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The upper air; the sky; the heavens. [Obs.] Anon the dreadful thunder Doth rend the region. Shak.

To go back; to retrograde, as the apsis of a planet's orbit. [R.] Todhunter.

The parliament of Austria (exclusive of Hungary, which has its own diet, or parliament). It consists of an Upper and a Lower House, or a House of Lords and a House of Representatives.

The word is used as a Portuguese designation of money of account, one hundred reis being about equal in value to eleven cents.

To cast from one; to throw away; to discard. Therefore all this exercise of hunting . . . the Utopians have rejected to their butchers. Robynson (More's Utopia). Reject me not from among thy children. Wisdom ix. 4.

readiness to relieve others, so that a trveler may proceed without delay. (b) A supply of hunting dogs or horses kept in readiness at certain places to relive the tired dogs or horses, and to continnue the pursuit of the game if it comes that way. (c) A number of men who relieve others in carrying on some work.…

es duly paid 'em, And something over to remember me by. Shak. Remember what I warn thee; shun to taste. Milton.

lit; to burst; as, powder rends a rock in blasting; lightning rends an oak. The dreadful thunder Doth rend the region. Shak.

To be leased, or let for rent; as, an estate rents for five hundred dollars a year.

scue a prisoner from the enemy; to rescue seamen from destruction. Had I been seized by a hungry lion, I would have been a breakfast to the best, Rather than have false Proteus rescue me. Shak.

k; concealment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve. A. Smith. With reservation of an hundred knights. Shak. Make some reservation of your wrongs. Shak.

Of or pertaining to restoration; having power to restore. Destroys life's enemy, Hunger, with sweet restorative delight. Milton.

he same; a rolling back; return; as, revolution in an ellipse or spiral. That fear Comes thundering back, with dreadful revolution, On my defenseless head. Milton.

A composition irregular in form, like an improvisation; as, Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsodies."

A monkey; the bhunder.

ancient sophists and rhetoricians, which ever had young auditors, lived till they were an hundred years old. Bacon.

the open air. [Colloq.] -- To ride to hounds, to ride behind, and near to, the hounds in hunting.

The system of grooves in a rifled gun barrel or cannon. Shunt rifling, rifling for cannon, in which one side of the groove is made deeper than the other, to facilitate loading with shot having projections which enter by the deeper part of the grooves.

To strive to equal or exel; to emulate. To rival thunder in its rapid course. Dryden.

ling on the high road, or is suitable for use on ordinary roads. A sound, swift, well-fed hunter and roadster. Thackeray.