reanimate 
restore to life, as a person dead or apparently 
dead: as, to reanimate a person apparently 
drowned. 
We are our re-animated ancestours, and antedate their 
resurrection. Glanville, Vanity of Dogmatizing, xv. 
We may suppose that the creative power returns and 
reanimates some among the dead. 
Isaac Taylor, Nat. Hist. Enthusiasm, p. 66. 
2. To revive when dull or languid ; invigorate ; 
infuse new life or courage into : as, to reani- 
mate disheartened troops ; to reanimate drowsy 
senses or languid spirits. 
Variety reanimates the attention, which is apt to lan- 
guish under a continual sameness. 
Sir J. Reynolds, Discourses, viii. 
II. intrans. To revive ; become lively again. 
[Rare.] 
"There spoke Miss Beverley !" cried Delvile, reanimat- 
ing at this little apology. Mits Burney, Cecilia, ix. 5. 
reanimation (re-an-i-ma'shon), n. [< reani- 
mate + -ion.'] The act or operation of reani- 
mating, or reviving from apparent death; the 
act or operation of giving fresh spirits, courage, 
or vigor ; the state of being reanimated. 
Having opened his father's casque, he was rejoiced to 
see him give symptoms of reanimation. 
Scott, Anne of Geiersteln, xxxvi. 
reannex (re-a-neks'), " t. [< ft- + annex.] To 
annex again ; annex what has been separated ; 
reunite. 
King Charles was not a little inflamed with an ambition 
to repurchace and re-annex that duchie. 
Bacon, Hist. Hen. VII., p. 40. 
reannexation (re-an-ek-sa'shon), n. [< rean- 
nex + -ation.] The act of annexing again. 
reanoint (re-a-noinf), i>- t. [< re- + anoint.'] 
To anoint again or anew. 
And Edward, . . . 
Proud in his spoils, to London doth repair, 
And, reanointed, mounts th' imperial chair. 
Drayton, Miseries of Queen Margaret. 
reanswer (re-an'ser), v. t. [< re- + answer."] 1. 
To answer again ; make a renewed reply to. 
2f. To answer or satisfy as a return ; corre- 
spond to; equal; balance. 
Bid him therefore consider of his ransome ; which must 
proportion the losses we have borne, . . . which In weight 
to re-answer, his pettiness would bow under. 
Shalt., Hen. V., ill. 6. 136. 
reap (rep), '. [< ME. repen, reopen, ripen (pret. 
rap, rep, pi. repen, ropen, pp. repen, ropen, 
later reaped), < AS. ripan, a variable verb, be- 
ing in part strong (pret. pi. ripon), also geripan 
(pret. pi. geripon), also with short vowel ripan, 
Anglian riopan,_ rioppan, lirioppan, hrippan 
(pret. *nep, pi. riepon), and in part (and appar. 
orig. ) weak, rypan, (pret. *rypte, not found), reap 
(cf. rip, ryp, a reaping, harvest) : appar. a par- 
ticular use of ripan, prop.rypun (pret.pl.rypton, 
rxpton), plunder, spoil, = OHG. roufen, MHO. 
roufen, reufen, roufen, G. raiifen, pluck, pull, 
etc., = Goth, raupjan, pluck. Cf. D. rapen, reap, 
gather.] I. trans. 1. To cut with a sickle or 
other implement or machine; cut down and 
gather: used specifically of cutting grain: as, 
to reap wheat or rye. 
When ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not 
wholly reap the corners of thy field. Lev. xlz. 9. 
That which they reapt on the land was put into store- 
houses built for that purpose. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 876. 
And no Man ever reapt his Corn, 
Or from the Oven drew his Bread, 
Ere Hinds and Bakers yet were born, 
That taught them both to sow and knead. 
Prior, Alma, i. 
2. To cut a crop of grain, or something likened 
to such a crop, from ; clear by or as if by reap- 
ing. 
His chin new reap'd 
Show'd like a stubble-land at harvest-home. 
Shak., 1 Hen. IV., 1. 3. 34. 
3. Figuratively, to gather in by effort of any 
kind ; obtain as a return or recompense ; gar- 
ner as the fruit of what has been done by one's 
self or others. 
They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirl- 
wind. Hos. viiL 7. 
Of our labours thou shalt reap the gain. 
Shah., 3 Hen. VI., v. 7. 20. 
He cannot justly expect to reape aught but dishonour 
and dispraise. Milton, Eikonoklastes, v. 
Do thou the deeds I die too young to do, 
And reap a second glory in thine age ! 
