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Restrictive. [R.]

Serving or tending to restrict; limiting; as, a restrictive particle; restrictive laws of trade.

To confine; to contract; to stringe. [Obs.]

Quality or state of being restringent; astringency. [Obs.] Sir W. Petty.

Restringing; astringent; styptic. [Obs.] -- n.

To strive anew.

Disposed to rest; indisposed toexercton; sluggish; also, restive. [Obs.] Burton. Where the master is too resty or too rich to say his own prayers. Milton.

A second subjection.

To sublime again. Newton. -- Re*sub`li*ma"tion, n.

Act of sweating again.

To leap back; to rebound. [Obs.] The huge round stone, resulting with a bound. Pope.

The act of resulting; that which results; a result. Donne.

Resulting or issuing from a combination; existing or following as a result or consequence. Resultant force or motion (Mech.), a force which is the result of two or more forces acting conjointly, or a motion which is the result of two or more motions combined. See Composition of forces, under Composition.…

A result. [Obs.] "The resultate of their counsil." BAcon.

HAving results or effects.

Resultant. [Obs.] Fuller.

Being without result; as, resultless investigations.

Capable of, or admitting of, being resumed. Sir M. HAle.

To take back. The sun, like this, from which our sight we have, Gazed on too long, resumes the light he gave. Denham. Perhaps God will resume the blessing he has bestowed ere he attains the age of manhood. Sir W. Scott.

To summon again.