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[REDACT EUR.] rě-dăn', s . [Fr. (O. Fr.vedent), from re-=back, and dent (Latin dens , (genitive dent is ) =a tooth; so called from the shape.] 1. Fort .: A work having two faces forming a salient angle in the direction from which an attack may be expected. It is open at the gorge. A double redan has a reëntering angle for mutual defense. The redan is the simplest field-work, and is used for defending the avenues of approach to a village, bridge, or defile. In front of another field-work, it is called a flèche. When flanks are added to the faces, the work becomes a detached bastion or lu nette. "A number of small piquets driven into the ground at the several angles and redans ."-Sterne: Tristram Shandy, iv. 217. The Redan: One of the strongest Ru ian fortifications on the south side of Sebastopol. It was unsucce fully a aulted by the English on June 5 and Sept. 8, 1855. The retirement of the Ru ians to the north side left, on the latter date, the place in the hands of the Allies. 2. A projection in a wall or uneven ground to ren der it level. *red-ar-güe, v . t . [Lat. redarguo to disprove: red-back, and arguo to prove, to argue.] To put down by argument; to disprove, to refute, to con tradict. "And these [experiments of humane affairs] being the immediate consequents of such doctrines are with some more certainty of observation redargued than the specсиlative."-Bp. Taylor: Liberty of Prophesying, § 12. *red-ar-gü-tion, s. [O. Fr.; Sp. redargucion: Ital. redarguizione .] [REDARGUE.] The act of redarguing, refuting, or disproving; refutation. "It was not irrational in him to urge them with it, and employ it to the redargution of their insolence."- Boyle: Works , ii. 274. 3385 *red-ar'-gu-tor-y, adj . [Eng. redargue : t connect., and suff.-ory.] Tending to refute or disprove; pertaining to refutation; refutatory. "My privileges are an ubiquitary, cir cum ambulatory, speculatory, interrogatory, redargutory immunity over all the privy lodgings."-Carew: Cælum Britannicum. re-dăsh', v . t . [Prefix re-, and English dash , v. (q. v.)) To dash again or a second time. rěd-breast, s. [Eng. red , a., and breast .] Ornithology: 1. Motacilla rubecula (Linn.); Erythacus rube cula of later systematists. A common European bird, of social, fearle habits; in winter it becomes extremely tame, approaching dwellings in search of food. General plumage olive-brown above, breast reddish-orange, fading into gray on the belly. There is a nearly allied form, E. hyrcanus , in Northern Persia, with more ruddy hues; and another, E. akahige , in North China and Japan. The redbreast lays from five to seven white eggs, sprinkled or blotched with red. Called also Robin Redbreast and Robin, and sometimes Red Robin. "The redbreast feeds in winter from your hand." Words worth: Excursion, bk. iv. 2. The American robin, Merula migrator i a . rěd-bŭd, s . [Eng. red, a., and bud .] Bot.: Cercis siliqua strum and C. can a dens is . rěd-căp, s . [Eng. red , a., and cap .] 1. A popular name for any small bird with a red head. (Tennyson: Gard. Daughter , 94.) 2. One of the cla of specters which are supposed to haunt old castles. ( Scotch , chiefly in Roxburghshire.) red-coat, s. [Eng. red, a., and coat.] 1. Ord. Lang.: A familiar name for a soldier, from the scarlet coats worn by most regiments in the British army. The adoption of this color for uniform dates from the time of the Commonwealth. "Oliver's redcoats had once stabled their horses there." -Macaulay: Hist. Eng ., ch. iii. 2. Bot .: The genus Erythrochiton. IMG:content-0329.png:[blocks in formation] rědd, subst. [Prob. from red, redd, v.] A bed of gravel, ., prepared for the hatching of the ova of fish. "So soon as the embryo is sufficiently formed, the ova should be laid down in gravel redds , contiguous to some small stream falling into the rivers or locks to be stocked." -Field, Dec. 6, 1884. rěd'-den, v . t. & i. [Eng. red, a.; -en.] A. Trans . To make red. "The dagger which himself Gave Edith, reddened with no bandit's blood." B. Intransitive: Tennyson: Aylmer's Field, 597. 1. To become or grow red. "The Rose soon redden'd into rage." Cowper: Lily and Rose. 2. To blush; to become flushed. rěd-děn-dō, s. [Lat.] Scots Law : The technical name of a clause indispensable to an original charter, and usually inserted in charters by progre . It takes its name from the first word of the clause in the Latin charter, Reddendo inde annuatim, .; and it specifies the feu-duty and other services which have been stipulated to be paid or performed by the va al to his superior.