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A kind of waterproof cloth. Knight.

Reproof. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Reproof; censure; blame; disapproval. This Basilius took as though his mistress had given him a secret reprehension that he had not showed more gratefulness to Dorus. Sir P. Sidney.

Containing reprehension; conveying reproof. South. -- Rep`re*hen"sive*ly, adv.

Containing reproof; reprehensive; as, reprehensory complaint. Johnson.

Reproof. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Severe or formal reproof; reprehension, private or public. Goldsmith gave his landlady a sharp reprimand for her treatment of him. Macaulay.

Not enduring proof or trial; not of standard purity or fineness; disallowed; rejected. [Obs.] Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them. Jer. vi. 30.

Worthy of reproof or censure. Jer. Taylor.

Reproof. Sir P. Sidney.

r correction and improvement; revision; as, the revisal of a manuscript; the revisal of a proof sheet; the revisal of a treaty.

To compare (a proof) with a previous proof of the same matter, and mark again such errors as have not been corrected in the type.

ing; reëxamination for correction; review; as, the revision of a book or writing, or of a proof sheet; a revision of statutes.

light, low, four-wheeled carriage, with standing top, open at the sides, but having waterproof curtains which could be let down when occasion required; now, a somewhat similar, but heavier, carriage, inclosed, except in front, and having a door at each side.

k. It is much used in bookbinding, on account of its not being subject to mold, and being proof against insects. -- Russia matting, matting manufactured in Russia from the inner bark of the linden (Tilia Europæa).

A strong and fireproof receptacle (as a movable chest of steel, etc., or a closet or vault of brickwork) for money, valuable papers, or the like.

Tried quality; temper; proof. [Obs.] he found a sword of better say. Spenser.

Discipline; reproof; reprimand; as, he gave his son a good schooling. Sir W. Scott.

e prize ring; up to which boxers are brought when they join fight; hence, test, trial, or proof of courage; as, to bring to the scratch; to come up to the scratch. [Cant] Grose.

s or exhaustion. [Colloq.] G. Eliot. What is called seedness, after a debauch, is a plain proof that nature has been outraged. J. S. Blackie.