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   Rabelais
         n 1: author of satirical attacks on medieval scholasticism
               (1494-1553) [syn: {Rabelais}, {Francois Rabelais}]

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Rabelaisian
adj
  1. of or relating to or characteristic of Francois Rabelais or his works; "Rabelaisian characters"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Raffaello Santi
n
  1. Italian painter whose many paintings exemplify the ideals of the High Renaissance (1483-1520)
    Synonym(s): Raphael, Raffaello Santi, Raffaello Sanzio
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Raffaello Sanzio
n
  1. Italian painter whose many paintings exemplify the ideals of the High Renaissance (1483-1520)
    Synonym(s): Raphael, Raffaello Santi, Raffaello Sanzio
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Raffles
n
  1. British colonial administrator who founded Singapore (1781-1826)
    Synonym(s): Raffles, Sir Thomas Raffles, Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Rafflesiaceae
n
  1. a family of parasitic plants of the order Aristolochiales
    Synonym(s): Rafflesiaceae, family Rafflesiaceae
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ray of light
n
  1. a column of light (as from a beacon) [syn: beam, {beam of light}, light beam, ray, ray of light, shaft, shaft of light, irradiation]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
rebellious
adj
  1. resisting control or authority; "temperamentally rebellious"; "a rebellious crew"
  2. discontented as toward authority
    Synonym(s): disaffected, ill- affected, malcontent, rebellious
  3. participating in organized resistance to a constituted government; "the rebelling confederacy"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
rebelliously
adv
  1. in a rebellious manner; "he rejected her words rebelliously"
    Synonym(s): rebelliously, contumaciously, defiantly
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
rebelliousness
n
  1. intentionally contemptuous behavior or attitude [syn: defiance, rebelliousness]
  2. an insubordinate act
    Synonym(s): insubordination, rebelliousness
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
reflect
v
  1. manifest or bring back; "This action reflects his true beliefs"
  2. reflect deeply on a subject; "I mulled over the events of the afternoon"; "philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years"; "The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate"
    Synonym(s): chew over, think over, meditate, ponder, excogitate, contemplate, muse, reflect, mull, mull over, ruminate, speculate
  3. to throw or bend back (from a surface); "Sound is reflected well in this auditorium"
    Synonym(s): reflect, reverberate
  4. be bright by reflecting or casting light; "Drive carefully-- the wet road reflects"
    Synonym(s): reflect, shine
  5. show an image of; "her sunglasses reflected his image"
  6. give evidence of a certain behavior; "His lack of interest in the project reflects badly on him"
  7. give evidence of the quality of; "The mess in his dorm room reflects on the student"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
reflectance
n
  1. the fraction of radiant energy that is reflected from a surface
    Synonym(s): coefficient of reflection, reflection factor, reflectance, reflectivity
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
reflected
adj
  1. (especially of incident sound or light) bent or sent back; "reflected light"; "reflected heat"; "reflected glory"
    Antonym(s): unreflected
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
reflecting
adj
  1. causing reflection or having a device that reflects; "a reflecting microscope"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
reflecting telescope
n
  1. optical telescope consisting of a large concave mirror that produces an image that is magnified by the eyepiece; "Isaac Newton invented the reflecting telescope in 1668"
    Synonym(s): reflecting telescope, reflector
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
reflection
n
  1. a calm, lengthy, intent consideration [syn: contemplation, reflection, reflexion, rumination, musing, thoughtfulness]
  2. the phenomenon of a propagating wave (light or sound) being thrown back from a surface
    Synonym(s): reflection, reflexion
  3. expression without words; "tears are an expression of grief"; "the pulse is a reflection of the heart's condition"
    Synonym(s): expression, manifestation, reflection, reflexion
  4. a likeness in which left and right are reversed
    Synonym(s): mirror image, reflection, reflexion
  5. the image of something as reflected by a mirror (or other reflective material); "he studied his reflection in the mirror"
    Synonym(s): reflection, reflexion
  6. (mathematics) a transformation in which the direction of one axis is reversed
  7. a remark expressing careful consideration
    Synonym(s): observation, reflection, reflexion
  8. the ability to reflect beams or rays
    Synonym(s): reflection, reflexion, reflectivity
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
reflection factor
n
  1. the fraction of radiant energy that is reflected from a surface
    Synonym(s): coefficient of reflection, reflection factor, reflectance, reflectivity
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
reflective
adj
  1. deeply or seriously thoughtful; "Byron lives on not only in his poetry, but also in his creation of the 'Byronic hero' - the persona of a brooding melancholy young man";
    Synonym(s): brooding, broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative
  2. capable of physically reflecting light or sound; "a reflective surface"
    Antonym(s): nonreflecting, nonreflective
  3. devoted to matters of the mind; "the reflective type"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
reflective power
n
  1. the ratio of reflected to incident light [syn: albedo, reflective power]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
reflectively
adv
  1. in a reflective manner; "he watched her reflectively"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
reflectiveness
n
  1. the capability of quiet thought or contemplation [syn: reflectiveness, reflectivity]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
reflectivity
n
  1. the fraction of radiant energy that is reflected from a surface
    Synonym(s): coefficient of reflection, reflection factor, reflectance, reflectivity
  2. the ability to reflect beams or rays
    Synonym(s): reflection, reflexion, reflectivity
  3. the capability of quiet thought or contemplation
    Synonym(s): reflectiveness, reflectivity
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
reflectometer
n
  1. a meter that measures the reflectance of a surface
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
reflector
n
  1. device that reflects radiation
  2. optical telescope consisting of a large concave mirror that produces an image that is magnified by the eyepiece; "Isaac Newton invented the reflecting telescope in 1668"
    Synonym(s): reflecting telescope, reflector
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
reflectorise
v
  1. provide with reflectors, such as chemicals; "the driveway was reflectorized for safety reasons"
    Synonym(s): reflectorize, reflectorise
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
reflectorize
v
  1. provide with reflectors, such as chemicals; "the driveway was reflectorized for safety reasons"
    Synonym(s): reflectorize, reflectorise
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
reflex
adj
  1. without volition or conscious control; "the automatic shrinking of the pupils of the eye in strong light"; "a reflex knee jerk"; "sneezing is reflexive"
    Synonym(s): automatic, reflex(a), reflexive
n
  1. an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus
    Synonym(s): reflex, reflex response, reflex action, instinctive reflex, innate reflex, inborn reflex, unconditioned reflex, physiological reaction
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
reflex action
n
  1. an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus
    Synonym(s): reflex, reflex response, reflex action, instinctive reflex, innate reflex, inborn reflex, unconditioned reflex, physiological reaction
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
reflex angle
n
  1. an angle greater than 180 degrees (but less than 360)
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
reflex arc
n
  1. the neural path of a reflex
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
reflex camera
n
  1. camera that allows the photographer to view and focus the exact scene being photographed
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
reflex epilepsy
n
  1. a form of epilepsy in which attacks are induced by peripheral stimulation
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
reflex response
n
  1. an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus
    Synonym(s): reflex, reflex response, reflex action, instinctive reflex, innate reflex, inborn reflex, unconditioned reflex, physiological reaction
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
reflexed
adj
  1. (of leaves) bent downward and outward more than 90 degrees
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
reflexion
n
  1. the phenomenon of a propagating wave (light or sound) being thrown back from a surface
    Synonym(s): reflection, reflexion
  2. expression without words; "tears are an expression of grief"; "the pulse is a reflection of the heart's condition"
    Synonym(s): expression, manifestation, reflection, reflexion
  3. a remark expressing careful consideration
    Synonym(s): observation, reflection, reflexion
  4. a calm, lengthy, intent consideration
    Synonym(s): contemplation, reflection, reflexion, rumination, musing, thoughtfulness
  5. the ability to reflect beams or rays
    Synonym(s): reflection, reflexion, reflectivity
  6. a likeness in which left and right are reversed
    Synonym(s): mirror image, reflection, reflexion
  7. the image of something as reflected by a mirror (or other reflective material); "he studied his reflection in the mirror"
    Synonym(s): reflection, reflexion
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
reflexive
adj
  1. without volition or conscious control; "the automatic shrinking of the pupils of the eye in strong light"; "a reflex knee jerk"; "sneezing is reflexive"
    Synonym(s): automatic, reflex(a), reflexive
  2. referring back to itself
    Synonym(s): reflexive, self-referent
n
  1. a personal pronoun compounded with -self to show the agent's action affects the agent
    Synonym(s): reflexive pronoun, reflexive
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
reflexive pronoun
n
  1. a personal pronoun compounded with -self to show the agent's action affects the agent
    Synonym(s): reflexive pronoun, reflexive
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
reflexive verb
n
  1. a verb whose agent performs an action that is directed at the agent; "the sentence `he washed' has a reflexive verb"; "`perjure' is a reflexive verb because you cannot perjure anyone but yourself"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
reflexiveness
n
  1. the coreferential relation between a reflexive pronoun and its antecedent
    Synonym(s): reflexivity, reflexiveness
  2. (logic and mathematics) a relation such that it holds between an element and itself
    Synonym(s): reflexivity, reflexiveness
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
reflexivity
n
  1. the coreferential relation between a reflexive pronoun and its antecedent
    Synonym(s): reflexivity, reflexiveness
  2. (logic and mathematics) a relation such that it holds between an element and itself
    Synonym(s): reflexivity, reflexiveness
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
reflexly
adv
  1. in a reflex manner; "such effects can be induced reflexly"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
reflexology
n
  1. the study of reflex action as it relates to the behavior of organisms
  2. massage to relieve tension by finger pressure; based on the belief that there are reflex points on the feet, hands, and head that are connected to every part of the body
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
reflux
n
  1. an abnormal backward flow of body fluids
  2. the outward flow of the tide
    Synonym(s): ebb, reflux
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
reflux condenser
n
  1. condenser such that vapor over a boiling liquid is condensed and flows back into the vessel to prevent its contents from boiling dry
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
refulgence
n
  1. the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light
    Synonym(s): radiance, radiancy, shine, effulgence, refulgence, refulgency
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
refulgency
n
  1. the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light
    Synonym(s): radiance, radiancy, shine, effulgence, refulgence, refulgency
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
refulgent
adj
  1. radiating or as if radiating light; "the beaming sun"; "the effulgent daffodils"; "a radiant sunrise"; "a refulgent sunset"
    Synonym(s): beaming, beamy, effulgent, radiant, refulgent
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
replace
v
  1. substitute a person or thing for (another that is broken or inefficient or lost or no longer working or yielding what is expected); "He replaced the old razor blade"; "We need to replace the secretary that left a month ago"; "the insurance will replace the lost income"; "This antique vase can never be replaced"
  2. take the place or move into the position of; "Smith replaced Miller as CEO after Miller left"; "the computer has supplanted the slide rule"; "Mary replaced Susan as the team's captain and the highest-ranked player in the school"
    Synonym(s): supplant, replace, supersede, supervene upon, supercede
  3. put something back where it belongs; "replace the book on the shelf after you have finished reading it"; "please put the clean dishes back in the cabinet when you have washed them"
    Synonym(s): replace, put back
  4. put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items; "the con artist replaced the original with a fake Rembrandt"; "substitute regular milk with fat-free milk"; "synonyms can be interchanged without a changing the context's meaning"
    Synonym(s): substitute, replace, interchange, exchange
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
replaceability
n
  1. exchangeability by virtue of being replaceable [syn: replaceability, substitutability, commutability]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
replaceable
adj
  1. capable of being replaced [ant: irreplaceable, unreplaceable]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
replacement
n
  1. the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; "replacing the star will not be easy"
    Synonym(s): replacement, replacing
  2. someone who takes the place of another person
    Synonym(s): surrogate, alternate, replacement
  3. an event in which one thing is substituted for another; "the replacement of lost blood by a transfusion of donor blood"
    Synonym(s): substitution, permutation, transposition, replacement, switch
  4. a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another
    Synonym(s): substitute, replacement
  5. filling again by supplying what has been used up
    Synonym(s): refilling, replenishment, replacement, renewal
  6. a person who follows next in order; "he was President Lincoln's successor"
    Synonym(s): successor, replacement
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
replacement cost
n
  1. current cost of replacing a fixed asset with a new one of equal effectiveness
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
replacing
n
  1. the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; "replacing the star will not be easy"
    Synonym(s): replacement, replacing
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
replica
n
  1. copy that is not the original; something that has been copied
    Synonym(s): replica, replication, reproduction
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
replicate
v
  1. bend or turn backward
    Synonym(s): retroflex, replicate
  2. reproduce or make an exact copy of; "replicate the cell"; "copy the genetic information"
    Synonym(s): replicate, copy
  3. make or do or perform again; "He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick"
    Synonym(s): duplicate, reduplicate, double, repeat, replicate
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
replication
n
  1. the act of making copies; "Gutenberg's reproduction of holy texts was far more efficient"
    Synonym(s): reproduction, replication
  2. (genetics) the process whereby DNA makes a copy of itself before cell division
  3. a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one); "it brought a sharp rejoinder from the teacher"
    Synonym(s): rejoinder, retort, return, riposte, replication, comeback, counter
  4. (law) a pleading made by a plaintiff in reply to the defendant's plea or answer
  5. the repetition of a sound resulting from reflection of the sound waves; "she could hear echoes of her own footsteps"
    Synonym(s): echo, reverberation, sound reflection, replication
  6. copy that is not the original; something that has been copied
    Synonym(s): replica, replication, reproduction
  7. the repetition of an experiment in order to test the validity of its conclusion; "scientists will not believe an experimental result until they have seen at least one replication"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
repulse
n
  1. an instance of driving away or warding off [syn: rebuff, snub, repulse]
v
  1. force or drive back; "repel the attacker"; "fight off the onslaught"; "rebuff the attack"
    Synonym(s): repel, repulse, fight off, rebuff, drive back
  2. be repellent to; cause aversion in
    Synonym(s): repel, repulse
    Antonym(s): appeal, attract
  3. cause to move back by force or influence; "repel the enemy"; "push back the urge to smoke"; "beat back the invaders"
    Synonym(s): repel, drive, repulse, force back, push back, beat back
    Antonym(s): attract, draw, draw in, pull, pull in
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
repulsion
n
  1. the force by which bodies repel one another [syn: repulsion, repulsive force]
    Antonym(s): attraction, attractive force
  2. intense aversion
    Synonym(s): repugnance, repulsion, revulsion, horror
  3. the act of repulsing or repelling an attack; a successful defensive stand
    Synonym(s): repulsion, standoff
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
repulsive
adj
  1. offensive to the mind; "an abhorrent deed"; "the obscene massacre at Wounded Knee"; "morally repugnant customs"; "repulsive behavior"; "the most repulsive character in recent novels"
    Synonym(s): abhorrent, detestable, obscene, repugnant, repulsive
  2. possessing the ability to repel; "a repulsive force"
    Antonym(s): attractive(a)
  3. so extremely ugly as to be terrifying; "a hideous scar"; "a repulsive mask"
    Synonym(s): hideous, repulsive
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
repulsive force
n
  1. the force by which bodies repel one another [syn: repulsion, repulsive force]
    Antonym(s): attraction, attractive force
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
repulsively
adv
  1. in an offensive and hateful manner; "I don't know anyone who could have behaved so abominably"
    Synonym(s): detestably, repulsively, abominably, odiously
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
repulsiveness
n
  1. the quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions; "the vileness of his language surprised us"
    Synonym(s): loathsomeness, repulsiveness, sliminess, vileness, lousiness, wickedness
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
revulsion
n
  1. intense aversion [syn: repugnance, repulsion, revulsion, horror]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ribless
adj
  1. having no ribs or no visible ribs
    Antonym(s): ribbed
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
riblike
adj
  1. resembling a rib
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
rifle grenade
n
  1. a grenade that is thrown from a launching device attached to the barrel of a rifle
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
rifle shot
n
  1. the distance that a rifle bullet will carry; "the target was out of rifle range"
    Synonym(s): rifle range, rifle shot
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ripple-grass
n
  1. an Old World plantain with long narrow ribbed leaves widely established in temperate regions
    Synonym(s): English plantain, narrow-leaved plantain, ribgrass, ribwort, ripple- grass, buckthorn, Plantago lanceolata
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
rivulus
n
  1. found in small streams of tropical America; often kept in aquariums; usually hermaphroditic
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
roofless
adj
  1. not having a roof; "the hurricane left hundreds of house roofless"
    Antonym(s): roofed
  2. physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security; "made a living out of shepherding dispossed people from one country to another"- James Stern
    Synonym(s): dispossessed, homeless, roofless
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ropewalk
n
  1. workplace consisting of a long narrow path or shed where rope is made
    Synonym(s): ropewalk, rope yard
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ropewalker
n
  1. an acrobat who performs on a rope stretched at some height above the ground
    Synonym(s): ropewalker, ropedancer
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Rub al-Khali
n
  1. a desert in southern Saudi Arabia [syn: Rub al-Khali, {Ar Rimsal}, Dahna, Great Sandy Desert]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Rubiales
n
  1. an order of dicotyledonous plants of the subclass Asteridae; have opposite leaves and an inferior compound ovary
    Synonym(s): Rubiales, order Rubiales
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Blackberry \Black"ber*ry\ (bl[acr]k"b[ecr]r*r[ycr]), n. [OE.
      blakberye, AS. bl[91]cberie; bl[91]c black + berie berry.]
      The fruit of several species of bramble ({Rubus}); also, the
      plant itself. {Rubus fruticosus} is the blackberry of
      England; {R. villosus} and {R. Canadensis} are the high
      blackberry and low blackberry of the United States. There are
      also other kinds.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Raffaelesque \Raf`fa*el*esque"\, a.
      Raphaelesque.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Rafflesia \[d8]Raf*fle"si*a\, n. [NL. Named from its
      discoverer, Sir S. Raffle[?].] (Bot.)
      A genus of stemless, leafless plants, living parasitically
      upon the roots and stems of grapevines in Malaysia. The
      flowers have a carrionlike odor, and are very large, in one
      species ({Rafflesia Arnoldi}) having a diameter of two or
      three feet.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Raphaelesque \Raph`a*el*esque"\, a.
      Like Raphael's works; in Raphael's manner of painting.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Raphaelism \Raph"a*el*ism\, n.
      The principles of painting introduced by Raphael, the Italian
      painter.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Reapplication \Re*ap`pli*ca"tion\, n.
      The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Japan \Ja*pan"\, a.
      Of or pertaining to Japan, or to the lacquered work of that
      country; as, Japan ware.
  
