Webster's Dictionary 1828

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RECURRENCE

RECUR'RENCE,RECUR'RENCY, noun [See Recur.]1. Return; as the recurrence of error.2. Resort; the having recourse.

893

RECURRENCY

RECUR'RENCY, n. [See Recur.]1. Return; as the recurrence of error.2. Resort; the having recourse.

894

RECURRENT

RECUR'RENT, adjective [Latin recurrens.1. Returning from time to time; as recurrent pains of a disease.2. In crystallography, a recurrent crystal is one whose faces, being count...

895

RECURSION

RECUR'SION, noun [Latin recursus, recurro; re and curro, to run.] Return. [Little used.]

896

RECURVATE

RECURV'ATE, verb transitive [Latin recurro; re and curvo, to bend.] To bend back.RECURV'ATE, adjective1. In botany, bent, bowed or curved downwards; as a recurvate leaf.2. Bent ...

897

RECURVATION

RECURVA'TION,RECURVE, verb transitive recurv'. [Latin recurvo, supra.] To bend back.

898

RECURVED

RECURV'ED, participle passive Bent back or downwards; as a recurved leaf.

899

RECURVIROSTER

RECURV'IROSTER, noun [Latin recurvus, bent back, and rostrum, a beak.]A fowl whose beak or bill bends upwards, as the avoset.

900

RECURVITY

RECURV'ITY, noun A bending or flexure backwards.

901

RECURVOUS

RECURV'OUS, adjective [Latin recurvus.] Bent backwards.

902

RECUSANCY

RECU'SANCY, noun Non-conformity. [See Recusant.]

903

RECUSANT

RECU'SANT, adjective s as z. [Latin recusans, recuso, to refuse; re and the root of causa, signifying to drive. The primary sense is to repel or drive back.]Refusing to acknowle...

904

RECUSATION

RECUSA'TION, noun [Latin recusatio.]1. Refusal.2. In law, the act of refusing a judge, or challenging that he shall not try the cause, on account of his supposed partiality. [Th...

905

RECUSE

RECU'SE, verb transitive s as z. [Latin recuso.] To refuse or reject, as a judge; to challenge that the judge shall not try the cause. [The practice and the word are obsolete.]

906

RED

RED, adjective [Gr red and a rose, from its color. Heb. to descend, to bring down. Latin gradior, also to correct, to teach, erudio.]Of a bright color, resembling blood. red is ...

907

RED-BERRIED

RED'-BERRIED, adjective Having or bearing red berries; as red-berried shrub cassia.

908

RED-BIRD

RED-BIRD, noun The popular name of several birds in the United States, as the Tanagra aestiva or summer red-bird the Tanagra rubra, and the Baltimore oriole or hangnest.

909

RED-CHALK

RED-CHALK, noun A kind of clay ironstone; reddle.RED'-COAT, noun A name given to a soldier who wears a red coat.

910

RED-HOT

RED'-HOT, noun Red with heat; heated to redness; as red-hot iron; red-hot balls.

911

RED-LED

RED'-LED, nounred-led [red and lead.] Minium, or red oxyd of lead, composed of 88 parts of lead and 12 of oxygen.

912

REDACT

REDACT', verb transitive [Latin redactus, redigo; red, re, and ago.]To force; to reduce to form. [Not used.]

913

REDAN

RED'AN, noun [written sometimes redent and redens; said to be contracted from Latin recedens. Lunier.]In fortification, a work indented, or formed with salient and re-entering a...

914

REDARGUE

RED'ARGUE, verb transitive [Latin redarguo; red, re, and arguo.] To refute. [Not in use.]

915

REDARGUTION

REDARGU'TION, noun [supra.] Refutation; conviction. [Not in use.]

916

REDBREAST

RED'BREAST, noun A bird so called from the color of its breast, a species of Motacilla. In America, this name is given to the robin, so called, a species of Turdus.

917

REDBUD

RED'BUD, noun A plant or tree of the genus Cercis.

918

REDDEN

REDDEN, verb transitive red'n. [from red.] To make red.REDDEN, verb intransitive red'n.1. To grow or become red.- The coral redden and the ruby glow.2. To blush.Appius reddens a...