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To reduce. [Obs.] W. Warde.

The quality of being reducible; reducibleness.

The act of reducing, or state of being reduced; conversion to a given state or condition; diminution; conquest; as, the reduction of a body to powder; the reduction of things to order; the reduction of the expenses of government; the reduction of a rebellious province.

Tending to reduce; having the power or effect of reducing. -- n.

By reduction; by consequence.

A central or retired work within any other work.

The quality or state of being redundant; superfluity; superabundance; excess.

Exceeding what is natural or necessary; superabundant; exuberant; as, a redundant quantity of bile or food. Notwithstanding the redundant oil in fishes, they do not increase fat so much as flesh. Arbuthnot.

In a refundant manner.

Double; doubled; reduplicative; repeated.

The doubling of a stem or syllable (more or less modified), with the effect of changing the time expressed, intensifying the meaning, or making the word more imitative; also, the syllable thus added; as, L. tetuli; poposci.

Double; formed by reduplication; reduplicate. I. Watts.

Any hemipterous insect of the genus Redivius, or family Reduvidæ. They live by sucking the blood of other insects, and some species also attack man.

The red poppy (Papaver Rhoeas). Dr. Prior.

A European thrush (Turdus iliacus). Its under wing coverts are orange red. Called also redwinged thrush. (b) A North American passerine bird (Agelarius phoeniceus) of the family Icteridæ. The male is black, with a conspicuous patch of bright red, bordered with orange, on each wing. Called also redwinged blackbird, red-…

A west Indian climbing shrub (Combretum Jacquini) with slender reddish branchlets.

A gigantic coniferous tree (Sequoia sempervirens) of California, and its light and durable reddish timber. See Sequoia.

See Rei.

The peele. [Written also rehboc and rheeboc.]

To give echoes; to return back, or be reverberated, as an echo; to resound; to be resonant. And a loud groan reëchoes from the main. Pope.