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   re-arm
         v 1: arm anew; "After the war, the defeated country was not
               allowed to rearm" [syn: {rearm}, {re-arm}]

English Dictionary: rerun by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
rearm
v
  1. arm again; "After the war, the defeated country was not rearmed by the victors"
  2. arm anew; "After the war, the defeated country was not allowed to rearm"
    Synonym(s): rearm, re-arm
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
rerun
n
  1. a program that is broadcast again; "she likes to watch `I love Lucy' reruns"
v
  1. broadcast again, as of a film
    Synonym(s): rerun, rebroadcast
  2. rerun a performance of a play, for example
  3. run again for office; "Bush wants to rerun in 1996"
  4. cause to perform again; "We have to rerun the subjects--they misunderstood the instructions"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Currant \Cur"rant\ (k?r"rant), n. [F. corinthe (raisins de
      Corinthe raisins of Corinth) currant (in sense 1), from the
      city of Corinth in Greece, whence, probably, the small dried
      grape (1) was first imported, the Ribes fruit (2) receiving
      the name from its resemblance to that grape.]
      1. A small kind of seedless raisin, imported from the Levant,
            chiefly from Zante and Cephalonia; -- used in cookery.
  
      2. The acid fruit or berry of the {Ribes rubrum} or common
            red currant, or of its variety, the white currant.
  
      3. (Bot.) A shrub or bush of several species of the genus
            {Ribes} (a genus also including the gooseberry); esp., the
            {Ribes rubrum}.
  
      {Black currant},a shrub or bush ({Ribes nigrum} and {R.
            floridum}) and its black, strong-flavored, tonic fruit.
  
      {Cherry currant}, a variety of the red currant, having a
            strong, symmetrical bush and a very large berry.
  
      {Currant borer} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of an insect that bores
            into the pith and kills currant bushes; specif., the
            larvae of a small clearwing moth ({[92]geria
            tipuliformis}) and a longicorn beetle ({Psenocerus
            supernotatus}).
  
      {Currant worm} (Zo[94]l.), an insect larva which eats the
            leaves or fruit of the currant. The most injurious are the
            currant sawfly ({Nematus ventricosus}), introduced from
            Europe, and the spanworm ({Eufitchia ribearia}). The fruit
            worms are the larva of a fly ({Epochra Canadensis}), and a
            spanworm ({Eupithecia}).
  
      {Flowering currant}, {Missouri currant}, a species of {Ribes}
            ({R. aureum}), having showy yellow flowers.
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