reseda

[Lat.] Bot.: Mignonette; the typical genus of Resedaceæ. Flowers in racemes. Calyx irregular, mostly laciniated; stamens ten to forty. Ovary se ile or stalked, one-celled, opening at the top; stigmas three to four. From Europe and Western Asia. Known species, twenty-six. One species, R. phyteuma , is eaten as a kitchen plant in Greece. R. odorata is the Mignonette (q. v.). R. luteola yields a yellow dye. rěs-ě-dā-çě-æ, s. pl. [Latin resed(a); fem. pl adj. suff. -aceœ.] Reseda Odorata. Bot.: Weldworts, or Resedads; an order of Hypogynous Exogens, alliance Cistales. Herbs, rarely small shrubs, with alternate leaves and minute gland-like stipules. Flowers in racemes or spikes. Calyx many-parted; petals broad, fleshy plates with lacerated appendages at the back, unequal. Stamens definite; ovary three-lobed, one-celled, many-seeded, usually with three to six parietal placente; stigmas three, glandular, se ile. Fruit dry and membranous, or succulent; seeds several. reniform. Closely akin to Capparidaceae. Mostly from the north temperate part of the eastern hemisphere, but a few species are from the Cape of Good Hope and California. Known genera six; species forty-one. ( Lindley .) Species twenty. ( Sir J. Hooker.) rěs-ě-dăd, s. [Lat. resed(a); Eng. suff.-ad.] Bot. (pl.): The Resedacem. ( Lindley.) re-seek', v. t. [Pref. re-, and Eng. seek (q. v.).] To seek again. re-sēize', *re-seaze, *rē-sēişe', v. t. [Pref. re-, and Eng. seize (q. v.).] I. Ordinary Language : 1. To seize again or a second time; to retake. "Whereupon they reseised those castles for their safety."-Prynne: Soveraigne Power , pt. ii., p. 19. 2. To put in po e ion of again; to reinstate. (Spenser: F. Q. , II. x. 45.) II. Law : To take po e ion of, as of lands and tenements which have been di eized.