      {Japan allspice} (Bot.), a spiny shrub from Japan
            ({Chimonanthus fragrans}), related to the Carolina
            allspice.
  
      {Japan black} (Chem.), a quickly drying black lacquer or
            varnish, consisting essentially of asphaltum dissolved in
            naphtha or turpentine, and used for coating ironwork; --
            called also {Brunswick black}, {Japan lacquer}, or simply
            {Japan}.
  
      {Japan camphor}, ordinary camphor brought from China or
            Japan, as distinguished from the rare variety called
            borneol or Borneo camphor.
  
      {Japan clover}, [or] {Japan pea} (Bot.), a cloverlike plant
            ({Lespedeza striata}) from Eastern Asia, useful for
            fodder, first noticed in the Southern United States about
            1860, but now become very common. During the Civil War it
            was called variously {Yankee clover} and {Rebel clover}.
           
  
      {Japan earth}. See {Catechu}.
  
      {Japan ink}, a kind of writing ink, of a deep, glossy black
            when dry.
  
      {Japan varnish}, a varnish prepared from the milky juice of
            the {Rhus vernix}, a small Japanese tree related to the
            poison sumac.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Rebellious \Re*bel"lious\, a.
      Engaged in rebellion; disposed to rebel; of the nature of
      rebels or of rebellion; resisting government or lawful
      authority by force. [bd]Thy rebellious crew.[b8] [bd]Proud
      rebellious arms.[b8] --Milton. -- {Re*bel"lious*ly}, adv. --
      {Re*bel"lious*ness}, n.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Rebellious \Re*bel"lious\, a.
      Engaged in rebellion; disposed to rebel; of the nature of
      rebels or of rebellion; resisting government or lawful
      authority by force. [bd]Thy rebellious crew.[b8] [bd]Proud
      rebellious arms.[b8] --Milton. -- {Re*bel"lious*ly}, adv. --
      {Re*bel"lious*ness}, n.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Rebellious \Re*bel"lious\, a.
      Engaged in rebellion; disposed to rebel; of the nature of
      rebels or of rebellion; resisting government or lawful
      authority by force. [bd]Thy rebellious crew.[b8] [bd]Proud
      rebellious arms.[b8] --Milton. -- {Re*bel"lious*ly}, adv. --
      {Re*bel"lious*ness}, n.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Reblossom \Re*blos"som\, v. i.
      To blossom again.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Reflect \Re*flect"\ (r?*fl?kt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
      {Reflected}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Reflecting}.] [L. reflectere,
      reflexum; pref. re- re- + flectere to bend or turn. See
      {Flexible}, and cf. {Reflex}, v.]
      1. To bend back; to give a backwa[?]d turn to; to throw back;
            especially, to cause to return after striking upon any
            surface; as, a mirror reflects rays of light; polished
            metals reflect heat.
  
                     Let me mind the reader to reflect his eye on our
                     quotations.                                       --Fuller.
  
                     Bodies close together reflect their own color.
                                                                              --Dryden.
  
      2. To give back an image or likeness of; to mirror.
  
                     Nature is the glass reflecting God, As by the sea
                     reflected is the sun.                        --Young.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Reflect \Re*flect"\ v. i.
      1. To throw back light, heat, or the like; to return rays or
            beams.
  
      2. To be sent back; to rebound as from a surface; to revert;
            to return.
  
                     Whose virtues will, I hope, Reflect on Rome, as
                     Titan's rays on earth.                        --Shak.
  
      3. To throw or turn back the thoughts upon anything; to
            contemplate. Specifically: To attend earnestly to what
            passes within the mind; to attend to the facts or
            phenomena of consciousness; to use attention or earnest
            thought; to meditate; especially, to think in relation to
            moral truth or rules.
  
                     We can not be said to reflect upon any external
                     object, except so far as that object has been
                     previously perceived, and its image become part and
                     parcel of our intellectual furniture. --Sir W.
                                                                              Hamilton.
  
                     All men are concious of the operations of their own
                     minds, at all times, while they are awake, but there
                     few who reflect upon them, or make them objects of
                     thought.                                             --Reid.
  
                     As I much reflected, much I mourned.   --Prior.
  
      4. To cast reproach; to cause censure or dishonor.
  
                     Errors of wives reflect on husbands still. --Dryden.
  
                     Neither do I reflect in the least upon the memory of
                     his late majesty.                              --Swift.
  
      Syn: To consider; think; cogitate; mediate; contemplate;
               ponder; muse; ruminate.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Reflect \Re*flect"\ (r?*fl?kt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
      {Reflected}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Reflecting}.] [L. reflectere,
      reflexum; pref. re- re- + flectere to bend or turn. See
      {Flexible}, and cf. {Reflex}, v.]
      1. To bend back; to give a backwa[?]d turn to; to throw back;
            especially, to cause to return after striking upon any
            surface; as, a mirror reflects rays of light; polished
            metals reflect heat.
  
                     Let me mind the reader to reflect his eye on our
                     quotations.                                       --Fuller.
  
                     Bodies close together reflect their own color.
                                                                              --Dryden.
  
      2. To give back an image or likeness of; to mirror.
  
                     Nature is the glass reflecting God, As by the sea
                     reflected is the sun.                        --Young.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Reflected \Re*flect"ed\, a.
      1. Thrown back after striking a surface; as, reflected light,
            heat, sound, etc.
  
      2. Hence: Not one's own; received from another; as, his glory
            was reflected glory.
  
      3. Bent backward or outward; reflexed.

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   Vision \Vi"sion\, n. [OE. visioun, F. vision, fr. L. visio, from
      videre, visum, to see: akin to Gr. [?] to see, [?] I know,
      and E. wit. See {Wit}, v., and cf. {Advice}, {Clairvoyant},
      {Envy}, {Evident}, {Provide}, {Revise}, {Survey}, {View},
      {Visage}, {Visit}.]
      1. The act of seeing external objects; actual sight.
  
                     Faith here is turned into vision there. --Hammond.
  
      2. (Physiol.) The faculty of seeing; sight; one of the five
            senses, by which colors and the physical qualities of
            external objects are appreciated as a result of the
            stimulating action of light on the sensitive retina, an
            expansion of the optic nerve.
  
      3. That which is seen; an object of sight. --Shak.
  
      4. Especially, that which is seen otherwise than by the
            ordinary sight, or the rational eye; a supernatural,
            prophetic, or imaginary sight; an apparition; a phantom; a
            specter; as, the visions of Isaiah.
  
                     The baseless fabric of this vision.   --Shak.
  
                     No dreams, but visions strange.         --Sir P.
                                                                              Sidney.
  
      5. Hence, something unreal or imaginary; a creation of fancy.
            --Locke.
  
      {Arc of vision} (Astron.), the arc which measures the least
            distance from the sun at which, when the sun is below the
            horizon, a star or planet emerging from his rays becomes
            visible.
  
      {Beatific vision} (Theol.), the immediate sight of God in
            heaven.
  
      {Direct vision} (Opt.), vision when the image of the object
            falls directly on the yellow spot (see under {Yellow});
            also, vision by means of rays which are not deviated from
            their original direction.
  
      {Field of vision}, field of view. See under {Field}.
  
      {Indirect vision} (Opt.), vision when the rays of light from
            an object fall upon the peripheral parts of the retina.
  
      {Reflected vision}, [or] {Refracted vision}, vision by rays
            reflected from mirrors, or refracted by lenses or prisms,
            respectively.
  
