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A fortifying anew, or a second time. Mitford.

To fortify anew.

To import again; to import what has been exported; to bring back. Young.

The act of reimporting; also, that which is reimported.

To importune again.

Both renal and portal. See Portal.

o refer. [Obs.] Baldwin, his son, . . . succeeded his father; so like unto him that we report the reader to the character of King Almeric, and will spare the repeating his description. Fuller.

Capable or admitting of being reported.

SAme as Report. [Obs.]

One who reports. Specifically: (a) An officer or person who makees authorized statements of law proceedings and decisions, or of legislative debates. (b) One who reports speeches, the proceedings of public meetings, news, etc., for the newspapers. Of our tales judge and reportour. Chaucer.

By report or common fame.

Of or pertaining to a reporter or reporters; as, the reportorial staff of a newspaper.

Active power or movement; spring. [A Gallicism] [Obs.] Some . . . know the resorts and falls of business that can not sink into the main of it. Bacon.

One who resorts; a frequenter.

To bend or curve back; as, a retorted line. With retorted head, pruned themselves as they floated. Southey.

One who retorts.

Act of retorting or throwing back; reflection or turning back. [Written also retorsion.] It was, however, necessary to possess some single term expressive of this intellectual retortion. Sir W. Hamilton.

Containing retort.

lanceolata) with long, narrow, ribbed leaves; -- called also rib grass, ripple grass, ribwort plantain.

The middle latitudes of the southern hemisphere. So called from the boisterous and prevailing westerly winds, which are especially strong in the South Indian Ocean up to 50º S.