reddleman 
reddleman(red'l-nmu),.; \>\. mw/ric (-meu). 
[< reddle + -man.] " A dealer in reddle or red 
chalk, usually a sort of peddler. Also raddlc- 
miin, riiddlcmiin. 
Raddleman then is a Reddleman, a trade (and that a 
poor one) only in this county (Rutland J, whence men bring 
on their backs a pack of red stones, or ochre, which they 
sell to the neighbouring countries for the marking of 
sheep. Fuller, Worthies, Rutlandshire, III. 38. 
Reddlemenot the old school are now but seldom seen. 
Since the introduction of railways Wessex fanners have 
managed to do without these somewhat spectral visitants, 
and the bright pigment so largely used by shepherds in 
preparing sheep for the fair is obtained by other routes. 
T. Hard:/, Return of the Native, L 9. 
reddock (red'ok), . Same as ruddock. [Prov. 
Eng.] 
red-dog (red'dog), . The lowest grade of flour 
produced in the roller-milling processes. Ori- 
ginally the term was applied to a poor flour made from 
middlings ; now it is applied to the lowest grade produced 
by the new-process milling. 
reddourt, " See redour. 
red-drum (red'drum), n. The southern red- 
fish, or red-bass, Seisenops ocellatus, an impor- 
tant food-fish of the Atlantic coast of the Unit- 
ed States from Chesapeake Bay southward. 
See cut under redfish. 
rede 1 !, and w. See read 1 . 
rede' 2 t, a-, n., and v. An obsolete form of red 1 . 
rede 3 t, * An obsolete form of red?. 
rede 4 t, An obsolete variant of ready. 
redecraft (red'kraft), n. [A pseudo-archaism, 
purporting to represent a ME. "rede-craft or 
AS. 'rxd-cr&ft, which was not in use.] The 
art or power of reasoning; logic. Barnes. 
red-edge (red'ej), . A bivalve mollusk of the 
family Lucinidse, Codakia tigerina. [Florida.] 
redeem (re-dem'), v. t. [Early mod. E. redeme; 
< OF. redimer, vernacularly raembre, reembre, 
raimbre, raiembre, etc., F. redimer = Sp. redimir 
= Pg. remir = It. redimere, < L. redimere, buy 
back, redeem, < red-, back, + emere, buy, orig. 
take : see emption, exempt, etc. Hence nit. re- 
demption, ransom, etc.] 1. To buy back; re- 
cover by purchase ; repurchase. 
If a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he 
may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold. 
Lev. xxv. 29. 
2. Specifically () In law, to recover or dis- 
encumber, as mortgaged property, by payment 
of what is due upon the mortgage. Commonly 
applied to the property, as in the phrase "to redeem from 
the mortgage " ; but sometimes applied, with the same 
meaning, to the encumbrance : as, "to redeem the mort- 
gage." (ft) In com., to receive back by paying 
the obligation, as a promissory note, bond, or 
any other evidence of debt given by a corpo- 
ration, company, or individual. 3. To ransom, 
release, or liberate from captivity or bondage, 
or from any obligation or liability to suffer or 
be forfeited, by paying an equivalent : as, to re- 
deem prisoners, captured goods, or pledges. 
Alas, sweet wife, my honour is at pawn ; 
And, but my going, nothing can redeem it. 
Shak., 2 Hen. IV., ii. 3. 8. 
Prepare to die to-morrow ; for the world 
Cannot redeem ye. 
Fletcher (and another), Sea Voyage, v. 2. 
Thrice was I made a slave, and thrice redeem'd 
At price of all I had. Beau, and Fl., Captain, ii. 1. 
One Abraham, found a Delinquent, redeems himself for 
seven hundred Marks. Baker, Chronicles, p. 82. 
If a pawnbroker receives plate or jewels as a pledge or 
security for the repayment of money lent thereon on a 
day certain, he has them upon an express contract or con- 
dition to restore them if the pledger performs his part by 
redeeming them in due time. Blackstone, Com., II. xxx. 
4. To rescue; deliver; save, in general. 
Redeem Israel, God, out of all his troubles. 
Ps. xxv. 22. 
How if ... 
I wake before the time that Romeo 
Come to redeem me? Shak., R. and J., iv. 3. 32. 
That valiant gentleman you redeem'd from prison. 
Fletcher, Beggars' Bush, iv. 3. 
Six thousand years of fear have made you that 
From which I would redeem you. 
Tennyson, Princess, iv. 
5. In theol., to deliver from sin and spiritual 
death by means of a sacrifice offered for the 
sinner. See redemption (c). 
I learn to believe in ... God the Son, who hath re- 
deemed me, and all mankind. 
Soak of Common Prayer, Catechism. 
Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, be- 
ing made a curse for us. Gal. iii. 1:>. 
6. To perform or fulfil, as a promise ; make 
good by performance : as, to redeem an obliga- 
tion. 
Had he lived, I doubt not that he would have redeemed 
the rare promise of his earlier years. 
O. It', llobnei, Old Vol. of Life, p. 09. 
5019 
7. To make amends for; atone for; compen- 
sate for. 
