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One who makes provision; a purveyor. [R.] De Foe.

A peculiar reproductive cell found in some fungi.

Any moth of the genus Pterophorus and allied genera; a plume moth. See Plume moth, under Plume.

a deputy of a State at the Amphictyonic council.

A niobate of calcium, cerium, and other bases, occurring usually in octahedrons of a yellowish or brownish color and resinous luster; -- so called from its becoming grass-green on being subjected to heat under the blowpipe.

k philosopher, born about 582 b. c.), or his philosophy. The central thought of the Pythagorean philosophy is the idea of number, the recognition of the numerical and mathematical relations of things. Encyc. Brit. Pythagorean proposition (Geom.), the theorem that the square described upon the hypothenuse of a plane rig…

The doctrines of Pythagoras or the Pythagoreans. As a philosophic school Pythagoreanism became extinct in Greece about the middle of the 4th century [B. C.]. Encyc. Brit.

Same as Accipitres. Called also Raptatores.

An order of birds; the Gallinæ.

To store again; as, the goods taken out were re-stored.

To convert again into the forest, as a region of country.

The act or process of converting again into a forest.

A governess; a rectrix. Drayton.

A blossoming anew of a plant after it has apparently ceased blossoming for the season.

To replant with trees; to reafforest; to reforestize.

The act or process of reforestizing.

To convert again into a forest; to plant again with trees.

om a state of ruin, decay, disease, or the like; to repair; to renew; to recover. "To restore and to build Jerusalem." Dan. ix. 25. Our fortune restored after the severest afflictions. Prior. And his hand was restored whole as the other. Mark iii. 5.

Restoration. [Obs.]

One who, or that which, restores.