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That which is removed, as a dish removed from table to make room for something else.

Distant in location; remote. "Something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling." Shak.

act or process of renovating; the state of being renovated or renewed. Thomson. There is something inexpressibly pleasing in the annual renovation of the world. Rabbler.

Figuratively, to do something in return for something done; as, to reply to a signal; to reply to the fire of a battery.

To possess again; as, to repossess the land. Pope. To repossess one's self of (something), to acquire again (something lost).

To present again or anew; to present by means of something standing in the place of; to exhibit the counterpart or image of; to typify. Before him burn Seven lamps, as in a zodiac representing The heavenly fires. Milton.

To attribute blame to; to allege something disgracefull against; to charge with a fault; to censure severely or contemptuously; to upbraid. If ye be reproached for the name of Christ. 1 Peter iv. 14. That this newcomer, Shame, There sit not, and reproach us as unclean. Milton. Mezentius . . . with his ardor warmed His…

To produce again, by generation or the like; to cause the existence of (something of the same class, kind, or nature as another thing); to generate or beget, as offspring; as, to reproduce a rose; some animals are reproduced by gemmation.

A second publication, or a new publication of something before published, as of a former will, of a volume already published, or the like; specifically, the publication in one country of a work first issued in another; a reprint. If there be many testaments, the last overthrows all the former; but the republication of…

To ask for (something); to express desire ffor; to solicit; as, to request his presence, or a favor.

That which is required; an imperative or authoritative command; an essential condition; something needed or necessary; a need. One of those who believe that they can fill up every requirement contained in the rule of righteousness. J. M. Mason. God gave her the child, and gave her too an instinctive knowledge of its na…

That which is required, or is necessary; something indispensable. God, on his part, has declared the requisites on ours; what we must do to obtain blessings, is the great business of us all to know. Wake.

The state of holding something in the mind as a subject of contemplation, or of being inclined to reflect upon something; a state consciousness; conviction; feeling; impression. [Obs.] He retains vivid resentments of the more solid morality. Dr. H. More. It is a greater wonder that so many of them die, with so little r…

Something withheld, either not expressed or disclosed, or not given up or brought forward. Dryden.

r emolument. Hence, to give up; to yield; to submit; -- said of the wishes or will, or of something valued; -- also often used reflexively. I here resign my government to thee. Shak. Lament not, Eve, but patiently resign What justly thou hast lost. Milton. What more reasonable, than that we should in all things resign…

Suited to something else; correspondent. The vocal lay responsive to the strings. Pope.

That which is restored or offered in place of something; a substitute. [R.]

Something which serves to restore; especially, a restorative medicine. Arbuthnot.

To form a picture or model of, as of something lost or mutilated; as, to restore a ruined building, city, or the like.

To begin again; to recommence, as something which has been interrupted; as, to resume an argument or discourse.