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A small intercellular space, often containing Receiving reservoir (Water Works), a principal reservoir into which an aqueduct or rising main delivers water, and from which a distributing reservoir draws its supply.

One who reserves; a reserver.

To set again; as, to reset type; to reset copy; to reset a diamond.

One who resets, or sets again.

To settle again. Swift.

Act of settling again, or state of being settled again; as, the resettlement of lees. The resettlement of my discomposed soul. Norris.

Pertaining to Canara, a district of British India.

An offering made to the church at the interment of a dead body. Blackstone.

To decrease. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Pertaining to Ferrara, in Italy. -- n., sing. & pl.

To see beforehand; to have prescience of; to foreknow. A prudent man foreseeth the evil. Prov. xxii. 3.

se that; on condition that. [Obs.] One manner of meat is most sure to every complexion, foreseen that it be alway most commonly in conformity of qualities, with the person that eateth. Sir T. Elyot.

One who foresees or foreknows.

To seize beforehand.

A device. See Impresa. An imprese, as the Italians call it, is a device in picture with his motto or word, borne by noble or learned personages. Camden.

Not capable of being represented or portrayed.

An apparatus, made in very various forms, and of various materials, for saving one from drowning by buoying up the body while in the water. -- Life"-pre*serv`ing, a.

To represent incorrectly (almost always, unfacorably); to give a false erroneous representation of, either maliciously, ignirantly, or carelessly. Swift.

Untrue representation; false or incorrect statement or account; -- usually unfavorable to the thing represented; as, a misrepresentation of a person's motives. Sydney Smith.

Tending to convey a wrong impression; misrepresenting.