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Separated by intervals greater than usual. -- Re*mote"ly, adv. -- Re*mote"ness, n.

reed in a measure from errors of eccentricity and graduation. -- Repeating watch. See Repeater (a)

to have nothing to do with; to renounce; to reject. Servitude is to be repudiated with greater care. Prynne.

The man-eater, or white shark (Carcharodon carcharias); -- so called on account of its causing requiems to be sung.

To put a new seat, or new seats, in; as, to reseat a theater; to reseat a chair or trousers.

To send on from an intermediate station by means of a repeater.

n. [Obs.] He retains vivid resentments of the more solid morality. Dr. H. More. It is a greater wonder that so many of them die, with so little resentment of their danger. Jer. Taylor.

or future or special use, or for an exigency; as, reserved troops; a reserved seat in a theater.

dual figure (Geom.), the figure which remains after a less figure has been taken from a greater one. -- Residual magnetism (Physics), remanent magnetism. See under Remanent. -- Residual product, a by product, as cotton waste from a cotton mill, coke and coal tar from gas works, etc. -- Residual quantity (Alg.), a bi…

ned for every country which is connected, but not incorporated, with another country of greater resources. Macaulay.

to replace. Now therefore restore the man his wife. Gen. xx. 7. Loss of Eden, till one greater man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat. Milton. The father banished virtue shall restore. Dryden.

g of an army or body of men from the face of an enemy, or from any ground occupied to a greater distance from the enemy, or from an advanced position.

ther flue. -- Return pipe (Steam Heating), a pipe by which water of condensation from a heater or radiator is conveyed back toward the boiler.

arranged as to revolve on an axis, and be discharged in succession by the same lock; a repeater.

resistance of a circuit, or varying the strength of an electric current, by inserting a greater or less length of it in the circuit.

rrel is grooved with spiral channels, thus giving the ball a rotary motion and insuring greater accuracy of fire. As a military firearm it has superseded the musket.

At a greater distance; farther off. [Obs.] Sir J. Harrington.

A form of croquet modified for greater accuracy of play. The court has a wood border often faced with rubber, used as a cushion in bank shots. The balls are 3¼ in. in diameter, the cage (center arches or wickets) 3 3/8 in. wide, the other arches 3½ in. wide.

ness in marching. It is executed upon the same principles as the double-quick, but with greater speed.

A genus of budding fungi, the various species of which have the power, to a greater or less extent, or splitting up sugar into alcohol and carbonic acid. They are the active agents in producing fermentation of wine, beer, etc. Saccharomyces cerevisiæ is the yeast of sedimentary beer. Also called Torula.…