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Razorback – Recanati

Razorback

one of the largest species of the whale tribe, the Balænoptera or Rorqualus borealis, the great rorqual (see RORQUAL). Also a name given to a kind of hog, especially in the S. part of the United States.

Razor Fish

a species of fish with a compressed body, much prized for the table. It is the Coryphæna novacula.

Reading

a city of Massachusetts, in Middlesex co. It is on the Boston and Maine railroad. It is chiefly a residential town and has manufactures of organ pipes, carriages, boots and shoes, rubber, games, etc. It has a public library. Pop. (1910) 5,818; (1920) 7,439.

Reagent

in chemistry, any substance employed to bring about a chemical reaction or change in another element, or compound, with the view generally of either detecting its presence or affecting its separation from other substances.

Real

the old unit of value in Spain.

By the monetary law of June, 1864, the silver real was made to weigh 1.298 grammes, .81 fine, and equivalent to 4½ cents. The real has varied in value from 42 to 10 cents.

Real

in law, pertaining to things fixed, permanent or immovable. Thus real estate is landed property, including all estates and interest in lands which are held for life or for some greater estate, and whether such lands be of freehold or copyhold tenure. So a real action is an action brought for the specific recovery of lands, tenements, and hereditaments.

Real Composition

in law, an agreement made between the owner of land in countries having an endowed church and the parson or vicar with consent of the ordinary, that such lands shall be discharged from payment of tithes, in consequence of other land or recompense given to the parson in lieu and satisfaction thereof.

Ream

a quantity of paper of any size containing 20 quires or 480 sheets.

A common practice is now to count 500 sheets to the ream.

Reaping Hook

a curved blade of steel set in a short handle, and used for reaping; a sickle.

Reaumur's Scale

a scale for a thermometer, in which the two fixed points being as in the Centigrade, the division is into 80 instead of 100 parts.

It is still occasionally used.

Rebekah

DAUGHTERS OF, a degree in the ritual of Odd Fellowship, to which women are admitted.

Recanati

a town of Italy, 15 miles S. of Ancona; has a Gothic cathedral with a monument to Pope Gregory XII.

Here Leopardi was born. Porto Recanati is 6 miles N. E. on the Adriatic coast.