Emily Dickinson Lexicon

RE-FOR'TI-FY, v.t. [re and fortify.]

To fortify anew.

RE-FOR'TI-FY-ING, ppr.

Fortifying again.

RE-FOS'SION, n.

The act of digging up. – Bp. Hall.

RE-FOUND', v.t. [re and found.]

To found or cast anew. – Warton.

RE-FOUND'ED, pp.

Rebuilt or founded again.

RE-FOUND'ER, n.

One who refounds.

RE-FOUND'ING, ppr.

Rebuilding.

RE-FRACT', v.t. [L. refractus, refringo; re and frango, to break.]

To break the natural course of the rays of light; to cause to deviate from a direct course. A dense medium refracts the rays of light, as they pass into it from a rare medium.

RE-FRAC-TA'RI-AS, n.

A mineral.

RE-FRACT'ED, pp.

1. Turned from a direct course, as rays of light.
2. adj. In botany, bent back at an acute angle; as, a refracted corol. – Martyn.

RE-FRACT'ING, ppr.

1. Turning from a direct course.
2. adj. That turns rays from a direct course; as, a refracting medium.

RE-FRAC'TION, n.

The deviation of a moving body, chiefly rays of light, from a direct course. This as occasioned by the different densities of the mediums through which light passes. Refraction out of a rarer medium into a denser, is made toward the perpendicular. – Newton. Refraction may be caused by a body's falling obliquely out of one medium into another. – Encyc. Refraction double, the separation of a ray of light into two separate parts, by passing through certain transparent mediums, as the Iceland crystal. All crystals, except those whose primitive form is either a cube or a regular octahedron, exhibit double refraction.

RE-FRACT'IVE, a.

That refracts or has power to refract or turn from a direct course; as, refractive densities. Newton.

RE-FRACT'O-RI-LY, adv.

Perversely; obstinately.

RE-FRACT'O-RI-NESS, n. [from refractory.]

Perverse or sullen obstinacy in opposition or disobedience. I never allowed any man's refractoriness against the privileges and orders of the house. – K. Charles.

RE-FRACT'O-RY, a. [Fr. refractaire; refractarius, from refragor, to resist; re and fragor, from frango.]

1. Sullen or perverse in opposition or disobedience; obstinate in non-compliance; as, a refractory child; a refractory servant. Raging appetites that are / Most disobedient and refractory. – Shak.
2. Unmanageable; obstinately unyielding; as, a refractory beast.
3. Applied to metals, difficult of fusion; not easily yielding to the force of heat.

RE-FRACT'O-RY, n.

1. A person obstinate in opposition or disobedience. – Hall.
2. Obstinate opposition. [Not used.] – Taylor.

RE-FRA'GA-BLE, a. [L. refragor; re and frango.]

That may be refuted, that is, broken.

RE-FRAIN, n. [Fr. refrein.]

The burden of a song; a kind of musical repetition. – Mason.

RE-FRAIN, v.i.

To forbear; to abstain; to keep one's self from action or interference. Refrain from these men and let them alone. – Acts v.

RE-FRAIN, v.t. [Fr. refrener; It. rinfrenare; L. refræno; re and fræno; to curb; frænum, a rein. See Rein.]

To hold back; to restrain; to keep from action. My son … refrain thy foot from their path. – Prov. i. Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by. – Gen. xiv.

RE-FRAIN-ED, pp.

Held back; restrained.

RE-FRAIN-ING, ppr.

Holding back; forbearing.

RE-FRAME, v.t. [re and frame.]

To frame again.

RE-FRAM-ED, pp.

Framed anew. – Hakewell.