Defn: A small Australian singing bird (Phyrrholæmus brunneus). The upper parts are brown, the center of the throat red.
REDTOP
Red"top` (-tp`), n. (Bot.)
Defn: A kind of grass (Agrostis vulgaris) highly valued in the United
States for pasturage and hay for cattle; — called also English
grass, and in some localities herd's grass. See Illustration in
Appendix. The tall redtop is Triodia seslerioides.
REDUB
Re*dub" (r*db"), v. t. Etym: [F. radouber to refit or repair.]
Defn: To refit; to repair, or make reparation for; hence, to repay or
requite. [Obs.]
It shall be good that you redub that negligence. Wyatt.
God shall give power to redub it with some like requital to the
French. Grafton.
REDUCE Re*duce" (re*dus"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reduced (-dust"),; p. pr. & vb. n. Reducing (-du"sîng).] Etym: [L. reducere, reductum; pref. red- . re-, re- + ducere to lead. See Duke, and cf. Redoubt, n.]
1. To bring or lead back to any former place or condition. [Obs.] And to his brother's house reduced his wife. Chapman. The sheep must of necessity be scattered, unless the great Shephered of souls oppose, or some of his delegates reduce and direct us. Evelyn.
2. To bring to any inferior state, with respect to rank, size, quantity, quality, value, etc.; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; to impair; as, to reduce a sergeant to the ranks; to reduce a drawing; to reduce expenses; to reduce the intensity of heat. "An ancient but reduced family." Sir W. Scott. Nothing so excellent but a man may fasten upon something belonging to it, to reduce it. Tillotson. Having reduced Their foe to misery beneath their fears. Milton. Hester Prynne was shocked at the condition to which she found the clergyman reduced. Hawthorne.
3. To bring to terms; to humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture; as, to reduce a province or a fort.
4. To bring to a certain state or condition by grinding, pounding, kneading, rubbing, etc.; as, to reduce a substance to powder, or to a pasty mass; to reduce fruit, wood, or paper rags, to pulp. It were but right And equal to reduce me to my dust. Milton.