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of fupplcment to father Nicole's work. During the re- 

 gency of the dwlie of Orleans lie made frequent efforts to 

 obtain his encouragement of tlie plan for eftablilliinrr print- 

 in(r-pre(i^'S for the oriental tonj^ues, and was promiled, hut 

 never obtained effettiial hipport. Tiie latter years of his 

 life he ipent in completing numerous very learned and im- 

 portant publications, among which may be mentioned, 

 " Hillm-ia Patriarch;rrum Alexandrinorum Jacobitarum :" 

 " I\,iturgiarum Orientaliuni Colleetio," in 2 vols., accom- 

 panied with very learned differtations : " Ancient Accounts 

 of India and China, by two Mahometan Travellers in the 

 (jth Century, tranflated from the Arabic." Renaudot died 

 in the year 1720, at the age of 74 years, greatly regretted 

 by the literati of that age, to whom lie was a communicative 

 and moll agreeable companion, and lamented by the poor, 

 to whofe relief he iiad dedicated a large portion of his 

 income. Moreri. 



RENAY, or RoNSE, in Geography, a town of France, 

 in tlic department of the Jemappc, with a magnificent 

 chateau ; 7 miles S. of Oudenarde. 



RENCHEN, a town of the duchy of Baden ; 4 miles 

 N.N.W. of Oberkirch. — Alio, a river of Baden, which 

 rifes in the Ortuau, and runs into the Rhine, 10 miles N. of 

 Oberkirch. 



RENCOUNTER, formed from the Frdnch, rencontre, 

 meellng, m the Military Art, tlie encounter of two little 

 bodies or parties of torces. 



In which fenfe, rencounter is ufed in oppofition to a 

 pitched battle. 



Rkncoixtkr, in fingle combats, is ufed by way of con- 

 tradiilinttion to duel. 



When two perfons fall out, and fight on the fpot, with- 

 out having premeditated tlie combat, it is called a ren- 

 counter. 



RENCOUNTRE, or Rencontre, in Heraldry, is ap- 

 plied to animals when they fhevv the head in front, with 

 both eyes, &c. or when the face ftands right forward, as 

 if they cgme to meet the perfon befcn-e them. 



Indeed, in deer, this is called m^T/acrf ; and, in > the leo- 

 pard, it is the natural fituation. He bears fable, in ren- 

 countre, a golden fleece. 



RENDE, in Geography, a town of Naples, in Calabria 

 Citra ; j miles N.N.W. of Cofenza. 



RENDER, in I.axv, a term ufed in levying a fine. 

 A fine with render, is that by which lomething is rendered 

 back again by the cognizee to the cognizor. 



The lawyers alfo fay, there are certain things in a manor, 

 ■which lie in premier, I. e. which may be taken by the lord, 

 or his officers, when they plcafe, witliout the tenant's leave ; 

 and others which lie in render, that is, mull: be rendered or 

 anfu'ered by the tenant, as rents, reliefs, heriots, and other 

 lervices. See Prexder. 



Some fervice confifts in feifaiice, fome in render. 



RENDERING, \n Buildwg. See Pargeting. 



Rkndeking, in Sea Language, is generally underltood to 

 'be the effeft of yielding or giving way, without relillance, 

 to the efforts of fome mechanical power. It is ufually ex- 

 prefl'ed of a complicated tackle, laniard or lafhing, when 

 the efteft of the power applied is communicated with facility 

 to all the parts, without being interrupted in its paflage. It 

 16 therefore ufed in contradillinClion to jamming. - 



RENDEZVOUS, or Rexdkvois, a place appointed 

 to meet in, at a certain day and hour. 



The word is French, and is found fo commodious, that 

 moll nations ufe it in its purity, for want of a word of 

 equal import in their refpedtive languages. 



Thus, in a military fenfe, the rendezvous is the place ap- 

 VoL. XXIX. 



pointed by the general, where all the troopi that compofe 

 the army arc to meet at the appointed time, in cafe of an 

 aiirm ; and the regiments have their particular rendezvous, 

 called their quarters of aflembly. 



