return-tag 
point the car is to be returned. Car-Bltilder'a 
Diet. 
return-ticket (re-tern'tik"et), . A ticket is- 
sued by a railway or steamboat company, 
coach proprietors, and the like, for a journey to 
some point and return to the place of starting, 
generally at a reduced charge. 
An excursion opposition steamer was advertised to start 
for Boulogne fares, haif-a-crown ; return-tickets, four 
shillings. Mrs. U. Wood, Mildred Arkell, xx. 
return-valve (re-tern'valv), . A valve which 
opens to allow reflux of a fluid under certain 
conditions, as in the case of overflow. 
retuse (re-tus'), a. [= F. rctus, < L. retusun, 
blunted, ' dull, pp. of retunder, 
blunt, dull: see refund.'] 1. In 
bot., obtuse at the apex, with a 
broad and very shallow sinus re- 
entering: as, a refuse leaf. 2. In 
zool., ending in an obtuse sinus. 
Retzia (ret'si-a), n. [NL. (King, 
1850), named after Betzius, a natu- R - t' < 
, *'_ _ , _' . _ $altx retMxa. 
rahst.J A genus of bracmopods, 
typical of the subfamily Retziinse. They flour- 
ished in the Paleozoic seas from the Silurian 
to the Upper Carboniferous. 
Retziinae (ret-si-i'ne), n. pi. [NL., < Ret:ia + 
-ins. ] A subfamily of artnropomatous brachio- 
pods, mostly referred to the family Spiriferidse. 
Externally they much resemble the terebratu- 
lids. 
Reuchlinian (ru-klin'i-an), a. [< Reach/in (see 
def.) + -fan.] Pertaining or relating to Johauu 
Reuchlin (1455-1522), a celebrated German 
classical scholar. ReucMlnlan pronunciation. 
See pronunciation. 
reuPt, n. An obsolete form of rule 1 . 
reul'^, v. i. Same as rule 2 . Hallimll. 
reulet, . and r. A Middle English form of rule 1 . 
reulicnet, a. A Middle English form of ruly 1 . 
reulyt, a. A Middle English form of mly 1 , rulip. 
reumeH, " A Middle English form of realm. 
reume'^t, " An obsolete form of rheum*. 
reumourt, A Middle English form of rumor. 
Cath. Aug., p. 306. 
reune (rf-un'), . ; pret. and pp. reuned, ppr. 
reuning. ' [< OF. reunir, F. reunir = Sp. Pg. reu- 
nir = It. riunire, < ML. reunire, make one again, 
unite again, < L. re-, again, + unire, unite: see 
unite. 1 I. trans. To reunite; bring into reu- 
nion and coherence. [Obsolete or rare.] 
It pleased her Maiestie to call this Country of Wingan- 
dacoa, Virginia, by which name now you are to vnderstand 
how it was planted, disolued, reuned, and enlarged. 
Quoted in Capt. John Smith's Works, I. 85. 
II. intrans. To be reunited; specifically, to 
hold a reunion. [American college slang.] 
reunient (re-u'nient), a. [< ML. reunie>i(t-)s, 
ppr. of reunire: see reune.] Uniting or con- 
necting: as, the reunient canal of the ear, or 
canalis reuniens (which see, under canalis). 
reunification (re-u"ni-fi-ka'shon), . [< re- + 
unification.'] The act of reunifying, or redu- 
cing to unity; a state of reunion or reconcilia- 
tion. 
No scientific progress is possible unless the stimulus of 
the original unification is strong enough to clasp the dis- 
cordant facts and establish a reunification. 
Encyc. Brit., XI. 619. 
reunify (re-u'ni-fi), v. t. [< re- + unify.'] To 
bring back to a state of unitv or union. 
reunion (re-u'nyon), n. [< OF. reunion, F. re- 
union = Sp. reunion = Pg. reuniao, < ML. reu- 
nire, make one again, reunite: see reune. Cf. 
union.] 1. The act of reuniting, or bringing 
back to unity, juxtaposition, concurrence, or 
harmony ; the state of being reunited. 
She, that should all parts to reunion bow ; 
She, that had all magnetic force alone 
To draw and fasten sundered parts in one. 
Donne, Funeral Elegies, Anatomy of the World. 
"The reunion, in a single invoice, of various parcels, 
every one of which does not amount to S20, but wnich in 
the aggregate exceed that quantity," remains subject to 
the tax. Pop. Sri. Mo., XXIX 294. 
Mere Marchette struggled a moment, as if she could not 
yield to anything which delayed her reunion with Pierre. 
The Century, XL. 248. 
Specifically 2. A meeting, assembly, or so- 
cial gathering of familiar friends or associates 
after separation or absence from one another: 
as, a family reunion ; a college reunion Order 
of the Reunion, an order founded by Napoleon in 1811 to 
commemorate the union of Holland with France. The 
badpe was a silver star of twelve points, having the spaces 
filled with rays of gold, the whole surmounted by an im- 
perial crown bearing the name Napoleon. 
reunite (re-u-nif ), r. [< re- + unite. Cf. remit-.] 