      {Vision purple}. (Physiol.) See {Visual purple}, under
            {Visual}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Reflectent \Re*flect"ent\ (r?*fl?kt"ent), a. [L. reflectens, p.
      pr. of reflectere. See {Reflect}.]
      1. Bending or flying back; reflected. [bd]The ray descendent,
            and the ray reflectent flying with so great a speed.[b8]
            --Sir K. Digby.
  
      2. Reflecting; as, a reflectent body. --Sir K. Digby.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Reflectible \Re*flect"i*ble\ (-?*b'l), a.
      Capable of being reflected, or thrown back; reflexible.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Reflecting \Re*flect"ing\, a.
      1. Throwing back light, heat, etc., as a mirror or other
            surface.
  
      2. Given to reflection or serious consideration; reflective;
            contemplative; as, a reflecting mind.
  
      {Reflecting circle}, an astronomical instrument for measuring
            angless, like the sextant or Hadley's quadrant, by the
            reflection of light from two plane mirrors which it
            carries, and differing from the sextant chiefly in having
            an entire circle.
  
      {Reflecting galvanometer}, a galvanometer in which the
            deflections of the needle are read by means of a mirror
            attached to it, which reflects a ray of light or the image
            of a scale; -- called also {mirror galvanometer}.
  
      {Reflecting goniometer}. See under {Goniometer}.
  
      {Reflecting telescope}. See under {Telescope}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Reflect \Re*flect"\ (r?*fl?kt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
      {Reflected}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Reflecting}.] [L. reflectere,
      reflexum; pref. re- re- + flectere to bend or turn. See
      {Flexible}, and cf. {Reflex}, v.]
      1. To bend back; to give a backwa[?]d turn to; to throw back;
            especially, to cause to return after striking upon any
            surface; as, a mirror reflects rays of light; polished
            metals reflect heat.
  
                     Let me mind the reader to reflect his eye on our
                     quotations.                                       --Fuller.
  
                     Bodies close together reflect their own color.
                                                                              --Dryden.
  
      2. To give back an image or likeness of; to mirror.
  
                     Nature is the glass reflecting God, As by the sea
                     reflected is the sun.                        --Young.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Reflecting \Re*flect"ing\, a.
      1. Throwing back light, heat, etc., as a mirror or other
            surface.
  
      2. Given to reflection or serious consideration; reflective;
            contemplative; as, a reflecting mind.
  
      {Reflecting circle}, an astronomical instrument for measuring
            angless, like the sextant or Hadley's quadrant, by the
            reflection of light from two plane mirrors which it
            carries, and differing from the sextant chiefly in having
            an entire circle.
  
      {Reflecting galvanometer}, a galvanometer in which the
            deflections of the needle are read by means of a mirror
            attached to it, which reflects a ray of light or the image
            of a scale; -- called also {mirror galvanometer}.
  
      {Reflecting goniometer}. See under {Goniometer}.
  
      {Reflecting telescope}. See under {Telescope}.

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   Circle \Cir"cle\ (s[etil]r"k'l), n. [OE. cercle, F. cercle, fr.
      L. circulus (Whence also AS. circul), dim. of circus circle,
      akin to Gr. kri`kos, ki`rkos, circle, ring. Cf. {Circus},
      {Circum-}.]
      1. A plane figure, bounded by a single curve line called its
            circumference, every part of which is equally distant from
            a point within it, called the center.
  
      2. The line that bounds such a figure; a circumference; a
            ring.
  
      3. (Astron.) An instrument of observation, the graduated limb
            of which consists of an entire circle.
  
      Note: When it is fixed to a wall in an observatory, it is
               called a {mural circle}; when mounted with a telescope
               on an axis and in Y's, in the plane of the meridian, a
               {meridian [or] transit circle}; when involving the
               principle of reflection, like the sextant, a
               {reflecting circle}; and when that of repeating an
               angle several times continuously along the graduated
               limb, a {repeating circle}.
  
      4. A round body; a sphere; an orb.
  
                     It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth.
                                                                              --Is. xi. 22.
  
      5. Compass; circuit; inclosure.
  
                     In the circle of this forest.            --Shak.
  
      6. A company assembled, or conceived to assemble, about a
            central point of interest, or bound by a common tie; a
            class or division of society; a coterie; a set.
  
                     As his name gradually became known, the circle of
                     his acquaintance widened.                  --Macaulay.
  
      7. A circular group of persons; a ring.
  
      8. A series ending where it begins, and repeating itself.
  
                     Thus in a circle runs the peasant's pain. --Dryden.
  
      9. (Logic) A form of argument in which two or more unproved
            statements are used to prove each other; inconclusive
            reasoning.
  
                     That heavy bodies descend by gravity; and, again,
                     that gravity is a quality whereby a heavy body
                     descends, is an impertinent circle and teaches
                     nothing.                                             --Glanvill.
  
      10. Indirect form of words; circumlocution. [R.]
  
                     Has he given the lie, In circle, or oblique, or
                     semicircle.                                       --J. Fletcher.
  
      11. A territorial division or district.
  
      Note:
  
      {The Circles of the Holy Roman Empire}, ten in number, were
            those principalities or provinces which had seats in the
            German Diet.
  
      {Azimuth circle}. See under {Azimuth}.
  
      {Circle of altitude} (Astron.), a circle parallel to the
            horizon, having its pole in the zenith; an almucantar.
  
      {Circle of curvature}. See {Osculating circle of a curve}
            (Below).
  
      {Circle of declination}. See under {Declination}.
  
      {Circle of latitude}.
            (a) (Astron.) A great circle perpendicular to the plane
                  of the ecliptic, passing through its poles.
            (b) (Spherical Projection) A small circle of the sphere
                  whose plane is perpendicular to the axis.
  
      {Circles of longitude}, lesser circles parallel to the
            ecliptic, diminishing as they recede from it.
  
      {Circle of perpetual apparition}, at any given place, the
            boundary of that space around the elevated pole, within
            which the stars never set. Its distance from the pole is
            equal to the latitude of the place.
  
      {Circle of perpetual occultation}, at any given place, the
            boundary of the space around the depressed pole, within
            which the stars never rise.
  
      {Circle of the sphere}, a circle upon the surface of the
            sphere, called a great circle when its plane passes
            through the center of the sphere; in all other cases, a
            small circle.
  
      {Diurnal circle}. See under {Diurnal}.
  
      {Dress circle}, a gallery in a theater, generally the one
            containing the prominent and more expensive seats.
  
      {Druidical circles} (Eng. Antiq.), a popular name for certain
            ancient inclosures formed by rude stones circularly
            arranged, as at Stonehenge, near Salisbury.
  
      {Family circle}, a gallery in a theater, usually one
            containing inexpensive seats.
  
      {Horary circles} (Dialing), the lines on dials which show the
            hours.
  
      {Osculating circle of a curve} (Geom.), the circle which
            touches the curve at some point in the curve, and close to
            the point more nearly coincides with the curve than any
            other circle. This circle is used as a measure of the
            curvature of the curve at the point, and hence is called
            circle of curvature.
  
      {Pitch circle}. See under {Pitch}.
  
      {Vertical circle}, an azimuth circle.
  
      {Voltaic} {circle [or] circuit}. See under {Circuit}.
  
      {To square the circle}. See under {Square}.
  
      Syn: Ring; circlet; compass; circuit; inclosure.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Reflecting \Re*flect"ing\, a.
      1. Throwing back light, heat, etc., as a mirror or other
            surface.
  
      2. Given to reflection or serious consideration; reflective;
            contemplative; as, a reflecting mind.
  
      {Reflecting circle}, an astronomical instrument for measuring
            angless, like the sextant or Hadley's quadrant, by the
            reflection of light from two plane mirrors which it
            carries, and differing from the sextant chiefly in having
            an entire circle.
  
      {Reflecting galvanometer}, a galvanometer in which the
            deflections of the needle are read by means of a mirror
            attached to it, which reflects a ray of light or the image
            of a scale; -- called also {mirror galvanometer}.
  
      {Reflecting goniometer}. See under {Goniometer}.
  
      {Reflecting telescope}. See under {Telescope}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Circle \Cir"cle\ (s[etil]r"k'l), n. [OE. cercle, F. cercle, fr.
      L. circulus (Whence also AS. circul), dim. of circus circle,
      akin to Gr. kri`kos, ki`rkos, circle, ring. Cf. {Circus},
      {Circum-}.]
      1. A plane figure, bounded by a single curve line called its
            circumference, every part of which is equally distant from
            a point within it, called the center.
  
      2. The line that bounds such a figure; a circumference; a
            ring.
  
      3. (Astron.) An instrument of observation, the graduated limb
            of which consists of an entire circle.
  
      Note: When it is fixed to a wall in an observatory, it is
               called a {mural circle}; when mounted with a telescope
               on an axis and in Y's, in the plane of the meridian, a
               {meridian [or] transit circle}; when involving the
               principle of reflection, like the sextant, a
               {reflecting circle}; and when that of repeating an
               angle several times continuously along the graduated
               limb, a {repeating circle}.
  
      4. A round body; a sphere; an orb.
  
                     It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth.
                                                                              --Is. xi. 22.
  
      5. Compass; circuit; inclosure.
  
                     In the circle of this forest.            --Shak.
  
      6. A company assembled, or conceived to assemble, about a
            central point of interest, or bound by a common tie; a
            class or division of society; a coterie; a set.
  
                     As his name gradually became known, the circle of
                     his acquaintance widened.                  --Macaulay.
  
      7. A circular group of persons; a ring.
  
      8. A series ending where it begins, and repeating itself.
  
                     Thus in a circle runs the peasant's pain. --Dryden.
  
      9. (Logic) A form of argument in which two or more unproved
            statements are used to prove each other; inconclusive
            reasoning.
  
                     That heavy bodies descend by gravity; and, again,
                     that gravity is a quality whereby a heavy body
                     descends, is an impertinent circle and teaches
                     nothing.                                             --Glanvill.
  
      10. Indirect form of words; circumlocution. [R.]
  
                     Has he given the lie, In circle, or oblique, or
                     semicircle.                                       --J. Fletcher.
  
      11. A territorial division or district.
  
      Note:
  
      {The Circles of the Holy Roman Empire}, ten in number, were
            those principalities or provinces which had seats in the
            German Diet.
  
      {Azimuth circle}. See under {Azimuth}.
  
      {Circle of altitude} (Astron.), a circle parallel to the
            horizon, having its pole in the zenith; an almucantar.
  
      {Circle of curvature}. See {Osculating circle of a curve}
            (Below).
  
      {Circle of declination}. See under {Declination}.
  
      {Circle of latitude}.
            (a) (Astron.) A great circle perpendicular to the plane
                  of the ecliptic, passing through its poles.
            (b) (Spherical Projection) A small circle of the sphere
                  whose plane is perpendicular to the axis.
  
      {Circles of longitude}, lesser circles parallel to the
            ecliptic, diminishing as they recede from it.
  
      {Circle of perpetual apparition}, at any given place, the
            boundary of that space around the elevated pole, within
            which the stars never set. Its distance from the pole is
            equal to the latitude of the place.
  
      {Circle of perpetual occultation}, at any given place, the
            boundary of the space around the depressed pole, within
            which the stars never rise.
  
      {Circle of the sphere}, a circle upon the surface of the
            sphere, called a great circle when its plane passes
            through the center of the sphere; in all other cases, a
            small circle.
  
      {Diurnal circle}. See under {Diurnal}.
  
      {Dress circle}, a gallery in a theater, generally the one
            containing the prominent and more expensive seats.
  
      {Druidical circles} (Eng. Antiq.), a popular name for certain
            ancient inclosures formed by rude stones circularly
            arranged, as at Stonehenge, near Salisbury.
  
      {Family circle}, a gallery in a theater, usually one
            containing inexpensive seats.
  
      {Horary circles} (Dialing), the lines on dials which show the
            hours.
  
      {Osculating circle of a curve} (Geom.), the circle which
            touches the curve at some point in the curve, and close to
            the point more nearly coincides with the curve than any
            other circle. This circle is used as a measure of the
            curvature of the curve at the point, and hence is called
            circle of curvature.
  
      {Pitch circle}. See under {Pitch}.
  
      {Vertical circle}, an azimuth circle.
  
      {Voltaic} {circle [or] circuit}. See under {Circuit}.
  
      {To square the circle}. See under {Square}.
  
      Syn: Ring; circlet; compass; circuit; inclosure.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Reflecting \Re*flect"ing\, a.
      1. Throwing back light, heat, etc., as a mirror or other
            surface.
  
      2. Given to reflection or serious consideration; reflective;
            contemplative; as, a reflecting mind.
  
      {Reflecting circle}, an astronomical instrument for measuring
            angless, like the sextant or Hadley's quadrant, by the
            reflection of light from two plane mirrors which it
            carries, and differing from the sextant chiefly in having
            an entire circle.
  
      {Reflecting galvanometer}, a galvanometer in which the
            deflections of the needle are read by means of a mirror
            attached to it, which reflects a ray of light or the image
            of a scale; -- called also {mirror galvanometer}.
  
