RESENTIVE
RESENT'IVE, adjective Easily provoked or irritated; quick to feel an injury or affront.
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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RESENT'IVE, adjective Easily provoked or irritated; quick to feel an injury or affront.
RESENT'MENT, noun1. The excitement of passion which proceeds from a sense of wrong offered to ourselves, or to those who are connected with us; anger. This word usually expresse...
RESERVA'TION, noun s as z. [Latin reservo.]1. The act of reserving or keeping back or in the mind; reserve; concealment or withholding from disclosure; as mental reservation2. S...
RESERV'ATIVE, adjective Keeping; reserving.
RESERV'ATORY, noun [from reserve.] A place in which things are reserved or kept.
RESERVE, verb transitive rezerv'. [Latin reservo; re and servo, to keep.]1. To keep in store for future or other use; to withhold from present use for another purpose. The farme...
RESERV'ED, participle passive1. Kept for another or future use; retained.2.adjective Restrained from freedom in words or actions; backward in conversation; not free or frank.To ...
RESERV'EDLY, adverb1. With reserve; with backwardness; not with openness or frankness.2. Scrupulously; cautiously; coldly.
RESERV'EDNESS, noun Closeness; want of frankness, openness or freedom. A man may guard himself by that silence and reservedness which every one may innocently practice.
RESERV'ER, noun One that reserves.
RESERV'ING, participle present tense Keeping back; keeping for other use or for use at a future time; retaining.
RESERVOIR', noun A place where any thing is kept in store, particularly a place where water is collected and kept for use when wanted, as to supply a fountain, a canal or a city...
RE'SET, noun In Scots law, the receiving and harboring of an outlaw or a criminal.
RESET'TLE, verb transitive [re and settle.]1. To settle again.2. To install, as a minister of the gospel.RESET'TLE, verb intransitive to settle in the ministry a second time; to...
RESET'TLED, participle passive Settled again; installed.
RESET'TLEMENT, noun1. The act of settling or composing again.The resettlement of my discomposed soul.2. The state of settling or subsiding again; as the resettlement of lees.3. ...
RESET'TLING, participle present tense Settling again; installing.
RESHIP', verb transitive [re and ship.] To ship again; to ship what has been conveyed by water or imported; as coffee and sugar imported into New York, and reshipped for Hamburg.
RESHIP'MENT, noun1. the act of shipping or loading on board of a ship a second time; the shipping for exportation what has been imported.2. That which is reshipped.
RESHIP'PED, participle passive Shipped again.
RESHIP'PING, participle present tense Shipping again.
RE'SIANCE, noun [See Resiant.] Residence; abode. obsolete
RE'SIANT, adjective [Latin resideo. See Reside.]Resident; dwelling; present in a place. obsolete
RESI'DE, verb intransitive s as z. [Latin resideo, resido; re and sedeo, to sit, to settle.]1. to dwell permanently or for a length of time; to have a settled abode for a time. ...
RES'IDENCE, noun1. The act of abiding or dwelling in a place for some continuance of time; as the residence of an American in France or Italy for a year.The confessor had often ...
RES'IDENT, adjective [Latin residens.]Dwelling or having an abode in a place for a continuance of time, but not definite; as a minister resident at the court of St. James. A B i...
RESIDEN'TIARY, adjective Having residence.RESIDEN'TIARY, noun An ecclesiastic who keeps a certain residence.