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Respondent

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.

Respondentia

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

Responsal

One who is answerable or responsible.

Responsibility

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

Responsible

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.

Responsive

That responds; ready or inclined to respond.

Responsory

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.

Ressaldar

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

Rest

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

Rest-harrow

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

Restem

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

Restiff

A restive or stubborn horse.

Restiform

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

Restiness

The quality or state of being resty; sluggishness.

Restitute

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

Restitution

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.

Restive

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

Restless

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

Restorable

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.

Restorationist

One who believes in a temporary future punishment and a final restoration of all to the favor and presence of God; a Universalist.

Restorative

Something which serves to restore; especially, a restorative medicine.

Restorer

One who, or that which, restores.

Restrain

To draw back again; to hold back from acting, proceeding, or advancing, either by physical or moral force, or by any interposing obstacle; to repress or suppress; to keep down; to curb.

Restraint

The act or process of restraining, or of holding back or hindering from motion or action, in any manner; hindrance of the will, or of any action, physical or mental.

Restrict

To restrain within bounds; to limit; to confine; as, to restrict worlds to a particular meaning; to restrict a patient to a certain diet.

Restriction

The act of restricting, or state of being restricted; confinement within limits or bounds.

Restringe

To confine; to contract; to stringe.

Restringency

Quality or state of being restringent; astringency.

Restringent

Restringing; astringent; styptic. A restringent medicine.

Resty

Disposed to rest; indisposed toexercton; sluggish; also, restive.

Result

A flying back; resilience.

Resultance

The act of resulting; that which results; a result.

Resultant

That which results. A reultant force or motion. An eliminant.

Resultless

Being without result; as, resultless investigations.

Resumable

Capable of, or admitting of, being resumed.

Resumption

The act of resuming; as, the resumption of a grant, of delegated powers, of an argument, of specie payments, etc.

Resumptive

Taking back; resuming, or tending toward resumption; as, resumptive measures.

Resupinate

Inverted in position; appearing to be upside down or reversed, as the flowers of the orchis and the leaves of some plants.

Resupination

The state of luing on the back; the state of being resupinate, or reversed.

Resupine

Lying on the back; supine; hence, careless.

Resurgent

One who rises again, as from the dead.

Resurrect

To take from the grave; to disinter.

Resuscitable

Capable of resuscitation; as, resuscitable plants.

Resuscitant

One who, or that which resuscitates. Also used adjectively.

Resuscitation

The act of resuscitating, or state of being resuscitated.

Ret

To prepare for use, as flax, by separating the fibers from the woody part by process of soaking, macerating, and other treatment.

Retable

A shelf behind the altar, for display of lights, vases of flowers, etc.

Retail

To sell in small quantities, as by the single yard, pound, gallon, etc.; to sell directly to the consumer; as, to retail cloth or groceries.

Retailer

One who retails anything; as, a retailer of merchandise; a retailer of gossip; -- used also of businesses, including large corporations; as, Sears, Roebuck is one the the country's largest retailers.

Retainal

The act of retaining; retention.

Retainer

One who, or that which, retains.

Retake

To take or receive again.

Retaker

One who takes again what has been taken; a recaptor.

Retaliate

To return like for like; specifically, to return evil for evil; as, to retaliate upon an enemy.

Retaliation

The act of retaliating, or of returning like for like; retribution; now, specifically, the return of evil for evil; e.g., an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.

Retaliatory

Tending to, or involving, retaliation; retaliative; as retaliatory measures.

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