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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.

A scholar appointed to inspect other scholars; a monitor. Todd.

. Jonson. Above all thy rarities, old Oxenford, what do most arride and solace me are thy repositories of moldering learning. Lamb.

The seat of consciousness; the repository of thought and self- consciousness, or of secrets; the seat of the affections and passions; the heart. He has a loyal breast. Shak.

A vault or crypt in connection with a church, used as a repository for human bones disintered from their original burial places; a charnel house.

A repository for holding things; a hinding place.

g top, but often with flat top, for the use writers and readers. It often has a drawer or repository underneath.

A repository for fruit. Johnson.

A storehouse or repository for grain, esp. after it is thrashed or husked; a cornbouse; also (Fig.), a region fertile in grain. The exhaustless granary of a world. Thomson.

A subterranean repository for wheat.

A repository or a collection of natural, scientific, or literary curiosities, or of works of art. Museum beetle, Museum pest. (Zoöl.) See Anthrenus.

A nest: a repository for the eggs of birds, insects, etc.; a breeding place; esp., the place or substance where parasites or the germs of a disease effect lodgment or are developed.

See Prepositor.

That from which supplies are drawn; a storehouse; a magazine; a repository. Woodward.

used, fro receiving and containing something, as a basket, a vase, a bag, a reservoir; a repository. O sacred receptacle of my joys! Shak.

A repository; a storehouse. [Obs.] Ash.

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

A repository of spices. Addison.

A building for keeping goods of any kind, especially provisions; a magazine; a repository; a warehouse. Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto Egyptians. Gen. xli. 56. The Scripture of God is a storehouse abounding with estimable treasures of wisdom and knowledge. Hooker.