rencounter (renkounter)

[Also rencontre, and early mod. E. also re- encounter; The Vice-Admiral of Portugal...was engaged in close Fight with the Vice-Admiral of Holland, and after many tough Rencounters they were both blown up, and burnt together. Howell, Letters, I. vi. 40. The justling chiefs in rude rencounter join. Granville, Progre of Beauty. 2. A casual combat or action; a sudden contest or fight; a slight engagement between armies or fleets. Will reckons every misfortune that he has met with among the women, and every rencounter among the men, as parts of his education. Add is on , The Man of the Town. =Syn. 2. Skirmish , Brush , etc. See encounter . renculus (reng'kū-lus), n.; pl. renculi (-li). [NL., reniculus , a little kidney, dim, of ren , pl. renes , the kidneys: see ren3 , reins .] A lobe of a kidney. rend1 (rend), v.; pret. and pp. rent (formerly also rended ), ppr.rending. [ He rent the sayle with hokes lyke a sithe, He bringeth the cuppe and biddeth hem be blithe. Chaucer, Good Women, 1. 646. An evil beast hath devoured him; Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces. Gen. xxxvii. 33. But ye. keep ye on earth Your lips from over-speech,... For words divide and rend , But silence is most noble to the end. Swinburne, A talant a in Calydon.