Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter R - Page 16
Rear (v. t.) To breed and raise; as, to rear cattle.
Rear (v. t.) To rouse; to stir up. [Obs.]
And seeks the tusky boar to rear. -- Dryden.
Syn: To lift; elevate; erect; raise; build; establish. See the Note under Raise, 3 (c).
Rear (v. i.) To rise up on the hind legs, as a horse; to become erect.
Rearing bit, A bit designed to prevent a horse from lifting his head when rearing. -- Knight.
Rear (a.) Located in or toward the back or rear; "the chair's rear legs"; "the rear door of the plane"; "on the rearward side" [syn: rear(a), rearward(a)].
Rear (n.) The back of a military formation or procession; "infantrymen were in the rear" [ant: head].
Rear (n.) The side of an object that is opposite its front; "his room was toward the rear of the hotel" [syn: rear, backside, back end] [ant: forepart, front, front end].
Rear (n.) The part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer; "he stood at the back of the stage"; "it was hidden in the rear of the store" [syn: back, rear] [ant: front].
Rear (n.) The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?" [syn: buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, ass].
Rear (n.) The side that goes last or is not normally seen; "he wrote the date on the back of the photograph" [syn: rear, back] [ant: front].
Rear (v.) Stand up on the hind legs, of quadrupeds; "The horse reared in terror" [syn: rear, rise up].
Rear (v.) Bring up; "raise a family"; "bring up children" [syn: rear, raise, bring up, nurture, parent].
Rear (v.) Rise up; "The building rose before them" [syn: rise, lift, rear].
Rear (v.) Cause to rise up [syn: rear, erect].
Rear (v.) Construct, build, or erect; "Raise a barn" [syn: raise, erect, rear, set up, put up] [ant: dismantle, level, pull down, rase, raze, take down, tear down].
Rear (n.) In American military matters, that exposed part of the army that is nearest to Congress.
Reardorse (n.) Alt. of Reardoss.
Reardoss (n.) A reredos.
Rearer (n.) One who, or that which, rears.
Reargue (v. t.) To argue anew or again.
Reargument (n.) An arguing over again, as of a motion made in court.
Rear-horse (n.) A mantis.
Rearly (adv.) Early.
Rearmost (a.) Farthest in the rear; last.
Rearmouse (n.) Alt. of Reremouse.
Reremouse (n.) The leather-winged bat (Vespertilio murinus).
Rearrange (v. t.) To arrange again; to arrange in a different way.
Rearrangement (n.) The act of rearranging, or the state of being rearranged.
Rearward (n.) The last troop; the rear of an army; a rear guard. Also used figuratively.
Rearward (a. & adv.) At or toward the rear.
Reascend (v. i.) To rise, mount, or climb again.
Reascend (v. t.) To ascend or mount again; to reach by ascending again.
Reascension (n.) The act of reascending; a remounting.
Reascent (n.) A returning ascent or ascension; acclivity.
Reason (n.) A thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; a just ground for a conclusion or an action; that which is offered or accepted as an explanation; the efficient cause of an occurrence or a phenomenon; a motive for an action or a determination; proof, more or less decisive, for an opinion or a conclusion; principle; efficient cause; final cause; ground of argument.
I'll give him reasons for it. -- Shak.
The reason of the motion of the balance in a wheel watch is by the motion of the next wheel. -- Sir M. Hale.
This reason did the ancient fathers render, why the church was called "catholic." -- Bp. Pearson.
Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for that goodness and virtue, and against vice and wickedness. -- Tillotson.
Reason (n.) The faculty or capacity of the human mind by which it is distinguished from the intelligence of the inferior animals; the higher as distinguished from the lower cognitive faculties, sense, imagination, and memory, and in contrast to the feelings and desires. Reason comprises conception, judgment, reasoning, and the intuitional faculty. Specifically, it is the intuitional faculty, or the faculty of first truths, as distinguished from the understanding, which is called the discursive or ratiocinative faculty.
We have no other faculties of perceiving or knowing anything divine or human, but by our five senses and our reason. -- P. Browne.
In common and popular discourse, reason denotes that power by which we distinguish truth from falsehood, and right from wrong, and by which we are enabled to combine means for the attainment of particular ends. -- Stewart.
Reason is used sometimes to express the whole of those powers which elevate man above the brutes, and constitute his rational nature, more especially, perhaps, his intellectual powers; sometimes to express the power of deduction or argumentation. -- Stewart.
