Reverse

rē-vėrs′, v.t. to place in the contrary order or position: to change wholly: to overthrow: to change by an opposite decision: to annul: to revoke, as a decree: to recall.— n. that which is reversed: the opposite: the back, esp. of a coin or medal: change: misfortune: a calamity: in fencing, a back-handed stroke: ( her. ) the exact contrary of what has been described just before, as an escutcheon.— adj. turned backward: having an opposite direction: upset.— n. Rever′sal , act of reversing.— adj. Reversed′ , turned or changed to the contrary: inside out: ( bot. ) resupinate.— adv. Rever′sedly .— adj. Reverse′le , unalterable.— adv. Reverse′ly , in a reverse order: on the other hand: on the opposite.— ns. Rever′ser ( Scots law ), a mortgager of land; Rever′si , a game played by two persons with sixty-four counters; Reversibil′ity , the capability of being reversed, as of heat into work and work into heat.— adj. Rever′sible , that may be reversed, as in a fabric having both sides well finished.— ns. Rever′sing-cyl′inder , the cylinder of a small auxiliary steam-engine; Rever′sing-gear , those parts of a steam-engine by which the direction of the motion is changed; Rever′sing-lē′ver , a lever in a steam-engine which operates the slide-valve; Rever′sing-machine′ , a moulding-machine in founding, in which the flask can be reversed; Rever′sing-mō′tion , any mechanism for changing the direction of motion of an engine; Rever′sing-shaft , a shaft which permits a reversal of the order of steam pa age through the ports; Rever′sing-valve , the valve of a reversing-cylinder; Rever′sion , the act of reverting or returning: that which reverts or returns: the return or future po e ion of any property after some particular event: the right to future po e ion: ( biol. ) return to some type of ancestral character: return to the wild state after domestication.— adj. Rever′sionary , relating to a reversion: to be enjoyed in succe ion: atavic.— ns. Rever′sioner ; Rever′sis , an old French game of cards in which the aim was to take the fewest tricks.— adj. Rever′sive .— n. Rever′so ( print. ), any one of the left-hand pages of a book.— Reverse a battery , to turn the current of electricity by means of a commutator; Reverse shell , a univalve shell which has its volutions the reversed way of the common screw; Reversionary annuity , a deferred annuity. [L. revers us , pa.p. of revertĕre , to turn back— re- , back, vertĕre , to turn.]