reassure 
But let me often to these solitudes 
Retire, and in thy presence reassure 
My feeble virtue. Bryant, Forest Hymn. 
2. To give renewed assurance to ; free from 
doubt or apprehension ; restore to confidence. 
They rose with fear, and left the unfinished feast, 
Till dauntless Pallas re-assured the rest. 
Dryden, /Eneid, viii. 146. 
3. Same as reinsure. 
reassurer (re-a-shor'er), n. One who reassures, 
or assures or insures anew. 
reassuringly (re-a-shor'ing-li), adv. In a re- 
assuring manner ; so as to reassure. 
reast 1 (rest), . [Also reest (and reuse, rceze, 
in pp. reused, reezed), So. reist (as v. t.); prob. 
< Dan. riste, broil, grill ; ef . Sw. rogta, roast : 
see roast."] I. trans. To dry (meat) by the heat 
of the sun or in a chimney; smoke-dry. 
Let us cut up bushes and briars, pile them before the 
door and set fire to them, and smoke that auld devil's 
dam as if she were to be related for bacon. 
Scott, Black Dwarf, ix. 
They bequeath so great suras for masses, and dirges, and 
trentals, . . . that their souls may at the last be had to 
heaven, though first for a while they be reezed in purgatory. 
Rev. T. Adams, Works, I. 65. 
II. intrans. If. To become rusty and rancid, 
as dried meat. Cath. Any., p. 304. 
The scalding of Hogges keepeth the flesh whitest, 
plumpest, and fullest, neither is the Bacon so apt to reast 
as the other ; besides, it will make it somewhat apter to 
take salt. Markham, Countrey Farme (1616), p. 107. 
2. To take offense, ffalliwell. [Prov. Eng.] 
reast' 2 t, v. An obsolete spelling of rest 1 . 
reasted (res'ted), p. a. [Also reested, reestit, 
"reused, reeeed, rezed, reised; < ME. rested, eontr. 
reate; pp. of reast 1 , v.~] Become rusty and ran- 
cid, as dried meat. Cath. Aug., p. 304. 
Or once a weeke, perhaps, for novelty, 
Reez'd bacon soords shall feaste his family. 
Bp. Hall, Satires, IV. ii. 
What accademick starved satyrist 
Would gnaw rez'd bacon ? 
Martian, Scourge of Villanie, ill. (Ifares.) 
Of beef and reised bacon store, 
That is most fat and greasy, 
We have likewise to feed our chaps, 
And make them glib and easy. 
King Alfred and the Shepherd. (Naret.) 
reastiness (res'ti-nes), re. [< rcasty + -ness."] 
The state or quality of being reasty ; rancid- 
ness. [Prov. Eng.] 
reasty 1 (res'ti), a. [Also rest;/ and rusty (simu- 
lating rust) ; < reast 1 + -y 1 . Of. the earlier adj. 
reasted."] Same as reasted. 
Through folly, too beastly, 
Much bacon is reasty. 
Tusser, Husbandry, November Abstract. 
And than came haltynge Jone, 
And broughte a gambone 
Of bakon that was resty. 
Stellon, Elynour Rummyng, 1. 328. 
Thy flesh is restie or leane, tough & olde, 
Or it come to borde unsavery and colde. 
Barclay, Cytezen & Uplondyshman (Percy Soc.), p. 39. 
((Cath. Any., p. 304.) 
reasty 2 (res'ti), a. Same as resty 1 . 
reata (re-a'ta), re. [Also riata; < Sp. reata, a 
rope, also a leader mule (= Pg. reata, ar-riata, 
a halter), < Sp. reatar, tie one beast to another, 
retie (= Pg. reatar, ar-riatar, bind again), < re- 
(< L. re-), again, back, -t- Sp. Pg. Cat. atar, 
bind, < L. aptare, fit on, fit together, etc. : see 
apt."} A rope, usually of rawhide, with or 
without a noose, used in western and Spanish 
America for catching or picketing animals ; a 
lariat. 
