2. (Gram.) To repeat the first letter or letters of (a word). See
Reduplication, 3.
Re*du`pli*ca"tion (-k?sh?n), n. [Cf. F. réduplication, L. reduplicatio
repetition.] 1. The act of doubling, or the state of being doubled.
2. (Pros.) A figure in which the first word of a verse is the same as
the last word of the preceding verse.
3. (Philol.) The doubling of a stem or syllable (more or less
modified), with the effect of changing the time expressed, intensifying
the meaning, or making the word more imitative; also, the syllable thus
added; as, L. tetuli; poposci.
Re*du"pli*ca*tive (-k?*t?v), a. [Cf. F. réduplicatif.] Double; formed
by reduplication; reduplicate. I. Watts.
Red"u*vid (r?d"?*v?d), n. [L. reduvia a hangnail.] (Zoöl.) Any
hemipterous insect of the genus Redivius, or family Reduvidæ. They live
by sucking the blood of other insects, and some species also attack
man.
Red"weed` (rd"wd`), n. (Bot.) The red poppy (Papaver Rhœas). Dr. Prior.
Red"wing` (-w?ng`), n. (Zoöl.) A European thrush (Turdus iliacus). Its
under wing coverts are orange red. Called also redwinged thrush. (b) A
North American passerine bird (Agelarius phœniceus) of the family
Icteridæ. The male is black, with a conspicuous patch of bright red,
bordered with orange, on each wing. Called also redwinged blackbird,
red-winged troupial, marsh blackbird, and swamp blackbird.
Red"withe` (r?d"w?th`), n. (Bot.) A west Indian climbing shrub
(Combretum Jacquini) with slender reddish branchlets.
Red"wood` (-wd`), n. (Bot.) (a) A gigantic coniferous tree (Sequoia
sempervirens) of California, and its light and durable reddish timber.
See Sequoia. (b) An East Indian dyewood, obtained from Pterocarpus
santalinus, Cæsalpinia Sappan, and several other trees.
The redwood of Andaman is Pterocarpus dalbergioides; that of some parts
of tropical America, several species of Erythoxylum; that of Brazil,
the species of Humirium.
Ree (r), n. [Pg. real, pl. reis. See Real the money.] See Rei.
Ree, v. t. [Cf. Prov. G. räden, raden, raiten. Cf. Riddle a sieve.] To
riddle; to sift; to separate or throw off. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Mortimer.
Ree"bok` (r?"b?k`), n. [D., literally, roebuck.] (Zoöl.) The peele.
[Written also rehboc and rheeboc.]
Re*ëch"o (r*k"), v. t. To echo back; to reverberate again; as, the
hills reëcho the roar of cannon.
Re*ëch"o, v. i. To give echoes; to return back, or be reverberated, as
an echo; to resound; to be resonant.
And a loud groan reëchoes from the main.
Pope.
Re*ëch"o, n. The echo of an echo; a repeated or second echo.
Reech"y (rch"), a. [See Reeky.] Smoky; reeky; hence, begrimed with
dirt. [Obs.]
Reed (rd), a. Red. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Reed, v. & n. Same as Rede. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Reed, n. The fourth stomach of a ruminant; rennet. [Prov. Eng. or
Scot.]
Reed, n. [AS. hreód; akin to D. riet, G. riet, ried, OHG. kriot, riot.]
1. (Bot.) A name given to many tall and coarse grasses or grasslike
plants, and their slender, often jointed, stems, such as the various
kinds of bamboo, and especially the common reed of Europe and North
America (Phragmites communis).
2. A musical instrument made of the hollow joint of some plant; a
rustic or pastoral pipe.
Arcadian pipe, the pastoral reed Of Hermes.
Milton.