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Reverberatory Furnace – Rhyolite

Reverberatory Furnace

a furnace in which ore, metal, or other material is exposed to the action of flame, but not to the contact of burning fuel.

Revival of Letters

the revival of literature after the apparent deathous nations of the North destroyed the civilized Roman empire. It commenced in England feebly at the beginning of the 11th century, and became more potent in the 14th, 15th and subsequent centuries.

Revolutionary Calendar

a calendar designed to be philosophic, decreed on Nov. 24, 1793, to commence from the foundation of the French republic, Sept. 22, 1792. The 12 months were Vendémiaire, Brumaire, Frimaire, Nivose, Pluviose, Ventose, Germinal, Floréal, Prairial, Messidor, Fervidor or Thermidor, and Fructidor. The first three constituted Autumn, the second three Winter, the third Spring, and the fourth three Summer.

Revolutionary Tribunal

in French history, the name given on Oct. 30, 1793, to what had before been called the Extraordinary Tribunal. It sent many victims to the guillotine.

Rewari

a town of the district of Gurgaon, in the extreme S. of the Punjab, 50 miles S. W. of Delhi, an important center for trade between the Punjab and Rajputana. Pop. about 25,000.

Reynard the Fox

the title of a well-known popular epic, the characters of which are animals instead of men. It belongs to the series of beast fables which have delighted the popular imagination from early ages and in all lands, from India to the Bushmen's country in South Africa.

Rhesus

a king of Thrace, whose horses were carried off and himself killed by Ulysses and Diomede, in the night on which he came to assist Priam, before they could drink of the water of the Xanthus, as the oracle had declared that otherwise Troy could not be taken.

Rhesus

a genus of monkeys, separated by Lesson from Macacus. Also Macacus rhesus, the Rhesus monkey, from India, in some parts of which it is considered sacred. Length, from 18 inches to 2 feet; tail from 6 to 8 inches.

Prevailing color olive-green, brown on back, face pale flesh-color, callosities and insides of legs often very red.

RHETORIC

Rhodinol

C10 H20 O, the odorous found in platinum ores. It is very hard,

Rhus

in botany, a genus of Ana- Saône), Seine, and Loire, and to the Meuse and the Belgian system.

Rhynchonella

in zoölogy, the typical genus of Rhynchonellidæ. Shell trigonal, acutely beaked, usually plaited; dorsal valve elevated in front; ventral flattened, or hollowed along the center.

Known recent species four, from the North Polar regions ns and New Zealand.

Known species 332, from the Lower Silurian onward. Found in Europe, Asia, and North and South America. rocks,

Rhyolite

also known as Liparite and Nevadite, a group of volcanic rocks, containing a high percentage of silica, and possessing in many cases a vitreous character. The name Liparite is derived from the Lipari Islands, where quantities of Rhyolites are found.