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Reservative (r?-z?rv?-t?v), a. Tending to reserve or keep; keeping; reserving.
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Reservatory (-t?-r?), n. [LL. reservatorium,fr. L. resservare. See , v. t., and cf. .] A place in which things are reserved or kept. Woodward.
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Reserve (r?-z?rv), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reserved. (z�rvd);p. pr. & vb. n. Reserving.] [F. réserver, L. reservare, reservatum; pref. re- re- + servare to keep. See .] 1. To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. “I have reserved to myself nothing.” Shak.
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2. Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain; to make a reservation{7}. Gen. xxvii. 35. In cases where one person or party makes a request to an agent that some accommodation (such as a hotel room or place at a restaurant) be kept (reserved) for their use at a particular time, the word reserve applies both to the action of the person making the request, and to the action of the agent who takes the approproriate action (such as a notation in a book of reservations) to be certain that the accommodation is available at that time.
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Hast thou seen the treasures of the hail, which I have reserved against the time of trouble? Job xxxviii. 22,23.
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Reserve your kind looks and language for private hours. Swift.
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3. To make an exception of; to except. [R.]
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Reserve, n. [F. réserve.] 1. The act of reserving, or keeping back; reservation.
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However any one may concur in the general scheme, it is still with certain reserves and deviations. Addison.
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2. That which is reserved, or kept back, as for future use.
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The virgins, besides the oil in their lamps, carried likewise a reserve in some other vessel for a continual supply. Tillotson.
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3. That which is excepted; exception.
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Each has some darling lust, which pleads for a reserve. Rogers.
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4. Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior.
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My soul, surprised, and from her sex disjoined,
Left all reserve, and all the sex, behind. Prior.
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The clergyman's shy and sensitive reserve had balked this scheme. Hawthorne.
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5. A tract of land reserved, or set apart, for a particular purpose; as, the Connecticut Reserve in Ohio, originally set apart for the school fund of Connecticut; the Clergy Reserves in Canada, for the support of the clergy.
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6. (Mil.) (a) A body of troops in the rear of an army drawn up for battle, reserved to support the other lines as occasion may require; a force or body of troops kept for an exigency. (b) troops trained but released from active service, retained as a formal part of the military force, and liable to be recalled to active service in cases of national need (see , above).
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7. (Banking) Funds kept on hand to meet liabilities.
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8. (Finance) (a) That part of the assets of a bank or other financial institution specially kept in cash in a more or less liquid form as a reasonable provision for meeting all demands which may be made upon it; specif.: (b) (Banking) Usually, the uninvested cash kept on hand for this purpose, called the real reserve. In Great Britain the ultimate real reserve is the gold kept on hand in the Bank of England, largely represented by the notes in hand in its own banking department; and any balance which a bank has with the Bank of England is a part of its reserve. In the United States the reserve of a national bank consists of the amount of lawful money it holds on hand against deposits, which is required by law (in ) to be not less than 15 per cent (U. S. Rev. Stat. secs. 5191, 5192), three fifths of which the banks not in a reserve city (which see) may keep deposited as balances in national banks that are in reserve cities (U. S. Rev. Stat. sec. 5192). (c) (Life Insurance) The amount of funds or assets necessary for a company to have at any given time to enable it, with interest and premiums paid as they shall accure, to meet all claims on the insurance then in force as they would mature according to the particular mortality table accepted. The reserve is always reckoned as a liability, and is calculated on net premiums. It is theoretically the difference between the present value of the total insurance and the present value of the future premiums on the insurance. The reserve, being an amount for which another company could, theoretically, afford to take over the insurance, is sometimes called the Coloq. reinsurance fund or the Coloq. self-insurance fund . For the first year upon any policy the net premium is called the Coloq. initial reserve , and the balance left at the end of the year including interest is the Coloq. terminal reserve . For subsequent years the initial reserve is the net premium, if any, plus the terminal reserve of the previous year. The portion of the reserve to be absorbed from the initial reserve in any year in payment of losses is sometimes called the Coloq. insurance reserve , and the terminal reserve is then called the Coloq. investment reserve .
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9. In exhibitions, a distinction which indicates that the recipient will get a prize if another should be disqualified.
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10. (Calico Printing) A resist.
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11. A preparation used on an object being electroplated to fix the limits of the deposit.
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Reserve city. (Banking) In the national banking system of the United States, any of certain cities in which the national banks are required (U. S. Rev. Stat. sec. 5191) to keep a larger reserve (25 per cent) than the minimum (15 per cent) required of all other banks. The banks in certain of the reserve cities (specifically called central reserve cities) are required to keep their reserve on hand in cash; banks in other reserve cities may keep half of their reserve as deposits in these banks (U. S. Rev. Stat. sec. 5195).
