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To bend back; to give a backwaas, a mirror reflects rays of light; polished metals reflect heat. Let me mind the reader to reflect his eye on our quotations. Fuller. Bodies close together reflect their own color. Dryden.

Thrown back after striking a surface; as, reflected light, heat, sound, etc.

Bending or flying back; reflected. "The ray descendent, and the ray reflectent flying with so great a speed." Sir K. Digby.

Capable of being reflected, or thrown back; reflexible.

Given to reflection or serious consideration; reflective; contemplative; as, a reflecting mind. Reflecting circle, an astronomical instrument for measuring angless, like the sextant or Hadley's quadrant, by the reflection of light from two plane mirrors which it carries, and differing from the sextant chiefly in having…

With reflection; also, with censure; reproachfully. Swift.

The act of reflecting, or turning or sending back, or the state of being reflected. Specifically:

Throwing back images; as, a reflective mirror. In the reflective stream the sighing bride, viewing her charms. Prior.

One who, or that which, reflects. Boyle.

Want of reflection.

Not reflective. De Quincey.

The reflection of a reflected image or sound. [R.] Bacon.

Inattention to things present; abstraction (of mind); as, absence of mind. "Reflecting on the little absences and distractions of mankind." Addison. To conquer that abstraction which is called absence. Landor.

ranslucent variety of common feldspar, or orthoclase, which often shows pearly opalescent reflections; -- called by lapidaries moonstone.

he risk. To advise one's self, to bethink one's self; to take counsel with one's self; to reflect; to consider. [Obs.] Bid thy master well advise himself. Shak.

Reflection after an act; later or subsequent thought or expedient.

as, to aim a musket or an arrow, the fist or a blow (at something); to aim a satire or a reflection (at some person or vice).

Whiteness. Specifically: (Astron.) The ratio which the light reflected from an unpolished surface bears to the total light falling upon that surface.

Reflecting of reflected; as, an anacamptic sound (and echo).

By reflection; as, echoes are sound produced anacamptically. Hutton.