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The act of returning, or coming back; return. [Obs.] After his reversion home, [he] was spoiled, also, of all that he brought with him. Foxe.

Of or pertaining to a reversion; involving a reversion; to be enjoyed in succession, or after the termination of a particular estate; as, a reversionary interest or right.

One who has a reversion, or who is entitled to lands or tenements, after a particular estate granted is terminated. Blackstone.

A certain game at cards.

To turn back, or to the contrary; to reverse. Till happy chance revert the cruel scence. Prior. The tumbling stream . . . Reverted, plays in undulating flow. Thomson.

Turned back; reversed. Specifically: (Her.) Bent or curved twice, in opposite directions, or in the form of an S.

A remedy which restores the natural order of the inverted irritative motions in the animal system. [Obs.] E. Darwin.

One who, or that which, reverts.

Capable of, or admitting of, reverting or being reverted; as, a revertible estate.

Reverting, or tending to revert; returning. -- Re*vert"ive*ly, adv. The tide revertive, unattracted, leaves A yellow waste of idle sands behind. Thomson.

Same as Reverie.

To clothe again; to cover, as with a robe; to robe. Her, nathless, . . . the enchanterrevest and decked with due habiliments. Spenser.

The apartment, in a church or temple, where the vestments, etc., are kept; -- now contracted into vestry.

Same as Revestiary. [Obs.]

Vesture. [Obs.] Richrevesture of cloth of gold. E. Hall.

To face, as an embankment, with masonry, wood, or other material.

A facing of wood, stone, or any other material, to sustain an embankment when it receives a slope steeper than the natural slope; also, a retaining wall. [Written also revêtement (

With one breve, or four minims, to measure, and sung faster like four crotchets; in quick common time; -- indicated in the time signature by

A note or character of time, equivalent to two semibreves or four minims. When dotted, it is equal to three semibreves. It was formerly of a square figure (as thus: Moore.

To confer rank upon by brevet.