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The construction of a railroad; the business of managing or operating a railroad. [Colloq. U. S.]

The act or process of making and applying rands for shoes.

ready; preparation; promptness; aptitude; willingness. They received the word with all readiness of mind. Acts xvii. 11.

Study of books; literary scholarship; as, a man of extensive reading.

Keeping a record or a register; as, a recording secretary; -- applied to numerous instruments with an automatic appliance which makes a record of their action; as, a recording gauge or telegraph.

A long plain double-breasted outside coat for women.

to restore to integrity or soundness. The English nation seems obliterated. What could redintegrate us again Coleridge.

Restoration to a whole or sound state; renewal; renovation. Dr. H. More.

A small convex molding; a reed (see Illust. (i) of Molding); one of several set close together to decorate a surface; also, decoration by means of reedings; -- the reverse of fluting.

Concerning; respecting.

Of or pertaining to Renard, the fox, or the tales in which Renard is mentioned.

A second ordination.

By retrograding; so as to retrograde.

The glycerin salt of ricinelaidic acid, obtained as a white crystalline waxy substance by treating castor oil with nitrous acid.

merly under the government of reeve. They are called the North, the East, and the West, Riding. Blackstone.

Armature winding in which the wire is wound round the outer and inner surfaces alternately of an annular or cylindrical core.

Round or nearly round; becoming round; roundish.

Reddish. [R.] M. Stuart.

A nitrogenous base homologous with pyridine, obtained from coal tar as an oily liquid, C11H17N; also, any one of the group od metameric compounds of which rubidine is the type.

The quality or state of being ruddy; as, the ruddiness of the cheeks or the sky.