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g the needle to its anterior surface, and depressing it into the vitreous humor in such a way that front surface of the cataract becomes the upper one and its back surface the lower one. Dunglison.

To reflect; to ponder. [Obs.] Praying all the way, and recording upon the words which he before had read. Fuller.

ssession of; to win back; to regain. David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away. 1. Sam. xxx. 18.

te cognition of external objects has, as far as I know, been redargued in three different ways. Sir W. Hamilton.

e sporocyst of certain trematodes by asexual generation. It in turn produces, in the same way, either another generation of rediæ, or else cercariæ within its own body. Called also proscolex, and nurse. See Illustration in Appendix.

To govern or direct with the reins; as, to rein a horse one way or another. He mounts and reins his horse. Chapman.

The reins are to a vault nearly what the haunches are to an arch, and when a vault gives way by thrusting outward, it is because its reins are not sufficiently filled up.

elive the tired dogs or horses, and to continnue the pursuit of the game if it comes that way. (c) A number of men who relieve others in carrying on some work.

To measure again; to retrace. They followed him . . . The way they came, their steps remeasured right. Fairfax.

ck, eyelet, etc.; as, a rope renders well, that is, passes freely; also, to yield or give way. Totten.

The act of taking from an enemy by way of reteliation or indemnity. Debatable ground, on which incursions and reprisals continued to take place. Macaulay.

A taking by way of retaliation. [Obs.] Dryden.

o require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way. Ezra viii. 22.

r active. When King Demetrius saw that . . . no resistance was made against him, he sent away all his forces. 1. Macc. xi. 38.

or suppress; to keep down; to curb. Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature Gives way to in repose! Shak.

Retirement; -- mostly used in a jocose or burlesque way. [U.S.] Bartlett. What one of our great men used to call dignified retiracy. C. A. Bristed.

active law or statute (Law), one which operates to make criminal or punishable, or in any way expressly to affect, acts done prior to the passing of the law.

By way of retrospect.

In a reversed way.

By way of revocation.