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In a prudential manner; prudently. South.

In a prudent manner.

A quantity of rope-yarn, or the like, placed, as a fender, on the bow of a boat.

Modesty; shamefacedness. "A pudency so rosy." Shak.

The external organs of generation.

Of or pertaining to the pudenda, or pudendum.

The external organs of generation, especially of the female; the vulva.

Having four teeth; as, a quadridentate leaf.

Five-toothed; as, a quinquedentate leaf.

A falling back or descending a second time; a relapse. W. Montagu.

The act or process of recondensing.

To condense again.

Recrudescence.

To grow or become red; to blush. Appius reddens at each word you speak. Pope. He no sooner saw that her eye glistened and her cheek reddened than his obstinacy was at once subbued. Sir W. SCott.

A clause in a deed by which some new thing is reserved out of what had been granted before; the clause by which rent is reserved in a lease. Cruise.

Formed like the teeth of a saw; indented.

Consisting of a reed or reeds. Through reeden pipes convey the golden flood. Dryden.

Remorse; compunction; compassion. [Obs.] Killingbeck.

ct of residing, abiding, or dwelling in a place 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.

In Spanish countries, a court or trial held, sometimes as long as six months, by a newly elected official, as the governor of a province, to examine into the conduct of a predecessor.