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Definition of re-

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Re- () A prefix signifying back, against, again, anew; as, recline, to lean back; recall, to call back; recede; remove; reclaim, to call out against; repugn, to fight against; recognition, a knowing again; rejoin, to join again; reiterate; reassure. Combinations containing the prefix re- are readily formed, and are for the most part of obvious signification..

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Course :: Course (n.) The lowest sail on any mast of a square-rigged vessel; as, the fore course, main course, etc..

Re-ally :: Re-ally (v. t.) To bring together again; to compose or form anew.

Fore-night :: Fore-night (n.) The evening between twilight and bedtime.

Tire-woman :: Tire-woman (n.) A lady's maid.

Mend :: Mend (v. t.) To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement; to patch up; to put in shape or order again; to re-create; as, to mend a garment or a machine..

Ter-tenant :: Ter-tenant (n.) See Terre-tenant.

Vitre-o-electic :: Vitre-o-electic (a.) Containing or exhibiting positive, or vitreous, electricity..

Fore-topsail :: Fore-topsail (n.) See Sail.

Treasure-trove :: Treasure-trove (n.) Any money, bullion, or the like, found in the earth, or otherwise hidden, the owner of which is not known. In England such treasure belongs to the crown; whereas similar treasure found in the sea, or upon the surface of the land, belongs to the finder if no owner appears..

Driver :: Driver (n.) The after sail in a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff; a spanker..

Sterner :: Sterned (a.) Having a stern of a particular shape; -- used in composition; as, square-sterned..

Aforementioned :: Aforementioned (a.) Previously mentioned; before-mentioned.

Duster :: Duster (n.) A revolving wire-cloth cylinder which removes the dust from rags, etc..

Re-creative :: Re-creative (a.) Creating anew; as, re-creative power..

Jigging :: "Jigging (n.) The act or using a jig; the act of separating ore with a jigger, or wire-bottomed sieve, which is moved up and down in water..

Wire-worker :: Wire-worker (n.) One who manufactures articles from wire.

Trysail :: Trysail (n.) A fore-and-aft sail, bent to a gaff, and hoisted on a lower mast or on a small mast, called the trysail mast, close abaft a lower mast; -- used chiefly as a storm sail. Called also spencer..

Barque :: Barque (n.) A three-masted vessel, having her foremast and mainmast square-rigged, and her mizzenmast schooner-rigged..

Gybe :: Gybe (v. t. & i.) To shift from one side of a vessel to the other; -- said of the boom of a fore-and-aft sail when the vessel is steered off the wind until the sail fills on the opposite side.

Tack :: Tack (v. t.) The part of a sail to which the tack is usually fastened; the foremost lower corner of fore-and-aft sails, as of schooners (see Illust. of Sail)..