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Reverse :: Reverse (a.) A thrust in fencing made with a backward turn of the hand; a backhanded stroke.

Recoil :: Recoil (v. i.) To start, roll, bound, spring, or fall back; to take a reverse motion; to be driven or forced backward; to return..

Turn :: Turn (v. t.) To cause to present a different side uppermost or outmost; to make the upper side the lower, or the inside to be the outside of; to reverse the position of; as, to turn a box or a board; to turn a coat..

Reverse :: Reverse (a.) That which appears or is presented when anything, as a lance, a line, a course of conduct, etc., is reverted or turned contrary to its natural direction..

Unreserve :: Unreserve (n.) Absence of reverse; frankness; freedom of communication.

Link Motion :: Link motion () A valve gear, consisting of two eccentrics with their rods, giving motion to a slide valve by an adjustable connecting bar, called the link, in such a way that the motion of the engine can be reversed, or the cut-off varied, at will; -- used very generally in locomotives and marine engines..

Disassimilation :: Disassimilation (n.) The decomposition of complex substances, within the organism, into simpler ones suitable only for excretion, with evolution of energy, -- a normal nutritional process the reverse of assimilation; downward metabolism..

Undo :: Undo (v. t.) To reverse, as what has been done; to annul; to bring to naught..

Involution :: Involution (n.) The act or process of raising a quantity to any power assigned; the multiplication of a quantity into itself a given number of times; -- the reverse of evolution.

Register :: Register (n.) The correspondence of pages, columns, or lines on the opposite or reverse sides of the sheet..

Converse :: Converse (a.) Turned about; reversed in order or relation; reciprocal; as, a converse proposition..

Reexchange :: Reexchange (v. t.) To exchange anew; to reverse (a previous exchange).

Retrace :: Retrace (v. t.) To go back, in or over (a previous course); to go over again in a reverse direction; as, to retrace one's steps; to retrace one's proceedings..

Pawl :: Pawl (n.) A pivoted tongue, or sliding bolt, on one part of a machine, adapted to fall into notches, or interdental spaces, on another part, as a ratchet wheel, in such a manner as to permit motion in one direction and prevent it in the reverse, as in a windlass; a catch, click, or detent. See Illust. of Ratchet Wheel..

Anapest :: Anapest (n.) A metrical foot consisting of three syllables, the first two short, or unaccented, the last long, or accented (/ / -); the reverse of the dactyl. In Latin d/-/-tas, and in English in-ter-vene#, are examples of anapests..

Twin :: Twin (n.) A compound crystal composed of two or more crystals, or parts of crystals, in reversed position with reference to each other..

Undecreed :: Undecreed (a.) Reversed or nullified by decree, as something previously decreed..

Renverse :: Renverse (a.) Reversed; set with the head downward; turned contrary to the natural position.

Pseudoscopic :: Pseudoscopic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or formed by, a pseudoscope; having its parts appearing with the relief reversed; as, a pseudoscopic image..

Heat :: Heat (n.) The sensation caused by the force or influence of heat when excessive, or above that which is normal to the human body; the bodily feeling experienced on exposure to fire, the sun's rays, etc.; the reverse of cold..

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