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The quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity. One main end of poetry and painting is to please; they bear a great resemblance to each other. Dryden.

Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. [R.] Gower.

ilar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other. We will resemble you in that. Shak.

One who resembles.

So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.

To produce again by means of seed. [Obs.] Sir. T. Browne.

To send again; as, to resend a message.

e with satisfaction. [Obs.] Which makes the tragical ends of noble persons more favorably resented by compassionate readers. Sir T. Browne.

One who resents. Sir H. Wotton.

Inclined to resent; easily provoked to anger; irritable. -- Re*sent"ful*ly, adv.

Resentment. [Obs.]

With a sense of wrong or affront; with resentment.

Resentful. [R.] Thomson.

The act of resenting.

To unlock; to open. [Obs.] Boyle.

Reservation. [R.]

The act of reserving, or keeping back; concealment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve. A. Smith. With reservation of an hundred knights. Shak. Make some reservation of your wrongs. Shak.

Tending to reserve or keep; keeping; reserving.

A place in which things are reserved or kept. Woodward.

To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. "I have reserved to myself nothing." Shak.