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[RIEM.] re-Im-bark, v. t . & i. [REEMBARK.] re-im-bod-ỹ, v. t . & i. [REEMBODY.] reimbursable re-Im-būrs-a-ble, a. [Eng.reimburs(e); -able.] Capable of being reimbursed or repaid. re-im-bürse', v . t . [Fr. rembourser , from re-= back, again, and embourser =to put into a purse: em- =in, and bourse a purse (q. v.).] 1. To replace in a treasury, purse, or coffer, as an equivalent for what has been taken, expended, or lost; to pay back, to refund, to repay, to restore, to make up. "Reimbursing what the people should give to the king." -Bolingbroke: Di ertation on Parties , let. 15. 2. To repay to; to pay back to; to give an equivalent. "To reimburse himself out of the pocket of the first traveler he met." -Paley: Moral Philosophy , bk. iii., ch. vii. re-im-būrse-ment, s. [French rem bourse ment .] The act of reimbursing, repaying, or refunding; repayment. "She exacted cautionary towns from them, as a security for her reimbursement ." -Bolingbroke : Occasional Writer, No. 2. re-im-būrs'-er, s . [Eng. reimburs(e); -er.] One who reimburses; one who repays or refunds that which has been taken, lost, or expended. *re-Im-merge', v.t. [Pref. re- , and Eng. immerge (q. v.).] To immerge again; to plunge again or anew. *re-im-plāçe', v. t. [O. French reimplacer.] To replace. ( Cotgrave .) rē Im-plant, v. t. [Pref. re-, and Eng. implant (q. v.).] To implant again or anew. Godly matrons usually graffe or reimplant on their now more aged heads and brows the reliques, combings or cuttings, of their own or others' more youthful hair." -Taylor: Artificial Handsomene , p. 45.