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A portuguese money of account, in value about one tenth of a cent. [Spelt also ree.]

The parliament of Austria (exclusive of Hungary, which has its own diet, or parliament). It consists of an Upper and a Lower House, or a House of Lords and a House of Representatives.

A free city of the former German empire.

The Diet, or House of Representatives, of the German empire, which is composed of members elected for a term of three years by the direct vote of the people. See Bundesrath.

Robbery; spoil. [Obs.]

A hollow cut or channel for quiding anything; as, the reigle of a side post for a flood gate. Carew.

Rule; regulation. [Obs.] Bacon. Jer. Taylor.

Royal authority; supreme power; sovereignty; rule; dominion. He who like a father held his reign. Pope. Saturn's sons received the threefold reign Of heaven, of ocean,, and deep hell beneath. Prior.

One who reigns. [R.]

To light again; to cause to shine anew; to relume; to reillumine. "Thou must reillume its spark." J. R. Drake.

To enlighten again; to reillumine.

The act or process of enlightening again.

To illumine again or anew; to reillume.

A strip of oxhide, deprived of hair, and rendered pliable, -- used for twisting into ropes, etc. [South Africa] Simmonds.

See Re.

To imbody again. Boyle.

Capable of being repaid; repayable. A loan has been made of two millions of dollars, reimbursable in ten years. A. Hamilton.

nt for what has been taken, lost, or expended; to refund; to pay back; to restore; as, to reimburse the expenses of a war.

The act reimbursing. A. Hamilton.

One who reimburses.