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n. (Zool.) The European band fish (Cepola rubescens). [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Fireflies (Zool.) Any luminous winged insect, esp. luminous beetles of the family Lampyridæ. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The common American species belong to the genera Photinus (especially Photinus pyralis) and Photuris, in which both sexes are winged. The name is also applied to luminous species of Elateridæ. See Fire beetle. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. (Biochem.) a type of luciferin produced by the firefly Photinus pyralis. Its structure has been elucidated, and chemically it is recognized as 4, 5-Dihydro-2-(6-hydroxy-2-benzothiazol-2-yl)-4-thiazolecarboxylic acid, C11H8N3O2S2. It has found use in a very sensitive assay for ATP, in which concentrations of ATP as low as 10-11 molar can be detected. [ MI11 ] [ PJC ]

v. t. To flow before. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Lack of reflection. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not reflective. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) n. A garden plant (Dicentra spectabilis) having deep-pink drooping heart-shaped flowers.
Syn. -- bleeding heart, Dicentra spectabilis. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. not capable of total reflection of light; not polished or shiny; as, It is complicated to create realistic shading effects on nonreflecting surfaces. [ Narrower terms: echoless ] reflective [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Pref. pre- + L. flos, floris, flower. ] (Bot.) Aestivation. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To kindle again into flame. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Reflected; p. pr. & vb. n. Reflecting. ] [ L. reflectere, reflexum; pref. re- re- + flectere to bend or turn. See Flexible, and cf. Reflex, v. ] 1. To bend back; to give a backwa&unr_;d turn to; to throw back; especially, to cause to return after striking upon any surface; as, a mirror reflects rays of light; polished metals reflect heat. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let me mind the reader to reflect his eye on our quotations. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bodies close together reflect their own color. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To give back an image or likeness of; to mirror. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nature is the glass reflecting God,
As by the sea reflected is the sun. Young. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To throw back light, heat, or the like; to return rays or beams. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To be sent back; to rebound as from a surface; to revert; to return. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whose virtues will, I hope,
Reflect on Rome, as Titan's rays on earth. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To throw or turn back the thoughts upon anything; to contemplate. Specifically: To attend earnestly to what passes within the mind; to attend to the facts or phenomena of consciousness; to use attention or earnest thought; to meditate; especially, to think in relation to moral truth or rules. [ 1913 Webster ]

We can not be said to reflect upon any external object, except so far as that object has been previously perceived, and its image become part and parcel of our intellectual furniture. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

All men are concious of the operations of their own minds, at all times, while they are awake, but there few who reflect upon them, or make them objects of thought. Reid. [ 1913 Webster ]

As I much reflected, much I mourned. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To cast reproach; to cause censure or dishonor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Errors of wives reflect on husbands still. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Neither do I reflect in the least upon the memory of his late majesty. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To consider; think; cogitate; mediate; contemplate; ponder; muse; ruminate. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Thrown back after striking a surface; as, reflected light, heat, sound, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: Not one's own; received from another; as, his glory was reflected glory. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Bent backward or outward; reflexed. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. reflectens, p. pr. of reflectere. See Reflect. ] 1. Bending or flying back; reflected. “The ray descendent, and the ray reflectent flying with so great a speed.” Sir K. Digby. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Reflecting; as, a reflectent body. Sir K. Digby. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being reflected, or thrown back; reflexible. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Throwing back light, heat, etc., as a mirror or other surface. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Given to reflection or serious consideration; reflective; contemplative; as, a reflecting mind. [ 1913 Webster ]

Reflecting circle, an astronomical instrument for measuring angless, like the sextant or Hadley's quadrant, by the reflection of light from two plane mirrors which it carries, and differing from the sextant chiefly in having an entire circle. --
Reflecting galvanometer, a galvanometer in which the deflections of the needle are read by means of a mirror attached to it, which reflects a ray of light or the image of a scale; -- called also mirror galvanometer. --
Reflecting goniometer. See under Goniometer. --
Reflecting telescope. See under Telescope. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With reflection; also, with censure; reproachfully. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. reflexio: cf. F. réflexion. See Riflect. ] [ Written also reflexion. ] 1. The act of reflecting, or turning or sending back, or the state of being reflected. Specifically: (a) The return of rays, beams, sound, or the like, from a surface. See Angle of reflection, below. [ 1913 Webster ]

The eye sees not itself,
But by reflection, by some other things. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

(b) The reverting of the mind to that which has already occupied it; continued consideration; meditation; contemplation; hence, also, that operation or power of the mind by which it is conscious of its own acts or states; the capacity for judging rationally, especially in view of a moral rule or standard. [ 1913 Webster ]

By reflection, . . . I would be understood to mean, that notice which the mind takes of its own operations, and the manner of them, by reason whereof there come to be ideas of these operations in the understanding. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

This delight grows and improves under thought and reflection. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Shining; brightness, as of the sun. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which is produced by reflection. Specifically: (a) An image given back from a reflecting surface; a reflected counterpart. [ 1913 Webster ]

As the sun water we can bear,
Yet not the sun, but his reflection, there. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