      {Reflecting goniometer}. See under {Goniometer}.
  
      {Reflecting telescope}. See under {Telescope}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Reflecting \Re*flect"ing\, a.
      1. Throwing back light, heat, etc., as a mirror or other
            surface.
  
      2. Given to reflection or serious consideration; reflective;
            contemplative; as, a reflecting mind.
  
      {Reflecting circle}, an astronomical instrument for measuring
            angless, like the sextant or Hadley's quadrant, by the
            reflection of light from two plane mirrors which it
            carries, and differing from the sextant chiefly in having
            an entire circle.
  
      {Reflecting galvanometer}, a galvanometer in which the
            deflections of the needle are read by means of a mirror
            attached to it, which reflects a ray of light or the image
            of a scale; -- called also {mirror galvanometer}.
  
      {Reflecting goniometer}. See under {Goniometer}.
  
      {Reflecting telescope}. See under {Telescope}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Goniometer \Go`ni*om"e*ter\, n. [Gr. [?] angle + -meter: cf. F.
      goniom[8a]tre.]
      An instrument for measuring angles, especially the angles of
      crystals, or the inclination of planes.
  
      {Contact, [or] Hand}, {goniometer}, a goniometer having two
            movable arms (ab, cd), between which (at ab) the faces of
            the crystals are placed. These arms turn about a fixed
            point, which is the center of the graduated circle or
            semicircle upon which the angle is read off.
  
      {Reflecting goniometer}, an instrument for measuring the
            angles of crystals by determining through what angular
            space the crystal must be turned so that two rays
            reflected from two surfaces successively shall have the
            same direction; -- called also {Wollaston's goniometer},
            from the inventor.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Telescope \Tel"e*scope\, n. [Gr. [?] viewing afar, farseeing;
      [?] far, far off + [?] a watcher, akin to [?] to view: cf. F.
      t[82]lescope. See {Telegraph}, and {-scope}.]
      An optical instrument used in viewing distant objects, as the
      heavenly bodies.
  
      Note: A telescope assists the eye chiefly in two ways; first,
               by enlarging the visual angle under which a distant
               object is seen, and thus magnifying that object; and,
               secondly, by collecting, and conveying to the eye, a
               larger beam of light than would enter the naked organ,
               thus rendering objects distinct and visible which would
               otherwise be indistinct and or invisible. Its essential
               parts are the object glass, or concave mirror, which
               collects the beam of light, and forms an image of the
               object, and the eyeglass, which is a microscope, by
               which the image is magnified.
  
      {Achromatic telescope}. See under {Achromatic}.
  
      {Aplanatic telescope}, a telescope having an aplanatic
            eyepiece.
  
      {Astronomical telescope}, a telescope which has a simple
            eyepiece so constructed or used as not to reverse the
            image formed by the object glass, and consequently
            exhibits objects inverted, which is not a hindrance in
            astronomical observations.
  
      {Cassegrainian telescope}, a reflecting telescope invented by
            Cassegrain, which differs from the Gregorian only in
            having the secondary speculum convex instead of concave,
            and placed nearer the large speculum. The Cassegrainian
            represents objects inverted; the Gregorian, in their
            natural position. The Melbourne telescope (see Illust.
            under {Reflecting telescope}, below) is a Cassegrainian
            telescope.
  
      {Dialytic telescope}. See under {Dialytic}.
  
      {Equatorial telescope}. See the Note under {Equatorial}.
  
      {Galilean telescope}, a refracting telescope in which the
            eyeglass is a concave instead of a convex lens, as in the
            common opera glass. This was the construction originally
            adopted by Galileo, the inventor of the instrument. It
            exhibits the objects erect, that is, in their natural
            positions.
  
      {Gregorian telescope}, a form of reflecting telescope. See
            under {Gregorian}.
  
      {Herschelian telescope}, a reflecting telescope of the form
            invented by Sir William Herschel, in which only one
            speculum is employed, by means of which an image of the
            object is formed near one side of the open end of the
            tube, and to this the eyeglass is applied directly.
  
      {Newtonian telescope}, a form of reflecting telescope. See
            under {Newtonian}.
  
      {Photographic telescope}, a telescope specially constructed
            to make photographs of the heavenly bodies.
  
      {Prism telescope}. See {Teinoscope}.
  
      {Reflecting telescope}, a telescope in which the image is
            formed by a speculum or mirror (or usually by two
            speculums, a large one at the lower end of the telescope,
            and the smaller one near the open end) instead of an
            object glass. See {Gregorian, Cassegrainian, Herschelian,
            [and] Newtonian, telescopes}, above.
  
      {Refracting telescope}, a telescope in which the image is
            formed by refraction through an object glass.
  
      {Telescope carp} (Zo[94]l.), the telescope fish.
  
      {Telescope fish} (Zo[94]l.), a monstrous variety of the
            goldfish having very protuberant eyes.
  
      {Telescope fly} (Zo[94]l.), any two-winged fly of the genus
            {Diopsis}, native of Africa and Asia. The telescope flies
            are remarkable for having the eyes raised on very long
            stalks.
  
      {Telescope shell} (Zo[94]l.), an elongated gastropod
            ({Cerithium telescopium}) having numerous flattened
            whorls.
  
      {Telescope sight} (Firearms), a slender telescope attached to
            the barrel, having cross wires in the eyepiece and used as
            a sight.
  
      {Terrestrial telescope}, a telescope whose eyepiece has one
            or two lenses more than the astronomical, for the purpose
            of inverting the image, and exhibiting objects erect.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Reflecting \Re*flect"ing\, a.
      1. Throwing back light, heat, etc., as a mirror or other
            surface.
  
      2. Given to reflection or serious consideration; reflective;
            contemplative; as, a reflecting mind.
  
      {Reflecting circle}, an astronomical instrument for measuring
            angless, like the sextant or Hadley's quadrant, by the
            reflection of light from two plane mirrors which it
            carries, and differing from the sextant chiefly in having
            an entire circle.
  
      {Reflecting galvanometer}, a galvanometer in which the
            deflections of the needle are read by means of a mirror
            attached to it, which reflects a ray of light or the image
            of a scale; -- called also {mirror galvanometer}.
  
      {Reflecting goniometer}. See under {Goniometer}.
  
      {Reflecting telescope}. See under {Telescope}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Reflectingly \Re*flect"ing*ly\, adv.
      With reflection; also, with censure; reproachfully. --Swift.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Plane \Plane\, n. [F. plane, L. plana. See {Plane}, v. & a.]
      1. (Geom.) A surface, real or imaginary, in which, if any two
            points are taken, the straight line which joins them lies
            wholly in that surface; or a surface, any section of which
            by a like surface is a straight line; a surface without
            curvature.
  
      2. (Astron.) An ideal surface, conceived as coinciding with,
            or containing, some designated astronomical line, circle,
            or other curve; as, the plane of an orbit; the plane of
            the ecliptic, or of the equator.
  
      3. (Mech.) A block or plate having a perfectly flat surface,
            used as a standard of flatness; a surface plate.
  
      4. (Joinery) A tool for smoothing boards or other surfaces of
            wood, for forming moldings, etc. It consists of a
            smooth-soled stock, usually of wood, from the under side
            or face of which projects slightly the steel cutting edge
            of a chisel, called the iron, which inclines backward,
            with an apperture in front for the escape of shavings; as,
            the jack plane; the smoothing plane; the molding plane,
            etc.
  
      {Objective plane} (Surv.), the horizontal plane upon which
            the object which is to be delineated, or whose place is to
            be determined, is supposed to stand.
  
      {Perspective plane}. See {Perspective}.
  
      {Plane at infinity} (Geom.), a plane in which points
            infinitely distant are conceived as situated.
  
      {Plane iron}, the cutting chisel of a joiner's plane.
  
      {Plane of polarization}. (Opt.) See {Polarization}.
  
      {Plane of projection}.
            (a) The plane on which the projection is made,
                  corresponding to the perspective plane in perspective;
                  -- called also principal plane.
            (b) (Descriptive Geom.) One of the planes to which points
                  are referred for the purpose of determining their
                  relative position in space.
  
      {Plane of refraction} [or] {reflection} (Opt.), the plane in
            which lie both the incident ray and the refracted or
            reflected ray.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Reflection \Re*flec"tion\ (r?*fl?k"sh?n), n. [L. reflexio: cf.
      F. r[82]flexion. See {Riflect}.] [Written also {reflexion}.]
      1. The act of reflecting, or turning or sending back, or the
            state of being reflected. Specifically:
            (a) The return of rays, beams, sound, or the like, from a
                  surface. See {Angle of reflection}, below.
  
                           The eye sees not itself, But by reflection, by
                           some other things.                        --Shak.
            (b) The reverting of the mind to that which has already
                  occupied it; continued consideration; meditation;
                  contemplation; hence, also, that operation or power of
                  the mind by which it is conscious of its own acts or
                  states; the capacity for judging rationally,
                  especially in view of a moral rule or standard.
  
                           By reflection, . . . I would be understood to
                           mean, that notice which the mind takes of its
                           own operations, and the manner of them, by
                           reason whereof there come to be ideas of these
                           operations in the understanding.   --Locke.
  
                           This delight grows and improves under thought
                           and reflection.                           --South.
  
      2. Shining; brightness, as of the sun. [Obs.] --Shak.
  
      3. That which is produced by reflection. Specifically:
            (a) An image given back from a reflecting surface; a
                  reflected counterpart.
  
                           As the sun water we can bear, Yet not the sun,
                           but his reflection, there.            --Dryden.
            (b) A part reflected, or turned back, at an angle; as, the
                  reflection of a membrane.
            (c) Result of meditation; thought or opinion after
                  attentive consideration or contemplation; especially,
                  thoughts suggested by truth.
  
                           Job's reflections on his once flourishing estate
                           did at the same time afflict and encourage him.
                                                                              --Atterbury.
  
      4. Censure; reproach cast.
  
                     He died; and oh! may no reflection shed Its
                     poisonous venom on the royal dead.      --Prior.
  
      5. (Physiol.) The transference of an excitement from one
            nerve fiber to another by means of the nerve cells, as in
            reflex action. See {Reflex action}, under {Reflex}.
  
      {Angle of reflection}, the angle which anything, as a ray of
            light, on leaving a reflecting surface, makes with the
            perpendicular to the surface.
  
      {Angle of total reflection}. (Opt.) Same as {Critical angle},
            under {Critical}.
  
      Syn: Meditation; contemplation; rumination; cogitation;
               consideration; musing; thinking.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Angle \An"gle\ ([acr][nsm]"g'l), n. [F. angle, L. angulus angle,
      corner; akin to uncus hook, Gr. 'agky`los bent, crooked,
      angular, 'a`gkos a bend or hollow, AS. angel hook, fish-hook,
      G. angel, and F. anchor.]
      1. The inclosed space near the point where two lines meet; a
            corner; a nook.
  
                     Into the utmost angle of the world.   --Spenser.
  
                     To search the tenderest angles of the heart.
                                                                              --Milton.
  
      2. (Geom.)
            (a) The figure made by. two lines which meet.
            (b) The difference of direction of two lines. In the lines
                  meet, the point of meeting is the vertex of the angle.
  
      3. A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment.
  
                     Though but an angle reached him of the stone.
                                                                              --Dryden.
  
      4. (Astrol.) A name given to four of the twelve astrological
            [bd]houses.[b8] [Obs.] --Chaucer.
  
      5. [AS. angel.] A fishhook; tackle for catching fish,
            consisting of a line, hook, and bait, with or without a
            rod.
  
                     Give me mine angle: we 'll to the river there.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
                     A fisher next his trembling angle bears. --Pope.
  
      {Acute angle}, one less than a right angle, or less than
            90[deg].
  
      {Adjacent} or {Contiguous angles}, such as have one leg
            common to both angles.
  
      {Alternate angles}. See {Alternate}.
  
      {Angle bar}.
            (a) (Carp.) An upright bar at the angle where two faces of
                  a polygonal or bay window meet. --Knight.
            (b) (Mach.) Same as {Angle iron}.
  
      {Angle bead} (Arch.), a bead worked on or fixed to the angle
            of any architectural work, esp. for protecting an angle of
            a wall.
  
      {Angle brace}, {Angle tie} (Carp.), a brace across an
            interior angle of a wooden frame, forming the hypothenuse
            and securing the two side pieces together. --Knight.
  
      {Angle iron} (Mach.), a rolled bar or plate of iron having
            one or more angles, used for forming the corners, or
            connecting or sustaining the sides of an iron structure to
            which it is riveted.
  
      {Angle leaf} (Arch.), a detail in the form of a leaf, more or
            less conventionalized, used to decorate and sometimes to
            strengthen an angle.
  
      {Angle meter}, an instrument for measuring angles, esp. for
            ascertaining the dip of strata.
  
      {Angle shaft} (Arch.), an enriched angle bead, often having a
            capital or base, or both.
  
      {Curvilineal angle}, one formed by two curved lines.
  
