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Hence, to restore the wasted vigor of; to renew in strength or health; to reinvigorate.

xcess; to remain over and above; to be redundant; to overflow. For every dram of honey therein found, A pound of gall doth over it redound. Spenser.

itional troops, as an army or a fort, or with additional ships, as a fleet. [Written also reinforce.]

The act entereing again; re Hooker.

e strength, spirit, animation, or the like, to; to relieve from fatigue or depression; to reinvigorate; to enliven anew; to reanimate; as, sleep refreshes the body and the mind. Chaucer. Foer they have refreshed my spirit and yours. 1 Cor. xvi. 18. And labor shall refresh itself with hope. Shak.

less; careless; as, regardless of life, consequences, dignity. Regardless of the bliss wherein he sat. Milton.

clothe again with some right, authority, or dignity; to restore to a former capacity; to reinstate; to qualify again; to restore, as a delinquent, to a former right, rank, or privilege lost or forfeited; -- a term of civil and canon law. Restoring and rehabilitating the party. Burke.

everity; to become less rigorous. In others she relaxed again, And governed with a looser rein. Prior.

To nerve again; to give new vigor to; to reinvigorate.

A name of many different kinds of apples. Cf. Reinette. Mortimer.

To put in possession again; to reinstate. And then therein [in his kingdom] reseized was again. Spenser.

To seat again; to reinstate. [Obs.] Spenser.

To draw back toghtly, as a rein. [Obs.] Shak.

To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated. Shak. The Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into again, and he revived. 1 Kings xvii. 22.

Rain or rein. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Driving reins. [Cant] London Athenæum.

late proclamation came out against ruffs; . . . they were come to that height of excess herein, that twenty shillings were used to be paid for starching of a ruff. Howell.

A sudden, violent check of a horse by drawing or twitching the reins on a sudden and with one pull.

irth. It serves various purposes, as to keep the breeching in place, carry guides for the reins, etc.

Pleasure; delight; attractiveness. [Obs.] She shall no savor have therein but lite. Chaucer.