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rein, poursuivre I'&p&e dans les s, to pursue<br />

hotly;<br />

soudt, v. wolf attache;<br />

i. our de v. , effort de ;<br />

tranchant. (Hipp.) sharp, narrow loins;<br />

de voute, (cons.) spandrel.<br />

reine, f., queen.<br />

rttntfigratton, f., reinstatement; (adm.) return, or<br />

turning into, a magazine of stores unconsumed;<br />

(nav.) reclassing ofan (old) ship done over;<br />

des ckevaux. ( Fr. a.) return of government<br />

horses to public use (as, e. g. when , an officer entitled<br />

to be mounted at public expense turns<br />

his mount in).<br />

reintggrer, v. a., to reinstate; (adm.) to turn back<br />

into (as supplies to a store, cartridges, et.c., to a<br />

magazine); (nav.) to reclass a ship;<br />

un cheval, (Fr. a.) to return a public animal<br />

to public use.<br />

reltCrateur, a., (inst.) repeating.<br />

reiteration, f., reiteration; (inst.) frequent measurement<br />

of a magnitude, so as to reduce the<br />

final error;<br />

par tour d'horizon, (surv.) continuous reading<br />

around the horizon.<br />

rejaillir, v. n., to gush, gush out, break forth, spout<br />

out; to rebound, fly back; to flash; to reflect, be<br />

reflected.<br />

rejaillissement, m., gushing, gushing out; spouting<br />

forth, out, up; rebounding, flying back; reflection,<br />

flashing.<br />

rejet, m., rejection; outthrow; shoot (of a tree);<br />

earth thrown out (of a ditch); overflow pipe;<br />

trap; (sm. a.,r.f. art.) throwing out of an empty<br />

cartridge case; (adm.) disallowance (of accounts,<br />

of expenses); (fond.) overflow.<br />

rejeter, v. a., to reject, throw, throw away; to refuse,<br />

set aside; to wash up, to cast up (as by the<br />

sea); to send out shoots (of a tree); (sm. a., r.f.<br />

art.) to throw out an empty cartridge case.<br />

rejeton, m., shoot (of a tree, a bush).<br />

rejingot, m., (cow*.) weather strip or should'eV of a<br />

window sill.<br />

rejoindre,v.a.,torejoin; (mil.) to join, rejoin, one's<br />

post, regiment.<br />

rejointoiement, m., (mas.) repainting.<br />

rejointoyer, v. a., to repoint.<br />

reiache, m., interruption; intermission, discontinuance,<br />

respite, rest, relaxation; f., (nav.) call,<br />

stay, or sojourn in a port (for repairs, rest, etc.);<br />

faire une \ (nav.) to call at a port;<br />

forcee, (nav.) enforced sojourn in a port (e. g.,<br />

because wind bound).<br />

reiachetnent, m., relaxation; rest, refreshment;<br />

decline, falling off; moderation of the weather;<br />

de discipline, (mil.) decay, falling off, of dis-<br />

cipline.<br />

relacher, v. a. n., to relax, slacken, loosen, loose, release,<br />

enlarge; to set free, at liberty (a prisoner);<br />

to let out, let go, yield, remit, abate, diminish;<br />

to moderate (cold, etc., of the weather); (now.) to<br />

touch (at a port), put in, put into, a port, call at<br />

a port; to let a vessel proceed on its voyage;<br />

la discipline, (mil.) to relax discipline;<br />

faire , to beat back.<br />

relai, relais, m., relay of horses, relay station; relay,<br />

relief, of workmen; working place; distance<br />

excavated earth is transported in a barrow; distance<br />

to which excavated earth may be thrown<br />

with a shovel; reshoveling of earth; earth to be<br />

reshoveled; ground left bare by a running<br />

stream, by the sea; (mil.) method of joining up<br />

several charges or petards in line, connected by<br />

a detonating fuse; (fort.) berm (obs.); (mil. sig.)<br />

transmitting station; (teleg.) relay station; local,<br />

relay, battery;<br />

etre d , to be unemployed;<br />

indicateur de tension, (dec.) potential indicator;<br />

merlon , (siege) (in constructing a battery)<br />

the natural ground on which the merlon is to<br />

rise;<br />

relai, relais, d la pelle, distance to which earth may<br />

