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A repeating firearm.

The act of repeating; a doing or saying again; iteration. I need not be barren of accusations; he hath faults, with surplus to tire in repetition. Shak.

Repeating; containing repetition. [U.S.] Dr. T. Dwight.

Containing repetition; repeating. [R.]

e tree had too much repletion, and was oppressed with its own sap. Bacon. Replecioun [overeating] ne made her never sick. Chaucer.

nto him that we report the reader to the character of King Almeric, and will spare the repeating his description. Fuller.

An eating house.

Act of sweating again.

as, the defeated army retreated from the field. The rapid currents drive Towards the retreating sea their furious tide. Milton.

The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira. [R.] D'Urfey.

a direction contrary to their previous movement in another flue. -- Return pipe (Steam Heating), a pipe by which water of condensation from a heater or radiator is conveyed back toward the boiler.

Feeding on roots; root-eating.

ll beetle (Calandra, or Sitophilus, oryzæ) which destroys rice, wheat, and Indian corn by eating out the interior; -- called also black weevil.

e glycerin salt of ricinelaidic acid, obtained as a white crystalline waxy substance by treating castor oil with nitrous acid.

r uniting two plates or pieces of material together, by passing it through them and then beating or pressing down the point so that it shall spread out and form a second head; a pin or bolt headed or clinched at both ends. With busy hammers closing rivets up. Shak. Rivet joint, or Riveted joint, a joint between two or…

f joining with rivets; the act of spreading out and clinching the end, as of a rivet, by beating or pressing.

The practices of a rogue; knavish tricks; cheating; fraud; dishonest practices. 'Tis no scandal grown, For debt and roguery to quit the town. Dryden.

The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.

To cheat; to defraud by cheating. "A band of rooking officials." Milton.

y defeated, broken in pieces, and put to flight in disorder or panic; also, the act of defeating and breaking up an army; as, the rout of the enemy was complete. thy army . . . Dispersed in rout, betook them all to fly. Daniel. To these giad conquest, murderous rout to those. pope.