* REMUNERATION. n. f. [remuneration, Fr. remuneratio, Latin.] Reward; requital; recompenfe; repayment.-There is remuneration; for the best ward of mine honour is rewarding my dependants. Shak.-He begets a fecurity of himself, and a careless eye on the last remunerations. Brown. -Such donation is freely bestowed without any profpect of an evil remuneration. Ayliffe.

* REMUNERATIVE. adj. [from remunerate.] Exercifed in giving rewards.-The knowledge of particular actions seem requifite to that great end of God, in the manifeftation of his punitive and remunerative juftice. Boyle.

REMUNGOL, a town of France, in the dep. of Morbihan; 74 miles S. of Pontivy.

REMURIA, teftivals eftablished at Rome by Romulus to appease the manes of his brother Remus. They were afterwards called Lemuria, and celebrated yearly.

(1.) * To REMURMUR. v. a. [re and murmur.] To utter back in murmurs; to repeat in low hoarfe founds.

The trembling trees, in ev'ry plain and wood, Her fate remurmur to the filver flood. Pope. (2.) To REMURMUR. v. n. [remurmuro, Lat.] To murmur back; to echo a low hoarfe found.

The realms of Mars remurmur'd all around.
Dryden.

His untimely fate, th' Angitian woods In fighs remur mur'd to the Fucine floods. Dryd. REMUS, the twin brother of Romulus, was expofed together with his brother by the cruelty of his grandfather. In the conteft which happened between the two brothers about building a city, Romulus obtained the preference, and Remus, for ridiculing the rifing walls, was put to death by his brother's orders, or by Romulus himself. See ROMULUS. The Romans were afflicted with plague after this murder, upon which the oracle was confulted, and the manes of Remus appeafed by the institution of the REMURIA.

REMUSAT, a town of France, in the depart. ment of the Drome; 9 miles NE. of Nions. (1)REMY, a town of France, in the department of the Oife; 9 miles N. of Clermont.

(2.) REMY, ST, a town of France, in the dep. of Puy de Dome; 3 miles NE. of Thiers.

(3.) REMY, ST, a town of France, in the dep. of the Mouths of the Rhone, and ci-devant prov. of Provence. It has a triumphal arch, not quite entire, erected in the age of Auguftus, and a maufoleum in excellent preservation. It lies 7 miles E. of Tarafcon, 9 S. of Avignon, and 10 NE. of Arles. Lon. 22. 30. E. of Ferro. Lat. 43. 43. N. (4.) REMY, ST, or ST REMI, a town of the French empire, in the dep. of the Doria, and cidevant duchy of Aofta, in the late Piedmontefe; near the Great St Bernard; 9 miles N. of Aosta.

(5.) REMY, ST, EN BOUZEMONT, a town of France, in the dep. of the Marne; 6 miles S. of St Vitry.

REN, a town of Ruffia, in the province of Novogorod; 6 miles SE. of Uftiuzna.

RENAISON, a town of France, in the dep. of the Rhone and Loire; 6 miles W. of Roanne. (1.) RENAL, adj. belonging to the reins. (2.) RENAL CLANDS. See ANATOMY, Index. RENAN, ST, a town of France, in the dep. of

Finifterre; 6 miles NW. of Breft, and 28 SW. of St Pol de Leon.

RENAPOUR, a town of Hindooftan, in Dow latabad; 76 miles E. of Perinda, and 124 NW. of Hydrabad.

(1.) * RENARD. n. f. \renard, a fox, Fr.] The name of a fox in fable.

Before the break of day,

Renard through the hedge had made his way. Drydene

(2.) RENARD, in zoology. See VULPES. * RENASCENT. adj. [renafcens, Lat.] Produced again; rifing again into being.

* RENASCIBLE. adj. [renafcor, Lat.] Poffible to be produced again.

RENATHIA, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Caramania; 10 miles SW. of Satalia.

(1.) RENAUDOT, Theophraftus, M. D. an eminent French phyfician, born at London, in 1583. He fettled at Paris, became first physician to the dauphin, and was the first who published a Gazette in France. He also wrote the lives of the celebrated Prince of Condé of Marth. Gaffion, and Michael Mazarin. He died at Paris, in 1653

(2.) RENAUDOT, Eufebius, grandson of the Dr, was born at Paris, in 1646. He was educated under the Jefuits, and at Harcourt college; and became famous for his skill in Oriental history and languages. In 1700, he attended Card. Noailles to Rome, where Clement V. made him prior of Foffay. He wrote many learned differtations, published in the Memoirs of the Academy of Infcrip tions, of which he was a member, as well as of the French Academy and the Academy de la Crufca. He died in 1720.

