regurgitation 
gurgitating or pouring liack. 2. The net of 
swallowing again; reabsorption. 
In the lowest creatures, the distribution of crude nutri- 
ment is by slow gurgitations and regurfjitations. 
H. Spencer, Universal Progress, p. 417. 
8. In med. : (a) The puking or posseting of 
infants, (b) The rising of solids or fluids into 
the mouth in the adult, (c) Specifically, the 
reflux through incompetent heart-valves: as, 
aortic regurgitation (reflux through leaking aor- 
tic valves). 
reh (ra), M. [Hind.] A saline efflorescence ris- 
ing to the surface and covering various exten- 
sive tracts of land in the Indo-Gangetic allu- 
vial plain, rendering the soil worthless for cul- 
tivation. It consists chiefly of sodium sulphate mixed 
with more or less common salt (sodium chlorid) and sodi- 
um carbonate. It is known in the Northwest Provinces 
of India as reh, and further west, in the Upper Punjab, as 
Iralar or kiMar. 
Those who have travelled through Northern India can- 
not fail to have noticed whole districts of land as white as 
if covered with snow, and entirely destitute of vegetation. 
. . . This desolation is caused by reh, which is a white 
flocculent efflorescence, formed of highly soluble sodium 
salts, which are found in almost every soil. Where the 
subsoil water-level is sufficiently near the surface, the 
strong evaporating .force of the sun's heat, aided by cap- 
illary attraction, draws to the surface of the ground the 
water holding these salts in solution, and these compel 
the water, which passes off in the form of vapour, to leave 
behind the salts it held as a white efflorescence. 
A. G. F. Eliot James, Indian Industries, p. 195. 
rehabilitate (re-ha-bil'i-tat), v. t. [< ML. re- 
habilitat/is, pp. of rthabilitare (> It. riabilitarc 
= Sp. Pg. reliabilitar = OF. rehabiliter, F. rf- 
habillter), restore, < re-, again. + habilitare, 
habilitate: see habilitate.'] 1. To restore to a 
former capacity or standing ; reinstate; qualify 
again ; restore, as a delinquent, to a former 
right, rank, or privilege lost or forfeited : a term 
drawn from the civil and cauon law. 
He is rehabilitated, his honour is restored, all his attain- 
ders are purged ! Burlce. A Regicide Peace, iv. 
Assured 
The justice of the court would presently 
Confirm her in her rights and exculpate, 
Re-integrate, and rehabilitate. 
Browning, Ring and Book, II. 327. 
2. To reestablish in the esteem of others or 
in social position lost by disgrace ; restore to 
public respect: as, there is now a tendency 
to rehabilitate notorious historical personages ; 
Lady Blank was rehabilitated by the influence 
of her family at court. 
rehabilitation (re-ha-bil-i-ta'shon), n. [= OF. 
rehabilitation, F. rehabilitation "= Sp. rehabili- 
tation = Pg. rehabUitagSo = It. riabilitazione, 
< ML. rehabilitatio(n-), < rehabilitare, pp. reha- 
bilitates, rehabilitate: see rehabilitate.'] The 
act of rehabilitating, or reinstating in a former 
rank, standing, or capacity; restoration to for- 
mer rights; restoration to or reestablishment 
in the esteem of others. 
This old law-term [rehabilitate] has been gaining ground 
ever since it was introduced into popular discourse by 
Burke, to whom it may have been suggested by the French 
rehabiliter. Equally with its substantive, rehabilitation. 
it enables us to dispense with a tedious circumlocution. 
F. Hall, Mod. Eng., p. 299, note. 
rehaitt, rehetet, . t. [ME. rehaiten, rehayten, 
reheten, < OF. rehaitier, make joyful, < re-, again. 
+ haitier, make joyful.] To revive; cheer; 
encourage; comfort. 
Thane the conquerour kyndly caipede to those lordes, 
Rehetede the Romaynes with realle speche. 
Morte Arthure (E. E. T. 84 1. -221. 
Hym wol I comforte and rehete, 
For I hope of his gold to gete. 
Ram. of the Rose, 1. 6509. 
rehandle (re-han'dl), . t. [< re- + handle.] 
To handle or have to do with again ; remodel ; 
revise. Tlte Academy, March 29, 1890, p. 218. 
rehash (re-hash'), v. t. [< OF. rehacher, hack 
or chop again, < re-, again, + haeher, chop, 
hash: see hash 1 .] To hash anew; work up, as 
old material, in a new form. 
rehash (re-hash'), . [(rehash, .] Something 
hashed afresh ; something concocted from ma- 
terials formerly used: as, a literary rehnxh. 
[Colloq.] 
I understand that Dr. G 's speech here, the other 
evening, was principally a rehash of his Yreka effort. 
Senator Broderick, Speech in California, Aug., 1869 
[(BarOett.) 
Your finest method in her hands is only a rehash of the 
old mechanism. Jour, of Education, XVIII. 377. 
rehead (re-hed' ), r. t. [< re- + head.] To fit or 
furnish with a head again, as a cask or a nail. 
rehear (re-heV), r. t. [< re- + hear.] To hear 
again ; try a second time : as, to rehear a cause 
in a law-court. Sp. Home, Com. on Ps. Ixxxii. 
