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Had I been the Under out of this secret, it would not rclishing-machine (rel'ish-mg-ma-shen''), n, 
have relished among my other discredits. lu joinery, a machine for shaping the shoulders 
Shak., W. T., v. 2. la o tenons It cosines several circular saws cutting 
Without which their greatest dainties would not relwh simultaneously in different planes so as to form the piece 
to their palates. Hakncitt, On Providence. at one opera ti n. 
He intimated ... how ill it would relish, if they should relisten (re-lis'n), V. i. [<- + listen.'] To 
advance Capt Underbill, whom we had thrust out for i : stpn affa l n or anew 
abusing the'court Winthrop, Hist. New England, I 383. "^ a8 l re , Mm to it , 
2. To have a flavor, literally or figuratively. Prattling the primrose fancies of the boy. 
Nothing of friend or foe can be unwelcome unto me Tennyson, The Brook, 
that savoureth of wit, or relisheth of humanity, or tasteth rp ij VA ( r p.li v M v IX re- + live 1 .! 
tter8 - revive. 
rely 
When he (JineasJ is forced, in his own defence, to kill 
Lausus, the poet shows him compassionate, and tempering 
the severity of his looks with a reluctance to the action. 
Dryden, Parallel of Poetry and Painting. 
Lay we aside all inveterate prejudices and stubborn re- 
luctancei. Waterland, Works, VIII. 383. 
There is in most people a reluctance and unwillingness 
to be forgotten. Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects. 
Magnetic reluctance. See magnetic resistance, under 
resistance. = Syn. Hatred, Dislike (see antipathy), back- 
wardness, disinclination. See list under aversion. 
of any good. 
This act of Propertius relisheth very strange with me. 
B. Jonson, Poetaster, iv. 1. 
A theory which, how much soever it may relish of wit 
and invention, hath no foundation in nature. Woodward. 
relish 1 (rel'ish), H. [< ME. reles, relees, relece, 
odor, taste; from the verb: see relish 1 , .] 1. 
A sensation of taste ; savor; flavor ; especially, 
a pleasing taste; hence, pleasing quality m 
general. 
Veins which, through the tongue and palate spread, 
To 
I. intrans. reluctancy (re-luk'tari-si), n. [As reluctance 
1U uvBg,.ii, icv 4 , . (see-cy).] Same as reluctance. 
For I wil reliue as I sayd on the third day, A, being re- reluctant (re-luk tant), a. [= < P. reluttant = 
'iued will goc before you into Galile. Sp. relucliante = Pg. reluctante = It. nluttante, 
' L. reluctan(t-)s, ppr. of reluctare, reluctari, 
Distinguish ev'ry relish, sweet and sour. 
Sir J. Dames, Immortal, of Soul, xvi. 
Her hunger gave a relish to her meat. 
Dryden, Cock and Fox, 1. 22. 
I would 
feel the w 
J. Udall, Paraphrase of Mark xiii. 
Will you deliver 
How this dead queen re-lives t 
Shak., Pericles, v. 3. 64. 
II. t trans. To recall to life ; reanimate ; re- 
vive. 
Had she not beene devoide of mortall slime, 
Shee should not then have bene relyv'd agaiue. 
Spenser, F. Q., III. iv. 35. 
By Faith, Saint Paul did Eutichus re-lyve: 
By Faith, Elias rais'd the Sareptite. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Triumph of Faith, iiii. 12. 
not anticipate the relish of any happiness, nor Rellyanist (rel'i-an-ist), n. [< Belly (see def. ) 
eight of any misery, before it ae^y Drives. + ^ + _ isf -| A member of a small Universal- 
Wbat Professor Bain describes as sense of r2 A , quUe ^^' - f " f 3 f?% $^1% 
apart from taste proper, and felt perhaps most keenly just reload (re-lod ), v. t. [< re- + toflrfi, t>.J IO 
as food is leaving or just after it has left the region of the load again, as a gun, a ship, etc. Imp. Diet. 
voluntary and entered that of the involuntary muscles of relocate (re-16'kat), v. t. [CLL. relocare, let out 
deglutition. ft S. Hall, German Culture, p. 253. agaln; < L ^ &gairlt + l oca rc, place, let: see 
2. Perception or appreciation of peculiar, es- i ocate . i n the def. taken in lit. sense, as < re- g pj.^^^,, f rom an unwilling mind; granted 
pecially of pleasing, quality in anything ; taste, + locate.] To locate again. Imp. Diet. 
in general; liking; appetite: generally used relocation (re-lo-ka'shon), n. [< F. relocation, 
with for before the thing, sometimes with of. < ML. relocatio(n-) (?),"< LL. relocare, let out 
again: see relocate. In def. 1 taken in lit. 
sense, as < relocate + -ion.'] 1. The act of re- 
locating. 2. In Scots law, a reletting; renewal 
of a lease Tacit relocation, the tacit or implied re- 
newal of a lease : inferred where the landlord, instead of 
warning the tenant to remove at the stipulated expiration 
of the lease, has allowed him to continue without making 
any new agreement. 
