Definition of reel

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Reel (n.) A lively dance of the Highlanders of Scotland; also, the music to the dance; -- often called Scotch reel..

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Reel :: Reel (v. i.) To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy.
Dysgenesic :: Dysgenesic (a.) Not procreating or breeding freely; as, one race may be dysgenesic with respect to another..
Discharge :: Discharge (v. i.) To throw off or deliver a load, charge, or burden; to unload; to emit or give vent to fluid or other contents; as, the water pipe discharges freely..
Sapwood :: Sapwood (n.) The alburnum, or part of the wood of any exogenous tree next to the bark, being that portion of the tree through which the sap flows most freely; -- distinguished from heartwood..
Breath :: Breath (n.) The act of breathing naturally or freely; the power or capacity to breathe freely; as, I am out of breath..
Dysgenesis :: Dysgenesis (n.) A condition of not generating or breeding freely; infertility; a form homogenesis in which the hybrids are sterile among themselves, but are fertile with members of either parent race..
Knot :: Knot (n.) A division of the log line, serving to measure the rate of the vessel's motion. Each knot on the line bears the same proportion to a mile that thirty seconds do to an hour. The number of knots which run off from the reel in half a minute, therefore, shows the number of miles the vessel sails in an hour..
Warp :: Warp (v. t.) To run off the reel into hauls to be tarred, as yarns..
Filature :: Filature (n.) A reel for drawing off silk from cocoons; also, an establishment for reeling silk..
Gratis :: Gratis (adv.) For nothing; without fee or recompense; freely; gratuitously.
Waggle :: Waggle (v. i.) To reel, sway, or move from side to side; to move with a wagging motion; to waddle..
Lernaeacea :: Lernaeacea (n. pl.) A suborder of copepod Crustacea, including a large number of remarkable forms, mostly parasitic on fishes. The young, however, are active and swim freely. See Illustration in Appendix..
Effuse :: Effuse (a.) Poured out freely; profuse.
Reeling :: Reeling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ree.
Solarium :: Solarium (n.) An apartment freely exposed to the sun; anciently, an apartment or inclosure on the roof of a house; in modern times, an apartment in a hospital, used as a resort for convalescents..
Predestinate :: Predestinate (v. t.) To predetermine or foreordain; to appoint or ordain beforehand by an unchangeable purpose or decree; to preelect.
Imbathe :: Imbathe (v. t.) To bathe; to wash freely; to immerce.
Reelection :: Reelection (n.) Election a second time, or anew; as, the reelection of a former chief..
Talk :: Talk (v. t.) To speak freely; to use for conversing or communicating; as, to talk French..
Descant :: Descant (v. i.) To comment freely; to discourse with fullness and particularity; to discourse at large.
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