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  • English Word Reverse Definition To become or be reversed.
  • English Word Reversed Definition of Reverse
  • English Word Reversed Definition 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.
  • English Word Reversed Definition Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree.
  • English Word Reversedly Definition In a reversed way.
  • English Word Reverseless Definition Irreversible.
  • English Word Reversely Definition In a reverse manner; on the other hand; on the opposite.
  • English Word Reverser Definition One who reverses.
  • English Word Reversibility Definition The quality of being reversible.
  • English Word Reversible Definition Capable of being reversed; as, a chair or seat having a reversible back; a reversible judgment or sentence.
  • English Word Reversible Definition Hence, having a pattern or finished surface on both sides, so that either may be used; -- said of fabrics.
  • English Word Reversibly Definition In a reversible manner.
  • English Word Reversing Definition of Reverse
  • English Word Reversing Definition Serving to effect reversal, as of motion; capable of being reversed.
  • English Word Reversion Definition The act of returning, or coming back; return.
  • English Word Reversion Definition That which reverts or returns; residue.
  • English Word Reversion Definition 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.
  • English Word Reversion Definition Hence, a right to future possession or enjoiment; succession.
  • English Word Reversion Definition 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.
  • English Word Reversion Definition A return towards some ancestral type or character; atavism.
  • English Word Reversionary Definition 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.
  • English Word Reversionary Definition That which is to be received in reversion.
  • English Word Reversioner Definition One who has a reversion, or who is entitled to lands or tenements, after a particular estate granted is terminated.
  • English Word Reversis Definition A certain game at cards.
  • English Word Revert Definition To turn back, or to the contrary; to reverse.
  • English Word Revert Definition To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
  • English Word Revert Definition To change back. See Revert, v. i.
  • English Word Revert Definition To return; to come back.
  • English Word Revert Definition To return to the proprietor after the termination of a particular estate granted by him.
  • English Word Revert Definition To return, wholly or in part, towards some preexistent form; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.