Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter R - Page 43

Repellent (a.) Driving back; able or tending to repel.

Repellent (n.) That which repels.

Repellent (n.) A remedy to repel from a tumefied part the fluids which render it tumid.

Repellent (n.) A kind of waterproof cloth.

Repeller (n.) One who, or that which, repels.

Repent (a.) Prostrate and rooting; -- said of stems.

Repent (a.) Same as Reptant.

Repented (imp. & p. p.) of Repent

Repenting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Repent

Repent (v. i.) To feel pain, sorrow, or regret, for what one has done or omitted to do.

Repent (v. i.) To change the mind, or the course of conduct, on account of regret or dissatisfaction.

Repent (v. i.) To be sorry for sin as morally evil, and to seek forgiveness; to cease to love and practice sin.

Repent (v. t.) To feel pain on account of; to remember with sorrow.

Repent (v. t.) To feel regret or sorrow; -- used reflexively.

Repent (v. t.) To cause to have sorrow or regret; -- used impersonally.

Repentance (n.) The act of repenting, or the state of being penitent; sorrow for what one has done or omitted to do; especially, contrition for sin.

Repentant (a.) Penitent; sorry for sin.

Repentant (a.) Expressing or showing sorrow for sin; as, repentant tears; repentant ashes.

Repentant (n.) One who repents, especially one who repents of sin; a penitent.

Repentantly (adv.) In a repentant manner.

Repenter (n.) One who repents.

Repentingly (adv.) With repentance; penitently.

Repentless (a.) Unrepentant.

Repeople (v. t.) To people anew.

Reperception (n.) The act of perceiving again; a repeated perception of the same object.

Repercussed (imp. & p. p.) of Repercuss

Repercussing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Repercuss

Repercuss (v. t.) To drive or beat back; hence, to reflect; to reverberate.

Repercussion (n.) The act of driving back, or the state of being driven back; reflection; reverberation; as, the repercussion of sound.

Repercussion (n.) Rapid reiteration of the same sound.

Repercussion (n.) The subsidence of a tumor or eruption by the action of a repellent.

Repercussion (n.) In a vaginal examination, the act of imparting through the uterine wall with the finger a shock to the fetus, so that it bounds upward, and falls back again against the examining finger.

Repercussive (a.) Tending or able to repercuss; having the power of sending back; causing to reverberate.

Repercussive (a.) Repellent.

Repercussive (a.) Driven back; rebounding; reverberated.

Repercussive (n.) A repellent.

Repertitious (a.) Found; gained by finding.

Repertoire (n.) A list of dramas, operas, pieces, parts, etc., which a company or a person has rehearsed and is prepared to perform.

Repertory (n.) A place in which things are disposed in an orderly manner, so that they can be easily found, as the index of a book, a commonplace book, or the like.

Repertory (n.) A treasury; a magazine; a storehouse.

Repertory (n.) Same as Repertoire.

Reperusal (n.) A second or repeated perusal.

Reperuse (v. t.) To peruse again.

Repetend (n.) That part of a circulating decimal which recurs continually, ad infinitum: -- sometimes indicated by a dot over the first and last figures; thus, in the circulating decimal .728328328 + (otherwise .7/8/), the repetend is 283.

Repetition (n.) The act of repeating; a doing or saying again; iteration.

Repetition (n.) Recital from memory; rehearsal.

Repetition (n.) The act of repeating, singing, or playing, the same piece or part a second time; reiteration of a note.

Repetition (n.) Reiteration, or repeating the same word, or the same sense in different words, for the purpose of making a deeper impression on the audience.

Repetition (n.) The measurement of an angle by successive observations with a repeating instrument.

Repetitional (a.) Alt. of Repetitionary

Repetitionary (a.) Of the nature of, or containing, repetition.

Repetitioner (n.) One who repeats.

Repetitious (a.) Repeating; containing repetition.

Repetitive (a.) Containing repetition; repeating.

Repetitor (n.) A private instructor.

Repine (v. i.) To fail; to wane.

Repine (v. i.) To continue pining; to feel inward discontent which preys on the spirits; to indulge in envy or complaint; to murmur.

Repine (n.) Vexation; mortification.

Repiner (n.) One who repines.

Repiningly (adv.) With repening or murmuring.

Repkie (n.) Any edible sea urchin.

Replace (v. t.) To place again; to restore to a former place, position, condition, or the like.

Replace (v. t.) To refund; to repay; to restore; as, to replace a sum of money borrowed.

Replace (v. t.) To supply or substitute an equivalent for; as, to replace a lost document.

Replace (v. t.) To take the place of; to supply the want of; to fulfull the end or office of.

Replace (v. t.) To put in a new or different place.

Replaceability (n.) The quality, state, or degree of being replaceable.

Replaceable (a.) Capable or admitting of being put back into a place.

Replaceable (a.) Admitting of having its place supplied by a like thing or an equivalent; as, the lost book is replaceable.

Replaceable (a.) Capable of being replaced (by), or of being exchanged (for); as, the hydrogen of acids is replaceable by metals or by basic radicals.

Replacement (n.) The act of replacing.

Replacement (n.) The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes.

Replait (v. t.) To plait or fold again; to fold, as one part over another, again and again.

Replant (v. t.) To plant again.

Replantable (a.) That may be planted again.

Replantation (n.) The act of planting again; a replanting.

Replead (v. t. & i.) To plead again.

Repleader (n.) A second pleading, or course of pleadings; also, the right of pleading again.

Replenished (imp. & p. p.) of Replenish

Replenishing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Replenish

Replenish (v. t.) To fill again after having been diminished or emptied; to stock anew; hence, to fill completely; to cause to abound.

Replenish (v. t.) To finish; to complete; to perfect.

Replenish (v. i.) To recover former fullness.

Replenisher (n.) One who replenishes.

Replenishment (n.) The act of replenishing, or the state of being replenished.

Replenishment (n.) That which replenishes; supply.

Replete (a.) Filled again; completely filled; full; charged; abounding.

Replete (v. t.) To fill completely, or to satiety.

Repleteness (n.) The state of being replete.

Repletion (n.) The state of being replete; superabundant fullness.

Repletion (n.) Fullness of blood; plethora.

Repletive (a.) Tending to make replete; filling.

Repletory (a.) Repletive.

Repleviable (a.) Capable of being replevied.

Replevin (n.) A personal action which lies to recover possession of goods and chattle wrongfully taken or detained. Originally, it was a remedy peculiar to cases for wrongful distress, but it may generally now be brought in all cases of wrongful taking or detention.

Replevin (n.) The writ by which goods and chattels are replevied.

Replevin (v. t.) To replevy.

Replevisable (a.) Repleviable.

Replevied (imp. & p. p.) of Replevy

Replevying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Replevy

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