AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
recriminatory: having the quality of recrimination; retorting accusation; recriminating.
recrudescency: the state or condition of being recrudescent.-increased severity of a disease after temporary remission.
recrudescent: growing raw, sore, or painful again.-breaking out again after temporary abatement or supression; as, a recrudescent epidemic.
recruit: to repair by fresh supplies, as anything wasted; to remedy lack or deficiency in; as, food recruits the flesh; fresh air and exercise recruit the spirits.-hence, to restore the wasted vigor of; to renew in strength or health; to reinvigorate.-to supply with new men, as an army; to fill up or make up by enlistment; as, he recruited two regiments; the army was recruited for a campaign; also, to muster; to enlist; as, he recruited fifty men.-to gain new supplies of anything wasted; to gain health, flesh, spirits, or the like; to recuperate; as, lean cattle recruit in fresh pastures.-to gain new supplies of men for military or other service; to raise or enlist new soldiers; to enlist troops.-a supply of anything wasted or exhausted; a reenforcement.-specifically, a man enlisted for service in the army; a newly enlisted soldier.
recruitment: the act or process of recruiting; especially, the enlistment of men for an army.
rectangle: a four-sided figure having only right angles; a right-angled parallelogram.-rectangular.
recti-: a combining form signifying straight; as, rectilineal, having straight lines; rectinerved.
rectifiable: capable of being rectified; as, a rectifiable mistake.-admitting, as a curve, of the construction of a straight l//e equal in length to any definite portion of the curve.
rectification: the act or operation of rectifying; as, the rectification of an error; the rectification of spirits.-the determination of a straight line whose length is equal a portion of a curve.
rectificator: that which rectifies or refines; esp., a part of a distilling apparatus in which the more volatile portions are separated from the less volatile by the process of evaporation and condensation; a rectifier.
rectifier: one who, or that which, rectifies.-specifically: (a) (naut.) an instrument used for determining and rectifying the variations of the compass on board ship. (b) (chem.) a rectificator.
rectify: to make or set right; to correct from a wrong, erroneous, or false state; to amend; as, to rectify errors, mistakes, or abuses; to rectify the will, the judgment, opinions; to rectify disorders.-to refine or purify by repeated distillation or sublimation, by which the fine parts of a substance are separated from the grosser; as, to rectify spirit of wine.-to produce ( as factitious gin or brandy) by redistilling low wines or ardent spirits (whisky, rum, etc.), flavoring substances, etc., being added.
rectilinear: straight; consisting of a straight line or lines; bounded by straight lines; as, a rectineal angle; a rectilinear figure or course.
rectiserial: arranged in exactly vertical ranks, as the leaves on stems of many kinds; -- opposed to curviserial.
rectitude: straightness.-rightness of principle or practice; exact conformity to truth, or to the rules prescribed for moral conduct, either by divine or human laws; uprightness of mind; uprightness; integrity; honesty; justice.-right judgment.
recto-: a combining form indicating connection with, or relation to, the rectum; as, recto-vesical.
recto-uterine: of or pertaining to both the rectum and the uterus.
rector: a ruler or governor.-a clergyman who has the charge and cure of a parish, and has the tithes, etc.; the clergyman of a parish where the tithes are not impropriate. see the note under vicar.-a clergyman in charge of a parish.-the head master of a public school.-the chief elective officer of some universities, as in france and scotland; sometimes, the head of a college; as, the rector of exeter college, or of lincoln college, at oxford.-the superior officer or chief of a convent or religious house; and among the jesuits the superior of a house that is a seminary or college.
rectory: the province of a rector; a parish church, parsonage, or spiritual living, with all its rights, tithes, and glebes.-a rector's mansion; a parsonage house.
rectrix: a governess; a rectoress.-one of the quill feathers of the tail of a bird.
rectum: the terminal part of the large intestine; -- so named because supposed by the old anatomists to be straight. see illust. under digestive.
recumbence: the act of leaning, resting, or reclining; the state of being recumbent.
recumbent: leaning; reclining; lying; as, the recumbent posture of the romans at their meals. hence, figuratively; resting; inactive; idle.
recuperate: to recover health; to regain strength; to convalesce.-to recover; to regain; as, to recuperate the health or strength.
recur: to come back; to return again or repeatedly; to come again to mind.-to occur at a stated interval, or according to some regular rule; as, the fever will recur to-night.-to resort; to have recourse; to go for help.
recure: to arrive at; to reach; to attain.-to recover; to regain; to repossess.-to restore, as from weariness, sickness; or the like; to repair.-to be a cure for; to remedy.-cure; remedy; recovery.
