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Act of returning; return. [Obs.] Chapman.

nder in war. The rest of these brave men that suffered in cold blood after articles of rendition. Evelyn.

A minute smooth rodlike or fusiform structure found in the tissues of many Turbellaria.

The quality or state of being rigid; want of pliability; the quality of resisting change of from; the amount of resistance with which a body opposes change of form; -- opposed to flexibility, ductility, malleability, and softness.

The state or quality of being rotu Smite flat the thick rotundity o'the world! Shak.

The quality or state of being rubicund; ruddiness. To parade your rubicundity and gray hairs. Walpole.

Rudeness; ignorance. [R.]

The quality or state of being sapid; taste; savor; savoriness. Whether one kind of sapidity is more effective than another. M. S. Lamson.

Roughness; ruggedness. [Obs.] Burton.

occurring in orthorhombic crystals. It is a hydrous arseniate of iron. [Written also skorodite.]

ty. In soothing them, we nourish 'gainst our senate The cockle of rebellion, insolence, sedition. Shak. Noisy demagogues who had been accused of sedition. Macaulay.

An inciter or promoter of sedition. Bp. Hall.

Of or pertaining to sedition; partaking of the nature of, or tending to excite, sedition; as, seditious behavior; seditious strife; seditious words.

A lesser third, having its terms as 6 to 5; a hemiditone. [R.]

The quality or state of being semiliquid; partial liquidity.

The qualiti or state of being imperfectly transparent.

Half hidden or half covered; said of the head of an insect when half covered by the shield of the thorax.

See Scorodite.

A mineral of a bright metallic luster and tin-white to pale lead-gray color. It consist of arsenic and cobalt.

A green foliated kind of amphibole, observed in eclogite and some varietis of gabbro.