Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter R - Page 25
Redemptionist (n.) (R.C.Ch.) A monk of an order founded in 1197; -- so called because the order was especially devoted to the redemption of Christians held in captivity by the Mohammedans. Called also Trinitarian.
Redemptive (a.) 贖回的；拯救的；買回的；贖身的 Serving or tending to redeem; redeeming; as, the redemptive work of Christ.
Redemptive (a.) Of or relating to or resulting in redemption; "a redemptive theory about life"- E.K.Brown [syn: redemptive, redemptional, redemptory].
Redemptive (a.) Bringing about salvation or redemption from sin; "saving faith"; "redemptive (or redeeming) love" [syn: redemptive, redeeming(a), saving(a)].
Redemptorist (n.) (R. C. Ch.) One of
the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, founded in
Redemptory (a.) Paid for ransom; serving to redeem. "Hector's redemptory price." -- Chapman.
Redemptory (a.) Of or relating to or resulting in redemption; "a redemptive theory about life"- E.K.Brown [syn: redemptive, redemptional, redemptory].
Redempture (n.) Redemption. [Obs.]
Redented (a.) Formed like the teeth of a saw; indented.
Redeposit (v. t.) To deposit again.
Redeposit (v.) Deposit once again; "redeposit a cheque".
Redeposit (v.) Deposit anew; "The water had redeposited minerals on the rocks".
Redescend (v. i.) To descend again. -- Howell.
Redeye (n.) (Zool.) The rudd.
Redeye (n.) (Zool.) Same as Redfish.
Redeye (n.) The goggle-eye, or fresh-water rock bass. [Local, U.S.]
Redeye (n.) A scheduled public conveyance, such as a train or airplane, which travels late at night or overnight. [Colloq.]
Rudd (n.) [See Rud, n.] (Zool.) A fresh-water European fish of the Carp family ({Leuciscus erythrophthalmus). It is about the size and shape of the roach, but it has the dorsal fin farther back, a stouter body, and red irises. Called also redeye, roud, finscale, and shallow. A blue variety is called azurine, or blue roach.
Redeye (n.) A night flight from which the passengers emerge with eyes red from lack of sleep; "he took the redeye in order to get home the next morning" [syn: redeye, redeye flight].
Redfin (n.) (Zool.) A small
North American dace ({Minnilus cornutus, or Notropis megalops). The male, in
the breeding season, has bright red fins. Called also red dace, and shiner.
Applied also to Notropis ardens, of the
Redfinch (n.) (Zool.) The European linnet.
Redfish (n.) (Zool.) The blueback salmon of the North Pacific; -- called also nerka. See Blueback
Redfish (n.) (Zool.) The rosefish.
Redfish (n.) (Zool.) A large
Redfish (n.) (Zool.) The red bass, red drum, or drumfish. See the Note under Drumfish.
Nerka (n.) (Zool.) The most important salmon of Alaska ({Oncorhinchus nerka), ascending in spring most rivers and lakes from Alaska to Oregon, Washington, and Idaho; -- called also red salmon, redfish, blueback, and sawqui.
Redfish (n.) North Atlantic rockfish [syn: redfish, rosefish, ocean perch].
Redfish (n.) Large edible fish found off coast of United States from Massachusetts to Mexico [syn: red drum, channel bass, redfish, Sciaenops ocellatus].
Redfish (n.) Male salmon that has recently spawned.
Red-gum (n.) (Med.) An eruption of red pimples upon the face, neck, and arms, in early infancy; tooth rash; strophulus. -- Good.
Red-gum (n.) A name of rust on grain. See Rust. Red-hand
Red-hand (a. / adv.) Alt. of Red-handed.
Red-handed (a. / adv.) Having hands red with blood; in the very act, as if with red or bloody hands; -- said of a person taken in the act of homicide; hence, fresh from the commission of crime; as, he was taken red-hand or red-handed.
Redhead (n.) A person having red hair.