Who the relish of these guests will fit 
Needs set them but the alms basket of wit. 
B. Jonton, Ode to himself. 
They have a relish for everything that is news, let the 
matter of it be what it will. Addison, The Newspaper. 
This love of praise dwells most in great and heroic 
spirits ; and those who best deserve it have generally the 
most exquisite relish of it. Steele, Taller, No. 92. 
struggle against: see reluct.'] 1. Striving against 
some opposing force ; struggling or resisting. 
Down he fell, 
A monstrous serpent on his belly prone, 
Reluctant, but in vain ; a greater Power 
Now ruled him. Milton, P. L., x. 515. 
And bent or broke 
The lithe reluctant boughs to tear away 
Their tawny clusters. Tennyson, Enoch Arden. 
2. Struggling against some requirement, de- 
mand, or duty; unwilling; acting with repug- 
nance ; loath: as, he was very reluctant to go. 
From better habitation spurn'd, 
Reluctant dost thou rove? 
Goldsmith, The Hermit. 
The great body of the people grew every day more reluc- 
tant to undergo the inconveniences of military service, and 
better able to pay others for undergoing them. 
Macavlay, Hallam's Const. Hist. 
with unwillingness: as, reluctant obedience. 
My friend ... at length yielded a reluctant consent. 
Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, I. 180. 
4. Not readily brought to any specified beha- 
vior or action. 
Boswell had a genuine relish for what was superior in relongt (re-ldng'), v. t. [Accom. < OF. ralonger, 
prolong, lengthen (of. reloignement, delay), < re- 
+ alonger, lengthen: see allonge and long 1 ."] 1. 
To prolong; extend. 
I thynke it were good that the trewce were relonged. 
Berners, tr. of Frolssart's Chron., I. ccxii. 
2. To postpone. 
Then the kyng sent to Parys, commaundynge that the 
iourney and batayle between the squyer and y knyght 
sholde be relonged tyl his comynge to Parys. 
Berners, tr. of Froissart's Chron., II. Ixi. 
relovet (re-luv'), v. t. [< re- + lovei.] To love 
in return. 
To own for him so familiar and levelling an affection as 
any way, from genius to claret. 
Lowell, Among my Books, 1st ser., p. 361. 
3. A peculiar or characteristic, and especially 
a pleasing, quality in an object ; the power of 
pleasing ; hence, delight given by anything. 
His fears ... of the same relish as ours are. 
Shak., Hen. V., iv. 1. 114. 
In the time of Youth, when the Vanities and Pleasures 
and Temptations of the World have the greatest relish 
with us, and when the things of Religion are most apt to 
Life grows insipid, and has lost its relish. 
Addison, Cato, ii. 3. 
It preserves some relish of old writing. Pope. 
4. A small quantity just perceptible ; tincture ; 
smack. 
Some act 
That has no relish of salvation in't. 
Shak., Hamlet, ill. 3. 92. 
love, much more to expect to be reloved by him, were not 
the least saucy presumption man could be guilty of, did 
not his own commandments make it a duty. Boyle. 
relucentt (re-lu'sent), a. [ME. relusaunt, < OF. 
reluisant, F'.reluisant = Sp. reluciente = Pg. re- 
luzente = It. rilucente, < L. relucen(t-)s, ppr. of 
6 That which is used to impart a flavor; es- relucere, shine back or out, < re-, back, + lucere, 
shine : see lucent. 1 Throwing back light ; shin- 
ing; luminous; glittering; bright; eminent. 
I sej by-sonde that myry mere 
A crystal clyffe ful relusaunt; 
Mony ryal ray con fro hit rere. 
Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), L 159. 
That college wherein piety and beneficence were rein- 
vent in despite of jealousies. 
Bp. Backet, Abp. Williams, p. 46. 
pecially, something taken with food to increase 
the pleasure of eating, as sauce ; also, a small 
highly seasoned dish to stimulate the appetite, 
as caviare, olives, etc. See hors-oVceuvre. 
This is not such a supper as a major of the Royal Amer- 
icans has a right to expect ; but I've known stout detach- 
ments of the corps glad to eat their venison raw, and 
without a reliih too. J. F. Cooper, Last of Mohicans, v. 
Happiness was not happy enough, but must be drugged 
with the relish of pain and fear. 
Emerson, Essays, 1st ser., p. 159. 
In Italy, Spain, and those hot countries, or else nature 
and experience too lies, a temporal man cannot swallow a 
morsel or bit of spiritual preferment but it is reluctant in 
his stomach, up it comes again. 
Rev. T. Adams, Works, II. 228. 
The liquorice renders it link] easily dissolvable on the 
rubbing up with water, to which the isinglass alone would 
be somewhat reluctant. Workshop Receipts, 2d ser. , p. S37. 
= Syn. 2. Averse, Reluctant (see averse), disinclined, op- 
posed, backward, slow. 
reluctantly (re-luk'tant-li),arf. In a reluctant 
manner; with opposition; unwillingly. 
reluctate (re-luk'tat), t'.; pret. and pp. re- 
luctated, ppr'. reluctating. [< L. reluctatus, pp. 
of reluctari, struggle against: see reluct.'] I. 
intrans. To struggle against something ; be re- 
luctant. [Obsolete or provincial.] 
