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.