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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 nature and requirements. Hawthorne.

The act of requiring, as of right; a demand or application made as by authority. Specifically: (a) (International Law)

A projection from the right side of the cuirass, serving to support the lance. Their visors closed, their lances in the rest. Dryden.

The act of restoring anything to its rightful owner, or of making good, or of giving an equivalent for any loss, damage, or injury; indemnification. A restitution of ancient rights unto the crown. Spenser. He restitution to the value makes. Sandys.

The right of withholding a debt, or of retaining property until a debt due to the person claiming the right be duly paid; a lien. Erskine. Craig. Retention cyst (Med.), a cyst produced by obstruction of a duct leading from a secreting organ and the consequent retention of the natural secretions.

, or open renunciation, of a suit in court by the plaintiff, by which he forever lost his right of action. Blackstone.

The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building, face of a building, or any member, as a molding or mold; -- applied to the shorter in contradistinction to the longer; thus, a facade of sixty feet east and west has a return of twenty feet north and south.

o something else; a contrary; an opposite. Chaucer. And then mistook reverse of wrong for right. Pope. To make everything the reverse of what they have seen, is quite as easy as to destroy. Burke.

hotog.), a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left. Abney.

Hence, a right to future possession or enjoiment; succession. For even reversions are all begged before. Dryden.

ccession, or after the termination of a particular estate; as, a reversionary interest or right.

To take effect or vest again, as a title; to revert to former owner; as, the title or right revels in A after alienation.

The act by which one, having the right, annuls an act done, a power or authority given, or a license, gift, or benefit conferred; repeal; reversal; as, the revocation of an edict, a power, a will, or a license.

on), and a moving surface a solid (called a solid of revolution); as, the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of its sides generates a cone; the revolution of a semicircle about the diameter generates a sphere.

iped of crown or St. Gobain glass so cut that a ray of light entering one of its faces at right angles shall emerge at right angles at the opposite face, after undergoing within the rhomb, at other faces, two reflections. It is used to produce a ray circularly polarized from a plane-polarized ray, or the reverse. Nicho…

f the final consonants if there be any. For rhyme with reason may dispense, And sound has right to govern sense. Prior.

Of or pertaining to the bank of a river; as, riparian rights.

A person having a common right or privilege with another; a partner. [Obs.] If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus, The rivals of my watch, bid them make haste. Shak.

Equality, as of right or rank. [Obs.] hak.

To take that which belongs to another, without right or permission, esp. by violence. I am accursed to rob in that thief's company. Shak.