Reanimate
(Re*an"i*mate) v. t. To animate anew; to restore to animation or life; to infuse new life, vigor,
spirit, or courage into; to revive; to reinvigorate; as, to reanimate a drowned person; to reanimate disheartened
troops; to reanimate languid spirits. Glanvill.
Reanimation
(Re*an`i*ma"tion) n. The act or operation of reanimating, or the state of being reanimated; reinvigoration; revival.
Reannex
(Re`an*nex") v. t. To annex again or anew; to reunite. "To reannex that duchy." Bacon.
Reannexation
(Re*an`nex*a"tion) n. Act of reannexing.
Reanswer
(Re*an"swer) v. t. & i. To answer in return; to repay; to compensate; to make amends for.
Which in weight to reanswer, his pettiness would bow under.
Shak. Reap
(Reap) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reaped (rept); p. pr. & vb. n. Reaping.] [OE. repen, AS. ripan to
seize, reap; cf. D. rapen to glean, reap, G. raufen to pluck, Goth. raupjan, or E. ripe.]
1. To cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting.
When ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field.
Lev. xix. 9. 2. To gather; to obtain; to receive as a reward or harvest, or as the fruit of labor or of works; — in a good
or a bad sense; as, to reap a benefit from exertions.
Why do I humble thus myself, and, suing
For peace, reap nothing but repulse and hate?
Milton. 3. To clear of a crop by reaping; as, to reap a field.
4. To deprive of the beard; to shave. [R.] Shak.
Reaping hook, an implement having a hook- shaped blade, used in reaping; a sickle; — in a specific
sense, distinguished from a sickle by a blade keen instead of serrated.
Reap
(Reap), v. i. To perform the act or operation of reaping; to gather a harvest.
They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
Ps. cxxvi. 5. Reap
(Reap), n. [Cf. AS. rip harvest. See Reap, v.] A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down
by the reaper as it is cut. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Wright.
Reaper
(Reap"er) n.
1. One who reaps.
The sun-burned reapers wiping their foreheads.
Macaulay. 2. A reaping machine.
Reapparel
(Re`ap*par"el) v. t. To clothe again.
Reappear
(Re`ap*pear") v. i. To appear again.
Reappearance
(Re`ap*pear"ance) n. A second or new appearance; the act or state of appearing again.
Reapplication
(Re*ap`pli*ca"tion) n. The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
Reapply
(Re`ap*ply") v. t. & i. To apply again.