By the pure reason I mean the power by which we become possessed of principles. -- Coleridge.
The sense perceives; the understanding, in its own peculiar operation, conceives; the reason, or rationalized understanding, comprehends. -- Coleridge.
Reason (n.) Due exercise of the reasoning faculty; accordance with, or that which is accordant with and ratified by, the mind rightly exercised; right intellectual judgment; clear and fair deductions from true principles; that which is dictated or supported by the common sense of mankind; right conduct; right; propriety; justice.
I was promised, on a time, To have reason for my rhyme. -- Spenser.
But law in a free nation hath been ever public reason; the enacted reason of a parliament, which he denying to enact, denies to govern us by that which ought to be our law; interposing his own private reason, which to us is no law. -- Milton.
The most probable way of bringing France to reason would be by the making an attempt on the Spanish West Indies. -- Addison.
Reason (n.) (Math.) Ratio; proportion. [Obs.] -- Barrow.
By reason of, by means of; on account of; because of. "Spain is thin sown of people, partly by reason of the sterility of the soil." -- Bacon.
In reason, In all reason, in justice; with rational ground; in a right view.
When anything is proved by as good arguments as a thing of that kind is capable of, we ought not, in reason, to doubt of its existence. -- Tillotson.
It is reason, it is reasonable; it is right. [Obs.]
Yet it were great reason, that those that have children should have greatest care of future times. -- Bacon.
Syn: Motive; argument; ground; consideration; principle; sake; account; object; purpose; design. See Motive, Sense.
Reasoned (imp. & p. p.) of Reason.
Reasoning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reason.
Reason (n.) To exercise the rational faculty; to deduce inferences from premises; to perform the process of deduction or of induction; to ratiocinate; to reach conclusions by a systematic comparison of facts.
Reason (n.) Hence: To carry on a process of deduction or of induction, in order to convince or to confute; to formulate and set forth propositions and the inferences from them; to argue.
Stand still, that I may reason with you, before the Lord, of all the righteous acts of the Lord. -- 1 Sam. xii. 7.
Reason (n.) To converse; to compare opinions. -- Shak.
Reason (v. t.) To arrange and present the reasons for or against; to examine or discuss by arguments; to debate or discuss; as, I reasoned the matter with my friend.
When they are clearly discovered, well digested, and well reasoned in every part, there is beauty in such a theory. -- T. Burnet.
Reason (v. t.) To support with reasons, as a request. [R.] -- Shak.
Reason (v. t.) To persuade by reasoning or argument; as, to reason one into a belief; to reason one out of his plan.
Men that will not be reasoned into their senses. -- L'Estrange.
Reason (v. t.) To overcome or conquer by adducing reasons; -- with down; as, to reason down a passion.
Reason (v. t.) To find by logical processes; to explain or justify by reason or argument; -- usually with out; as, to reason out the causes of the librations of the moon.
Reason (n.) A rational motive for a belief or action; "the reason that war was declared"; "the grounds for their declaration" [syn: reason, ground].
Reason (n.) An explanation of the cause of some phenomenon; "the reason a steady state was never reached was that the back pressure built up too slowly".
Reason (n.) The capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination; "we are told that man is endowed with reason and capable of distinguishing good from evil" [syn: reason, understanding, intellect].
Reason (n.) The state of having good sense and sound judgment; "his rationality may have been impaired"; "he had to rely less on reason than on rousing their emotions" [syn: rationality, reason, reasonableness].
Reason (n.) A justification for something existing or happening; "he had no cause to complain"; "they had good reason to rejoice" [syn: cause, reason, grounds].
Reason (n.) A fact that logically justifies some premise or conclusion; "there is reason to believe he is lying".
Reason (v.) Decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion; "We reasoned that it was cheaper to rent than to buy a house" [syn: reason, reason out, conclude].
Reason (v.) Present reasons and arguments [syn: argue, reason].
Reason (v.) Think logically; "The children must learn to reason".
Reason, (v. i.) To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.
Reason, (n.) Propensitate of prejudice.
Reasonable (adv.) Reasonably; tolerably. [Obs.]
I have a reasonable good ear in music. -- Shak.
Reasonable (a.) 通情達理的，講道理的；合理的，正當的；適當的 Having the faculty of reason; endued with reason; rational; as, a reasonable being.
