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A falling back; a backsliding. Hammond.

Recurved.

The act of recurving, or the state of being recurved; a bending or flexure backward.

A raising or lifting up. [Obs.]

To make over again; to restore to freshness or vigor; to renew. All nature feels the reniovating force Of winter. Thomson.

The act or process of renovating; the state of being renovated or renewed. Thomson. There is something inexpressibly pleasing in the annual renovation of the world. Rabbler.

One who, or that which, renovates. Foster.

r keeping back; concealment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve. A. Smith. With reservation of an hundred knights. Shak. Make some reservation of your wrongs. Shak.

Tending to reserve or keep; keeping; reserving.

A place in which things are reserved or kept. Woodward.

Between rhomboid and ovate, or oval, in shape.

To produce an abnormal flow of saliva in; to produce salivation or ptyalism in, as by the use of mercury. over.; as, salivate over the prospects of high profits from an enterprise.

The act or process of salivating; an excessive secretion of saliva, often accompained with soreness of the mouth and gums; ptyalism.

The act of saving; preservation or deliverance from destruction, danger, or great calamity.

An evangelist, a member, or a recruit, of the Salvation Army.

A place where things are preserved; a repository. [R.] Sir M. Hale.

The preservation of one's self from destruction or injury.

Half ovate.

Same as Sylvate.

A genus of very large extinct ruminants found in the Tertiary formation of India. The snout was prolonged in the form of a proboscis. The male had four horns, the posterior pair being large and branched. It was allied to the antelopes, but very much larger than any exsisting species.