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2. In ornith., a tail-feather; one of the long or large quill-feathers of a bird's tail: so called from its use in directing or steering the course of a bird in flight, like a rudder. The rectrices are comparable to the similar large flight-feathers of the wing, called remiges. In the Saururæ, or Jura ic birds with long lizard-like bony tail, the rectrices are bi Sir T. Herbert , Travels in Africa. ( Latham .) serially or distichously arranged in a row on each side of the caudal vertebræ. In all modern birds they are set together in a fan-like manner upon the pygostyle. (See Eur hip i dura .) In a few birds they are rudimentary, as in grebes. The most frequent number by far is twelve, which prevails (with few anomalous exceptions) throughout the great order Pa eres , and also in very many other birds of different orders. In many picarian birds the number is ten; in a very few eight. In various waterbirds the rectrices run up to higher numbers, twenty-four being probably the maximum. There is normally always an even number, these feathers being paired. In size, shape, and texture they are endle ly varied, giving rise to all the different shapes a bird's tail presents. rectum (rek'tum), n.; pl. recta (-tä). [= F. rectum Sp. Pg. recto = It. ret to , tum , abbr. of L. rectum intestinum , the straight B. Jonson, Sejanus, v. 4. intestine: rectum , neut. of rectus , straight: see 2. A rector's wife. [Humorous.] In this way the worthy Rectore consoled herself. Also rectrix . Thackeray, Vanity Fair, xlviii. rectorial (rek-tō'ri-al), a . [ rector + -ial .] Of or pertaining to a rector or a rectory.- Rectorial tithes, tithes payable to the rector, ordinarily those of corn, hay, and wood. Also great tithes . The tithes of many things, as wood in particular, are in some parishes rectorial , and in some vicarial tithes . Black stone, Com., I. xi. rectorship (rekʼtor-ship), п . [ rector + -ship .] 1. The office or rank of a rector.-21. Rule; direction; guidance. IMG:content-1768.png:[blocks in formation] rectory (rek'tor-i), n .; pl. rectories (-iz). [ rectorie = Sp. rectoría = Pg. reitoria = It. ret toria , rector i a , office or rank of rec tor, L. rector , a rector: see rector .] 1. A parall its rights, tithes, and glebes. 2. A rector's ish church, parsonage, or spiritual living, with mansion or parsonage-house. The Rectory was on the other side of the river, close to the church, of which it was the fitting companion. George Eliot , Felix Holt, xxiii. recto scope (rek'tō-skōp), n . [ rectum , rectum, + Gr. σκοπεῖν , view.] A speculum used for rectal examination. right .] In an at , and zoöl . , a terminal section of the intestine, ending in the anus: so called from its comparatively straight course in man; the lower bowel: more fully called intestinum rectum. In man the rectum is the continuation of the sigmoid flexure of the colon, beginning about opposite the promontory of the sacrum, a little to the left side, and running through the pelvis to the anus. It is supported by a proper duplication of peritoneum, the me so rectum, and other fasciæ. Its structure includes well-developed longitudinal and circular muscular fibers, the latter being aggregated into a stout internal sphincter muscle near the lower end. In animals whose colon has no special sigmoid flexure there is no distinction of a rectum from the rest of the large intestine; and the term applies only to any given or taken terminal section of the bowel, of whatever character. In mammals above monotremes the rectum is entirely shut off from the urogenital organs, ending in a distinct anus; but in most animals it ends in a cloaca common to the digestive and urogenital systems. The rectum receives the refuse of digestion, and retains the feces until voided. See cuts under intestine , peritoneum , Pulmonata , Pycnogonid a, Appendicular i a , and Blattidæ. - Columns of the rectum. See column . rectus (rek'tus), n.; pl. recti (-ti). [NL., abbr. of L. rectus musculus , straight muscle: recuperative reculelt, v. and n. An obsolete form of recoil1 . recule2t, n. [ME., also recuyell , recueil , F. recueil , a collection, recueillir , collect: see recollect .] A collection of writings; a book or pamphlet. Caxton ; Hall i well . recultivate (rē-kul'ti-vāt), v . t . [ culti vate . Cf. OF. recultiver , recultivate.] To cultivate anew. recultivation (rē-kul-ti-vā'shon), n. [ reculti vate + -ion .] The act of cultivating anew, or the state of being cultivated anew. recumbt (re-kum), v . i. [ recumbere , lie back, recline: see recumbent .] To recline; lean; repose. The king makes an overture of pardon and favour unto you, upon condition that any one of you will recumbe , rest, lean upon, or roll himself upon the person of his son.