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s of religion; as, a Roman Catholic recusant, who acknowledges the supremacy of the pope. Brande & C.

singing bird (Ruticilla phoenicurus), allied to the nightingale; -- called also redtail, brantail, fireflirt, firetail. The black redstart is P.tithys. The name is also applied to several other species of Ruticilla amnd allied genera, native of India.

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

on. Regalia of a church, the privileges granted to it by kings; sometimes, its patrimony. Brande & C.

instruction of the private soldiers of a regiment, and their children, in the rudimentary branches of education.

the colder parts of both the Eastern and Western hemispheres, and having long irregularly branched antlers, with the brow tines palmate.

crease of his disgraceful stipend are mentioned with becoming reprobation. Jeffrey. Set a brand of reprobation on clipped poetry and false coin. Dryden.

reign by supplication; -- now abolished. It was inferior to the Court of Chancery. [Eng.] Brande & C.

ratory foods. (Physiol.) See 2d Note under Food, n., 1. -- Respiratory tree (Zoöl.), the branched internal gill of certain holothurians.

wreaking revenge. If thy revengeful heart can not forgive. Shak. May my hands . . . Never brandish more rebvengeful steel. Shak.

which does not begin, until the happening of some event, as the death of a living person. Brande &C.

A branch of inflorescence; the zigzag axis on which the florets are arranged in the spikelets of grasses.

eign of Henry VI., and of fifteen shillings in the reign of Elizabeth. [Spelt also ryal.] Brande & C.

an public entertainment, consisting of music and dancing, -- held generally on fast eves. Brande & C. There are to be ridottos at guinea tickets. Walpole.

To make a ring around by cutting away the bark; to girdle; as, to ring branches or roots.

A bough or branch; a twig. [Obs.] As white as is the blossom upon the ris. Chaucer.

A monstrous bird of Arabian mythology. [Written also rock, and rukh.] Brande & C.

A small European and Asiatic deer (Capreolus capræa) having erect, cylindrical, branched antlers, forked at the summit. This, the smallest European deer, is very nimble and graceful. It always prefers a mountainous country, or high grounds.

The descending, and commonly branching, axis of a plant, increasing in length by growth at its extremity only, not divided into joints, leafless and without buds, and having for its offices to fix the plant in the earth, to supply it with moisture and soluble matters, and sometimes to serve as a reservoir of nutriment…

which, with other inscriptions, a key was obtained to the hieroglyphics of ancient Egypt. Brande & C.