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to pass or travel over in the opposite direction; to pass a second time; as, to repass a bridge or a river; to repass the sea.

A machine or implement for applying fresh primers to spent cartridge shells, so that the shells be used again.

ut of fear. Burke. And dislodge their reptile souls From the bodies and forms of men. Coleridge.

Making researches; inquisitive. [R.] Coleridge.

frequent visitor of the favored spot, . . . will discover that both have been there. Coleridge.

To hinder from unlimited enjoiment; to abridge. Though they two were committed, at least restrained of their liberty. Clarendon.

Rising again, as from the dead. Coleridge.

med with a net; hence, skillful to entangle. Scholastic retiary versatility of logic. Coleridge.

In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel. (b) (Surg.)

To lessen; to abridge; to curtail; as, to retrench superfluities or expenses. But this thy glory shall be soon retrenched. Milton.

ing retruded. In virtue of an endless remotion or retrusion of the constituent cause. Coleridge.

prove that the patient's revalescence had been independent of the medicines given him Coleridge.

farewell thy reverence. Chaucer. Reverence, which is the synthesis of love and fear. Coleridge. When discords, and quarrels, and factions, are carried openly and audaciously, it is a sign the reverence of government islost. Bacon.

iscence, not, I fear, of the power, but of a taste for the power, of the early times. Coleridge.

e continuation of the seed stalk along the side of an anatropous ovule or seed, forming a ridge or seam. [Written also raphe.] Gray.

The doctrine of propositions or sentences. Coleridge.

Being without rhythm. Coleridge.

A ridge, fin, or wing, as on a plate, cylinder, beam, etc., to strengthen or stiffen it.

work for the support of an arch or coved ceiling, the veins in the leaves of some plants, ridges in the fabric of cloth, or the like.

A small mound of earth; ground slightly elevated; a small ridge.