      {External angles}, angles formed by the sides of any
            right-lined figure, when the sides are produced or
            lengthened.
  
      {Facial angle}. See under {Facial}.
  
      {Internal angles}, those which are within any right-lined
            figure.
  
      {Mixtilineal angle}, one formed by a right line with a curved
            line.
  
      {Oblique angle}, one acute or obtuse, in opposition to a
            right angle.
  
      {Obtuse angle}, one greater than a right angle, or more than
            90[deg].
  
      {Optic angle}. See under {Optic}.
  
      {Rectilineal} or {Right-lined angle}, one formed by two right
            lines.
  
      {Right angle}, one formed by a right line falling on another
            perpendicularly, or an angle of 90[deg] (measured by a
            quarter circle).
  
      {Solid angle}, the figure formed by the meeting of three or
            more plane angles at one point.
  
      {Spherical angle}, one made by the meeting of two arcs of
            great circles, which mutually cut one another on the
            surface of a globe or sphere.
  
      {Visual angle}, the angle formed by two rays of light, or two
            straight lines drawn from the extreme points of an object
            to the center of the eye.
  
      {For Angles of commutation}, {draught}, {incidence},
      {reflection}, {refraction}, {position}, {repose}, {fraction},
            see {Commutation}, {Draught}, {Incidence}, {Reflection},
            {Refraction}, etc.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Plane \Plane\, n. [F. plane, L. plana. See {Plane}, v. & a.]
      1. (Geom.) A surface, real or imaginary, in which, if any two
            points are taken, the straight line which joins them lies
            wholly in that surface; or a surface, any section of which
            by a like surface is a straight line; a surface without
            curvature.
  
      2. (Astron.) An ideal surface, conceived as coinciding with,
            or containing, some designated astronomical line, circle,
            or other curve; as, the plane of an orbit; the plane of
            the ecliptic, or of the equator.
  
      3. (Mech.) A block or plate having a perfectly flat surface,
            used as a standard of flatness; a surface plate.
  
      4. (Joinery) A tool for smoothing boards or other surfaces of
            wood, for forming moldings, etc. It consists of a
            smooth-soled stock, usually of wood, from the under side
            or face of which projects slightly the steel cutting edge
            of a chisel, called the iron, which inclines backward,
            with an apperture in front for the escape of shavings; as,
            the jack plane; the smoothing plane; the molding plane,
            etc.
  
      {Objective plane} (Surv.), the horizontal plane upon which
            the object which is to be delineated, or whose place is to
            be determined, is supposed to stand.
  
      {Perspective plane}. See {Perspective}.
  
      {Plane at infinity} (Geom.), a plane in which points
            infinitely distant are conceived as situated.
  
      {Plane iron}, the cutting chisel of a joiner's plane.
  
      {Plane of polarization}. (Opt.) See {Polarization}.
  
      {Plane of projection}.
            (a) The plane on which the projection is made,
                  corresponding to the perspective plane in perspective;
                  -- called also principal plane.
            (b) (Descriptive Geom.) One of the planes to which points
                  are referred for the purpose of determining their
                  relative position in space.
  
      {Plane of refraction} [or] {reflection} (Opt.), the plane in
            which lie both the incident ray and the refracted or
            reflected ray.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Reflection \Re*flec"tion\ (r?*fl?k"sh?n), n. [L. reflexio: cf.
      F. r[82]flexion. See {Riflect}.] [Written also {reflexion}.]
      1. The act of reflecting, or turning or sending back, or the
            state of being reflected. Specifically:
            (a) The return of rays, beams, sound, or the like, from a
                  surface. See {Angle of reflection}, below.
  
                           The eye sees not itself, But by reflection, by
                           some other things.                        --Shak.
            (b) The reverting of the mind to that which has already
                  occupied it; continued consideration; meditation;
                  contemplation; hence, also, that operation or power of
                  the mind by which it is conscious of its own acts or
                  states; the capacity for judging rationally,
                  especially in view of a moral rule or standard.
  
                           By reflection, . . . I would be understood to
                           mean, that notice which the mind takes of its
                           own operations, and the manner of them, by
                           reason whereof there come to be ideas of these
                           operations in the understanding.   --Locke.
  
                           This delight grows and improves under thought
                           and reflection.                           --South.
  
      2. Shining; brightness, as of the sun. [Obs.] --Shak.
  
      3. That which is produced by reflection. Specifically:
            (a) An image given back from a reflecting surface; a
                  reflected counterpart.
  
                           As the sun water we can bear, Yet not the sun,
                           but his reflection, there.            --Dryden.
            (b) A part reflected, or turned back, at an angle; as, the
                  reflection of a membrane.
            (c) Result of meditation; thought or opinion after
                  attentive consideration or contemplation; especially,
                  thoughts suggested by truth.
  
                           Job's reflections on his once flourishing estate
                           did at the same time afflict and encourage him.
                                                                              --Atterbury.
  
      4. Censure; reproach cast.
  
                     He died; and oh! may no reflection shed Its
                     poisonous venom on the royal dead.      --Prior.
  
      5. (Physiol.) The transference of an excitement from one
            nerve fiber to another by means of the nerve cells, as in
            reflex action. See {Reflex action}, under {Reflex}.
  
      {Angle of reflection}, the angle which anything, as a ray of
            light, on leaving a reflecting surface, makes with the
            perpendicular to the surface.
  
      {Angle of total reflection}. (Opt.) Same as {Critical angle},
            under {Critical}.
  
      Syn: Meditation; contemplation; rumination; cogitation;
               consideration; musing; thinking.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Angle \An"gle\ ([acr][nsm]"g'l), n. [F. angle, L. angulus angle,
      corner; akin to uncus hook, Gr. 'agky`los bent, crooked,
      angular, 'a`gkos a bend or hollow, AS. angel hook, fish-hook,
      G. angel, and F. anchor.]
      1. The inclosed space near the point where two lines meet; a
            corner; a nook.
  
                     Into the utmost angle of the world.   --Spenser.
  
                     To search the tenderest angles of the heart.
                                                                              --Milton.
  
      2. (Geom.)
            (a) The figure made by. two lines which meet.
            (b) The difference of direction of two lines. In the lines
                  meet, the point of meeting is the vertex of the angle.
  
      3. A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment.
  
                     Though but an angle reached him of the stone.
                                                                              --Dryden.
  
      4. (Astrol.) A name given to four of the twelve astrological
            [bd]houses.[b8] [Obs.] --Chaucer.
  
      5. [AS. angel.] A fishhook; tackle for catching fish,
            consisting of a line, hook, and bait, with or without a
            rod.
  
                     Give me mine angle: we 'll to the river there.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
                     A fisher next his trembling angle bears. --Pope.
  
      {Acute angle}, one less than a right angle, or less than
            90[deg].
  
      {Adjacent} or {Contiguous angles}, such as have one leg
            common to both angles.
  
      {Alternate angles}. See {Alternate}.
  
      {Angle bar}.
            (a) (Carp.) An upright bar at the angle where two faces of
                  a polygonal or bay window meet. --Knight.
            (b) (Mach.) Same as {Angle iron}.
  
      {Angle bead} (Arch.), a bead worked on or fixed to the angle
            of any architectural work, esp. for protecting an angle of
            a wall.
  
      {Angle brace}, {Angle tie} (Carp.), a brace across an
            interior angle of a wooden frame, forming the hypothenuse
            and securing the two side pieces together. --Knight.
  
      {Angle iron} (Mach.), a rolled bar or plate of iron having
            one or more angles, used for forming the corners, or
            connecting or sustaining the sides of an iron structure to
            which it is riveted.
  
      {Angle leaf} (Arch.), a detail in the form of a leaf, more or
            less conventionalized, used to decorate and sometimes to
            strengthen an angle.
  
      {Angle meter}, an instrument for measuring angles, esp. for
            ascertaining the dip of strata.
  
      {Angle shaft} (Arch.), an enriched angle bead, often having a
            capital or base, or both.
  
      {Curvilineal angle}, one formed by two curved lines.
  
      {External angles}, angles formed by the sides of any
            right-lined figure, when the sides are produced or
            lengthened.
  
      {Facial angle}. See under {Facial}.
  
      {Internal angles}, those which are within any right-lined
            figure.
  
      {Mixtilineal angle}, one formed by a right line with a curved
            line.
  
      {Oblique angle}, one acute or obtuse, in opposition to a
            right angle.
  
      {Obtuse angle}, one greater than a right angle, or more than
            90[deg].
  
      {Optic angle}. See under {Optic}.
  
      {Rectilineal} or {Right-lined angle}, one formed by two right
            lines.
  
      {Right angle}, one formed by a right line falling on another
            perpendicularly, or an angle of 90[deg] (measured by a
            quarter circle).
  
      {Solid angle}, the figure formed by the meeting of three or
            more plane angles at one point.
  
      {Spherical angle}, one made by the meeting of two arcs of
            great circles, which mutually cut one another on the
            surface of a globe or sphere.
  
      {Visual angle}, the angle formed by two rays of light, or two
            straight lines drawn from the extreme points of an object
            to the center of the eye.
  
      {For Angles of commutation}, {draught}, {incidence},
      {reflection}, {refraction}, {position}, {repose}, {fraction},
            see {Commutation}, {Draught}, {Incidence}, {Reflection},
            {Refraction}, etc.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Plane \Plane\, n. [F. plane, L. plana. See {Plane}, v. & a.]
      1. (Geom.) A surface, real or imaginary, in which, if any two
            points are taken, the straight line which joins them lies
            wholly in that surface; or a surface, any section of which
            by a like surface is a straight line; a surface without
            curvature.
  
      2. (Astron.) An ideal surface, conceived as coinciding with,
            or containing, some designated astronomical line, circle,
            or other curve; as, the plane of an orbit; the plane of
            the ecliptic, or of the equator.
  
      3. (Mech.) A block or plate having a perfectly flat surface,
            used as a standard of flatness; a surface plate.
  
      4. (Joinery) A tool for smoothing boards or other surfaces of
            wood, for forming moldings, etc. It consists of a
            smooth-soled stock, usually of wood, from the under side
            or face of which projects slightly the steel cutting edge
            of a chisel, called the iron, which inclines backward,
            with an apperture in front for the escape of shavings; as,
            the jack plane; the smoothing plane; the molding plane,
            etc.
  
      {Objective plane} (Surv.), the horizontal plane upon which
            the object which is to be delineated, or whose place is to
            be determined, is supposed to stand.
  
      {Perspective plane}. See {Perspective}.
  
      {Plane at infinity} (Geom.), a plane in which points
            infinitely distant are conceived as situated.
  
      {Plane iron}, the cutting chisel of a joiner's plane.
  
      {Plane of polarization}. (Opt.) See {Polarization}.
  
      {Plane of projection}.
            (a) The plane on which the projection is made,
                  corresponding to the perspective plane in perspective;
                  -- called also principal plane.
            (b) (Descriptive Geom.) One of the planes to which points
                  are referred for the purpose of determining their
                  relative position in space.
  
      {Plane of refraction} [or] {reflection} (Opt.), the plane in
            which lie both the incident ray and the refracted or
            reflected ray.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Reflection \Re*flec"tion\ (r?*fl?k"sh?n), n. [L. reflexio: cf.
      F. r[82]flexion. See {Riflect}.] [Written also {reflexion}.]
      1. The act of reflecting, or turning or sending back, or the
            state of being reflected. Specifically:
            (a) The return of rays, beams, sound, or the like, from a
                  surface. See {Angle of reflection}, below.
  
                           The eye sees not itself, But by reflection, by
                           some other things.                        --Shak.
            (b) The reverting of the mind to that which has already
                  occupied it; continued consideration; meditation;
                  contemplation; hence, also, that operation or power of
                  the mind by which it is conscious of its own acts or
                  states; the capacity for judging rationally,
                  especially in view of a moral rule or standard.
  
                           By reflection, . . . I would be understood to
                           mean, that notice which the mind takes of its
                           own operations, and the manner of them, by
                           reason whereof there come to be ideas of these
                           operations in the understanding.   --Locke.
  
                           This delight grows and improves under thought
                           and reflection.                           --South.
  
      2. Shining; brightness, as of the sun. [Obs.] --Shak.
  
      3. That which is produced by reflection. Specifically:
            (a) An image given back from a reflecting surface; a
                  reflected counterpart.
  
                           As the sun water we can bear, Yet not the sun,
                           but his reflection, there.            --Dryden.
            (b) A part reflected, or turned back, at an angle; as, the
                  reflection of a membrane.
            (c) Result of meditation; thought or opinion after
                  attentive consideration or contemplation; especially,
                  thoughts suggested by truth.
  
                           Job's reflections on his once flourishing estate
                           did at the same time afflict and encourage him.
                                                                              --Atterbury.
  
      4. Censure; reproach cast.
  
                     He died; and oh! may no reflection shed Its
                     poisonous venom on the royal dead.      --Prior.
  