recurrency: the act of recurring, or state of being recurrent; return; resort; recourse.
recurrent: returning from time to time; recurring; as, recurrent pains.-running back toward its origin; as, a recurrent nerve or artery.
recurvation: the act of recurving, or the state of being recurved; a bending or flexure backward.
recurved: curved in an opposite or uncommon direction; bent back; as, a bird with a recurved bill; flowers with recurved petals.
recusant: obstinate in refusal; specifically, in english history, refusing to acknowledge the supremacy of the king in the churc, or to conform to the established rites of the church; as, a recusant lord.-one who is obstinate in refusal; one standing out stubbornly against general practice or opinion.-a person who refuses to acknowledge the supremacy of the king in matters of religion; as, a roman catholic recusant, who acknowledges the supremacy of the pope.-one who refuses communion with the church of england; a nonconformist.
recusation: refusal.-the act of refusing a judge or challenging that he shall not try the cause, on account of his supposed partiality.
recuse: to refuse or reject, as a judge; to challenge that the judge shall not try the cause.
red: . imp. & p. p. of read.-to put on order; to make tidy; also, to free from entanglement or embarrassement; -- generally with up; as, to red up a house.-of the color of blood, or of a tint resembling that color; of the hue of that part of the rainbow, or of the solar spectrum, which is furthest from the violet part.-the color of blood, or of that part of the spectrum farthest from violet, or a tint resembling these.-a red pigment.-an abbreviation for red republican. see under red, a.-the menses.
red-gum: an eruption of red pimples upon the face, neck, and arms, in early infancy; tooth rash; strophulus.-a name of rust on grain. see rust.
red-handed: having hands red with blood; in the very act, as if with red or bloody hands; -- said of a person taken in the act of homicide; hence, fresh from the commission of crime; as, he was taken red-hand or red-handed.
red-hot: red with heat; heated to redness; as, red-hot iron; red-hot balls. hence, figuratively, excited; violent; as, a red-hot radical.
red-riband: the european red band fish, or fireflame. see rend fish.
red-short: hot-short; brittle when red-hot; -- said of certain kinds of iron.
red-tape: pertaining to, or characterized by, official formality. see red tape, under red, a.
red-tapist: one who is tenacious of a strict adherence to official formalities.
redact: to reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape (matter for publication); to edit.
redan: a work having two parapets whose faces unite so as to form a salient angle toward the enemy.-a step or vertical offset in a wall on uneven ground, to keep the parts level.
redargue: to disprove; to refute; toconfute; to reprove; to convict.
redbird: the cardinal bird.-the summer redbird (piranga rubra).-the scarlet tanager. see tanager.
redbreast: the european robin.-the american robin. see robin.-the knot, or red-breasted snipe; -- called also robin breast, and robin snipe. see knot.-the long-eared pondfish. see pondfish.
redbud: a small ornamental leguminous tree of the american species of the genus cercis. see judas tree, under judas.
redcap: the european goldfinch.-a specter having long teeth, popularly supposed to haunt old castles in scotland.
redcoat: one who wears a red coat; specifically, a red-coated british soldier.
redden: to make red or somewhat red; to give a red color to.-to grow or become red; to blush.
reddendum: a clause in a deed by which some new thing is reserved out of what had been granted before; the clause by which rent is reserved in a lease.
redditive: answering to an interrogative or inquiry; conveying a reply; as, redditive words.
rede: to advise or counsel.-to interpret; to explain.-advice; counsel; suggestion.-a word or phrase; a motto; a proverb; a wise saw.
redeem: to purchase back; to regain possession of by payment of a stipulated price; to repurchase.-to recall, as an estate, or to regain, as mortgaged property, by paying what may be due by force of the mortgage.-to regain by performing the obligation or condition stated; to discharge the obligation mentioned in, as a promissory note, bond, or other evidence of debt; as, to redeem bank notes with coin.-to ransom, liberate, or rescue from captivity or bondage, or from any obligation or liability to suffer or to be forfeited, by paying a price or ransom; to ransom; to rescue; to recover; as, to redeem a captive, a pledge, and the like.-hence, to rescue and deliver from the bondage of sin and the penalties of god's violated law.-to make good by performing fully; to fulfill; as, to redeem one's promises.-to pay the penalty of; to make amends for; to serve as an equivalent or offset for; to atone for; to compensate; as, to redeem an error.
