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  • English Word Razeeing Definition of Razee
  • English Word Razing Definition of Raze
  • English Word Razor Definition A keen-edged knife of peculiar shape, used in shaving the hair from the face or the head.
  • English Word Razor Definition A tusk of a wild boar.
  • English Word Razor-backed Definition Having a sharp, lean, or thin back; as, a razor-backed hog, perch, etc.
  • English Word Razorable Definition Ready for the razor; fit to be shaved.
  • English Word Razorback Definition The rorqual.
  • English Word Razorbill Definition A species of auk (Alca torda) common in the Arctic seas. See Auk, and Illust. in Appendix.
  • English Word Razorbill Definition See Cutwater, 3.
  • English Word Razure Definition The act of erasing or effacing, or the state of being effaced; obliteration. See Rasure.
  • English Word Razure Definition An erasure; a change made by erasing.
  • English Word Razzia Definition A plundering and destructive incursion; a foray; a raid.
  • English Word Re Definition A syllable applied in solmization to the second tone of the diatonic scale of C; in the American system, to the second tone of any diatonic scale.
  • English Word Re coverance Definition Recovery.
  • English Word Re proval Definition Reproof.
  • English Word Re sign Definition Resignation.
  • English Word Re- Definition A prefix signifying back, against, again, anew; as, recline, to lean back; recall, to call back; recede; remove; reclaim, to call out against; repugn, to fight against; recognition, a knowing again; rejoin, to join again; reiterate; reassure. Combinations containing the prefix re- are readily formed, and are for the most part of obvious signification.
  • English Word Re-ally Definition To bring together again; to compose or form anew.
  • English Word Re-collect Definition To collect again; to gather what has been scattered; as, to re-collect routed troops.
  • English Word Re-create Definition To create or form anew.
  • English Word Re-creation Definition A forming anew; a new creation or formation.
  • English Word Re-creative Definition Creating anew; as, re-creative power.
  • English Word Re-demption Definition The act of redeeming, or the state of being redeemed; repurchase; ransom; release; rescue; deliverance; as, the redemption of prisoners taken in war; the redemption of a ship and cargo.
  • English Word Re-demption Definition The liberation of an estate from a mortgage, or the taking back of property mortgaged, upon performance of the terms or conditions on which it was conveyed; also, the right of redeeming and reentering upon an estate mortgaged. See Equity of redemption, under Equity.
  • English Word Re-demption Definition Performance of the obligation stated in a note, bill, bond, or other evidence of debt, by making payment to the holder.
  • English Word Re-demption Definition The procuring of God's favor by the sufferings and death of Christ; the ransom or deliverance of sinners from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law.
  • English Word Re-ferment Definition To ferment, or cause to ferment, again.
  • English Word Re-form Definition To give a new form to; to form anew; to take form again, or to take a new form; as, to re-form the line after a charge.
  • English Word Re-formation Definition The act of forming anew; a second forming in order; as, the reformation of a column of troops into a hollow square.
  • English Word Re-formed Definition of Re-form