Redhead (n.) An American duck (Aythya Americana) highly esteemed as a game bird. It is closely allied to the canvasback, but is smaller and its head brighter red. Called also red-headed duck. American poachard, grayback, and fall duck. See Illust. under Poachard.
Redhead (n.) The red-headed woodpecker. See Woodpecker.
Redhead (n.) A kind of milkweed (Asclepias Curassavica) with red flowers. It is used in medicine.
Redhibition (n.) The annulling of a sale, and the return by the buyer of the article sold, on account of some defect.
Redhibitory (a.) Of or pertaining to redhibition; as, a redhibitory action or fault.
Redhoop (n.) The male of the European bullfinch.
Redhorn (n.) Any species of a tribe of butterflies (Fugacia) including the common yellow species and the cabbage butterflies. The antennae are usually red.
Red-hot (a.) Red with heat; heated to redness; as, red-hot iron; red-hot balls. Hence, figuratively, excited; violent; as, a red-hot radical.
Rediae (n. pl. ) of Redia.
Redias (n. pl. ) of Redia.
Redia (n.) A kind of larva, or nurse, which is prroduced within the sporocyst of certain trematodes by asexual generation. It in turn produces, in the same way, either another generation of rediae, or else cercariae within its own body. Called also proscolex, and nurse. See Illustration in Appendix.
Redient (a.) Returning.
Redigest (v. t.) To digest, or reduce to form, a second time.
Rediminish (v. t.) To diminish again.
Redingote (n.) 開襟女式外衣 A long plain double-breasted outside coat for women.
Redintegrate (a.) Restored to wholeness or a perfect state; renewed. -- Bacon.
Redintegrate (v. t.) 使復原；重建 To make whole again; a renew; to restore to integrity or soundness.
The English nation seems obliterated. What could redintegrate us again? -- Coleridge.
Redintegration (n.) 恢復完整；【心】重整作用 Restoration to a whole or sound state; renewal; renovation. -- Dr. H. More.
Redintegration (n.) (Chem.) Restoration of a mixed body or matter to its former nature and state. [Achaic.] -- Coxe.
Redintegration (n.) (Psychology) The law that objects which have been previously combined as part of a single mental state tend to recall or suggest one another; -- adopted by many philosophers to explain the phenomena of the association of ideas.
Redirect (a.) Applied to the examination of a witness, by the party calling him, after the cross-examination.
Redisburse (v. t.) To disburse anew; to give, or pay, back.
Rediscover (v. t.) 重新發現；再發現 To discover again.
Rediscover (v.) Discover again; "I rediscovered the books that I enjoyed as a child".
Redispose (v. t.) 重新布署 To dispose anew or again; to readjust; to rearrange. -- A. Baxter.
Redispose (v.) Dispose anew; "The goods were redisposed at a great loss".
Redisseize (v. t.) (Law) To disseize anew, or a second time. [Written also redisseise.]
Compare: Disseize
Disseize (v.) [With object] (v. t.) (Historical Law) 【律】強佔 Dispossess (someone) of land or property.
‘His ancestors had held the land but had been disseized in the fifteenth century.’
Compare: Dispossess
Dispossess (v.) [With object] 沒收；奪取 Deprive (someone) of land, property, or other possessions.
‘They were dispossessed of lands and properties during the Reformation’
[As plural noun the dispossessed ]‘A champion of the poor and the dispossessed.’
Dispossess (v.) [With object] (In sport) deprive (a player) of the ball.
‘He dispossessed Hendrie and set off on a solo run.’
Redisseizin (n.) A disseizin by one who once before was adjudged to have dassezed the same person of the same lands, etc.; also, a writ which lay in such a case.
Redisseizor (n.) One who redisseizes.
Redissolve (v. t.) To dissolve again.
Redistill (v. t.) To distill again.
Redistrainer (n.) One who distrains again.
Redistribute (v. t.) To distribute again.
Redistrict (v. t.) To divide into new districts.
Redition (n.) Act of returning; return.
Redivide (v. t.) To divide anew.
