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RECURE v. 5 definitions
sess. [Obs.] When their powers, impaired through labor long, With due repast, they had recured well. Spenser.
RECURELESS a.
Incapable of cure. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
REDEMPTURE n.
Redemption. [Obs.]
REFIGURE v.
To figure again. Shak.
REFRACTURE n. 2 definitions
A second breaking (as of a badly set bone) by the surgeon.
REINSURE v. 2 definitions
To insure again after a former insuranse has ceased; to renew insurance on.
REINSURER n.
One who gives reinsurance.
REJOINDURE n.
Act of joining again. [Obs.] "Beguiles our lips of all rejoindure" (i.e., kisses). Shak.
REMEASURE v.
To measure again; to retrace. They followed him . . . The way they came, their steps remeasured right. Fairfax.
REPASTURE n.
Food; entertainment. [Obs.] Food for his rage, repasture for his den. Shak.
REPOSURE n.
Rest; quiet. In the reposure of most soft content. Marston.
RESEIZURE n.
A second seizure; the act of seizing again. Bacon.
REST CURE n.
Treatment of severe nervous disorder, as neurasthenia, by rest and isolation with systematic feeding and the use of massage and electricity.
RETEXTURE n.
The act of weaving or forming again. Carlyle.
REVERDURE v.
To cover again with verdure. Ld. Berners.
REVESTTURE n.
Vesture. [Obs.] Richrevesture of cloth of gold. E. Hall.
RICTURE n.
A gaping. [Obs.]
RING ARMATURE n.
An armature for a dynamo or motor having the conductors wound on a ring.
RONDURE n. 2 definitions
Roundness; plumpness. [R.] High-kirtled for the chase, and what was shown Of maiden rondure, like the rose half-blown. Lowell.
ROQUELAURE n.
A cloak reaching about to, or just below, the knees, worn in the 18th century. [Written also roquelo.]
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