M. Arnold, Sohrab and Rustum. 
II. intrans. 1. To perform the act or opera- 
tion of reaping ; cut and gather a harvest. 
Yf y repe, [I] ouere-reche, other jaf hem red that repen 
To sese to me with here sykel : that ich sew nenere. 
Fieri Plowman (C), vii. 270. 
lit 8 8 
Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap. MJcah vi. 15. 
I would the globe from end to end 
Might sow and reap in peace. 
Tennyson, Epilogue. 
2. Figuratively, to gather the fruit of labor or 
works ; receive a return for what has been done. 
For wel I wot that ye han herbeforne 
Of makynge [poetry] ropen, and lad awey the corne. 
Chaucer, Good Women, 1. 74. 
They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. Ps. cxxvt 5. 
reapt (rep), . [Early mod. E. also repe; < ME. 
reepe, rep, rip, < AS. rip, ryp, a reaping, a crop, 
harvest (also iu comp., as rip-man, harvester, 
rip-tima, harvest), also a sheaf of grain, etc., < 
ripan, rypan, reap: see reap, v.] A sheaf of 
grain. [Prov. Eng.] 
As mych a> oone reepe. 
Tomicley Mysteries, p. 13. (HalliweU.) 
reaper (re'per), n. [< ME. repare, ripere, < AS. 
ripere, a reaper, <. ripan, reap: see reap, v.] 1. 
One who reaps ; one who cuts grain with a sickle 
or other implement or machine; hence, one 
who gathers in the fruits of his own or others' 
labor or work. 
When brown August o'er the land 
Call'd forth the reapers' busy band. 
Scott, Rokeby, vl. 35. 
In the vast field of criticism on which we are entering, 
innumerable reapers have already put their sickles. 
JHacaiilai/. 
Only reapers, reaping early 
In among the bearded barley. 
Hear a song that echoes cheerly. 
Tennyson, Lady of Shalott, i. 
2. A machine for cutting grain; a reaping-ma- 
chine The reaper, an ancient sophism, to the follow- 
ing effect : If you are to reap, it is not true that perhaps 
you will reap and perhaps not, but you will certainly reap. 
On the other hand, if you are not to reap, it is not true 
that perhaps you will reap and perhaps not, but you will 
certainly not. Thus you will either necessarily reap, or 
necessarily not reap, and the statement that there is a 
"perhaps" is false. 
reap-hook (rep'huk), n. Same as reaping-Tiook. 
HalliweU. fProv. Eng.] 
reaping-hook (re'ping-huk), n. A curved blade 
with a short handle for reaping; a sickle; spe- 
cifically, a sickle without the notched edge 
which formerly distinguished that implement. 
The reapers in Palestine and Syria still make use of the 
reaping-hook in cutting down their crops: and "fill their 
hand" with the corn, and those who bind up the sheaves 
their "bosom." Ps. cxxix. 7; Ruth ii. 6. Kitto. 
reaping-machine (re'ping-ma-shen / ), n. A 
harvesting-machine for grain-crops ; a mechan- 
ical reaper drawn over a field of standing grain 
by horses. The reaping-machine is a modified mow- 
ing-machine or mower, both mower and reaper being 
harvesters ; the two machines are identical In their 
mechanism for cutting down the standing grain, of which 
mechanism the essential feature is the reciprocating knife 
moving within the fingers of a finger-bar. The reaper is 
distinguished from the mower by the addition of a reel 
for bending the grain down upon the knives, and by a 
platform, a raking mechanism, a discharging mechanism 
or dropper (by which the gavels or sheaves are thrown out 
of the machine), and a binding mechanism ; of these de- 
vices any or all may be present in one machine. Reaping- 
machines are often distinguished according to their at- 
tachments: thus, a dropper is a reaping-machine that au- 
tomatically throws out the cut grain at intervals ; a self- 
raker or a self-binder, sometimes called a harvester and 
binder, is one with a raking or a binding attachment The 
discharging mechanism or dropper is a device for causing 
the platform upon which the grain falls when cut to throw 
off Its load. The raking attachment consists of a series 
of rakes moving over the platform to gather the grain into 
gavels and sweep it off upon the ground. The binding at- 
tachment consists essentially of an endless-belt elevator 
for lifting the cut grain, and a pair of curved arms for 
gathering and compressing it into a bundle and holding it 
while the binding mechanism proper draws wire or twine 
around it, twists the wire or loops and knots the twine, 
cuts the bundle from the wire or twine, and discharges 
the bound sheaf. 
rear 
reanmant (rep'man), n. [< ME. rcpman, <. AS. 
"ripman (Anglian liripemdii), a harvestmaii, < 
rip, harvest, 4- man, man.] A reaper; a har- 
vestman. 
