512 Mr. Pickering on the present state of the English language. 
in the Southern States at the present Cay or-not: Itis not used, I believe, in 
New England. 
RECIPROCITY. This word has been remarked upon, by some of our writers 
as “hardly admissible.” See Month. Anthol. for 1806, p.102. It is not 
noticed by any of the lexicographers but Wa/ker and Mason, the latter of 
whom cites a /aw authority in support of it: “Any degree of reciprocity 
will preyent the pact from being nude.” Blackstone. But it seems to be 
used by English writers ; perhaps, however, it is mostly used by them in 
those political and other discussions which admit of a kind of language ap- 
proaching to the legal style: It is often used in the diplomatic style. 
Watker has inserted it in his dictionary without informing the reader that 
it is a new word, as he usually does in such cases. * 
REDEMPTIONER ; “ one who redeems himself by services, or whose services 
are sold to pay certain expenses.” Wedst. This term is used in the Sourh- 
ern States generally to designate the Germans, Irish, and other Europeans, 
who emigrate from their own country to the United States, and sell their 
services for a term of time to pay their passage money and other expenses. 
REFERENCE, The frequent use of this word in the following manner is notic- 
ed oe a late English traveller STON. ie “ aneine. expressions” ae to 
= ns AGH as the €1 ) 
nite SOTERA SOCK p. 306. Neo es Sek 
RELEA ASEMENT. The use of this word in esters s Life of Washington is 
censured by some ofthe English reviewers. See British Critic, vol. xxxv. 
p- 182, Itis very rarely used by American writers. I donot find it in any 
of the English dictionaries except Bailey’s and 4sh’s, and it is um uestion- 
ably obsolete, I never met with it in any work printed in England, except 
once accidentally in the Index to Smollet’s Historylof England ( Lond. edi- 
tion of 1796 ) in this article ; “ Murray Hon. Alexander—procession at his 
releasement from Newgate.” _ 
RELISHES.  « About eight or nine, in-the morning they breakfast on tea cand cof- 
fee, attended always with what they call relishes, such as salt-fish, beef- 
‘Steaks, sausages, broiled fowls, ham, bacon, kc. Pricst’s Travels in the © 
U~ States of America. 
To RELOAN; “to lend a second time,” Webst. See To Loan. 
