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One who gives reinsurance.

To measure again; to retrace. They followed him . . . The way they came, their steps remeasured right. Fairfax.

Rest; quiet. In the reposure of most soft content. Marston.

A longitudinal opening in a body, made by cutting; a cleft; a fissure. Hammond.

Assured by or of one's self; self-reliant; complacent.

The act of exposing one's self; the state of being so exposed.

The public officer who has charge of a subtreasury. [U. S.]

Supposition; hypothesis; conjecture. [Obs.] Hudibras.

Tension. [Obs.] Bacon.

The act of clipping the hair, or of shaving the crown of the head; also, the state of being shorn.

Having the tonsure; shaven; shorn; clipped; hence, bald. A tonsured head in middle age forlorn. Tennyson.

Wealth accumulated; especially, a stock, or store of money in reserve. This treasure hath fortune unto us given. Chaucer.

A house or building where treasures and stores are kept.

d in the earth, or otherwise hidden, the owner of which is not known. In England such treasure belongs to the crown; whereas similar treasure found in the sea, or upon the surface of the land, belongs to the finder if no owner appears.

One who has the care of a treasure or treasure or treasury; an officer who receives the public money arising from taxes and duties, or other sources of revenue, takes charge of the same, and disburses it upon orders made by the proper authority; one who has charge of collected funds; as, the treasurer of a society or c…

The office of treasurer.

A woman who is a treasurer. [R.]

A kind of border similar to the orle, but of only half the breadth of the latter.

Provided or bound with a tressure; arranged in the form of a tressure. The tressured fleur-de-lis he claims To wreathe his shield. Sir W. Scott.

Not assured; not bold or confident.