5052 
rehearing (re-her'ing), . [Verbal n. of re- 
hrnr, r.] A second hearing; reconsideration; 
especially, in law, a second hearing or trial; 
more specifically, a new trial in chancery, or a 
second argument of a motion or an appeal. 
If by this decree either party thinks himself aggrieved, 
he may petition the chancellor for a rehearing. 
Blackstone, Com., III. xxvii. 
rehearsal (re-her'sal), . [Early mod. E. n- 
liersall; < ME. rehersaille, < OF. rehearsal, n- 
hersall, repeating, < reherser, rehearse : see re- 
lii-nrxe.'] The act of rehearsing, (a) Repetition 
of the words of another. 
Twice we appoint that the words which the minister 
pronounceth the whole congregation shall repeat after 
him : as first in the publick confession of sins, and again 
in rehearsal of our Lord's prayer after the blessed sacra- 
ment. Hooter, Eccles. Polity. 
(6) Narration ; a telling or recounting, as of particular* : 
as, the rehearaal of one's wrongs or adventures. 
Be not Autour also of tales newe. 
For callyng to rehersaitt, lest thou it rewe. 
Booke of Precedence (E. E. T. S., extra ser.X i. 110. 
You haue made mine eares glow at the reheargall of your 
loue. Lyly, Euphues, Anat of Wit, p. 75. 
(c) In muric and the drama : (1) The process of studying by 
practice or preparatory exercise : as, to put a work in re- 
hearsal. (2) A meeting of musical or dramatic performers 
for practice and study together, preliminary to a public 
performance. 
Here 's a marvellous convenient place for our rehearsal. 
This green plot shall be our stage. 
Shak., M. Jf. D., 111. 1. 8. 
Full rehearsal, a rehearsal in which all the performers 
take part. Public rehearsal, a rehearsal to which a 
limited number of persons are admitted by way of com- 
pliment or for their criticism, or even as to a regular per- 
formance. 
rehearse (re-hers'), .; pret. and pp. rehearsed, 
ppr. rehear'siny. [Early mod. E. also reherse ; 
< ME. rehercen, rehersen, rehearsen, < AF. reher- 
ser, rehercer, repeat, rehearse, a particular use 
of OF. reherser, harrow over again, < re-, again, 
+ hercer, harrow, < herce, F. herse, a harrow : 
see hearse 1 .] I. iron*. I. To repeat, as what 
has already been said or written ; recite ; say 
or deliver again. 
Her falre locks up stared stifle on end, 
Hearing him those same bloody lynes reherse. 
Spenser, F. Q., III. xii. 36. 
When the words were heard which David spake, they 
rehearsed them before Saul. 1 Sam. xvii. 31. 
We rehearsed our rhymes 
To their f air auditor. 
Whittier, Bridal of Pennacook. 
2. To mention ; narrate ; relate ; recount ; re- 
capitulate ; enumerate. 
With many moe good deedes, not rehearsed heere. 
Rob. of Olouceiter, p. 582. 
Of swiche unkynde abhomynacions 
N'e I wol noon reherce, if that I may. 
Chaucer, Man of Law's Tale, 1. 8*. 
There shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord. 
Judges v. 11. 
3. To repeat, act, or perform in private for ex- 
periment and practice, preparatory to a public 
performance: as, to rehearse a tragedy; to re- 
hearse a symphony. 
A mere boy, with but little physical or dramatic strength, 
coming upon the stage to rehearse so important a charac- 
ter, must have been rather a shock . . . to the great actor 
whom he was to support. ./. Jefferson, Autobiog., p. 129. 
4. To cause to recite or narrate; put through 
a rehearsal ; prompt. [Rare.] 
A wood-sawyer, living by the prison wall, is under the 
control of the Defarges, and has been rehearsed by Madame 
Defarge as to his having seen her [Lucie] . . . making 
signs and signals to the prisoners. 
Dickens, Two Cities, iii. 12. 
Syn. 2. To detail, describe. See recapitulate. 
n. iiitrans. To repeat what has been already 
said, written, or performed; go through some 
performance in private, preparatory to public 
representation. 
Meet me in the palace wood; . . . there will we rehearse. 
Shale., H. N. D., i. 2. 106. 
rehearser (re-her'ser), n. One who rehearses, 
recites, or narrates. 
Such rehearsers [of genealogies] who might obtrude fic- 
titious pedigrees. Johnson, Jour, to Western Isles. 
rehearsing (re-her'sing), . [< ME. rehersyng, 
njirmi/nyr; verbal n. of rehearse, r.] Rehearsal; 
recital; discourse. 
Of love, of hate, and other sondry thynges, 
Of whiche I may not maken rehersynges. 
