Paston Letters, I

75. Save or saving your reverence, with all due respect to you: a phrase used to excuse an offensive expre ion or statement: sometimes contracted to sir - reverence. ing by reverberation; reverberating: as, a reverb era tory furnace To run away from the Jew, I should be ruled by the or kiln. See reverberation , 4, and furnace , and fiend, who, saving your reverence , is the devil himself. Shak ., M. of V., ii. 2. 27. grows in wet, stinking Places, and thrives no where so well as in Mud, or a Dunghill, saving your Reverence. N. Bailey , tr. of Colloquies of Erasmus, II. 148. To do reverence, to make reverence; show respect; do honor; specifically, to do homage; make a bow or obeisance. cut under puddling - furnace . Reverdin's operation. See operation . reverduret (rē-ver'dūr), v . t . [ verdure . ] To cover again with verdure. [Rare.] The swete tyme of Marche was come, and the wyndes were re a peased, and ye waters swaged of their rages, and the wodes reverdured .