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Reward (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rewarded; p. pr. & vb. n. Rewarding.] [OF. rewarder, another form of regarder, of German origin. The original sense is, to look at, regard, hence, to regard as worthy, give a reward to. See , .] To give in return, whether good or evil; -- commonly in a good sense; to requite; to recompense; to repay; to compensate.
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After the deed that is done, one doom shall reward,
Mercy or no mercy as truth will accord. Piers Plowman.
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Thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil. 1 Sam. xxiv. 17.
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I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me. Deut. xxxii. 41.
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God rewards those that have made use of the single talent. Hammond.
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Reward (?), n. [See , v., and cf. , n.] 1. Regard; respect; consideration. [Obs.]
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Take reward of thine own value. Chaucer.
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2. That which is given in return for good or evil done or received; esp., that which is offered or given in return for some service or attainment, as for excellence in studies, for the return of something lost, etc.; recompense; requital.
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Thou returnest
From flight, seditious angel, to receive
Thy merited reward. Milton.
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Rewards and punishments do always presuppose something willingly done well or ill. Hooker.
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3. Hence, the fruit of one's labor or works.
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The dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward. Eccl. ix. 5.
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4. (Law) Compensation or remuneration for services; a sum of money paid or taken for doing, or forbearing to do, some act. Burrill.
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Syn. -- Recompense; compensation; remuneration; pay; requital; retribution; punishment.
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Rewardable (?), a. Worthy of reward. -- Rewardableness, n. -- Rewardably, adv.
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Rewarder (?), n. One who rewards.
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Rewardful (?), a. Yielding reward. [R.]
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Rewardless, a. Having, or affording, no reward.
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Rewe (rṳ), v. t. & i. To rue. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Rewel bone (?). [Perh. from F. rouelle, dim. of roue a wheel, L. rota.] An obsolete phrase of disputed meaning, -- perhaps, smooth or polished bone.
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His saddle was of rewel boon. Chaucer.
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Rewet (?), n. [See .] A gunlock. [R.]
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Rewful (?), a. Rueful. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Rewin (?), v. t. To win again, or win back.
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The Palatinate was not worth the rewinning. Fuller.
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Rewle (?), n. & v. Rule. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Rewme (?), n. Realm. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.
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Reword (?), v. t. 1. To repeat in the same words; to reëcho. [Obs.] Shak.
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2. To alter the wording of; to restate in other words; as, to reword an idea or a passage.
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Rewrite (?), v. t. To write again. Young.
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Rewth (?), n. Ruth. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Rex (?), n.; pl. Reges (#). [L.] A king.
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Coloq. To play rex , to play the king; to domineer. [Obs.]
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Reyn (?), n. Rain or rein. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Reynard (?), n. An appelation applied after the manner of a proper name to the fox. Same as .
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Reyse (?), v. t. To raise. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Reyse, v. i. [Cf. G. reisen to travel.] To go on a military expedition. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Rez-de-chaussée (?), n. [F., lit., level of the street. See , v. t., and .] (Arch.) The ground story of a building, either on a level with the street or raised slightly above it; -- said esp. of buildings on the continent of Europe.

Tier above tier of neat apartments rise over the little shops which form the rez-de-chaussée. The Century.
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Rhabarbarate (?), a. [From NL. rhabarbarum, an old name of rhubarb. See .] Impregnated or tinctured with rhubarb. Floyer.
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{ Rhabarbarin (?), or Rhabarbarine (?) }, n. (Chem.) Chrysophanic acid.
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Rhabdite (?), n. [Gr. rabdos a rod.] 1. (Zoöl.) A minute smooth rodlike or fusiform structure found in the tissues of many Turbellaria.
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2. (Zoöl.) One of the hard parts forming the ovipositor of insects.
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Rhabdocœla (răbd�sēlȧ), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. rabdos a rod + koi^los hollow.] (Zoöl.) A suborder of Turbellaria including those that have a simple cylindrical, or saclike, stomach, without an intestine.
