Red-root, n.
- 1. New Jersay tea (Ceanothus Americanus).
- 2. Stoneweed, puccoon-root (Lithospermum arvense).
- 3. Blood-root, bloodwort, red-puccoon (Sanguinaria Canadensis).
Red saunders-wood. Red sandal-wood, rubywood.
Red squirrel. Chickaree (Sciurus Hudsonius).
Redtop, n. (Bot.) English grass, herds grass (Agrostis vulgaris).
Reduce, v. a.
- 1. Bring, restore.
- 2. Render, form, mould, make, shape, model, remodel, convert into, resolve into, change into, bring into,
bring to.
- 3. Diminish, contract, lessen, abate, decrease, attenuate, contract, abridge, curtail, shorten, cut short,
cut down, make less.
- 4. Depress, debase, lower, degrade, impair, weaken, dwarf.
- 5. Subdue, subject, conquer, subjugate, overpower, overthrow, vanquish, master, bring into subjection.
- 6. Impoverish, ruin, bring to want, bring to poverty.
- 7. (Math.) Solve, resolve.
Reduction, n.
- 1. Conversion, resolution, transmutation.
- 2. Diminution, contraction, decrease, abridgment, lessening, retrenchment, abatement, decrement, curtailment,
lowering.
- 3. Depression, detrusion, abasement, lowering.
- 4. Subjugation, conquest, subjection, mastery, subdual.