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A cutaneous disease; especially, the itch.

A corporation, such as a railroad company, lighting company, water company, etc., organized or chartered to follow a public calling or to render services more or less essential to the general public convenience or safety.

A group of parasitic Hymenoptera, including the ichneumon flies, which destroy the larvæ and pupæ of insects.

Accumulation of air, or other gas, and of pus, in the pleural cavity.

A salt of pyroboric acid.

A corporation consisting of a person or body of persons invested with some of the qualities of an artificial person, though not expressly incorporated, esp. the official of certain municipal divisions such as counties, schools districts, and the towns of some States of the United States, certain church officials, as a…

Ready for the razor; fit to be shaved. [R.] Shak.

Pertaining to a rector or governor.

The office, rank, or station of a rector; rectorship.

To incorporate again.

To invigorate anew.

To recall something by means of memory; to remember. [Obs.] Bryskett.

A recalling by the faculty of memory; remembrance. [Obs. & R.] Bp. Montagu.

Tending or serving to remind. [R.]

Any one of several species of fishes belonging to Echeneis, Remora, and allied genera. Called also sucking fish.

To hinder; to delay. [Obs.] Johnson.

Admitting of being restored; capable of being reclaimed; as, restorable land. Swift. -- Re*stor"a*ble*ness, n.

Restoration. [Obs.] Barrow.

station, or condition; the fact of being restored; renewal; reëstablishment; as, the restoration of friendship between enemies; the restoration of peace after war. Behold the different climes agree, Rejoicing in thy restoration. Dryden.

A Restorationist.