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ft all reserve, and all the sex, behind. Prior. The clergyman's shy and sensitive reserve had balked this scheme. Hawthorne.

ce of time; as, the residence of an American in France or Italy for a year. The confessor had often made considerable residences in Normandy. Sir M. Hale.

; remainder. The residue of them will I deliver to the sword. Jer. xv. 9. If church power had then prevailed over its victims, not a residue of English liberty would have been saved. I. Taylor.

but one Supreme Deity, which, with respect to the various benefits men received from him, had several titles. Tillotson.

Hence, freedom from everything which wearies or disturbs; peace; security. And the land had rest fourscore years. Judges iii. 30.

Passed in unquietness; as, the patient has had a restless night.

The taking again into the king's hands of such lands or tenements as he had granted to any man on false suggestions or other error.

for the sumptousness of their buildings and nobleness of the plantations. Evelyn. Caprea had been the retirement of Augustus. Addison.

ng well; the state of being revalescent. Would this prove that the patient's revalescence had been independent of the medicines given him Coleridge.

o die." Swift. The mind has a power in many cases to revive perceptions which it has once had. Locke.

A teacher of rhetoric. The ancient sophists and rhetoricians, which ever had young auditors, lived till they were an hundred years old. Bacon.

r puzzling. To wring from me, and tell to them, my secret, That solved the riddle which I had proposed. Milton. 'T was a strange riddle of a lady. Hudibras.

prightness; integrity. Long love to her has borne the faithful knight, And well deserved, had fortune done him right. Dryden.

he ear, the nose, or some other part of the person; as, a wedding ring. Upon his thumb he had of gold a ring. Chaucer. The dearest ring in Venice will I give you. Shak.

To spend or pass in riot. [He] had rioted his life out. Tennyson.

arch to the bottom; to discover; to disclose; -- usually with up. They ripped up all that had been done from the beginning of the rebellion. Clarendon. For brethern to debate and rip up their falling out in the ear of a common enemy . . . is neither wise nor comely. Milton.

perfection; as, to ripen the judgment. When faith and love, which parted from thee never, Had ripined thy iust soul to dwell with God. Milton.

A gratuity given to tenants after they had reaped their lord's corn. [Obs.]

To dry in the sun; as, rizzared haddock. [Scot.]

ehicles, a crowd of persons when shouting together, or the like. The brazen throat of war had ceased to roar. Milton. How oft I crossed where carts and coaches roar. Gay.