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Resend

To send again; as, to resend a message.

Resentful

Inclined to resent; easily provoked to anger; irritable.

Reservation

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

Reservative

Tending to reserve or keep; keeping; reserving.

Reservatory

A place in which things are reserved or kept.

Reserve

The act of reserving, or keeping back; reservation.

Reserved

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

Reservee

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

Reservist

A member of a reserve force of soldiers or militia.

Reservoir

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.

Reset

To harbor or secrete; to hide, as stolen goods or a criminal.

Reset re-set

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

Resettle

To settle again, or a second time.

Resettlement

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

Reship

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

Reshipment

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

Reside

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.

Residence

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.

Residencia

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.

Resident

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

Residential

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

Residual

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.

Residuary

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

Residue

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

Residuum

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

Resiege

To seat again; to reinstate.

Resignation

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

Resigned

Submissive; yielding; not disposed to resist or murmur.

Resignee

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

resile

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

resiliency resilience

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

Resilient

Leaping back; rebounding; recoiling.

Resin

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).

Resinate

Any one of the salts the resinic acids.

Resinic

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

Resiniferous

Yielding resin; as, a resiniferous tree or vessel.

Resinous

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

Resipiscence

Wisdom derived from severe experience; hence, repentance.

Resist

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.

Resistance

The act of resisting; opposition, passive or active.

Resistant

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

Resistible

Capable of being resisted; as, a resistible force.

Resisting

Making resistance; opposing; as, a resisting medium.

Resistless

Having no power to resist; making no opposition.

Resoluble

Admitting of being resolved; resolvable; as, bodies resoluble by fire.

Resolute

One who is resolute; hence, a desperado.

Resolutely

In a resolute manner; with fixed purpose; boldly; firmly; steadily; with perseverance.

Resolution

The act, operation, or process of resolving. The act of separating a compound into its elements or component parts. The act of analyzing a complex notion, or solving a vexed question or difficult problem.

Resolutioner

One who makes a resolution; one who joins with others in a declaration or resolution; specifically, one of a party in the Scottish Church in the 17th century.

Resolvability

The quality or condition of being resolvable; resolvableness.

Resolvable

Admitting of being resolved; admitting separation into constituent parts, or reduction to first principles; admitting solution or explanation; as, resolvable compounds; resolvable ideas or difficulties.

Resolve

The act of resolving or making clear; resolution; solution.

Resolved

Having a fixed purpose; determined; resolute; -- usually placed after its noun; as, a man resolved to be rich.

Resolvedly

So as to resolve or clear up difficulties; clearly.

Resolvent

That which has the power of resolving, or causing solution; a solvent.

Resolver

That which decomposes, or dissolves.

Resonance

The act of resounding; the quality or state of being resonant.

Resonant

Returning, or capable of returning, sound; fitted to resound; resounding; echoing back.

Resonator

Anything which resounds; specifically, a vessel in the form of a cylinder open at one end, or a hollow ball of brass with two apertures, so contrived as to greatly intensify a musical tone by its resonance. It is used for the study and analysis of complex sounds.

Resorcin

A colorless crystalline substance of the phenol series, obtained by melting certain resins, as galbanum, asafetida, etc., with caustic potash. It is also produced artificially and used in making certain dyestuffs, as phthalein, fluorescein, and eosin.

Resorcylic

Of, or pertaining to, or producing, resorcin; as, resorcylic acid.

Resorption

The act of resorbing; also, the act of absorbing again; reabsorption.

Resort

The act of going to, or making application; a betaking one's self; the act of visiting or seeking; recourse; as, a place of popular resort; -- often figuratively; as, to have resort to force.

Resource

That to which one resorts orr on which one depends for supply or support; means of overcoming a difficulty; resort; expedient.

Respect

The act of noticing with attention; the giving particular consideration to; hence, care; caution.

Respectability

The state or quality of being respectable; the state or quality which deserves or commands respect.

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