To RENAVIGATE. v. a. [re and navigate.} To fail again.

RENAY, a town of the French empire, in the dep. of the Scheldt, and ci-devant province of Auftrian Flanders; 7 miles S. of Oudenarde, and 10 NNE. of Tournay.

(1.) RENCHEN, a town of Germany, in the circle of the Upper Rhine, and late bishopric of Strafburg; now included in the overgrown French empire, and dep. of the Lower Rhine; 4 miles N. of Oberkirch, and 10 E. of Strafburg. Near this town the French republicans, under Moreau, defeated the Auftrians on the 28th June 1796.

(2.) RENCHEN, a river of Germany, which rises in the Ortenau, and runs into the Rhine; 10 miles N. of Oberkirch.

(1.) RENCOUNTER. n. f. [rencontre, Fr.] 1. Clash; collifion.-You may as well expect two bowls fhould grow fenfible by rubbing, as that the rencounter of any bodies fhould awaken them into perception. Collier. 2. Personal oppofition.-Virgil's friends thought fit to alter a line in Venus's Ipeech, that has a relation to the rencounter. Addif.

The justling chiefs in rude rencounter join.

Granville.

by way of contradiftinction to DUEL.-When two perfons fall out and fight on the fpot without having premeditated the combat, it is called a

rencounter.

*To RENCOUNTER. v. n. [rencontrer, Fr.] 1. To clash; to collide. 2. To meet an enemy unexpectedly. 3. To fkirmish with another.

4. To fight hand to hand.

* To REND. v. a. pret. and part. paff. rent. [rendan, Saxon.] To tear with violence; to lace

rate.

Before the tag return, whofe rage doth rend Like interrupted waters. Shak. -He rent a lion as he would have rent a kid. Jud. xiv. 4.-I will not rend away all the kingdom. 1 Kings xi. 13.

By the thund'rer's ftroke it from the root is rent,

So fure the blows, from high heaven fent. Cowl. An empire from its old foundations rent. Dryden. Then rend it off. Dryden's Eneis. -To preferve monarchical power, by rending a fettled empire into a multitude of little governments. Locke.

I rend my treffes, and my breaft I wound. Pope. (1.)RENDALL, a parish of Scotland, in Orkney, united with that of Evie. The united parishes of Evie and Rendall are feated in the N. extremity of the island of POMONA or MAINLAND, and include the adjacent inland of GAIRSA or Gairfay, and 3 uninhabited ifles. Their greateft length from SE. to NW. is 10 miles; the breadth about 14. Gairfay is a conical green hill, about 4 miles in circumference; and contains an old manfionhoufe, s farms, and a good harbour. The whole extent of coaft is about 14 miles. The furface towards the coaft is low and flat, except at the NW. point of Evie, where it forms a rocky cape, called Coftay Head, at the entrance to Weftray Frith. The foil is fhallow, clay and fand on a rocky bottom; and though cultivated upon the worft plan of the old fyftem, produces pretty fertile crops of oats and barley. The population, in 1789, was 1564; the decrease 234 fince 1755: the number of horfes was 500, worth from 41. to Jol. Sterling; of sheep about 2000, and of black cattle 1300. A ftrong tide runs along these coafts from the Western Ocean at Coftay Head to Damfay Sound and Kirkwall Road from NW. to SE. There are about 30 fishing boats employed in fishing for cod, ling, haddocks, skate, holibut, &c. (2.) RENDALL, a town in the above parish, 41 miles NNW. of Kirkwall.

RENDE, a town of Naples, in Calabria Citra ; 5 miles NNW. of Cofenza.

(1.) * RENDER. n. S. [from rend.] One that rends; a tearer.

(2.) * Kender. n. f. [from the verb.] render.

Sur

Of Cloten's death, we being not known, nor mufter'd

Among the bands, may drive us to a render. Shak. *To RENDER. v. a. [rendre, Fr.] 1. To return; to pay back. They that render evil for good are adverfaries. P. xxxviii.-Will ye render me a recompenfe? Joel iii. 4.-See God, the righteous

judge, ready to render every man according to his deeds. Locke. 2. To reftore; to give back : commonly with the adverb back.

Then with a gentle ebb retire again,

And render back their cargo to the main. Addif. 3. To give upon demand.-The fluggard is wifer in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reafon. Proverbs xxvi. 16.-St Auguftine renders another reafon for which the apostles obferved fome legal rites and ceremonies for a time. White. 4. To inveft with qualities; to make.--The fame nature renders him folicitous about the iffue. South.

5.

