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- English Word Redshank Definition The fieldfare.
- English Word Redshank Definition A bare-legged person; -- a contemptuous appellation formerly given to the Scotch Highlanders, in allusion to their bare legs.
- English Word Redskin Definition A common appellation for a North American Indian; -- so called from the color of the skin.
- English Word Redstart Definition A small, handsome European singing bird (Ruticilla phoenicurus), allied to the nightingale; -- called also redtail, brantail, fireflirt, firetail. The black redstart is P.tithys. The name is also applied to several other species of Ruticilla amnd allied genera, native of India.
- English Word Redstart Definition An American fly-catching warbler (Setophaga ruticilla). The male is black, with large patches of orange-red on the sides, wings, and tail. The female is olive, with yellow patches.
- English Word Redstreak Definition A kind of apple having the skin streaked with red and yellow, -- a favorite English cider apple.
- English Word Redstreak Definition Cider pressed from redstreak apples.
- English Word Redtail Definition The red-tailed hawk.
- English Word Redtail Definition The European redstart.
- English Word Redthroat Definition A small Australian singing bird (Phyrrholaemus brunneus). The upper parts are brown, the center of the throat red.
- English Word Redtop Definition A kind of grass (Agrostis vulgaris) highly valued in the United States for pasturage and hay for cattle; -- called also English grass, and in some localities herd's grass. See Illustration in Appendix. The tall redtop is Triodia seslerioides.
- English Word Redub Definition To refit; to repair, or make reparation for; hence, to repay or requite.
- English Word Reduce Definition To bring or lead back to any former place or condition.
- English Word Reduce Definition To bring to any inferior state, with respect to rank, size, quantity, quality, value, etc.; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; to impair; as, to reduce a sergeant to the ranks; to reduce a drawing; to reduce expenses; to reduce the intensity of heat.
- English Word Reduce Definition To bring to terms; to humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture; as, to reduce a province or a fort.
- English Word Reduce Definition To bring to a certain state or condition by grinding, pounding, kneading, rubbing, etc.; as, to reduce a substance to powder, or to a pasty mass; to reduce fruit, wood, or paper rags, to pulp.
- English Word Reduce Definition To bring into a certain order, arrangement, classification, etc.; to bring under rules or within certain limits of descriptions and terms adapted to use in computation; as, to reduce animals or vegetables to a class or classes; to reduce a series of observations in astronomy; to reduce language to rules.
- English Word Reduce Definition To change, as numbers, from one denomination into another without altering their value, or from one denomination into others of the same value; as, to reduce pounds, shillings, and pence to pence, or to reduce pence to pounds; to reduce days and hours to minutes, or minutes to days and hours.
- English Word Reduce Definition To change the form of a quantity or expression without altering its value; as, to reduce fractions to their lowest terms, to a common denominator, etc.
- English Word Reduce Definition To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from their ores; -- opposed to oxidize.
- English Word Reduce Definition To restore to its proper place or condition, as a displaced organ or part; as, to reduce a dislocation, a fracture, or a hernia.
- English Word Reduced Definition of Reduce
- English Word Reducement Definition Reduction.
- English Word Reducent Definition Tending to reduce.
- English Word Reducent Definition A reducent agent.
- English Word Reducer Definition One who, or that which, reduces.
- English Word Reducible Definition Capable of being reduced.
- English Word Reducibleness Definition Quality of being reducible.
- English Word Reducing Definition of Reduce
- English Word Reducing Definition a & n. from Reduce.