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Rhabdocœlous (răbd�sēlŭs), a. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Rhabdocœla.
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Rhabdoidal (?), a. See .
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Rhabdolith (?), n. [Gr. rabdos a rod + -lith.] A minute calcareous rodlike structure found both at the surface and the bottom of the ocean; -- supposed by some to be a calcareous alga.
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Rhabdology (?), n. Same as .
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Rhabdom (răbdŏm), n. [Gr. rabdwma a bundle of rods, fr. rabdos a rod.] (Zoöl.) One of numerous minute rodlike structures formed of two or more cells situated behind the retinulæ in the compound eyes of insects, etc. See Illust. under .
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Rhabdomancy (?), n. Same as .
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Rhabdomere (?), n. [Rhabdom + -mere.] (Zoöl.) One of the several parts composing a rhabdom.
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Rhabdophora (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. rabdos a rod + ferein to bear.] (Zoöl.) An extinct division of Hydrozoa which includes the graptolities.
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Rhabdopleura (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. rabdos a rod + ���� the side.] (Zoöl.) A genus of marine Bryozoa in which the tubular cells have a centralchitinous axis and the tentacles are borne on a bilobed lophophore. It is the type of the order Pterobranchia, or Podostomata
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Rhabdosphere (?), n. [Gr. rabdos a rod + E. sphere.] A minute sphere composed of rhabdoliths.
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Rhachialgia (?), n. [NL.] See .
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Rhachidian (?), a. Of or pertaining to the rhachis; as, the rhachidian teeth of a mollusk.
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Rhachiglossa (?), n. pl. [NL. See , and .] (Zoöl.) A division of marine gastropods having a retractile proboscis and three longitudinal rows of teeth on the radula. It includes many of the large ornamental shells, as the miters, murices, olives, purpuras, volutes, and whelks. See Illust. in the Appendix.
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Rhachilla (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. rachis the spine.] (Bot.) A branch of inflorescence; the zigzag axis on which the florets are arranged in the spikelets of grasses.
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Rhachiodont (?), a. [Gr. rachis, -ios, the spine + ���, ���, a tooth.] (Zoöl.) Having gular teeth formed by a peculiar modification of the inferior spines of some of the vertebræ, as certain South African snakes (Dasypeltis) which swallow birds' eggs and use these gular teeth to crush them.
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Rhachis (?), n.; pl. E. Rhachises (#), L. Rhachides (#). [See .] [Written also rechis.] 1. (Anat.) The spine.
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2. (Bot.) (a) The continued stem or midrib of a pinnately compound leaf, as in a rose leaf or a fern. (b) The principal axis in a raceme, spike, panicle, or corymb.
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3. (Zoöl.) (a) The shaft of a feather. The rhachis of the after-shaft, or plumule, is called the hyporhachis. (b) The central cord in the stem of a crinoid. (c) The median part of the radula of a mollusk. (d) A central cord of the ovary of nematodes.
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Rhachitis (?), n. [NL.] See .
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Rhadamanthine (?), a. Of or pertaining to Rhadamanthus; rigorously just; as, a Rhadamanthine judgment.
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Rhadamanthus (?), prop. n. [L., fr. Gr. ���.] (Greek Mythol.) One of the three judges of the infernal regions; figuratively, a strictly just judge.
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Rhætian (?), a & n. Rhetain.
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Rhætic (?), a. [L. Rhaeticus Rhetian.] (Geol.) Pertining to, or of the same horizon as, certain Mesozoic strata of the Rhetian Alps. These strata are regarded as closing the Triassic period. See the Chart of .
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Rhætizite (?), n. [So called from L. Rhaetia, Raetia, the Rhetian Alps, where it is found.] (Min.) A variety of the mineral cyanite.
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Rhamadan (?), n. See .
