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One of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, founded in Naples in 1732 by St. Alphonsus Maria de Liquori. It was introduced onto the United States in 1832 at Detroit. The Fathers of the Congregation devote themselves to preaching to the neglected, esp. in missions and retreats, and are forbidden by their rule to…

Paid for ransom; serving to redeem. "Hector's redemptory price." Chapman.

Redemption. [Obs.]

Formed like the teeth of a saw; indented.

To deposit again.

To descend again. Howell.

eaching with mercuric chloride and subsequently subjecting anew to a developing agent. -- Re`de*vel"op*er (#), n. --Re`de*vel"op*ment (#), n.

Same as Redfish. (d).

A small North American dace (Minnilus cornutus, or Notropis megalops). The male, in the breeding season, has bright red fins. Called also red dace, and shiner. Applied also to Notropis ardens, of the Mississippi valley.

The European linnet.

The red bass, red drum, or drumfish. See the Note under Drumfish.

A person having red hair.

The annulling of a sale, and the return by the buyer of the article sold, on account of some defect.

Of or pertaining to redhibition; as, a redhibitory action or fault.

The male of the European bullfinch. [Prov. Eng.]

s (Fugacia) including the common yellow species and the cabbage butterflies. The antennæ are usually red.

A kind of larva, or nurse, which is prroduced within the sporocyst of certain trematodes by asexual generation. It in turn produces, in the same way, either another generation of rediæ, or else cercariæ within its own body. Called also proscolex, and nurse. See Illustration in Appendix.

Returning. [R.]

A reserve force in the Turkish army, or a soldier of the reserve. See Army organization, above.

To digest, or reduce to form, a second time. Kent.