be thrown with a shovel;<br />

pellcterhn s, to reshovel earth n times;<br />

paste , v. s. v. poste;<br />

transmission par s, (mil. sig.) transmission by<br />

relay, by transmitting stations;<br />

traverse r , v. s. v. traverse.<br />

relation, f., relation, account; official report.<br />

relaxation, f., release, enlargement, of prisoners.<br />

relaxer, v. a., to release, enlarge.<br />

relayer, v. a., to relieve, relieve each other; to serve<br />

as a relief for; to change horses;<br />

de chevaux, to change, take, fresh horses;<br />

se , to alternate in a duty.<br />

relegation, f., banishment without loss of civil or<br />

political rights.<br />

releve, p. p., raised, elevated; (fig.) noble, exalted;<br />

air , v. s. v. air.<br />

relev6,m., act of raising; bearing (ofacoast); (adm.)<br />

abstract, extract, summary (as from an account,<br />

a register, etc.) ; report; (fan.) removal, shifting<br />

of a horseshoe;<br />

decentralisation, (adm.) abstract;<br />

de <strong>com</strong>ptabilite, (Fr. a. adm.) monthly account<br />

of funds made to the minister of war by<br />

ordonnateurs.<br />

releve, f., (mil.) relief, as of troops, sentry, etc.;<br />

change of station (rare);<br />

de , relieving.<br />

relevemtent, m., act of raising anything; taking up,<br />

removing (as torpedoes); picking up (of a cable,<br />

of a telegraph line); statement, account, list;<br />

(surv.) bearing; (mil.) relief (of an outpost, a<br />

sentry), relieving; (ball.) lump, angle of jump;<br />

angle de , (ball.) angle of jump;<br />

astronomique, (surv., nav.) true bearing;<br />

d'une cote, bearings, survey, of a coast;<br />

au <strong>com</strong>pas, <strong>com</strong>pass bearing;<br />

du <strong>com</strong>pas, setting of the <strong>com</strong>pass;<br />

de la course d'un vaisseau. (art.) vessel track-<br />

ing;<br />

s se croisant,(surv.) cross bearings;<br />

scroises, (surv.) cross bearings;<br />

faire le de, to make an abstract or report or<br />

statement;<br />

faire un , to take the bearings (of a coast,<br />

shore, etc.);<br />

magnetique, magnetic bearing;<br />

magnetique reel, true magnetic bearing, i. e.,<br />

corrected;<br />

porter un sur la carte, to prick, lay down, a<br />

bearing on the map;<br />

prendre un to take a , bearing;<br />

du terrain dangereux, (fort.) in defilading, the<br />

height of plane of defilade above the point defiladed<br />

against;<br />

troupes de -<br />

, relieving troops;<br />

vrai, true bearing.<br />

relever, v. a. n., to raise, raise up, elevate; to make<br />

higher; to take up, out; to take up and repair,<br />

lift up or out; to note, register, record; to relieve,<br />

replace (in general); to discharge, free, cancel,<br />

release (as from an obligation, an oath) ; to weigh<br />

an anchor; to<br />

(fig.) bring out, make prominent;<br />

to trice up; (was.) to raise a wall, etc.;<br />

man.) to raise the feet very high<br />

icord.)<br />

in galloping;<br />

mil.) to relieve (a sentry, etc.); to relieve from<br />

<strong>com</strong>mand; (surv.) to take a bearing, to prick a<br />

position on a map; (esp. nav.) to prick a ship's<br />

position on the chart; to bear;<br />

un angle, (surv.) to measure an angle;<br />

un cheval (man.) to raise the forehand by the<br />

bridle;<br />

de,(mil.) to report to (for orders, instructions);<br />

to be responsible to, be under the immediate<br />

orders of;<br />

de faction, (mil.) to relieve from sentry;<br />

unfactionnaire, (mil.) to relieve a sentry;<br />

unfer, (fan.) to remove a loose shoe and put<br />

it on firmly;<br />

un fosse, to raise the banks of a ditch;<br />

de garde, (mil.) to relieve from guard;<br />

la garde, (mil.) to relieve the guard;<br />

de 'maladie, to rise from a sick bed;

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