Reasonable (a.) Governed by reason; being under the influence of reason; thinking, speaking, or acting rationally, or according to the dictates of reason; agreeable to reason; just; rational; as, the measure must satisfy all reasonable men.
By indubitable certainty, I mean that which doth not admit of any reasonable cause of doubting. -- Bp. Wilkins.
Men have no right to what is not reasonable. -- Burke.
Reasonable (a.) Not excessive or immoderate; within due limits; proper; as, a reasonable demand, amount, price.
Let . . . all things be thought upon That may, with reasonable swiftness, add More feathers to our wings. -- Shak.
Syn: Rational; just; honest; equitable; fair; suitable; moderate; tolerable. See {Rational}.
Reasonable (a.) Showing reason or sound judgment; "a sensible choice"; "a sensible person" [syn: {reasonable}, {sensible}] [ant: {unreasonable}].
Reasonable (a.) Not excessive or extreme; "a fairish income"; "reasonable prices" [syn: {fair}, {fairish}, {reasonable}].
Reasonable (a.) Marked by sound judgment; "sane nuclear policy" [syn: {reasonable}, {sane}].
Reasonable (a.) Accessible to the infection of our own opinions.
Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion.
Reasonable (a.) Conformable or agreeable to reason; just; rational.
Reasonable (a.) An award must be reasonable, for if it be of things nugatory in themselves, and offering no advantage to either of the parties, it cannot be enforced. 3 Bouv. Inst. n. 2096. Vide Award.
Reasonableness (n.) Quality of being reasonable.
Reasonableness (n.) The state of having good sense and sound judgment; "his rationality may have been impaired"; "he had to rely less on reason than on rousing their emotions" [syn: rationality, reason, reasonableness].
Reasonableness (n.) Goodness of reason and judgment; "the judiciary is built on the reasonableness of judges".
Reasonableness (n.) The property of being moderate in price or expenditures; "the store is famous for the reasonableness of its prices"; "the modestness of the living standards here becomes obvious immediately" [syn: reasonableness, moderateness, modestness].
Reasonableness (n.) Moderation in expectations; "without greater reasonableness by both parties we will never settle this matter!"
Reasonableness (n.) The quality of being plausible or acceptable to a reasonable person; "he questioned the tenability of my claims" [syn: reasonableness, tenability, tenableness].
Reasonably (adv.) In a reasonable manner.
Reasonably (adv.) Moderately; tolerably. "Reasonably perfect in the language." -- Holder.
Reasonably (adv.) To a moderately sufficient extent or degree; "pretty big"; "pretty bad"; "jolly decent of him"; "the shoes are priced reasonably"; "he is fairly clever with computers" [syn: reasonably, moderately, pretty, jolly, somewhat, fairly, middling, passably] [ant: immoderately, unreasonably].
Reasonably (adv.) With good sense or in a reasonable or intelligent manner; "he acted sensibly in the crisis"; "speak more sanely about these affairs"; "acted quite reasonably" [syn: sanely, sensibly, reasonably] [ant: unreasonably].
Reasoner (n.) One who reasons or argues; as, a fair reasoner; a close reasoner; a logical reasoner.
Reasoner (n.) Someone who reasons logically [syn: reasoner, ratiocinator].
Reasoning (n.) The act or process of adducing a reason or reasons; manner of presenting one's reasons.
Reasoning (n.) That which is offered in argument; proofs or reasons when arranged and developed; course of argument.
His reasoning was sufficiently profound. -- Macaulay.
Syn: Argumentation; argument.
Usage: Reasoning, Argumentation. Few words are more interchanged than these; and yet, technically, there is a difference between them. Reasoning is the broader term, including both deduction and induction. Argumentation denotes simply the former, and descends from the whole to some included part; while reasoning embraces also the latter, and ascends from the parts to a whole. See Induction. Reasoning is occupied with ideas and their relations; argumentation has to do with the forms of logic. A thesis is set down: you attack, I defend it; you insist, I reply; you deny, I prove; you distinguish, I destroy your distinctions; my replies balance or overturn your objections. Such is argumentation. It supposes that there are two sides, and that both agree to the same rules. Reasoning, on the other hand, is often a natural process, by which we form, from the general analogy of nature, or special presumptions in the case, conclusions which have greater or less degrees of force, and which may be strengthened or weakened b subsequent experience.
