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Residence. [Obsoles.]

place for a continued length of time; residing on one's own estate; -- opposed to nonresident; as, resident in the city or in the country.

A resident. [Obs. or Colloq.]

Of or pertaining to a residence or residents; as, residential trade.

Having residence; as, a canon residentary; a residentiary guardian. Dr. H. More.

The office or condition of a residentiary.

The office or condition of a resident.

The quality or state of being resplendent; brilliant luster; vivid brightness; splendor. Son! thou in whom my glory I behold In full resplendence, heir of all my might. Milton. The resplendency of his own almighty goodness. Dr. J. Scott.

Shining with brilliant luster; very bright. -- Re*splen"dent*ly, adv. With royal arras and resplendent gold. Spenser.

The act of responding; the state of being respondent; an answering. A. Chalmers. The angelical soft trembling voice made To the instruments divine respondence meet. Spenser.

Disposed or expected to respond; answering; according; corresponding. Wealth respondent to payment and contributions. Bacon.

A loan upon goods laden on board a ship. It differs from bottomry, which is a loan on the ship itself. Bouvier.

Disposed or likely to retrocede; -- said of diseases which go from one part of the body to another, as the gout.

A genus of shrubs or small trees, often having handsome evergreen leaves, and remarkable for the beauty of their flowers; rosebay.

p. p. of Ride.

imp. pl. & p. p. of Ride. Chaucer.

Laughing. [R.] Thackeray.

Of or pertaining to the Rodentia.

An order of mammals having two (rarely four) large incisor teeth in each jaw, distant from the molar teeth. The rats, squirrels, rabbits, marmots, and beavers belong to this order.

Cabling. See Cabling. gwilt.