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Coloq. In reserve , in keeping for other or future use; in store; as, he has large quantities of wheat in reserve; he has evidence or arguments in reserve. -- Coloq. Reserve air . (Physiol.) Same as Supplemental air, under .
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Syn. -- Reservation; retention; limitation; backwardness; reservedness; coldness; restraint; shyness; coyness; modesty.
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Reserved (-z?rvd), a. 1. Kept for future or special use, or for an exigency; as, reserved troops; a reserved seat in a theater.
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2. Restrained from freedom in words or actions; backward, or cautious, in communicating one's thoughts and feelings; not free or frank.
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To all obliging, yet reserved to all. Walsh.
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Nothing reserved or sullen was to see. Dryden.
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-- Reservedly (r�-z�rv�d-l�), adv. -- Reservedness, n.
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Reservee (rĕzẽrvē), n. One to, or for, whom anything is reserved; -- contrasted with reservor.
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Reserver (r�zẽrvẽr), n. One who reserves.
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Reservist, n. A member of a reserve force of soldiers or militia. [Eng.]
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Reservoir (rĕzẽrvwôr; 277), n. [F. réservoir, fr. LL. reservatorium. See .] 1. 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.
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2. (Bot.) A small intercellular space, often containing resin, essential oil, or some other secreted matter.
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3. (Med.) a large quantity of infectious microorganisms resident in animals other than man, potentially capable of being transmitted to humans.
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3. (Med.) a large quantity of infectious microorganisms or parasites resident in animals other than man, potentially capable of being transmitted to humans; especially, such organisms in animals where they do little or no harm to the host.
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4. a large supply or stock of anything which may be rapidly put to use; a reserve.
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Coloq. Receiving reservoir (Water Works), a principal reservoir into which an aqueduct or rising main delivers water, and from which a distributing reservoir draws its supply.
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Reservor (r?-z?rv?r or r?z?r-v?r), n. One who reserves; a reserver.
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Reset (r?-s?t), v. t. To set again; as, to reset type; to reset copy; to reset a diamond.
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Reset (r?s?t), n. 1. The act of resetting.
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2. (Print.) That which is reset; matter set up again.
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Reset (r?-s?t), n. [OF. recete, recepte, a receiving. Cf. .] (Scots Law) The receiving of stolen goods, or harboring an outlaw. Jamieson.
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Reset, v. t. (Scots Law) To harbor or secrete; to hide, as stolen goods or a criminal.
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We shall see if an English hound is to harbor and reset the Southrons here. Sir. W. Scott.
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Resetter (-t?r), n. (Scots Law) One who receives or conceals, as stolen goods or criminal.
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Resetter (r?-S?tt?r), n. One who resets, or sets again.
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Resettle (r?-s?tt'l), v. t. To settle again. Swift.
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Resettle, v. i. To settle again, or a second time.
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Resettlement (-ment), n. Act of settling again, or state of being settled again; as, the resettlement of lees.
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The resettlement of my discomposed soul. Norris.
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Reshape (r?-sh?p), v. t. To shape again.
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Reship (r?-sh?p), 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.
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Reship, v. i. To engage one's self again for service on board of a vessel after having been discharged.
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Reshipment (-ment), n. The act of reshipping; also, that which is reshipped.
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Reshipper (-p?r), n. One who reships.
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Resiance (r?z?-ans), n. [LL. reseantia, �� OF. reseance.] Residence; abode. [Obs.] Bacon.
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Resiant (-ant), a. [OF. reseant, resseant, L. residens. See .] Resident; present in a place. [Obs.]
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In which her kingdom's throne is chiefly resiant. Spenser.
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Resiant, n. A resident. [Obs.] Sir T. More.
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Reside (r?-z?d), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Resided; p. pr. & vb. n. Residing.] [F. résider, L. residere; pref. re- re- + sedere to sit. See . ] 1. 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.
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At the moated grange, resides this dejected Mariana. Shak.
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In no fixed place the happy souls reside. Dryden.
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2. To have a seat or fixed position; to inhere; to lie or be as in attribute or element.
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In such like acts, the duty and virtue of contentedness doth especially reside. Barrow.
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3. To sink; to settle, as sediment. [Obs.] Boyle.
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Syn. -- To dwell; inhabit; sojourn; abide; remain; live; domiciliate; domicile.
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Residence (r?z?-dens), n. [F. résidence. See .] 1. 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.
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The confessor had often made considerable residences in Normandy. Sir M. Hale.
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2. The place where one resides; an abode; a dwelling or habitation; esp., a settled or permanent home or domicile. “Near the residence of Posthumus.” Shak.
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Johnson took up his residence in London. Macaulay.
