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olid bodies when they press upon, and are 

 impelled against, one another. 



REN'NET, ) From rinnen, nmnen, to co- 



RUN'NET. j agulate. 1. The gastric juice 

 and contents of the stomach of calves, 

 much employed, in preparing cheese, for 

 curdling the milk. 2. A variety of apple. 



RENT, Fr. rente, from rendre. At com- 

 mon law, rents are of three kinds : rent- 

 service, rent-charge, and rent-seek. The 

 rent-service is where some corporeal ser- 

 vice is incident to it, as by fealty and a 

 sum of money ; rent-charge is when the 

 owner of the rent has no future interest 

 in the land, but the rent is reserved in 

 the deed, by a clause of distress for rent 

 in arrear ; rent-seek (dry-rent) is rent re- 

 served by deed, but without any clause of 

 distress. There are also rents of assize, 

 certain established rents of freeholders 

 and copyholders of manors, which cannot 

 be varied ; called also quit-rents, and 

 when paid in silver, white-rents ; but if in 

 baser coin, black-rents. A. fee-farm rent is 

 a rent-charge issuing out of an estate in 

 fee, of atleast one-fourth the -value of the 

 lands at the time of reservation. Rack- 

 rent is the full value of the lands, &c 



RENVERSE'. In heraldry, inverted. Con- 

 trary to the natural position. 



REPEAT'. In music, a character or mark 

 directing a part to be repeated in per- 

 formance. 



REPEATING CIRCLE. An invention, by 

 Borda, for diminishing the effects of er- 

 rors of graduation in astronomical instru- 

 ments. 



REPEL'LING POWER. In physics, that 

 power inherent in the minute particles 

 of matter, by which, under certain cir- 

 cumstances, they recede from one ano- 

 ther : the reverse of the attractive power. 

 See REP0LSION. 



RE'PENT, Lat. repo, I .creep, in geology, 

 is used to signify creeping, and is applied 

 to animals which move close to the 

 ground. 



REP'ETEXD. In arithmetic, that part of 

 an indeterminate or infinite decimal 

 which is continually repeated ad infinitwn. 



REPLE'VIN, Low Lat. replegio. In law, 

 an action granted on a distress, by which 

 a person, whose cattle or goods are dis- 

 trained, has them returned to his own 

 possession, upon giving security to try 

 in a suit at law the right of taking ; and 

 if that should be determined against him, 

 to return the cattle or goods into the 

 possession of the distrainor. 



REPLICATION. In law, the plaintiff's 

 answer to the defendant's plea. 



REPORT'. In commercial navigation, a 

 paper delivered by the masters of ships 

 arriving from ports beyond seas to the 

 Custom-house, and attested upon oath, 

 containing an account of the cargo on 

 board, &c. 



REPO'SE, Lat. repono, I lie down. In 

 the fine arts, the absence of that agitation 

 which is induced by the subdivision of 

 a work into too many unconnected 

 parts. 



REPRI'SALS, Fr. reprisailles. "When the 

 people of one nation have unlawfully 

 seized and detained property belonging 

 to another state, the subjects of the latter 

 are authorised by the law of nations to 

 indemnify themselves, by seizing the 

 property of the subjects of the state ag- 

 gressing. This is termed making reprisals r 

 and commissions to this effect, are issued 

 by the admiralty. 



REPRI'SES. In law, deductions from 

 the value of lands, such as rent-charges. 



REPRODUCTION, Lat. reproduco. In 

 physiology, strictly, it signifies the power 

 possessed by an organised being of form- 

 ing anew parts of the body which have 

 been cut off. Vegetables are well known, 

 to possess this faculty. Worms reproduce 

 many segments of the body : lobsters and 

 spiders regain a claw or a leg ; and so on. 



REPTA'HON. A mode of progression by 

 successive advances of the trunk, as in 

 serpents ; applied also to that of animals 

 whose bodies touch the ground, their legs 

 being very short. 



REPTIL'IA. Reptiles, from Lat. rep- 

 tilis, from repo, to creep ; a creeping 

 animal. The third class of vertebrated 

 animals, comprehending Chelonians. 

 (tortoises) ; Saurians (lizards') ; Ophidians 

 (serpents} ; and Batrachians (frogs). All 

 reptiles are cold-blooded, (a comparative 

 term), owing to the disposition of the 

 heart, which transmits only a portion of 

 the blood to the lungs, (the remainder 

 returning to the other parts of the body, 

 without passing through the pulmonary 

 organs), and the consequent deficient 

 action of the oxygen upon the blood, and 

 diminished respiration. In temperate 

 and cold climates they almost all pass 

 the winter in a state of torpor. 



REPDB'LIC, Lat. respublica. That form 

 of government in which the people exer- 

 cise the supreme power. 



REPUL'SIOX, from repello. A term in 

 physics, for that property of bodies which 

 is opposed to attraction, and which, like 

 that force, appears, as far as has been 

 ascertained, to follow the same law, viz., 

 increasing inversely as the square of the 

 distance. Consequently at the point of 

 contact it is infinite. It is as essential 

 as attraction itself to the constitution of 

 the material forms of created nature. 



REQUEST', Court of. A Court of Equity, 

 in England, for the relief of such persons 

 as addressed the Crown by supplication : 

 abolished by Stat. 16 & 17 Car. I. 



Rt'uuiEM. In the Romish church, a 

 hymn or mass S'.ng for the requiem M 

 rest of the dead. 



