Chapter 1308

The honor done to our religion ultimately redounds to God, the author of it. Rogers.

both . . . will devour great quantities of paper, there will no small use redound from them to that manufacture. Addison.

2. To be in excess; to remain over and above; to be redundant; to overflow.

For every dram of honey therein found, A pound of gall doth over it redound . Spenser.

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Re*dound" , n. 1. The coming back, as of consequence or effect; result; return; requital.

We give you welcome; not without redound Of use and glory to yourselves ye come. Tennyson.

2. Rebound; reverberation. [R.]

Codrington.

Redowa <Xpage=1204>

Red"ow*a (r?d"?*?) , n. [F., fr. Bohemian.] A Bohemian dance of two kinds, one in triple time, like a waltz, the other in two-four time, like a polka. The former is most in use.

Redpole <Xpage=1204>

Red"pole` (r?d"p?l`) , n. (Zo\'94l.) Same as Redpoll .

Redpoll <Xpage=1204>

Red"poll` (-p?l`) , n. (Zo\'94l.) (a) Any one of several species of small northern finches of the genus Acanthis (formerly \'92giothus ), native of Europe and America. The adults have the crown red or rosy. The male of the most common species ( A. linarius ) has also the breast and rump rosy. Called also redpoll linnet . See Illust . under Linnet . (b) The common European linnet. (c) The American redpoll warbler ( Dendroica palmarum ).

Redraft <Xpage=1204>

Re*draft" (r&emac;*dr&adot;ft") , v. t. To draft or draw anew.

Redraft <Xpage=1204>

Re*draft" , n. 1. A second draft or copy.

2. (Com.) A new bill of exchange which the holder of a protected bill draws on the drawer or indorsers, in order to recover the amount of the protested bill with costs and charges.

Redraw <Xpage=1204>

Re*draw" (r?*dr?") , v. t. [ imp. Redrew (-dr?") ; p. p. Redrawn (-dr\'b5n") ; p. pr. & vb. n. Redrawing .] To draw again; to make a second draft or copy of; to redraft.

Redraw <Xpage=1204>

Re*draw" , v. i. (Com.) To draw a new bill of exchange, as the holder of a protested bill, on the drawer or indorsers.

Redress <Xpage=1204>

Re*dress" (r?*dr?s") , v. t. [Pref. re- + dress .] To dress again.

Redress <Xpage=1204>

Re*dress" (r?*dr?s") , v. t. [F. redresser to straighten; pref. re- re- + dresser to raise, arrange. See Dress. ]

1. To put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise. [R.]

The common profit could she redress . Chaucer.

In yonder spring of roses intermixed With myrtle, find what to redress till noon. Milton.

Your wish that I should redress a certain paper which you had prepared. A. Hamilton.

2. To set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an injury; to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.

Those wrongs, those bitter injuries, . . . I doubt not but with honor to redress . Shak.

3. To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon. "'T is thine, O king! the afflicted to redress ."

Dryden.

Will Gaul or Muscovite redress ye ? Byron.

Redress <Xpage=1204>

Re*dress" , n. 1. The act of redressing; a making right; reformation; correction; amendment. [R.]

Reformation of evil laws is commendable, but for us the more necessary is a speedy redress of ourselves. Hooker.

2. A setting right, as of wrong, injury, or opression; as, the redress of grievances ; hence, relief; remedy; reparation; indemnification.

Shak.

A few may complain without reason; but there is occasion for redress when the cry is universal. Davenant.

3. One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.

Fair majesty, the refuge and redress Of those whom fate pursues and wants oppress. Dryden.

Redressal <Xpage=1204>

Re*dress"al (r?*dr?s" a l) , n. Redress.

Redresser <Xpage=1204>

Re*dress"er (-?r) , n. One who redresses.

Redressible <Xpage=1204>

Re*dress"i*ble (-?*b'l) , a. Such as may be redressed.

Redressive <Xpage=1204>

Re*dress"ive (-?v) , a. Tending to redress.

Thomson.

Redressless <Xpage=1204>

Re*dress"less , a. Not having redress; such as can not be redressed; irremediable.

Sherwood.

Redressment <Xpage=1204>

Re*dress"ment (-m e nt) , n. [Cf. F. redressement .] The act of redressing; redress.

Jefferson.

Red-riband <Xpage=1204>

Red"-rib`and (r?d"r?b` a nd) , n. (Zo\'94l.) The European red band fish, or fireflame. See Rend fish .