Chaucer, Good Women, 1. 24. 
reheat (re-hef), v. t. [< re- + heat.] To heat 
again or anew Keneating-furnace. See furnace. 
reheater (re-he'ter), n. An apparatus for re- 
storing heat to a previously heated body which 
has entirely or partially cooled during some 
stage of a manufacture or process. In a diffusion 
reify 
roots. The hot water for diffusion is directed thro 
pipes connecting the diffusers with the reheaters by me 
of cocks or valves, and is reheated by passing through a 
reheater after passing through a diff user. Thus, through 
the aid of heat and pressure, the water becomes charged 
with sugar. See diffusion apparatus (under diffusion), and 
dMiM. 
rehedt, . A corrupt Middle English form of 
reed 1 . 
reheel (re-hel'), v. t. [< re- + heel 1 .] To sup- 
ply a heel to, especially in knitting, as in mend- 
ing a stocking. 
renelm (re-helm'), v. t. [< re- + helm?.] To 
cover again, as the head, with ( a helm or hel- 
met. 
With the crossynge of their speares the erle was vn- 
helmed ; than he retourned to his men, and lucontynent 
he was rehelmed, and toke his speare. 
Berners, tr. of Froissart's Chron., II. cxlvllL 
rehersaillet, n. A Middle English form of re- 
hearsal. 
reherset, . An obsolete spelling of rehearse. 
rehetet. r. t. See rehait. 
rehibitlon (re-hi-bish'on), n. Same as redhibi- 
tion. 
rehibitory (re-hib'i-to-ri), a. Same as redhibi- 
tory. 
rehybridize (re-hl'bri-diz), r. t. [< re- + hy- 
hriili^e.] To cause to hybridize or interbreed 
a second time and with a different species. 
Hybrid plants may be again crossed or even re-hybrid- 
ised. Encyc. Brit., XII. 216. 
rehypothecate (re-hi-poth'e-kat), v. *. [< re- 
+ hyi>othemtf.] To hypothecate again, as by 
lending as security bonds already pledged. See 
hypothecate. 
rehypothecation (re-hi-poth-e-ka'shon), n. [< 
re- -r hypothecation.] The pledging of property 
of any kind as security for a loan by one with 
whom it has already been pledged as security 
for money he has loaned. 
rei, . Plural of reug. 
reichardtite (ri'char-tlt), . [< Beichardt + 
-ite.] A massive variety of epsomite from Stass- 
furt, Prussia. 
Reichertian (ri-cher'ti-an), a. [< Beichert (see 
def.) + -ian.] Pertaining to the German anat- 
omist K. B. Reichert (1811-83). 
Beichsrath (G. pron. richs'rat), n. [G., < 
reichs, gen. of retch, kingdom, empire (= AS. 
rice, kingdom: see riche), + rath, council, par- 
liament: see read 1 , rede 1 .] The chief delibera- 
tive body in the Cisleithan division of Austria- 
Hungary. It is composed of an upper house (Herren- 
haus) of princes, certain nobles and prelates, and life- 
members nominated by the emperor, and of a lower 
house of 853 deputies elected by landed proprietors and 
other persons having a certain property or particular in- 
dividual qualification. 
Beichsstadt (G. pron. rlch'stat), n. [G., < 
reichs, gen. of reich, kingdom, empire, + stadt, 
a town. Cf. stadtholder.] In the old Boman- 
German empire, a city which held immediate- 
ly of the empire and was represented in the 
Reichstag. 
Reichstag (G. pron. richs'tach), n. [G., < 
rriclm, gen. of reich, kingdom, empire, T tag, 
parliament: see day*. Ct.Landtat/.] The chief 
deliberative body in certain countries of Europe. 
For the Reichstag of the old Roman-German empire, see 
diet-. In the present empire of Germany, the Reichstag, 
in combination with the Bundesrath (which see), exercises 
the legislative power in imperial matters ; it is composed 
of 397 deputies, elected by universal suffrage. In the 
Transleithan division of Austria-Hungary it is composed 
of a House of Magnates and a lower House of Represen- 
tatives. Reichstag in all these senses is often rendered in 
English by diet or parliament. 
reichsthaler (G. pron. richs'ta'ler), H. [G., < 
reichs, gen. of reich, kingdom, empire, + thaler, 
dollar: see dollar.] Same as rix-doltar. 
reift, n. Seerec/s. 
reification (re"i-fi-ka'shgn), n. [< reify + 
-atiott (see -fication) .] Materialization; objec- 
tivization; externalization ; conversion of the 
abstract into the concrete; the regarding or 
treating of an idea as a thing, or as if a thing. 
[Rare.] 
reify (re'i-fi), r. t. ; pret. and pp. reified, ppr. 
ri'ifi/ing. [< L. res, a thing, + -ficare, < facere, 
make (see -fy).] To make into a thing; make 
real or material ; consider as a thing. 
The earliest objects of thought and the earliest concepts 
must naturally be those of the things that live and move 
about us ; hence, then to seek no deeper reason for 
the present this natural tendency, which language by 
providing distinct names powerfully seconds, to reify or 
personify not only things, but every element and relation 
of things which we can single out, or, in other words, to 
concrete our abstracts. J. Ward, Encyc. Brit., XX. 78. 
