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elever 384 remise<br />

relever un navire (coule), to raise a (sunken) ship;<br />

hs posies, (miL) to relieve outposts;<br />

le quart, (nav.) to relieve, change, the watch;<br />

un sabre, to hook up a sword;<br />

se , to rise (from a recumbent ; position) (/me.)<br />

to rise from a lunge;<br />

de scntinelle, (mil.) to relieve from post;<br />

une sentinelle, (mil.) to relieve a sentinel;<br />

une torpille, (torp.) to pick up, raise, a tor-<br />

Ics trancJiees, (mil.) to relieve the troops in<br />

the trenches.<br />

releveur, m., chaser, embosser (tocl or man).<br />

reliage, m., new hooping (of a barrel).<br />

relic!, m., relief, embossment, embossing, set-off,<br />

foil; relief of the ground : projection from the face<br />

of a wall; (fort.) relief (of a work):<br />

de. la culasse, (art.) cascable astragal behind<br />

base ring, (obs.);<br />

faible, (fort.) relief of less than 6*;<br />

moycn, (fort.) relief between (> and 9m<br />

;<br />

plan , plan en , relief map or plan;<br />

rasant, (fort.) v. faible;<br />

du sol, (top.) relief of the ground.<br />

relien, m., (powd.) coarsely bruised, unsifted, powder<br />

(for fireworks);<br />

relier, v. a., 'to bind; to rehoop or new hoop a cask;<br />

to connect (by roads).<br />

religieuse, f., nun.<br />

religieux, a., religious; m., monk. .<br />

religion, f., religion;<br />

de I'Etat, state religion;<br />

surprendre ia dc , to impose upon the good<br />

faith of; to deceive.<br />

relimer, v. a., to file again, file up, polish up.<br />

remaconner, v. a., to repair masonry.<br />

remander, v. a., to send again (as an order).<br />

remandrinage, m., remandreling; (sm. a.) resizing<br />

of cartridge cases.<br />

remandriner, v. a., toremandrel; (sm. a.) to resize<br />

(cartridge cases).<br />

remanent, a., remanent, remaining.<br />

remaniement, m., repair, mending, working, doing<br />

over again; altering; touching, handling<br />

again; (cons.) repaving, new roofing.<br />

reinanler, v. a., to retouch, touch up; to repair,<br />

mend, alter, change; to make great alterations<br />

in; (cons.) to repave, roof anew.<br />

remballer, v. a., to pack up again.<br />

rembarquement, m., reembarkation, reshipping.<br />

rembarquer, v. a., to reembark; to go, put, on<br />

board again, ship again; to take shipping again;<br />

to engage anew.<br />

remblai, m., earth used to make an embankment,<br />

to fill a hollow; act of embanking, of filling; embankment,<br />

fill;<br />

en avant, embanking from the end, tipping;<br />

de cdte, side embanking;<br />

par couches, horizontal filling, embanking, by<br />

successive layers;<br />

s et deblais, cuts and fills;<br />

en like an , embankment; embankmentwise;<br />

emploi en , spreading;<br />

equilibre des s et deblais, balancing fills and<br />

cuts;<br />

exploitation par s, (mm.) system in which ore<br />

is taken out from below and the excavations<br />

filled.<br />

remblayr, v. a., to make an embankment; to embank;<br />

to fill up; to fill an excavation.<br />

remboltement, m., clamping, putting together<br />

again; replacing in a socket; fitting in again.<br />

rembotter, y. a., to reclamp, clamp together again,<br />

fit in again; to put together again (as the parts<br />

of a gun carriage).<br />

rembourrage, rembourrement, m., stuffing,<br />

padding.<br />

rembourrer, v. a., to stuff, to pad.<br />

rembourrure, f., hair for stuffing.<br />

remboursable, a., to be paid back, restored.<br />

remboursement, m., repayment.<br />

rcmbourser, v. a., to reimburse, pay back.<br />

reinbraquer, v. a., v. embraqucr.<br />

