Reveille (n.) The beat of drum, or bugle blast, about break of day, to give notice that it is time for the soldiers to rise, and for the sentinels to forbear challenging.
Revel (n.) See Reveal.
Revel (v. i.) A feast with loose and noisy jollity; riotous festivity or merrymaking; a carousal.
Reveled (imp. & p. p.) of Revel
Revelled () of Revel
Reveling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Revel
Revelling () of Revel
Revel (v. i.) To feast in a riotous manner; to carouse; to act the bacchanalian; to make merry.
Revel (v. i.) To move playfully; to indulge without restraint.
Revel (v. t.) To draw back; to retract.
Revelate (v. t.) To reveal.
Revelation (n.) The act of revealing, disclosing, or discovering to others what was before unknown to them.
Revelation (n.) That which is revealed.
Revelation (n.) The act of revealing divine truth.
Revelation (n.) That which is revealed by God to man; esp., the Bible.
Revelation (n.) Specifically, the last book of the sacred canon, containing the prophecies of St. John; the Apocalypse.
Revelator (n.) One who makes a revelation; a revealer.
Reveler (n.) One who revels.
Revellent (v. t.) Causing revulsion; revulsive.
Revellent (n.) A revulsive medicine.
Revelment (n.) The act of reveling.
Revelous (a.) Fond of festivity; given to merrymaking or reveling.
Revel-rout (n.) Tumultuous festivity; revelry.
Revel-rout (n.) A rabble; a riotous assembly; a mob.
Revelry (n.) The act of engaging in a revel; noisy festivity; reveling.
Revendicated (imp. & p. p.) of Revendicate
Revendicating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Revendicate
Revendicate (v. t.) To reclaim; to demand the restoration of.
Revendication (n.) The act of revendicating.
Revenged (imp. & p. p.) of Revenge
Revenging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Revenge
Revenge (v. t.) To inflict harm in return for, as an injury, insult, etc.; to exact satisfaction for, under a sense of injury; to avenge; -- followed either by the wrong received, or by the person or thing wronged, as the object, or by the reciprocal pronoun as direct object, and a preposition before the wrong done or the wrongdoer.
Revenge (v. t.) To inflict injury for, in a spiteful, wrong, or malignant spirit; to wreak vengeance for maliciously.
Revenge (v. i.) To take vengeance; -- with
Revenge (n.) The act of revenging; vengeance; retaliation; a returning of evil for evil.
Revenge (n.) The disposition to revenge; a malignant wishing of evil to one who has done us an injury.
Revengeable (a.) Capable of being revenged; as, revengeable wrong.
Revengeance (n.) Vengeance; revenge.
Revengeful (a.) Full of, or prone to, revenge; vindictive; malicious; revenging; wreaking revenge.
Revengeless (a.) Unrevenged.
Revengement (n.) Revenge.
Revenger (n.) One who revenges.
Revenging (a.) Executing revenge; revengeful.
Revenue (n.) That which returns, or comes back, from an investment; the annual rents, profits, interest, or issues of any species of property, real or personal; income.
Revenue (n.) Hence, return; reward; as, a revenue of praise.
Revenue (n.) The annual yield of taxes, excise, customs, duties, rents, etc., which a nation, state, or municipality collects and receives into the treasury for public use.
Reverb (v. t.) To echo.
Reverberant (a.) Having the quality of reverberation; reverberating.
Reverberate (a.) Reverberant.
Reverberate (a.) Driven back, as sound; reflected.
Reverberated (imp. & p. p.) of Reverberate
Reverberating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reverberate
Reverberate (v. t.) To return or send back; to repel or drive back; to echo, as sound; to reflect, as light, as light or heat.
Reverberate (v. t.) To send or force back; to repel from side to side; as, flame is reverberated in a furnace.
Reverberate (v. t.) Hence, to fuse by reverberated heat.
Reverberate (v. i.) To resound; to echo.
