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national banks are required (U. S. Rev. Stat. sec. 5191) to keep a larger reserve (25 per cent) than the minimum (15 per cent) required of all other banks. The banks in certain of the reserve cities (specifically called central reserve cities) are required to keep their reserve on hand in cash; banks in other reserve c…

eclaration or resolution; specifically, one of a party in the Scottish Church in the 17th century. He was sequestrated afterwards as a Resolutioner. Sir W. Scott.

The state or condition of a part when drawn back, or towards the center of the body.

ive influence is that which we have intended above, as the influence of the mass upon its centers. I. Taylor.

ivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression; as, classical learning revived in the fifteenth century.

The act of revolving, or turning round on an axis or a center; the motion of a body round a fixed point or line; rotation; as, the revolution of a wheel, of a top, of the earth on its axis, etc.

To move in a curved path round a center; as, the planets revolve round the sun.

A genus of marine Bryozoa in which the tubular cells have a centralchitinous axis and the tentacles are borne on a bilobed lophophore. It is the type of the order Pterobranchia, or Podostomata

The central cord in the stem of a crinoid.

otected elevated staging on wheels, and armed in front with pikes. It was (after the 14th century) furnished with small cannon.

anes are perpendicular to each other. -- Right ascension. See under Ascension. -- Right Center (Politics), those members belonging to the Center in a legislative assembly who have sympathies with the Right on political questions. See Center, n., 5. -- Right cone, Right cylinder, Right prism, Right pyramid (Geom.), a…

A Danish coin worth about fifty-four cents. It was former unit of value in Denmark.

A Swedish coin worth about twenty-seven cents. It was formerly the unit of value in Sweden.

Having the percussion fulminate in a rim surrounding the base, distinguished from center-fire; -- said of cartridges; also, using rim-fire cartridges; as, a rim-fire gun. Such cartridges are now little used.

t silver coins of Denmark, Holland, Sweden,, NOrway, etc., varying in value from about 30 cents to $1.10; also, a British coin worth about 36 cents, used in Ceylon and at the Cape of Good Hope. See Rigsdaler, Riksdaler, and Rixdaler.

l America constituting the family Oxylabracidæ, esp. the largest species (Oxylabrax, syn. Centropomus, undecimalis), a valuable food fish called also snook, the smaller species being called Rob`a*li"to.

A frock or outer garment worn in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

olive green; a frontal band and the outer edge of the wing quills are deep blue, and the central tail feathers bluish green. -- Rock pigeon (Zoöl.), the wild pigeon (Columba livia) Of Europe and Asia, from which the domestic pigeon was derived. See Illust. under Pigeon. -- Rock pipit. (Zoöl.) See the Note under Pipi…

rid style of ornamentation which prevailed in Europe in the latter part of the eighteenth century.

e later Roman empire, but esp. to the more developed architecture prevailing from the 8th century to the 12th.