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Same as Recollect, n.

Of or pertaining to a red letter; marked by red letters. Red- letter day, a day that is fortunate or auspicious; -- so called in allusion to the custom of marking holy days, or saints' days, in the old calendars with red letters.

the peculiar metallic brilliancy seen in lustered pottery such as majolica; as, silver reflet; gold reflet.

different sizes, and designated by the name of the type that it matches; as, nonpareil reglet, pica reglet, and the like.

Filled again; completely filled; full; charged; abounding. "His words replete with guile." Milton. When he of wine was replet at his feast. Chaucer. In heads repiete with thoughts of other men. Cowper.

The state of being replete.

The state of being replete; superabundant fullness. The tree had too much repletion, and was oppressed with its own sap. Bacon. Replecioun [overeating] ne made her never sick. Chaucer.

Tending to make replete; filling. -- Re*ple"tive*ly, adv.

Repletive. [R.]

A little ridge.

See Reglet.

A woman's light scarflike head covering, usually knit or crocheted of wool.

A little rill. Burton.

le; specifically, a fairy ring. You demi-puppets, that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites. Shak.

A small ripple.

A small stream or brook; a streamlet. By fountain or by shady rivulet He sought them. Milton.

A tropical genus of rubiaceous shrubs which often have brilliant flowers.

A small roof, covering, or shelter.

A radicle; a little root.

A game of chance, in which a small ball is made to move round rapidly on a circle divided off into numbered red and black spaces, the one on which it stops indicating the result of a variety of wagers permitted by the game.