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A cousin within the first four degrees of kindred.

The state of being queasy; nausea; qualmishness; squeamishness. Shak.

A grape dried in the sun or by artificial heat. Raisin tree (Bot.), the common red currant, whose fruit resembles the small raisins of Corinth called currants. [Eng.] Dp. Prior.

fically, the operation or work of setting up the frame of a building; as, to help at a raising. [U.S.]

Marked by a relapse; falling back; tending to return to a former worse state. Relapsing fever (Med.), an acute, epidemic, contagious fever, which prevails also endemically in Ireland, Russia, and some other regions. It is marked by one or two remissions of the fever, by articular and muscular pains, and by the presence…

and are soluble in ether, alcohol, and essential oils, but not in water; specif., pine resin (see Rosin).

Having the quality of resin; resinous.

Any one of the salts the resinic acids.

Pertaining to, or obtained from, resin; as, the resinic acids.

Yielding resin; as, a resiniferous tree or vessel.

Having the form of resin.

Containing or exhibiting resinous electricity.

Somewhat like resin.

Of or pertaining to resin; of the nature of resin; resembling or obtained from resin. Resinous electricity (Elec.), electricity which is exited by rubbing bodies of the resinous kind. See Negative electricity, under Negative.

By means, or in the manner, of resin.

The quality of being resinous.

Like resin; resinous.

Serving to effect reversal, as of motion; capable of being reversed. Reversing engine, a steam engine having a reversing gear by means of which it can be made to run in either direction at will. -- Reversing gear (Mach.), gear for reversing the direction of rotation at will.

The visual purple. See under Visual.

ing, or moving in, an upward direction; appearing above the horizon; ascending; as, the rising moon.