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sult; return; requital. We give you welcome; not without redound Of use and glory to yourselves ye come. Tennyson.

ion of evil laws is commendable, but for us the more necessary is a speedy redress of ourselves. Hooker.

relation; reference. Persuade them to pursue and persevere in virtue, with regard to themselves; in justice and goodness with regard to their neighbors; and piefy toward God. I. Watts.

rity, absence from the kingdom, or other disability. A council or regency consisting of twelve persons. Lowth.

, and large patches on the wings, bright golden yellow, and the rest of the plumage deep velvety black; -- so called in honor of the Prince of Wales (afterward George IV.), who was Prince Regent in the reign of George III. -- The Regents of the University of the State of New York, the members of a corporate body calle…

se into slumber after being disturbed. That task performed, [preachers] relapse into themselves. Cowper.

one allied by blood; a relation; a kinsman or kinswoman. "Confining our care . . . to ourselves and relatives." Bp. Fell.

o used reflexively and impersonally. [Obs.] "Remembering them the trith of what they themselves known." Milton. My friends remembered me of home. Chapman. Remember you of passed heaviness. Chaucer. And well thou wost [knowest] if it remember thee. Chaucer.

or quality of being renitent; resistance; reluctance. Sterne. We find a renitency in ourselves to ascribe life and irritability to the cold and motionless fibers of plants. E. Darwin.

inquired of, a duty enjoined, or information expected; as, the committee will report at twelve o'clock.

velocity; the angle at which the various kinds of earth will stand when abandoned to themselves.

hast lost. Milton. What more reasonable, than that we should in all things resign up ourselves to the will of God Tiilotson.

To bend or curve back; as, a retorted line. With retorted head, pruned themselves as they floated. Southey.

and will revenge our cause. Dryden. Come, Antony, and young Octavius, come, Revenge yourselves alone on Cassius. Shak.

ight wife." Chaucer. In this battle, . . . the Britons never more plainly manifested themselves to be right barbarians. Milton.

actice of robbing; theft. Thieves for their robbery have authority When judges steal themselves. Shak.

of the drums, as the signal of an attack by the enemy, and for the troops to arrange themselves in line. -- Master of the rolls. See under Master. -- Roll call, the act, or the time, of calling over a list names, as among soldiers. -- Rolls of court, of parliament (or of any public body), the parchments or rolls on…

The language spoken among themselves by the gypsies. [Written also Rommany.]

The breeding place of a colony of rooks; also, the birds themselves. Tennyson.

space appropriated for occupancy; a place to sit, stand, or lie; a seat. If he have but twelve pence in his purse, he will give it for the best room in a playhouse. Overbury. When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room. Luke xiv. 8.