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.

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

One who is resolute; hence, a desperado.

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

The quality of being resolute.

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.

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.

One who makes a resolution.

Serving to dissolve or relax.

Resolutive.

The quality or condition of being resolvable; resolvableness.

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.

The quality of being resolvable; resolvability.

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

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

So as to resolve or clear up difficulties; clearly.

Fixedness of purpose; firmness; resolution.

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

That which decomposes, or dissolves.

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

Resonance.

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

In a resonant manner.

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.

To swallow up.

Swallowing up.

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.

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

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

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.

One who resorts; a frequenter.

To resound.

Return of sound; echo.

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

Full of resources.

Destitute of resources.

To sow again.

To resound.

To speak or utter again.

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

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

Worthy of respect; fitted to awaken esteem; deserving regard; hence, of good repute; not mean; as, a respectable citizen.

Placed so as to face one another; -- said of animals.

One who respects.

Marked or characterized by respect; as, respectful deportment.

With regard or relation to; regarding; concerning; as, respecting his conduct there is but one opinion.

The act of respecting; respect; regard.

Noticing with attention; hence, careful; wary; considerate.

As relating to each; particularly; as each belongs to each; as each refers to each in order; as, let each man respectively perform his duty.

Having no respect; without regard; regardless.

Respectful; as, a respectuous silence.

To spell again.

To sprinkle; to scatter.

The quality or state of being respirable; respirableness.

Suitable for being breathed; adapted for respiration.

The act of respiring or breathing again, or catching one's breath.

Of or pertaining to respiration; as, respirational difficulties.

Of or pertaining to respiration; as, respirative organs.

A divice of gauze or wire, covering the mouth or nose, to prevent the inhalation of noxious substances, as dust or smoke. Being warmed by the breath, it tempers cold air passing through it, and may also be used for the inhalation of medicated vapors.

Of or pertaining to respiration; serving for respiration; as, the respiratory organs; respiratory nerves; the respiratory function; respiratory changes.

To breathe in and out; to inspire and expire,, as air; to breathe.

To give or grant a respite to. To delay or postpone; to put off. To keep back from execution; to reprieve.

Without respite.

The quality or state of being resplendent; brilliant luster; vivid brightness; splendor.

Shining with brilliant luster; very bright.

Resplendent; brilliant.

Resplendent.

To split again.

An answer; a response.

The act of responding; the state of being respondent; an answering.

One who responds. It corresponds in general to defendant. One who answers in certain suits or proceedings, generally those which are not according to the course of the common law, as in equity and admiralty causes, in petitions for partition, and the like; -- distinquished from appellant. One who maintains a thesis in reply, and whose province it is to refute objections, or overthrow arguments; -- distinguished from opponent.

A loan upon goods laden on board a ship. It differs from bottomry, which is a loan on the ship itself.

One who is answerable or responsible.

The act of responding.

Giving no response.

The state of being responsible, accountable, or answerable, as for a trust, debt, or obligation.

Liable to respond; likely to be called upon to answer; accountable; answerable; amenable; as, a guardian is responsible to the court for his conduct in the office.

The act of answering.

That responds; ready or inclined to respond.

Responsory; antiphonal.

The answer of the people to the priest in alternate speaking, in church service. A versicle sung in answer to the priest, or as a refrain.

In the Anglo-Indian army, a native commander of a ressala.

To be left; to remain; to continue to be.

A European leguminous plant (Ononis arvensis) with long, tough roots.

Stagnant; motionless.

To stagnate; to cease to flow.

Stagnation.

Persistent.

To state anew.

An eating house.

To restore.

The keeper of an eating house or a restaurant.

Restoration.

To force back against the current; as, to restem their backward course.

Being at rest; quiet.

A restive or stubborn horse.

Restiveness.

Formed like a rope; -- applied especially to several ropelike bundles or masses of fibers on the dorsal side of the medulla oblongata.

In a resty manner.

Act of quenching or extingishing.

The quality or state of being resty; sluggishness.

a. n. from Rest, v. t. i.

To quench or extinguish.

That which is restored or offered in place of something; a substitute.

The act of restoring anything to its rightful owner, or of making good, or of giving an equivalent for any loss, damage, or injury; indemnification.

One who makes restitution.

Unwilling to go on; obstinate in refusing to move forward; stubborn; drawing back.

Never resting; unquiet; uneasy; continually moving; as, a restless child.

Admitting of being restored; capable of being reclaimed; as, restorable land.

Restoration.

The act of restoring or bringing back to a former place, station, or condition; the fact of being restored; renewal; reestablishment; as, the restoration of friendship between enemies; the restoration of peace after war.

A Restorationist.

The belief or doctrines of the Restorationists.