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Dryden.

4. To repeat; to go over again.

The birds-their notes renew.

Milton.

5. (Theol.) To make new spiritually; to regenerate.

Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.

Rom. xii. 2.

Re*new", v. i. To become new, or as new; to grow or begin again.

Re*new`a*bil"i*ty (-?-b?l"?-t?), n. The quality or state of being renewable. [R.]

Re*new"a*ble (r?-n?"?-b'l), a. Capable of being renewed; as, a lease renewable at pleasure. Swift.

Re*new"al (-al), n. The act of renewing, or the state of being renewed; as, the renewal of a treaty.

Re*new"ed*ly, adv. Again; once more. [U.S.]

Re*new"ed*ness, n. The state of being renewed.

Re*new"er (-?r), n. One who, or that which, renews.

Re*neye" (r?-n?"), v. t. [See Renay.] To deny; to reject; to renounce. [Obs.]

For he made every man reneye his law.

Chaucer.

Reng (r?ng), n. [See Rank, n.] 1. A rank; a row. [Obs.] "In two renges fair." Chaucer.

2. A rung or round of a ladder. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Re*nid`i*fi*ca"tion (r?-n?d`?-f?-k?"sh?n), n. (Zoöl.) The act of rebuilding a nest.

Ren"i*form (r?n"?-f?rm; 277), a. [L. renes kidneys + -form: cf. F. réniforme.] Having the form or shape of a kidney; as, a reniform mineral; a reniform leaf.

{ Re*ni"tence (r?-n?"tens), Re*ni"ten*cy (-te-s?), } n. [Cf. F. rénitence.] The state or quality of being renitent; resistance; reluctance. Sterne.

We find a renitency in ourselves to ascribe life and irritability to the cold and motionless fibers of plants.

E. Darwin.

Re*ni"tent (-tent), a. [L. renitens, -entis, p. pr. of renit to strive or struggle against, resist; pref. re- re- + niti to struggle or strive: cf. F. rénitent.] 1. Resisting pressure or the effect of it; acting against impulse by elastic force. "[Muscles] soft and yet renitent." Ray.

2. Persistently opposed.

Ren"ne (r?n"ne), v. t. To plunder; -- only in the phrase "to rape and renne." See under Rap, v. t., to snatch. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Ren"ne, v. i. To run. [Obs.] Chaucer.