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A strip of oxhide, deprived of hair, and rendered pliable, -- used for twisting into ropes, etc. [South Africa] Simmonds.

See Re.

To imbody again. Boyle.

Capable of being repaid; repayable. A loan has been made of two millions of dollars, reimbursable in ten years. A. Hamilton.

nt for what has been taken, lost, or expended; to refund; to pay back; to restore; as, to reimburse the expenses of a war.

The act reimbursing. A. Hamilton.

One who reimburses.

To implant again.

To import again; to import what has been exported; to bring back. Young.

The act of reimporting; also, that which is reimported.

To importune again.

To impose anew.

To impregnate again or anew. Sir T. Browne.

To impress anew.

A second or repeated impression; a reprint.

To imprint again.

To imprison again.

The act of reimprisoning, or the state of being reimprisoned.

That which is allowed; a share or portion allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose; a stated quantity, as of food or drink; hence, a limited quantity of meat and drink, when provisions fall short. I can give the boy a handsome allowance. Thackeray.…

to become cognizant of; to understand; to recognize; to consider. This suspicion of Earl Reimund, though at first but a buzz, soon got a sting in the king's head, and he violently apprehended it. Fuller. The eternal laws, such as the heroic age apprehended them. Gladstone.