reassurance (sur as shur)

[Pref. re., and Eng. a urance (q. v.).] 1. A repeated or renewed a urance. re-at-tāin', verb t . [Prefix re- , and Eng. attain (q. v.).] To attain to, gain, or procure again. "[He] reattains again That which again was lost for all his pain." Daniel: Civil Wars, v. re-at-tempt' ( p silent), v. t . [Pref. re-, and Eng. attempt (q. v.).] To attempt again or a second time. "Disposing of his voyage then to be reattempted ."Hackluyt: Voyages, iii. 158. Re-au-mur, subst . [René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, 1683-1757, entomologist and physicist.] (See compound.) Reaumur's scale, s . Thermology: A scale for a thermometer, in which, the two fixed points being as in the Centigrade, the division is into eighty instead of a hundred parts. It is still occasionally used. re-au-mür-I-a, s. [REAUMUR.] Bot.: The typical genus of Reaumuriaceae (q. v.). At Alexandria the bruised leaves of Reaumuria vermiculata are applied externally, and a decoction of them given internally, as a cure for the itch.