Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter R - Page 28

Reexchange (v. t.) To exchange anew; to reverse (a previous exchange).

Reexchange (n.) A renewed exchange; a reversal of an exchange.

Reexchange (n.) The expense chargeable on a bill of exchange or draft which has been dishonored in a foreign country, and returned to the country in which it was made or indorsed, and then taken up.

Reexhibit (v. t.) To exhibit again.

Reexpel (v. t.) To expel again.

Reexperience (n.) A renewed or repeated experience.

Reexport (v. t.) To export again, as what has been imported.

Reexport (n.) Any commodity reexported; -- chiefly in the plural.

Reexportation (n.) The act of reexporting, or of exporting an import.

Reexpulsion (n.) Renewed or repeated expulsion.

Reezed (a.) Grown rank; rancid; rusty.

Refaction (n.) Recompense; atonement; retribution.

Refar (v. t.) To go over again; to repeat.

Refashion (v. t.) To fashion anew; to form or mold into shape a second time.

Refashionment (n.) The act of refashioning, or the state of being refashioned.

Refasten (v. t.) To fasten again.

Refect (v. t.) To restore after hunger or fatigue; to refresh.

Refection (n.) Refreshment after hunger or fatigue; a repast; a lunch.

Refective (a.) Refreshing; restoring.

Refective (n.) That which refreshes.

Refectories (pl. ) of Refectory

Refectory (n.) A room for refreshment; originally, a dining hall in monasteries or convents.

Refel (v. t.) To refute; to disprove; as, to refel the tricks of a sophister.

Referred (imp. & p. p.) of Refer

Referring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Refer

Refer (v. t.) To carry or send back.

Refer (v. t.) Hence: To send or direct away; to send or direct elsewhere, as for treatment, aid, information, decision, etc.; to make over, or pass over, to another; as, to refer a student to an author; to refer a beggar to an officer; to refer a bill to a committee; a court refers a matter of fact to a commissioner for investigation, or refers a question of law to a superior tribunal.

Refer (v. t.) To place in or under by a mental or rational process; to assign to, as a class, a cause, source, a motive, reason, or ground of explanation; as, he referred the phenomena to electrical disturbances.

Refer (v. i.) To have recourse; to apply; to appeal; to betake one's self; as, to refer to a dictionary.

Refer (v. i.) To have relation or reference; to relate; to point; as, the figure refers to a footnote.

Refer (v. i.) To carry the mind or thought; to direct attention; as, the preacher referred to the late election.

Refer (v. i.) To direct inquiry for information or a guarantee of any kind, as in respect to one's integrity, capacity, pecuniary ability, and the like; as, I referred to his employer for the truth of his story.

Referable (a.) Capable of being referred, or considered in relation to something else; assignable; ascribable.

Referee (n.) One to whom a thing is referred; a person to whom a matter in dispute has been referred, in order that he may settle it.

Reference (n.) The act of referring, or the state of being referred; as, reference to a chart for guidance.

Reference (n.) That which refers to something; a specific direction of the attention; as, a reference in a text-book.

Reference (n.) Relation; regard; respect.

Reference (n.) One who, or that which, is referred to.

Reference (n.) One of whom inquires can be made as to the integrity, capacity, and the like, of another.

Reference (n.) A work, or a passage in a work, to which one is referred.

Reference (n.) The act of submitting a matter in dispute to the judgment of one or more persons for decision.

Reference (n.) The process of sending any matter, for inquiry in a cause, to a master or other officer, in order that he may ascertain facts and report to the court.

Reference (n.) Appeal.

Referendary (n.) One to whose decision a cause is referred; a referee.

Referendary (n.) An officer who delivered the royal answer to petitions.

Referendary (n.) Formerly, an officer of state charged with the duty of procuring and dispatching diplomas and decrees.

Referendum (n.) A diplomatic agent's note asking for instructions from his government concerning a particular matter or point.

Referendum (n.) The right to approve or reject by popular vote a meassure passed upon by a legislature.

Referential (a.) Containing a reference; pointing to something out of itself; as, notes for referential use.

Referment (n.) The act of referring; reference.

Re-ferment (v. t. & i.) To ferment, or cause to ferment, again.