Dick jingled his spurs and swung his riata. Jovita 
bounded forward. 
Bret Harte, Tales of the Argonauts, p. 17. 
reate (ret), re. [Also reit; prop, reat or reel; 
origin obscure. Of. razfce.] The water-crow- 
foot, Ranunculus aquatilis: probably applied 
also to fresh-water algse and various floating 
plants. [Obsolete or prov. Eng.] 
This is the onely fish that buildeth upon the reites and 
mosse of the sea, and laieth her egs, or spawneth, in her 
nest. Holland, tr. of Pliny, is. 26. 
fleits. sea weed, of some called reits, of others wrack, 
and of me Thanet men-wore. Bp. Kennett. 
The soft tree-tent 
Guards with its face of reate and sedge. 
Browning, Bordello. 
reattach (re-a-tach' ),v.t. [< re- + attach. Cf. 
F. rattacker, attach again.] To attach again, 
in any sense. 
reattachment (re-a-tach'ment), . [< reat- 
tach + -ment.~] A second or repeated attach- 
ment. 
reattempt (re-a-tempf), v. t. [< re- + attempt."] 
To attempt again. 
4992 
His voyage then to be re-attempted. 
Hattuyt'x Voyages, III. 158. 
reaumet, An obsolete form of realm. 
Reaumuria (re-o-rnu'ri-a), n. [NL. (Linnaeus, 
1762), named after Kene A. F. de Reaumur 
(1683-1757), a French naturalist.] 1. A genus 
of polypetalous shrubs of the order Tamarisci- 
nese and type of the tribe Reaumuriese. it is 
characterized by numerous stamens which are free or 
somewhat united into five clusters, from five to ten bracts 
close to the calyx, five awl-shaped styles, and densely 
hairy seeds. There are about 12 species, natives of the 
Mediterranean region and of central Asia. They are gen- 
erally very branching and procumbent undershrubs, with 
small or cylindrical crowded leaves and terminal solitary 
flowers, which are sometimes showy and red or purple. 
Several species are occasionally cultivated as ornamental 
shrubs. K. vermiculata, a pink-flowered species, is used 
as an external remedy for the itch. 
2. In entom., a genus of dipterous insects. 
Desvoldy, 1830. 
Reaumurieas (re'o-mu-ri'e-e), n. pi. [NL. (Ehr- 
enberg, 1827), < Reaumuria + -.] A tribe 
of polypetalous plants of the order Tamarisci- 
nex, the tamarisk family, characterized by free 
petals, long-haired seeds, and solitary axillary 
or terminal flowers. It includes 2 genera, Hololachne, 
a monotypic undershrub of the salt marshes of central 
Asia, and Reaumuria. 
Reaumur's porcelain. See porcelain 1 . 
Reaumur's scale. See thermometer. 
reave (rev), v.; pret. and pp. reaved, reft (for- 
merly also raft), ppr. reaving. [Early mod. E. 
also reve, reeve (Sc. reive, etc.), dial, rave; < ME. 
reven (pret. revede, reved, refde, rafte, refte, pp. 
raft, reft), < AS. reafian, rob, spoil, plunder, = 
OS. *robhdn (in comp. bi-robhon) = OFries. ra- 
via, rava = D. rooven = MLG. LG. roven = OHG. 
rouboit, MHG. rouben, G. rauben, rob, deprive, 
= Icel. raufa = Sw. rofva = Dan. ritve, rob, = 
Goth, "raubon, in comp. bi-raubon, rob, spoil; a 
secondary verb associated with the noun, AS. 
redf, spoil, plunder, esp. clothing or armor taken 
as spoil, hence clothing in general, = OFries. 
rdf = D. roof = MLG. rof = OHG. roub, roup, 
raup, MHG. roup, G. raub = Icel. rauf= Sw. 
ro/=Dan. rov, spoil, plunder (see reaf); from 
the primitive verb, AS. *reofan, in comp. be-reo- 
fan, bi-redfan, deprive, =Icel. rjtifa (pp. rofinn), 
break, rip, violate, = L. rumpere (-\frup), break: 
see rupture. Hence, in comp., bereave. From 
the Teut. are It. ruba, spoil, etc., rubare, spoil, 
= OF. rober, robber, rob, whence E. rob, etc. ; It. 
roba = OF. (and F.) robe, garment, robe, whence 
E. robe, rubble, rubbish: see robe and rob. From 
the D. form are E. rove 1 , rover."] I. trans. 1. To 
take away by force or stealth; carry off as 
booty; take violently; purloin, especially in a 
foray: with a thing as object. [Now rare.] 
