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To point out; to show clearly; to make plain or manifest; hence, to prove; to demonstrate. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor. I will remonstrate to you the third door. B. Jonson.

Not nearly related; not close; as, a remote connection or consanguinity.

A return; a payment of rent. In those early times the king's household was supported by specific renders of corn and other victuals from the tenants of the demains. Blackstone.

Deductions and duties paid yearly out of a manor and lands, as rent charge, rent seck, pensions, annuities, and the like. [Written also reprizes.] Burrill.

ts constituents; hence, an atom or group regarded as a portion of a molecule; -- used as nearly equivalent to radical, but in a more general sense.

Redelivery; repayment. [Obs.] "Yearly resolutes, deductions, and payments." Bp. Burnet.

So as to resolve or clear up difficulties; clearly. [Obs.] Of that, and all the progress, more or less, Resolvedly more leisure shall express. Shak.

To go to bed; as, he usually retires early.

backward; hence, to affect or concern what is past. It may be useful to retrospect to an early period. A. Hamilton.

s a plaything. -- Return bend, a pipe fitting for connecting the contiguous ends of two nearly parallel pipes lying alongside or one above another. -- Return day (Law), the day when the defendant is to appear in court, and the sheriff is to return the writ and his proceedings. -- Return flue, in a steam boiler, a fl…

e a sort of reviviscence, not, I fear, of the power, but of a taste for the power, of the early times. Coleridge.

Having long and nearly parallel clefts or chinks, like those in the bark of trees.

To leave one's bed; to arise; as, to rise early. He that would thrive, must rise by five. Old Proverb.

One who rises; as, an early riser.

if the elements are grouped in the order of their atomic weights, it will be found that nearly the same properties recur periodically throughout the entire series." The following tabular arrangement of the atomic weights shows the regular recurrence of groups (under I., II., III., IV., etc.), each consisting of member…

alued by dyers on account of its freedom from iron. -- Roman balance, a form of balance nearly resembling the modern steelyard. See the Note under Balance, n., 1. -- Roman candle, a kind of firework (generally held in the hand), characterized by the continued emission of shower of sparks, and the ejection, at interva…

A kind of script in which the heavy strokes are nearly upright, giving the characters when taken together a round look.

ch.) (a) A roof actually horizontal and level, as in some Oriental buildings. (b) A roof nearly horizontal, constructed of such material as allows the water to run off freely from a very slight inclination. -- Roof plate. (Arch.) See Plate, n., 10.

An ancestor or progenitor; and hence, an early race; a stem. They were the roots out of which sprang two distinct people. Locke.

y marine gastropod shell of the genus Monodonta. They are top-shaped, bright-colored and pearly.