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To confine; to limit; to restrict. Addison. These figures, ought they then to receive a retrenched interpretation I. Taylor.

To find again; to recover; to regain; to restore from loss or injury; as, to retrieve one's character; to retrieve independence. With late repentance now they would retrieve The bodies they forsook, and wish to live. Dryden

The act of returning (transitive), or sending back to the same place or condition; restitution; repayment; requital; retribution; as, the return of anything borrowed, as a book or money; a good return in tennis. You made my liberty your late request: Is no return due from a grateful breast Dryden.

To move playfully; to indulge without restraint. "Where joy most revels." Shak.

To reclaim; to demand the restoration of. [R.] Vattel (Trans. ).

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

To restore vitality to; to bring back to life. L. S. Beale.

To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate. Those bodies, by reason of whose mortality we died, shall be revived. Bp. Pearson.

To revive; to recall or restore to life. [R.]

Renewal of life; restoration of life; the act of recaling, or the state of being recalled, to life.

Returning or restoring to life or vigor; reanimating. Milton. -- Re*viv"ing*ly, adv.

To refurnish with a voice; to refit, as an organ pipe, so as to restore its tone.

To hold back; to repress; to restrain. [Obs.] [She] still strove their sudden rages to revoke. Spenser.

To alter the wording of; to restate in other words; as, to reword an idea or a passage.

To be supported in motion; to rest. Strong as the exletree On which heaven rides. Shak. On whose foolish honesty My practices ride easy! Shak.

an object of laughter; banter; -- a term lighter than derision. We have in great measure restricted the meaning of ridicule, which would properly extend over whole region of the ridiculous, -- the laughable, -- and we have narrowed it so that in common usage it mostly corresponds to "derision", which does indeed invol…

or social claim to do or to exact; legal power; authority; as, a sheriff has a right to arrest a criminal.

The becoming stiff or rigid; the state of being rigid; rigidity; stiffness; hardness. The rest his look Bound with Gorgonian rigor not to move. Milton.

Wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar; tumult. His headstrong riot hath no curb. Shak.

To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; -- said of style, thought, or discourse; as, to rise in force of expression; to rise in eloquence; a story rises in interest.