      5. (Physiol.) The transference of an excitement from one
            nerve fiber to another by means of the nerve cells, as in
            reflex action. See {Reflex action}, under {Reflex}.
  
      {Angle of reflection}, the angle which anything, as a ray of
            light, on leaving a reflecting surface, makes with the
            perpendicular to the surface.
  
      {Angle of total reflection}. (Opt.) Same as {Critical angle},
            under {Critical}.
  
      Syn: Meditation; contemplation; rumination; cogitation;
               consideration; musing; thinking.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Angle \An"gle\ ([acr][nsm]"g'l), n. [F. angle, L. angulus angle,
      corner; akin to uncus hook, Gr. 'agky`los bent, crooked,
      angular, 'a`gkos a bend or hollow, AS. angel hook, fish-hook,
      G. angel, and F. anchor.]
      1. The inclosed space near the point where two lines meet; a
            corner; a nook.
  
                     Into the utmost angle of the world.   --Spenser.
  
                     To search the tenderest angles of the heart.
                                                                              --Milton.
  
      2. (Geom.)
            (a) The figure made by. two lines which meet.
            (b) The difference of direction of two lines. In the lines
                  meet, the point of meeting is the vertex of the angle.
  
      3. A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment.
  
                     Though but an angle reached him of the stone.
                                                                              --Dryden.
  
      4. (Astrol.) A name given to four of the twelve astrological
            [bd]houses.[b8] [Obs.] --Chaucer.
  
      5. [AS. angel.] A fishhook; tackle for catching fish,
            consisting of a line, hook, and bait, with or without a
            rod.
  
                     Give me mine angle: we 'll to the river there.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
                     A fisher next his trembling angle bears. --Pope.
  
      {Acute angle}, one less than a right angle, or less than
            90[deg].
  
      {Adjacent} or {Contiguous angles}, such as have one leg
            common to both angles.
  
      {Alternate angles}. See {Alternate}.
  
      {Angle bar}.
            (a) (Carp.) An upright bar at the angle where two faces of
                  a polygonal or bay window meet. --Knight.
            (b) (Mach.) Same as {Angle iron}.
  
      {Angle bead} (Arch.), a bead worked on or fixed to the angle
            of any architectural work, esp. for protecting an angle of
            a wall.
  
      {Angle brace}, {Angle tie} (Carp.), a brace across an
            interior angle of a wooden frame, forming the hypothenuse
            and securing the two side pieces together. --Knight.
  
      {Angle iron} (Mach.), a rolled bar or plate of iron having
            one or more angles, used for forming the corners, or
            connecting or sustaining the sides of an iron structure to
            which it is riveted.
  
      {Angle leaf} (Arch.), a detail in the form of a leaf, more or
            less conventionalized, used to decorate and sometimes to
            strengthen an angle.
  
      {Angle meter}, an instrument for measuring angles, esp. for
            ascertaining the dip of strata.
  
      {Angle shaft} (Arch.), an enriched angle bead, often having a
            capital or base, or both.
  
      {Curvilineal angle}, one formed by two curved lines.
  
      {External angles}, angles formed by the sides of any
            right-lined figure, when the sides are produced or
            lengthened.
  
      {Facial angle}. See under {Facial}.
  
      {Internal angles}, those which are within any right-lined
            figure.
  
      {Mixtilineal angle}, one formed by a right line with a curved
            line.
  
      {Oblique angle}, one acute or obtuse, in opposition to a
            right angle.
  
      {Obtuse angle}, one greater than a right angle, or more than
            90[deg].
  
      {Optic angle}. See under {Optic}.
  
      {Rectilineal} or {Right-lined angle}, one formed by two right
            lines.
  
      {Right angle}, one formed by a right line falling on another
            perpendicularly, or an angle of 90[deg] (measured by a
            quarter circle).
  
      {Solid angle}, the figure formed by the meeting of three or
            more plane angles at one point.
  
      {Spherical angle}, one made by the meeting of two arcs of
            great circles, which mutually cut one another on the
            surface of a globe or sphere.
  
      {Visual angle}, the angle formed by two rays of light, or two
            straight lines drawn from the extreme points of an object
            to the center of the eye.
  
      {For Angles of commutation}, {draught}, {incidence},
      {reflection}, {refraction}, {position}, {repose}, {fraction},
            see {Commutation}, {Draught}, {Incidence}, {Reflection},
            {Refraction}, etc.

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   Reflective \Re*flect"ive\ (r?*fl?kt"?v), a. [Cf. F.
      r[82]flectif. Cf. {Reflexive}.]
      1. Throwing back images; as, a reflective mirror.
  
                     In the reflective stream the sighing bride, viewing
                     her charms.                                       --Prior.
  
      2. Capable of exercising thought or judgment; as, reflective
            reason. --Prior.
  
                     His perceptive and reflective faculties . . . thus
                     acquired a precocious and extraordinary development.
                                                                              --Motley.
  
      3. Addicted to introspective or meditative habits; as, a
            reflective person.
  
      4. (Gram.) Reflexive; reciprocal. -- {Re*flect"ive*ly}, adv.
            -- {Re*flect"ive*ness}, n. [bd]Reflectiveness of
            manner.[b8] --J. C. Shairp.

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   Reflective \Re*flect"ive\ (r?*fl?kt"?v), a. [Cf. F.
      r[82]flectif. Cf. {Reflexive}.]
      1. Throwing back images; as, a reflective mirror.
  
                     In the reflective stream the sighing bride, viewing
                     her charms.                                       --Prior.
  
      2. Capable of exercising thought or judgment; as, reflective
            reason. --Prior.
  
                     His perceptive and reflective faculties . . . thus
                     acquired a precocious and extraordinary development.
                                                                              --Motley.
  
      3. Addicted to introspective or meditative habits; as, a
            reflective person.
  
      4. (Gram.) Reflexive; reciprocal. -- {Re*flect"ive*ly}, adv.
            -- {Re*flect"ive*ness}, n. [bd]Reflectiveness of
            manner.[b8] --J. C. Shairp.

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   Reflective \Re*flect"ive\ (r?*fl?kt"?v), a. [Cf. F.
      r[82]flectif. Cf. {Reflexive}.]
      1. Throwing back images; as, a reflective mirror.
  
                     In the reflective stream the sighing bride, viewing
                     her charms.                                       --Prior.
  
      2. Capable of exercising thought or judgment; as, reflective
            reason. --Prior.
  
                     His perceptive and reflective faculties . . . thus
                     acquired a precocious and extraordinary development.
                                                                              --Motley.
  
      3. Addicted to introspective or meditative habits; as, a
            reflective person.
  
      4. (Gram.) Reflexive; reciprocal. -- {Re*flect"ive*ly}, adv.
            -- {Re*flect"ive*ness}, n. [bd]Reflectiveness of
            manner.[b8] --J. C. Shairp.

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   Reflector \Re*flect"or\ (-[etil]r), n. [Cf. F. r[82]flecteur.]
      1. One who, or that which, reflects. --Boyle.
  
      2. (Physics)
            (a) Something having a polished surface for reflecting
                  light or heat, as a mirror, a speculum, etc.
            (b) A reflecting telescope.
            (c) A device for reflecting sound.

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   Reflex \Re*flex"\ (r?*fl?ks"), v. t. [L. reflexus, p. p. of
      reflectere. See {Reflect}.]
      1. To reflect. [Obs.] --Shak.
  
      2. To bend back; to turn back. --J. Gregory.

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   Reflex \Re"flex\ (r?"fl?ks), a. [L. reflexus, p. p. of
      reflectere: cf. F. r[82]flexe. See {Reflect}.]
      1. Directed back; attended by reflection; retroactive;
            introspective.
  
                     The reflex act of the soul, or the turning of the
                     intellectual eye inward upon its own actions. --Sir
                                                                              M. Hale.
  
      2. Produced in reaction, in resistance, or in return.
  
      3. (Physiol.) Of, pertaining to, or produced by, stimulus or
            excitation without the necessary intervention of
            consciousness.
  
      {Reflex action} (Physiol.), any action performed
            involuntarily in consequence of an impulse or impression
            transmitted along afferent nerves to a nerve center, from
            which it is reflected to an efferent nerve, and so calls
            into action certain muscles, organs, or cells.
  
      {Reflex nerve} (Physiol.), an excito-motory nerve. See
            {Exito-motory}.

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   Reflex \Re"flex\ (r?"fl?ks; formerly r?*fl?ks"), n. [L. reflexus
      a bending back. See {Reflect}.]
      1. Reflection; the light reflected from an illuminated
            surface to one in shade.
  
                     Yon gray is not the morning's eye, 'Tis but the pale
                     reflex of Cynthia's brow.                  --Shak.
  
                     On the depths of death there swims The reflex of a
                     human face.                                       --Tennyson.
  
      2. (Physiol.) An involuntary movement produced by reflex
            action.
  
      {Patellar reflex}. See {Knee jerk}, under {Knee}.

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   Reflex \Re"flex\ (r?"fl?ks), a. [L. reflexus, p. p. of
      reflectere: cf. F. r[82]flexe. See {Reflect}.]
      1. Directed back; attended by reflection; retroactive;
            introspective.
  
                     The reflex act of the soul, or the turning of the
                     intellectual eye inward upon its own actions. --Sir
                                                                              M. Hale.
  
      2. Produced in reaction, in resistance, or in return.
  
      3. (Physiol.) Of, pertaining to, or produced by, stimulus or
            excitation without the necessary intervention of
            consciousness.
  
      {Reflex action} (Physiol.), any action performed
            involuntarily in consequence of an impulse or impression
            transmitted along afferent nerves to a nerve center, from
            which it is reflected to an efferent nerve, and so calls
            into action certain muscles, organs, or cells.
  
      {Reflex nerve} (Physiol.), an excito-motory nerve. See
            {Exito-motory}.

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   Reflex \Re"flex\ (r?"fl?ks), a. [L. reflexus, p. p. of
      reflectere: cf. F. r[82]flexe. See {Reflect}.]
      1. Directed back; attended by reflection; retroactive;
            introspective.
  
                     The reflex act of the soul, or the turning of the
                     intellectual eye inward upon its own actions. --Sir
                                                                              M. Hale.
  
      2. Produced in reaction, in resistance, or in return.
  
      3. (Physiol.) Of, pertaining to, or produced by, stimulus or
            excitation without the necessary intervention of
            consciousness.
  
      {Reflex action} (Physiol.), any action performed
            involuntarily in consequence of an impulse or impression
            transmitted along afferent nerves to a nerve center, from
            which it is reflected to an efferent nerve, and so calls
            into action certain muscles, organs, or cells.
  
      {Reflex nerve} (Physiol.), an excito-motory nerve. See
            {Exito-motory}.

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   Reflexed \Re*flexed"\ (r?*fl?kst"), a.
      Bent backward or outward.

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   Reflexibility \Re*flex`i*bil"i*ty\ (r?*fl?ks`?*b?l"?*t?), n.
      [Cf. F. r[82]flexibilit[82].]
      The quality or capability of being reflexible; as, the
      reflexibility of the rays of light. --Sir I. Newton.

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   Reflexible \Re*flex"i*ble\ (r?*fl?ks"?*b'l), a. [CF. F.
      r[82]flexible.]
      Capable of being reflected, or thrown back.
  
               The light of the sun consists of rays differently
               refrangible and reflexible.                     --Cheyne.

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   Reflection \Re*flec"tion\ (r?*fl?k"sh?n), n. [L. reflexio: cf.
      F. r[82]flexion. See {Riflect}.] [Written also {reflexion}.]
      1. The act of reflecting, or turning or sending back, or the
            state of being reflected. Specifically:
            (a) The return of rays, beams, sound, or the like, from a
                  surface. See {Angle of reflection}, below.
  
                           The eye sees not itself, But by reflection, by
                           some other things.                        --Shak.
            (b) The reverting of the mind to that which has already
                  occupied it; continued consideration; meditation;
                  contemplation; hence, also, that operation or power of
                  the mind by which it is conscious of its own acts or
                  states; the capacity for judging rationally,
                  especially in view of a moral rule or standard.
  
                           By reflection, . . . I would be understood to
                           mean, that notice which the mind takes of its
                           own operations, and the manner of them, by
                           reason whereof there come to be ideas of these
                           operations in the understanding.   --Locke.
  
                           This delight grows and improves under thought
                           and reflection.                           --South.
  
      2. Shining; brightness, as of the sun. [Obs.] --Shak.
  
      3. That which is produced by reflection. Specifically:
            (a) An image given back from a reflecting surface; a
                  reflected counterpart.
  
                           As the sun water we can bear, Yet not the sun,
                           but his reflection, there.            --Dryden.
            (b) A part reflected, or turned back, at an angle; as, the
                  reflection of a membrane.
            (c) Result of meditation; thought or opinion after
                  attentive consideration or contemplation; especially,
                  thoughts suggested by truth.
  
                           Job's reflections on his once flourishing estate
                           did at the same time afflict and encourage him.
                                                                              --Atterbury.
  
