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n. a criminal who illegaly sets fire to property; an arsonist.
Syn. -- arsonist, incendiary. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a brightly colored type of true bug that can exude a stain. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. An evergreen South American shrub *Streptosolen jamesonii) having showy trumpet-shaped orange flowers; grown as an ornamental or houseplant.
Syn. -- marmalade bush, Streptosolen jamesonii. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. A densely branched Eurasian plant (Bassia scoparia) whose foliage turns purple-red in autumn; also called burning bush.
Syn. -- summer cypress, burning bush, belvedere, Bassia scoparia, Kochia scoparia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Incapable of being rebutted. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Rebuking. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

She gave unto him many rebucous words. Fabyan. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ It. ribuffo, akin to ribuffare to repulse; pref. ri- (L. re-) + buffo puff. Cf. Buff to strike, Buffet a blow. ] 1. Repercussion, or beating back; a quick and sudden resistance. [ 1913 Webster ]

The strong rebuff of some tumultuous cloud. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Sudden check; unexpected repulse; defeat; refusal; repellence; rejection of solicitation. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Rebuffed p. pr. & vb. n. Rebuffing. ] To beat back; to offer sudden resistance to; to check; to repel or repulse violently, harshly, or uncourteously. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To build again, as something which has been demolished; to construct anew; as, to rebuild a house, a wall, a wharf, or a city. Usually used without the hyphen.
Syn. -- build anew, build again, reconstruct, reerect. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who rebuilds. Bp. Bull. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Worthy of rebuke or reprehension; reprehensible. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Rebuked p. pr. & vb. n. Rebuking. ] [ OF. rebouquier to dull, blunt, F. reboucher; perhaps fr. pref. re- re- + bouche mouth, OF. also bouque, L. bucca cheek; if so, the original sense was, to stop the mouth of; hence, to stop, obstruct. ] To check, silence, or put down, with reproof; to restrain by expression of disapprobation; to reprehend sharply and summarily; to chide; to reprove; to admonish. [ 1913 Webster ]

The proud he tamed, the penitent he cheered,
Nor to rebuke the rich offender feared. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To reprove; chide; check; chasten; restrain; silence. See Reprove. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A direct and pointed reproof; a reprimand; also, chastisement; punishment. [ 1913 Webster ]

For thy sake I have suffered rebuke. Jer. xv. 15. [ 1913 Webster ]

Why bear you these rebukes and answer not? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Check; rebuff. [ Obs. ] L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

To be without rebuke, to live without giving cause of reproof or censure; to be blameless. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Containing rebuke; of the nature of rebuke. [ Obs. ] -- Re*buke"ful*ly, adv. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

n. One who rebukes. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By way of rebuke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of boiling up or effervescing. [ R. ] Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To bury again. Ashmole. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Rebuses [ L. rebus by things, abl. pl. of res a thing: cf. F. rébus. Cf. 3d Real. ] 1. A mode of expressing words and phrases by pictures of objects whose names resemble those words, or the syllables of which they are composed; enigmatical representation of words by figures; hence, a peculiar form of riddle made up of such representations. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ A gallant, in love with a woman named Rose Hill, had, embroidered on his gown, a rose, a hill, an eye, a loaf, and a well, signifying, Rose Hill I love well. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Her.) A pictorial suggestion on a coat of arms of the name of the person to whom it belongs. See Canting arms, under Canting. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To mark or indicate by a rebus. [ 1913 Webster ]

He [ John Morton ] had a fair library rebused with More in text and Tun under it. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Rebutted; p. pr. & vb. n. Rebutting. ] [ OF. rebouter to repulse, drive back; pref. re- + bouter to push, thrust. See 1st Butt, Boutade. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To drive or beat back; to repulse. [ 1913 Webster ]

Who him, rencount'ring fierce, as hawk in flight,
Perforce rebutted back. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) To contradict, meet, or oppose by argument, plea, or countervailing proof. Abbott. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To retire; to recoil. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) To make, or put in, an answer, as to a plaintiff's surrejoinder. [ 1913 Webster ]

The plaintiff may answer the rejoinder by a surrejoinder; on which the defendant may rebut. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being rebutted. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Law) The giving of evidence on the part of a plaintiff to destroy the effect of evidence introduced by the defendant in the same suit. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Law) The answer of a defendant in matter of fact to a plaintiff's surrejoinder. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ Pref. sur + rebut. ] (Law) To reply, as a plaintiff to a defendant's rebutter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Law) The reply of a plaintiff to a defendant's rebutter. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ OF. trebuchet, trebukiet, an engine of war for hurling stones, F. trébuchet a gin, trap, a kind of balance, fr. OF. trebuchier, trebuquier, to stumble, trip, F. trébucher. ] 1. A cucking stool; a tumbrel. Cowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A military engine used in the Middle Ages for throwing stones, etc. It acted by means of a great weight fastened to the short arm of a lever, which, being let fall, raised the end of the long arm with great velocity, hurling stones with much force. [ 1913 Webster ]

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3. A kind of balance for weighing. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]