Oon daywerk of a gpode repman may gete 
V gtrik, a febbler for III may swete. 
Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. .), p. 158. 
reapparel (re-a-par'el), r. t. [< re- + apparel, 
i'. Cf. reparvl.*] To apparel or clothe again or 
anew. 
Then [at the resurrection] we shall all be invested, re- 
apparelled, in our own bodies. 
Dunne, Devotions, Expostulation, xiv. 
reapparition (re-ap-a-rish'on), n. [< re- + ap- 
parition.] A renewed apparition ; a coming 
again; reappearance. [Rare.] 
There would be presented the phenomena of colonies, 
reapparitions, and other faunal dislocations in the verti- 
cal and horizontal distribution of fossil remains. 
WincheU, World- Life, p. 281. 
reappear (re-a-per'), v. i. [= It. riapparire; as 
re- + appear. Cf. OF. rapparoitre, F. reappa- 
raitre, reappear.] To appear again or anew; 
return to sight or apprehension ; be seen again, 
in either the same or a different example. 
The law of harmonic sounds reappears in the harmonic 
colors. Emerson, Nature, v. 
Energy . . . only vanishes to reappear under some other 
form. W. L. Carpenter, Energy in Nature, p. 12. 
The river that reappears at Ombla Is an old friend. 
E. A. Freeman, Venice, p. 238. 
reappearance (re-a-per'ans), n. [< reappear + 
-ttnce.] A new appearance; another coming 
into view or apprehension: as, the reappear- 
ance of Encke's comet. 
reapplication (re-ap-li-ka'shon), n. JX re- + 
application.'] The act of applying again, or the 
state of being reapplied. 
A readvertency or reapplication of mind to ideas that 
are actually there. 
Norris, Reflections on Locke, p. 9. (l.thin.} 
reapply (re-a-pli'), 1. 1. and i. [< re- + apply.] 
To apply again. 
reappoint (re-a-poinf), v. t. [< re- + appoint.] 
To appoint again. 
reappointment (re-a-point'ment), n. [< reap- 
point + -meitt.] A renewed appointment. 
reapportion (re-a-por'shon), t>. t. [< re- + ap- 
portion.] To apportion again; make a new 
apportionment. 
reapportionment (re-a-por'shon-ment), n. [< 
reapportion + -ment.]" A renewed apportion- 
ment; a new proportional distribution or ar- 
rangement: as (in the United States), the re- 
apportionment of members of Congress or of 
Congressional districts under a new census. 
reapproach (re-a-proch'), v. [< re- + approach.] 
1. intrans. To come near again. 
II. trans. To bring near together again. 
We were able to produce a lovely purple, which we can 
destroy or recompose at pleasure, by sevei Ing and re-ap- 
proachinu the edges of the two irises. 
Boyle, Works, I. 738. 
reap-silvert (rep'siHver), . [ME. repsilver; 
< reap, n., + silver.] Money paid by feudal 
serfs or tenants to their lord as a commutation 
for their services in reaping his crops. 
rear 1 (rer), v. [Early mod. E. also reer, rere, 
also dial, rare; < ME. reren, < AS. rseran (= Icel. 
reisa = Goth, raisjan), cause to rise, lift up, 
establish, rouse, elevate, etc.; causative of 
risan (pret. rds), rise : see rise 1 , and cf . raise 1 , 
which is from the Icel. form (reisa) of the same 
verb. The change of the orig. medial to r oc- 
curs also in were (pi. of was), ear 1 , iron, lorn, 
etc.] I. trans. 1. To raise, lift, or hoist by or 
as if by main strength ; bring to or place in an 
elevated position ; set or hold up; elevate; bear 
aloft. 
Off with the traitor's head, 
And rear it in the place your father's stands. 
Shale., 3 Hen. VI., ii. 6. 86. 
And higher yet the glorious temple rear'd 
Her pile. Milton, P. R., iv. 546. 
2. To form by raising or setting up the parts 
of; lift up and fix in place the materials of; 
erect; construct; build. 
Seiut dauid aboute this holi jerde a strong wal let rere. 
Holy Hood (E. E. T. S.\ p. 28. 
O'er his Grave a Monument they rear'd. 
Congreve, Iliad. 
3f. To raise from a prostrate state or position ; 
uplift ; exalt. 
The Ladle, hearing his so courteous speach. 
Oan reare her eyes as to the chearefull light. 
Spenser, y. Q., VI. ii. 42. 
In adoration at his feet I fell 
Submiss ; he rear'd me. 
MUtvn, P. L., viii. 316. 
