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entatives, of the German empire, which is composed of members elected for a term of three years by the direct vote of the people. See Bundesrath.

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

To make reference; to take account. [R.& Obs.] Reckoning by the years of their own consecration without relating to any imperial account. Fuller.

pecifically, a division in an English public school; as, the boy went up two removes last year. A freeholder is but one remove from a legislator. Addison.

To be leased, or let for rent; as, an estate rents for five hundred dollars a year.

A sum total of rents; as, an estate that yields a rental of ten thousand dollars a year.

Deductions and duties paid yearly out of a manor and lands, as rent charge, rent seck, pensions, annuities, and the like. [Written also reprizes.] Burrill.

rescissory (as it was called), annulling all the Parliaments that had been held since the year 1633. Bp. Burnet.

e for some continuance of time; as, the residence of an American in France or Italy for a year. The confessor had often made considerable residences in Normandy. Sir M. Hale.

Redelivery; repayment. [Obs.] "Yearly resolutes, deductions, and payments." Bp. Burnet.

om everything which wearies or disturbs; peace; security. And the land had rest fourscore years. Judges iii. 30.

, his wife, and children into a forest. Sir P. Sidney. As when the sun is present all the year, And never doth retire his golden ray. Sir J. Davies.

back, or begin again, after an interval, regular or irregular; to appear again. With the year Seasons return; but not me returns Day or the sweet approach of even or morn. Milton.

Capable of revolving; rotatory; revolving. [Obs.] Us, then, to whom the thrice three year Hath filled his revoluble orb since our arrival here, I blame not. Chapman.

al revolution, according as the point of return or completion has a fixed relation to the year, the anomaly, the nodes, the stars, or the tropics; as, the revolution of the earth about the sun; the revolution of the moon about the earth.

ons, etc., depending on the revolution of the earth. But grief returns with the revolving year. Shelley. Revolving seasons, fruitless as they pass. Cowper. Revolving firearm. See Revolver. -- Revolving light, a light or lamp in a lighthouse so arranged as to appear and disappear at fixed intervals, either by being tur…

sophists and rhetoricians, which ever had young auditors, lived till they were an hundred years old. Bacon.

out, to usher, attend on, or celebrate, by the ringing of bells; as, to ring out the old year and ring in the new. Tennyson. -- To ring the bells backward, to sound the chimes, reversing the common order; -- formerly done as a signal of alarm or danger. Sir W. Scott.

Growing; advancing to adult years and to the state of active life; as, the rising generation.

s (altar cloths, encharistic vestments, candles, etc.) that were sanctioned in the second year of Edward VI., and never, as they maintain, forbidden by competennt authority, although generally disused. Schaff-Herzog Encyc. (b) Also, the principles and practices of those in the Protestant Episcopal Church who sympathize…