n. [ See Reeve. ] An officer, steward, or governor. [ Usually written reeve. ] [ Obs. ] Piers Plowman. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To reave. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Revealed p. pr. & vb. n. Revealing. ] [ F. révéler, L. revelare, revelatum, to unveil, reveal; pref. re- re- + velare to veil; fr. velum a veil. See Veil. ] 1. To make known (that which has been concealed or kept secret); to unveil; to disclose; to show. [ 1913 Webster ]

Light was the wound, the prince's care unknown,
She might not, would not, yet reveal her own. Waller. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Specifically, to communicate (that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural instruction or agency). [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To communicate; disclose; divulge; unveil; uncover; open; discover; impart; show. See Communicate. -- Reveal, Divulge. To reveal is literally to lift the veil, and thus make known what was previously concealed; to divulge is to scatter abroad among the people, or make publicly known. A mystery or hidden doctrine may be revealed; something long confined to the knowledge of a few is at length divulged. “Time, which reveals all things, is itself not to be discovered.” Locke. “A tragic history of facts divulged.” Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A revealing; a disclosure. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Arch.) The side of an opening for a window, doorway, or the like, between the door frame or window frame and the outer surface of the wall; or, where the opening is not filled with a door, etc., the whole thickness of the wall; the jamb. [ Written also revel. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being revealable; revealableness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being revealed. -- Re*veal"a*ble*ness, n. [1913 Webster]

n. One who, or that which, reveals. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Act of revealing. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To vegetate anew. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. réveil, fr. réveiller to awake; pref. re- re- + pref. es- (L. ex) + veiller to awake, watch, L. vigilare to watch. The English form was prob. taken by mistake from the French imper. réveillez, 2d pers. pl. See Vigil. ] (Mil.) The beat of drum, or bugle blast, about break of day, to give notice that it is time for the soldiers to rise, and for the sentinels to forbear challenging. “Sound a reveille.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

For at dawning to assail ye
Here no bugles sound reveille. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]