Emily Dickinson Lexicon

RE-GURG'IT-ATE, v.t. [Fr. regorger; L. re and gurges.]

To throw or pour back, as from a deep or hollow place; to pour or throw back in great quantity. – Graunt. Bentley.

RE-GURG'IT-A-TED, pp.

Thrown or poured back. – Harvey.

RE-GURG'IT-A-TING, ppr.

Throwing or pouring back.

RE-GURG-IT-A'TION, n.

1. The act of pouring back.
2. The act of swallowing again; re-absorption. – Sharp.

RE-HA-BIL'IT-ATE, v.t. [Fr. rehabiliter; re and habiliter.]

To restore to a former capacity; to reinstate; to qualify again; to restore, as a delinquent to a former right, rank or privilege lost or forfeited; a term of the civil and canon law. – Chambers.

RE-HA-BIL'IT-A-TED, pp.

Restored to a former rank, right, privilege or capacity; reinstated.

RE-HA-BIL'IT-A-TING, ppr.

Restoring to a former right, rank, privilege or capacity; reinstating.

RE-HA-BIL-IT-A'TION, n.

The act of reinstating in a former rank or capacity; restoration to former rights. – Walsh.

RE-HEAR, v.t. [pret. and pp. reheard. re and hear.]

To hear again; to try a second time; as, to rehear a cause in the court of king's bench.

RE-HEARD, pp.

Heard again.

RE-HEAR-ING, n.

1. A second hearing. – Addison.
2. In law, a second hearing or trial.

RE-HEAR-ING, ppr.

Hearing a second time.

RE-HEARS-AL, n. [rehers'al. from rehearse.]

1. Recital; repetition of the words of another or of a written work; as, the rehearsal of the Lord's Prayer. – Hooker.
2. Narration; a telling or recounting, as of particulars in detail; as, the rehearsal of a soldier's adventures.
3. The recital of a piece before the public exhibition of it; as, the rehearsal of a comedy. – Dryden.

RE-HEARSE, v.t. [rehers'.]

1. To recite; to repeat the words of a passage or composition; to repeat the words of another. When the words were heard which David spoke, they rehearsed them before Saul. – 1 Sam. xvii.
2. To narrate or recount events or transactions. There shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord. – Judg. v. Acts xi.
3. To recite or repeat in private for experiment and improvement, before a public representation; as, to rehearse tragedy.

RE-HEARS-ED, pp. [rehers'ed.]

Recited; repeated; as words narrated.

RE-HEARS-ER, n. [rehers'er.]

One who recites or narrates.

RE-HEARS-ING, ppr. [rehers'ing.]

Reciting; repeating words, recounting; telling; narrating.

REI-GLE, n. [Fr. règle, rule.]

A hollow cut or channel for guiding any thing; as, the reigle of a side post for a blood gate. – Carew.

REIGN, n. [rane; Fr. regne; L. regnum.]

1. Royal authority; supreme power; sovereignty. He who like a father held his reign. – Pope.
2. The time during which a king, queen or emperor possesses the supreme authority. The Spanish armada was equipped to invade England in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Magna Charta was obtained in the reign of King John.
3. Kingdom; dominion. Saturn's sons received the threefold reign / Of heav'n, of ocean, and deep hell beneath. – Prior.
4. Power; influence. – Chapman.
5. Prevalence.

REIGN, v.i. [rane; L. regno, a derivative of rego, regnum; Fr. regner; It. regnare; Sp. reynar.]

1. To possess or exercise sovereign power or authority; to rule; to exercise government, as a king or emperor; or to hold the supreme power. George the Third reigned over Great Britain more than fifty years. Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness. – Is. xxxii.
2. To be predominant; to prevail. Pestilent diseases which commonly reign in summer or autumn. – Bacon.
3. To rule; to have superior or uncontrolled dominion. – Rom. vi. [This word is never applied to the exercise of supreme power by a legislative body or the executive administration, in the United States.]

REIGN-ING, ppr. [ra'ning.]

1. Holding or exercising supreme power; ruling; governing as king, queen or emperor.
2. adj. Predominating; prevailing; as, a reigning vice or disease.

RE-IL-LU-MIN-A'TION, n.

Act of enlightening again.

RE-IL-LU'MINE, or RE-IL-LU'MIN-ATE, v.t.

To enlighten again.

RE-IM-BARK, v. [See RE-EMBARK.]

RE-IM-BOD'Y, v.i. [See Embody.]

To imbody again; to be formed into a body anew. – Boyle.