English Dictionary: roof of the mouth | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Rebaptisation \Re*bap`ti*sa"tion\, n. [Cf. F. rebaptisation.] A second baptism. [Obs.] --Hooker. | |
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Rebaptism \Re*bap"tism\, n. A second baptism. | |
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Rebaptize \Re`bap*tize"\, v. t. [Pref. re- + baptist: of F. rebaptiser, L. rebaptizare.] To baptize again or a second time. | |
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Rebaptizer \Re`bap*tiz"er\, n. One who rebaptizes. | |
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Rebuff \Re*buff"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rebuffed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rebuffing}.] To beat back; to offer sudden resistance to; to check; to repel or repulse violently, harshly, or uncourteously. | |
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Revive \Re*vive"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Revived}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Reviving}.] [F. revivere, L. revivere; pref. re- re- + vivere to live. See {Vivid}.] 1. To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated. --Shak. The Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into again, and he revived. --1 Kings xvii. 22. 2. Hence, to recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression; as, classical learning revived in the fifteenth century. 3. (Old Chem.) To recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal. | |
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Rhipipter \Rhi*pip"ter\, n. [Gr. [?][?][?] a fan + [?][?][?] wing.] (Zo[94]l.) One of the {Rhipiptera}, a group of insects having wings which fold like a fan; a strepsipter. | |
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Rhipipter \Rhi*pip"ter\, n. [Gr. [?][?][?] a fan + [?][?][?] wing.] (Zo[94]l.) One of the {Rhipiptera}, a group of insects having wings which fold like a fan; a strepsipter. | |
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d8Strepsiptera \[d8]Strep*sip"te*ra\, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] a turning (fr. [?] to twist) + [?] a wing.] (Zo[94]l.) A group of small insects having the anterior wings rudimentary, and in the form of short and slender twisted appendages, while the posterior ones are large and membranous. They are parasitic in the larval state on bees, wasps, and the like; -- called also {Rhipiptera}. See Illust. under {Rhipipter}. | |
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Rhipipteran \Rhi*pip"ter*an\, n. (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Rhipipter}. | |
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Rove \Rove\, n. The act of wandering; a ramble. In thy nocturnal rove one moment halt. --Young. {Rove beetle} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of beetles of the family {Staphylinid[91]}, having short elytra beneath which the wings are folded transversely. They are rapid runners, and seldom fly. | |
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Rub \Rub\, n. {Rub of the green} (Golf), anything happening to a ball in motion, such as its being deflected or stopped by any agency outside the match, or by the fore caddie. d8Rubaiyat \[d8]Ru*bai*yat"\, n. pl.; sing. {Rubai}. [Ar. rub[be]'iy[be]h quatrian, pl. of rub[be]'iy having four radicals, fr. rub[be]' four.] Quatrians; as, the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Sometimes in pl. construed as sing., a poem in such stanzas. |