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Redemptionists

one of the names slavery. They demption of Christian captives from of an order of monks devoted to the reare more frequently REDEMPTORISTS

Red-Eye

or RUDD, a fish belonging to the same genus as roach, chub, and minnow. It is common in lakes, slow rivers, and fens, in many parts of Europe and in England.

Red Fish

a species of fish (Sebastes marinus) found on the Atlantic coast of North America, a large red fish caught in considerable numbers for food. A smaller species (S. viviparus) receives the same name, and is called also red perch, rose fish, etc.

Redgum

strophulus; a popular disease with an eruption of minute hard, sometimes slightly red, clustered or scattered pimples on the face, the neck, or even the whole body of young infants.

Cause, derangement of the stomach or intestines through improper feeding or from dentition.

Red Gum Tree

one of the Australian Eucalypti (Eucalyptus resinifera), yielding a gum resin valued for medicinal uses.

Red Ocher

a name common to a variety of pigments, rather than designating an individual color, and comprehending Indian red, light red, Venetian red, scarlet ocher, Indian ocher, reddle, bole, and other oxides of iron. As a mineral it designates a soft earthy variety of hæmatite.

Red Pine

a species of pine (Pinus rubra), also called Norway pine. Its wood is very resinous and durable, and is much used in house and shipbuilding.

It produces turpentine, tar, pitch, resin, and lampblack.

Red Rain

rain tinged red by cobalt chloride derived from meteoric dust.

Red River

or SONG-KA, a large river of Tonkin, formed by the junction of the Leteën and Song-shai, the former rising in China, the latter in Laos. It RED SEA flows S. E., passes Hanoi, and falls by several mouths into the Gulf of Tonkin.

Redruth

a town of Cornwall, England, in the center of a great mining district, 9 miles W. by S. of Truro. It has a town hall (1850), public rooms (1861), a miners' hospital (1863). William Murdock here in 1792 first used gas for lighting purposes. Pop. about 11,000.

Reductio Ad Absurdum

a species of argument much used in geometry, which proves not the thing asserted, but the absurdity of everything which contradicts it. In this way the proposition is not proved in a direct manner by principles before laid down, but it shows that the contrary is absurd or impossible.

Ree

LOUGH, a lake of Ireland, formed by the Shannon, between the counties of Longford, Westmeath, and