      4. Censure; reproach cast.
  
                     He died; and oh! may no reflection shed Its
                     poisonous venom on the royal dead.      --Prior.
  
      5. (Physiol.) The transference of an excitement from one
            nerve fiber to another by means of the nerve cells, as in
            reflex action. See {Reflex action}, under {Reflex}.
  
      {Angle of reflection}, the angle which anything, as a ray of
            light, on leaving a reflecting surface, makes with the
            perpendicular to the surface.
  
      {Angle of total reflection}. (Opt.) Same as {Critical angle},
            under {Critical}.
  
      Syn: Meditation; contemplation; rumination; cogitation;
               consideration; musing; thinking.

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   Reflexion \Re*flex"ion\ (-fl?k"sh?n), n.
      See {Reflection}. --Chaucer.

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   Reflection \Re*flec"tion\ (r?*fl?k"sh?n), n. [L. reflexio: cf.
      F. r[82]flexion. See {Riflect}.] [Written also {reflexion}.]
      1. The act of reflecting, or turning or sending back, or the
            state of being reflected. Specifically:
            (a) The return of rays, beams, sound, or the like, from a
                  surface. See {Angle of reflection}, below.
  
                           The eye sees not itself, But by reflection, by
                           some other things.                        --Shak.
            (b) The reverting of the mind to that which has already
                  occupied it; continued consideration; meditation;
                  contemplation; hence, also, that operation or power of
                  the mind by which it is conscious of its own acts or
                  states; the capacity for judging rationally,
                  especially in view of a moral rule or standard.
  
                           By reflection, . . . I would be understood to
                           mean, that notice which the mind takes of its
                           own operations, and the manner of them, by
                           reason whereof there come to be ideas of these
                           operations in the understanding.   --Locke.
  
                           This delight grows and improves under thought
                           and reflection.                           --South.
  
      2. Shining; brightness, as of the sun. [Obs.] --Shak.
  
      3. That which is produced by reflection. Specifically:
            (a) An image given back from a reflecting surface; a
                  reflected counterpart.
  
                           As the sun water we can bear, Yet not the sun,
                           but his reflection, there.            --Dryden.
            (b) A part reflected, or turned back, at an angle; as, the
                  reflection of a membrane.
            (c) Result of meditation; thought or opinion after
                  attentive consideration or contemplation; especially,
                  thoughts suggested by truth.
  
                           Job's reflections on his once flourishing estate
                           did at the same time afflict and encourage him.
                                                                              --Atterbury.
  
      4. Censure; reproach cast.
  
                     He died; and oh! may no reflection shed Its
                     poisonous venom on the royal dead.      --Prior.
  
      5. (Physiol.) The transference of an excitement from one
            nerve fiber to another by means of the nerve cells, as in
            reflex action. See {Reflex action}, under {Reflex}.
  
      {Angle of reflection}, the angle which anything, as a ray of
            light, on leaving a reflecting surface, makes with the
            perpendicular to the surface.
  
      {Angle of total reflection}. (Opt.) Same as {Critical angle},
            under {Critical}.
  
      Syn: Meditation; contemplation; rumination; cogitation;
               consideration; musing; thinking.

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   Reflexion \Re*flex"ion\ (-fl?k"sh?n), n.
      See {Reflection}. --Chaucer.

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   Reflexity \Re*flex"i*ty\ (r?*fl?ks"?*t?), n.
      The state or condition of being reflected. [R.]

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   Reflexiv \Re*flex"iv\, adv.
      In a reflex manner; reflectively.

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   Reflexive \Re*flex"ive\ (-?v), a.
      1. [Cf. F. r[82]flexif.] Bending or turned backward;
            reflective; having respect to something past.
  
                     Assurance reflexive can not be a divine faith.
                                                                              --Hammond.
  
      2. Implying censure. [Obs.] [bd]What man does not resent an
            ugly reflexive word?[b8] --South.
  
      3. (Gram.) Having for its direct object a pronoun which
            refers to the agent or subject as its antecedent; -- said
            of certain verbs; as, the witness perjured himself; I
            bethought myself. Applied also to pronouns of this class;
            reciprocal; reflective. -- {Re*flex"ive*ly}, adv. --
            {Re*flex"ive*ness}, n.

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   Reflexive \Re*flex"ive\ (-?v), a.
      1. [Cf. F. r[82]flexif.] Bending or turned backward;
            reflective; having respect to something past.
  
                     Assurance reflexive can not be a divine faith.
                                                                              --Hammond.
  
      2. Implying censure. [Obs.] [bd]What man does not resent an
            ugly reflexive word?[b8] --South.
  
      3. (Gram.) Having for its direct object a pronoun which
            refers to the agent or subject as its antecedent; -- said
            of certain verbs; as, the witness perjured himself; I
            bethought myself. Applied also to pronouns of this class;
            reciprocal; reflective. -- {Re*flex"ive*ly}, adv. --
            {Re*flex"ive*ness}, n.

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   Reflexive \Re*flex"ive\ (-?v), a.
      1. [Cf. F. r[82]flexif.] Bending or turned backward;
            reflective; having respect to something past.
  
                     Assurance reflexive can not be a divine faith.
                                                                              --Hammond.
  
      2. Implying censure. [Obs.] [bd]What man does not resent an
            ugly reflexive word?[b8] --South.
  
      3. (Gram.) Having for its direct object a pronoun which
            refers to the agent or subject as its antecedent; -- said
            of certain verbs; as, the witness perjured himself; I
            bethought myself. Applied also to pronouns of this class;
            reciprocal; reflective. -- {Re*flex"ive*ly}, adv. --
            {Re*flex"ive*ness}, n.

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   Refluctuation \Re*fluc`tu*a"tion\ (r?*fl?k`t?*?"sh?n; 135), n.
      A flowing back; refluence.

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   Reflueus \Ref"lu*eus\ (-?s), a. [L. refluus.]
      Refluent. [Obs.]

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   Reflux \Re"flux`\ (r?"fl?ks`), a.
      Returning, or flowing back; reflex; as, reflux action.

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   Reflux \Re"flux`\, n. [F. reflux. See {Refluent}, {Flux}.]
      A flowing back, as the return of a fluid; ebb; reaction; as,
      the flux and reflux of the tides.
  
               All from me Shall with a fierce reflux on me redound.
                                                                              --Milton.

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   Refulgence \Re*ful"gence\ (r?*f?l"jens), Refulgency
   \Re*ful"gen*cy\ (-jen*s?), n. [L. refulgentia. See {Refulgent}.]
      The quality of being refulgent; brilliancy; splender;
      radiance.

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   Refulgence \Re*ful"gence\ (r?*f?l"jens), Refulgency
   \Re*ful"gen*cy\ (-jen*s?), n. [L. refulgentia. See {Refulgent}.]
      The quality of being refulgent; brilliancy; splender;
      radiance.

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   Refulgent \Re*ful"gent\ (r?*f?l"j[eit]nt), a. [L. refulgens, p.
      pr. of refulgere to flash back, to shine bright; pref. re-
      re- + fulgere to shine. See {Fulgent}.]
      Casting a bright light; radiant; brilliant; resplendent;
      shining; splendid; as, refulgent beams. -- {Re*ful"gent*ly},
      adv.
  
               So conspicuous and refulgent a truth.      --Boyle.

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   Refulgent \Re*ful"gent\ (r?*f?l"j[eit]nt), a. [L. refulgens, p.
      pr. of refulgere to flash back, to shine bright; pref. re-
      re- + fulgere to shine. See {Fulgent}.]
      Casting a bright light; radiant; brilliant; resplendent;
      shining; splendid; as, refulgent beams. -- {Re*ful"gent*ly},
      adv.
  
               So conspicuous and refulgent a truth.      --Boyle.

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   Replace \Re*place"\ (r?-pl?s"), v. t. [Pref. re- + place: cf. F.
      replacer.]
      1. To place again; to restore to a former place, position,
            condition, or the like.
  
                     The earl . . . was replaced in his government.
                                                                              --Bacon.
  
      2. To refund; to repay; to restore; as, to replace a sum of
            money borrowed.
  
      3. To supply or substitute an equivalent for; as, to replace
            a lost document.
  
                     With Israel, religion replaced morality. --M.
                                                                              Arnold.
  
      4. To take the place of; to supply the want of; to fulfull
            the end or office of.
  
                     This duty of right intention does not replace or
                     supersede the duty of consideration.   --Whewell.
  
      5. To put in a new or different place.
  
      Note: The propriety of the use of replace instead of
               displace, supersede, take the place of, as in the third
               and fourth definitions, is often disputed on account of
               etymological discrepancy; but the use has been
               sanctioned by the practice of careful writers.
  
      {Replaced crystal} (Crystallog.), a crystal having one or
            more planes in the place of its edges or angles.

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   Replaceability \Re*place`a*bil"i*ty\ (-?-b?l"?-t?), n.
      The quality, state, or degree of being replaceable.

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   Replaceable \Re*place"a*ble\ (r?-pl?s"?-b'l), a.
      1. Capable or admitting of being put back into a place.
  
      2. Admitting of having its place supplied by a like thing or
            an equivalent; as, the lost book is replaceable.
  
      3. (Chem.) Capable of being replaced (by), or of being
            exchanged (for); as, the hydrogen of acids is replaceable
            by metals or by basic radicals.

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   Replace \Re*place"\ (r?-pl?s"), v. t. [Pref. re- + place: cf. F.
      replacer.]
      1. To place again; to restore to a former place, position,
            condition, or the like.
  
                     The earl . . . was replaced in his government.
                                                                              --Bacon.
  
      2. To refund; to repay; to restore; as, to replace a sum of
            money borrowed.
  
      3. To supply or substitute an equivalent for; as, to replace
            a lost document.
  
                     With Israel, religion replaced morality. --M.
                                                                              Arnold.
  
      4. To take the place of; to supply the want of; to fulfull
            the end or office of.
  
                     This duty of right intention does not replace or
                     supersede the duty of consideration.   --Whewell.
  
      5. To put in a new or different place.
  
      Note: The propriety of the use of replace instead of
               displace, supersede, take the place of, as in the third
               and fourth definitions, is often disputed on account of
               etymological discrepancy; but the use has been
               sanctioned by the practice of careful writers.
  
      {Replaced crystal} (Crystallog.), a crystal having one or
            more planes in the place of its edges or angles.

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   Replacement \Re*place"ment\ (-ment), n.
      1. The act of replacing.
  
      2. (Crystallog.) The removal of an edge or an angle by one or
            more planes.

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   Replicant \Rep"li*cant\ (r?p"l?-kant), n.
      One who replies.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Replicate \Rep"li*cate\ (-?-k?t), v. t.
      To reply. [Obs.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Replicate \Rep"li*cate\ (l?-k?t), Replicated \Rep"li*ca`ted\
      (-k?`t?d), a. [L. replicatus, p. p. of replicare. See
      {Reply}.]
      Folded over or backward; folded back upon itself; as, a
      replicate leaf or petal; a replicate margin of a shell.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Replicate \Rep"li*cate\ (l?-k?t), Replicated \Rep"li*ca`ted\
      (-k?`t?d), a. [L. replicatus, p. p. of replicare. See
      {Reply}.]
      Folded over or backward; folded back upon itself; as, a
      replicate leaf or petal; a replicate margin of a shell.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Replication \Rep`li*ca"tion\ (-k?"sh?n), n. [L. replicatio. See
      {Reply}.]
      1. An answer; a reply. --Shak.
  
                     Withouten any repplicacioun.               --Chaucer.
  
      2. (Law Pleadings) The reply of the plaintiff, in matters of
            fact, to the defendant's plea.
  
      3. Return or repercussion, as of sound; echo.
  
                     To hear the replication of your sounds. --Shak.
  
      4. A repetition; a copy.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Reply \Re*ply"\, n.; pl. {Replies} (-pl[?]z"). [See {Reply}, v.
      i., and cf. {Replica}.]
      That which is said, written, or done in answer to what is
      said, written, or done by another; an answer; a response.
  
      Syn: Answer; rejoinder; response.
  
      Usage: {Reply}, {Rejoinder}, {Answer}. A reply is a distinct
                  response to a formal question or attack in speech or
                  writing. A rejoinder is a second reply (a reply to a
                  reply) in a protracted discussion or controversy. The
                  word answer is used in two senses, namely (1), in the
                  most general sense of a mere response; as, the answer
                  to a question; or (2), in the sense of a decisive and
                  satisfactory confutation of an adversary's argument,
                  as when we speak of a triumphant answer to the speech
                  or accusations of an opponent. Here the noun
                  corresponds to a frequent use of the verb, as when we
                  say. [bd]This will answer (i.e., fully meet) the end
                  in view;[b8] [bd]It answers the purpose.[b8]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Repolish \Re*pol"ish\ (r?-p?l"?sh), v. t.
      To polish again.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Repulse \Re*pulse"\, n. [L. repulsa, fr. repellere, repulsum.]
      1. The act of repelling or driving back; also, the state of
            being repelled or driven back.
  
                     By fate repelled, and with repulses tired. --Denham.
  
