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Mollifying; softening. [R.]

One who replies. Bacon.

The act of resiling, springing back, or rebounding; as, the resilience of a ball or of sound.

Leaping back; rebounding; recoling.

Same as Relief, n.,5.

That quality or condition of being salient; a leaping; a springing forward; an assaulting.

Quality of being salient; hence, vigor. "A fatal lack of poetic saliency." J. Morley.

Moving by leaps or springs; leaping; bounding; jumping. "Frogs and salient animals." Sir T. Browne.

In a salient manner.

A coarse cloth made of hemp, and used for packing goods, etc. [Written also sarpelere.] Tyrwhitt.

A hired mourner at a funeral. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

Trousers or overalls of thick cloth or leather, buttoned on the outside of each leg, and generally worn to protect other trousers when riding on horseback. [Local, U.S.] Bartlett.

A kind of rich poplin.

Made sickly. See Sickly, v.

An inferior or second lieutenant; in the British service, a commissioned officer of the lowest rank.

The act of leaping on anything. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Leaping upon. [Obs.]

One who supplies.

Having a prominent, overhanging belly. Shak.

Same as Tailzie.