reboil 
reboil (re-boil'), r. [< ME. reboylen, < OP. re- 
bouitlir, rtaboutiUr. F. rebouillir = It. riboJIirc, 
< L. rebullire, bubble up, cause to bubble up, < 
re-, again, + bullire, bubble, boil: see boil-.} 
I. intrans. If. To bubble up; effervesce; fer- 
ment. 
Also take good hede of your wynes euery nyght with a 
candell, bothe rede wyne and swete wyne, & loke they re- 
boyle nor leke not, & wasshe y 1 ' pype hedes euery nyght 
with colde water. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 267. 
4994 
I do feel, 
By the rebound of yours, a grief that smites 
My very heart at root. Shale., A. and C., v. 2. 104. 
Xenophon. The fall of a king is terrible. 
Cyrus. The rebound is worse. When your Saturn fell 
from ht'aven, did any god or mortal lend a hand to raise 
him up again? 
Landor, Imaginary Conversations, Xenophon and Cyrus 
[the Younger. 
i 'iniu-ily often springs from the deepest melancholy, as 
if in sudden rebound. G. U. Lewes. 
SomeofhiscompanyonstheratrciK>>/ktA,infamyiigehym reboZO (Sp. re-bo'tho; Sp.-Am. -zo), . 
Ho o Itlanna i.-it li. .nt ..!..L. i t I,. 
muffler, short mantle, < 
to be a manne without charytie. 
Sir T. Elyot, Governour, ii. 7. 
2. To boil again. 
II. trans. To cause to boil again; subject 
again to boiling. 
reboise (re-boiz'), v. t. [< F. reboiser, reforest, 
< re-, = E. re-, + bate, a wood, forest : see bush 1 .] 
To reestablish a growth of wood upon, as a 
tract of land; reforest; reafforest. [A recent 
Gallicism.] 
reboisement (re-boiz'ment), n. [< F. reboise- 
mcnt, < reboiser, reforest: see reboise.] A re- 
planting of trees on land which has been de- 
nuded of a former growth of wood, especially 
with a view to their effect on climate and moist- 
ure ; reforestation : used chiefly with reference 
to French practice. [A recent Gallicism.] 
reborn (re-born'), a. [< re- + born.] Bom 
again or anew; reappearing by or as if by a 
new birth ; endowed with new life. See rebirth. 
[Sp., a 
reboso, rebosa, . Same as rebozo. 
Reboulleau's blue. See blue. 
rebound (re-bound'), . [< ME. rebounden, < 
OF. rebundir, rebondir, F. rebondir, leap back, 
rebound, < re-, back, + bondir, leap, bound, 
bundir, resound: see re- and Sound 2 , i>.] I. 
intrans. 1. To bound or spring back; flyback 
from force of impact, as an elastic or free-mov- r !>?U u kus), a. 
ing body striking against a solid substance. 
As cruel waves full oft be found 
Against the rockes to rore and cry, 
So doth my hart full oft rebound 
^ r e b uff (re-buf), ,. t 
Bodies whieh are either absolutely hard, or so soft as to > = 
oes weh are either absolutely hard, or so soft as to ' 
be void of elasticity, will not rebound from one another / ar )> check, chide, repulse, < re- + buffer (= It. 
Newton, Opticks, iii. query 31. buffare), puff, blow: see buff 2 and buffS.] To 
2. To bound or bounce again ; repeat a bound 
or spring; make repeated bounds or springs. 
Clamours from Earth to Heav'n, from Heav'n to Earth, 
rebound. Congreve, On the Taking of Namure. 
Along the court the flery steeds rebound. 
rebus 
In grete anger rebukyng hym full soore. 
tienerydes (E. E. T. S.), L 144:!. 
Thus the duke was at the same time superseded and 
publicly rebuked before all the army. 
Surift, Mem. of Capt. Creichton. 
2. To treat or affect reprehendingly ; check or 
restrain by reprimand or condemnation. 
He stood over her, and rebuked the fever; and it left 
her. Luke iv. 30. 
To spread his colours, boy, in thy behalf, 
And to rebuke the usurpation 
Of thy unnatural uncle. Shak., K. John, ii. 1. 9. 
The manna dropping from God's hand 
Rebukes my painful care. Whittier, My Psalm. 
3f. To buffet ; beat ; bruise. 
A head rebuked with pots of all size, daggers, stools, and 
bed-staves. Beau, and Fl. 
= Syn. 1. Reprove, Reprimand, etc. See censure. 
rebuke (re-buk'), . [< rebuke, v.] 1. A di- 
rect reprimand; reproof for fault or wrong; 
reprehension; chiding. 
And refuse not the sweete rebuke 
Of htm that is your friend. 
Babees Book(E. E. T. 8.), p. 102. 
But yet my caution was more pertinent 
Than the rebuke you give it Shale., Cor., li. 2. 68. 
