reem 
reem 8 (rem), n. [< Heb.] The Hebrew name 
of an animal mentioned in the Old Testament 
(Job xxxix. 9, etc.), variously translated 'uni- 
corn,' 'wild ox,' and 'ox-antelope,' now identi- 
fied as 
Will the tall reem, which knows no Lord but me, 
Low at the crib, and ask an alms of thee? 
Young, Paraphrase on Job, 1. 241. 
reembark (re-em-bark'), i'. [= F. reinbnrqiier 
= Sp. Pg. reembarcar; as re- + embark.] I. 
trans. To embark or put on board again. 
On the 22d of August, 1776, the whole army being re-em- 
barked was safely landed, under protection of the shipping, 
on the south-western extremity of Long Island. 
Belsham, Hist. Great Britain, George III. 
II. intrans. To embark or go on board again. 
Having performed this ceremony [the firing of three vol- 
leys] upon the island, ... we re-embarked in our boat. 
Cook, First Voyage, II. v. 
reembarkation (re-em-bar-ka'shon), n. [< re- 
+ embarkation.] A putting on board or a going 
on board again. 
Reviews, re-embarkations, and councils of war. 
Smollett, Hist. Eng., ill. 2. (Latham.) 
reemingt, . [Verbal n. of reem 3 , v.~\ Lament- 
ing; groaning. 
On this wise, all the weke, woke thai within, 
With Jtemynq & rauthe, Renkes to be-hold. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 8696. 
reenact (re-e-nakf), v. t. [< re- + enact.'] To 
enact again, as a law. 
The Construction of Ships was forbidden to Senators, by 
a Law made by Claudius, the Tribune, . . . and re-enacted 
by the Julian Law of Concessions. 
Arbuthnot, Ancient Coins, p. 259. 
The Southern Confederacy, in its short-lived constitu- 
tion, re-enacted all the essential features of the constitution 
of the United States. 
E. A. Freeman, Amer. Lects., p. 397. 
reenactment (re-e-nakt'rnent), n. [< reenact + 
-ment.~\ The enacting of a law a second time ; 
the renewal of a law. Clarke. 
ree'nforce, reenforcement, etc. See reinforce, 
etc. 
reengender (re-en-jen'der), v. t. [< re- + en- 
gender.] To regenerate. 
The renovating and reingendering spirit of God. 
Milton, On Def. of Humb. Remonst, 4. 
reenslave (re-en-slav'), * (X re ~ + enslave.'} 
To enslave again ; cast again into bondage. 
reenslavement (re-en-slav'ment), n. [< reen- 
slave + -ment.] The act of reenslaving, or sub- 
jecting anew to slavery. 
Consenting to their reenslavement, we shall pass . . . 
under the grasp of a military despotism. 
The Independent, April 24, 1862. 
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reenthronize (re-en-thro'niz), r. t. [< re- + 
entlironise.] To reenthrono. [Rare.] 
This Mustapha they did re-inthronize, and place in the 
Ottoman Empire. llowell, Letters, I. iii. 22. 
reentrance (re-en 'trans), 11. [< re- + entrance 1 .] 
The act of entering again. 
Their repentance, although not their first entrance, is 
notwithstanding the first step of their re-entrance into 
life. Hooker. 
It is not reasonable to think but that so many of their 
orders as were outed from their fat possessions would 
endeavour a re-entrance against those whom they account 
heretics. Dri/den, Religio Laici, Pref. 
reentrant (re-en'trant), a. [= F. rentrant = 
Pg. reintranie = It. rientrante; as re- + en- 
trant.] Same as reentering. 
A reentrant fashion. Amer. Jour. Sci., XXX. 216. 
Reentrant angle. See angle*. Reentrant branch, in 
geom. See branch, 2 (d). 
reentry (re-en'tri), H. [< re- + entry.] 1. The 
act of reentering ; a new or fresh entry. 
A right of re-entry was allowed to the person selling any 
office on repayment of the price and costs at any time be- 
fore his successor, the purchaser, had actually been ad- 
mitted. Brougham. 
2. In law, the resuming or retaking possession 
of lauds previously parted with by the person 
so doing or his predecessors: as, a landlord's 
reentry for non-payment of rent Proviso for 
reentry, a clause usually inserted in leases, providing 
that upon non-payment of rent, public dues, or the like, 
the term shall cease. 
reenverset, v. t. [For renverse, < OF. renverser, 
reverse: see renverse.] To reverse. 
Reenversing his name. 
Donne, Pseudo-Martyr, p. 274. (Encyc. Diet.) 
reeper (re'per), . A longitudinal section of 
the Palmyra-palm, used in the East as a build- 
ing-material. 
reermouse, . See reremouse. 
reesH, See race 1 . 
rees 2 (res), n. A unit of tale for herrings (= 375). 
reescatet, v. t. Same as reseat. 
reesk (resk), n. [Also reysk, reyss; < Gael. 
riasg, coarse mountain-grass, a marsh, fen. Cf. 
rishl, rusliL.~] 1. A kind of coarse or rank 
grass. 2. Waste land which yields such grass. 
