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A backset; a check; a repulse; a reverse; a relapse. [Colloq. U.S.]

Having the whorls of the spire revolving or rising to the left; reversed; -- said of certain spiral shells.

gamut, ascending or descending; as, do or ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si, do, or the same in reverse order. Yet can I neither solfe ne sing. Piers Plowman.

A gold coin, first made in the reign of Edward IV., having a star on the reverse resembling the rowel of a spur. In the reigns of Elizabeth and of James I., its value was fifteen shillings. [Written also spur-rial, and spur-ryal.]

of three-phase current, two-phase current may be derived from the secondary circuits. The reverse arrangement may be used to transform from two-phase. -- T"-connected, a.

The side of a coin opposite to that which bears the head, effigy, or date; the reverse; -- rarely used except in the expression "heads or tails," employed when a coin is thrown up for the purpose of deciding some point by its fall.

e stigma, and visible at the throat of the corolla, as in long-stamened primroses; -- the reverse of pin-eyed.

hrust plane (Geol.), the surface along which dislocation has taken place in the case of a reversed fault.

among the holders of policies in force at the termination of the tontine period, but the reverse for the paid-up value is paid on lapsed policies, and on the policies of those that have died the face is paid. Other modified forms are called free tontine, deferred dividend, etc., according to the nature of the tontine…

most or outmost; to make the upper side the lower, or the inside to be the outside of; to reverse the position of; as, to turn a box or a board; to turn a coat.

A compound crystal composed of two or more crystals, or parts of crystals, in reversed position with reference to each other.

The assemblage of two or more crystals, or parts of crystals, in reversed position with reference to each other in accordance with some definite law; also, rarely, in artificial twinning (accomplished for example by pressure), the process by which this reversal is brought about. Polysynthetic twinning, repeated twinnin…

Destitute of bards, or of reversed points, hairs, or plumes; as, an unbarded feather.

To reverse or recant, as a previous decision.

Reversed or nullified by decree, as something previously decreed.

To reverse, as what has been done; to annul; to bring to naught. What's done can not be undone. Shak. To-morrow, ere the setting sun, She 'd all undo that she had done. Swift.

Absence of reverse; frankness; freedom of communication. T. Warton.

Not turned; not revolved or reversed. To leave no stone unturned, to leave nothing untried for accomplishing one's purpose. [He] left unturned no stone To make my guilt appear, and hide his own. Dryden.

To reverse or annul by vote, as a former vote. [R.] Bp, Burnet.

To annul or reverse by an act of the will. Longfellow.