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ally to land; the entry by a lessor upon the premises leased, on failure of the tenant to pay rent or perform the covenants in the lease. Burrill. Card of reëtry, (Whist), a card that by winning a trick will bring one the lead at an advanced period of the hand.

to the drawer, at the course of exchange between the place where the bill of exchange was payable, and the place where it was drawn. Reëxchange can not be cumulated. Walsh.

cer who, in disgrace, is deprived of his command, but retains his rank, and sometimes his pay. [Obs.]

Retained in service on half or full pay after the disbandment of the company or troop; -- said of an officer. [Eng.]

To give back; to repay; to restore. A governor, that had pillaged the people, was . . . sentenced to refund what he had wrongfully taken. L'Estrange.

To look closely at; to observe attentively; to pay attention to; to notice or remark particularly. If much you note him, You offened him; . . . feed, and regard him not. Shak.

as shall be registered. Milton. Registered letter, a letter, the address of which is, on payment of a special fee, registered in the post office and the transmission and delivery of which are attended to with particular care.

Capable of being repaid; repayable. A loan has been made of two millions of dollars, reimbursable in ten years. A. Hamilton.

sury or purse, as an equivalent for what has been taken, lost, or expended; to refund; to pay back; to restore; as, to reimburse the expenses of a war.

Act of sending in payment, as money; remittance.

To transmit or send, esp. to a distance, as money in payment of a demand, account, draft, etc.; as, he remitted the amount by mail.

To pay an equivalent to for any service, loss, expense, or other sacrifice; to recompense; to requite; as, to remunerate men for labor.

Affording remuneration; as, a remunerative payment for services; a remunerative business. -Re*mu"ner*a*tive*ly, adv. -- Re*mu"ner*a*tive*ness, n.

To return; to pay back; to restore. Whose smallest minute lost, no riches render may. Spenser.

Pay; reward; share; toll. [Obs.] Death, that taketh of high and low his rent. Chaucer.

In France, interest payable by government on indebtedness; the bonds, shares, stocks, etc.,, which represent government indebtedness.

imp. & p. p. of Repay.

To repay or refund (an excess received). To repeat one's self, to do or say what one has already done or said. -- To repeat signals, to make the same signals again; specifically, to communicate, by repeating them, the signals shown at headquarters.

To refund; to repay; to restore; as, to replace a sum of money borrowed.

To recompense; to pay. [Obs.]