
Refute (v. t.) To disprove and overthrow by argument, evidence, or countervailing proof; to prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; as, to refute arguments; to refute testimony; to refute opinions or theories; to refute a disputant.
Refuter (n.) One who, or that which, refutes.
Regain (v. t.) To gain anew; to get again; to recover, as what has escaped or been lost; to reach again.
Regal (a.) Of or pertaining to a king; kingly; royal; as, regal authority, pomp, or sway.