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

Expressing or implying demand. [R.] Harris.

To write back; to write in reply. Ayliffe.

he oil in their lamps, carried likewise a reserve in some other vessel for a continual supply. Tillotson.

tore; especially, a place where water is collected and kept for use when wanted, as to supply a fountain, a canal, or a city by means of aqueducts, or to drive a mill wheel, or the like.

To have recourse; to apply; to one's self for help, relief, or advantage. The king thought it time to resort to other counsels. Clarendon.

That to which one resorts orr on which one depends for supply or support; means of overcoming a difficulty; resort; expedient. Threat'nings mixed with prayers, his last resource. Dryden.

To say somethin in return; to answer; to reply; as, to respond to a question or an argument.

One who maintains a thesis in reply, and whose province it is to refute objections, or overthrow arguments; -- distinguished from opponent. I. Watts.

An answer or reply. Specifically:

To return an argument or a charge; to make a severe reply. Pope.

To speak in answer; to reply; to respond. He said, and thus the queen of heaven returned. Pope.

Intended to reverse; implying reversal. [Obs.] Bp. Burnet.

That which is conformable to the Supreme Rule is absolutely right, and is called right simply without relation to a special end. Whately.

To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of (one line or surface) into successive contact with another, in suck manner that at every instant the parts that have been in contact are equal.

that which grew up from the attempts of barbarous people to copy Roman architecture and apply it to their own purposes. This term is loosely applied to all the styles of Western Europe, from the fall of the Western Roman Empire to the appearance of Gothic architecture.

eafless and without buds, and having for its offices to fix the plant in the earth, to supply it with moisture and soluble matters, and sometimes to serve as a reservoir of nutriment for future growth. A true root, however, may never reach the ground, but may be attached to a wall, etc., as in the ivy, or may hang loos…

and the early part of the 18th, claimed to belong to a secret society of philosophers deeply versed in the secrets of nature, -- the alleged society having existed, it was stated, several hundred years.

The first coat of plaster laid on brick; also, the process of applying it.

Openly; boldly; peremptorily; plumply. He affirms everything roundly. Addison.