I. traits. 1. To unite again ; join after separa- 
tion. 
By the which marriage the line of Chailes the Great 
Was re-united to the crown of France. 
Shak., Hen. V., i. 2. 85. 
I wander here In vain, and want thy hand 
To guide and re-unite me to my Lord. 
Rotce, Ambitious Stepmother, v. -.'. 
At length, after many eventful years, the associates, so 
long parted, were reunited in Westminster Abbey. 
Macaulay, Hist. Eng., vii. 
2. To reconcile after variance. 
A patriot king will not despair of reconciling and re- 
unitimj his subjects to himself and to one another. 
Bolingbroke, Of a Patriot King. 
II. intrans. To be united again; join and 
cohere again. 
Yet not for this were the Britans dismaid, but reunite- 
ing the next day fought with such a courage as made it 
hard to decide which way hung the Vietorie. 
Milton, Bist. Eng.,ii. 
reunitedly (re-u-m'ted-li), odtv In a reunited 
manner, 
reunitiont (re-u-nish'on), . [< reunite + -ion.] 
A second or repeated uniting; reunion. [Rare.] 
I believe the resurrection of the body, and its reunition 
with the soul. 
JfnatchbuU, On the New Testament Translation, p. 93. 
reunitive (re-u'ni-tiv), a. [< reunite + -ire.] 
Causing reunion ; tending toward or character- 
ized by reunion. [Rare.] 
Noon-time of a Sunday in a New England country town 
used to be, and even now is, a social and reunitive epoch 
of no small interest. S. Judd, Margaret, 1 14. 
reurge (re-erj'), v. t. [< re- + urge.] To urge 
again. 
reus (re'us), . ; pi. ret (-i). [< L. revs, m., rea, 
f., orig. a party to an action, plaintiff or de- 
fendant, afterward restricted to the party ac- 
cused, defendant, prisoner, etc. ; also, a debtor 
(> It. reo, wicked, bad, = Sp. Pg. reo, a c'rimi- 
nal, defendant), < res, a cause, action : see res.] 
In law, a defendant. 
reuse (re-uz'), r. t. [< re- + use, r.] To use 
again. 
It appears that large quantities of domestic distilled 
spirits are being placed upon the market as imported 
spirits and under reused imported spirit stamps. 
Report of Sec. of Treasury, 1886, I. 462. 
reuse (re-us'), n. [< re- + use, n.] Repeated 
use ; use a second time. 
The waste liquor is collected, and made up to the first 
strength for re use. Workshop Receipts, 2d ser., p. 31. 
rentilize (re-u'til-iz), v. t. [< re- + utilize.] 
To utilize again; make use of a second time. 
Also spelled reutilise. 
After the white cells have lived their life and done their 
work, portions of their worn-out carcases may be reutil- 
ised in the body as nutriment. Lancet, No. 3447, p. 585. 
reutter (re-ut'er), r. t. [< re- + utter.] To 
utter again. 
The truth of Man, as by God first spoken, 
Which the actual generations garble, 
Was re-uttered. 
Browning, Old Pictures in Florence, st. 11. 
rev. An abbreviation of (a) [cap.] Revelation; 
(b) revenue; (c) reverend; (d) review; (c) revolu- 
tion ; (f) revised; (g) reverse. 
revalenta (rev-a-len'ta), n. [NL., transposed 
from ervalenta,"<. NL. 'fcrvum Lens: see Ervum 
and Lens.] The commercial name of lentil- 
meal, introduced as a food for invalids. In 
fall, revalenta Arabics. Alsoervalentu. [Eng.] 
revalescence (rev-a-les'ens), n. [< revalescen(t) 
+ -ce.] The state of being revalescent. [Rare.] 
"Would this prove that the patient's revalescence had 
been independent of the medicines given him? Coleridge. 
revalescent (rev-a-les'ent), a. [< L. revales- 
cen(t-)s, ppr. of fevalescere, grow well again, 
< re-, again, + valescere, grow well: see con- 
valescent.] Beginning to grow well. [Rare.] 
Imp. Diet. 
revaluation (re-val-u-a'shon), . [< revalue + 
-ation.] A repeated valuation. 
revalue (re-val'u), v. t. [< re- + value.] To 
value again. 
revamp (re-vamp'), t>. t. [< re- + vamp.] To 
vamp, mend, or patch up again; rehabilitate; 
reconstruct. 
Thenceforth he [Carlyle] has done nothing but revamp 
his telling things; but the oddity has become always 
odder, the paradoxes always more paradoxical. 
Lowell, Study Windows, p. 140. 
The revamping of our own writings . . . after an inter- 
val so long that the mental status in which we composed 
them is forgotten, and cannot be conjured up and revivi- 
fied, is a dangerous experiment. 
Marsh, Lects. on Eng. Lang., xxi. 447. 
reve't, *' A Middle English form of reave. 
