Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter R - Page 41

Reneved (imp. & p. p.) of Renew

Renewing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Renew

Renew (v. t.) To make new again; to restore to freshness, perfection, or vigor; to give new life to; to rejuvenate; to re/stablish; to recreate; to rebuild.

Renew (v. t.) Specifically, to substitute for (an old obligation or right) a new one of the same nature; to continue in force; to make again; as, to renew a lease, note, or patent.

Renew (v. t.) To begin again; to recommence.

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

Renew (v. t.) To make new spiritually; to regenerate.

Renew (v. i.) To become new, or as new; to grow or begin again.

Renewability (n.) The quality or state of being renewable.

Renewable (a.) Capable of being renewed; as, a lease renewable at pleasure.

Renewal (n.) The act of renewing, or the state of being renewed; as, the renewal of a treaty.

Renewedly (adv.) Again; once more.

Renewedness (n.) The state of being renewed.

Renewer (n.) One who, or that which, renews.

Reneye (v. t.) To deny; to reject; to renounce.

Reng (n.) A rank; a row.

Reng (n.) A rung or round of a ladder.

Renidification (n.) The act of rebuilding a nest.

Reniform (a.) Having the form or shape of a kidney; as, a reniform mineral; a reniform leaf.

Renitence (n.) Alt. of Renitency

Renitency (n.) The state or quality of being renitent; resistance; reluctance.

Renitent (a.) Resisting pressure or the effect of it; acting against impulse by elastic force.

Renitent (a.) Persistently opposed.

Renne (v. t.) To plunder; -- only in the phrase "to rape and renne." See under Rap, v. t., to snatch.

Renne (v. i.) To run.

Renner (n.) A runner.

Rennet (n.) A name of many different kinds of apples. Cf. Reinette.

Rennet (v.) The inner, or mucous, membrane of the fourth stomach of the calf, or other young ruminant; also, an infusion or preparation of it, used for coagulating milk.

Renneted (a.) Provided or treated with rennet.

Renneting (n.) Same as 1st Rennet.

Rennin (n.) A milk-clotting enzyme obtained from the true stomach (abomasum) of a suckling calf. Mol. wt. about 31,000. Also called chymosin, rennase, and abomasal enzyme.

Renning (n.) See 2d Rennet.

Renomee (n.) Renown.

Renounced (imp. & p. p.) of Renounce

Renouncing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Renounce

Renounce (v. t.) To declare against; to reject or decline formally; to refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one; to disclaim; as, to renounce a title to land or to a throne.

Renounce (v. t.) To cast off or reject deliberately; to disown; to dismiss; to forswear.

Renounce (v. t.) To disclaim having a card of (the suit led) by playing a card of another suit.

Renounce (v. i.) To make renunciation.

Renounce (v. i.) To decline formally, as an executor or a person entitled to letters of administration, to take out probate or letters.

Renounce (n.) Act of renouncing.

Renouncement (n.) The act of disclaiming or rejecting; renunciation.

Renouncer (n.) One who renounces.

Renovate (v. t.) To make over again; to restore to freshness or vigor; to renew.

Renovation (n.) The act or process of renovating; the state of being renovated or renewed.

Renovator (n.) One who, or that which, renovates.

Renovel (v. t.) To renew; to renovate.

Renovelance (n.) Renewal.

Renowme (n.) Renown.

Renowmed (a.) Renowned.

Renown (v.) The state of being much known and talked of; exalted reputation derived from the extensive praise of great achievements or accomplishments; fame; celebrity; -- always in a good sense.

Renown (v.) Report of nobleness or exploits; praise.

Renown (v. t.) To make famous; to give renown to.

Renowned (a.) Famous; celebrated for great achievements, for distinguished qualities, or for grandeur; eminent; as, a renowned king.

Renownedly (adv.) With renown.

Renowner (n.) One who gives renown.

Renownful (a.) Having great renown; famous.

Renownless (a.) Without renown; inglorius.

Rensselaerite (n.) A soft, compact variety of talc,, being an altered pyroxene. It is often worked in a lathe into inkstands and other articles.

Rent (v. i.) To rant.

Rent () imp. & p. p. of Rend.

Rent (n.) An opening made by rending; a break or breach made by force; a tear.

Rent (n.) Figuratively, a schism; a rupture of harmony; a separation; as, a rent in the church.

Rent (v. t.) To tear. See Rend.

Rent (n.) Income; revenue. See Catel.

Rent (n.) Pay; reward; share; toll.

Rent (n.) A certain periodical profit, whether in money, provisions, chattels, or labor, issuing out of lands and tenements in payment for the use; commonly, a certain pecuniary sum agreed upon between a tenant and his landlord, paid at fixed intervals by the lessee to the lessor, for the use of land or its appendages; as, rent for a farm, a house, a park, etc.

Rented (imp. & p. p.) of Rent

Renting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rent

Rent (n.) To grant the possession and enjoyment of, for a rent; to lease; as, the owwner of an estate or house rents it.

Rent (n.) To take and hold under an agreement to pay rent; as, the tennant rents an estate of the owner.

Rent (v. i.) To be leased, or let for rent; as, an estate rents for five hundred dollars a year.

Rentable (a.) Capable of being rented, or suitable for renting.

Rentage (n.) Rent.

Rental (n.) A schedule, account, or list of rents, with the names of the tenants, etc.; a rent roll.

Rental (n.) A sum total of rents; as, an estate that yields a rental of ten thousand dollars a year.

Rente (n.) In France, interest payable by government on indebtedness; the bonds, shares, stocks, etc., which represent government indebtedness.

Renter (n.) One who rents or leases an estate; -- usually said of a lessee or tenant.

Rentered (imp. & p. p.) of Renter

Rentering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Renter

Renter (v. t.) To sew together so that the seam is scarcely visible; to sew up with skill and nicety; to finedraw.

Renter (v. t.) To restore the original design of, by working in new warp; -- said with reference to tapestry.

Renterer (n.) One who renters.

Rentier (n.) One who has a fixed income, as from lands, stocks, or the like.

Renumerate (v. t.) To recount.

Renunciation (n.) The act of renouncing.

Renunciation (n.) Formal declination to take out letters of administration, or to assume an office, privilege, or right.

Renunciatory (a.) Pertaining to renunciation; containing or declaring a renunciation; as, renunciatory vows.

Renverse (v. t.) To reverse.

Renverse (a.) Alt. of Renverse

Renverse (a.) Reversed; set with the head downward; turned contrary to the natural position.

Renversement (n.) A reversing.

Renvoy (v. t.) To send back.

Renvoy (n.) A sending back.

Reobtain (v. t.) To obtain again.

Reobtainable (a.) That may be reobtained.

Reoccupy (v. t.) To occupy again.

Reometer (n.) Same as Rheometer.

Reopen (v. t. & i.) To open again.

Reoppose (v. t.) To oppose again.

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