rcmbrayer, v. a., (mach.) to gear in again.<br />

rcmede, m., remedy.<br />

reire:Mer, v. a., to remedy;<br />

& des voies d'eau, (nav.) to stop leaks.<br />

remenee, f., (cons.) arch over a door or window.<br />

remener, v. a., to lead, drive, carry, back.<br />

r6mer, m., (law) privilege of repurchase;<br />

paclc de , recognition of the right of repur< hase;<br />

vente & , sale with the right of repurchase.<br />

remettre, v. a. r., to put back; to restore, give up;<br />

to. deliver, return; to bring bark to health; to<br />

set (a broken leg, etc.); to surrender (a prisoner);<br />

to pass over, forgive, pardon; to remit;<br />

to remit funds; to delay, defer; to <strong>com</strong>mit, con-<br />

fide; to return swords; (mil.) to resume, cause<br />

to resume, one's original position after a movement;<br />

une armee sur pied, (mil.) to raise fresh troops,<br />

new forces;<br />

I'avant-train, (art.) to limber.up;<br />

la ba'ionnettc, (sm. a.) to unfix bayonets;<br />

un cheval, (man.) to train a horse anew;<br />

le <strong>com</strong>mandcment (d'une armce, etc.), (mil.)<br />

to turn over the <strong>com</strong>mand to some one else;<br />

la consigne, (mil.) to turn over orders (as a<br />

sentinel to his relief);<br />

une dcpeche & destination, to send a telegram<br />

to its address;<br />

Vcp'ce dans le fourreau, (sm. a.) to return<br />

sword;<br />

se<br />

la garde, (mil.) to turn over the guard;<br />

en gardf, (fcnc.) to <strong>com</strong>e back to the position<br />

of guard;<br />

un navire ft flot, (nav.) to get a vessel afloat<br />

again;<br />

& ncvf. to make as good as new;<br />

une piece en batterie, (art.) to -return a piece<br />

in battery;<br />

le quart, (nav.) to turn over the watch;<br />

ft la route., (nav.) to resume an (interrupted)<br />

course;<br />

Ics sceaux, (of a minister of state) to give up<br />

the seals, resign;<br />

se , to recover one's health; (mil.) to resume<br />

one's original position ("as you were"); to resume<br />

one's original formation;<br />

se en route, to resume one's journey;<br />

la semaine, (mil.) to turn over the week (i. e.,<br />

duty performed by the week);<br />

le service, (mil.) to turn over duty to one's<br />

relief.<br />

remJge, f., remex (in a carrier pigeon, feather to<br />

is attached).<br />

which the message<br />

remise, f., return, delivery (of goods, of a letter,<br />

etc.); delivery of a medal, of a decoration; remit-<br />

tance (of money); reduction, discount, allowance;<br />

surrender, giving up; delay, adjournment;<br />

pardon, reduction of a sentence; carriage-,<br />

coach-, house; (mil. adm.) turning over (of functions,<br />

<strong>com</strong>mand, orders, property, barracks,<br />

quarters, etc.); (fenc.) repeated attack (i. e., a<br />

thrust following one that-has been parried and<br />

that is delivered from the same lunge);<br />

d'armes, (mil.) laying down of arms (in token<br />

of surrender);<br />

en batterie, (art.) return to battery;<br />

des drapeaux, (mil.) delivery of, presentation<br />

of, colors to troops;<br />

faire la , (mil.) to turn over (troops, material,<br />

etc.);<br />

de galons, (mil.) resignation of one's chevrons<br />

(on a change of regiment or arm, etc.);<br />

& I'heure, setting of a watr-h;<br />

en liberte, fresh release from confinement;<br />

de main, (man.) easing of the hand, of the<br />

pressure, on the bit; (mil.) counterstroke;<br />

& neuf, making as good as new;<br />

de peine, remittance of a penalty;<br />

en possession, restoration of possession;<br />

voiture de , hired carriage.

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