Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter R - Page 48

Rescript (v. t.) A counterpart.

Rescription (n.) A writing back; the answering of a letter.

Rescriptive (a.) Pertaining to, or answering the purpose of, a rescript; hence, deciding; settling; determining.

Rescriptively (adv.) By rescript.

Rescuable (a.) That may be rescued.

Rescued (imp. & p. p.) of Rescue

Rescuing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rescue

Rescue (v. t.) To free or deliver from any confinement, violence, danger, or evil; to liberate from actual restraint; to remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil; as, to rescue a prisoner from the enemy; to rescue seamen from destruction.

Rescue (v.) The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence, or danger; liberation.

Rescue (v.) The forcible retaking, or taking away, against law, of things lawfully distrained.

Rescue (v.) The forcible liberation of a person from an arrest or imprisonment.

Rescue (v.) The retaking by a party captured of a prize made by the enemy.

Rescueless (a.) Without rescue or release.

Rescuer (n.) One who rescues.

Rescussee (n.) The party in whose favor a rescue is made.

Rescussor (n.) One who makes an unlawful rescue; a rescuer.

Rese (v. i.) To shake; to quake; to tremble.

Re-search (v. t.) To search again; to examine anew.

Research (n.) Diligent inquiry or examination in seeking facts or principles; laborious or continued search after truth; as, researches of human wisdom.

Research (v. t.) To search or examine with continued care; to seek diligently.

Researcher (n.) One who researches.

Researchful (a.) Making researches; inquisitive.

Reseat (v. t.) To seat or set again, as on a chair, throne, etc.

Reseat (v. t.) To put a new seat, or new seats, in; as, to reseat a theater; to reseat a chair or trousers.

Resected (imp. & p. p.) of Resect

Resecting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Resect

Resect (v. t.) To cut or pare off; to remove by cutting.

Resection (n.) The act of cutting or paring off.

Resection (n.) The removal of the articular extremity of a bone, or of the ends of the bones in a false articulation.

Reseda (n.) A genus of plants, the type of which is mignonette.

Reseda (n.) A grayish green color, like that of the flowers of mignonette.

Reseek (v. t.) To seek again.

Reseize (v. t.) To seize again, or a second time.

Reseize (v. t.) To put in possession again; to reinstate.

Reseize (v. t.) To take possession of, as lands and tenements which have been disseized.

Reseizer (n.) One who seizes again.

Reseizer (n.) The taking of lands into the hands of the king where a general livery, or oustre le main, was formerly mis-sued, contrary to the form and order of law.

Reseizure (n.) A second seizure; the act of seizing again.

Resell (v. t.) To sell again; to sell what has been bought or sold; to retail.

Resemblable (a.) Admitting of being compared; like.

Resemblance (n.) The quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity.

Resemblance (n.) That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness.

Resemblance (n.) A comparison; a simile.

Resemblance (n.) Probability; verisimilitude.

Resemblant (a.) Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling.

Resembled (imp. & p. p.) of Resemble

Resembling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Resemble

Resemble (v. t.) To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other.

Resemble (v. t.) To liken; to compare; to represent as like.

Resemble (v. t.) To counterfeit; to imitate.

Resemble (v. t.) To cause to imitate or be like.

Resembler (n.) One who resembles.

Resemblingly (adv.) So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.

Reseminate (v. t.) To produce again by means of seed.

Resend (v. t.) To send again; as, to resend a message.

Resend (v. t.) To send back; as, to resend a gift.

Resend (v. t.) To send on from an intermediate station by means of a repeater.

Resented (imp. & p. p.) of Resent

Resenting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Resent

Resent (v. t.) To be sensible of; to feel

Resent (v. t.) In a good sense, to take well; to receive with satisfaction.

Resent (v. t.) In a bad sense, to take ill; to consider as an injury or affront; to be indignant at.

Resent (v. t.) To express or exhibit displeasure or indignation at, as by words or acts.

Resent (v. t.) To recognize; to perceive, especially as if by smelling; -- associated in meaning with sent, the older spelling of scent to smell. See Resent, v. i.

Resent (v. i.) To feel resentment.

Resent (v. i.) To give forth an odor; to smell; to savor.

Resenter (n.) One who resents.

Resentful (a.) Inclined to resent; easily provoked to anger; irritable.

Resentiment (n.) Resentment.

Resentingly (adv.) With deep sense or strong perception.

Resentingly (adv.) With a sense of wrong or affront; with resentment.

Resentive (a.) Resentful.

Resentment (n.) The act of resenting.

Resentment (n.) The state of holding something in the mind as a subject of contemplation, or of being inclined to reflect upon something; a state of consciousness; conviction; feeling; impression.

Resentment (n.) In a good sense, satisfaction; gratitude.

Resentment (n.) In a bad sense, strong displeasure; anger; hostility provoked by a wrong or injury experienced.

Reserate (v. t.) To unlock; to open.

Reservance (n.) Reservation.

Reservation (n.) The act of reserving, or keeping back; concealment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve.

Reservation (n.) Something withheld, either not expressed or disclosed, or not given up or brought forward.

Reservation (n.) A tract of the public land reserved for some special use, as for schools, for the use of Indians, etc.

Reservation (n.) The state of being reserved, or kept in store.

Reservation (n.) A clause in an instrument by which some new thing is reserved out of the thing granted, and not in esse before.

Reservation (n.) A proviso.

Reservation (n.) The portion of the sacramental elements reserved for purposes of devotion and for the communion of the absent and sick.

Reservation (n.) A term of canon law, which signifies that the pope reserves to himself appointment to certain benefices.

Reservative (a.) Tending to reserve or keep; keeping; reserving.

Reservatory (v. t.) A place in which things are reserved or kept.

Reserved (imp. & p. p.) of Reserve

Reserving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reserve

Reserve (v. t.) To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose.

Reserve (v. t.) Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain.

Reserve (v. t.) To make an exception of; to except.

Reserve (n.) The act of reserving, or keeping back; reservation.

Reserve (n.) That which is reserved, or kept back, as for future use.

Reserve (n.) That which is excepted; exception.

Reserve (n.) Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior.

Reserve (n.) A tract of land reserved, or set apart, for a particular purpose; as, the Connecticut Reserve in Ohio, originally set apart for the school fund of Connecticut; the Clergy Reserves in Canada, for the support of the clergy.

Reserve (n.) A body of troops in the rear of an army drawn up for battle, reserved to support the other lines as occasion may require; a force or body of troops kept for an exigency.

Reserve (n.) Funds kept on hand to meet liabilities.

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