Aristotill sals that the bees are feghtande agaynes hyrn 
that will drawe thaire hony fra thaym, swa sulde we do 
agaynes deu ells that afforces tham to reue fra vs the hony of 
poure lyfe. Hampole, Prose Treatises (E. E. T. 8.), p. 8. 
Since he himself is reft from her by death. 
Shak, Venus and Adonis, L 1174. 
A good cow was a good cow, had she been twenty times 
reaved. 0. MacDonald, What's Mine's Mine, p. 303. 
2. To take away; remove; abstract; draw off. 
[Obsolete or archaic.] 
Hir clothes ther scho raft hlr Iro, 
And to the wodd pane scho go. 
Perceval, 2157. (BalKtcell.) 
And ffrom joure willif nil werkis joure will was chaungid, 
And rafte was joure riott and rest, ffor soure daiez 
Weren wikkid thoru goure cursid counceill. 
Richard the Reddest, i. 6. 
The derke nyght 
That remth bestis from here besynesse. 
Chaucer, Parliament of Fowls, 1. 86. 
Sith nothing ever may redeeme nor reave 
Out of your endlesse debt so sure a gage. 
Spenser, F. Q., To Lord Grey of Wilton. 
We reave thy sword, 
And give thee armless to thy enemies. 
Beau, and Fl., Knight of Malta, v. 2. 
3. To rob; plunder; dispossess; bereave: with 
a person as object. [Obsolete or archaic.] 
And sitthe he is so leel a lorde, ich leyue that he wol nat 
Reuen ous of cure ryght. Piers Plowman (C), xxi. 310. 
To ream the orphan of his patrimony. 
Shak., 2 Hen. VI., v. 1. 187. 
So reft of reason Athamas became. 
Longfellow, tr. of Dante's Inferno, xxx. 4. 
Then he reft us of it 
Perforce, and left us neither gold nor field. 
Tennyson, Gareth and Lynette. 
4. To tear up, as the rafters or roof of a house. 
[Obsolete or prov. Eng.] 
Agaynst them Troians down the towres and tops of houses 
rold. 
And rafters vp they reaue. Phaer, JSneid, ii. 
5. To ravel; pull to pieces, as a textile fabric. 
To ramp and reavet. See ramp. 
rebate 
II. iiitraiiK. To practise plundering or pil- 
laging; carry off stolen property. [Now only 
Scotch.] 
Where we shall robbe, where we shall reve, 
Where we shall bete and bynde. 
Lytell Geste of Robyn Hode (Child's Ballads, V. 46). 
To slink thro' slaps, an' reive an' steal 
At stacks o' peas, or stocks o' kail. 
Burns, Death of Poor Mailie. 
reavelt, r. An obsolete form of ravel 1 . 
reaver (ve'ver), . [Early mod. E. also reever 
(So. reiver); < ME. revere, < AS. redf ere (= 
OFries. rdvere, raver = D. roover = MLG. 
rover = OHG. roubare, MHG. roubsere, G. ra'ii- 
ber = Icel. raufari, reyfari = Sw. rofvare = Dan. 
rover), a robber, < reafian, rob,j-eave : see reave. 
Cf. rover, from the D. cognate of reaver. ] One 
who reaves or robs; a plundering forager; a 
robber. [Obsolete or archaic, or Scotch.] 
To robbers and to reueres. Piers Plowman (B), xiv. 182. 
Those were the days when, if two men or three came 
riding to a town, all the township fled for them and weened 
that they were reavers. 