Men devise colours to delude their reluctating con- 
sciences ; but when they have once made the breach, their 
scrupulosity soon retires. Decay of Christian Piety. 
I have heard it within the past year from one of the 
Southern Methodist bishops : " You reluctate at giving up 
the good opinion men have of you." He told me that he 
got it from his old Scotch-Irish professor, who died a few 
years ago at the age of ninety or more. 
Trans. Amer. Philol. Ass., XVII. 42. 
II. trans. To struggle against; encounter 
with reluctance or unwillingness. [Rare.] 
The mind that reluctates any emotion directly evades 
all occasion for bringing that object into consciousness. 
Hickolc, Mental Science, p. 101. 
reluctationt (re-luk-ta'shon), . [< reluctate + 
-ion.] Reluctance; repugnance; resistance. 
I have done as many villanies as another, 
And with as little reluctation. 
Fletcher, Pilgrim, U. 2. 
" Knowing as yon was partial to a little relish with your reluct (re-lukf), V. i. [= OF. relucter, rel 
wittles, ... we took the liberty" [of bringing a present ter ftftftler, F. relutter = Sp. reluchar = Pg. 
of shrimps]. ^ I ^^i Da oid\uUoned mla luctar = It. reluttare, < I,, relnctare, reluct 
In brighter mazes, the relucent Stream 
Plays o'er the mead. Thomson, Summer, 1. 162. 
= OF. relucter, reluic- re ltune (re-lum'), v. t.; pret. and pp. relumed, 
Relapse and reluctation of the breath. 
A. C. Sunnhurne, Anactoria. 
with its side-d 
Stilton of scandal, so it I 
1 not too high. 
Lowell, Study Windows, p. 91. 
Pg. re- 
reluctari, 
luctafi, struggle: see luctation.] To strive or 
struggle against something; make resistance; 
6. In harpsichord music, an embellishment or exhibit reluctance. [Obsolete or archaic.] 
we with studied mixtures force our rcJttn<7 appetites, 
grace consisting of a repetition of a principal 
note with a trill and a turn after it: usually 
double relish, but see also single relish, under 
Single. =Syn. 2. Zest, gusto, predilection, partiality. 
4. Tinge, touch. 5. Appetizer. 
relish 2 (rel'ish), r. t. [Origin obscure.] In join- 
ery, to shape (the shoulders of a tenon which 
bear against a rail). See relishing-machine. 
relish 2 (rel'ish), n. [See relish*, v.] In joinery, re l uc tance (re-luk'tans), n. 
projection of the shoulder of a tenoned piece 
beyond the part which enters the mortise. E. 
H. Knight. 
relishable (rel'ish-a-bl), a. [< relish! + -able.] 
Capable of being relished ; having an agree- 
able taste. 
reluming. [< OF. rclumer, < L. reluminare, 
up again: see relumine.'] To rekindle; 
again. 
Poet or patriot, rose but to restore 
The faith and moral Nature gave before ; 
Relumed her ancient light, not kindled new. 
Pope, Essay on Man, iii. 287. 
Mfty npl/cbibco, 
and with all the spells of epicurism conjure them up, that relumin6 (re-lu'mm), v. t.; pret. and pp. re- 
lumined, ppr. relumining. [< L. reluminare, 
light up again, < re-, again, + luminare, light, 
< lumen, a light: see luminate. Cf. relume.'] 1. 
To light anew; rekindle. 
When the lightof the Gospel was relumined by the Refor- 
mation. Bp. Lowth, Sermons and Other Remains, p. 168. 
2. To illuminate again. 
Time's relumined river. Hood. 
we may lay them'again. " Decay of Christian Piety. 
I care not to be carried with the tide that smoothly 
bears human life to eternity, and reluct at the inevitable 
course of destiny. Lamb, New Year's Eve. 
Such despotic talk had never been heard before in that 
Directors' Room. They relucted a moment. 
T. Winthrop, Love and Skates. 
[= Pg. reluctancia 
= It. reluttaiiza, < ML. "relnctantia, < L. reluc- 
tan(t-)s, reluctant: see reluctant.] The state re j y ( r e-li') .; pret. and pp. relied, ppr. rely 
of being reluctant; aversion; repugnance; un- ing _ [Early mod. E. relue, relie; < ME. relyen 
By leaven soured we made relishable bread for the use 
of man. Rrv. T. Adams, Works, II. 346. 
willingness: often followed by to, sometimes 
by against. 
That . . . savours only . . . 
Reluctance against God and his just yoke. 
Milton, P. L., x. 1045. 
/((/. L-EjHriy I11UU. Ufa / tllfc, /cite, N 1U..U. i&tytii 
relien, < OF. relier, fasten again, attach, bind 
together, bind up, bandage, tie up, shut up, 
fix. repair, join, unite, assemble, rally, fig. bind, 
oblige, F. relier, bind, tie up, = Pr. rtliyuar, 
