Vocabulary : Redtop to Reducing

Redtop : A kind of grass (Agrostis vulgaris) highly valued in the United States for pasturage and hay for cattle; -- called also English grass, and in some localities herd's grass. See Illustration in Appendix. The tall redtop is Triodia seslerioides.
Redub : To refit; to repair, or make reparation for; hence, to repay or requite.
Reduce : To bring or lead back to any former place or condition. ;; To bring to any inferior state, with respect to rank, size, quantity, quality, value, etc.; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; to impair; as, to reduce a sergeant to the ranks; to reduce a drawing; to reduce expenses; to reduce the intensity of heat. ;; To bring to terms; to humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture; as, to reduce a province or a fort. ;; To bring to a certain state or condition by grinding, pounding, kneading, rubbing, etc.; as, to reduce a substance to powder, or to a pasty mass; to reduce fruit, wood, or paper rags, to pulp. ;; To bring into a certain order, arrangement, classification, etc.; to bring under rules or within certain limits of descriptions and terms adapted to use in computation; as, to reduce animals or vegetables to a class or classes; to reduce a series of observations in astronomy; to reduce language to rules. ;; To change, as numbers, from one denomination into another without altering their value, or from one de
Reduced : of Reduce
Reducement : Reduction.
Reducent : Tending to reduce. ;; A reducent agent.
Reducer : A contrivance for reducing the dimensions of one part so as to fit it to another, as a reducing coupling, or a device for holding a drilling a chuck. ;; A reducing motion. ;; A reducing valve. ;; A hydraulic device for reducing pressure and hence increasing movement, used to transmit the load from the hydraulic support of the lower shackle to the lever weighing apparatus in some kinds of heavy testing machines. ;; A reducing agent, either a developer or an agent for reducing density. ;; One who, or that which, reduces.
Reducible : Capable of being reduced.
Reducibleness : Quality of being reducible.
Reducing : of Reduce ;; a & n. from Reduce.
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