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The word is used as a Portuguese designation of money of account, one hundred reis being about equal in value to eleven cents.

A title formerly given to one of the chief Turkish officers of state. He was chancellor of the empire, etc.

The thin membrane which separates the canal of the cochlea from the vestibular scala in the internal ear.

Capable of being reissued.

To issue a second time.

A genus of bivalve shells of which one species (D. polymorpha) is often so abundant as to be very troublesome in the fresh waters of Europe.

A crystalline rock consisting of quarts and mica, common in the tin regions of Cornwall and Saxony.

A free-swimming, dimorphic, sexual form of certain species of Nereis.

A Marsh. [Obs.] Chaucer.

See Milreis.

A Portuguese money of account rated in the treasury department of the United States at one dollar and eight cents; also, a Brazilian money of account rated at fifty-four cents and six mills.

A Nereid. See Nereid.

bling an ogre; having the character or appearance of an ogre; suitable for an ogre. "An ogreish kind of jocularity." Dickens.

The character or manners of an ogre.

s, including the marine mussels, in which the two adductor muscles are very unequal. See Dreissena, and Illust. under Byssus.

Any species of Nereis. The word is sometimes used for similar annelids of other families.

Any annelid resembling Nereis, or of the family Lycoridæ or allied families.

Same as 2d Reis.

See 2d Reis.