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1,041 words match “REI”

REISSUE v. 2 definitions
To issue a second time.
REIT n.
Sedge; seaweed. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
REITER n.
A German cavalry soldier of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
REITERANT a.
Reiterating. [R.] Mrs. Browning.
REITERATE v. 2 definitions
To repeat again and again; to say or do repeatedly; sometimes, to repeat. That with reiterated crimes he might Heap on himself damnation. Milton. You never spoke what did become you less Than this; which to reiterate were sin. Shak.
REITERATEDLY adv.
Repeatedly.
REITERATION n.
The act of reiterating; that which is reiterated.
REITERATIVE n. 2 definitions
A word expressing repeated or reiterated action.
REIVER n.
See Reaver. Ruskin.
AFFREIGHT v.
To hire, as a ship, for the transportation of goods or freight.
AFFREIGHTER n.
One who hires or charters a ship to convey goods.
AFFREIGHTMENT n.
The act of hiring, or the contract for the use of, a vessel, or some part of it, to convey cargo.
AMBREIC a.
Of or pertaining to ambrein; -- said of a certain acid produced by digesting ambrein in nitric acid.
AMBREIN n.
A fragrant substance which is the chief constituent of ambergris.
BEARING REIN n.
A short rein looped over the check hook or the hames to keep the horse's head up; -- called in the United States a checkrein.
CHECKREIN n. 2 definitions
A short rein looped over the check hook to prevent a horse from lowering his head; -- called also a bearing rein.
CHOREIC a.
Of the nature of, or pertaining to, chorea; convulsive.
CORPOREITY n.
tate of having a body; the state of being corporeal; materiality. The one attributed corporeity to God. Bp. Stillingfleet. Those who deny light to be matter, do not therefore deny its corporeity. Coleridge.
CORREI n.
A hollow in the side of a hill, where game usually lies. "Fleet foot on the correi." Sir W. Scott.
COSOVEREIGN n.
A joint sovereign.
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