(b) A part reflected, or turned back, at an angle; as, the reflection of a membrane. (c) Result of meditation; thought or opinion after attentive consideration or contemplation; especially, thoughts suggested by truth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Job's reflections on his once flourishing estate did at the same time afflict and encourage him. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Censure; reproach cast. [ 1913 Webster ]

He died; and oh! may no reflection shed
Its poisonous venom on the royal dead. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Physiol.) The transference of an excitement from one nerve fiber to another by means of the nerve cells, as in reflex action. See Reflex action, under Reflex. [ 1913 Webster ]

Angle of reflection, the angle which anything, as a ray of light, on leaving a reflecting surface, makes with the perpendicular to the surface. --
Angle of total reflection. (Opt.) Same as Critical angle, under Critical. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Meditation; contemplation; rumination; cogitation; consideration; musing; thinking. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. réflectif. Cf. Reflexive. ] 1. Throwing back images; as, a reflective mirror. [ 1913 Webster ]

In the reflective stream the sighing bride, viewing her charms. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Capable of exercising thought or judgment; as, reflective reason. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

His perceptive and reflective faculties . . . thus acquired a precocious and extraordinary development. Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Addicted to introspective or meditative habits; as, a reflective person. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Gram.) Reflexive; reciprocal. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Re*flect"ive*ly, adv. -- Re*flect"ive*ness, n. “Reflectiveness of manner.” J. C. Shairp. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. réflecteur. ] 1. One who, or that which, reflects. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Physics) (a) Something having a polished surface for reflecting light or heat, as a mirror, a speculum, etc. (b) A reflecting telescope. (c) A device for reflecting sound. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., reflection. See Reflect. ] Luster; special brilliancy of surface; -- used esp. in ceramics to denote the peculiar metallic brilliancy seen in lustered pottery such as majolica; as, silver reflet; gold reflet. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ L. reflexus, p. p. of reflectere: cf. F. réflexe. See Reflect. ] 1. Directed back; attended by reflection; retroactive; introspective. [ 1913 Webster ]

The reflex act of the soul, or the turning of the intellectual eye inward upon its own actions. Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Produced in reaction, in resistance, or in return. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Physiol.) Of, pertaining to, or produced by, stimulus or excitation without the necessary intervention of consciousness. [ 1913 Webster ]

Reflex action (Physiol.), any action performed involuntarily in consequence of an impulse or impression transmitted along afferent nerves to a nerve center, from which it is reflected to an efferent nerve, and so calls into action certain muscles, organs, or cells. --
Reflex nerve (Physiol.), an excito-motory nerve. See Exito-motory. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. reflexus a bending back. See Reflect. ] 1. Reflection; the light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade. [ 1913 Webster ]

Yon gray is not the morning's eye,
'Tis but the pale reflex of Cynthia's brow. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

On the depths of death there swims
The reflex of a human face. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Physiol.) An involuntary movement produced by reflex action. [ 1913 Webster ]

Patellar reflex. See Knee jerk, under Knee. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. reflexus, p. p. of reflectere. See Reflect. ] 1. To reflect. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To bend back; to turn back. J. Gregory. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Bent backward or outward. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. réflexibilité. ] The quality or capability of being reflexible; as, the reflexibility of the rays of light. Sir I. Newton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ CF. F. réflexible. ] Capable of being reflected, or thrown back. [ 1913 Webster ]

The light of the sun consists of rays differently refrangible and reflexible. Cheyne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Reflection. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or condition of being reflected. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. [ Cf. F. réflexif. ] Bending or turned backward; reflective; having respect to something past. [ 1913 Webster ]

Assurance reflexive can not be a divine faith. Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Implying censure. [ Obs. ] “What man does not resent an ugly reflexive word?” South. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Gram.) Having for its direct object a pronoun which refers to the agent or subject as its antecedent; -- said of certain verbs; as, the witness perjured himself; I bethought myself. Applied also to pronouns of this class; reciprocal; reflective. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Re*flex"ive*ly, adv. -- Re*flex"ive*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a reflex manner; reflectively. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Reflux; ebb. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A blossoming anew of a plant after it has apparently ceased blossoming for the season. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. To flourish again. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To flow back; to ebb. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. & t. To flower, or cause to flower, again. Sylvester. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A flowing back; refluence. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. The quality of being refluent; a flowing back. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. refluens, p. pr. of refluere to flow back; pref. re- re- + fluere to flow. See Flurent. ] Flowing back; returning; ebbing. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

And refluent through the pass of fear
The battle's tide was poured. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. refluus. ] Refluent. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Returning, or flowing back; reflex; as, reflux action. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. reflux. See Refluent, Flux. ] A flowing back, as the return of a fluid; ebb; reaction; as, the flux and reflux of the tides. [ 1913 Webster ]

All from me
Shall with a fierce reflux on me redound. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The reflection of a reflected image or sound. [ R. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. tréfle. See Trefoil. ] (Fort.) A species of time; -- so called from its resemblance in form to a trefoil. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖a. [ F. tréflé. See Trefoil. ] (Her.) Having a three-lobed extremity or extremities, as a cross; also, more rarely, ornamented with trefoils projecting from the edges, as a bearing. [ 1913 Webster ]