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In the United States navy, designating such a gun using fixed ammunition or metallic cartridge cases; -- distinguished from breech- loading (abbr. B. L.), applied to all guns loading with the charge in bags, and formerly from quick-fire. Rapid-fire guns in the navy also sometimes include automatic or semiautomatic rapi…

Of or pertaining to the Rasores, or gallinaceous birds, as the peacock, domestic fowl, patridge, and the like.

ork for less wages, or on other conditions, than those established by a trades union. Coleridge . . . incurred the reproach of having ratted, solely by his inability to follow the friends of his early days. De Quincey.

tive; as, a ratiocinative process. The ratiocinative meditativeness of his character. Coleridge.

s number of decks, and thus to an inferior rate or glass, as a ship; hence, to prune or abridge by cutting off or retrenching parts; as, to razee a book, or an article.

One who realizes. Coleridge.

wart. By the pure reason I mean the power by which we become possessed of principles. Coleridge. The sense perceives; the understanding, in its own peculiar operation, conceives; the reason, or rationalized understanding, comprehends. Coleridge.

A tool used for applying a fresh percussion cap or primer to a cartridge shell in reloading it.

To center again; to restore to the center. Coleridge.

ight more than any. Dryden. St. John, who recreated himself with sporting with a tame partridge. Jer. Taylor. These ripe fruits recreate the nostrils with their aromatic scent. Dr. H. More.

The quality or state of being rectilinear. Coleridge.

or soundness. The English nation seems obliterated. What could redintegrate us again Coleridge.

Formed with channels and ridges like reeds.

The condition or quality of being regnant; sovereignty; rule. Coleridge.

The state of being relative; as, the relativity of a subject. Coleridge.

e miracles." A. Norton. The best means, and most reliable pledge, of a higher object. Coleridge. According to General Livingston's humorous account, his own village of Elizabethtown was not much more reliable, being peopled in those agitated times by "unknown, unrecommended strangers, guilty-looking Tories, and very kn…

nuance; permanence. [R.] Jer. Taylor. The remanence of the will in the fallen spirit. Coleridge.

remembered. -- Re*mem"ber*a*bly, adv. The whole vale of Keswick is so rememberable. Coleridge.

The state of being renascent. Read the Phrenascence is varied. Coleridge.

ing, restoring, etc., or the state of being renewed or repaired; as, the reparation of a bridge or of a highway; -- in this sense, repair is oftener used. Arbuthnot.