Re`as*sur"er (-r), n. One who reassures.
Reas"ty (rs"t), a. [Etymol. uncertain.] Rusty and rancid; -- applied to
salt meat. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Tusser. -- Reas"ti*ness (-t*ns), n.
[Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
||Re*a"ta (r*ä"t), n. [Sp.] A lariat.
Re`at*tach" (r`t*tch"), v. t. To attach again.
Re`at*tach"ment (-ment), n. The act of reattaching; a second
attachment.
Re`at*tain" (-tn"), v. t. To attain again.
Re`at*tain"ment (-ment), n. The act of reattaining.
Re`at*tempt" (-tmt"; 215), v. t. To attempt again.
Re"aume (r"m), n. Realm. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Ré`au`mur" (r``mr"), a. Of or pertaining to René Antoine Ferchault de
Réaumur; conformed to the scale adopted by Réaumur in graduating the
thermometer he invented. -- n. A Réaumur thermometer or scale.
The Réaumur thermometer is so graduated that 0° marks the freezing
point and 80° the boiling point of water. Frequently indicated by R.
Cf. Centigrade, and Fahrenheit. See Illust. of Thermometer.
Reave (rv), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reaved (rvd), Reft (rft), or Raft (rft)
(obs.); p. pr. & vb. n. Reaving.] [AS. reáfian, from reáf spoil,
plunder, clothing, reófan to break (cf. bireófan to deprive of); akin
to G. rauben to rob, Icel. raufa to rob, rjfa to break, violate, Goth.
biráubn to despoil, L. rumpere to break; cf. Skr. lup to break.
√114. Cf. Bereave, Rob, v. t., Robe, Rove, v. i., Rupture.] To
take away by violence or by stealth; to snatch away; to rob; to
despoil; to bereave. [Archaic] "To reave his life." Spenser.
He golden apples raft of the dragon.
Chaucer.
If the wooers reave By privy stratagem my life at home.
Chapman.
To reave the orphan of his patrimony.
Shak.
The heathen caught and reft him of his tongue.
Tennyson.