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An instrument employed for replacing a displaced organ or part.

A place where things are or may be reposited, or laid up, for safety or preservation; a depository. Locke.

To possess again; as, to repossess the land. Pope. To repossess one's self of (something), to acquire again (something lost).

The act or the state of possessing again.

Rest; quiet. In the reposure of most soft content. Marston.

To set apart. [Obs.] Donne.

To set aside; to give up. [Obs.]

The act of setting aside, or of giving up. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

That which is deposited beneath something else.

rbal substantives in -ing which begin with a consonant. This is a shortened form of the preposition an (which was used before the vowel sound); as in a hunting, a building, a begging. "Jacob, when he was a dying" Heb. xi. 21. "We'll a birding together." " It was a doing." Shak. "He burst out a laughing." Macaulay. The…

fficer in the English court of chancery who received the moneys paid into the court, and deposited them in the Bank of England.

ontinuous growth; an accretion. [R.] The silent accrescence of belief from the unwatched depositions of a general, never contradicted hearsy. Coleridge.

itive verb terminates, or the immediate object of motion or tendency to, expressed by a preposition. It corresponds to the objective case in English.

to a uniform grade, or slope, by addition of material; as, streams aggrade their beds by depositing sediment.

Pertaining to, contained in, or composed of, alluvium; relating to the deposits made by flowing water; washed away from one place and deposited in another; as, alluvial soil, mud, accumulations, deposits.

Matter deposited by an inundation or the action of flowing water; alluvium. The golden alluvions are there [in California and Australia] spread over a far wider space: they are found not only on the banks of rivers, and in their beds, but are scattered over the surface of vast plains. R. Cobden.

Deposits of earth, sand, gravel, and other transported matter, made by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas. Lyell.

ng current which, when passed through a standard solution of nitrate of silver in water, deposits silver at the rate of 0.001118 grams per second. Called also the international ampère.

from its admitting of a double construction; e. g., "The duke yet lives that Henry shall depose." Whately.

The substance deposited in the organs in amyloid degeneration.