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3. (Eng. Eccl. Law) The residing of an incumbent on his benefice; -- opposed to nonresidence.
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4. The place where anything rests permanently.
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But when a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all his regal power, he then, . . . fights against his own majesty and kingship. Milton.
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5. Subsidence, as of a sediment. [Obs.] Bacon.
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6. That which falls to the bottom of liquors; sediment; also, refuse; residuum. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.
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Syn. -- Domiciliation; sojourn; stay; abode; home; dwelling; habitation; domicile; mansion.
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Residencia (?), n. [Sp.] In Spanish countries, a court or trial held, sometimes as long as six months, by a newly elected official, as the governor of a province, to examine into the conduct of a predecessor.
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Residency (-den-s?), n. 1. Residence. [Obsoles.]
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2. 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.
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Resident (-dent), a. [F. résident, L. residens, -entis, p. pr. of residere. See .] 1. 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.
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2. Fixed; stable; certain. [Obs.] “Stable and resident like a rock.” Jer. TAylor.
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One there still resident as day and night. Davenant.
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Resident, n. 1. One who resides or dwells in a place for some time.
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2. 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 , 4.
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Residenter (-$r), n. A resident. [Obs. or Colloq.]
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Residential (-d?nshal), a. 1. Of or pertaining to a residence or residents; as, residential trade; a residential part of town.
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2. Residing; residentiary. [R.]
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Residentiary (-d?nsh?-r?; 277), a. [LL. residentiaris.] Having residence; as, a canon residentary; a residentiary guardian. Dr. H. More.
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Residentiary, n. 1. One who is resident.
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The residentiary, or the frequent visitor of the favored spot, . . . will discover that both have been there. Coleridge.
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2. An ecclesiastic who keeps a certain residence.
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Syn. -- Inhabitant; inhabiter; dweller; sojourner.
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Residentiaryship, n. The office or condition of a residentiary.
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Residentship (r?z?-dent-sh?p), n. The office or condition of a resident.
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Resider (r?-z?d?r), n. One who resides in a place.
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Residual (r?-z?d?-al), a. [See .] Pertaining to a residue; remaining after a part is taken.
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Coloq. Residual air (Physiol.), that portion of air contained in the lungs which can not be expelled even by the most violent expiratory effort. It amounts to from 75 to 100 cubic inches. Cf. Supplemental air, under . -- Coloq. Residual error . (Mensuration) See , 6 (b). -- Coloq. Residual figure (Geom.), the figure which remains after a less figure has been taken from a greater one. -- Coloq. Residual magnetism (Physics), remanent magnetism. See under . -- Coloq. Residual product , a by product, as cotton waste from a cotton mill, coke and coal tar from gas works, etc. -- Coloq. Residual quantity (Alg.), a binomial quantity the two parts of which are connected by the negative sign, as a-b. -- Coloq. Residual root (Alg.), the root of a residual quantity, as √(a-b).
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Residual, n. (Math.) (a) The difference of the results obtained by observation, and by computation from a formula. (b) The difference between the mean of several observations and any one of them.
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Residuary (-?-r?), a. [See .] Consisting of residue; as, residuary matter; pertaining to the residue, or part remaining; as, the residuary advantage of an estate. Ayliffe.
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Coloq. Residuary clause (Law), that part of the testator's will in which the residue of his estate is disposed of. -- Coloq. Residuary devise (Law), the person to whom the residue of real estate is devised by a will. -- Coloq. Residuary legatee (Law), the person to whom the residue of personal estate is bequeathed.
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Residue (r?z?-d?), n. [F. résidu, L. residuum, fr. residuus that is left behind, remaining, fr. residere to remain behind. See , and cf. .] 1. That which remains after a part is taken, separated, removed, or designated; remnant; remainder.
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The residue of them will I deliver to the sword. Jer. xv. 9.
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If church power had then prevailed over its victims, not a residue of English liberty would have been saved. I. Taylor.
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2. (Law) 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.
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3. (Chem.) 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; a moiety or group; -- used as nearly equivalent to radical, but in a more general sense.
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☞ The term radical is sometimes restricted to groups containing carbon, the term residue and moiety being applied to the others.
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4. (Theory of Numbers) 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.
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Syn. -- Rest; remainder; remnant; balance; residuum; remains; leavings; relics.
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Residuous (r?-z?d?-?s), a. [L. residuus.] Remaining; residual. Landor.
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Residuum (-?m), n. [L. See .] That which is left after any process of separation or purification; that which remains after certain specified deductions are made; residue.
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“I think so,” is the whole residuum . . . after evaporating the prodigious pretensions of the zealot demagogue. L. Taylor.
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Resiege (r?-s?j), v. t. [Pref. re- + siege a seat.] To seat again; to reinstate. [Obs.] Spenser.
