Emily Dickinson Lexicon

RE-BLOS'SOM-ING, ppr.

Blossoming again.

RE-BO-A'TION, n. [L. reboo; re and boo.]

The return of a loud bellowing sound. [Not used.] – Patrick.

RE-BOIL', v.i. [L. re and bullio.]

To take fire; to be hot. – Elyot.

RE-BOIL', v.t.

To boil again.

RE-BOIL'ED, pp.

Boiled a second time.

RE-BOUND', n.

The act of flying back in resistance of the impulse of another body; resilience. Put back as from a rock with swift rebound. – Dryden.

RE-BOUND', v.i. [Fr. rebondir; re and bondir.]

To spring back; to start back; to be reverberated by an elastic power resisting force or impulse impressed; as, a rebounding echo. Bodies absolutely hard, or so soft as to be void of elasticity will not rebound from one another. – Newton.

RE-BOUND', v.t.

To drive back; to reverberate. Silenus sung; the vales his voice rebound. – Dryden.

RE-BOUND'ED, pp.

Spring back; reverberated.

RE-BOUND'ING, ppr.

Springing or flying back; reverberating.

RE-BRACE, v.t. [re and brace.]

To brace again. – Gray.

RE-BREATHE, v.i. [re and breathe.]

To breathe again.

RE-BUFF', n. [It. rabbuffo; Fr. rebuffade; re and It. buffa, buffare, Fr. bouffer.]

1. Repercussion; or beating back; a quick and sudden resistance. The strong rebuff of some tumultuous cloud. – Milton.
2. Sudden check; defeat.
3. Refusal; rejection of solicitation.

RE-BUFF', v.t.

To beat back; to offer sudden resistance to; to check.

RE-BUFF'ED, pp.

Beaten back; resisted suddenly; checked.

RE-BUILD', or RE-BILD, v.t. [re and build.]

To build again; to renew a structure; to build or construct what has been demolished; as, to rebuild a house, a wall, a wharf or a city.

RE-BUILD'ING, or RE-BILD'ING, ppr.

Building again.

RE-BUILT', or RE-BILT', pp.

Built again; reconstructed.

RE-BUK-A-BLE, a. [from rebuke.]

Worthy of reprehension. – Shak.

RE-BUKE, n.

1. A chiding; reproof for faults; reprehension. Why hear you these rebukes and answer not? – Shak.
2. In Scripture, chastisement; punishment; affliction for the purpose of restraint and correction. – Ezek. v. Hos. v.
3. In low language, any kind of check. – L'Estrange. To suffer rebuke, to endure the reproach and persecution of men. – Jer. xv. To be without rebuke, to live without giving cause of reproof or censure; to be blameless.

RE-BUKE, v.t. [Norm. rebuquer; Arm. rebechat, to reproach. Qu. Fr. reboucher, to stop; re and boucher, to stop. The Italian has rimbeccare, to repulse or drive back, to peck, from becco, the beak. The word is a compound of re and a root in Bg, signifying to drive. See Pack and Impeach. Class Bg, No. 20.]

1. To chide; to reprove; to reprehend for a fault; to check by reproof. The proud he tam'd, the penitent he cheer'd, / Nor to rebuke the rich offender fear'd. – Dryden. Thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbor. – Lev. xix.
2. To check or restrain. The Lord rebuke thee, O Satan. – Zech. iii. Isa. xvii.
3. To chasten; to punish; to afflict for correction. O Lord, rebuke me not in thine anger. – Ps. vi.
4. To check; to silence. Master, rebuke thy disciples. – Luke xix.
5. To check; to heal. And he stood over her and rebuked the fever. – Luke iv.
6. To restrain; to calm. He arose and rebuked the winds and the sea. – Matth. viii.

RE-BUK-ED, pp.

Reproved; reprehended; checked; restrained; punished for faults.

RE-BUKE-FUL, a.

Containing or abounding with rebukes.

RE-BUKE-FUL-LY, adv.

With reproof or reprehension.

RE-BUK-ER, n.

One that rebukes; a chider; one that chastises or restrains.