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To take from a captor; to recapture; as, to retake a ship or prisoners.

The act of revolting; an uprising against legitimate authority; especially, a renunciation of allegiance and subjection to a government; rebellion; as, the revolt of a province of the Roman empire. Who first seduced them to that foul revolt Milton.

he Right on political questions. See Center, n., 5. -- Right cone, Right cylinder, Right prism, Right pyramid (Geom.), a cone, cylinder, prism, or pyramid, the axis of which is perpendicular to the base. -- Right line. See under Line. -- Right sailing (Naut.), sailing on one of the four cardinal points, so as to alt…

briously, a leader of a body of men engaged in the violation of law or in an illegal enterprise, as rioters, mutineers, or the like. The ringleaders were apprehended, tried, fined, and imprisoned. Macaulay.

ce, any fictitious and wonderful tale; a sort of novel, especially one which treats of surprising adventures usually befalling a hero or a heroine; a tale of extravagant adventures, of love, and the like. "Romances that been royal." Chaucer. Upon these three columns -- chivalry, gallantry, and religion -- repose the fi…

g the game of fives, but played with a football. Now we play rounders, and then we played prisoner's base. Bagehot.

A constable's prison; a lockup, watch-house, or station house. [Obs.]

Incapable of doing harm; no longer dangerous; in secure care or custody; as, the prisoner is safe. But Banquo's safe Ay, my good lord, safe in a ditch he bides. Shak. Safe hit (Baseball), a hit which enables the batter to get to first base even if no error is made by the other side.

Preservation from escape; close custody. Imprison him, . . . Deliver him to safety; and return. Shak.

A suborder of Urodela, comprising salamanders.

y the use of mercury. over.; as, salivate over the prospects of high profits from an enterprise.

Any species of the genus Sarcoptes and related genera of mites, comprising the itch mites and mange mites. -- a.

A comprehensive group of vertebrates, comprising the reptiles and birds.

Any one of several species of elasmobranch fishes of the genus Pristis. They have a sharklike form, but are more nearly allied to the rays. The flattened and much elongated snout has a row of stout toothlike structures inserted along each edge, forming a sawlike organ with which it mutilates or kills its prey.…

To escape. [Obs. or Poetic.] Milton. Out of this prison help that we may scape. Chaucer.

A group of nemerteans comprising those having a deep slit along each side of the head. See Illust. in Appendix.

A genus of reodents comprising the common squirrels.

To shut up in a sconce; to imprison; to insconce. [Obs.] Immure him, sconce him, barricade him in 't. Marston.

A division of arachnids comprising the scorpions.

((Zoöl.) (a) A large marine food fish (Serranus, or Centropristis, atrarius) which abounds on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It is dark bluish, with black bands, and more or less varied with small white spots and blotches. Called also, locally, blue bass, black sea bass, blackfish, bluefish, and black perch.…