Love

Can answer love, and render blifs fecure. Thom. To reprefent; to exhibit.

And he did render him the most unnatural That liv'd 'mongst men.

Shak. 6. To tranflate.-Render it in the English a circle; but 'tis more truly rendered a fphere. Burnet's Theory. He has a clearer idea of ftrigil and fistrum, a curry-comb and cymbal, which are the English names dictionaries render them by. Locke.-He uses a prudent diffimulation; the word we may almoft literally render mafter of a great prefence of mind. Broome. 7. To furrender; to yield; to give up.— I will call him to fo ftrict account, That he fhall render every glory up. My rendering my perfon to them may engage their affections to me. King Charles.-One, with whom he used to advife, propofed to him to render himself upon conditions to the carl of Effex. Clarendon.

Would he render up Hermione,

Shak.

And keep Aftyanax, I fhould be bleft! Philips. 8. To afford; to give to be used.-Logick renders its daily service to wisdom and virtue. Watts.

(1.) * RENDEZVOUS. n. f. [rendez vous, Fr.] 1. Affembly; meeting appointed. 2. A fign that draws men together.-The philofophers ftone and a holy war are but the rendezvous of cracked brains. Bacon. 3. Place appointed for affembly.-The attendance of meeting them again at the next rendezvous would confume time and victual. Raleigh. -The king appointed his whole army to be drawn together to a rendezvous at Marlborough. Clarendon. This was the general rendezvous which they all got to. Burnet's Theory.

(2.) RENDEZVOUS BAY, a bay on the S. coaft of Antigua, W. of Falmouth harbour.

*To RENDEZVous. v. n. [from the noun.] To meet at a place appointed.

* RENDITION. n.s. [from render.] Surrendering; the act of yielding.

RENDSBORG, or a town of Germany, in Holftein, with a strong RENDSBURG, caftle, belonging to Denmark, feated on an island formed by the Eyder, near a canal which runs into the Baltic, on the borders of Slefwick. In 1627 it was taken by the Imperialists, and in 1645 by the Swedes, from whom it was taken by the Danes, who defended it with great bravery against them in 1645. In 1675 it was the fcene of a convention between Chriftian V. and Duke Chriftian Albert. It contains about 3600 inhabi tants, and lies 12 miles SE. of Slefwick, 15 W. of Kiel, and 46 N. of Hamburg. Lon. 10. 6. E; Lat. 54. 30. N.

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RENE,

factures; its chief towns being PAISLEY, GREENOCK, PORT GLASGOW, and Renfrew. It is divided into 17 parishes, which between 1791 and 1798, contained 62,853 inhabitants, and had increafed 36,208, fince 1755. This county is fometimes called the barony, because it was anciently the inheritance of the royal houfe of Stuart; and ftill affords the title of baron to the Prince of Wales.

(1.) RENI, GUIDO, or Guy, an illuftrious Italian painter, born at Bologna, in 1595. He first ftudied under Denis Calvert, and afterwards under the Caracci. He imitated Lewis Caracci, but afterwards ftruck out a peculiar ftyle of his own, that fecured him the admiration of his cotemporaries and of pofterity. He was much honoured, and lived in fplendor; but afterwards ruined himfelf by gaming. He died in 1642. There are feveral of his defigns in print, etched by himself.

(2.) RENI, a town of European Turkey, in Beffarabia, on the Danube, 40 miles W. of Ifmael. *RENITENCY. n. f. [from renitent.] The resistance in solid bodies, when they prefs upon, or are impelled one against another, or the re. fiftance that a body makes on account of weight. Quincy.

RENITENT. adj. [renitens, Lat.] Acting against any impulfe by eaftic power. By an inflammation of the mufcles, they become foft, and yet renitent, like fo many pillows diffipating the force of the preffure, and so taking away the fenfe of pain. Ray.

RENEBBO, a town of Norway, in the prov. of Drontheim, 36 miles S. of Drontheim.

RENNEL'S SOUND, a bay of the N. Pacific Ocean, on the W. coaft of Queen Charlotte's Mand. Lon. 133. W. Lat. 53. 25. N.

RENNERSDORF, a town of Silefia, in the county of Nieffe, 8 miles E. of Nieffe.