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Rhamnaceous (?), a. (Bot.) Of or pertaining to a natural order of shrubs and trees (Rhamnaceæ, or Rhamneæ) of which the buckthorn (Rhamnus) is the type. It includes also the New Jersey tea, the supple-jack, and one of the plants called lotus (Zizyphus).
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Rhamnus (?), n. [NL., from Gr. ramnos a kind of prickly shrub; cf. L. rhamnos.] (Bot.) A genus of shrubs and small trees; buckthorn. The California Rhamnus Purshianus and the European Rhamnus catharticus are used in medicine. The latter is used for hedges.
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Rhamphorhynchus (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. ramfos a beak + ���� snout.] (Paleon.) A genus of pterodactyls in which the elongated tail supported a leathery expansion at the tip.
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Rhamphotheca (?), n.; pl. Rhamphothecæ (#). [NL., fr. Gr ramnos a beak + �� a case.] (Zoöl.) The horny covering of the bill of birds.
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Rhaphe (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. ��� seam, fr. ��� to sew. ] (Bot.) The continuation of the seed stalk along the side of an anatropous ovule or seed, forming a ridge or seam. [Written also raphe.] Gray.
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Rhaphides (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. ���, ���, a needle, F. raphides.] (Bot.) Minute transparent, often needle-shaped, crystals found in the tissues of plants. [Written also raphides.]
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Rhaponticine (�), n. [L. rhaponticum rhubarb. See .] (Chem.) Chrysophanic acid.
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Rhapsode (răpsōd), n. [Gr. rapsw,dos. See .] (Gr. Antiq.) A rhapsodist. [R.] Grote.
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Rhapsoder (?), n. A rhapsodist. [Obs.]
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{ Rhapsodic (?), Rhapsodic (?) }, a. [Gr. rapsw,dikos: cf. F. rhapsodique.] Of or pertaining to rhapsody; consisting of rhapsody; hence, confused; unconnected. -- Rhapsodically, adv.
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Rhapsodist (?), n. [From .] 1. Anciently, one who recited or composed a rhapsody; especially, one whose profession was to recite the verses of Hormer and other epic poets.
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2. Hence, one who recites or sings poems for a livelihood; one who makes and repeats verses extempore.
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The same populace sit for hours listening to rhapsodists who recite Ariosto. Carlyle.
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3. One who writes or speaks disconnectedly and with great excitement or affectation of feeling. I. Watts.
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Rhapsodize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rhapsodized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Rhapsodizing.] To utter as a rhapsody, or in the manner of a rhapsody Sterne.
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Rhapsodize, v. i. To utter rhapsodies. Jefferson.
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Rhapsodomancy (?), n. [Rhapsody + -mancy.] Divination by means of verses.
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Rhapsody (?), n.; pl. Rhapsodies (#). [F. rhapsodie, L. rhapsodia, Gr. rapsw,dia, fr. rapsw,dos a rhapsodist; raptein to sew, stitch together, unite + 'w,dh a song. See .] 1. A recitation or song of a rhapsodist; a portion of an epic poem adapted for recitation, or usually recited, at one time; hence, a division of the Iliad or the Odyssey; -- called also a book.
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2. A disconnected series of sentences or statements composed under excitement, and without dependence or natural connection; rambling composition. “A rhapsody of words.” Shak. “A rhapsody of tales.” Locke.
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3. (Mus.) A composition irregular in form, like an improvisation; as, Liszt's “Hungarian Rhapsodies.”
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{ Rhatany, Rhatanhy } (?), n. [Sp. ratania, rataña, Peruv. rataña.] The powerfully astringent root of a half-shrubby Peruvian plant (Krameria triandra). It is used in medicine and to color port wine. [Written also ratany.]
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Coloq. Savanilla rhatany , the root of Krameria Ixina, a native of New Granada.
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Rhea (?), n. (Bot.) The ramie or grass-cloth plant. See Grass-cloth plant, under .
