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To cause to take root; to plant deeply and firmly; to root. Time should . . . rather confirm and radicate in us the remembrance of God's goodness. Barrow.

Full of rancor; evincing, or caused by, rancor; deeply malignant; implacably spiteful or malicious; intensely virulent. So flamed his eyes with rage and rancorous ire. Spenser.

The act or process of making and applying rands for shoes.

diers; as, to reduce a noncommissioned officer to the ranks. -- To fill the ranks, to supply the whole number, or a competent number. -- To take rank of, to have precedence over, or to have the right of taking a higher place than.pull rank, to insist on one's own prerogative or plan of action, by right of a higher ra…

To supply with rations, as a regiment.

e off a story. (b) To rail at; to scold. "She would sometimes rattle off her servants sharply." Arbuthnot.

The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.

or put down, with reproof; to restrain by expression of disapprobation; to reprehend sharply and summarily; to chide; to reprove; to admonish. The proud he tamed, the penitent he cheered, Nor to rebuke the rich offender feared. Dryden.

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

A capacious vessel for receiving steam from a distant boiler, and supplying it dry to an engine.

The act or process of removing a cataract, by applying the needle to its anterior surface, and depressing it into the vitreous humor in such a way that front surface of the cataract becomes the upper one and its back surface the lower one. Dunglison.

To supply with new men, as an army; to fill up or make up by enlistment; as, he recruited two regiments; the army was recruited for a campaign; also, to muster; to enlist; as, he recruited fifty men. M. Arnold.

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

r repeatedly; to increase by continued or repeated additions; to augment greatly; to multiply. So they Doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe. Shak. n. An optional bid made by the side currently holding the highest bid for the contract, after the opposing side has doubled. This bid increases the score for successfully m…

To redouble; to multiply; to repeat.

s, to move the floats of a paddle wheel toward its center so that they will not dip so deeply.

The process of applying additional colors, by applications of printing blocks, to patterns already partly colored.

To have recourse; to apply; to appeal; to betake one's self; as, to refer to a dictionary. In suits . . . it is to refer to some friend of trust. Bacon.

To fit out or supply a second time.

Implying censure. [Obs.] "What man does not resent an ugly reflexive word" South.