Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter R - Page 15

Reafforest (v. t.) To convert again into a forest, as a region of country.

Reafforestation (n.) The act or process of converting again into a forest.

Reagent (n.) A substance capable of producing with another a reaction, especially when employed to detect the presence of other bodies; a test.

Reaggravation (n.) The last monitory, published after three admonitions and before the last excommunication.

Reagree (v. i.) To agree again.

Reak (n.) A rush.

Reak (n.) A prank.

Real (n.) A small Spanish silver coin; also, a denomination of money of account, formerly the unit of the Spanish monetary system.

Real (a.) Royal; regal; kingly.

Real (a.) Actually being or existing; not fictitious or imaginary; as, a description of real life.

Real (a.) True; genuine; not artificial, counterfeit, or factitious; often opposed to ostensible; as, the real reason; real Madeira wine; real ginger.

Real (a.) Relating to things, not to persons.

Real (a.) Having an assignable arithmetical or numerical value or meaning; not imaginary.

Real (a.) Pertaining to things fixed, permanent, or immovable, as to lands and tenements; as, real property, in distinction from personal or movable property.

Real (n.) A realist.

Realgar (n.) Arsenic sulphide, a mineral of a brilliant red color; red orpiment. It is also an artificial product.

Realism (n.) As opposed to nominalism, the doctrine that genera and species are real things or entities, existing independently of our conceptions. According to realism the Universal exists ante rem (Plato), or in re (Aristotle).

Realism (n.) As opposed to idealism, the doctrine that in sense perception there is an immediate cognition of the external object, and our knowledge of it is not mediate and representative.

Realism (n.) Fidelity to nature or to real life; representation without idealization, and making no appeal to the imagination; adherence to the actual fact.

Realist (n.) One who believes in realism; esp., one who maintains that generals, or the terms used to denote the genera and species of things, represent real existences, and are not mere names, as maintained by the nominalists.

Realist (n.) An artist or writer who aims at realism in his work. See Realism, 2.

Realistic (a.) Of or pertaining to the realists; in the manner of the realists; characterized by realism rather than by imagination.

Realistically (adv.) In a realistic manner.

Realities (pl. ) of Reality

Reality (n.) The state or quality of being real; actual being or existence of anything, in distinction from mere appearance; fact.

Reality (n.) That which is real; an actual existence; that which is not imagination, fiction, or pretense; that which has objective existence, and is not merely an idea.

Reality (n.) Loyalty; devotion.

Reality (n.) See 2d Realty, 2.

Realizable (a.) Capable of being realized.

Realization (n.) The act of realizing, or the state of being realized.

Realized (imp. & p. p.) of Realize

Realizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Realize

Realize (v. t.) To make real; to convert from the imaginary or fictitious into the actual; to bring into concrete existence; to effectuate; to accomplish; as, to realize a scheme or project.

Realize (v. t.) To cause to seem real; to impress upon the mind as actual; to feel vividly or strongly; to make one's own in apprehension or experience.

Realize (v. t.) To convert into real property; to make real estate of; as, to realize his fortune.

Realize (v. t.) To acquire as an actual possession; to obtain as the result of plans and efforts; to gain; to get; as, to realize large profits from a speculation.

Realize (v. t.) To convert into actual money; as, to realize assets.

Realize (v. i.) To convert any kind of property into money, especially property representing investments, as shares in stock companies, bonds, etc.

Realizer (n.) One who realizes.

Realizing (a.) Serving to make real, or to impress on the mind as a reality; as, a realizing view of the danger incurred.

Reallege (v. t.) To allege again.

Realliance (n.) A renewed alliance.

Re-ally (v. t.) To bring together again; to compose or form anew.

Really (adv.) Royally.

Really (adv.) In a real manner; with or in reality; actually; in truth.

Realm (n.) A royal jurisdiction or domain; a region which is under the dominion of a king; a kingdom.

Realm (n.) Hence, in general, province; region; country; domain; department; division; as, the realm of fancy.

Realmless (a.) Destitute of a realm.

Realness (n.) The quality or condition of being real; reality.

Realty (n.) Royalty.

Realty (n.) Loyalty; faithfulness.

Realty (n.) Reality.

Realty (n.) Immobility, or the fixed, permanent nature of real property; as, chattels which savor of the realty; -- so written in legal language for reality.

Realty (n.) Real estate; a piece of real property.

Ream (n.) Cream; also, the cream or froth on ale.

Ream (v. i.) To cream; to mantle.

Ream (v. t.) To stretch out; to draw out into thongs, threads, or filaments.

Ream (n.) A bundle, package, or quantity of paper, usually consisting of twenty quires or 480 sheets.

Reamed (imp. & p. p.) of Ream

Reaming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ream

Ream (v. t.) To bevel out, as the mouth of a hole in wood or metal; in modern usage, to enlarge or dress out, as a hole, with a reamer.

Reame (n.) Realm.

Reamer (n.) One who, or that which, reams; specifically, an instrument with cutting or scraping edges, used, with a twisting motion, for enlarging a round hole, as the bore of a cannon, etc.

Reamputation (n.) The second of two amputations performed upon the same member.

Reanimate (v. t.) To animate anew; to restore to animation or life; to infuse new life, vigor, spirit, or courage into; to revive; to reinvigorate; as, to reanimate a drowned person; to reanimate disheartened troops; to reanimate languid spirits.

Reanimation (n.) The act or operation of reanimating, or the state of being reanimated; reinvigoration; revival.

Reannex (v. t.) To annex again or anew; to reunite.

Reannexation (n.) Act of reannexing.

Reanswer (v. t. & i.) To answer in return; to repay; to compensate; to make amends for.

Reaped (imp. & p. p.) of Reap

Reaping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reap

Reap (v. t.) To cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting.

Reap (v. t.) To gather; to obtain; to receive as a reward or harvest, or as the fruit of labor or of works; -- in a good or a bad sense; as, to reap a benefit from exertions.

Reap (v. t.) To clear of a crop by reaping; as, to reap a field.

Reap (v. t.) To deprive of the beard; to shave.

Reap (v. i.) To perform the act or operation of reaping; to gather a harvest.

Reap (v.) A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.

Reaper (n.) One who reaps.

Reaper (n.) A reaping machine.

Reapparel (v. t.) To clothe again.

Reappear (v. i.) To appear again.

Reappearance (n.) A second or new appearance; the act or state of appearing again.

Reapplication (n.) The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.

Reapply (v. t. & i.) To apply again.

Reappoint (v. t.) To appoint again.

Reappointment (n.) The act of reappointing, or the state of being reappointed.

Reapportion (v. t.) To apportion again.

Reapportionment (n.) A second or a new apportionment.

Reapproach (v. i. & t.) To approach again or anew.

Rear (adv.) Early; soon.

Rear (n.) The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last in order; -- opposed to front.

Rear (n.) Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.

Rear (a.) Being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost; as, the rear rank of a company.

Rear (v. t.) To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.

Reared (imp. & p. p.) of Rear

Rearing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rear

Rear (v. t.) To raise; to lift up; to cause to rise, become erect, etc.; to elevate; as, to rear a monolith.

Rear (v. t.) To erect by building; to set up; to construct; as, to rear defenses or houses; to rear one government on the ruins of another.

Rear (v. t.) To lift and take up.

Rear (v. t.) To bring up to maturity, as young; to educate; to instruct; to foster; as, to rear offspring.

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