English red, a pigment prepared by the Dutch, similar to Indian red. --
Hypericum red, a red resinous dyestuff extracted from Hypericum. --
Indian red. See under Indian, and Almagra.
Re*dact" (r?*d?kt"), v. t. [L. redactus, p. p. of redigere; pref. red-,
re- , again, back + agere to put in motion, to drive.] To reduce to
form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape (matter for
publication); to edit.
||Ré`dac`teur" (r`dk`tr"), n. [F.] See Redactor.
Re*dac"tion (r?*d?k"sh?n), n. [F. rédaction.] The act of redacting;
work produced by redacting; a digest.
Re*dac"tor (-t?r), n. One who redacts; one who prepares matter for
publication; an editor. Carlyle.
Re*dan" (r?*d?n"), n. [F., for OF. redent a double notching or jagging,
as in the teeth of a saw, fr. L. pref. re- re- + dens, dentis, a tooth.
Cf. Redented.] [Written sometimes redent and redens.] 1. (Fort.) A work
having two parapets whose faces unite so as to form a salient angle
toward the enemy.
2. A step or vertical offset in a wall on uneven ground, to keep the
parts level.
Red*ar"gue (r?d*?r"g?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Redargued (-g?d); p. pr. &
vb. n. Redarguing.] [L. redarguere; pref. red-, re- re- + arguere to
accuse, charge with: cf. F. rédarguer.] To disprove; to refute;
toconfute; to reprove; to convict. [Archaic]
How shall I . . . suffer that God should redargue me at doomsday,
and the angels reproach my lukewarmness?
Jer. Taylor.
Now this objection to the immediate cognition of external objects
has, as far as I know, been redargued in three different ways.
Sir W. Hamilton.
Red`ar*gu"tion (r?d`?r*g?"sh?n), n. [L. redargutio.] The act of
redarguing; refutation. [Obs. or R.] Bacon.
Red`ar*gu"to*ry (-t?*r?), a. Pertaining to, or containing, redargution;
refutatory. [R.]