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670 words match “BOY”

RATE v.
ehemence; to scold; to censure violently. Spencer. Go, rate thy minions, proud, insulting boy! Shak. Conscience is a check to beginners in sin, reclaiming them from it, and rating them for it. Barrow.
REACH v.
t reached to heaven. Gen. xxviii. 12. The new world reaches quite across the torrid zone. Boyle.
READDRESS v.
To address a second time; -- often used reflexively. He readdressed himself to her. Boyle.
REBOIL v.
Fig.: To make or to become hot. [Obs.] Some of his companions thereat reboyleth. Sir T. Elyot.
RECEIVEDNESS n.
e or quality of being received, accepted, or current; as, the receivedness of an opinion. Boyle.
RECOGNOSCE v.
To recognize. [R. & Obs.] Boyle.
RECONJOIN v.
To join or conjoin anew. Boyle.
RECORPORIFICATION n.
e act of investing again with a body; the state of being furnished anew with a body. [R.] Boyle.
RECREMENTITIOUS a.
Of or pertaining to recrement; consisting of recrement or dross. Boyle.
RECURSION n.
The act of recurring; return. [Obs.] Boyle.
REFLECTOR n.
One who, or that which, reflects. Boyle.
REFULGENT a.
ndid; as, refulgent beams. -- Re*ful"gent*ly, adv. So conspicuous and refulgent a truth. Boyle.
REGULARNESS n.
Regularity. Boyle.
REIMBODY v.
To imbody again. Boyle.
RELENT v.
again the fire. Chaucer. [Salt of tartar] placed in a cellar will . . . begin to relent. Boyle. When opening buds salute the welcome day, And earth, relenting, feels the genial ray. Pope.
RELOVE v.
To love in return. [Obs.] Boyle.
REMIGRATE v.
To migrate again; to go back; to return. Boyle.
REMOVE n.
in any scale of gradation; specifically, a division in an English public school; as, the boy went up two removes last year. A freeholder is but one remove from a legislator. Addison.
RESERATE v.
To unlock; to open. [Obs.] Boyle.
RESIDE v.
To sink; to settle, as sediment. [Obs.] Boyle.
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