| redressement force | Straightening by force of a deformed part, as of knock-knee. Origin: Fr. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| redressment | 1. Correction of a deformity; putting a part straight. 2. A renewed dressing of a wound. (05 Mar 2000) |
| redroot | <botany> 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. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| redshank | 1. <zoology> A common Old World limicoline bird (Totanus calidris), having the legs and feet pale red. The spotted redshank (T. Fuscus) is larger, and has orange-red legs. Called also redshanks, redleg, and clee. The fieldfare. 2. A bare-legged person; a contemptuous appellation formerly given to the Scotch Highlanders, in allusion to their bare legs. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| redskin | A common appellation for a North American Indian; so called from the colour of the skin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| redstart | <zoology> 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. 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. Origin: Red + start tail. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| redstreak | 1. A kind of apple having the skin streaked with red and yellow, a favorite English cider apple. 2. Cider pressed from redstreak apples. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| redtail | <zoology> The red-tailed hawk. The European redstart. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| redthroat | <zoology> A small Australian singing bird (Phyrrholaemus brunneus). The upper parts are brown, the center of the throat red. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| redtop | <botany> 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. The tall redtop is Triodia seslerioides. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| reduce | 1. To bring or lead back to any former place or condition. "And to his brother's house reduced his wife." (Chapman) "The sheep must of necessity be scattered, unless the great Shephered of souls oppose, or some of his delegates reduce and direct us." (Evelyn) 2. 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. "An ancient but reduced family." "Nothing so excellent but a man may fasten upon something belonging to it, to reduce it." (Tillotson) "Having reduced Their foe to misery beneath their fears." (Milton) "Hester Prynne was shocked at the condition to which she found the clergyman reduced." (Hawthorne) 3. To bring to terms; to humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture; as, to reduce a province or a fort. 4. 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. "It were but right And equal to reduce me to my dust." (Milton) 5. 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. 6. <mathematics> 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. 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. 7. <chemistry> 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. 8. <medicine> To restore to its proper place or condition, as a displaced organ or part; as, to reduce a dislocation, a fracture, or a hernia. <chemistry> Reduced iron, metallic iron obtained through deoxidation of an oxide of iron by exposure to a current of hydrogen or other reducing agent. When hydrogen is used the product is called also iron by hydrogen. <mathematics> To reduce an equation, to reform the line or column from the square. Synonym: To diminish, lessen, decrease, abate, shorten, curtail, impair, lower, subject, subdue, subjugate, conquer. Origin: L. Reducere, reductum; pref. Red-. Re-, re- + ducere to lead. See Duke, and cf. Redoubt. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| reduced enamel epithelium | The several layers of the enamel organ remaining on the enamel surface after formation of enamel is completed. Synonym: reduced enamel epithelium. (05 Mar 2000) |
| reduced eye | A simplified design of the ocular optical system, represented as having a single refracting surface and a uniform index of refraction; a model based on this concept is used in retinoscopy and ophthalmoscopy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| reduced glutathione | Glutathione acting as a hydrogen donor. (05 Mar 2000) |
| reduced haematin | 1. <biochemistry> Compounds of iron complexed in a porphyrin (tetrapyrrole) ring that differ in side chain composition. Haems are the prosthetic groups of cytochromes and are found in most oxygen carrier proteins. 2. <prefix> haem-, eaning relating to blood. Origin: G. Haima (21 Jun 2000) |
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| red | North American elm having rough leaves that are red when opening |
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| red | autumn-flowering elm of southeastern United States |
| red | false mallow of western United States having racemose red flowers |
| red | combustible material (usually salts of lithium or strontium) that burns bright red |
| red | something that irritates or demands immediate action |
| red | the emblem of socialist revolution |
| red | a flag that serves as a warning signal |
| red | the common Old World fox |
| red | New World fox |
| red | weedy annual with spikes of silver-white flowers |
| red | a large cool star |
| red | a large cool star |