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A going back; a retrogression; a return. [R.] Herrick.

tiller ropes. (b) A strong tackle from a wharf to a careened vessel, to prevent her from going over entirely, and to assist in righting her. Totten. Craig.

A stepping or going back. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

The act of going to, or making application; a betaking one's self; the act of visiting or seeking; recourse; as, a place of popular resort; -- often figuratively; as, to have resort to force. Join with me to forbid him her resort. Shak.

using to move forward; stubborn; drawing back. Restive or resty, drawing back, instead of going forward, as some horses do. E. Philips (1658). The people remarked with awe and wonder that the beasts which were to drag him [Abraham Holmes] to the gallows became restive, and went back. Macaulay.

The act of retrograding, or going backward; retrogradation.

Tending to retrograde; going or moving backward; declining from a better to a worse state.

f its faces at right angles shall emerge at right angles at the opposite face, after undergoing within the rhomb, at other faces, two reflections. It is used to produce a ray circularly polarized from a plane-polarized ray, or the reverse. Nichol.

Going in a circle; following in rotation or succession; as, rotatory assembles. Burke.

Circuitous; going round; indirect; as, roundabout speech. We have taken a terrible roundabout road. Burke.

Going or falling in various directions; not united or agregated; divided among many; as, scattering votes.

Having the two flexor tendons of the toes entirely separate, and the flexor hallicus going to the first toe only.

A port on the seashore, or one accessible for seagoing vessels. Also used adjectively; as, a seaport town.

To give motion to; to cause to be borne or carried; to procure the going, transmission, or delivery of; as, to send a message. He . . . sent letters by posts on horseback. Esther viii. 10. O send out thy light an thy truth; let them lead me. Ps. xliii. 3.

ppose to, as an equivalent in exchange; as, to set one thing against another. -- To set agoing, to cause to move. -- To set apart, to separate to a particular use; to separate from the rest; to reserve. -- To set a saw, to bend each tooth a little, every alternate one being bent to one side, and the intermediate one…

from the person speaking; as, you shall go; he shall go; that is, I order or promise your going. It thus ordinarily expresses, in the second and third persons, a command, a threat, or a promise. If the auxillary be emphasized, the command is made more imperative, the promise or that more positive and sure. It is also e…

ng in the place of another, or of changing the place of a thing; change; substitution. My going to Oxford was not merely for shift of air. Sir H. Wotton.

Any large seagoing vessel. Like a stately ship . . . With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails filled, and streamers waving. Milton. Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Longfellow.

iece of wood or iron, placed under the wheel of a loaded vehicle, to retard its motion in going down a hill.

ple wits." Shak. The simple believeth every word; but the prudent man looketh well to his going. Prov. xiv. 15.