Chaucer. 
reve 2 t, . A Middle English form of reeve 1 . 
reve 3 t (rev), v. i. [< F. rOver, OF. resver, dream: 
see rare 1 .] To dream; muse. 
reveille 
I "--,(/ all night what could be the meaning of such a 
nn'>s&ge. Mrtu'iirs of Marshall Keith 
reveal (re-veV), r. t. [Early moil. E. rcrcle, < 
OF. reveler. F. n'n'lrr = Pr. Sp. Pg. rerelar = 
It. revelarr, riri'lun , < !>. ri'n-lnre, unveil, draw 
back a veil, < re-, back, + relare, veil, < velum, 
a veil: see veil.] 1. To discover; expose to 
sight, recognition, or understanding; disclose; 
divulge ; make known. 
I had . . . well played my first act, assuring myself 
that under that disguisement I should find opportunity to 
reveal myself. Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, i. 
I have not revealed it yet to any Soul breathing, but now 
I'll tell your Excellency, and so fell a relating the Passage 
in Flanders. Umeell, Letters, I. iv. 28. 
While in and out the verses wheel, 
The wind caught robes trim feet reveal. 
Lowell, Dobson's "Old World Idylls." 
Specifically 2. To disclose as religious truth ; 
divulge by supernatural means ; make known 
by divine agency. 
The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all 
ungodliness and unrighteousness of men. Horn. i. If. 
No Man or Angel can know how God would be worship't 
and serv'd unless God reveal it, Milton, True Religion. 
I call on the souls who have left the light 
To reveal their lot. 
Whittier, My Soul and I. 
3. In metaph., to afford an immediate know- 
ledge of. 
Such is the fact of perception revealed in consciousness. 
Sir W. Hamilton, Edinburgh Rev., Oct., 1830. 
=Syn. To unveil, uncover, communicate, show, impart. 
reveal (re-vel'), n. [< rereal, v.] If. A re- 
vealing; disclosure. 
In nature the concealment of secret parts is the same 
in both sexes, and the shame of their reveal equal. 
Sir T. Brmme, Vulg. Err., Iv. 7. 
2. Iii arch., one of the vertical faces of a win- 
dow-opening or a doorway, included between 
the face of the wall and that of the window- or 
door-frame, when such frame is present. 
revealable (re-ve'la-bl), a. [< reveal 4- -able.] 
Capable of being revealed. 
I would fain learn why treason is not as revealable as 
heresy? Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), II. 108. 
revealableness(re-ve'la-bl-nes), . The state 
or character of being revealable. Imp. Viet. 
revealed (re-veld' ), p. a. 1 . Brought to light ; 
disclosed ; specifically, made known by direct 
divine or supernatural agency. 
Scripture teacheth all supernatural revealed truth, with- 
out the knowledge whereof salvation cannot be attained. 
Booker, Eccles. Polity, ill. 8. 
Undoubtedly the revealed law is of infinitely more au- 
thenticity than that moral system which is framed by 
ethical writers, and denominated the natural law. 
Blackstane, Com., Int., 2. 
2. In entom., not hidden under other parts. 
Revealed alitrunk, the posterior part of the thorax or 
olitrunk when it is not covered by elytra, hemielytra, or 
tegmina, as in llymenoptera, Diptera, etc. Revealed 
religion. See religion, and evidences of Christianity (un- 
derChristianity). 
revealer (re-ve'ler), n. One who reveals or 
discloses; one who or that which brings to 
light, shows, or makes known. 
A Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets. Dan. ii. 47. 
He brought a taper; the rerealer, light, 
Exposed both crime and criminal to sight. 
Dryden. 
revealment (re-vel'ment), n. [< reveal + 
-ment.] The act of revealing; revelation. 
[Rare.] 
This is one reason why he permits so many heinous im- 
pieties to be concealed here on earth, because he intends 
to dignify that day with the revealment of them. 
South, Sermons, VII. xill. 
revehent (re've-hent), a. [< L. revehen(t-)n, 
ppr. of revehere, carry back, < re-, back, + ve- 
here, carry: see vehicle.] Carrying forth; tak- 
ing away; efferent: applied in anatomy to sun- 
dry vessels: opposed to advehciit. 
reveille (re-val'ye, sometimes rev-e-le'), w. 
[Also written incorrectly reveille and reveillee, 
as if < F. reveill^, pp. ; < F. reveil, OF. rereil, 
resveil (= Pr. rerelh), an awaking, alarm, re- 
veille, a hunt's-up, < resreiller, awake, < re-, 
again, + esreillfr, waken, < L. ex-, out, + r'nji- 
lare, watch, wake : see rii/Hdiit.] Milit. and na- 
ral, the beat of a drum, bugle-sound, or other 
signal given about break of day, to give notice 
that it is time for the soldiers or sailors to rise 
and for the sentinels to forbear challenging. 
Sound a reveille, sound, sound, 
The warrior god is come '. 
Dnjden, Secular Masque, 1. 83. 
And all the bn-;le breezes blew 
Reveillee tu the breaking morn. 
Tennyson, In Memoriam, Ixviii. 