Redleg (n.) Alt. of Redlegs.
Redlegs (n.) The redshank.
Redlegs (n.) The turnstone.
Red-letter (a.) Of or pertaining to a red letter; marked by red letters.
Redly (adv.) In a red manner; with redness.
Redmouth (n.) Any one of several species of marine food fishes of the genus Diabasis, or Haemulon, of the Southern United States, having the inside of the mouth bright red. Called also flannelmouth, and grunt.
Redness (n.) The quality or state of being red; red color.
Redolence (n.) Alt. of Redolency.
Redolency (n.) The quality of being redolent; sweetness of scent; pleasant odor; fragrance.
Redolent (a.) 芳香的；有……氣味的；令人想起……的 Diffusing odor or fragrance; spreading sweet scent; scented; odorous; smelling; -- usually followed by of. "Honey redolent of spring." --Dryden. -- Red"o*lent*ly, adv.
Gales . . . redolent of joy and youth. -- Gray.
Redolent (a.) Serving to bring to mind; "cannot forbear to close on this redolent literary note"- Wilder Hobson; "a campaign redolent of machine politics" [syn: evocative, redolent, remindful, reminiscent, resonant].
Redolent (a.) (Used with `of' or `with') Noticeably odorous; "the hall was redolent of floor wax"; "air redolent with the fumes of beer and whiskey" [syn: redolent(p), smelling(p)].
Redolent (a.) Having a strong pleasant odor; "the pine woods were more redolent"- Jean Stafford [syn: aromatic, redolent].
Redouble (v. t.) To double again or repeatedly; to increase by continued or repeated additions; to augment greatly; to multiply.
Redouble (v. i.) To become greatly or repeatedly increased; to be multiplied; to be greatly augmented; as, the noise redoubles.
Redoubt (n.) A small, and usually a roughly constructed, fort or outwork of varying shape, commonly erected for a temporary purpose, and without flanking defenses, -- used esp. in fortifying tops of hills and passes, and positions in hostile territory.
Redoubt (n.) In permanent works, an outwork placed within another outwork. See F and i in Illust. of Ravelin.
Redoubt (v. t.) To stand in dread of; to regard with fear; to dread.
Redoubt (n.) [ C ] (Formal) （尤指即將消失或受到威脅的信仰或生活方式的）安全藏身處，堡壘，據點 Something that holds or defends a belief or a way of life, especially one that is disappearing or threatened.
// He described British public schools as "the last redoubt of upper-class privilege".
Redoubt (n.) [ C ] 防禦工事；掩體 (specialized) (military) A small, often hidden building in which soldiers can hide while they are fighting.
Redoubtable (a.) 可怕的；令人敬畏的 Formidable; dread; terrible to foes; as, a redoubtable hero; hence, valiant; -- often in contempt or burlesque. [Written also redoutable.]
Redoubted (a.) Formidable; dread.
Redoubting (n.) Reverence; honor.
Redounded (imp. & p. p.) of Redound.
Redounding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Redound.
Redound (v. i.) To roll back, as a wave or flood; to be sent or driven back; to flow back, as a consequence or effect; to conduce; to contribute; to result.
The evil, soon Driven back, redounded as a flood on those From whom it sprung. -- Milton.
The honor done to our religion ultimately redounds to God, the author of it. -- Rogers.
Both . . . will devour great quantities of paper, there will no small use redound from them to that manufacture. -- Addison.
Redound (v. i.) To be in excess; to remain over and above; to be redundant; to overflow.
For every dram of honey therein found, A pound of gall doth over it redound. -- Spenser.
Redound (n.) The coming back, as of consequence or effect; result; return; requital.
We give you welcome; not without redound Of use and glory to yourselves ye come. -- Tennyson.
Redound (n.) Rebound; reverberation. [R.] -- Codrington.
Redound (v.) Return or recoil; "Fame redounds to the heroes".
Redound (v.) Contribute; "Everything redounded to his glory".
