READING
RE'ADING, participle present tense1. Pronouncing or perusing written or printed words or characters of a book or writing.2. Discovering by marks; understanding.RE'ADING, noun1. ...
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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READJOURN
READJOURN', verb transitive [re and adjourn.]1. To adjourn a second time.2. To cite or summon again. [Not used.]
READJUST
READJUST', verb transitive [re and adjust.] To settle again; to put in order again what had been discomposed.
READJUSTED
READJUST'ED, participle passive Adjusted again; resettled.
READJUSTING
READJUST'ING, participle present tense Adjusting again.
READJUSTMENT
READJUST'MENT, noun A second adjustment.
READMISSION
READMIS'SION, noun [re and admission.] The act of admitting again what had been excluded; as the readmission of fresh air into an exhausted receiver; the readmission of a studen...
READMIT
READMIT', verb transitive [re and admit.] To admit again.Whose ear is ever open and his eye gracious to readmit the suppliant.
READMITTANCE
READMIT'TANCE, noun A second admittance; allowance to enter again.
READOPT
READOPT', verb transitive [re and adopt.] To adopt again.
READORN
READORN', verb transitive To adorn anew; to decorate a second time.
READVERTENCY
READVERT'ENCY, noun [re and advertency.] The act of reviewing.
READY
READY, adjective red'y. [Eng. to rid; redo, ready; rida, to ride; bereda, to prepare. Gr. easy. The primary sense is to go, move, or advance forward, and it seems to be clear th...
REAFFIRM
REAFFIRM', verb transitive [re and affirm.] To affirm a second time.
REAFFIRMANCE
REAFFIRM'ANCE, noun A second confirmation.
REAGENT
REA'GENT, noun [re and agent.] In chimistry, a substance employed to precipitate another in solution, or to detect the ingredients of a mixture.Bergman reckons barytic muriate t...
REAGGRAVATION
REAGGRAVA'TION, noun [re and aggravation.]In the Romish ecclesiastical law, the last monitory, published after three admonitions and before the last excommunication. Before they...
REAK
REAK, noun A rush. [Not in use.]
REAL
RE'AL, adjective [Low Latin realis. The Latin res and Eng. thing coincide exactly with the Heb. a word, a thing, an event. See Read and Thing.]1. Actually being or existing; not...
REALGAR
RE'ALGAR, nounA combination of sulphur and arsenic; red sulphuret of arsenic. realgar differs from orpiment in having undergone a greater degree of heat.
REALIST
RE'ALIST, noun A scholastic philosopher, who maintains that things and not words, are the objects of dialectics; opposed to nominal or nominalist.RE'AL, noun A small Spanish coi...
REALITY
REAL'ITY, noun1. Actual being or existence of any thing; truth; fact; in distinction from mere appearance.A man may fancy he understands a critic, when in reality he does not co...
REALIZATION
REALIZA'TION, noun [from realize.]1. The act of realizing or making real.2. The act of converting money into land.3. The act of believing or considering as real.4. The act of br...
REALIZE
RE'ALIZE, verb transitive1. To bring into being or act; as, to realize a scheme or project.We realize what Archimedes had only in hypothesis, weighing a single grain of sand aga...
REALIZED
RE'ALIZED, participle passive Brought into actual being; converted into real estate; impressed, received or treated as a reality; felt in its true force; rendered actual, tangib...
REALIZING
RE'ALIZING, participle present tense1. Bringing into actual being; converting into real estate; impressing as a reality; feeling as one's own or in its real force; rendering tan...
REALLEDGE
REALLEDGE, verb transitive reallej'. [re and alledge.] To alledge again.