Redroot <Xpage=1204>

Red"root` (r?d"r?t`) , n. (Bot.) A name of several plants having red roots, as the New Jersey tea (see under Tea ), the gromwell, the bloodroot, and the Lachnanthes tinctoria , an endogenous plant found in sandy swamps from Rhode Island to Florida.

Redsear <Xpage=1204>

Red`sear" (r?d`s?r") , v. i. To be brittle when red-hot; to be red-short.

Moxon.

Redshank <Xpage=1204>

Red"shank` (r?d"sh?nk`) , n. 1. (Zo\'94l.) (a) A common Old World limicoline bird ( Totanus calidris ), having the legs and feet pale red. The spotted redshank ( T. fuscus ) is larger, and has orange-red legs. Called also redshanks , redleg , and clee . (b) The fieldfare.

2. A bare-legged person; -- a contemptuous appellation formerly given to the Scotch Highlanders, in allusion to their bare legs.

Spenser.

Red-short <Xpage=1204>

Red"-short` (-sh?rt`) , a. (Metal.) Hot-short; brittle when red-hot; -- said of certain kinds of iron. -- Red"-short`ness , n.

Redskin <Xpage=1204>

Red"skin` (-sk?n`) , n. A common appellation for a North American Indian; -- so called from the color of the skin.

Cooper.

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Redstart <Xpage=1204>

Red"start` (-st?rt`) , n. [ Red + start tail.] (Zo\'94l.) (a) A small, handsome European singing bird ( Ruticilla ph\'d2nicurus ), allied to the nightingale; -- called also redtail , brantail , fireflirt , firetail . The black redstart is P.tithys . The name is also applied to several other species of Ruticilla amnd allied genera, native of India. (b) An American fly-catching warbler ( Setophaga ruticilla ). The male is black, with large patches of orange-red on the sides, wings, and tail. The female is olive, with yellow patches.

Redstreak <Xpage=1204>

Red"streak` (-str?k`) , n. 1. A kind of apple having the skin streaked with red and yellow, -- a favorite English cider apple.

Mortimer.

2. Cider pressed from redstreak apples.

Redtail <Xpage=1204>

Red"tail` (-t?l`) , n. (Zo\'94l.) (a) The red-tailed hawk. (b) The European redstart.

Red-tailed <Xpage=1204>

Red"-tailed` (-t?ld`) , a. Having a red tail.

Red-tailed hawk (Zo\'94l.) , a large North American hawk ( Buteo borealis ). When adult its tail is chestnut red. Called also hen hawck , and red-tailed buzzard .

Red-tape <Xpage=1204>

Red"-tape` (-t?p`) , a. Pertaining to, or characterized by, official formality. See Red tape , under Red , a.

Red-tapism <Xpage=1204>

Red`-tap"ism (r?d`t?p"?z'm) , n. Strict adherence to official formalities.

J. C. Shairp.

Red-tapist <Xpage=1204>

Red`-tap"ist , n. One who is tenacious of a strict adherence to official formalities.

Ld. Lytton.

Redthroat <Xpage=1204>

Red"throat` (r?d"thr?t`) , n. (Zo\'94l.) A small Australian singing bird ( Phyrrhol\'91mus brunneus ). The upper parts are brown, the center of the throat red.

Redtop <Xpage=1204>

Red"top` (-t?p`) , n. (Bot.) A kind of grass ( Agrostis vulgaris ) highly valued in the United States for pasturage and hay for cattle; -- called also English grass , and in some localities herd's grass . See Illustration in Appendix. The tall redtop is Triodia seslerioides .

Redub <Xpage=1204>

Re*dub" (r?*d?b") , v. t. [F. radouber to refit or repair.] To refit; to repair, or make reparation for; hence, to repay or requite. [Obs.]

It shall be good that you redub that negligence. Wyatt.

God shall give power to redub it with some like requital to the French . Grafton.

Reduce <Xpage=1204>

Re*duce" (r&esl;*d&umac;s") , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Reduced (-d&umac;st") ,; p. pr. & vb. n. Reducing (-d&umac;"s&icr;ng) .] [L. reducere , reductum ; pref. red- . re- , re- + ducere to lead. See Duke , and cf. Redoubt , n. ] 1. To bring or lead back to any former place or condition. [Obs.]

And to his brother's house reduced his wife. Chapman.

The sheep must of necessity be scattered, unless the great Shephered of souls oppose, or some of his delegates reduce and direct us. Evelyn.

