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A smart, ready, and witty reply. Cupid was as bad as he; Hear but the youngster's repartee. Prior.

A partition or distribution, especially of slaves; also, an assessment of taxes. W. Irving.

Another, or an additional, separation into parts.

ss again; to pass or travel over in the opposite direction; to pass a second time; as, to repass a bridge or a river; to repass the sea.

The act of repassing; passage back. Hakluyt.

Counterpassant.

The act of taking food. From dance to sweet repast they turn. Milton.

One who takes a repast. [Obs.]

Food; entertainment. [Obs.] Food for his rage, repasture for his den. Shak.

To restore to one's own country.

Restoration to one's country.

To pay back; to refund; as, to repay money borrowed or advanced. If you repay me not on such a day, In such a place, such sum or sums. Shak.

Capable of being, or proper to be , repaid; due; as, a loan repayable in ten days; services repayable in kind.

The act of repaying; reimbursement. Jer. Taylor.

To recall; to summon again, as persons. [Obs.] The banished Bolingbroke repeals himself, And with uplifted arms is safe arrived. Shak.

The quality or state of being repealable.

Capable of being repealed. -- Re*peal"a*ble*ness, n.

One who repeals; one who seeks a repeal; specifically, an advocate for the repeal of the Articles of Union between Great Britain and Ireland.

Recall, as from banishment. [Obs.]

To go over again; to attempt, do, make, or utter again; to iterate; to recite; as, to repeat an effort, an order, or a poem. "I will repeat our former communication." Robynson (More's Utopia). Not well conceived of God; who, though his power Creation could repeat, yet would be loth Us to abolish. Milton.…