redeemable: capable of being redeemed; subject to repurchase; held under conditions permitting redemption; as, a pledge securing the payment of money is redeemable.-subject to an obligation of redemtion; conditioned upon a promise of redemtion; payable; due; as, bonds, promissory notes, etc. , redeemabble in gold, or in current money, or four months after date.
redeemableness: the quality or state of being redeemable; redeemability.
redeemer: one who redeems.-specifically, the savior of the world, jesus christ.
redeliver: to deliver or give back; to return.-to deliver or liberate a second time or again.-to report; to deliver the answer of.
redemand: to demand back; to demand again.-a demanding back; a second or renewed demand.
redemise: to demise back; to convey or transfer back, as an estate.-the transfer of an estate back to the person who demised it; reconveyance; as, the demise and redemise of an estate. see under demise.
redemptioner: one who redeems himself, as from debt or servitude.-formerly, one who, wishing to emigrate from europe to america, sold his services for a stipulated time to pay the expenses of his passage.
redemptionist: a monk of an order founded in 1197; -- so called because the order was especially devoted to the redemption of christians held in captivity by the mohammedans. called also trinitarian.
redemptive: serving or tending to redeem; redeeming; as, the redemptive work of christ.
redemptorist: one of the congregation of the most holy redeemer, founded in naples in 1732 by st. alphonsus maria de liquori. it was introduced onto the united states in 1832 at detroit. the fathers of the congregation devote themselves to preaching to the neglected, esp. in missions and retreats, and are forbidden by their rule to engage in the instruction of youth.
redeye: the rudd.-same as redfish (d).-the goggle-eye, or fresh-water rock bass.
redfin: a small north american dace (minnilus cornutus, or notropis megalops). the male, in the breeding season, has bright red fins. called also red dace, and shiner. applied also to notropis ardens, of the mississippi valley.
redfish: the blueback salmon of the north pacific; -- called also nerka. see blueback (b).-the rosefish.-a large california labroid food fish (trochocopus pulcher); -- called also fathead.-the red bass, red drum, or drumfish. see the note under drumfish.
redhead: a person having red hair.-an american duck (aythya americana) highly esteemed as a game bird. it is closely allied to the canvasback, but is smaller and its head brighter red. called also red-headed duck. american poachard, grayback, and fall duck. see illust. under poachard.-the red-headed woodpecker. see woodpecker.-a kind of milkweed (asclepias curassavica) with red flowers. it is used in medicine.
redhibition: the annulling of a sale, and the return by the buyer of the article sold, on account of some defect.
redhibitory: of or pertaining to redhibition; as, a redhibitory action or fault.
redhorn: any species of a tribe of butterflies (fugacia) including the common yellow species and the cabbage butterflies. the antennae are usually red.
redia: a kind of larva, or nurse, which is prroduced within the sporocyst of certain trematodes by asexual generation. it in turn produces, in the same way, either another generation of rediae, or else cercariae within its own body. called also proscolex, and nurse. see illustration in appendix.
redintegrate: restored to wholeness or a perfect state; renewed.-to make whole again; a renew; to restore to integrity or soundness.
redintegration: restoration to a whole or sound state; renewal; renovation.-restoration of a mixed body or matter to its former nature and state.-the law that objects which have been previously combined as part of a single mental state tend to recall or suggest one another; -- adopted by many philosophers to explain the phenomena of the association of ideas.
redirect: applied to the examination of a witness, by the party calling him, after the cross-examination.
redispose: to dispose anew or again; to readjust; to rearrange.
redisseizin: a disseizin by one who once before was adjudged to have dassezed the same person of the same lands, etc.; also, a writ which lay in such a case.
redmouth: any one of several species of marine food fishes of the genus diabasis, or haemulon, of the southern united states, having the inside of the mouth bright red. called also flannelmouth, and grunt.
redolency: the quality of being redolent; sweetness of scent; pleasant odor; fragrance.
redolent: diffusing odor or fragrance; spreading sweet scent; scented; odorous; smelling; -- usually followed by of.
redouble: to double again or repeatedly; to increase by continued or repeated additions; to augment greatly; to multiply.-to become greatly or repeatedly increased; to be multiplied; to be greatly augmented; as, the noise redoubles.
redoubt: a small, and usually a roughly constructed, fort or outwork of varying shape, commonly erected for a temporary purpose, and without flanking defenses, -- used esp. in fortifying tops of hills and passes, and positions in hostile territory.-in permanent works, an outwork placed within another outwork. see f and i in illust. of ravelin.-to stand in dread of; to regard with fear; to dread.
