Webster's Dictionary 1913

811

Reaccuse

Re′ac‐cuse″ (rē′ăk‐kūz″), v. t. To accuse again.

812

Reach

Reach (rēch), v. i. To retch. Cheyne.

813

Reach (2)

Reach, n. An effort to vomit.

814

Reach (3)

Reach, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Reached (rēcht) (Raught, the old preterit, is obsolete); p. pr. & vb. n.Reaching.] [OE. rechen, AS. rǣcan, rǣcean, to extend, stretch out; akin to D. r...

815

Reach (4)

Reach, v. i. 1. To stretch out the hand.Goddess humane, reach, then, and freely taste! Milton.2. To strain after something; to make efforts.Reaching above our nature does no goo...

816

Reach (5)

Reach, n. 1. The act of stretching or extending; extension; power of reaching or touching with the person, or a limb, or something held or thrown; as, the fruit is beyond my rea...

817

Reachable

Reach″a‐ble (–ȧ‐b'l), a. Being within reach.

818

Reacher

Reach″er (–ẽr), n. 1. One who reaches.2. An exaggeration. Fuller.

819

Reachless

Reach″less, a. Being beyond reach; lofty.Unto a reachless pitch of praises hight. Bp. Hall.

820

React

Re‐act″ (rē‐ăkt″), v. t. To act or perform a second time; to do over again; as, to react a play; the same scenes were reacted at Rome.

821

React (2)

Re‐act″ (rē̍‐ăkt″), v. i. 1. To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force; as, every body reacts on the body that impels it from...

822

Reactance

Re‐act″ance (?), n. [React + -ance.] (Elec.) The influence of a coil of wire upon an alternating current passing through it, tending to choke or diminish the current, or the sim...

823

Reactance coil

Reactance coil(Elec.) A choking coil.

824

Reaction

Re‐ac″tion (rē̍‐ăk″shŭn), n. [Cf. F. réaction.] 1. Any action in resisting other action or force; counter tendency; movement in a contrary direction; reverse action.2. (Chem.) T...

825

Reaction (2)

Re‐ac″tion, n.(Psycophysics) A regular or characteristic response to a stimulation of the nerves.

826

Reactionary

Re‐ac″tion‐a‐ry (–ā̍‐ry̆), a. Being, causing, or favoring reaction; as, reactionary movements.

827

Reactionary (2)

Re‐ac″tion‐a‐ry, n.; pl.Reactionaries (–rĭz). One who favors reaction, or seeks to undo political progress or revolution.

828

Reactionist

Re‐ac″tion‐ist, n. A reactionary. C. Kingsley.

829

Reactive

Re‐act″ive (rē̍‐ăkt″ĭv), a. [Cf. F. réactif.] Having power to react; tending to reaction; of the nature of reaction. — Re‐act″ive‐ly, adv. — Re‐act″ive‐ness, n.

830

Reactor

Re‐act″or, n.(Elec.) A choking coil.

831

Read

Read (rēd), n. Rennet. See 3d Reed.

832

Read (2)

Read (rēd), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Read (rĕd); p. pr. & vb. n.Reading.] [OE. reden, ræden, AS. rǣdan to read, advise, counsel, fr. rǣd advice, counsel, rǣdan (imperf. reord) to advi...

833

Read (3)

Read, v. i. 1. To give advice or counsel.2. To tell; to declare. Spenser.3. To perform the act of reading; to peruse, or to go over and utter aloud, the words of a book or other...

834

Read (4)

Read, n. [AS. rǣd counsel, fr. rǣdan to counsel. See Read, v. t.] 1. Saying; sentence; maxim; hence, word; advice; counsel. See Rede.2. [Read, v.] Reading. Hume.One newswoman he...

835

Read (5)

Read (rĕd), imp. & p. p. of Read, v. t. & i.

836

Read (6)

Read (rĕd), a. Instructed or knowing by reading; versed in books; learned.A poet... well read in Longinus. Addison.

837

Readability

Read′a‐bil″i‐ty (rēd′ȧ‐bĭl″ĭ‐ty̆), n. The state of being readable; readableness.