RESTRINGENT
RESTRIN'GENT, adjective Astringent; styptic.RESTRIN'GENT, noun A medicine that operates as an astringent or styptic.
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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RESTRIN'GENT, adjective Astringent; styptic.RESTRIN'GENT, noun A medicine that operates as an astringent or styptic.
RESTRI'VE, verb intransitive [re and strive.] To strive anew.
REST'Y, adjective The same as restive or restif, of which it is a contraction.
RESUBJEC'TION, noun [re and subjection.] A second subjection.
RESUBLIMA'TION, noun A second sublimation.
RESUBLI'ME, verb transitive [re and sublime.] To sublime again; as, to resublime mercurial sublimate.
RESUBLI'MED, participle passive sublimed a second time.
RESUBLI'MING, participle present tense Subliming again.
RESUDA'TION, noun [Latin resudatus, resudo; re and sudo, to sweat.] The act of sweating again.
RESULT', v.i s as z. [Latin resulto, resilio; re and salio, to leap.]1. to leap back; to rebound.The huge round stone, resulting with a bound -2. To preceed, spring or rise, as ...
RESULT'ANCE, noun The act of resulting.
RESULT'ANT, noun In mechanics, a force which is the combined effect of two or more forces, acting in different directions.
RESULT'ING, participle present tense1. Proceeding as a consequence, effect or conclusion of something; coming to a determination.2. In law, resulting use, is a use which returns...
RESU'MABLE, adjective s as z. [from resume.] That may be taken back, or that may be taken up again.
RES'UME, verb transitive s as z. [Latin resumo; re and sumo, to take.]1. To take back what has been given.The sun, like this from which our sight we have, gaz'd on too long, res...
RESU'MED, participle passive Taken back; taken again; begun again after interruption.
RESU'MING, participle present tense Taking back; taking again; beginning again after interruption.
RESUM'MON, verb transitive1. To summon or call again.2. To recall; to recover.
RESUM'MONED, participle passive Summoned again; recovered.
RESUM'MONING, participle present tense Recalling; recovering.
RESUMP'TION, noun [Latin resumptus.]The act of resuming, taking back or taking again; as the resumption of a grant.
RESUMP'TIVE, adjective Taking back or again.
RESUP'INATE, adjective [Latin resupinatus, resupino; re and supino, supinus, lying on the back.]In botany, reversed; turned upside down. A resupinate corol is when the upper lip...
RESUPINA'TION, noun [supra.] The state of lying on the back; the state of being resupinate or reversed, as a corol.
RESU'PINE, adjective Lying on the back.
RESURREC'TION, noun s as z. [Latin resurrectus, resurgo; re and surgo, to rise.]A rising again; chiefly, the revival of the dead of the human race, or their return from the grav...
RESURVEY, verb transitive [re and survey.] To survey again or anew; to review.RESUR'VEY, noun A second survey.