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reversing |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Reverse \Re*verse"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Reversed};p. pr & vb n. {Reversing}.] [See {Reverse}, a., and cf {Revert}.] 1. To turn back to cause to face in a contrary direction; to cause to depart. And that old dame said many an idle verse, Out of her daughter's heart fond fancies to reverse. --Spenser. 2. To cause to return; to recall. [Obs.] And to his fresh remembrance did reverse The ugly view of his deformed crimes. --Spenser. 3. To change totally; to alter to the opposite. Reverse the doom of death. --Shak. She reversed the conduct of the celebrated vicar of Bray. --Sir W. Scott. 4. To turn upside down to invert. A pyramid reversed may stand upon his point if balanced by admirable skill. --Sir W. Temple. 5. Hence to overthrow; to subvert. These can divide, and these reverse, the state. --Pope. Custom . . . reverses even the distinctions of good and evil. --Rogers. 6. (Law) To overthrow by a contrary decision; to make void; to under or annual for error; as to reverse a judgment, sentence, or decree. {Reverse arms} (Mil.), a position of a soldier in which the piece passes between the right elbow and the body at an angle of 45[deg], and is held as in the illustration. {To reverse an engine} or {a machine}, to cause it to perform its revolutions or action in the opposite direction. Syn: To overturn; overset; invert; overthrow; subvert; repeal; annul; revoke; undo. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Reversing \Re*vers"ing\, a. Serving to effect reversal, as of motion; capable of being reversed. {Reversing engine}, a steam engine having a reversing gear by means of which it can be made to run in either direction at will {Reversing gear} (Mach.), gear for reversing the direction of rotation at will
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