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in respect to the position of lights and shades, instead of having the lights and shades reversed; as, a positive picture.

year's profits of the land if in possession, and half a year's profits if the land was in reversion expectant on an estate for life; -- now abolished. Blackstone.

- Process milling, the process of high milling for grinding flour. See under Milling. -- Reversible process (Thermodynamics), any process consisting of a cycle of operations such that the different operations of the cycle can be performed in reverse order with a reversal of their effects.

An instrument which exhibits objects with their proper relief reversed; -- an effect opposite to that produced by the stereoscope. Wheatstone.

f, pertaining to, or formed by, a pseudoscope; having its parts appearing with the relief reversed; as, a pseudoscopic image.

A point or hit. Punto diritto Etym: [It.], a direct stroke or hit. -- Punto reverso Etym: [It. riverso reverse], a backhanded stroke. Halliwell. "Ah, the immortal passado! the punto reverso!" Shak.

To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition.

n in resisting other action or force; counter tendency; movement in a contrary direction; reverse action.

To start, roll, bound, spring, or fall back; to take a reverse motion; to be driven or forced backward; to return. Evil on itself shall back recoil. Milton. The solemnity of her demeanor made it impossible . . . that we should recoil into our ordinary spirits. De Quincey.

l set close together to decorate a surface; also, decoration by means of reedings; -- the reverse of fluting.

To exchange anew; to reverse (a previous exchange).

The correspondence of pages, columns, or lines on the opposite or reverse sides of the sheet.

the reversal of the natural direction in which the current or contents flow through a tube or cavity of the body. Quain.

To reverse. [Obs.] Whose shield he bears renverst. Spenser.

Reversed; set with the head downward; turned contrary to the natural position.

A reversing. [Obs.]

Art or process of hammering out or pressing thin metal from the reverse side: (1) in producing repoussé work; (2) in leveling up any part of an etched plate that has been worked so as to cause a depression.

Ornamented with patterns in relief made by pressing or hammering on the reverse side; -- said of thin metal, or of a vessel made of thin metal. -- n.

Inverted in position; appearing to be upside down or reversed, as the flowers of the orchis and the leaves of some plants.

The state of luing on the back; the state of being resupinate, or reversed. Our Vitruvius calleth this affection in the eye a resupination of the figure. Sir H. Wotton.