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.

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

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

In a restorative manner.

A restaurateur.

Restorative.

Restoration.

Restoration.

One who, or that which, restores.

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.

Capable of being restrained; controllable.

With restraint.

One who, or that which, restrains.

The act of restraining.

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.

To strengthen again; to fortify anew.

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

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

Restrictive.

To confine; to contract; to stringe.

Quality or state of being restringent; astringency.

Restringing; astringent; styptic. A restringent medicine.

To strive anew.

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

A second subjection.

To sublime again.

Act of sweating again.

A flying back; resilience.

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

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

A result.

HAving results or effects.

Resultant.

Being without result; as, resultless investigations.

Capable of, or admitting of, being resumed.

To take back.

To summon again.

A second summons.

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

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

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

Resupinate.

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

Lying on the back; supine; hence, careless.

To supply again.

One who rises again, as from the dead.

To take from the grave; to disinter.

A rising again; the resumption of vigor.

One who steals bodies from the grave, as for dissection.

To raise from the dead.

A second or new survey.

Capable of resuscitation; as, resuscitable plants.

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

To come to life again; to revive.

The act of resuscitating, or state of being resuscitated.

Tending to resuscitate; reviving; revivifying.

One who, or that which, resuscitates.

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

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

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.

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.

The act of retailing.

To belong; to pertain.

Capable of being retained.

The act of retaining; retention.

One who, or that which, retains.

The act of retaining; retention.

To take or receive again.

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

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

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.

Same as Retaliatory.

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

Retardation; delay.

The act of retarding; hindrance; the act of delaying; as, the retardation of the motion of a ship; -- opposed to acceleration.

Tending, or serving, to retard.

having a limited or below normal mental ability; same as mentally retarded; -- used especially in relation to performance in academic tasks.

One who, or that which, retards.

The act of retarding; retardation.

To care for; to heed; to reck.

Careless; reckless.

A net or network; a plexus; particularly, a network of blood vessels or nerves, or a part resembling a network.

Resembling network; retiform.

Act of disclosing or uncovering something concealed.

To tell again.

A white crystalline hydrocarbon, polymeric with benzene. It is extracted from pine tar, and is also found in certain fossil resins.

That which is retained.

The act of retaining, or the state of being ratined.

That which retains or confines; a restraint.

In a retentive manner.

The quality of being retentive.

The power of retaining; retentive force; as, the retentivity of a magnet.

A muscle which serves to retain an organ or part in place, esp. when retracted. See Illust. of Phylactolemata.

Any one of several species of bryozoans of the genus Retepora. They form delicate calcareous corals, usually composed of thin fenestrated fronds.

To annual, as orders.

The act of weaving or forming again.

A rhetorician; a careful writer.

Rhetoric.

A gladiator armed with a net for entangling his adversary and a trident for despatching him.

Netlike.

The quality or state of being reticent, or keeping silence; the state of holding one's tonque; refraining to speak of that which is suggested; uncommunicativeness.

Reticence.

Inclined to keep silent; reserved; uncommunicative.

A small net.

Having the form of a net, or of network; formed with interstices; retiform; as, reticular cartilage; a reticular leaf.