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Rebellowing; resounding loudly. [R.] Mrs. Browning.

Repetition of a bellow. [R.] Bp. Patrick.

Fig.: To make or to become hot. [Obs.] Some of his companions thereat reboyleth. Sir T. Elyot.

Born again.

To spring back; to start back; to be sent back or reverberated by elastic force on collision with another body; as, a rebounding echo. Bodies which are absolutely hard, or so soft as to be void of elasticity, will not rebound from one another. Sir I. Newton.

A kind of mantilla worn by women over the head and shoulders, and sometimes over part of the face. [Mexico & Sp. Amer.]

To brace again. Gray.

To breathe again.

Rebuking. [Obs.] She gave unto him many rebucous words. Fabyan.

Repercussion, or beating back; a quick and sudden resistance. The strong rebuff of some tumultuous cloud. Milton.

To build again, as something which has been demolished; to construct anew; as, to rebuild a house, a wall, a wharf, or a city.

One who rebuilds. Bp. Bull.

Worthy of rebuke or reprehension; reprehensible. Shak.

To check, silence, or put down, with reproof; to restrain by expression of disapprobation; to reprehend sharply and summarily; to chide; to reprove; to admonish. The proud he tamed, the penitent he cheered, Nor to rebuke the rich offender feared. Dryden.

Containing rebuke; of the nature of rebuke. [Obs.] -- Re*buke"ful*ly, adv. [Obs.]

One who rebukes.

By way of rebuke.

The act of boiling up or effervescing. [R.] Sir H. Wotton.

To bury again. Ashmole.

A mode of expressing words and phrases by pictures of objects whose names resemble those words, or the syllables of which they are composed; enigmatical representation of words by figures; hence, a peculiar form of riddle made up of such representations.