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Restoration to a whole or sound state; renewal; renovation. Dr. H. More.

To give echoes; to return back, or be reverberated, as an echo; to resound; to be resonant. And a loud groan reëchoes from the main. Pope.

Thrown back after striking a surface; as, reflected light, heat, sound, etc.

The return of rays, beams, sound, or the like, from a surface. See Angle of reflection, below. The eye sees not itself, But by reflection, by some other things. Shak.

A device for reflecting sound.

To restore to a sound or good state after decay, injury, dilapidation, or partial destruction; to renew; to restore; to mend; as, to repair a house, a road, a shoe, or a ship; to repair a shattered fortune. Secret refreshings that repair his strength. Milton. Do thou, as thou art wont, repair My heart with gladness. Wo…

Capable of being repaired, restored to a sound or good state, or made good; restorable; as, a reparable injury.

ck, or the state of being driven back; reflection; reverberation; as, the repercussion of sound. Ever echoing back in endless repercussion. Hare.

ving the power of sending back; causing to reverberate. Ye repercussive rocks! repeat the sound. W. Pattison.

Return or repercussion, as of sound; echo. To hear the replication of your sounds. Shak.

To return or repeat, as sound; to echo. [Obs. or R.] "A church with windowss only form above, that reporteth the voice thirteen times." Bacon.

The act of resiling, springing back, or rebounding; as, the resilience of a ball or of sound.

The act of resounding; the quality or state of being resonant.

Returning, or capable of returning, sound; fitted to resound; resounding; echoing back. Through every hour of the golden morning, the streets were resonant with female parties of young and old. De Quincey.

Anything which resounds; specifically, a vessel in the form of a cylinder open at one end, or a hollow ball of brass with two apertures, so contrived as to greatly intensify a musical tone by its resonance. It is used for the study and analysis of complex sounds.

To resound. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To resound. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A flying back; resilience. [Obs.] Sound is produced between the string and the air by the return or the result of the string. Bacon.

A call sounded on a bugle, announcing to skirmishers that they are to retire, or fall back.

A signal given in the army or navy, by the beat of a drum or the sounding of trumpet or bugle, at sunset (when the roll is called), or for retiring from action.