RENNES, an ancient city of France, capital of the department of Ifle and Vilaine, as it was also of the ci-devant province of Bretagne. Before the revolution it had a bishop's fee, two abbeys, a parliament and a mint. The houses are 6 or 7 stories high, and the suburbs of larger extent than the town. The streets are broad and straight. The total population is estimated at 35,000. The cathedral is large, and the parliament-house handfome. The great square is surrounded with handfome houses. There is a tower, formerly a pagan temple, which now contains the town-clock. It is feated on the Vilaine, which divides it into two parts, and was anciently fortified, but the walls are now in ruins, and the ditch nearly filled up. The fiege of the city by Edward III. of England, is celebrated in hiftory. The English and Breton army confifted of 40,000 men; yet, after having remained before it fix months, they were obliged to retire without fuccefs. In 1720, it was moftly burnt down. The fire lafted feven days, and burnt 850 houses. It is 42 miles SE. of St Malo, and 58 N. of Nantes. Lon. 1. 36. W. Lat. 48. 7. N.

(1.) * RENNET. n.. See RUNNET.-A putredinous ferment coagulates all humours, as milk with rennet is turned. Floger.

(2.) RENNET, CHEESE. See GALIUM. (3 RENNET, or ) n. s. [properly reinette, a little RENNETING, S queen.] A kind of apple.A golden rennet is a very pleafant and fair fruit, of a yellow fluth, and the best of bearers for all forts of foil; of which there are two forts, the large and the fmall. Mortimer.-Ripe pulpy apples, as pippins and rennetings, are of a syrupy and tenacious nature. Mortimer.

(4.) RENNET, or in botany, is a species of

RENNETING, } Pyrus. See PYRUS, N° at

RENNO, a town of the French empire, in the island and dep. of Corfica, 3 miles NE. of Vico.

(1.) RENO, a department of Italy, comprehending the ci devant papal province of the BoLOGNESE. See BOLOGNA, N° 2; CISPADANA, and CISALPINE. It is divided into 4 diftricts named from their respective capitals, BOLOGNA, IMOLA, Cento, and VERGATO. Its total population, in May 1801, was 421,841 citizens.

(2.) RENO, a river of Italy, in the above department to which it gives name. It rifes on the N. of Piftoria, and ruas into the Po; 4 miles above Ferrara.

* To RENOVATE. v. a. (renove, Latin. To renew; to restore to the first state

All nature feels the renovating force Of winter, only to the thoughtless eye In ruin feen.

Thomson.

* RENOVATION. n. f. [renovation, French; renovatio, Latin.] Renewal; the act of renewing; the ftate of being renewed.—Sound continueth fome small time, which is a renovation. Bacon.❤ A renovation of treaty was used. Bacon.To fecond life,

Wak'd in the renovation of the juft. Milton. (1.) * To RENOUNCE. v. a. [renoncer, Fr. renuncio, Lat.] 1. To difown; to abnegate.

2.

From Thebes my birth I own; and no dif

-Pride and passion must not be our counsellors, for we renounced them at our baptism. Kettlewell. (2.) To RENOUNCE. V. n. To declare renunciation. The following paffage is a mere Gallicism: renoncer à mon fang

He of my fons, who fails to make it good, By one rebellious act renounces to my blood. *RENOUNCEMENT. n. f. [from renounce.] Act of renouncing; renunciation.

I hold you as a thing enskied and fainted; By your renouncement, an immortal spirit. Shak. RENOUSE, a harbour and bay on the E. coaft of Newfoundland. Lon. 52. 25. W. Lat. 47. o. N. * RENOWN. n. f. [renommee, Pr.] Fame; celebrity; praise widely spread.

This famous duke of Milan,

Of whom fo often I have heard renown. Shak. 'Tis of more renown

To make a river, than to build a town. Waller Nor envy we

Thy great renown, nor grudge thy victory.

Dryden. To

*To RENOWN. v. a. [renommer, Fr. from the noun.] To make famous.—

The memorials and the things of fame, That renown this city.

Sbak. Soft elocution does thy ftyle renown. Dryden. Stern tyrants, whom their cruelties renown, And emperors in Parian marble frown. Addifon. A bard, whom pilfer'd paftorals renown. Pope. * RENOWNED. particip. adj. [from renown.] Famous; celebrated; eminent; tamed.-Thefe were the renowned of the congregation. Num. i. \ 16.-That thrice renowned and learned French king, finding Petrarch's tomb without any infcrip. tion, wrote one himself. Peacham.

The reft were long to tell, though far renown'd. Milton.

