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Restoration: restitution: surrender. Howell.

before he is capable of utilizing it as a constituent of character or a guide in action. Lowell.

To descend again. Howell.

Recompense; atonemet; retribution. [Obs.] Howell.

An officer appointed to supervise the forest. Cowell.

To relieve from constipation; to loosen; to open; as, an aperient relaxes the bowels.

To reprieve. [Obs.] Howell.

To bud again. Though tares repullulate, there is wheat still left in the field. Howell.

To ransom; to release; to rescue. [Obs.] Howell.

To write over again. Howell.

, a servant, not a domestic, but occasionally attending and wearing his master's livery. Cowell.

rds or syllables so used must not begin with the same consonant, or if one begins with a vowel the other must begin with a consonant. The vowel sounds and accents must be the same, as also the sounds of the final consonants if there be any. For rhyme with reason may dispense, And sound has right to govern sense. Prior.…

a liquid, resembling rice water in appearance, which is vomited, and discharged from the bowels, in cholera. -- Rice weevil (Zoöl.), a small beetle (Calandra, or Sitophilus, oryzæ) which destroys rice, wheat, and Indian corn by eating out the interior; -- called also black weevil.

isk or danger; hazardous. "A risky matter." W. Collins. Generalization are always risky. Lowell.

A long, belt-formed towel, to be suspended on a rolling cylinder; -- called also roller towel.

o- classicism in poetry, and to have been thus unconsciously the founder of romanticism. Lowell.

h-kirtled for the chase, and what was shown Of maiden rondure, like the rose half-blown. Lowell.

A roturier. [Obs.] Howell.

(a) Acting with offhand promptness and efficiency. "The rough and ready understanding." Lowell.

Modified, as a vowel, by contraction of the lip opening, making the opening more or less round in shape; rounded; labialized; labial. See Guide to Pronunciation, § 11.