<B>revulsion, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1a. </B>a sudden, violent change or reaction, especially of disgust. <BR> <I>Ex. My feeling for my new friend underwent a revulsion when I discovered his cruelty and dishonesty.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>a feeling of strong distaste or aversion created by such a change; repugnance. <BR> <I>Ex. The violence of the movie filled him with revulsion.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the drawing of blood from one part of the body to another part, as by counterirritation. <DD><B> 3. </B>a drawing or being drawn back or away, especially suddenly or violently. <BR> <I>Ex. the revulsion of capital from the woolen industry.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>the fact of being withdrawn. <DD><B> 5. </B>a sudden reverse tendency, as in business. <BR> <I>Ex. to sustain the credit of the merchants under the revulsion consequent on peace (George Bancroft).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="revulsive">
<B>revulsive, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> tending to produce revulsion. </DL>
<B>reward, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a return made for something done. <BR> <I>Ex. to give a reward for good behavior. Hanging was the reward of treason and desertion (William Stubbs).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>money given or offered. Rewards are given for the capture of criminals and the return of lost property. <BR> <I>Ex. Rewards totaling $150,000 attracted 5,000 letters with tips (Newsweek).</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to give a reward to. <BR> <I>Ex. Excellent results rewarded him for his efforts.</I> (SYN) recompense, repay. <DD><B> 2. </B>to give a reward for. <BR> <I>Ex. She rewarded his past services with liberality (Lytton Strachey).</I> noun <B>rewarder.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="rewardable">
<B>rewardable, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that can be rewarded; worthy of reward. </DL>
<A NAME="rewardful">
<B>rewardful, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> yielding a reward. </DL>
<A NAME="rewarding">
<B>rewarding, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that rewards; useful; beneficial. <BR> <I>Ex. a rewarding experience.</I> adv. <B>rewardingly.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="rewardless">
<B>rewardless, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> without reward. </DL>
<A NAME="rewater">
<B>rewater, </B>transitive verb, intransitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to water again. <DD><B> 2. </B>to place in water again. </DL>
<A NAME="rewin">
<B>rewin, </B>transitive verb, <B>-won,</B> <B>-winning.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to win back or again; regain; recover. </DL>
<A NAME="rewind">
<B>rewind, </B>verb, <B>-wound,</B> <B>-winding,</B> noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t., v.i. </I> to wind again. <BR> <I>Ex. to rewind the clock, to rewind a reel of tape. The film rewinds automatically.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>the process of rewinding. <BR> <I>Ex. The typewriter ribbon became tangled on the rewind.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a thing that rewinds. </DL>
<A NAME="rewire">
<B>rewire, </B>transitive verb, intransitive verb, <B>-wired,</B> <B>-wiring.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to put new wires on or in. <DD><B> 2. </B>to telegraph again. </DL>
<A NAME="reword">
<B>reword, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to put in other words; rephrase. <DD><B> 2. </B>to repeat exactly. </DL>
<A NAME="rework">
<B>rework, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to work over again; reprocess; revise. <BR> <I>Ex. He had done most of the writing and rewriting himself, reworking key passages again and again (Time).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="rewritable">
<B>rewritable, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> allowing a computer user to insert and delete data. <BR> <I>Ex. Rewritable disk technology ... has innumerable uses beyond music. The most important may be in computing (David E. Sanger).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="rewrite">
<B>rewrite, </B>verb, <B>-wrote,</B> <B>-written,</B> <B>-writing,</B> noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t., v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to write again; write in a different form; revise. <DD><B> 2. </B>(U.S.) to write (a news story) from material supplied over the telephone or in a form that cannot be used as copy. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>the act or process of rewriting. <DD><B> 2. </B>(U.S.) a news story that is rewritten. noun <B>rewriter.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="rewriteman">
<B>rewrite man,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a newspaper reporter or editor skilled in rewriting. </DL>
<A NAME="rewriterule">
<B>rewrite rule,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Linguistics.) a rule indicating that a sentence, phrase, or clause, should be rewritten in terms of its components. </DL>
<A NAME="rex">
<B>rex</B> or <B>Rex, </B>noun, pl. <B>reges</B> or <B>Reges.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) king. </DL>
<A NAME="rexcat">
