Ransom; release.

To cut off; to abrogate; to annul.

Capable of being rescinded.

The act of rescinding; rescission.

The act of rescinding, abrogating, annulling, or vacating; as, the rescission of a law, decree, or judgment.

Tending to rescind; rescinding.

Rescue; deliverance.

To rescue.

To write back; to write in reply.

A writing back; the answering of a letter.

Pertaining to, or answering the purpose of, a rescript; hence, deciding; settling; determining.

By rescript.

That may be rescued.

To free or deliver from any confinement, violence, danger, or evil; to liberate from actual restraint; to remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil; as, to rescue a prisoner from the enemy; to rescue seamen from destruction.

Without rescue or release.

One who rescues.

The party in whose favor a rescue is made.

One who makes an unlawful rescue; a rescuer.

To shake; to quake; to tremble.

Diligent inquiry or examination in seeking facts or principles; laborious or continued search after truth; as, researches of human wisdom; to research a topic in the library; medical research.

To search or examine with continued care; to seek diligently.

One who conducts research. In the field of scientific research, also called an investigator or scientist.

Making researches; inquisitive.

To seat or set again, as on a chair, throne, etc.

A network; 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. In lace, a ground or foundation of regular meshes, like network.

To cut or pare off; to remove by cutting.

The act of cutting or paring off.

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

To seek again.

To seize again, or a second time.

One who seizes again.

A second seizure; the act of seizing again.

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

Admitting of being compared; like.

The quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity.

Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling.

To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other.

One who resembles.

So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.

To produce again by means of seed.

To send again; as, to resend a message.

To feel resentment.

One who resents.

Inclined to resent; easily provoked to anger; irritable.

Resentment.

With deep sense or strong perception.

Resentful.

The act of resenting.

To unlock; to open.

Reservation.

The act of reserving, or keeping back; concealment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve.

Tending to reserve or keep; keeping; reserving.

A place in which things are reserved or kept.

The act of reserving, or keeping back; reservation.

Kept for future or special use, or for an exigency; as, reserved troops; a reserved seat in a theater.

One to, or for, whom anything is reserved; -- contrasted with reservor.

One who reserves.

A member of a reserve force of soldiers or militia.

A place where anything is kept in store; especially, a place where water is collected and kept for use when wanted, as to supply a fountain, a canal, or a city by means of aqueducts, or to drive a mill wheel, or the like.

One who reserves; a reserver.

To set again; as, to reset type; to reset copy; to reset a diamond.

One who resets, or sets again.

To settle again, or a second time.

Act of settling again, or state of being settled again; as, the resettlement of lees.

To shape again.

To engage one's self again for service on board of a vessel after having been discharged.

The act of reshipping; also, that which is reshipped.

One who reships.

Residence; abode.

A resident.

To dwell permanently or for a considerable time; to have a settled abode for a time; to abide continuosly; to have one's domicile of home; to remain for a long time.

The act or fact of residing, abiding, or dwelling in a place for some continuance of time; as, the residence of an American in France or Italy for a year.

In Spanish countries, a court or trial held, sometimes as long as six months, by a newly elected official, as the governor of a province, to examine into the conduct of a predecessor.

Residence.

One who resides or dwells in a place for some time.

A resident.

Of or pertaining to a residence or residents; as, residential trade; a residential part of town.

One who is resident.

The office or condition of a residentiary.

The office or condition of a resident.

One who resides in a place.

The difference of the results obtained by observation, and by computation from a formula. The difference between the mean of several observations and any one of them.

Consisting of residue; as, residuary matter; pertaining to the residue, or part remaining; as, the residuary advantage of an estate.

That which remains after a part is taken, separated, removed, or designated; remnant; remainder.

Remaining; residual.

That which is left after any process of separation or purification; that which remains after certain specified deductions are made; residue.

To seat again; to reinstate.

The act of resigning or giving up, as a claim, possession, office, or the like; surrender; as, the resignation of a crown or commission.

Submissive; yielding; not disposed to resist or murmur.

With submission.

One to whom anything is resigned, or in whose favor a resignation is made.

One who resigns.

The act of resigning.

To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose.

The act of springing back, rebounding, or resiling; as, the resilience of a ball or of sound.

Leaping back; rebounding; recoiling.

Resilience.

Any one of a class of yellowish brown solid inflammable substances, of vegetable origin, which are nonconductors of electricity, have a vitreous fracture, and are soluble in ether, alcohol, and essential oils, but not in water; specif., pine resin (see Rosin).

Having the quality of resin; resinous.

Any one of the salts the resinic acids.

Pertaining to, or obtained from, resin; as, the resinic acids.

Yielding resin; as, a resiniferous tree or vessel.

Having the form of resin.

Containing or exhibiting resinous electricity.

Somewhat like resin.

Of or pertaining to resin; of the nature of resin; resembling or obtained from resin.

By means, or in the manner, of resin.

The quality of being resinous.

Like resin; resinous.

Wisdom derived from severe experience; hence, repentance.

A substance used to prevent a color or mordant from fixing on those parts to which it has been applied, either by acting machanically in preventing the color, etc., from reaching the cloth, or chemically in changing the color so as to render it incapable of fixing itself in the fibers; -- also called reserve. The pastes prepared for this purpose are called resist pastes.

The act of resisting; opposition, passive or active.

Making resistance; resisting. One who, or that which, resists.

One who resists.

Making much resistance.

The quality of being resistible; resistibleness.

Capable of being resisted; as, a resistible force.

Making resistance; opposing; as, a resisting medium.

Serving to resist.

Having no power to resist; making no opposition.