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The act of refunding; also, that which is refunded. [R.] Lamb.

To flow in anew. [Obs.] Swift.

To pour from one vessel into another; to transfuse. [Obs.] Barrow.

tc. He abdicates all right to be his own governor. Burke. The understanding abdicates its functions. Froude.

Applied to one of the cases of the noun in Latin and some other languages, -- the fundamental meaning of the case being removal, separation, or taking away.

One of the functionaries who light and trim the tapers.

n; adjustment; -- followed by to. "The organization of the body with accommodation to its functions." Sir M. Hale.

An escutcheon or ensign armorial; now generally applied to the funeral shield commonly called hatchment. Cussans.

A spore borne at the extremity of the cells of fructification in fungi.

To perform actions; to fulfill functions; to put forth energy; to move, as opposed to remaining at rest; to carry into effect a determination of the will. He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest. Pope.

Any one of the active processes going on in an organism; the performance of a function; as, the action of the heart, the muscles, or the gastric juice.

A form of fruit in the cycle of development of the Rusts or Brands, an order of fungi, formerly considered independent plants.

A fungus of the genus Agaricus, of many species, of which the common mushroom is an example.

tockjobbing; the maneuvers of speculators to raise or lower the price of stocks or public funds. Vanity and agiotage are to a Parisian the oxygen and hydrogen of life. Landor.

a board or body of municipal officers next in order to the mayor and having a legislative function. They may, in some cases, individually exercise some magisterial and administrative functions.

Pertaining to aliment or food, or to the function of nutrition; nutritious; alimental; as, alimentary substances. Alimentary canal, the entire channel, extending from the mouth to the anus, by which aliments are conveyed through the body, and the useless parts ejected.

The act or process of affording nutriment; the function of the alimentary canal.

g life, in opposition to dead; living; being in a state in which the organs perform their functions; as, an animal or a plant which is alive.

Gradually changing, or tending to change, a morbid state of the functions into one of health. Burton.

A spongy, combustible substance, prepared from fungus (Boletus and Polyporus) which grows on old trees; German tinder; punk. It has been employed as a styptic by surgeons, but its common use is as tinder, for which purpose it is prepared by soaking it in a strong solution of niter. Ure.