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A collar or cape. [Obs.] Sir W. Scott.

A kind of ruff for the neck; a turned-down collar; a rebato. [Obs.] Shak.

Ragged; rough. [Obs.] "A stony and raggie hill." Holland.

Refuse matter. [Obs.] Filled with any rubbish, rammel and broken stones. Holland.

To separate into parts; to sift. [Obs.] Holland.

That which separates or arranges; specifically, a sieve. [Obs.] "The tamis ranger." Holland.

A bird of prey, as the owl or vulture. [Obs.] Holland.

ts as the aster, goldenrod, daisy, and sunflower. They have an elongated, strap-shaped corolla, while the corollas of the disk flowers are tubular and five-lobed. -- Ray point (Geom.), the common point of a pencil of rays. -- Röntgen ray ( (Phys.), a kind of ray generated in a very highly exhausted vacuum tube by the…

The river's wooded reach." Tennyson. The coast . . . is very full of creeks and reaches. Holland.

nt away, and the like; -- usually in the plural; as, the receipts amounted to a thousand dollars. Cross receipts. See under Gross, a.

Receptacle. [Obs.] Holland.

o demand the return of as a right; to attempt to recover possession of. A tract of land [Holland] snatched from an element perpetually reclaiming its prior occupancy. W. Coxe.

obligation of record before a proper tribunal; as, A, B recognized in the sum of twenty dollars. [Written also recognise.]

eration of changing numbers of a lower into others of a higher denomination, as cents to dollars. -- Reduction descending (Arith.), the operation of changing numbers of a higher into others of a lower denomination, as dollars to cents.

imed, to a higher point. The Protestant churches founded by them in Switzerland, France, Holland, and part of Germany, were called the Reformed churches. The town was one of the strongholds of the Reformed faith. Macaulay.

an application for allaying fever, or the symptoms of fever; -- used also figuratively. Holland. "A refrigerant to passion." Blair.

Capable of being repaid; repayable. A loan has been made of two millions of dollars, reimbursable in ten years. A. Hamilton.

s holden for to be thickest, and therefore they use it instead of renning, to turn milk. Holland.

To be leased, or let for rent; as, an estate rents for five hundred dollars a year.

A sum total of rents; as, an estate that yields a rental of ten thousand dollars a year.