Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter R - Page 49

Reserved (a.) Kept for future or special use, or for an exigency; as, reserved troops; a reserved seat in a theater.

Reserved (a.) Restrained from freedom in words or actions; backward, or cautious, in communicating one's thoughts and feelings; not free or frank.

Reservee (n.) One to, or for, whom anything is reserved; -- contrasted with reservor.

Reserver (n.) One who reserves.

Reservist (n.) A member of a reserve force of soldiers or militia.

Reservoir (n.) A place where anything is kept in store; especially, a place where water is collected and kept for use when wanted, as to supply a fountain, a canal, or a city by means of aqueducts, or to drive a mill wheel, or the like.

Reservoir (n.) A small intercellular space, often containing resin, essential oil, or some other secreted matter.

Reservor (n.) One who reserves; a reserver.

Reset (v. t.) To set again; as, to reset type; to reset copy; to reset a diamond.

Reset (n.) The act of resetting.

Reset (n.) That which is reset; matter set up again.

Reset (n.) The receiving of stolen goods, or harboring an outlaw.

Reset (v. t.) To harbor or secrete; to hide, as stolen goods or a criminal.

Resetter (n.) One who receives or conceals, as stolen goods or criminal.

Resetter (n.) One who resets, or sets again.

Resettle (v. t.) To settle again.

Resettle (v. i.) To settle again, or a second time.

Resettlement (n.) Act of settling again, or state of being settled again; as, the resettlement of lees.

Reshape (v. t.) To shape again.

Reship (v. t.) To ship again; to put on board of a vessel a second time; to send on a second voyage; as, to reship bonded merchandise.

Reship (v. i.) To engage one's self again for service on board of a vessel after having been discharged.

Reshipment (n.) The act of reshipping; also, that which is reshippped.

Reshipper (n.) One who reships.

Resiance (n.) Residence; abode.

Resiant (a.) Resident; present in a place.

Resiant (n.) A resident.

Resided (imp. & p. p.) of Reside

Residing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reside

Reside (v. i.) To dwell permanently or for a considerable time; to have a settled abode for a time; to abide continuosly; to have one's domicile of home; to remain for a long time.

Reside (v. i.) To have a seat or fixed position; to inhere; to lie or be as in attribute or element.

Reside (v. i.) To sink; to settle, as sediment.

Residence (n.) The act or fact of residing, abiding, or dwelling in a place for some continuance of time; as, the residence of an American in France or Italy for a year.

Residence (n.) The place where one resides; an abode; a dwelling or habitation; esp., a settled or permanent home or domicile.

Residence (n.) The residing of an incumbent on his benefice; -- opposed to nonresidence.

Residence (n.) The place where anything rests permanently.

Residence (n.) Subsidence, as of a sediment.

Residence (n.) That which falls to the bottom of liquors; sediment; also, refuse; residuum.

Residency (n.) Residence.

Residency (n.) A political agency at a native court in British India, held by an officer styled the Resident; also, a Dutch commercial colony or province in the East Indies.

Resident (a.) Dwelling, or having an abode, in a place for a continued length of time; residing on one's own estate; -- opposed to nonresident; as, resident in the city or in the country.

Resident (a.) Fixed; stable; certain.

Resident (n.) One who resides or dwells in a place for some time.

Resident (n.) A diplomatic representative who resides at a foreign court; -- a term usualy applied to ministers of a rank inferior to that of ambassadors. See the Note under Minister, 4.

Residenter (n.) A resident.

Residential (a.) Of or pertaining to a residence or residents; as, residential trade.

Residential (a.) Residing; residentiary.

Residentiary (a.) Having residence; as, a canon residentary; a residentiary guardian.

Residentiary (n.) One who is resident.

Residentiary (n.) An ecclesiastic who keeps a certain residence.

Residentiaryship (n.) The office or condition of a residentiary.

Residentship (n.) The office or condition of a resident.

