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lawfully added to the forest, was afterwards severed from it, and disafforested so as to remit to the former owners their rights. Then as a tiger, who by chance hath spied In some purlieu two gentle fawns at play. Milton.

ng opposite charges of statical electricity at two separate parts, especially the two extremities.

minated. -- Quadrature of an orbit (Astron.), a point in an orbit which is at either extremity of the latus rectum drawn through the empty focus of the orbit.

Emitting or proceeding as from a center; [U.S.] rays; radiating; radiate.

To emit rays; to be radiant; to shine. Virtues shine more clear In them [kings], and radiant like the sun at noon. Howell.

Emitted, or sent forth, in rays or direct lines; as, radiated heat.

That which radiates or emits rays, whether of light or heat; especially, that part of a heating apparatus from which the heat is radiated or diffused; as, a stream radiator.

rom, as interest due, or customs duties. Blount. Rebated cross, a cross which has the extremities of the arms bent back at right angles, as in the fylfot.

To emit vapor, usually that which is warm and moist; to be full of fumes; to steam; to smoke; to exhale. Few chimneys reeking you shall espy. Spenser. I found me laid In balmy sweat, which with his beams the sun Soon dried, and on the reeking moisture fed. Milton. The coffee rooms reeked with tobacco. Macualay.…

Emitting reek. "Reeky fen." Sir W. Scott.

To make less severe or rogorous; to abate the stringency of; to remit in respect to strenuousness, esrnestness, or effort; as, to relax discipline; to relax one's attention or endeavors. The stature of mortmain was at several times relaxed by the legilature. Swift.

Inclined to remit punishment; lenient; clement. Drayton.

Capable of being remitted or forgiven. Feltham.

The act of remitting, surrendering, resigning, or giving up.

Remitting; forgiving; abating. Bp. Hacket.

Serving or tending to remit, or to secure remission; remissive. "A sacrifice expiatory or remissory." Latimer.

The removal of the articular extremity of a bone, or of the ends of the bones in a false articulation.

A payment; a remittance; a requital. I do expect return Of thrice three times the value of this bond. Shak.

Of or pertaining to a rhonchus; produced by rhonchi. Rhonchial fremitus. Etym: [L. fremitus a dull roaring or murmuring.] (Med.) A vibration of the chest wall that may be felt by the hand laid upon its surface. It is caused in the production of rhonchi in the bronchial tubes.

To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pith; as, to rise a tone or semitone.