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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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1,041 words match “REI”

See Straiten. [Obs.]

To strain. [Obs.] Chaucer.

STREIT a. 2 definitions

Drawn. [Obs.] Pyrrhus with his streite sword. Chaucer.

Narrowly; strictly; straitly. [Obs.]

The quality or state of being sulphureous. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

To override; to exhaust by riding. [Obs.] Shak.

Quality of being earthy; earthiness. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

e, or thing; in that particular or respect. Wyclif. He pricketh through a fair forest, Therein is many a wild beast. Chaucer. Bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein. Gen. ix. 7. Therein our letters do not well agree. Shak.

Into that or this, or into that place. Bacon. Let not them . . . enter thereinto. Luke xxi. 21.

TRANSFREIGHT v.

To transfrete. [Obs.] Waterhouse.

rting vines, etc.; an espalier; a trellis. Spectator. I shall plant the roses against my treillage to-morrow. Walpole.

A company or association of gymnasts and athletes.

To loosen the reins of; to remove restraint from. Addison.

UREIDE n. 2 definitions

tives of urea; thus, hydantoin, and, in an extended dense, guanidine, caffeine, et., are ureides. [Written also ureid.]

A union, association, or society; -- used in names of German organizations.

WHEREIN adv. 2 definitions

ch; in which place, thing, time, respect, or the like; -- used relatively. Her clothes wherein she was clad. Chaucer. There are times wherein a man ought to be cautious as well as innocent. Swift.

WHEREINTO adv. 2 definitions

Into which; -- used relatively. Where is that palace whereinto foul things Sometimes intrude not Shak. The brook, whereinto he loved to look. Emerson.

Literally, a customs union; specifically, applied to the several customs unions successively formed under the leadership of Prussia among certain German states for establishing liberty of commerce among themselves and common tariff on imports, exports, and transit.

To surrender or relinquish, as sovereign power; to withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; as, to abdicate the throne, the crown, the papacy.

high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder; commonly the voluntary renunciation of sovereign power; as, abdication of the throne, government, power, authority.