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REFUT, _s._ s.h.i.+ft, expedient.
_Wallace._
Fr. _refuite_, evasion, avoidance.
REGENT, _s._ A professor in an university, S.
_Stat. Acc._
L. B. _regens_, Fr. _regent_, id.
_To_ REHABLE, REABILL, _v. a._ To reinstate; a law term.
_Skene._
REHATOURE, _s._ Uncertain.
_Douglas._
_To_ REHETE, _v. a._ To revive, to cheer;
Fr. _rehait-er_.
_Gawan and Gol._
REID, REDE, _s._ The fourth stomach of a calf, used for runnet, S.
_Monro._
Teut. _roode_, id. a _rubedine_ dictus.
REID ETIN.
V. ~Eyttyn~.
_To_ REID, _v. n._ To discourse.
V. ~Rede~, _v._
REID, _adj._ Red, S. B.
_Barbour._
~Reid hand~, a legal phrase, denoting that one is taken in the act of committing a crime, or immediately after.
_Quon. Att._
~Reid fische~, Fish in a sp.a.w.ning state, S.
V. ~Red sp.a.w.n~.
_Acts Ja. I._
REIDSETT, _adj._ Placed in order.
_Sir Gawan._
A. S. _ge-rad sett-en_, in ordine ponere.
REID-WOD, RED WOD, _adj._
1. In a violent rage, S.
_Montgomerie._
2. Furious, distracted.
_Hamilton._
Isl. _reid-ur_, iratus; _reide_, ira.
REIF, REFE, _s._
1. An eruption on the skin, S.
2. The itch is, _by way of eminence_, called _the reif_, S.
A. S. _hreof_, scabies.
_To_ REIFE, REYFF, _v. a._ To rob.
_Wallace._
A. S. _reaf-ian_, Isl. _hreif-a_, id.
~Reif~, ~Reiff~, ~Reff~, _s._