redoubtable: formidable; dread; terrible to foes; as, a redoubtable hero; hence, valiant; -- often in contempt or burlesque.
redound: to roll back, as a wave or flood; to be sent or driven back; to flow back, as a consequence or effect; to conduce; to contribute; to result.-to be in excess; to remain over and above; to be redundant; to overflow.-the coming back, as of consequence or effect; result; return; requital.-rebound; reverberation.
redowa: 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.
redpoll: any one of several species of small northern finches of the genus acanthis (formerly aegiothus), 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.-the common european linnet.-the american redpoll warbler (dendroica palmarum).
redraft: to draft or draw anew.-a second draft or copy.-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: to draw again; to make a second draft or copy of; to redraft.-to draw a new bill of exchange, as the holder of a protested bill, on the drawer or indorsers.
redress: to dress again.-to put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise.-to set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an injury; to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.-to make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon.-the act of redressing; a making right; reformation; correction; amendment.-a setting right, as of wrong, injury, or opression; as, the redress of grievances; hence, relief; remedy; reparation; indemnification.-one who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.
redressless: not having redress; such as can not be redressed; irremediable.
redroot: 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.
redshank: 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.-the fieldfare.-a bare-legged person; -- a contemptuous appellation formerly given to the scotch highlanders, in allusion to their bare legs.
redskin: a common appellation for a north american indian; -- so called from the color of the skin.
redstart: a small, handsome european singing bird (ruticilla phoenicurus), 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.-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: a kind of apple having the skin streaked with red and yellow, -- a favorite english cider apple.-cider pressed from redstreak apples.
redthroat: a small australian singing bird (phyrrholaemus brunneus). the upper parts are brown, the center of the throat red.
redtop: 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: to refit; to repair, or make reparation for; hence, to repay or requite.
reduce: to bring or lead back to any former place or condition.-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.-to bring to terms; to humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture; as, to reduce a province or a fort.-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.-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.-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.-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.-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.-to restore to its proper place or condition, as a displaced organ or part; as, to reduce a dislocation, a fracture, or a hernia.
reduction: 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.-the act or process of reducing. see reduce, v. t., 6. and to reduce an equation, to reduce an expression, under reduce, v. t.-the correction of observations for known errors of instruments, etc.-the preparation of the facts and measurements of observations in order to deduce a general result.-the process of making a copy of something, as a figure, design, or draught, on a smaller scale, preserving the proper proportions.-the bringing of a syllogism in one of the so-called imperfect modes into a mode in the first figure.-the act, process, or result of reducing; as, the reduction of iron from its ores; the reduction of aldehyde from alcohol.-the operation of restoring a dislocated or fractured part to its former place.
reductive: tending to reduce; having the power or effect of reducing.-a reductive agent.
redundancy: the quality or state of being redundant; superfluity; superabundance; excess.-that which is redundant or in excess; anything superfluous or superabundant.-surplusage inserted in a pleading which may be rejected by the court without impairing the validity of what remains.
redundant: exceeding what is natural or necessary; superabundant; exuberant; as, a redundant quantity of bile or food.-using more worrds or images than are necessary or useful; pleonastic.
reduplicate: double; doubled; reduplicative; repeated.-valvate with the margins curved outwardly; -- said of the /stivation of certain flowers.-to redouble; to multiply; to repeat.-to repeat the first letter or letters of (a word). see reduplication, 3.
reduplication: the act of doubling, or the state of being doubled.-a figure in which the first word of a verse is the same as the last word of the preceding verse.-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. tetuli; poposci.
reduvid: any hemipterous insect of the genus redivius, or family reduvidae. they live by sucking the blood of other insects, and some species also attack man.
redwing: a european thrush (turdus iliacus). its under wing coverts are orange red. called also redwinged thrush. (b) a north american passerine bird (agelarius ph/niceus) of the family icteridae. the male is black, with a conspicuous patch of bright red, bordered with orange, on each wing. called also redwinged blackbird, red-winged troupial, marsh blackbird, and swamp blackbird.
redwithe: a west indian climbing shrub (combretum jacquini) with slender reddish branchlets.
redwood: a gigantic coniferous tree (sequoia sempervirens) of california, and its light and durable reddish timber. see sequoia.-an east indian dyewood, obtained from pterocarpus santalinus, caesalpinia sappan, and several other trees.
reecho: to echo back; to reverberate again; as, the hills reecho the roar of cannon.-to give echoes; to return back, or be reverberated, as an echo; to resound; to be resonant.-the echo of an echo; a repeated or second echo.