                     He received in the repulse of Tarquin seven hurts in
                     the body.                                          --Shak.
  
      2. Figuratively: Refusal; denial; rejection; failure.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Repulse \Re*pulse"\ (r?-p?ls"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Repulsed}
      (-p?lst"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Repulsing}.] [L. repulsus, p. p.
      of repellere. See {Repel}.]
      1. To repel; to beat or drive back; as, to repulse an
            assault; to repulse the enemy.
  
                     Complete to have discovered and repulsed Whatever
                     wiles of foe or seeming friend.         --Milton.
  
      2. To repel by discourtesy, coldness, or denial; to reject;
            to send away; as, to repulse a suitor or a proffer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Repulse \Re*pulse"\ (r?-p?ls"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Repulsed}
      (-p?lst"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Repulsing}.] [L. repulsus, p. p.
      of repellere. See {Repel}.]
      1. To repel; to beat or drive back; as, to repulse an
            assault; to repulse the enemy.
  
                     Complete to have discovered and repulsed Whatever
                     wiles of foe or seeming friend.         --Milton.
  
      2. To repel by discourtesy, coldness, or denial; to reject;
            to send away; as, to repulse a suitor or a proffer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Repulseless \Re*pulse"less\, a.
      Not capable of being repulsed.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Repulser \Re*puls"er\ (-?r), n.
      One who repulses, or drives back.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Repulse \Re*pulse"\ (r?-p?ls"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Repulsed}
      (-p?lst"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Repulsing}.] [L. repulsus, p. p.
      of repellere. See {Repel}.]
      1. To repel; to beat or drive back; as, to repulse an
            assault; to repulse the enemy.
  
                     Complete to have discovered and repulsed Whatever
                     wiles of foe or seeming friend.         --Milton.
  
      2. To repel by discourtesy, coldness, or denial; to reject;
            to send away; as, to repulse a suitor or a proffer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Repulsion \Re*pul"sion\ (r?-p?l"sh?n), n. [L. repulsio: cf. F.
      r[82]pulsion.]
      1. The act of repulsing or repelling, or the state of being
            repulsed or repelled.
  
      2. A feeling of violent offence or disgust; repugnance.
  
      3. (Physics) The power, either inherent or due to some
            physical action, by which bodies, or the particles of
            bodies, are made to recede from each other, or to resist
            each other's nearer approach; as, molecular repulsion;
            electrical repulsion.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Repulsive \Re*pul"sive\ (-s?v), a. [Cf. F. r[82]pulsif.]
      1. Serving, or able, to repulse; repellent; as, a repulsive
            force.
  
                     Repulsive of his might the weapon stood. --Pope.
  
      2. Cold; forbidding; offensive; as, repulsive manners. --
            {Re*pul"sive*ly}, adv. -- {Re*pul"sive*ness}, n.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Repulsive \Re*pul"sive\ (-s?v), a. [Cf. F. r[82]pulsif.]
      1. Serving, or able, to repulse; repellent; as, a repulsive
            force.
  
                     Repulsive of his might the weapon stood. --Pope.
  
      2. Cold; forbidding; offensive; as, repulsive manners. --
            {Re*pul"sive*ly}, adv. -- {Re*pul"sive*ness}, n.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Repulsive \Re*pul"sive\ (-s?v), a. [Cf. F. r[82]pulsif.]
      1. Serving, or able, to repulse; repellent; as, a repulsive
            force.
  
                     Repulsive of his might the weapon stood. --Pope.
  
      2. Cold; forbidding; offensive; as, repulsive manners. --
            {Re*pul"sive*ly}, adv. -- {Re*pul"sive*ness}, n.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Repulsory \Re*pul"so*ry\ (-s?-r?), a. [L. repulsorius.]
      Repulsive; driving back.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Revalescence \Rev`a*les"cence\, n.
      The act of growing well; the state of being revalescent.
  
               Would this prove that the patient's revalescence had
               been independent of the medicines given him?
                                                                              --Coleridge.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Revalescent \Rev`a*les"cent\, a. [L. revalescens, -entis, p. pr.
      of revalescere; pref. re- re- + valescere, v. incho. fr.
      valere to be well.]
      Growing well; recovering strength.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Revelous \Rev"el*ous\, a. [OF. reveleus.]
      Fond of festivity; given to merrymaking or reveling. [Obs.]
  
               Companionable and revelous was she.         --Chaucer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Revulse \Re*vulse"\, v. t. [L. revulsus, p. p. of revellere.]
      To pull back with force. [R.] --Cowper.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Revulsion \Re*vul"sion\, n. [F. r[82]vulsion, L. revulsio, fr.
      revellere, revulsum, to pluck or pull away; pref. re- re- +
      vellere to pull. Cf. {Convulse}.]
      1. A strong pulling or drawing back; withdrawal.
            [bd]Revulsions and pullbacks.[b8] --SSir T. Brovne.
  
      2. A sudden reaction; a sudden and complete change; --
            applied to the feelings.
  
                     A sudden and violent revulsion of feeling, both in
                     the Parliament and the country, followed.
                                                                              --Macaulay.
  
      3. (Med.) The act of turning or diverting any disease from
            one part of the body to another. It resembles derivation,
            but is usually applied to a more active form of counter
            irritation.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Revulsive \Re*vul"sive\, a. [Cf. F. r[82]vulsif.]
      Causing, or tending to, revulsion.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Revulsive \Re*vul"sive\, n.
      That which causes revulsion; specifically (Med.), a revulsive
      remedy or agent.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Rhopalic \Rho*pal"ic\, a. [Gr. [?][?][?][?] club-shaped; fr.
      [?][?][?] a club: cf. F. rhopalique.] (Pros.)
      Applied to a line or verse in which each successive word has
      one more syllable than the preceding.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ribless \Rib"less\, a.
      Having no ribs.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ripple \Rip"ple\, n.
      1. The fretting or dimpling of the surface, as of running
            water; little curling waves.
  
      2. A little wave or undulation; a sound such as is made by
            little waves; as, a ripple of laughter.
  
      3. (physics) a small wave on the surface of water or other
            liquids for which the driving force is not gravity, but
            surface tension.
  
      4. (Electrical engineering) the residual AC component in the
            DC current output from a rectifier, expressed as a
            percentage of the steady component of the current.
  
      {Ripple grass}. (Bot.) See {Ribwort}.
  
      {Ripple marks}, a system of parallel ridges on sand, produced
            by wind, by the current of a steam, or by the agitation of
            wind waves; also (Geol.), a system of parallel ridges on
            the surface of a sandstone stratum.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ribwort \Rib"wort`\, n. (Bot.)
      A species of plantain ({Plantago lanceolata}) with long,
      narrow, ribbed leaves; -- called also {rib grass}, {ripple
      grass}, {ribwort plantain}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ripple \Rip"ple\, n.
      1. The fretting or dimpling of the surface, as of running
            water; little curling waves.
  
      2. A little wave or undulation; a sound such as is made by
            little waves; as, a ripple of laughter.
  
      3. (physics) a small wave on the surface of water or other
            liquids for which the driving force is not gravity, but
            surface tension.
  
      4. (Electrical engineering) the residual AC component in the
            DC current output from a rectifier, expressed as a
            percentage of the steady component of the current.
  
      {Ripple grass}. (Bot.) See {Ribwort}.
  
      {Ripple marks}, a system of parallel ridges on sand, produced
            by wind, by the current of a steam, or by the agitation of
            wind waves; also (Geol.), a system of parallel ridges on
            the surface of a sandstone stratum.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ribwort \Rib"wort`\, n. (Bot.)
      A species of plantain ({Plantago lanceolata}) with long,
      narrow, ribbed leaves; -- called also {rib grass}, {ripple
      grass}, {ribwort plantain}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Rivaless \Ri"val*ess\, n.
      A female rival. [Obs.] --Richardson.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Rivalship \Ri"val*ship\, n.
      Rivalry. [R.] --B. Jonson.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Roofless \Roof"less\, a.
      1. Having no roof; as, a roofless house.
  
      2. Having no house or home; shelterless; homeless.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ropalic \Ro*pal"ic\, a.
      See {Rhopalic}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ropewalk \Rope"walk`\, a.
      A long, covered walk, or a low, level building, where ropes
      are manufactured.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ropewalker \Rope"walk`er\, n.
      A ropedancer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Rubblestone \Rub"ble*stone`\, n.
      See {Rubble}, 1 and 2.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Rafael Capo], PR (comunidad, FIPS 68513)
      Location: 18.40561 N, 66.78356 W
      Population (1990): 1933 (655 housing units)
      Area: 2.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Rafael Gonza]lez, PR (comunidad, FIPS 68556)
      Location: 18.42946 N, 66.78728 W
      Population (1990): 2446 (794 housing units)
      Area: 1.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Rapelje, MT
      Zip code(s): 59067

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Ravalli County, MT (county, FIPS 81)
      Location: 46.08485 N, 114.12306 W
      Population (1990): 25010 (11099 housing units)
      Area: 6201.2 sq km (land), 15.8 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Rib Lake, WI (village, FIPS 67275)
      Location: 45.31887 N, 90.20360 W
      Population (1990): 887 (355 housing units)
      Area: 4.8 sq km (land), 1.2 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 54470

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Ripley County, IN (county, FIPS 137)
      Location: 39.10189 N, 85.26026 W
      Population (1990): 24616 (9587 housing units)
      Area: 1156.2 sq km (land), 4.0 sq km (water)
   Ripley County, MO (county, FIPS 181)
      Location: 36.65925 N, 90.86640 W
      Population (1990): 12303 (5597 housing units)
      Area: 1630.4 sq km (land), 5.7 sq km (water)

From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   replicator n.   Any construct that acts to produce copies of
   itself; this could be a living organism, an idea (see {meme}), a
   program (see {quine}, {worm}, {wabbit}, {fork bomb}, and {virus}), a
   pattern in a cellular automaton (see {life}, sense 1), or
   (speculatively) a robot or {nanobot}.   It is even claimed by some
   that {{Unix}} and {C} are the symbiotic halves of an extremely
   successful replicator; see {Unix conspiracy}.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   reflexive
  
      A {relation} R is reflexive if, for all x, x R x.
  
      {Equivalence relations}, {pre-orders}, {partial orders} and
      {total orders} are all reflexive.
  
      (1999-01-28)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   reflexive domain
  
      A domain satisfying a recursive domain equation.
      E.g. D = D -> D.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   Reflexive transitive closure
  
      Two elements, x and y, are related by the reflexive transitive
      closure, R+, of a relation, R, if they are related by the
      transitive closure, R*, or they are the same element.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   RefLisp
  
      A {Lisp} {interpreter} by Bill Birch of {Bull}, UK,
      with {shallow-binding} and {dynamic scope}.   Use of {reference
      counting} makes it suitable for experimenting with {real-time}
      and {graphical user interface}s.   {Common Lisp} compatibility
      {macro}s are provided, and most of the examples in "Lisp" by
      Winston & Horn have been run on RefLisp.   RefLisp makes no
      distinction between symbol-values and function-values, so a
      symbol can be either but not both.   There are Lisp {module}s
      for {lexical scope} and for running {indefinite extent}
      {Scheme} programs.
  
      Version 2.67 ("Last Update for a While", the author is
      emigrating to Australia) includes an interpreter,
      documentation, examples and a profiler.   It runs under
      {MS-DOS} ({CGA}/{EGA}/{VGA}) and {AIX}.
  
      {(ftp://ftp.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/mkant/Public/Lisp/implementations/reflisp/)}.
  
      (2000-03-28)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   replacement algorithm
  
      The method used to determine which entry in an associative
      {cache} to flush to main memory when it is desired to cache a
      new block of data.   The "least recently used" algorithm
      flushed the block which has not been accessed for the longest
      time.   A random replacement algorithm picks any block with
      equal probability.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   replication
  
      Creating and maintaining a duplicate
      copy of a database or file system on a different computer,
      typically a {server}.   The term usually implies the
      intelligent copying of parts of the source database which have
      changed since the last replication with the destination.
  
      Replication may be one-way or two-way.   Two-way replication is
      much more complicated because of the possibility that a
      replicated object may have been updated differently in the two
      locations in which case some method is needed to reconcile the
      different versions.
  
      For example, {Lotus Notes} can automatically distribute
      document databases across telecommunications networks.   Notes
      supports a wide range of network {protocols} including {X25}
      and {Internet} {TCP/IP}.
  
      Compare {mirror}.   See also {rdist}.
  
      (1997-12-12)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   replicator
  
      Any construct that acts to produce copies of itself; this
      could be a living organism, an idea (see {meme}), a program
      (see {quine}, {worm}, {wabbit}, {fork bomb}, and {virus}), a
      pattern in a {cellular automaton} (see {life}), or
      (speculatively) a robot or {nanobot}.   It is even claimed by
      some that {Unix} and {C} are the symbiotic halves of an
      extremely successful replicator; see {Unix conspiracy}.
  
      [{Jargon File}]
  
  
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