Of all the cities in Romanian lands, The chief and most renown'd Ravenna stands., Dryden. Ilva, an isle renown'd for steel. Dryden. RENS, or REES a town of Germany, on RENSE, Cologne, now annexed to the French empire, and included in the dep. of the Roer. It is remarkable for a famous piece of antiquity, called the Konigstuhl, or Thronus regalis, or imperial throne, which is a round vault, in the Rhine, built of free-ftone, and refting upon 9 ftone pillars, one of which ftands in the middle. This vault is 80 feet in circumference, furnished above with seven feats, according to the number of electors, when it was erected. The afcent is by 28 ftone fteps, and it has 2 ftout doors. On this imperial chair, the electors anciently held confultations, on the election of an emperor or king of the Romans; and when, from any accidental circumftances, the election could not be held in Francfort, it was performed here, and folemn notification given to the abfent princes of the refult. Matters refpecting the privileges of the princes were also discuff. ed on fuch occafions. Henry VII. was thus elected here, in 1308; and in 1338 the electoral league was established. Maximilian I. was the laft emperor elected in this place, in 1493. Rens is 5 miles S. of Coblentz, and 46 SSE. of Cologn.

} the Rhine, in the late electorate of

RENSSELLAER, a county of New York, 33 miles long, from N. to S. and 22 broad from E. to W. It is bounded on the N. by Washington county, E. by Maffachusetts and Vermont, S. by Columbia county, and W. by the Hudson, which feparates it from Albany and Saratoga counties. It is divided into 7 townships, viz. RENSELLAER, WYCK, Hofie, PITTSTOWN, SCHATKOKE, TROY, STEPHENTOWN, and PETERSBOROUGH. The population in 1790, confifted of 21,430 citizens, and 998 flaves. Lanfinburg is the capital.

RÉNSELLAERVILLE, or a township in the RENSSELLAER-WYCK. } above county famous for its medicinal fprings. In 1790, it contained 2771 citizens; and in 1796, it had 548 qualified electors.

(1.) * RENT. n. f. [rente, Fr.] 1. Revenue; annual payment.

Idle ceremony,

I bought an annual rent or two,

What are thy rents?

And live juft as you fee I do.

Shak.

Pope.

Money paid for any thing held of another.

Such is the mould, that the bleft tenant feeds On precious fruits, and pays his rent in weeds.

Folks in mudwall tenement, Prefent a peppercorn for rent.

Waller.

Prior.

(2.) * RENT. n. f. [from rent.] A break; a laceration.-This council made a schifm and rent from the moft ancient and pureft churches. White. Thou viper,

Haft cancell'd kindred, made a rent in nature. Dryden.

He who fees this vaft rent in fo high a rock, how the convex parts of one fide exactly tally with the concave of the other, must be satisfied, that it was the effect of an earthquake. Addison. (3.) RENT, in law, is a fum of money, or other confideration, iffuing yearly out of lands or tenements.

(1.) * To RENT. v. a. [rather to rend.] To tear; to lacerate.-A time to rent, and a time to few. Ecclef. iii. 7.

(2.) * TO RENT. v. a. [renter, French.] 1. To hold by paying rent.-To know whether he paffed by fuch a ground, if the old man, who rents it, is in good health. Addison. 2. To set to a tenant.

(3.) * To RENT. v. n. [now written rant.] To roar; to blufter; we ftill fay a tearing fellow, for a noify bully.

He ventur'd to dismiss his fear, That partings wont to rent and tear. Hudib. RENTA, a lake of European Turkey, in Albania, near Scutari,

* RENTABLE. adj. [from rent.] rented.

* RENTAL. n. f. [from rent.] account of rents.

That may be

Schedule or

* RENTER. n. f. [from rent.] He that holds by paying rent. The eftate will not be let for one penny more or less to the renter. Locke.

To RENTER, v. a. See RENTERING. RENTERIA, a town of Spain, in the prov. of Guipufcoa; 3 miles SE. of St Sebaftian.

(1.) RENTERING, n. f. in the manufactories, the fame with fine-drawing. It confifts in fewing two pieces of cloth edge to edge, without doubling them, so that the seam scarce appears; and hence it is denominated fine-drawing. It is a French word meaning the fame thing, and is derived from the Latin retrahere, or re, in, and tra bere, because the feam is drawn in or covered. In the Eaft Indies, if a piece of fine muflin be torn, and afterwards mended by the fine-drawers, it will be impoffible to discover where the rent was. In this country the dexterity of the fine-drawers is not so great, but it is ftill fuch as to enable them to defraud the revenue, by sewing a head or flip of English cloth on a piece of Dutch, Spanish, or other foreign cloth; or a flip of foreign cloth on a piece of English, so as to pass the whole as of a piece; and thus avoid the duties, penalties, &c. The trick was firft difcovered in France by M.Savary. (2.) RENTERING, in tapeftry, is the working new warp into a piece of tapestry damaged by rats or otherwife, and on this warp to reftore the ancient pattern or defign. The warp is to be of woollen, not linen. Among the titles of the French tapestry makers is included that of renterers. Finedrawing