Referrer (n.) One who refers.

Referrible (a.) Referable.

Refigure (v. t.) To figure again.

Refill (v. t. & i.) To fill, or become full, again.

Refind (v. t.) To find again; to get or experience again.

Refined (imp. & p. p.) of Refine

Refining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Refine

Refine (v. t.) To reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities; to free from dross or alloy; to separate from extraneous matter; to purify; to defecate; as, to refine gold or silver; to refine iron; to refine wine or sugar.

Refine (v. t.) To purify from what is gross, coarse, vulgar, inelegant, low, and the like; to make elegant or exellent; to polish; as, to refine the manners, the language, the style, the taste, the intellect, or the moral feelings.

Refine (v. i.) To become pure; to be cleared of feculent matter.

Refine (v. i.) To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence.

Refine (v. i.) To affect nicety or subtilty in thought or language.

Refined (a.) Freed from impurities or alloy; purifed; polished; cultured; delicate; as; refined gold; refined language; refined sentiments.

Refinement (n.) The act of refining, or the state of being refined; as, the refinement or metals; refinement of ideas.

Refinement (n.) That which is refined, elaborated, or polished to excess; an affected subtilty; as, refinements of logic.

Refiner (n.) One who, or that which, refines.

Refineries (pl. ) of Refinery

Refinery (n.) The building and apparatus for refining or purifying, esp. metals and sugar.

Refinery (n.) A furnace in which cast iron is refined by the action of a blast on the molten metal.

Refit (v. t.) To fit or prepare for use again; to repair; to restore after damage or decay; as, to refit a garment; to refit ships of war.

Refit (v. t.) To fit out or supply a second time.

Refit (v. i.) To obtain repairs or supplies; as, the fleet returned to refit.

Refitment (n.) The act of refitting, or the state of being refitted.

Refix (v. t.) To fix again or anew; to establish anew.

Reflame (v. i.) To kindle again into flame.

Reflected (imp. & p. p.) of Reflect

Reflecting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reflect

Reflect (v.) To bend back; to give a backwa/d turn to; to throw back; especially, to cause to return after striking upon any surface; as, a mirror reflects rays of light; polished metals reflect heat.

Reflect (v.) To give back an image or likeness of; to mirror.

Reflect (v. i.) To throw back light, heat, or the like; to return rays or beams.

Reflect (v. i.) To be sent back; to rebound as from a surface; to revert; to return.

Reflect (v. i.) To throw or turn back the thoughts upon anything; to contemplate. Specifically: To attend earnestly to what passes within the mind; to attend to the facts or phenomena of consciousness; to use attention or earnest thought; to meditate; especially, to think in relation to moral truth or rules.

Reflect (v. i.) To cast reproach; to cause censure or dishonor.

Reflected (a.) Thrown back after striking a surface; as, reflected light, heat, sound, etc.

Reflected (a.) Hence: Not one's own; received from another; as, his glory was reflected glory.

Reflected (a.) Bent backward or outward; reflexed.

Reflectent (a.) Bending or flying back; reflected.

Reflectent (a.) Reflecting; as, a reflectent body.

Reflectible (a.) Capable of being reflected, or thrown back; reflexible.

Reflecting (a.) Throwing back light, heat, etc., as a mirror or other surface.

Reflecting (a.) Given to reflection or serious consideration; reflective; contemplative; as, a reflecting mind.

Reflectingly (adv.) With reflection; also, with censure; reproachfully.

Reflection (n.) The act of reflecting, or turning or sending back, or the state of being reflected.

Reflection (n.) The return of rays, beams, sound, or the like, from a surface. See Angle of reflection, below.

Reflection (n.) The reverting of the mind to that which has already occupied it; continued consideration; meditation; contemplation; hence, also, that operation or power of the mind by which it is conscious of its own acts or states; the capacity for judging rationally, especially in view of a moral rule or standard.

Reflection (n.) Shining; brightness, as of the sun.

Reflection (n.) That which is produced by reflection.

Reflection (n.) An image given back from a reflecting surface; a reflected counterpart.

Reflection (n.) A part reflected, or turned back, at an angle; as, the reflection of a membrane.

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