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To be brittle when red-hot; to be red-short. Moxon.

A common Old World limicoline bird (Totanus calidris), having the legs and feet pale red. The spotted redshank (T. fuscus) is larger, and has orange-red legs. Called also redshanks, redleg, and clee.

A common appellation for a North American Indian; -- so called from the color of the skin. Cooper.

European 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 kind of apple having the skin streaked with red and yellow, -- a favorite English cider apple. Mortimer.

The red-tailed hawk.

singing bird (Phyrrholæmus brunneus). The upper parts are brown, the center of the throat red.

nglish grass, and in some localities herd's grass. See Illustration in Appendix. The tall redtop is Triodia seslerioides.

air, or make reparation for; hence, to repay or requite. [Obs.] It shall be good that you redub that negligence. Wyatt. God shall give power to redub it with some like requital to the French. Grafton.

To bring or lead back to any former place or condition. [Obs.] And to his brother's house reduced his wife. Chapman. The sheep must of necessity be scattered, unless the great Shephered of souls oppose, or some of his delegates reduce and direct us. Evelyn.

Reduction. Milton.

Tending to reduce. -- n.

One who, or that which, reduces.

Capable of being reduced.

Quality of being reducible.

a & n. from Reduce. Reducing furnace (Metal.), a furnace for reducing ores. -- Reducing pipe fitting, a pipe fitting, as a coupling, an elbow, a tee, etc., for connecting a large pipe with a smaller one. -- Reducing valve, a device for automatically maintaining a diminished pressure of steam, air, gas, etc., in a pip…

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.