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One who boasts of his skill in medicines and salves, or of the efficacy of his prescriptions; a charlatan; a quack; a mountebank. [Obs.] Burton.

Turning or dipping in any or every direction.

The long-tailed, or resplendent, trogon (Pharomachus mocinno, formerly Trogon resplendens), native of Southern Mexico and Central America. Called alsoquetzal, and golden trogon.

Redress.

olicited, or offered for acceptance. Do they not seek occasion of new quarrels, On my refusal, to distress me more Milton.

season of practice, in preparation for a public exhibition or exercise. Chaucer. In rehearsal of our Lord's Prayer. Hooker. Here's marvelous convenient place for our rehearsal. Shak. Dress rehearsal (Theater), a private preparatory performance of a drama, opera, etc., in costume.

A second or repeated perusal.

The act or state of reposing; as, the reposal of a trust. Shak.

enemy by way of reteliation or indemnity. Debatable ground, on which incursions and reprisals continued to take place. Macaulay.

A sale at second hand, or at retail; also, a second sale. Bacon.

Realgar. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To salute again.

Answerable. [Obs.]

In the Anglo-Indian army, a native commander of a ressala.

Intended to reverse; implying reversal. [Obs.] Bp. Burnet.

ising, or reviewing and reëxamining for correction and improvement; revision; as, the revisal of a manuscript; the revisal of a proof sheet; the revisal of a treaty.

realgar. [Obs.] chaucer.

A form of melody in which a phrase or passage is successively repeated, each time a step or half step higher; a melodic sequence.

A young pollock.

Common salt, obtained from sea water by evaporation.