realty2t (realti)

[ Kings do Whi sholdys thou my realte oppre ? Chaucer , Fortune, 1. 60. hazard infinitely In their free realties of rights and honours, Where they leave much for favourites' powers to order. Chapman and Shirley, Admiral of France, i. 2. Loyalty; fealty. O heaven! that such resemblance of the Highest Should yet remain, where faith and realty Remain not. Milton, P. L., vi. 115. ream1 (rēm), n . [Also reem , raim ; reme , reám = D. room = MLG. rom , LG. rom = MHG. roum , G. raum , rahm = Icel. rjómi , cream; origin unknown.] Cream; also, the cream-like froth on ale or other liquor; froth or foam in general. [Prov. Eng. and Scotch.] Soone aftir ze schal se as it were a liqour of oyle ascende vp fletynge aboue in maner of a skyn or of a reme . Book of Quinte E ence (ed. Furnivall), p. 9. Cristened we weore in red rem Whon his bod i bledde on the Beem Of Cipre e and Olyue. to think of! De Quincey, Homer, ii. =Syn. 1. Truly, absolutely, certainly, verily, positively. Wi' reaming swats [ale] that drank divinely. Burns, Tam o' Shanter. reanimate A huge pewter measuring pot,... which, in the language of the hoste , reamed with excellent claret. Scott, Waverley, xi. 2. To appear like foam; be fleecy. [Rare.] Farewell the flax and reaming wooll With which thy house was plentifull. Herrick, The Widdowes Teares. ream2 (rēm), v . t. [Also reem , dial. rim , rime ; rimen , rumen , ryman , widen, extend, spread, enlarge, etc. (= OS. rūmian = OFries. rēma = MD. D. ruimen = MLG. rūmen = OHG. rūmian , rūman , MHG. rūmen , yield, give way, make room, retire, relax, G. räumen , make room, etc., Icel. rýma , make room, clear, quit, = Sw. rymma = Dan. römme , quit), rūm , wide, roomy: see room1.] 1. To make wide; widen; extend; extend by stretching; stretch or draw out. His full growne stature, high his head, lookes higher rise; His pearching hornes are ream'd a yard beyond a ise. A Herrings Tayle (1598). ( Nares .) Specifically-2. To widen or enlarge by the use of a rotatory cutter: often with out: used especially of a hole or an opening in metal, and most commonly in connection with splayed or funnel-shaped holes.-3. Naut., to open (seams) for calking.-4. To leave; quit. Thu makedest me fleme [flee], And thi lond to reme. King Horn (E. E. T. S.), p. 36. ream3 (rēm), n. [Early mod. E. reme ; ree me = D. riem , ray me , rai me , rame , F. rame (ML. reflex ram a ) = It. risma , formerly also risima , resma ( ML.risma ) (cf. late MHG. ris, riz , rist , G. ries , rie = Dan. Sw. ris , with lo of final syllable), rizma (pl. ri zam ), a bundle, esp. of clothes, also of paper. The word was brought into Europe by the Moors, who introduced the manufacture of cotton paper into Spain.] A quantity of paper, consisting, for ordinary writing-paper, of 20 quires of 24 sheets each, or 480 sheets; for some kinds of drawing-paper, of 472 or 500 sheets; for printing-paper, of 214 quires, or 516 sheets. Writing paper is usually put up in half or quarter-ream packages, printing-paper in bundles of two reams. - A ream of insides, 480 sheets of perfect paper.-Perfect ream, an improper use for printers ' ream. - Printers' ream, or printing ream. See printer. reamet, n. A Middle English form of realm. reamer (rē'mér), n. [Also rimer (= G. räumer, a person who or an instrument that makes clean); IMG:content-1703.png:[blocks in formation] a and b, machinists' reamers; c, section of fluted reamer, for producing salient edges; d and e, flat-sided reamers, or broaches. fluted bodies with sharp edges, and bodies formed with intersecting right and left spiral grooves with sharp edges are prominent types. The bodies are of uniform thickne for reaming straight holes, and tapered for reaming tapered holes or for enlarging holes. Compare ream2, v. t., 2.- Expanding reamer, a reamer having a device which can be extended after the insertion of the reamer into a hole, so as to make an undercut. reamer-bit (rē'mėr-bit), n. Same as reaming - bit. reamine (rē'mi-nes), n. [ Reamine , or wavy marks, of uneven thickne in the film are most likely to occur in thick viscous samples of collodion. Silver Sunbeam , p. 457. reaming-bit (rē'ming-bit), n. A bit used for enlarging or splaying holes in metal. reaming-iron (re'ming-ī"ern), n. Naut ., an iron instrument used for opening the seams of planks so that they may be more readily calked. ream-kit (rēm'kit), n. A cream-pot. Halli well . [Yorkshire, Eng.] reamy (re'mi), a . [