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Rhea, n. [L., a proper name.] (Zoöl.) Any one of three species of large South American ostrichlike birds of the genera Rhea and Pterocnemia. Called also the American ostrich.
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☞ The common rhea, or nandou (Rhea Americana), ranges from Brazil to Patagonia. Darwin's rhea (Pterocnemia Darwinii), of Patagonia, is smaller, and has the legs feathered below the knee.
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Rheæ (?), n. pl. [NL.] (Zoöl.) A suborder of struthious birds including the rheas.
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Rheeboc (?), n. [D. reebok roebuck.] (Zoöl.) The peele. [Written also reebok.]
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Rheic (?), a. [NL. Rheum rhubarb, Gr. ��� See .] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid (commonly called chrysophanic acid) found in rhubarb (Rheum). [Obsoles.]
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Rhein (?), n. (Chem.) Chrysophanic acid.
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Rheinberry (?), n. [G. rheinbeere.] (Bot.) One of the berries or drupes of the European buckthorn; also, the buckthorn itself.
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Rhematic (?), a. [Gr. ���� of or for a verb, fr. ���, ���, a sentence. See .] (Gram.) Having a verb for its base; derived from a verb; as, rhematic adjectives. Ftzed. Hall.
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Rhematic, n. The doctrine of propositions or sentences. Coleridge.
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Rhemish (?), a. Of or pertaining to Rheimis, or Reima, in France.
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Coloq. Rhemish Testament , the English version of the New Testament used by Roman Catholics. See .
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Rhenish (?), a. [L. Rhenus the Rhine. ] Of or pertaining to the river Rhine; as, Rhenish wine. -- n. Rhine wine.
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Rheochord (?), n. [Gr. rei^n to flow + ��� chord.] (Elec.) A metallic wire used for regulating the resistance of a circuit, or varying the strength of an electric current, by inserting a greater or less length of it in the circuit.
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Rheocrat (?), n. [Gr. rei^n to flow + kratei^n to rule.] (Elec.) A kind of motor speed controller permitting of very gradual variation in speed and of reverse. It is especially suitable for use with motor driven machine tools.
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Rheometer (?), n. [Gr. rei^n to flow + -meter.] [Written also reometer.] 1. (Physics) An instrument for measuring currents, especially the force or intensity of electrical currents; a galvanometer.
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2. (Physiol.) An instrument for measuring the velocity of the blood current in the arteries.
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Rheometric (?), a. Of or pertaining to a rheometer or rheometry. Lardner.
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Rheometry (?), n. 1. The measurement of the force or intensity of currents.
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2. (Math.) The calculus; fluxions. [R.]
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Rheomotor (rē�mōtẽr), n. [Gr. rei^n to flow + E. motor.] (Elec.) Any apparatus by which an electrical current is originated. [R.]
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Rheophore (rē�fōr), n. [Gr. rei^n to flow + ��� to carry.] (Elec.) (a) A connecting wire of an electric or voltaic apparatus, traversed by a current. (b) One of the poles of a voltaic battery; an electrode.
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Rheoscope (rē�skōp), n. [Gr. rei^n to flow + -scope.] (Physics) An instrument for detecting the presence or movement of currents, as of electricity.
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Rheostat (rē�stăt), n. [Gr. rei^n + statos standing still.] (Elec.) A contrivance for adjusting or regulating the strength of electrical currents, operating usually by the intercalation of resistance which can be varied at will. Wheatstone. --Rheostatic (#), a.
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Rheotome (rē�tōm), n. [Gr. rei^n to flow + temnein to cut.] (Elec.) An instrument which periodically or otherwise interrupts an electric current. Wheatstone.
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Rheotrope (?), n. [Gr. rei^n to flow + ��� to turn.] (Elec.) An instrument for reversing the direction of an electric current. [Written also reotrope.]
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Rhesus (?), n. [L. Rhesus, a proper name, Gr. ���.] (Zoöl.) A monkey; the bhunder.
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