In a naval fenfe, it denotes the port or place of deflina- 

 tion, where the feveral fliips of a fleet, or fquadron, are 

 appointed to rejoin the whole, in cafe of a feparation, occa- 

 fioned by tcmpefluous weather, or other unforefcen accident. 



Rendezvous Bay, in Geography, a bary on the S. coaft 

 of Antigua, W. of Falmouth harbour. 



Rendezvous, IJland of, an ifland, or rock, in the fouthern 

 Indian ocean, difcovered in 1773 by M. de Kerguelen, near 

 the N. coall of Kerguelen's land, and called by captain 

 Cook " Bligh'3 Night-cap." 



Rendezvous Key, a fmall ifland in the bay of Honduras? 

 near the coall of Mexico. N. lat. 16" 59'. ' W. long. 88° 

 40'. 



RENDS, in a Ship, are the fame as the fcams between 

 her planks. 



RENDSBORG, in Geography, a town of Germany^ in 

 the duchy of Holflein, feated on a canal which communi- 

 cates with the Baltic, on the borders of Slefwick, fuppofed 

 to be one of the llrongell towns in the Danifli dominions, 

 and generally well garrifoned. Tlie number of inhabitants 

 is about 3600; 15 miles W. of Kiel. N. lat. 54^ 22'. E. 

 9° 52'. 



RENE', a town of France, in the department of the 

 Sarthe ; 15 miles N. of Le Mans. 



RENEALMIA, in Botany, a new genus of Mr. 

 Brown's, has lately received that name from him, in jufl 

 commemoration of Paul Reiiealmus, or Renaulme, a phy- 

 fician at Blois, who publiflied, in 161 1, a thin quarto vo- 

 lume at Paris, entitled Speeimen Htjlnriec Platitarum, with 

 exprefTive, but flift, and not neatly finiflied, engravings in 

 copper, in which each plant is diflinguifhed by an appro- 

 priate Greek name, mollly of the author's invention. Mr. 

 Brown obferves, that this author was the firft who paid at- 

 tention to the differences in the number, fituation, and pro- 

 portion of the llamens. Linnasus, in his own copy of the 

 work, has expreffed a well-founded furprize, at its being 

 never quoted by the Bauhins. Plumier was the author of 

 the firfl Renealmia, now funk in the Linnasan Tillandjia. 

 Linnseus, or his fon, dedicated a monandrous genus, in the 

 Supplementum Plantarum, to the memory of this meri- 

 torious botanill ; but it proved not diftincl from a more ge- 

 nerally-received genus, of the fame date, Alpinia. We wifh 

 the prefent Renealmia may be found fufficiently different 

 from Si/'yrinchium, to which its fpecies were originally re- 

 ferred by its learned author. — Brown Prodr. Nov. HoU. 

 V. 1. addend. (Sifyrinchium ; ibid. 304.) — Clafs and order, 

 Monailelphia Triandria. Nat. Ord. Enfatte, Linn. Irideg, 

 Jufl. Brown. 



Efl. Qt. Calyx none. Petals fix, regular ; three inner 

 ones largtH, contraftcd at the bafe. Style one. Stigmas 

 three, thread-fnapcd, involute, acute. Capfule inferior, 

 obovate, of three cells. Seeds angular. 



The fpecies are herbaceous, fmooth, inhabitants of woods. 

 Roots fibrous, fometimes tuberous. Leaves grafiy, lax, 

 ribbed. Stem roundifh, fometimes divided. Flowers in al- 

 ternate umbellate bunches, with fliort permanent fheaths. 

 Corolla regular, white, Ipreading, foon falling off; the 

 outer petals generally greeuifh at the back ; the inner often 

 furnifhed with claw^. Filaments either combined below, or 

 dillindt ; their upper part fpreading. Capfule membranous. 

 Seeds in two rows, black. 



l.R. panieulata. Panicled Renealmia. Brown n. i. — Stem 



panicled. Leaves ribbed ; roughifh at the edge. Outer 



4 R petals 