[Scotch in both senses.] 
reestH, See reasfl. 
reest 2 (rest), v. [Also reist, a dial, form of rest 2 : 
see rest 2 .] I. intrans. To stand stubbornly still, 
as a horse ; balk. [Scotch.] 
In cart or car thou never reestit, 
The steyest brae thou wad ha'e fac'd it 
Burns, Auld Farmer's Salutation to his Auld Mare. 
II. trans. To arrest; stop suddenly; halt. 
reenstamp (re-en-stamp'), v. t. [< re- + en- -HA vi- . </ 
itainn 1 1 To ei fttrain Bedell reestablish (re-es-tab'lish), v. t. [< re- + es- 
tablish. Cf. OF. restablir, rctablir, F. retablir, 
Pr. restablir, Sp. restablecer, Pg. restabelecer, It. 
ristabilire, reestablish.] To establish anew ; set 
up again: as, to reestablish one's health. 
And thus was the precious tree of the crosse reestab- 
lyehid in his place, and thauncyent myracles renewid. 
Holy Rood (E. E. T. S.), p. 164. 
The French were re-established in America, with equal 
power and greater spirit, having lost nothing by the war 
which they had before gained. 
Johnson, State of Affairs in 1766. 
reestablisher (re-es-tab'lish-er), n. One who 
reestablishes. 
reenter (re-en'ter), v. [< re- + enter. Cf. F. 
rentrer, reenter, = It. rientrare, shrink.] I. 
intrans. 1. To enter again or anew. 
That glory . . . into which He re-entered after His pas- 
sion and ascension. Waterland, Works, IV. 66. 
2. In law, to resume or retake possession of 
lands previously parted with. See reentry, 2. 
As in case of Disseisin, the law hath been, that the dis- 
seisor could not re-enter without action, unless he had as 
it were made a present and continual claim. 
Selden, Illustrations of Drayton's Polyolbion, xvii. 128. 
II. trans. 1. To enter anew: as, (a) to reenter 
a house; (b) to reenter an item in an account 
or record. 2. In engraving, to cut deeper, as 
lines of an etched plate which the aqua fortis 
has not bitten sufficiently, or which have be- 
come worn by repeated printing. 
reentering (re-en'ter- ing), n. In hand-block 
calico-printing, the secondary and subsequent 
colors, which are adapted to their proper place 
in the pattern on the cloth by means of pin- 
points. Also called grounding-in. E. H. Knight. 
reentering (re-en'te'r-ing), p. a. En- 
tering again or anew Reentering 
angle, an angle pointing inward (see an- 
gle A )', specifically, in fort., the angle of a 
work whose point turns inward toward the Ref ntering 
defended place. 
All that can be seen of the fortress from the river, upon 
which it fronts, is a long, low wall of gray stone broken 
sharply into salient and reentering angles with a few can- 
non en barbette. The Century, XXXV. 521. 
Re entering polygon. See polygon. 
reenthrone (re-en-thron'), v. t. [< re- + en- 
throne.] To enthrone again; restore to the 
throne. 
He disposes in my hands the scheme 
To reenthrone the king. Southerne. 
reenthronement (re-en-thron'ment), n. [< re- 
enthrone 4- -ment.] The act of enthroning 
again; restoration to the throne. 
Restorers of virtue, and re-establishersot a happy world. 
Sir E. Sandys, State of Religion. 
reestablishment (re-es-tab'lish-ment), n. [< 
reestablish + -ment. Cf. OF. resiablissement, 
retablissement, F. retablissement, Sp. restableci- 
miento, Pg. restabelecimento, It. ristabilimcnto.] 
The act of establishing again, or the state of 
being reestablished ; restoration. 
The Jews . . . made such a powerful effort for their re- 
establishment under Barchocab, in the reign of Adrian, as 
shook the whole Roman empire. 
Addison, Of the Christian Religion, viii. 6. 
The re-establishment of the old system, by which the 
dean and chapter (jointly) may have the general conduct 
of the worship of the church, and the care of the fabric. 
Edinburgh Rev., CLXIII. 183. 
reBstatet (re-es-tat' ),v.t. [< re- + estate.] To 
reestablish ; reinstate. 
Had there not been a degeneration from what God made 
us at first, there had been no need of a regeneration to 
re-estate us in it. Wallis, Two Sermons, p. 26. 
reested, reestit (res'ted, -tit), y. a. See reasted. 
reet 1 (ret), n. A dialectal variant of roofl. 
The highest tree in Elmond's wood, 
He 's pu'd it by the reet. 
young Akin (Child's Ballads, I. 180). 
reet 2 (ret). . and n. A dialectal variant of 
right. 
regxhibit 
reet 2 (ret), . t. [A dialectal variant of right.] 
To smooth, or put in order ; comb, as the hair. 
