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Redroot
n.
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A name of several plants having red roots, as the New Jersey tea (see under Tea), the gromwell, the bloodroot, and the Lachnanthes tinctoria, an endogenous plant found in sandy swamps from Rhode Island to Florida.
Redsear
v. i.
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To be brittle when red-hot; to be red-short.
Redshank
n.
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The fieldfare.
Redshank
n.
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A bare-legged person; -- a contemptuous appellation formerly given to the Scotch Highlanders, in allusion to their bare legs.
Red-short
a.
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Hot-short; brittle when red-hot; -- said of certain kinds of iron.
Redskin
n.
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A common appellation for a North American Indian; -- so called from the color of the skin.
Redstart
n.
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A small, handsome European singing bird (Ruticilla phoenicurus), allied to the nightingale; -- called also redtail, brantail, fireflirt, firetail. The black redstart is P.tithys. The name is also applied to several other species of Ruticilla amnd allied genera, native of India.
Redstart
n.
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An American fly-catching warbler (Setophaga ruticilla). The male is black, with large patches of orange-red on the sides, wings, and tail. The female is olive, with yellow patches.
Redstreak
n.
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A kind of apple having the skin streaked with red and yellow, -- a favorite English cider apple.
Redstreak
n.
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Cider pressed from redstreak apples.
Redtail
n.
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The red-tailed hawk.
Redtail
n.
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The European redstart.
Red-tailed
a.
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Having a red tail.
Red-tape
a.
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Pertaining to, or characterized by, official formality. See Red tape, under Red, a.
Red-tapism
n.
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Strict adherence to official formalities.
Red-tapist
n.
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One who is tenacious of a strict adherence to official formalities.
Redthroat
n.
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A small Australian singing bird (Phyrrholaemus brunneus). The upper parts are brown, the center of the throat red.
Redtop
n.
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A kind of grass (Agrostis vulgaris) highly valued in the United States for pasturage and hay for cattle; -- called also English grass, and in some localities herd's grass. See Illustration in Appendix. The tall redtop is Triodia seslerioides.
Redub
v. t.
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To refit; to repair, or make reparation for; hence, to repay or requite.
Reduced
imp. & p. p.
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of Reduce
Reducing
p. pr. & vb. n.
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of Reduce
Reduce
n.
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To bring or lead back to any former place or condition.
Reduce
n.
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To bring to any inferior state, with respect to rank, size, quantity, quality, value, etc.; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; to impair; as, to reduce a sergeant to the ranks; to reduce a drawing; to reduce expenses; to reduce the intensity of heat.
Reduce
n.
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To bring to terms; to humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture; as, to reduce a province or a fort.
Reduce
n.
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To bring to a certain state or condition by grinding, pounding, kneading, rubbing, etc.; as, to reduce a substance to powder, or to a pasty mass; to reduce fruit, wood, or paper rags, to pulp.
Reduce
n.
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To bring into a certain order, arrangement, classification, etc.; to bring under rules or within certain limits of descriptions and terms adapted to use in computation; as, to reduce animals or vegetables to a class or classes; to reduce a series of observations in astronomy; to reduce language to rules.
Reduce
n.
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To change, as numbers, from one denomination into another without altering their value, or from one denomination into others of the same value; as, to reduce pounds, shillings, and pence to pence, or to reduce pence to pounds; to reduce days and hours to minutes, or minutes to days and hours.
Reduce
n.
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To change the form of a quantity or expression without altering its value; as, to reduce fractions to their lowest terms, to a common denominator, etc.
Reduce
n.
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To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from their ores; -- opposed to oxidize.
Reduce
n.
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To restore to its proper place or condition, as a displaced organ or part; as, to reduce a dislocation, a fracture, or a hernia.