Emily Dickinson Lexicon

RE-SOLV'ED, pp.

1. Separated into its component parts; analyzed.
2. Determined in purpose; as, I am resolved not to keep company with gamesters. This phrase is properly, “I have resolved;” as we say, a person is deceased, for has deceased; he is retired, for has retired. In these phrases, the participle is rather an adjective.
3. Determined officially or by vote.

RE-SOLV'ED-LY, adv.

With firmness of purpose. – Grew.

RE-SOLV'ED-NESS, n.

Fixedness of purpose; firmness; resolution. – Decay of Piety.

RE-SOLV'ENT, n.

That which has the power of causing solution. In medicine, that which has power to disperses inflammation and prevent the suppuration of tumors; a discutient. – Coxe. Encyc.

RE-SOLV'ER, n.

One that resolves or forms a firm purpose.

RE-SOLV'ING, n.

The act of determining or forming a fixed purpose; a resolution. – Clarendon.

RE-SOLV'ING, ppr.

Separating into component parts; analyzing; removing perplexities or obscurity; discussing, as tumors; determining.

RES'O-NANCE, n. [s as z.; L. resonans.]

1. A resounding; a sound returned from the sides of a hollow instrument of music; reverberated sound or sounds. – Encyc.
2. A sound returned.

RES'O-NANT, a. [L. resonans; re and sono, to sound.]

Resounding; returning sound; echoing back. – Milton.

RE-SORB', v.t. [L. resorbeo; re and sorbeo, to drink in.]

To swallow up. – Young.

RE-SORB'ENT, a.

Swallowing up. – Woodhull.

RE-SORT', n.

1. The act of going to or making application; betaking one's self; as, a resort to other means of defense; a resort to subterfuges for evasion.
2. Act of visiting. Join with me to forbid him her resort. – Shak.
3. Assembly; meeting. – Dryden.
4. Concourse; frequent assembling; as, a place of resort. – Swift.
5. The place frequented; as, alehouses are the resorts of the idle and dissolute.
6. Spring; active power or movement; a Gallicism. [Not in use.] – Bacon. Last resort, ultimate means of relief; also, final tribunal; that from which there is no appeal.

RE-SORT', v.i. [s as z. Fr. ressortir; re and sortir, to go or come out.]

1. To have recourse; to apply; to betake. The king thought it time to resort to other counsels. – Clarendon.
2. To go; to repair. The people resort to him again. – Mark x. John xviii.
3. To fall back. The inheritance of the son never resorted to the mother. [Obs.] – Hale.

RE-SORT'ER, n.

One that resorts or frequents.

RE-SORT'ING, ppr.

Going; having recourse; betaking; frequenting.

RE-SOUND', n. [s as z.]

Return of sound; echo. – Beaum.

RE-SOUND', v.i.

1. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound; as, common fame resounds back to them. – South.
2. To be much and loudly mentioned. – Milton.

RE-SOUND', v.t. [s as z. L. resono; re and sono, to sound; Fr. resonner; It. risuonare; Sp. resonar.]

1. To send back sound; to echo. And Albion's cliffs resound the rural lay. – Pope.
2. To sound; to praise or celebrate with the voice or the sound of instruments. – Milton.
3. To praise; to extol with sounds; to spread the fame of. The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd, / Long exercis'd in woes, O muse, resound. – Pope.

RE'SOUND, v.t. [re and sound; with the accent on the first syllable.]

To sound again. – Jones.

RE-SOUND'ED, pp.

Echoed; returned, as sound; celebrated.

RE-SOUND'ING, ppr.

Echoing; returning, as sound.

RE-SOURCE', n. [Fr. ressource; re and source.]

1. Any source of aid or support; an expedient to which a person may resort for assistance, safety or supply; means yet untried; resort. An enterprising man finds resources in his own mind. Pallas view'd / His foes pursuing and his friends pursu'd, / Used threat'nings mix'd with prayers, his last resource. – Dryden.
2. Resources, in the plural, pecuniary means; funds; money or any property that can be converted into supplies; means of raising money or supplies. Our national resources for carrying on war are abundant. Commerce and manufactures furnish ample resources.

RE-SOURCE'LESS, a.

Destitute of resources. [A word not to be countenanced.] – Burke.

RE-SOW', v.t. [pret. resowed; pp. resolved or resown. re and sow.]

To sow again. – Bacon.

RE-SOW'ED, or RE-SOWN', pp.

Sown anew.