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To restore. [Obs.]

The keeper of an eathing house or a restaurant.

Restoration. [Obs.] Cower.

To force back against the current; as, to restem their backward course. Shak.

Being at rest; quiet. Shak.

Restive. [Obs.]

Restiveness. [Obs.]

Formed like a rope; -- applied especially to several ropelike bundles or masses of fibers on the dorsal side of the medulla oblongata.

In a resty manner. [Obs.]

Act of quenching or extingishing. [Obs.]

The quality or state of being resty; sluggishness. [Obs.] The snake by restiness and lying still all winter. Holland.

a. & n. from Rest, v. t. & i. Resting spore (Bot.), a spore in certain orders of algæ, which remains quiescent, retaining its vitality, for long periods of time. C. E. Bessey.

To quench or extinguish. [Obs.] R. Field.

To restore to a former state. [R.] Dyer.

The act of restoring anything to its rightful owner, or of making good, or of giving an equivalent for any loss, damage, or injury; indemnification. A restitution of ancient rights unto the crown. Spenser. He restitution to the value makes. Sandys.

One who makes restitution. [R].

Unwilling to go on; obstinate in refusing 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.…

Never resting; unquiet; uneasy; continually moving; as, a restless child. Chaucer. "Restless revolution day by day." Milton.

Admitting of being restored; capable of being reclaimed; as, restorable land. Swift. -- Re*stor"a*ble*ness, n.

Restoration. [Obs.] Barrow.