This feather stirs ; she lives ; if it be so. 
It is a chance which does redeem all sorrows 
That ever I have felt. Shalt., Lear, v. 3. 266. 
You have shewn much worth this day, redeem'd much 
error. Fletcher, Bonduca, v. 5. 
Passages of considerable beauty, especially in the last 
two acts, frequently occur ; but there is nothing to redeem 
the absurdity of the plot, 
tii/ord, Int. to Ford's Plays, p. xxii. 
To redeem defeat by new thought, by firm action, that 
is not easy. Emerson, Success. 
Detect at least 
A touch of wolf in what showed whitest sheep, 
A cross of sheep redeeming the whole wolf. 
Brmvning, Ring and Book, I. 27. 
8. To improve, or employ to the best advan- 
tage. 
Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. 
Eph. v. 16. 
He [Voltaire] worked, not by faith, but by sight, In the 
present moment, but with indefatigable energy, redeem- 
ing the time. J. F. Clarke, Self-Culture, p. 78. 
9f. To restore; revive. 
Hee wyll redeme our deadly drowping state. 
Oaicotffne, De Profundis, The Auctor. 
redeemability (re-de-ma-bU'i-ti), n. [< redeem- 
able + -ity (see -bility).] 'frede'emableness. Imp. 
Diet. 
redeemable (re-de'ma-bl), a. [< redeem + -able.] 
1. Capable of being redeemed; admitting of 
redemption. 2. Capable of being paid off; 
redemption 
But at the coming of Cesar, when thinges were altered, 
the Ueduanes had theyr hostages redeliuered, theyr old 
alyes and confederaces restored, new brought in by Cesar. 
Golding, tr. of Caisar, fol. 154. 
My lord, I have remembrances of yours 
That I have longed long to redeliver. 
Shak., Hamlet, lit 1. 94. 
Having assembled their forces, [they | boldly thrcatned 
at our Ports to force Smith to redeliver seven Salvages, 
which for their villanies he detained prisoners. 
Quoted in Capt. John Smith's Works, I. 171. 
2. To deliver again; liberate a second time. 
3. To report; repeat. 
0r. Shall I re-deliter you e'en so? 
Ham. To this effect, sir. Shak., Hamlet, v. 2. 186. 
redeliverance (re-de-liv'er-ans), n. [< re- + 
deliverance.} A second deliverance ; redelivery. 
Imp. Diet. 
redelivery (re-de-liv'er-i), n. [< re- + delivery.} 
The act of delivering back ; also, a second de- 
liverance or liberation. 
They did at last procure a sentence for the redelivery of 
what had been taken from them. 
Clarendon, Life, an. 1665. 
redemand (re-de-mand'), r. t. [< OF. (and F.) 
redemander = Pr. redemandar = It. ridoman- 
dare; as re- + demand, v.} To demand the re- 
turn of ; also, to demand a second time. 
They would say, God hath appointed us captains of 
these our bodily forts, which, without treason to that 
majesty, were never to be delivered over till they were 
redemanded. Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, iv. 
Our Long-boats, sent to take in fresh Water, were assail'd 
in the Port, and one taken and detain'd : which being re- 
subject to a right on the part of the debtor to demanded, answer was made, That neither the Skiff nor 
discharge, satisfy recover, or take back by the Seamen should be resto^d 
payment : as, a redeemable annuity. ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ brUUant ^ ' J' t WM 
Every note issued is receivable by any bank for debt redemanded. New York Tribune, March 8, 1887. 
due, and is redeemable by the national government in coin , . i / \ ryjjn 
if the local bank should fail. Harper', M ag., LXXX. 458. redemand (re-de-mand'), n. [< redemand v.} 
Redeemable rights, in law, those conveyances in prop- The repetition of a demand ; also, a demand for 
erty or in security which contain a clause whereby the the return ot anything. 
grantor, or any other person therein named, may, on pay- redemlse (re-de-miz'), V. t. [< re- + demise.] 
- 
, , , 
ment of a certain sum, redeem the lands or subjects con- 
r;d y e e emableness(re-d e 'ma-bl-nes), H . The state 
ol ! being redeemable Johnson 
redeemer (re-de'mer), . [< redeem + -i.] 
1. One who redeems ransoms, or atones for 
another. See redemptwn. 
And his redeemer challenged for his foe, 
Because he had not well maintemd hU right. ^ ^ 
., ,. r, r n mi, o * fi, 
Specifically - 2. [eop.] The Saviour of the 
world, Jesus Christ. 
dem j se back ; convey or transfer back, as 
e> *" ^ *" "*"' " *" 
(re-de-miz'), n. [< redemise, v.} Re- 
the tran ' sfer of an estat ' e b J ack to 
The precious image of our dear Redeemer. 
Shak., Rich. III. n. 1. 123. 
