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cal pronoun as direct object, and a preposition before thewrong done or the wrongdoer. To revenge the death of our fathers. Ld. Berners. The gods are just, and will revenge our cause. Dryden. Come, Antony, and young Octavius, come, Revenge yourselves alone on Cassius. Shak.

Capable of being revenged; as, revengeable wrong. Warner.

Vengeance; revenge. [Obs.]

Full of, or prone to, revenge; vindictive; malicious; revenging; wreaking revenge. If thy revengeful heart can not forgive. Shak. May my hands . . . Never brandish more rebvengeful steel. Shak.

Unrevenged. [Obs.] Marston.

Revenge. [Obs.] He 'll breed revengement and a scourge for me. Shak.

One who revenges. Shak.

Executing revenge; revengeful. -- Re*ven"ging*ly, adv. Shak.

t, or issues of any species of property, real or personal; income. Do not anticipate your revenues and live upon air till you know what you are worth. Gray.

To echo. [Obs.] Shak.

Having the quality of reverberation; reverberating.

Reverberant. [Obs.] "The reverberate hills." Shak.

The act of reverberating; especially, the act of reflecting light or heat, or reëchoing sound; as, the reverberation of rays from a mirror; the reverberation of rays from a mirror; the reverberation of voices; the reverberation of heat or flame in a furnace.

Of the nature of reverberation; tending to reverberate; reflective. This reverberative influence is that which we have intended above, as the influence of the mass upon its centers. I. Taylor.

One who, or that which, produces reverberation.

Producing reverberation; acting by reverberation; reverberative. Reverberatory furnace. See the Note under Furnace.

To cover again with verdure. Ld. Berners.

To regard with reverence, or profound respect and affection, mingled with awe or fear; to venerate; to reverence; to honor in estimation. Marcus Aurelius, whom he rather revered as his father than treated as his partner in the empire. Addison.

esteem mingled with fear and affection, as for a holy being or place; the disposition to revere; veneration. If thou be poor, farewell thy reverence. Chaucer. Reverence, which is the synthesis of love and fear. Coleridge. When discords, and quarrels, and factions, are carried openly and audaciously, it is a sign the r…

One who regards with reverence. "Reverencers of crowned heads." Swift.