2. A manifestation of condemnation ; a repre- 
hending judgment or infliction ; reprobation in 
act or effect. 
They perish at the rebuke of thy countenance. 
Ps. Ixxx. 16. 
And who before the King of kings can boast? 
At his rebuke behold a thousand flee. 
Jones Very, Poems, p. 76. 
3. A check administered ; a counter-blow. 
He gave him so terrible a rebuke upon the forehead 
with his heel that he laid him at his length. 
Sir R. L'Estrange. 
The gods both happy and forlorn 
Have set in one world each to each to be 
A vain rebuke, a bitter memory. 
W. Morris, Earthly Paradise, III. 109. 
4f. Behavior deserving rebuke ; rudeness. 
[Rare.] 
She would not in discourteise wise 
Scome the faire offer of good will profest ; 
for great rebuke it is love to despise. 
_ _ Spenser, F. Q., III. i. 55. 
repel; make inflexible resistance to; check; = Syn. 1. Monition, Reprehension, etc. See admonition. 
put off with an abrupt and unexpected denial, rebukeful (re-buk'ful), a. [Early mod. E. also 
Marvelling that he who had neuer heard such speeches rebukful; < rebuke + -ful.] Of a rebuking 
from any knight should be thus rebuffed by a woman. ' " " " " 
Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, iii. 
rebozar, muffle, overlay, 
< re-, back, + bozo, a 
headstall.] A shawl or 
long scarf worn by Mex- 
ican and other Spanish- 
American women, cover- 
ing the head and shoul- 
ders, and sometimes part 
of the face, one end be- 
ing thrown over the left 
shoulder; a kind of man- 
tilla. Also written re- 
boso, rebosa, and ribosa. 
The ladies wear no hats, 
but wind about their beads 
and shoulders a graceful scarf 
called the reborn. This is pass- 
ed across the face, leaving only 
one eye of the lady exposed. 
J. Jefferson, Antobiog., p. 292. 
rebrace (re -bras'), v. t. 
brace up anew ; renew the strength or vigor of. 
Oh ! 'tis a cause 
To arm the hand of childhood, and rebrace 
The slacken'd sinews of time-wearied age. 
dray, Agrippina, i. 1. 
[< re- + brace.] To 
. . ., [< rebuke + -0113.] 
Of the nature of rebuke ; rebuking ; reproving. 
She gaue vnto hym many rebucous wordys. 
Fabyan, Chron. (ed. Ellis), p. 557, an. 1399. 
[< OF rebuff*- (also ra- 
"buffare & \so rabbuf- 
3. To fall back; recoil, as to a starting-point 
or a former state ; return as with a spring. 
Make thereof no laugheng, sporte, ne lape ; 
For ofte tymes it doith rebounde 
Vppon hym that list to crie and gape. 
Bootee of Precedence (E. E. T. S., extra ser.), i. 110. 
When it does Hardness meet and Pride, 
My Love does then rebound V another side. 
Cowley, The Mistress, Resolved to be Beloved, ii. 
4f. To send sounds back and forth ; reverber- 
ate; resound; reecho. 
Every hall where In they stay'd 
Wi' their mirth did reboun'. 
Sir Patrick Spent (Child's Ballads, III. 340). 
Where the long roofs rebounded to the din 
Of spectre chiefs. 
T. Warton, On his Majesty's Birthday, June 4, 1788. 
Rebounding lock. See lock*. =8yn. 1. Rebound, Rever- 
berate, Recoil. Rebound and reverberate apply to that which 
strikes an unyielding object and bounds back or away ; 
recoil applies to that which springs back from a position 
I'one Odvssev iv ><> ."* i " repel, repulse, inrow DacK. see refusei. 
: "buff (re-buf '), n. [< OF.rebuffe = It. rebuffo, 
character; full of or abounding in rebuke. 
Therfore he toke vpon him the rebukjul miserle of our 
mortalitee, to make us partakers of his godlye glorie. 
J. UdaU, On John i. 
ribuffo; from the verb.] 1. A repelling; a re- rebukefully (re-buk'ful-i), adv. With reproof 
percussion. u *_ 
percussion 
The strong rebuff of some tumultuous cloud, 
Instinct with flre and nitre, hurried him 
As many miles aloft. Milton, P. L., ii. 936. 
2. An interposed check ; a defeat. 
or reprehension. 
Unto euery man disclose nat thy harte, leest ... he 
. . reporte rebukefutty of the. 
Sir T. Elyot, The Governonr, ill. 28. 