<B>Rex cat,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a breed of short-haired cats with soft, closely curled coats and curly whiskers. </DL>
<A NAME="ritualist">
<B>ritualist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person who practices or advocates observance of ritual. <DD><B> 2. </B>a person who studies or knows much about ritual practices or religious rites. </DL>
<A NAME="reyessyndrome">
<B>Reye's syndrome,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a rare and often fatal disease of the brain, occurring among very young children usually after a common viral infection and associated with the administration of aspirin to treat the initial infection. </DL>
<A NAME="reynard">
<B>Reynard, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the name for the fox in stories and poems. Reynard the Fox is the main character in a group of medieval fables about animals. </DL>
<A NAME="reynard">
<B>reynard, </B>noun. =fox.</DL>
<A NAME="reynoldsnumber">
<B>Reynold's number,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a mathematical factor used to express the relation between the velocity, viscosity, density, and dimensions of a fluid in any system of flow. It is used in aerodynamics to correct the results of tests of scale-model airplanes in wind tunnels. </DL>
<A NAME="rezdechaussee">
<B>rez-de-chaussee, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) the ground floor; first story. </DL>
<A NAME="rezone">
<B>rezone, </B>transitive verb, <B>-zoned,</B> <B>-zoning.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to zone again; change the present zoning of. </DL>
<B>R.F.A.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> Royal Field Artillery. </DL>
<A NAME="rfactor">
<B>R factor,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a cytoplasmic component in various bacteria that gives them immunity or resistance to one or more antibiotics. <BR> <I>Ex. Bacteria that have survived exposure to an antibiotic by developing resistance to it pass on this resistance in the form of genetic material--the R factor--to other species or strains (London Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="rfc">
<B>RFC</B> (no periods),<DL COMPACT><DD> Reconstruction Finance Corporation. </DL>
<A NAME="rfc">
<B>R.F.C.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (formerly) Royal Flying Corps. </DL>
<B>RFE</B> (no periods) or <B>R.F.E.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> Radio Free Europe. </DL>
<A NAME="rflp">
<B>RFLP</B> (no periods), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a class of inherited characteristics that can be traced from one generation to another and are defective genes. <BR> <I>Ex. The RFLP's do not always occur in regions that code for genes, but they are nonetheless highly reliable markers to which genes or other genetic markers can be linked (David Patterson).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="rg">
<B>r.g.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> right guard. </DL>
<A NAME="rga">
<B>R.G.A.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> Royal Garrison Artillery. </DL>
<A NAME="rgg">
<B>R.G.G.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> Royal Grenadier Guards. </DL>
<A NAME="rgs">
<B>R.G.S.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> Royal Geographical Society. </DL>
<B>R.H.A.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> Royal Horse Artillery. </DL>
<A NAME="rhabditisform">
<B>Rhabditis form,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a free-swimming sexual stage in the development of certain parasitic nematodes. </DL>
<A NAME="rhabdom">
<B>rhabdom, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of the rods supporting the crystalline lenses in a compound eye. </DL>
<A NAME="rhabdomancy">
<B>rhabdomancy, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>divination by means of a rod or wand. <DD><B> 2. </B>the art of discovering water, ores, or the like, by means of a divining rod; dowsing. </DL>
<A NAME="rhabdomantist">
<B>rhabdomantist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who divines by means of a rod or wand; dowser. </DL>
<A NAME="rhabdomere">
<B>rhabdomere, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a unit or segment of a rhabdom. </DL>
<A NAME="rhabdomeric">
<B>rhabdomeric, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with a rhabdomere. </DL>
<A NAME="rhabdomyoma">
<B>rhabdomyoma, </B>noun, pl. <B>-mas,</B> <B>-mata.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a tumor that is usually benign and composed chiefly or striated muscle fiber. </DL>
<A NAME="rhabdomyosarcoma">
<B>rhabdomyosarcoma, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a malignant tumor or cancer of the skeletal muscles. </DL>
<A NAME="rhabdovirus">
<B>rhabdovirus, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a group of viruses associated with various diseases transmitted by animal or insect bites. <BR> <I>Ex. rabies virus ... has been classified with the rhabdovirus group (from the Greek rhabdos meaning a rod) (Science Journal).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="rhachis">
<B>rhachis, </B>noun, pl. <B>rhachises,</B> <B>rhachides.</B> =rachis.</DL>
<A NAME="rhachitome">
<B>rhachitome, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of an order of extinct reptiles of the Permian period, typified by the eryops. </DL>
<A NAME="rhadamanthine">
<B>Rhadamanthine, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or having to do with Rhadamanthus. <DD><B> 2. </B>very strict. </DL>
