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To shake; to quake; to tremble. [Obs.] "It made all the gates for to rese." Chaucer.

examination in seeking facts or principles; laborius or continued search after truth; as, researches of human wisdom. The dearest interests of parties have frequently been staked on the results of the researches of antiquaries. Macaulay.

One who researches.

Making researches; inquisitive. [R.] Coleridge.

To put a new seat, or new seats, in; as, to reseat a theater; to reseat a chair or trousers.

A system of lines forming small squares of standard size, which is photographed, by a separate exposure, on the same plate with star images to facilitate measurements, detect changes of the film, etc.

To cut or pare off; to remove by cutting.

The act of cutting or paring off. Cotgrave.

A genus of plants, the type of which is mignonette.

To seek again. J. Barlow.

To put in possession again; to reinstate. And then therein [in his kingdom] reseized was again. Spenser.

One who seizes again.

A second seizure; the act of seizing again. Bacon.

To sell again; to sell what has been bought or sold; to retail.

Admitting of being compared; like. [Obs.] Gower.

The quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity. One main end of poetry and painting is to please; they bear a great resemblance to each other. Dryden.

Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. [R.] Gower.

ilar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other. We will resemble you in that. Shak.

One who resembles.

So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.