Resider (n.) One who resides in a place.

Residual (a.) Pertaining to a residue; remaining after a part is taken.

Residual (n.) The difference of the results obtained by observation, and by computation from a formula.

Residual (n.) The difference between the mean of several observations and any one of them.

Residuary (a.) Consisting of residue; as, residuary matter; pertaining to the residue, or part remaining; as, the residuary advantage of an estate.

Residue (n.) That which remains after a part is taken, separated, removed, or designated; remnant; remainder.

Residue (n.) That part of a testeator's estate wwhich is not disposed of in his will by particular and special legacies and devises, and which remains after payment of debts and legacies.

Residue (n.) That which remains of a molecule after the removal of a portion of its constituents; hence, an atom or group regarded as a portion of a molecule; -- used as nearly equivalent to radical, but in a more general sense.

Residue (n.) Any positive or negative number that differs from a given number by a multiple of a given modulus; thus, if 7 is the modulus, and 9 the given number, the numbers -5, 2, 16, 23, etc., are residues.

Residuous (a.) Remaining; residual.

Residuum (n.) That which is left after any process of separation or purification; that which remains after certain specified deductions are made; residue.

Resiege (v. t.) To seat again; to reinstate.

Re-sign (v. t.) To affix one's signature to, a second time; to sign again.

Resigned (imp. & p. p.) of Resign

Resigning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Resign

Resign (v. t.) To sign back; to return by a formal act; to yield to another; to surrender; -- said especially of office or emolument. Hence, to give up; to yield; to submit; -- said of the wishes or will, or of something valued; -- also often used reflexively.

Resign (v. t.) To relinquish; to abandon.

Resign (v. t.) To commit to the care of; to consign.

Re sign (n.) Resignation.

Resignation (n.) The act of resigning or giving up, as a claim, possession, office, or the like; surrender; as, the resignation of a crown or comission.

Resignation (n.) The state of being resigned or submissive; quiet or patient submission; unresisting acquiescence; as, resignation to the will and providence of God.

Resigned (a.) Submissive; yielding; not disposed to resist or murmur.

Resignedly (adv.) With submission.

Resignee (n.) One to whom anything is resigned, or in whose favor a resignation is made.

Resigner (n.) One who resigns.

Resignment (n.) The act of resigning.

Resiled (imp. & p. p.) of Resile

Resiling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Resile

Resile (v. i.) To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose.

Resilience (n.) Alt. of Resiliency

Resiliency (n.) The act of resiling, springing back, or rebounding; as, the resilience of a ball or of sound.

Resiliency (n.) The mechanical work required to strain an elastic body, as a deflected beam, stretched spring, etc., to the elastic limit; also, the work performed by the body in recovering from such strain.

Resilient (a.) Leaping back; rebounding; recoiling.

Resilition (n.) Resilience.

Resin (n.) Any one of a class of yellowish brown solid inflammable substances, of vegetable origin, which are nonconductors of electricity, have a vitreous fracture, and are soluble in ether, alcohol, and essential oils, but not in water; specif., pine resin (see Rosin).

Resinaceous (a.) Having the quality of resin; resinous.

Resinate (n.) Any one of the salts the resinic acids.

Resinic (a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, resin; as, the resinic acids.

Resiniferous (a.) Yielding resin; as, a resiniferous tree or vessel.

Resiniform (a.) Having the form of resin.

Resino-electric (a.) Containing or exhibiting resinous electricity.

Resinoid (a.) Somewhat like resin.

Resinous (a.) Of or pertaining to resin; of the nature of resin; resembling or obtained from resin.

Resinously (adv.) By means, or in the manner, of resin.

Resinousness (n.) The quality of being resinous.

Resiny (a.) Like resin; resinous.

Resipiscence (n.) Wisdom derived from severe experience; hence, repentance.

Resisted (imp. & p. p.) of Resist

Resisting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Resist

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