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Re-sign (r?-s?n), v. t. [Pref. re- + sign.] To affix one's signature to, a second time; to sign again.
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Resign (r?-z?n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Resigned (-z?nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Resigning.] [F. résigner, L. resignare to unseal, annul, assign, resign; pref. re- re- + signare to seal, stamp. See , and cf. .]
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1. 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.
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I here resign my government to thee. Shak.
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Lament not, Eve, but patiently resign
What justly thou hast lost. Milton.
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What more reasonable, than that we should in all things resign up ourselves to the will of God? Tiilotson.
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2. To relinquish; to abandon.
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He soon resigned his former suit. Spenser.
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3. To commit to the care of; to consign. [Obs.]
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Gentlement of quality have been sent beyong the seas, resigned and concredited to the conduct of such as they call governors. Evelyn.
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Syn. -- To abdicate; surrender; submit; leave; relinquish; forego; quit; forsake; abandon; renounce. -- , . To resign is to give up, as if breaking a seal and yielding all it had secured; hence, it marks a formal and deliberate surrender. To relinquish is less formal, but always implies abandonment and that the thing given up has been long an object of pursuit, and, usually, that it has been prized and desired. We resign what we once held or considered as our own, as an office, employment, etc. We speak of relinquishing a claim, of relinquishing some advantage we had sought or enjoyed, of relinquishing seme right, privilege, etc. “Men are weary with the toil which they bear, but can not find it in their hearts to relinquish it.” Steele. See .
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Re sign, n. Resignation. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.
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Resignation (rĕzĭgnāshŭn), n. [F. résignation. See .] 1. The act of resigning or giving up, as a claim, possession, office, or the like; surrender; as, the resignation of a crown or commission.
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2. The state of being resigned or submissive; quiet or patient submission; unresisting acquiescence; as, resignation to the will and providence of God.
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Syn. -- Patience; surrender; relinquishment; forsaking; abandonment; abdication; renunciation; submission; acquiescence; endurance. See .
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Resigned (r�zīnd), a. Submissive; yielding; not disposed to resist or murmur.
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A firm, yet cautious mind;
Sincere, though prudent; constant, yet resigned. Pope.
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Resignedly (r�zīnĕdl�), adv. With submission.
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Resignee (rĕzĭnē), n. One to whom anything is resigned, or in whose favor a resignation is made.
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Resigner (r�zīnẽr), n. One who resigns.
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Resignment (r�zīnm�nt), n. The act of resigning.
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resile (r�zīl), v. i. [imp. & p. p. resiled (-zīld); p. pr. & vb. n. resiling.] [L. resilire to leap or spring back; pref. re- re- + salire to leap, spring. See .] To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose. J. Ellis.
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{ resilience (r�zĭlĭ�ns), resiliency (r�zĭlĭ�ns�), } n. 1. The act of springing back, rebounding, or resiling; as, the resilience of a ball or of sound.
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2. The power or inherent property of returning to the form from which a substance is bent, stretched, compressed, or twisted; elasticity[1]; springiness; -- of objects and substances.
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3. Hence: The power or ability to recover quickly from a setback, depression, illness, overwork or other adversity; buoyancy; elasticity[2]; -- of people.
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4. (Mech. & Engin.) 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.
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Resilient (-ent), a. [L. resiliens, p. pr.] Leaping back; rebounding; recoiling.
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Resilition (r?z?-l?sh?n), n. Resilience. [R.]
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Resin (rĕzĭn), n. [F. résine, L. resina; cf. Gr. rhtinh Cf. .] 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 ).
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☞ Resins exude from trees in combination with essential oils, gums, etc., and in a liquid or semiliquid state. They are composed of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, and they consist primarily of polymerized small molecules having carboxylic groups. Copal, mastic, guaiacum, and colophony or pine resin, are some of them. When mixed with gum, they form the gum resins, like asafetida and gamboge; mixed with essential oils, they form balsams, or oleoresins. They are also used in making varnishes.
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2. Any of various polymeric substance resembling the natural resins[1], prepared synthetically; -- they are used, especially in particulate form, in research and industry for their property of specifically absorbing or adsorbing substances of particular types; they are especially useful in separation processes such as chromatography; as, an ion-exchange .
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Coloq. Highgate resin (Min.), a fossil resin resembling copal, occuring in blue clay at Highgate, near London. -- Coloq. Resin bush (Bot.), a low composite shrub (Euryops speciosissimus) of South Africa, having smooth pinnately parted leaves and abounding in resin.
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Resinaceous (rĕzĭnāshŭs), a. Having the quality of resin; resinous.
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Resinate (rĕzĭn�t), n. (Chem.) Any one of the salts the resinic acids.
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