repopulation

[Pref. re-, and Eng. popu lati on (q. v.).] The act of repeopling; the state of being repeopled. rě-pört', v . t . & i. [Fr. reporter =to carry back, from Lat. re -back, again, and por to =to carry; Fr. rap porter =to carry back, to report [RAPPORT]; Sp. & Port. reportar ; Ital. riportare, rapport are .] A. Transitive : *1. To carry back; to send back; to return. "If you speak three words, it will (perhaps) some three times report you the whole three words."- Bacon : Nat. Hist ., § 249. 2. To bear or bring back, as an answer; to relate, as that which has been discovered by a person ap ant's plea. [PLEADING, II. 2.] "The course is for the plaintiff to put in a replication to the answer, in which he avers his bill to be true, certain, and sufficient, and the defendant's answer to be directly the reverse." -Black stone: Comment., bk. iii., ch. 18. 2. Logic : The a uming or using the same term twice in the same proposition. rěp'-li-ca-tive, a. [Eng. replicat (e); -ive.] The same as REPLICATE (q. v.). rě-pli-er, s . [English reply , v.;-er.] One who replies or answers; one who speaks or writes a reply to something said or written; one who makes a return to an answer; a respondent. "The replier, who was a di olute man, did tax him that, being a private bred man, he would give a question of state."-Bacon: Apophthegms. re-plům, s. [Lat.=a door case, or leaf of a door.] Bot.: A frame formed when the two sutures of a legume or a pod separate from the valves. The illustration shows the replum (r) in a siliqua, and in the section of a siliqua of a wallflower.