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The act of fortifying or guarding against objections. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to a premunire; as, a premunitory process.

A little raceme.

Growing in very small racemes.

That may be removed; removable. [Obs.] Gower.

To remove. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Rebellowing. Dr. H. More.

Admitting, or worthy, of remuneration. -- Re*mu`ner*a*bil"i*ty (r, n.

to for any service, loss, expense, or other sacrifice; to recompense; to requite; as, to remunerate men for labor.

The act of remunerating.

Affording remuneration; as, a remunerative payment for services; a remunerative business. -Re*mu"ner*a*tive*ly, adv. -- Re*mu"ner*a*tive*ness, n.

Remunerative. Johnson.

utter back, or reply, in murmurs. The trembling trees, in every plain and wood, Her fate remurmur to the silver flood. Pope.

A Roman coin equivalent to one twenty-fourth part of a Roman pound.

Intoxication; inebriation; drunkenness. [R.] "Their temulency." Jer. Taylor.

Intoxicated; drunken. [R.]

Somewhat temulent; addicted to drink. [R.] R. Junius.

Tremulous; trembling; shaking. [R.] " With tremulent white rod." Carlyle.

Shaking; shivering; quivering; as, a tremulous limb; a tremulous motion of the hand or the lips; the tremulous leaf of the poplar.

A garden or grove near Athens (so named from the hero Academus), where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; hence, the school of philosophy of which Plato was head.