Iliilliicen. [Prov. Eng.] 
reetle, v. t. [A f req. of ree f 2 .] To put to rights ; 
repair. Hallhrrll. [Prov. Eng.] 
reeve 1 (rev), . [< ME. reeve, reve, < AS. gerefa 
(rarely gereafa, with loss of prefix refa, with 
syncope in Anglian graJfa), a prefect, steward, 
fiscal officer of a shire or county, reeve, sher- 
iff, judge, count; origin uncertain. The form 
gerefa suggests a derivation (as orig. an hon- 
orary title), < ge-, a generalizing prefix, + rof 
(= OS. rof, ruof), famous, well-known or 
valiant, stout, a poetical epithet of imprecise 
meaning and unknown origin. But gerefa may 
perhaps stand for orig. "grej'a (Anglian gr&fa) 
= OFries. greva = D. graaf OHG. grdvo, 
MHG. grave, greeve, G. graf, a count, prefect, 
overseer, etc. : see graf, grave 6 , greeye^.] 1. A 
steward; aprefect; abailiff; a business agent. 
The word enters into the composition of some titles, as 
borough-reeve, hog-reeve, portreeve, sheriff {shire-reeve), town- 
reeve, etc., and is itself in use in Canada and in some parts 
of the United States. 
Selde falleth the seruant so deepe in arerages 
As doth the reyue other the conterroller that rekene mot 
and a-counte 
Of al that thei hauen had of by m that is here maister. 
Piers Plowman (C), xii. 298. 
His lordes scheep, his neet, his dayerie, 
His swyn, his hois, his stoor, and his pultrie, 
Was holly in this reeves governynge. 
Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T. (ed. Morris), 1. 599. 
In auncient time, almost every manor had his reve, 
whose authoritie was not only to levie the lords rents, to 
set to worke his servaunts, and to husband his demesnes 
to his best profit and commoditie, but also to governe his 
tenants in peace, and to leade them foorth to war, when 
necessitie so required. 
Lambarde, Perambulation (1596), p. 484. (Halliwell.) 
A lord "who has so many men that he cannot person- 
ally have all in his own keeping " was bound to set over 
each dependent township a reeve, not only to exact his 
lord's dues, but to enforce his justice within its bounds. 
J. R. Green, Conq. of Eng., p. 217. 
The council of every village or township [in Canada] 
consists of one reeve and four councillors, and the county 
council consists of the reeves and deputy-reeves of the 
townships and villages within the county. 
Sir C. W. DUke, Probs. of Greater Britain, i. 2. 
2. A foreman in a coal-mine. Edinburgh Rev. 
[Local.] Fen reeve, in some old English municipal 
corporations, an officer having supervision of the fens or 
marshes. 
The Fen Reeve [at Dunwich] superintends the stocking of 
the marshes, and his emoluments are from 51. toGJ. a year. 
Municip. Corp. Report (1835X p. 2222. 
reeve 2 t (rev), v. i. An obsolete variant of reave. 
reeve 3 (rev), v. t. ; pret. and pp. reeved or rove, 
ppr. reeving. [< D. rcven = Dan. rebe, reef or 
reeve, < reef, a reef: see ree/ 2 , n. Cf. reef' 2 , v., 
a doublet of reeve 3 . The pp. rove is irreg., ap- 
par. in imitation of hove, pret. and pp. of heave.] 
Naut., to pass or run through anv hole in a 
block, thimble, cleat, ring-bolt, cringle, etc., 
as the end of a rope. 
When first leaving port, studding-sail gear is to be rove, 
all the running rigging to be examined, that which is un- 
fit for use to be got down, and new rigging rove in its 
place. R. H. Dana, Jr., Before the Mast, p. 15. 
reeve 4 (rev),. [Aprar. formed by irreg. vowel- 
change from the original of ruffl; see rw^ 2 .] 
A bird, the female of the ruff, Machetes pugnax. 
See Pavoncella, and cut under ruffi. 
The reeves lay four eggs in a tuft of grass, the first week 
in May. Pennant, Brit. Zobl. (ed. 1776), p. 458. (Jodrett.) 
Beeves's pheasant. See Phasianus. 
reexamination (re-eg-zam-i-na'shon), n. [= 
Sp. reexaminacion = Pg. reexaminacSo ; as re- 
+ examination.] A renewed or repeated ex- 
amination; specifically, in law, the examina- 
tion of a witness after a cross-examination. 
reexamine (re-eg-zam'in), v. t. [= Sp. Pg. re- 
examinar; as re- + examine.] To examine 
anew; subject to another examination. 
Spend the time in re-examining more duly your cause. 
Hooker. 
ree'XChange (re-eks-cbanj'), n. [< re- + ex- 
change, n.] 1. A renewed exchange. 2. In 
com., the difference in the value of a bill of 
exchange occasioned by its being dishonored 
in a foreign country in which it was payable. 
The existence and amount of it depend on the 
rate of exchange between the two countries. 
Wliarton. 
reexchange (re-eks-chanj'), . t. [< re- + ex- 
clunif/e, v7] To exchange again or anew. 
reexhibit (re-eg-zib'it), v. t. [< re- + ej-hibit.] 
To exhibit again or anew. 
reexhibit (re-eg-zib'it), . [< reexhibit, r.] A 
second or renewed exhibit. 
