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A renewed or second assessment.

To assign back or again; to transfer back what has been assigned.

The act of reassigning.

To assimilate again. -- Re`as*sim`i*la"tion, n.

To associate again; to bring again into close relatoins.

To assume again or anew; to resume. -- Re`as*sump"tion, n.

Assurance or confirmation renewed or repeated. Prynne.

To assure anew; to restore confidence to; to free from fear or terror. They rose with fear, . . . Till dauntless Pallas reassured the rest. Dryden.

One who reassures.

Rusty and rancid; -- applied to salt meat. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Tusser. -- Reas"ti*ness, n. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

A lariat.

To attach again.

The act of reattaching; a second attachment.

To attain again.

The act of reattaining.

To attempt again.

Realm. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Of or pertaining to René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur; conformed to the scale adopted by Réaumur in graduating the thermometer he invented. -- n.

To take away by violence or by stealth; to snatch away; to rob; to despoil; to bereave. [Archaic]. "To reave his life." Spenser. He golden apples raft of the dragon. Chaucer. By privy stratagem my life at home. Chapman. To reave the orphan of his patrimony. Shak. The heaven caught and reft him of his tongue. Tennyson.…

One who reaves. [Archaic]