Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter R - Page 59

Reverse (a.) To turn back; to cause to face in a contrary direction; to cause to depart.

Reverse (a.) To cause to return; to recall.

Reverse (a.) To change totally; to alter to the opposite.

Reverse (a.) To turn upside down; to invert.

Reverse (a.) Hence, to overthrow; to subvert.

Reverse (a.) To overthrow by a contrary decision; to make void; to under or annual for error; as, to reverse a judgment, sentence, or decree.

Reverse (v. i.) To return; to revert.

Reverse (v. i.) To become or be reversed.

Reversed (a.) Turned side for side, or end for end; changed to the contrary; specifically (Bot. & Zool.), sinistrorse or sinistral; as, a reversed, or sinistral, spiral or shell.

Reversed (a.) Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree.

Reversedly (adv.) In a reversed way.

Reverseless (a.) Irreversible.

Reversely (adv.) In a reverse manner; on the other hand; on the opposite.

Reverser (n.) One who reverses.

Reversibility (n.) The quality of being reversible.

Reversible (a.) Capable of being reversed; as, a chair or seat having a reversible back; a reversible judgment or sentence.

Reversible (a.) Hence, having a pattern or finished surface on both sides, so that either may be used; -- said of fabrics.

Reversibly (adv.) In a reversible manner.

Reversing (a.) Serving to effect reversal, as of motion; capable of being reversed.

Reversion (n.) The act of returning, or coming back; return.

Reversion (n.) That which reverts or returns; residue.

Reversion (n.) The returning of an esttate to the grantor or his heirs, by operation of law, after the grant has terminated; hence, the residue of an estate left in the proprietor or owner thereof, to take effect in possession, by operation of law, after the termination of a limited or less estate carved out of it and conveyed by him.

Reversion (n.) Hence, a right to future possession or enjoiment; succession.

Reversion (n.) A payment which is not to be received, or a benefit which does not begin, until the happening of some event, as the death of a living person.

Reversion (n.) A return towards some ancestral type or character; atavism.

Reversionary (a.) Of or pertaining to a reversion; involving a reversion; to be enjoyed in succession, or after the termination of a particular estate; as, a reversionary interest or right.

Reversionary (n.) That which is to be received in reversion.

Reversioner (n.) One who has a reversion, or who is entitled to lands or tenements, after a particular estate granted is terminated.

Reversis (n.) A certain game at cards.

Reverted (imp. & p. p.) of Revert

Reverting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Revert

Revert (v. t.) To turn back, or to the contrary; to reverse.

Revert (v. t.) To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.

Revert (v. t.) To change back. See Revert, v. i.

Revert (v. i.) To return; to come back.

Revert (v. i.) To return to the proprietor after the termination of a particular estate granted by him.

Revert (v. i.) To return, wholly or in part, towards some preexistent form; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.

Revert (v. i.) To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse; thus, phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts.

Revert (n.) One who, or that which, reverts.

Reverted (a.) Turned back; reversed. Specifically: (Her.) Bent or curved twice, in opposite directions, or in the form of an S.

Revertent (n.) A remedy which restores the natural order of the inverted irritative motions in the animal system.

Reverter (n.) One who, or that which, reverts.

Reverter (n.) Reversion.

Revertible (a.) Capable of, or admitting of, reverting or being reverted; as, a revertible estate.

Revertive (a.) Reverting, or tending to revert; returning.

Revery (n.) Same as Reverie.

Revest (v. t.) To clothe again; to cover, as with a robe; to robe.

Revest (v. t.) To vest again with possession or office; as, to revest a magistrate with authority.

Revest (v. i.) To take effect or vest again, as a title; to revert to former owner; as, the title or right revests in A after alienation.

Revestiary (n.) The apartment, in a church or temple, where the vestments, etc., are kept; -- now contracted into vestry.

Revestry (n.) Same as Revestiary.

Revestture (n.) Vesture.

Revetted (imp. & p. p.) of Revet

Revetting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Revet

Revet (v. t.) To face, as an embankment, with masonry, wood, or other material.

Revetment (v. t.) A facing of wood, stone, or any other material, to sustain an embankment when it receives a slope steeper than the natural slope; also, a retaining wall.

Revibrate (v. i.) To vibrate back or in return.

Revict (v. t.) To reconquer.

Reviction (n.) Return to life.

Revictual (v. t.) To victual again.

Revie (v. t.) To vie with, or rival, in return.

Revie (v. t.) To meet a wager on, as on the taking of a trick, with a higher wager.

Revie (v. i.) To exceed an adversary's wager in card playing.

Revie (v. i.) To make a retort; to bandy words.

Review/d (imp. & p. p.) of Review

Reveiwing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Review

Review (n.) To view or see again; to look back on.

Review (n.) To go over and examine critically or deliberately.

Review (n.) To reconsider; to revise, as a manuscript before printing it, or a book for a new edition.

Review (n.) To go over with critical examination, in order to discover exellences or defects; hence, to write a critical notice of; as, to review a new novel.

Review (n.) To make a formal or official examination of the state of, as troops, and the like; as, to review a regiment.

Review (n.) To reexamine judically; as, a higher court may review the proceedings and judgments of a lower one.

Review (n.) To retrace; to go over again.

Review (v. i.) To look back; to make a review.

Review (n.) A second or repeated view; a reexamination; a retrospective survey; a looking over again; as, a review of one's studies; a review of life.

Review (n.) An examination with a view to amendment or improvement; revision; as, an author's review of his works.

Review (n.) A critical examination of a publication, with remarks; a criticism; a critique.

Review (n.) A periodical containing critical essays upon matters of interest, as new productions in literature, art, etc.

Review (n.) An inspection, as of troops under arms or of a naval force, by a high officer, for the purpose of ascertaining the state of discipline, equipments, etc.

Review (n.) The judicial examination of the proceedings of a lower court by a higher.

Review (n.) A lesson studied or recited for a second time.

Reviewable (a.) Capable of being reviewed.

Reviewal (n.) A review.

Reviewer (n.) One who reviews or reexamines; an inspector; one who examines publications critically, and publishes his opinion upon their merits; a professional critic of books.

Revigorate (a.) Having new vigor or strength; invigorated anew.

Revigorate (v. t.) To give new vigor to.

Reviled (imp. & p. p.) of Revile

Reviling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Revile

Revile (v. t. & i.) To address or abuse with opprobrious and contemptuous language; to reproach.

Revile (n.) Reproach; reviling.

Revilement (n.) The act of reviling; also, contemptuous language; reproach; abuse.

Reviler (n.) One who reviles.

Reviling (n.) Reproach; abuse; vilification.

Reviling (a.) Uttering reproaches; containing reproaches.

Revince (v. t.) To overcome; to refute, as error.

Revindicate (v. t.) To vindicate again; to reclaim; to demand and take back.

Revirescence (n.) A growing green or fresh again; renewal of youth or vigor.

Revisable (a.) That may be revised.

Revisal (n.) The act of revising, or reviewing and reexamining for correction and improvement; revision; as, the revisal of a manuscript; the revisal of a proof sheet; the revisal of a treaty.

Revised (imp. & p. p.) of Revise

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