ssess the gate of those which hate them." (_Gen._ xxiv. 60).

_Rebecca_, daughter of Isaac, the Jew; meek, modest, and high-minded.
She loves Ivanhoe, who has shown great kindness to her and to her
father; and when Ivanhoe marries Rowena, both Rebecca and her father
leave England for a foreign land.--Sir W. Scott, _Ivanhoe_ (time,
Richard I.).

_Rebecca_ (_Mistress_), the favorite waiting-maid of Mrs. Margaret
Bertram, of Singleside.--Sir W. Scott, _Guy Mannering_ (time, George
II.).

=Record=, noted for his superlatives, "most presumptuous," "most
audacious," "most impatient," as:

Oh, you will, most audacious.... Look at him, most inquisitive....
Under lock and key, most noble.... I will, most dignified.--S.
Birch, _The Adopted Child_.

=Recruiting Officer= (_The_), a comedy by G. Farquhar (1705). The
"recruiting officer" is Sergeant Kite, his superior officer is Captain
Plume, and the recruit is Sylvia, who assumes the military dress of her
brother and the name of Jack Wilful, _alias_ Pinch. Her father, Justice
Balance, allows the name to pass the muster, and when the trick is
discovered, to prevent scandal, the justice gives her in marriage to the
captain.

=Red Book of Hergest= (_The_), a collection of children's tales in Welsh;
so called from the name of the place where it was discovered. Each tale
is called in Welsh a _Mabinogi_, and the entire collection is the
_Mabinogion_ (from _nab_, "a child"). The tales relate chiefly to Arthur
and the early British kings. A translation in three vols., with notes,
was published by Lady Charlotte Guest (1838-49).

=Red-Cap= (_Mother_), an old nurse at the Hungerford Stairs.--Sir W.
Scott, _Fortunes of Nigel_ (time, James I.).

_Red-Cap_ (_Mother_). Madame Bufflon was so called, because her bonnet
was deeply colored with her own blood in a street fight at the outbreak
of the French Revolution.--W. Melville.

=Red Cross Knight= (_The_) represents St. George, the patron saint of
England. His adventures, which occupy bk. i. of Spenser's _Fa[:e]ry
Queen_, symbolize the struggles and ultimate victory of holiness over
sin (or protestantism over popery). Una comes on a white ass to the
court of Gloriana, and craves that one of the knights would undertake to
slay the dragon which kept her father and mother prisoners. The Red
Cross Knight, arrayed in all the armor of God (_Eph._ vi. 11-17),
undertakes the adventure, and goes, accompanied for a time,