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The act of reiterating; that which is reiterated.

A word expressing repeated or reiterated action.

One who requites.

A long-handled billhook. See Billhook. Scimiter pods (Bot.), the immense curved woody pods of a leguminous woody climbing plant (Entada scandens) growing in tropical India and America. They contain hard round flattish seeds two inches in diameter, which are made into boxes.

Half terete.

Having the characteristics of both a tertian and a quotidian intermittent. -- n.

Of neverending duration; everlasting; endless; having beginning, but no end. Sir M. Hale.

Sempiternal. [Obs.]

Future duration without end; the relation or state of being sempiternal. Sir M. Hale.

Sesquitertian.

Having the ratio of one and one third to one (as 4 : 3).

A lake whitefish; the roundfish. See Roundfish.

One who practices petty thefts. [Obs.] Shak. There are political sheepbiters as well as pastoral; betrayers of public trusts as well as of private. L'Estrange.

The technical name of the form by which either party, in pleading, accepts the issue tendered by his opponent; -- called sometimes a joinder in issue.

One who smites. I give my back to the smiters. Isa. l. 6.

An historian; a chronicler. [Obs.] "Rathums, the story-writer." 1 Esdr. ii. 17.

One who surfeits. Shak.

A customhouse officer who watches the landing of goods from merchant vessels, in order to secure payment of duties. Swift.

To express or represent in the characters of another alphabet; as, to transliterate Sanskrit words by means of English letters. A. J. Ellis.

The act or product of transliterating, or of expressing words of a language by means of the characters of another alphabet.