E. A. Freeman, Norman Conquest, V. 189. 
reavery (re'ver-i), n. [= D. rooverij = MLG. 
roverie = G. rauberei = Sw. rdfveri = Dan. 
roveri; as reave + -cry."] A carrying off, as 
of booty; a plundering or pillaging; robbery. 
[Bare.] 
Wallace was ner, quhen he sic reuerf saw. 
Wallace, iv. 40. (Jamieson.) 
reballing (re-ba'ling), re. [< re- + ball 1 + -ing 1 ."] 
The catching of eels with earthworms attached 
to a ball of lead which is suspended by a string 
from a pole. Halliicell. [Prov. Eng.] 
rebaptism (re-bap'tizm), n. [< re- + baptism.] 
A new or second baptism. It has always been the 
generally accepted teaching that to perform the ceremony 
on one known to have been really baptized already is 
sacrilegious ; and what is or may be rebaptism is permis- 
sible only because the validity of the previous ceremony 
has been denied, or because the fact of its administration, 
or the manner in which it was performed, is disputed 
or doubtful. Conditional or hypothetical baptism is ad- 
ministered in the Roman Catholic Church to all candi- 
dates coming from Protestant churches, under a form 
beginning "If thou hast not been baptized," the question 
of the validity of Protestant baptism being held in abey- 
ance. Such rebaptism is also administered in the Angli- 
can churches in special cases, as where the candidate him- 
self desires it. Baptist churches require rebaptism of all 
who have not been immersed on profession of faith. 
rebaptist (re-bap'tist), re. [< re- + baptist."] 
One who baptizes again, or who undergoes 
baptism a second time ; also, a Baptist or Ana- 
baptist. 
Some for rebaptist him bespatter, 
For dipping rider oft in water. 
T. Brown, Works, IV. 270. (Daviei.) 
rebaptization (re-bap-ti-za'shon), re. [= F. re- 
baptisation; as rebaptize + -ation."] The act of 
rebaptizing; renewed or repeated baptism. 
St. Cyprian . . . persisted in his opinion of rebaptiza- 
tion until death. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), II. 313. 
rebaptize (re-bap-tlz'), v. t. [< OF. rebaptiser, 
rebaptizer, F. rebaptiser = Sp. rebautizar = Pg. 
rebaptizar = It. ribattezzare, < LL. rebaptizare, 
baptize again, < re-, again, + baptizare, baptize : 
see baptize."] 1 . To baptize again or anew ; re- 
peat the baptism of. 
Cyprian was no hereticke, though he beleeued rebaptis- 
ing of them which were baptised of hereticks. 
F oxe, Martyrs, p. 1468, an. 1555. 
2. To give a new name to, as at a second bap- 
tism. 
Of any Paganism at that time, or long before, in the Land 
we read not, or that Pelagianisra was rebaptijd. 
Milton, Hist Eng., iii. 
rebaptizer (re-bap-t!'zer), re. One who rebap- 
tizes, or who believes in rebaptism; also, an 
Anabaptist. 
There were Adamites in former Times and Rebaptizers. 
Howell, Letters, iv. 29. 
rebate 1 (re-bat'), v.; pret. and pp. rebated, ppr. 
rebating. ' [< ME. rebaten, < OF. rebatre, re- 
battre, beat or drive back again, repel, repulse, 
F. rebattre, beat again, repeat (= It. ribattere, 
beat again, beat down, blunt, reflect, etc.),< re-, 
back, again, + batre-battre, beat : see bate 1 , bat- 
ter 1 . Cf.rabate.] 1. trans. If. To beat back; 
drive back by beating; fend or ward off; re- 
pulse. 
This is the city of great Babylon, 
Where proud Darius was rebated from. 
Greene, Orlando Furioso. 
This shirt of mail worn near my skin 
Rebated their sharp steel. 
Beau, and Fl. (?), Faithful Friends, iii. 3. 
2t. To beat down; beat to bluntness; make 
obtuse or dull, literally or figuratively; blunt; 
bate. 
