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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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9,815 words match “IND”

To find again; to get or experience again. Sandys.

Any ruminant of the genus Rangifer, of the Deer family, found in the colder parts of both the Eastern and Western hemispheres, and having long irregularly branched antlers, with the brow tines palmate.

To induce again.

REJOINDER v. 3 definitions

To make a rejoinder. [Archaic]

Act of joining again. [Obs.] "Beguiles our lips of all rejoindure" (i.e., kisses). Shak.

To kindle again.

RELAY CYLINDER n.

In a variable expansion central-valve engine, a small auxiliary engine for automatically adjusting the steam distribution to the load on the main engine. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

REMAINDER n. 4 definitions

, or is left, after the separation and removal of a part; residue; remnant. "The last remainders of unhappy Troy." Dryden. If these decoctions be repeated till the water comes off clear, the remainder yields no salt. Arbuthnot.

REMAINDER-MAN n.

One who has an estate after a particular estate is determined. See Remainder, n., 3. Blackstone.

To put (one) in mind of something; to bring to the remembrance of; to bring to the notice or consideration of (a person). When age itself, which will not be defied, shall begin to arrest, seize, and remind us of our mortality. South.

One who, or that which, reminds; that which serves to awaken remembrance.

Tending or adapted to remind; careful to remind. Southey.

RESCIND v. 2 definitions

To cut off; to abrogate; to annul. The blessed Jesus . . . did sacramentally rescind the impure relics of Adam and the contraction of evil customs. Jer. Taylor.

Capable of being rescinded.

The act of rescinding; rescission.

To vindicate again; to reclaim; to demand and take back. Mitford.

RIGHT-MINDED a.

Having a right or honest mind. -- Right"-mind`ed*ness, n.

RIND n. 2 definitions

ruit, trees, etc.; skin; hide; bark; peel; shell. Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind With all thy charms, although this corporal rind Thou hast immanacled. Milton. Sweetest nurind. Shak.

A highly contagious distemper or murrain, affecting neat cattle, and less commonly sheep and goats; -- called also cattle plague, Russian cattle plague, and steppe murrain.

A small water course or gutter. Ash.