2. To bring to any inferior state, with respect to rank, size, quantity, quality, value, etc.; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; to impair; as, to reduce a sergeant to the ranks; to reduce a drawing; to reduce expenses; to reduce the intensity of heat . "An ancient but reduced family."

Sir W. Scott.

Nothing so excellent but a man may fasten upon something belonging to it, to reduce it. Tillotson.

Having reduced Their foe to misery beneath their fears. Milton.

Hester Prynne was shocked at the condition to which she found the clergyman reduced . Hawthorne.

3. To bring to terms; to humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture; as, to reduce a province or a fort .

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4. To bring to a certain state or condition by grinding, pounding, kneading, rubbing, etc.; as, to reduce a substance to powder, or to a pasty mass; to reduce fruit, wood, or paper rags, to pulp.

It were but right And equal to reduce me to my dust. Milton.

5. To bring into a certain order, arrangement, classification, etc.; to bring under rules or within certain limits of descriptions and terms adapted to use in computation; as, to reduce animals or vegetables to a class or classes; to reduce a series of observations in astronomy; to reduce language to rules.

6. (Arith.) (a) To change, as numbers, from one denomination into another without altering their value, or from one denomination into others of the same value; as, to reduce pounds, shillings, and pence to pence, or to reduce pence to pounds; to reduce days and hours to minutes, or minutes to days and hours. (b) To change the form of a quantity or expression without altering its value; as, to reduce fractions to their lowest terms, to a common denominator, etc.

7. (Chem.) To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from their ores ; -- opposed to oxidize .

8. (Med.) To restore to its proper place or condition, as a displaced organ or part; as, to reduce a dislocation, a fracture, or a hernia .

Reduced iron (Chem.) , metallic iron obtained through deoxidation of an oxide of iron by exposure to a current of hydrogen or other reducing agent. When hydrogen is used the product is called also iron by hydrogen . -- To reduce an equation (Alg.) , to bring the unknown quantity by itself on one side, and all the known quantities on the other side, without destroying the equation. -- To reduce an expression (Alg.) , to obtain an equivalent expression of simpler form. -- To reduce a square (Mil.) , to reform the line or column from the square.

Syn. -- To diminish; lessen; decrease; abate; shorten; curtail; impair; lower; subject; subdue; subjugate; conquer.

Reducement <Xpage=1205>

Re*duce"ment (r?*d?s"m e nt) , n. Reduction.

Milton.

Reducent <Xpage=1205>

Re*du"cent (r?*d?"s e nt) , a. [L. reducens , p. pr. of reducere .] Tending to reduce. -- n. A reducent agent.

Reducer <Xpage=1205>

Re*du"cer (-s?r) , n. One who, or that which, reduces.

Reducible <Xpage=1205>

Re*du"ci*ble (-s?*b'll) , a. Capable of being reduced.

Reducibleness <Xpage=1205>

Re*du"ci*ble*ness , n. Quality of being reducible.

Reducing <Xpage=1205>

Re*du"cing (r?*d?"s?ng) , a & n. from Reduce .

Reducing furnace (Metal.) , a furnace for reducing ores. -- Reducing pipe fitting , a pipe fitting, as a coupling, an elbow, a tee, etc., for connecting a large pipe with a smaller one. -- Reducing valve , a device for automatically maintaining a diminished pressure of steam, air, gas, etc., in a pipe, or other receiver, which is fed from a boiler or pipe in which the pressure is higher than is desired in the receiver.

Reduct <Xpage=1205>

Re*duct" (r?*d?kt") , v. t.. [L. reductus , p. p. of reducere . See Reduce .] To reduce. [Obs.]

W. Warde.

Reductibility <Xpage=1205>

Re*duc`ti*bil"i*ty (r?*d?k`t?*b?l"?*t?) , n. The quality of being reducible; reducibleness.

Reduction <Xpage=1205>

Re*duc"tion (r?*d?k"sh?n) , n. [F. r\'82duction , L. reductio . See Reduce .] 1. The act of reducing, or state of being reduced; conversion to a given state or condition; diminution; conquest; as, the reduction of a body to powder; the reduction of things to order; the reduction of the expenses of government; the reduction of a rebellious province.

2. (Arith. & Alq.) The act or process of reducing. See Reduce , v. t. , 6. and To reduce an equation , To reduce an expression , under Reduce , v. t.

3. (Astron.) (a) The correction of observations for known errors of instruments, etc. (b) The preparation of the facts and measurements of observations in order to deduce a general result.

