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Governed by reason; being under influence of reason; thinking, speaking or acting rationally, or according to the dictates of reason; agreeable to reason; just; rational; as, the measure must satisfy all reasonable men. By indubitable certainty, I mean that which doth not admit of any reasonable cause of doubting. Bp.…

Pertaining to rebels or rebellion; acting in revolt; rebellious; as, rebel troops. Whoso be rebel to my judgment. Chaucer. Convict by flight, and rebel to all law. Milton.

The act of redacting; work produced by redacting; a digest.

The enacting or passing of a law a second time; the renewal of a law.

The act of refracting, or the state of being refracted.

A refracting telescope, in which the image to be viewed is formed by the refraction of light in passing through a convex lens.

Pertaining to, or possessing, refringency; refractive; refracting; as, a refringent prism of spar. Nichol.

A reacting jolt or shock; a rebound or recoil. [R.] These inward rejolts and recoilings of the mind. South.

To refrain from exacting or enforcing; as, to remit the performance of an obligation. "The sovereign was undoubtedly competent to remit penalties." Macaulay.

Not proximate or acting directly; primary; distant. "From the effect to the remotest cause." Granville.

nework. (d) The coat of plaster thus laid on. Gwilt. (e) The process of trying out or extracting lard, tallow, etc., from animal fat.

Resisting pressure or the effect of it; acting against impluse by elastic force. "[Muscles] soft and yet renitent." Ray.

Appearing or acting for another; representing.

Bearing the character or power of another; acting for another or others; as, a council representative of the people. Swift.

Specifically, to vacate or make void, as an act, by the enacting authority or by superior authority; to repeal; as, to rescind a law, a resolution, or a vote; to rescind a decree or a judgment.

ent a color or mordant from fixing on those parts to which it has been applied, either by acting machanically in preventing the color, etc., from reaching the cloth, or chemically in changing the color so as to render it incapable of fixing itself in the fibers.. The pastes prepared for this purpose are called resist p…

To draw back again; to hold back from acting, proceeding, or advancing, either by physical or moral force, or by any interposing obstacle; to repress or suppress; to keep down; to curb. Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature Gives way to in repose! Shak.

nce. Resultant force or motion (Mech.), a force which is the result of two or more forces acting conjointly, or a motion which is the result of two or more motions combined. See Composition of forces, under Composition.

The act of retracting what has been said; recantation.

The act of retracting, or drawing back; the state of being retracted; as, the retraction of a cat's claws.