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

One who redacts; one who prepares matter for publication; an editor. Carlyle.

A work having two parapets whose faces unite so as to form a salient angle toward the enemy.

To disprove; to refute; toconfute; to reprove; to convict. [Archaic] How shall I . . . suffer that God should redargue me at doomsday, and the angels reproach my lukewarmness Jer. Taylor. Now this objection to the immediate cognition of external objects has, as far as I know, been redargued in three different ways. Sir…

The act of redarguing; refutation. [Obs. or R.] Bacon.

Pertaining to, or containing, redargution; refutatory. [R.]

The dunlin. [U. S.]

The char.

The summer redbird (Piranga rubra).

The knot, or red-breasted snipe; -- called also robin breast, and robin snipe. See Knot.

A small ornamental leguminous tree of the American species of the genus Cercis. See Judas tree, under Judas.

The European goldfinch.

One who wears a red coat; specifically, a red-coated British soldier.

obs. imp. of Read, or Rede. Chaucer.

To make red or somewhat red; to give a red color to.

A clause in a deed by which some new thing is reserved out of what had been granted before; the clause by which rent is reserved in a lease. Cruise.

Somewhat red; moderately red. -- Red"dish*ness, n.

Restoration: restitution: surrender. Howell.

Answering to an interrogative or inquiry; conveying a reply; as, redditive words.

Red chalk. See under Chalk.