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25. 2. Restoration of courage or confidence; deliverance from apprehension or doubt. How plainly I perceived hell flash and fade O' the face of her - the doubt that first paled joy, Then, final rea urance . Browning , Ring and Book, II. 49. 3. Same as reinsurance . No re - a urance shall be lawful, except the former insurer shall be insolvent, a bankrupt, or dead. Black stone , Com., II. xxx. rea ure (re-a-shör'), v . t . [= F. réa urer = Pg. rea egurar = It. rias sic urare; as re- + a ure.] 1. To a ure or establish anew; make sure again; confirm. Let me fore-warn'd each sign, each system learn, That I my people's danger may discern, Ere 'tis too late wish'd health to rea ure . Church ill, Gotham, iii. IMG:content-1715.png:[blocks in formation] rea urer (rē-a-shörʻèr), n . One who rea ures, or a ures or insures anew. rea uringly (rē-a-shör ́ing-li), adv . In a rea uring manner; so as to rea ure. reast1 (rest), v . [Also reest (and rease , reeze , in pp. reased , reezed ), Sc. reist (as v . t.); prob. riste , broil, grill; cf. Sw. rost a , roast: see roast .] I. trans . To dry (meat) by the heat of the sun or in a chimney; smoke-dry. Let us cut up bushes and briars, pile them before the door and set fire to them, and smoke that auld devil's dam as if she were to be reisted for bacon. Scott , Black Dwarf, ix. They bequeath so great sums for ma es, and dirges, and trentals, that their souls may at the last be had to heaven, though first for a while they be reezed in purgatory. Rev. T. Adams , Works, I. 65.