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The power or right of taking a thing before it is offered. Burrill.

An officer who delivered the royal answer to petitions. "Referendaries, or masters of request." Harmar.

A diplomatic agent's note asking for instructions from his government concerning a particular matter or point.

orthy of reverence; entitled to respect mingled with fear and affection; venerable. A reverend sire among them came. Milton. They must give good example and reverend deportment in the face of their children. Jer. Taylor.

Reverently. [Obs.] Foxe.

ther; to give or deliver up possession of (anything) upon compulsion or demand; as, to surrender one's person to an enemy or to an officer; to surrender a fort or a ship.

The person to whom a surrender is made. Mozley & W.

One who surrenders.

One who makes a surrender, as of an estate. Bouvier.

Surrender. [Obs.]

To rend in pieces. [Obs.] The wolf hath many a sheep and lamb to-rent. Chaucer.

To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend; as, the shore of the sea trends to the southwest.

One whose business is to free wool from its filth. [Prov. Eng.]

A wheel, spindle, or the like; a trundle. [Obs.] The shaft the wheel, the wheel, the trendle turns. Sylvester.

Not reverend.

oncern on; to desert, as a person to whom one owes allegiance or fidelity; to quit; to surrender. Hope was overthrown, yet could not be abandoned. I. Taylor.

To surrender or relinquish, as sovereign power; to withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; as, to abdicate the throne, the crown, the papacy.

ll, means, or resources of any kind to accomplish the object; possessed of qualifications rendering competent for some end; competent; qualified; capable; as, an able workman, soldier, seaman, a man able to work; a mind able to reason; a person able to be generous; able to endure pain; able to play on a piano.…

Rendered abortive or sterile; undeveloped; checked in normal development at a very early stage; as, spines are aborted branches. The eyes of the cirripeds are more or less aborted in their mature state. Owen.

Rendering fruitless or ineffectual. [Obs.] "Plunged in that abortive gulf." Milton.