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Re*in`tro*duce" (r?*?n`tr?*d?s"), v. t. To introduce again. -- Re*in`tro*duc"tion (- d&?;k"sh&?;n), n.

Re`in*vest" (r?`?n*v?st"), v. t. To invest again or anew.

Re`in*ves"ti*gate (-v?s"t?*g?t), v. t. To investigate again. -- Re`in*ves`ti*ga"tion (- g&?;"sh&?;n), n.

Re`in*vest"ment (-v?st"ment), n. The act of investing anew; a second or repeated investment.

Re`in*vig"or*ate (-v?g"?r*?t), v. t. To invigorate anew.

Re`in*volve" (-v?lv"), v. t. To involve anew.

||Re`is (r?"?s or r?z), n. [Pg., pl. of real, an ancient Portuguese ||coin.] The word is used as a Portuguese designation of money of ||account, one hundred reis being about equal in value to eleven cents.

Reis (rs), n. [Ar. raïs head, chief, prince.] A common title in the East for a person in authority, especially the captain of a ship. [Written also rais and ras.]

||Reis` Ef*fen"di (r?s` ?f*f?n"d?). [See 2d Reis, and Effendi.] A title ||formerly given to one of the chief Turkish officers of state. He was ||chancellor of the empire, etc.

Reiss"ner's mem"brane (r?s"n?rz m?m"br?n). [Named from E. Reissner, A German anatomist.] (Anat.) The thin membrane which separates the canal of the cochlea from the vestibular scala in the internal ear.

Re*is"su*a*ble (r?*?sh"?*?*b'l), a. Capable of being reissued.

Re*is"sue (r?*?sh"?), v. t. & i. To issue a second time.

Re*is"sue, n. A second or repeated issue.

Reit (r?t), n. Sedge; seaweed. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

||Rei"ter (r?"t?r), n. [G., rider.] A German cavalry soldier of the ||fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

Re*it"er*ant (r?-?t"?r-ant), a. [See Reiterate.] Reiterating. [R.] Mrs. Browning.

Re*it"er*ate (-t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reiterated (- `td); p. pr. & vb. n. Reiterating.] [Pref. re- + iterate: cf. F. réitérer, LL. reiterare to question again.] To repeat again and again; to say or do repeatedly; sometimes, to repeat.

That with reiterated crimes he might Heap on himself damnation.

Milton.

You never spoke what did become you less Than this; which to reiterate were sin.

Shak.

Syn. -- To repeat; recapitulate; rehearse.

Re*it"er*ate (-?t), a. Reiterated; repeated. [R.]

Re*it"er*a`ted*ly (-?`t?d-l?), adv. Repeatedly.

Re*it`er*a"tion (-?"sh?n), n. [Cf. F. réitération.] The act of reiterating; that which is reiterated.

Re*it"er*a*tive (r?-?t"?r-?-t?v), n. 1. (Gram.) A word expressing repeated or reiterated action.

2. A word formed from another, or used to form another, by repetition; as, dillydally.

Reiv"er (r?v"?r), n. See Reaver. Ruskin.

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