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f a public park or forest; formerly, a sworn officer of a forest, appointed by the king's letters patent, whose business was to walk through the forest, recover beasts that had strayed beyond its limits, watch the deer, present trespasses to the next court held for the forest, etc. [Eng.]

A mark by which a letter, word, or any part of a writing or print, is erased, effaced, or obliterated; an erasure. Ayliffe.

he characters with which it is expressed; to peruse; as, to read a discourse; to read the letters of an alphabet; to read figures; to read the notes of music, or to read music; to read a book. Redeth [read ye] the great poet of Itaille. Chaucer. Well could he rede a lesson or a story. Chaucer.

The act of receiving; reception. "At the receipt of your letter." Shak.

pt; as, to receive money offered in payment of a debt; to receive a gift, a message, or a letter. Receyven all in gree that God us sent. Chaucer.

iving; receipt; admission; as, the reception of food into the stomach; the reception of a letter; the reception of sensation or ideas; reception of evidence.

To repeat the first letter or letters of (a word). See Reduplication,3.

To enroll; to enter in a list. Such follow him 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.

espotism, developing what was original in mediæval ideas by the light of classic arts and letters. J. A. Symonds (Encyc. Brit. ).

To decline formally, as an executor or a person entitled to letters of administration, to take out probate or letters. Dryden died without a will, and his widow having renounced, his son Charles administered on June 10. W. D. Christie.

Formal declination to take out letters of administration, or to assume an office, privilege, or right.

s, condition, etc.; as, the officer reported to the general for duty; to report weekly by letter.

Any act of retaliation. Waterland. Letters of marque and reprisal. See under Marque.

A writing back; the answering of a letter. Loveday.

observed from the station next in advance. -- Reverse curve (Railways), a curve like the letter S, formed of two curves bending in opposite directions. -- Reverse fire (Mil.), a fire in the rear. -- Reverse operation (Math.), an operation the steps of which are taken in a contrary order to that in which the same or…

Renewed attention to something, as to letters or literature.

Hence, to recover from a state of neglect or disuse; as, to revive letters or learning.

An oversounding, or a misuse, of the letter r; specifically (Phylol.), the tendency, exhibited in the Indo-European languages, to change s to r, as wese to were.

rect its axis hither and thither in quick succession. -- To roll one's r's, to utter the letter r with a trill. [Colloq.]

aving for its object the changing of the Japanese method of writing by substituting Roman letters for Japanese characters.