Reasoning (a.) Endowed with the capacity to reason [syn: intelligent, reasoning(a), thinking(a)].
Reasoning (n.) Thinking that is coherent and logical [syn: reasoning, logical thinking, abstract thought].
Reasonist (n.) A rationalist. [Obs.]
Such persons are now commonly called "reasonists" and "rationalists," to distinguish them from true reasoners and rational inquirers. -- Waterland.
Reasonless (a.) Destitute of reason; as, a reasonless man or mind. -- Shak.
Reasonless (a.) Void of reason; not warranted or supported by reason; unreasonable.
This proffer is absurd and reasonless. -- Shak. re-assail
Reasonless (a.) Not marked by the use of reason; "mindless violence"; "reasonless hostility"; "a senseless act" [syn: mindless, reasonless, senseless].
Reasonless (a.) Not endowed with the capacity to reason; "a reasonless brute"
Reasonless (a.) Having no justifying cause or reason; "a senseless, causeless murder"; "a causeless war that never had an aim"; "an apparently arbitrary and reasonless change" [syn: causeless, reasonless].
Reassemblage (n.) Assemblage a second time or again.
Reassemble (v. t. & i.) To assemble again. -- usually after having taking something apart. Usually used without the hyphen.
Reassemble (v.) Assemble once again, after taking something apart.
Reassert (v. t.) To assert again or anew; to maintain after an omission to do so.
Let us hope . . . we may have a body of authors who will reassert our claim to respectability in literature. -- Walsh.
Reassert (v.) Strengthen or make more firm; "The witnesses confirmed the victim's account" [syn: confirm, reassert].
Reassertion (n.) A second or renewed assertion of the same thing.
Reassertion (n.) Renewed affirmation [syn: reassertion, reaffirmation].
Reassessment (n.) A renewed or second assessment.
Reassessment (n.) A new appraisal or evaluation [syn: reappraisal, revaluation, review, reassessment].
Reassign (v. t.) To assign back or again; to transfer back what has been assigned.
Reassign (v.) Transfer somebody to a different position or location of work [syn: transfer, reassign].
Reassignment (n.) The act of reassigning.
Reassignment (n.) Assignment to a different duty.
Reassimilate (v. t. & i.) To assimilate again. -- Re`as*sim`i*la"tion, n.
Reassociate (v. t. & i.) To associate again; to bring again into close relations.
Reassume (v. t.) To assume again or anew; to resume. -- Re`as*sump"tion, n.
Reassurance (n.) Assurance or confirmation renewed or repeated. -- Prynne.
Reassurance (n.) (Law) Same as Reinsurance.
Reassurance (n.) The act of reassuring; restoring someone's confidence.
Reassurance. () When an insurer is desirous of lessening his liability, he may procure some other insurer to insure him from loss, for the insurance he has made this is called reassurance.
Reassure (v. t.) To assure anew; to restore confidence to; to free from fear or terror.
They rose with fear, . . . Till dauntless Pallas reassured the rest. -- Dryden.
Reassure (v. t.) To reinsure.
Reassure (v.) Cause to feel sure; give reassurance to; "The airline tried to reassure the customers that the planes were safe" [syn: reassure, assure] [ant: vex, worry].
Reassure (v.) Give or restore confidence in; cause to feel sure or certain; "I reassured him that we were safe".
Reassurer (n.) One who reassures.
Reasty (a.) Rusty and rancid; -- applied to salt meat. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] -- Tusser. -- Reas"ti*ness, n. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Reata (n.) [Sp.] A lariat.
Reata (n.) A long noosed rope used to catch animals [syn: lasso, lariat, riata, reata].
Reattach (v. t.) To attach again.
Note: The object reattached may have been an integral part which had never been "attached" (trans), e.g., to reattach a severed finger.
Reattachment (n.) The act of reattaching; a second attachment.
Reattain (v. t.) To attain again.
Reattainment (n.) The act of reattaining.
Reattempt (v. t.) To attempt again. re-attribute
Reaume (n.) Realm. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Reaumur (a.) Of or pertaining to Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur; conformed to the scale adopted by Reaumur in graduating the thermometer he invented.
Note: The R['e]aumur thermometer is so graduated that 0[deg] marks the freezing point and 80[deg] the boiling point of water. Frequently indicated by R. Cf. Centigrade, and Fahrenheit. See Illust. of Thermometer.
