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One who possesses, or occupies, previously. R. Brady.

A division of gastropod mollusks having the teeth of the radula arranged in long transverse rows, somewhat like the barbs of a feather.

Of or pertaining to the Ptenoglossa.

Having the tongue finely notched along the sides, so as to have a featherlike appearance, as the toucans.

A reredos.

To blossom again.

To cross a second time.

mber or worker of such a society; -- so called from the badge of neutrality; the Geneva cross.

The act of digging up again. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

To possess again; as, to repossess the land. Pope. To repossess one's self of (something), to acquire again (something lost).

The act or the state of possessing again.

To toss back or again.

A division of marine gastropods having a retractile proboscis and three longitudinal rows of teeth on the radula. It includes many of the large ornamental shells, as the miters, murices, olives, purpuras, volutes, and whelks. See Illust. in Append.

A division of gastropod mollusks having a large number of long, divergent, hooklike, lingual teeth in each transverse row. It includes the scutibranchs. See Illustration in Appendix.

A game in which the object is to toss a ring so that it will catch upon an upright stick.

To divest of the ross, or rough, scaly surface; as, to ross bark. [Local, U.S.]

Light land; rosland. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Mortimer.

A portion of the southern equatorial current flowing westward from the Fiji Islands to New Guinea.

Loose; light. [Obs.] Mortimer.

Same as Pellibranchiata.