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Full of repose; quiet.

One who reposes.

or stay; to lay away; to lodge, as for safety or preservation; to place; to store. Others reposit their young in holes. Derham.

The act of repositing; a laying up.

An instrument employed for replacing a displaced organ or part.

A place where things are or may be reposited, or laid up, for safety or preservation; a depository. Locke.

To possess again; as, to repossess the land. Pope. To repossess one's self of (something), to acquire again (something lost).

The act or the state of possessing again.

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

To pour again.

r 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.

Repoussé work. Repoussé work, ornamentation of metal in relief by pressing or hammering on the reverse side.

Reproof. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To reprove or reprimand with a view of restraining, checking, or preventing; to make charge of fault against; to disapprove of; to chide; to blame; to censure. Chaucer. Aristippus being reprehended of luxury by one that was not rich, for that he gave six crowns for a small fish. Bacon. Pardon me for reprehending thee.…

One who reprehends.

Worthy of reprehension; culpable; censurable; blamable. -- Rep`re*hen"si*ble*ness, n. -- Rep`re*hen"si*bly, adv.

Reproof; censure; blame; disapproval. This Basilius took as though his mistress had given him a secret reprehension that he had not showed more gratefulness to Dorus. Sir P. Sidney.

Containing reprehension; conveying reproof. South. -- Rep`re*hen"sive*ly, adv.

Containing reproof; reprehensive; as, reprehensory complaint. Johnson.

hibit the counterpart or image of; to typify. Before him burn Seven lamps, as in a zodiac representing The heavenly fires. Milton.