Reaumur (n.) A Reaumur thermometer or scale.
Reaumur (n.) French physicist who invented the alcohol thermometer (1683-1757) [syn: Reaumur, Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur].
Reauthorization (Also Reauthorisation) (n.) The process or fact of reauthorizing something; an instance of this.
Reauthorize (v.) [With object] To give renewed official approval to (something, especially an action); (also) to give renewed authority to (a person or body of people); to empower for a second or further time.
Reauthorized (v.) Simple past tense and past participle of reauthorize.
Reaved (imp. & p. p.) of Reave.
Reft () of Reave.
Raft () of Reave.
Reaving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reave.
Reave (v. i.) To take away by violence or by stealth; to snatch away; to rob; to despoil; to bereave. [Archaic]. "To reave his life." -- Spenser.
He golden apples raft of the dragon. -- Chaucer.
If the wooers reave By privy stratagem my life at home. -- Chapman.
To reave the orphan of his patrimony. -- Shak.
The
heathen caught and reft him of his tongue. -- Tennyson.
Reave (v.) Steal goods; take as spoils; "During the
earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by
their owners" [syn: plunder, despoil, loot, reave,
strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray].
Reaver (n.) One who reaves. [Archaic]
Reawake (v. i.) To awake again. re-awaken
Rebab (n.) (pl. -s) 雷貝琴 (樂器的一種) A medieval Arabic bowed musical instrument having from one to three strings, shaped typically like a small lute, and now used in gamelan orchestras.
Rebanish (v. t.) To banish again.
Rebaptism (n.) A second baptism.
Rebaptization (n.) A second baptism. [Obs.] -- Hooker.
Rebaptize (v. t.) To baptize again or a second time.
Rebaptizer (n.) One who rebaptizes.
Rebarbarize (v. t.) To reduce again to barbarism. -- Re*bar`ba*ri*za"tion, n.
Germany
. . . rebarbarized by polemical theology and religious wars. -- Sir W. Hamilton.
Rebarbative (a.) Serving or tending to repel;
"he became rebarbative and prickly and spiteful";
"I find his obsequiousness repellent" [syn:
rebarbative, repellent, repellant].
Rebarbative (a.) Serving or tending to irritate or repel. Rebarbative comes from French rébarbatif, "stern, surly, grim, forbidding," from Middle French rebarber, "to be repellent," from re- (from the Latin) + barbe, "beard" (from Latin barba).
Rebate (v. t.) To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise.
But doth rebate and blunt his natural edge. -- Shak.
Rebate (v. t.) To deduct from; to make a discount from, as interest due, or customs duties. -- Blount.
Rebate (v. t.) To return a portion of a sum paid, as a method of discounting of prices.
Rebated cross, a cross which has the extremities of the arms bent back at right angles, as in the fylfot.
Rebate (v. i.) To abate; to withdraw. [Obs.] -- Foxe.
Rebate (n.) Diminution.
Rebate (n.) (Com.) Deduction; abatement; as, a
rebate of interest for immediate payment; a rebate of importation duties.
--Bouvier.
Rebate (n.) A portion of a sum paid, returned to the purchaser, as a method of discounting. The rebate is sometimes returned by the manufacturer, after the full price is paid to the retailer by the purchaser.
Rebate (n.) (Arch.) A rectangular longitudinal recess or groove, cut in the corner or edge of any body; a rabbet. See Rabbet.
Rebate (n.) A piece of wood hafted into a long stick, and serving to beat out mortar. -- Elmes.
Rebate (n.) An iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used for dressing and polishing wood. -- Elmes.
Rebate (n.) [Perhaps a different word.] A kind of hard freestone used in making pavements. [R.] -- Elmes.
Rebate (v. t.) To cut a rebate in. See Rabbet, v.
Rebatement (n.) Same as 3d Rebate. v.
Rebato (n.) Same as Rabato. -- Burton.
Rebato (n.) A wired or starched collar of intricate lace; worn in 17th century [syn: rabato, rebato].
Rebec (n.) (Mus.) An instrument formerly used which somewhat resembled the violin, having three strings, and being played with a bow. [Written also rebeck.] -- Milton.
He turn'd his rebec to a mournful note. -- Drayton.
Rebec (n.) A contemptuous term applied to an old woman. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.