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ng the campaign of 1776, instead of reënforcing, it was necessary to re-create, the army. Marshall.

new commission to. Officers whose time of service had expired were to be recommissioned. Marshall.

Reverence; honor. [Obs.] In redoutyng of Mars and of his glory. Chaucer.

bordered with orange, on each wing. Called also redwinged blackbird, red-winged troupial, marsh blackbird, and swamp blackbird.

dbird. -- Reed bunting (Zoöl.) A European sparrow (Emberiza schoeniclus) which frequents marshy places; -- called also reed sparrow, ring bunting. (b) Reedling. -- Reed canary grass (Bot.), a tall wild grass (Phalaris arundinacea). -- Reed grass. (Bot.) (a) The common reed. See Reed, 1. (b) A plant of the genus Spar…

Grown rank; rancid; rusty. [Obs.] "Reezed bacon." Marston.

Having great renown; famous. "Renownful Scipio." Marston.

Rest; quiet. In the reposure of most soft content. Marston.

Unrevenged. [Obs.] Marston.

A division of marsupials. The wombat is the type.

nd is an emblem of fidelity or constancy. There's rosemary, that's for remembrance. Shak. Marsh rosemary. (a) A little shrub (Andromeda polifolia) growing in cold swamps and having leaves like those of the rosemary. (b) See under Marsh. -- Rosemary pine, the loblolly pine. See under Loblolly.

A little run or stream; a streamlet; a brook. To trace out to its marshy source every runlet that has cast in its tiny pitcherful with the rest. Lowell.

A name given to many aquatic or marsh-growing endogenous plants with soft, slender stems, as the species of Juncus and Scirpus.

.] (Old Chem.), green vitriol, or ferrous sulphate; -- the alchemical name of iron being. Mars. -- Sal microcosmicum Etym: [NL.] (Old Chem.) See Microcosmic salt, under Microcosmic. -- Sal plumbi Etym: [NL.] (Old Chem.), sugar of lead. -- Sal prunella. (Old Chem.) See Prunella salt, under 1st Prunella. -- Sal Satur…

A salt marsh, or salt pond, inclosed from the sea.

e for an annual exhibition of paintings, sculptures, etc., held in Paris at the Champs de Mars, by the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts (National Society of Fine Arts), a body of artists who, in 1890, seceded from the Société des Artistes Français (Society of French Artists).

Overflowed with, or growing in, salt water; as, a salt marsh; salt grass.

A salt marsh.

The species of glasswort (Salicornia herbacea); -- called in England marsh samphire.

A suborder of carnivorous and insectivorous marsupials including the dasyures and the opossums.