Index of English words, starting with "re"

(1) - Refrain (v.) The burden of a song; a phrase or verse which recurs at the end of each of the separate stanzas or divisions of a poetic composition.
(2) - Refrain (v. i.) To keep one's self from action or interference; to hold aloof; to forbear; to abstain.
(3) - Refrain (v. t.) To abstain from
(4) - Refrain (v. t.) To hold back; to restrain; to keep within prescribed bounds; to curb; to govern.

(1) - Refrainment (n.) Act of refraining.

(1) - Refrangibility (n.) The quality of being refrangible.

(1) - Refrangible (a.) Capable of being refracted, or turned out of a direct course, in passing from one medium to another, as rays of light.