^ hag demised it . fte demise 
und redemise of an estate in fee simple, fee tail, 
f ufe or years by mutual leases. 
redemptible (^-demp'ti-bl), . [< L. redemp- 
tus, pp. of redimere, redeem: see redeem and 
.^.f Caableolbei ' ng Adeemed; redeemable. 
redemption (re-demp'shon), . [< ME. redemp- 
, 
cio, < OF. redemption, redemntiuti, F. rcdemp- 
tiou _ pr re j cio = & redendon = Pg. re- 
Christian libertie purchas d with the death of our Re- -, /)_ i> ./v7iYiu ( T, r/>rlemn1inln-\ a 
deemer Milton, Eikonoklastes, xiii. aempgao - It. leaenzione, <. L,. reaempn* n ), a 
buying back or off, a releasing, ransoming, re- 
demption, < redimere, buy back, redeem: see 
Cf . ransom, a reduced form of the same 
My Redeemer and my Lord, 
I beseech thee, I entreat thee, 
Guide me in each act and word. 
Longfellow, Golden Legend, ii. 
Congregation of the Redeemer, one of several Roman 
Catholic fraternities, the most famous of which is entitled 
the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer. See Redemp- 
torist. Order Of the Redeemer, an order of the king- 
dom of Greece, founded in 1834. 
redeeming (re-de'ming), p. a. [Ppr. of redeem.} 
Saving; making amends; noting what is good 
as exceptional to what is generally bad: as, 
there is not a single redeeming feature in the 
scheme. 
redeemless (re-dem'les), a. [< redeem + -less.} 
Incapable of being redeemed; without redemp- Specifically (a) In law, the 
tion; irrecoverable; incurable. ing of property bygone who ^ 
The duke, the hermit, Lodowick, and myselfe 
Will change his pleasures into wretched 
And redeemeleeae misery. 
Tragedy of Ho/man (1631). (Nares.) 
redelt, reddest, and v. Obsolete forms of 
riddle^. 
redelet, An obsolete form of riddle'^. _ 
redelesst, a. [ME. redeles, redles, < AS. rsedleds 
(= OHG. ratilos, MHG. G. ratios = Icel. rddh- 
lauss), without counsel, unwise, confused, < 
rsed, counsel (see read 1 , n.), + -leas, E. -less.} 
Without counsel or wisdom ; wild. 
For drede of hire drem [she] deulfulli quaked, . . . 
& romed than redli al redles to hure chapel, 
& godly be-soujt God to gode turne hire sweuen. 
William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2915. 
Now, Richard the redeles, reweth [have pity] on sou-self, 
That lawelesse leddyn genre lyf, and goure peple bothe. 
Richard the Redeleis (ed. Skeat), I. 1. 
The opponents of Eadward . . . dreaded that he would 
" govern by his own unbridled will," that he would be, in 
a word, what they afterwards called ^Ethelred a king 
redeless, or uncounselled. 
J. R. Green, Conq. of England, p. 339. 
redeliver (re-de-liv'er), r. (. [< OF.redelirn-r; 
as iv- + di-lii'i'r^.} 1. To deliver back; return 
to the sender ; restore. 
redeem. 
word.] The act of redeeming, or the state of 
being redeemed ; ransom; repurchase; deliver- 
ance; release: as, the redemption of prisoners 
of war, of captured goods, etc. 
But peaceful measures were also employed to procure 
the redemption of slaves; and money sometimes accom- 
plished what was vainly attempted by the sword. 
Sumner, Orations, I. 232. 
Such a sacrifice 
Alone the fates can deem a fitting price 
For thy redemption. 
William Morris, Earthly Paradise, I. 318. 
recovering or disencumber - 
lad a right to it subject to 
Jle conveyance, as where a 
debtor by paying his debt gets back a pledge or a mort- 
gaged estate ; also, the right of redeeming and reentering. 
(b) In com., payment to the holders by the issuer of notes, 
bills, or other evidences of debt, (c) In theol., deliverance 
from sin and its consequences by the obedience and sacri- 
fice of Christ the Redeemer. The word redemption pre- 
supposes that man is in a state of bondage to the powers 
of evil either spiritual powers external to himself, or evil 
passions and propensities within himself, or both and 
that he can be delivered from them only by the sacrifice and 
suffering of another. Thissuffering isregardedastheprice 
or ransom paid to redeem the captive. Thus, redemption is 
substantially equivalent to salvation, but involves the idea 
of a new and additional right over man acquired by God ; 
and the doctrine of redemption includes the doctrines of 
atonement, justification, regeneration, and sanctiflcation. 
The Mounte of Caluery, where our Sauyour Criste was 
crucyfyed and suffred dethe for our redemption. 
Sir R. Guytforde, Pylgrymage, p. 26. 
Plantagenet, 
Which held thee dearly as his soul's redemption. 
Shak., 3 Hen. VI., II. 1. 102. 
By sin man was principally bound to God, as relates to 
punishment, because he had principally sinned against 
God ; but he was bound to the devil as a tormentor, to 
whom he was justly delivered by God's permission; but 
the price of redemptiim ought to be paid to the principal. 
not to the intervening agent, and therefore Christ ex- 
hibited His death as the price of our redemption to God 
the Father for our reconciliation, and not to the devil. 
Durandus, in Owen's Dogmatic Theology, p. 279. 
