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- English Word Reformist Definition A reformer.
- English Word Reformly Definition In the manner of a reform; for the purpose of reform.
- English Word Refortification Definition A fortifying anew, or a second time.
- English Word Refortify Definition To fortify anew.
- English Word Refossion Definition The act of digging up again.
- English Word Refound Definition To found or cast anew.
- English Word Refound Definition To found or establish again; to re/stablish.
- English Word Refound Definition imp. & p. p. of Refind, v. t.
- English Word Refounder Definition One who refounds.
- English Word Refract Definition To bend sharply and abruptly back; to break off.
- English Word Refract Definition To break the natural course of, as rays of light orr heat, when passing from one transparent medium to another of different density; to cause to deviate from a direct course by an action distinct from reflection; as, a dense medium refrcts the rays of light as they pass into it from a rare medium.
- English Word Refractable Definition Capable of being refracted.
- English Word Refracted Definition of Refract
- English Word Refracted Definition Bent backward angularly, as if half-broken; as, a refracted stem or leaf.
- English Word Refracted Definition Turned from a direct course by refraction; as, refracted rays of light.
- English Word Refracting Definition of Refract
- English Word Refracting Definition Serving or tending to refract; as, a refracting medium.
- English Word Refraction Definition The act of refracting, or the state of being refracted.
- English Word Refraction Definition The change in the direction of ray of light, heat, or the like, when it enters obliquely a medium of a different density from that through which it has previously moved.
- English Word Refraction Definition The change in the direction of a ray of light, and, consequently, in the apparent position of a heavenly body from which it emanates, arising from its passage through the earth's atmosphere; -- hence distinguished as atmospheric refraction, or astronomical refraction.