Redound (v.) Have an effect for good or ill; "Her efforts will redound to the general good".
Redowa (n.) A Bohemian dance of two kinds, one in triple time, like a waltz, the other in two-four time, like a polka. The former is most in use.
Redpole (n.) (Zool.) Same as Redpoll.
Redpoll (n.) (Zool.) Any one of several species of small northern finches of the genus Acanthis (formerly Aegiothus), native of Europe and America. The adults have the crown red or rosy. The male of the most common species (A. linarius) has also the breast and rump rosy. Called also redpoll linnet. See Illust. under Linnet.
Redpoll (n.) (Zool.) The common European linnet.
Redpoll (n.) (Zool.) The American redpoll warbler ({Dendroica palmarum).
Redpoll (n.) Small siskin-like finch with a red crown [syn: redpoll, Carduelis hornemanni].
Redpoll (n.) Small siskin-like finch with a red crown and a rosy breast and rump [syn: redpoll, Carduelis flammea].
Redraft (v. t.) To draft or draw anew.
Redraft (n.) A second draft or copy.
Redraft (n.) (Com.) A new bill of exchange which the holder of a protected bill draws on the drawer or indorsers, in order to recover the amount of the protested bill with costs and charges.
Redraft (n.) A draft for the amount of a dishonored draft plus the costs and charges of drafting again.
RE-DRAFT, () comm. law. A bill of exchange drawn at the place where another bill was made payable, and where it was protested, upon the place where the first bill was drawn, or when there is no regular commercial intercourse rendering that practicable, then in the next best or most direct practicable course. 1 Bell's Com. 406, 5th ed. Vide Reexchange.
Redrew (imp.) of Redraw.
Redrawn (p. p.) of Redraw.
Redrawing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Redraw.
Redraw (v. t.) To draw again; to make a second draft or copy of; to redraft.
Redraw (v. i.) (Com.) To draw a new bill of exchange, as the holder of a protested bill, on the drawer or indorsers.
Redress (v. t.) 糾正，矯正；革除；賠償，補償；補救 To dress again.
Redress (v. t.) To put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise.
The common profit could she redress. -- Chaucer.
In yonder spring of roses intermixed With myrtle, find what to redress till noon. -- Milton.
Your wish that I should redress a certain paper which you had prepared. -- A. Hamilton.
Redress (v. t.) To set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an injury; to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.
Those wrongs, those bitter injuries, . . . I doubt not but with honor to redress. -- Shak.
Redress (v. t.) To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon. "'T is thine, O king! the afflicted to redress." -- Dryden.
Will Gaul or Muscovite redress ye? -- Byron.
Redress (n.) [U] 糾正，矯正 The act of redressing; a making right; reformation; correction; amendment. [R.]
Reformation of evil laws is commendable, but for us the more necessary is a speedy redress of ourselves. -- Hooker.
Redress (n.) A setting right, as of wrong, injury, or opression; as, the redress of grievances; hence, relief; remedy; reparation; indemnification. -- Shak.
A few may complain without reason; but there is occasion for redress when the cry is universal. -- Davenant.
Redress (n.) One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.
Fair majesty, the refuge and redress Of those whom fate pursues and wants oppress. -- Dryden.
Redress (n.) A sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury [syn: damages, amends, indemnity, indemnification, restitution, redress].
Redress (n.) Act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil [syn: redress, remedy, remediation].
Redress (v.) Make reparations or amends for; "right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust" [syn: right, compensate, redress, correct] [ant: wrong].
Redress () The act of receiving satisfaction for an injury sustained. For the mode of obtaining redress, vide Remedies 1 Chit. Pr. Annal. Table.
Redress (n.) Reparation without satisfaction.
Among the Anglo-Saxon a subject conceiving himself wronged by the king was permitted, on proving his injury, to beat a brazen image of the royal offender with a switch that was afterward applied to his own naked back. The latter rite was performed by the public hangman, and it assured moderation in the plaintiff's choice of a switch.