Reverberate (v. i.) To be driven back; to be reflected or repelled, as rays of light; to be echoed, as sound.
Reverberation (n.) The act of reverberating; especially, the act of reflecting light or heat, or reechoing sound; as, the reverberation of rays from a mirror; the reverberation of rays from a mirror; the reverberation of voices; the reverberation of heat or flame in a furnace.
Reverberative (a.) Of the nature of reverberation; tending to reverberate; reflective.
Reverberator (n.) One who, or that which, produces reverberation.
Reverberatory (a.) Producing reverberation; acting by reverberation; reverberative.
Reverberatory (n.) A reverberatory furnace.
Reverdure (v. t.) To cover again with verdure.
Revered (imp. & p. p.) of Revere
Revering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Revere
Revere (v. t.) To regard with reverence, or profound respect and affection, mingled with awe or fear; to venerate; to reverence; to honor in estimation.
Reverence (n.) Profound respect and esteem mingled with fear and affection, as for a holy being or place; the disposition to revere; veneration.
Reverence (n.) The act of revering; a token of respect or veneration; an obeisance.
Reverence (n.) That which deserves or exacts manifestations of reverence; reverend character; dignity; state.
Reverence (n.) A person entitled to be revered; -- a title applied to priests or other ministers with the pronouns his or your; sometimes poetically to a father.
Reverenced (imp. & p. p.) of Reverence
Reverencing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reverence
Reverence (v. t.) To regard or treat with reverence; to regard with respect and affection mingled with fear; to venerate.
Reverencer (n.) One who regards with reverence.
Reverend (a.) Worthy of reverence; entitled to respect mingled with fear and affection; venerable.
Reverendly (adv.) Reverently.
Reverent (a.) Disposed to revere; impressed with reverence; submissive; humble; respectful; as, reverent disciples.
Reverent (a.) Expressing reverence, veneration, devotion, or submission; as, reverent words; reverent behavior.
Reverential (a.) Proceeding from, or expressing, reverence; having a reverent quality; reverent; as, reverential fear or awe.
Reverentially (adv.) In a reverential manner.
Reverently (adv.) In a reverent manner; in respectful regard.
Reverer (n.) One who reveres.
Reveries (pl. ) of Revery
Reverie (n.) Alt. of Revery
Revery (n.) A loose or irregular train of thought occurring in musing or mediation; deep musing; daydream.
Revery (n.) An extravagant conceit of the fancy; a vision.
Reversal (a.) Intended to reverse; implying reversal.
Reversal (n.) The act of reversing; the causing to move or face in an opposite direction, or to stand or lie in an inverted position; as, the reversal of a rotating wheel; the reversal of objects by a convex lens.
Reversal (n.) A change or overthrowing; as, the reversal of a judgment, which amounts to an official declaration that it is false; the reversal of an attainder, or of an outlawry, by which the sentence is rendered void.
Reverse (a.) Turned backward; having a contrary or opposite direction; hence; opposite or contrary in kind; as, the reverse order or method.
Reverse (a.) Turned upside down; greatly disturbed.
Reverse (a.) Reversed; as, a reverse shell.
Reverse (a.) That which appears or is presented when anything, as a lance, a line, a course of conduct, etc., is reverted or turned contrary to its natural direction.
Reverse (a.) That which is directly opposite or contrary to something else; a contrary; an opposite.
Reverse (a.) The act of reversing; complete change; reversal; hence, total change in circumstances or character; especially, a change from better to worse; misfortune; a check or defeat; as, the enemy met with a reverse.
Reverse (a.) The back side; as, the reverse of a drum or trench; the reverse of a medal or coin, that is, the side opposite to the obverse. See Obverse.
Reverse (a.) A thrust in fencing made with a backward turn of the hand; a backhanded stroke.
Reverse (a.) A turn or fold made in bandaging, by which the direction of the bandage is changed.
Reversed (imp. & p. p.) of Reverse
Reversing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reverse