4. The process of making a copy of something, as a figure, design, or draught, on a smaller scale, preserving the proper proportions.

Fairholt.

5. (Logic) The bringing of a syllogism in one of the so-called imperfect modes into a mode in the first figure.

6. (Chem. & Metal.) The act, process, or result of reducing; as, the reduction of iron from its ores; the reduction of aldehyde from alcohol .

7. (Med.) The operation of restoring a dislocated or fractured part to its former place.

Reduction ascending (Arith.) , the operation of changing numbers of a lower into others of a higher denomination, as cents to dollars. -- Reduction descending (Arith.) , the operation of changing numbers of a higher into others of a lower denomination, as dollars to cents.

Syn. -- Diminution; decrease; abatement; curtailment; subjugation; conquest; subjection.

Reductive <Xpage=1205>

Re*duc"tive (-t?v) , a. [Cf. F. r\'82ductif .] Tending to reduce; having the power or effect of reducing. -- n. A reductive agent.

Sir M. Hale.

Reductively <Xpage=1205>

Re*duc"tive*ly , adv. By reduction; by consequence.

R\'82duit <Xpage=1205>

R\'82`duit" (r?`dw?") , n. [F. See Redoubt , n. ] (Fort.) A central or retired work within any other work.

Redundance rdnd a ns, Redundancy <Xpage=1205>

Re*dun"dance (r?*d?n"d a ns) , Re*dun"dan*cy (-d a n*s?) , n. [L. redundantia : cf. F. redondance .]

1. The quality or state of being redundant; superfluity; superabundance; excess.

2. That which is redundant or in excess; anything superfluous or superabundant.

Labor . . . throws off redundacies . Addison.

3. (Law) Surplusage inserted in a pleading which may be rejected by the court without impairing the validity of what remains.

Redundant <Xpage=1205>

Re*dun"dant (-d a nt) , a. [L. redundans , -antis , p. pr. of redundare : cf. F. redondant . See Redound .] 1. Exceeding what is natural or necessary; superabundant; exuberant; as, a redundant quantity of bile or food .

Notwithstanding the redundant oil in fishes, they do not increase fat so much as flesh. Arbuthnot.

2. Using more worrds or images than are necessary or useful; pleonastic.

Where an suthor is redundant , mark those paragraphs to be retrenched. I. Watts.

Syn. -- Superfluous; superabundant; excessive; exuberant; overflowing; plentiful; copious.

Redundantly <Xpage=1205>

Re*dun"dant*ly (r?*d?n"d a nt*l?) , adv. In a refundant manner.

Reduplicate <Xpage=1205>

Re*du"pli*cate (r?*d?"pl?*k?t) , a. [Pref. re- + duplicate : cf. L. reduplicatus . Cf. Redouble .] 1. Double; doubled; reduplicative; repeated.

2. (Bot.) Valvate with the margins curved outwardly; -- said of the <?/stivation of certain flowers.

Reduplicate <Xpage=1205>

Re*du"pli*cate (-k?t) , v. t. [Cf. LL. reduplicare .]

1. To redouble; to multiply; to repeat.

2. (Gram.) To repeat the first letter or letters of (a word). See Reduplication , 3 .

Reduplication <Xpage=1205>

Re*du`pli*ca"tion (-k?sh?n) , n. [Cf. F. r\'82duplication , L. reduplicatio repetition.] 1. The act of doubling, or the state of being doubled.

2. (Pros.) A figure in which the first word of a verse is the same as the last word of the preceding verse.

3. (Philol.) The doubling of a stem or syllable (more or less modified), with the effect of changing the time expressed, intensifying the meaning, or making the word more imitative; also, the syllable thus added; as, L . te tuli; po posci.

Reduplica-tive <Xpage=1205>

Re*du"pli*ca-tive (-k?*t?v) , a. [Cf. F. r\'82duplicatif .] Double; formed by reduplication; reduplicate.

I. Watts.

Reduvid <Xpage=1205>

Red"u*vid (r?d"?*v?d) , n. [L. reduvia a hangnail.] (Zo\'94l.) Any hemipterous insect of the genus Redivius , or family Reduvid\'91 . They live by sucking the blood of other insects, and some species also attack man.

Redweed <Xpage=1205>

Red"weed` (r&ecr;d"w&emac;d`) , n. (Bot.) The red poppy ( Papaver Rh\'d2as ).

Dr. Prior.

Redwing <Xpage=1205>