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remise
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun remise has 3 senses
- remise(n = noun.artifact) Array - an expensive or high-class hackney; Array is a kind of hackney, hackney carriage, hackney coach
- remise(n = noun.artifact) carriage house, coach house - a small building for housing coaches and carriages and other vehicles; Array is a kind of outbuilding
- remise(n = noun.act) Array - (fencing) a second thrust made on the same lunge (as when your opponent fails to riposte); Array is a kind of knife thrust, stab, thrust
is a part of lunge, passado, straight thrust
CIDE DICTIONARY
remise, v. t. [F. remise delivery, surrender, fr. remettre to put back, deliver, L. remittere. See Remit.].
To send, give, or grant back; to release a claim to; to resign or surrender by deed; to return. Blackstone. [1913 Webster]
remise, n.
A giving or granting back; surrender; return; release, as of a claim. [1913 Webster]
remise, n.
- A house for covered carriages; a chaise house. Sterne. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- A livery carriage of a kind superior to an ordinary fiacre; -- so called because kept in a remise. Cooper. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
remise, v. & n.
--v.intr.
1 Law surrender or make over (a right or property).
2 Fencing make a remise.
--n. Fencing a second thrust made after the first has failed.
--v.intr.
1 Law surrender or make over (a right or property).
2 Fencing make a remise.
--n. Fencing a second thrust made after the first has failed.
Etymology
F f. remis, remise past part. of remettre put back: cf. REMIT
ROGET THESAURUS
remise
Exemption
VB not have, be without, excuse, be exempt, exempt, release, acquit, discharge, quitclaim, remise, remit, free, set at liberty, let off, pass over, spare, excuse, dispense with, give dispensation, license, stretch a point, absolve, exonerate, save the necessity.
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