These perplexing rebuffs gave my uncle Toby Shandy 
more perturbations than you would imagine. 
of rest, as a cannon or rifle when discharged, or a man and , ... 
a rattlesnake when they discover their proximity to each rebuild (re-blld ) 
other. Reverberate, by onomatopoeia, applies chiefly to 
heavy sounds, but has other special uses (see the word) ; 
it has no figurative extension. Recoil is most freely used 
in figure : as, a man's treachery recoils upon himself ; in 
sudden fright the blood recoils upon the heart 
H.t trans. To throw or drive back, as sound ; to rebuild one's credit, 
make an echo or reverberation of; repeat as rebuilder (re-bil'der), n. One who reconstructs 
an echo or echoes. or builds again. 
When I returned to the hotel that night, Smith stood 
rebuke/idly . . . before the parlor fire. 
T. B. Aldrich, Ponkapog to Pesth, p. 187. 
Sterne, Tristram Shandy, ii. i. rebuker (re-bu'ker), n. One who rebukes. 
The rebuffs we received in the progress of that expert- These great Rebukers of Nonresidence 
Burke, A Regicide Peace, Iii. Milton, Hist. Eng., ill. 
3. A holding off or in check; repulsion, as of rebukingly (re-bu'king-li), adv. In a rebuking 
inquiry or solicitation; peremptory denial or manner; by way of rebuke. 
A certain stillness of manner, which, as my friends often 
rebukingly declared, did but ill express the keen ardour of 
my feelings. Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, ii. 4. 
.... [< L. rebullire, 
pp. rebullitus, bubble up, also cause to bubble 
up: see reboil.] A renewed ebullition, effer- 
vescence, or disturbance. 
refusal. 
Who listens once will listen twice ; 
Her heart, be sure, is not of ice, 
And one refusal no rebuff. Byron, Mazeppa, vi. 
Alleyesmetherwithaglanceofeagercuriosity.andshe rebullltlpnt (re-bu-lish'on), n. 
met all eyes with one of rebuff and coldness. 
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, xviii. 
,.<.; pret. and pp. rebuilt, 
ipr. rebuilding. [< re- + build.] To build or 
uild up again ; build or construct after having 
There may be a rebullition in that business. 
Sir H. Wotton, Reliquue, p. 582. 
been demolished; reconstruct or reconstitute: reburset (re-bers'), v. t. [< re- + burse. Cf. 
as, to rebuild a house, a wall, a wharf, or a city ; reimburse.] To pay over again ; expend anew. 
t.r\ tvTii/i//? inn.'-: rtTo/lit 
The dogge tyger . . . rored soo terrybly that it grated 
" suche as harde hym, and the wooddes and 
the bowels of su 
the n yse * the 
The rebuilders of Jerusalem after the captivity. 
Bp. Bull, Works, I. 240. 
rebukable (re-bu'ka-bl), a. [< rebuke + -able.] 
Deserving of rebuke or reprehension. 
Peter Martyr (tr. in Eden's First Books on America, ed. 
[Arber, p. 144). 
Through rocks and caves the name of Delia sounds ; 
Delia each cave and echoing rock rebounds. 
Pope, Autumn, 1. 50. 
rebound (re-bound'), n. [< rebound, i:] The rebuke^ (re-buk'^), v^J. ; pret. andj>p. rebuked, 
Rebukeable 
And worthy shameful check it were to stand 
On more mechanic compliment 
Shak., A. and C., iv. 4. 30. 
, . ,, [< rebound, r.] 
act of flying back on collision with another 
body ; a bounding back or in reverse ; resili- 
ence; recoil; reecho; reverberation. 
Ye haue another figure which by his nature we may call 
the Rebound, alluding to the tennis ball which being 
smitten with the racket reboundes backe againe. 
Ptittenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 173. 
ppr. rebuktng. [< ME. rebuken, < OF. rebouguer, 
later reboueher, dull, blunt (a weapon), < re-, 
back, + bouquer, F. boucJier, stop, obstruct, shut 
up, also hoodwink, < bouque, F. bouctie, mouth, 
< L. bucca, cheek: see bouche, bucca.] 1. To 
As he was robbed on ; ay, and pay his hurts. 
B. Jonson, Tale of a Tub, iii. 1. 
rebus (re'bus), n. [< OF. rebus, F. rebus, a re- 
bus ; derived, according to Manage, from sa- 
tirical pieces which the clerics of Picardy com- 
posed at the annual carnival, and which, as 
they referred to current topics, follies, etc., 
were entitled de rebus quse geruntur, 'of things 
which are going on'; otherwise explained as 
words represented 'by things'; < L. rebus, abl. 
pi. of res, a thing, an object: see real 1 .] 1. A 
puzzle or riddle consisting of words or phrases 
represented by figures or pictures of objects 
whose names resemble in sound those words 
or phrases or the syllables of which they are 
composed; an enigmatical representation of 
reprove directly and pointedly; utter sharp dis- words by means of figures or pictures sug- 
approval of; reprimand; chide, gestive of them. 2. In her.: (a) A bearing or 
