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English Dictionary: remise by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
remise
n
  1. an expensive or high-class hackney
  2. a small building for housing coaches and carriages and other vehicles
    Synonym(s): coach house, carriage house, remise
  3. (fencing) a second thrust made on the same lunge (as when your opponent fails to riposte)
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Remise \Re*mise"\, n.
      1. A house for covered carriages; a chaise house. --Sterne.
  
      2. A livery carriage of a kind superior to an ordinary
            fiacre; -- so called because kept in a remise. --Cooper.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Remise \Re*mise"\ (r?-m?z"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Remised}
      (-m?zd"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Remising}.] [F. remise delivery,
      surrender, fr. remettre to put back, deliver, L. remittere.
      See {Remit}.]
      To send, give, or grant back; to release a claim to; to
      resign or surrender by deed; to return. --Blackstone.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Remise \Re*mise"\, n. (Law)
      A giving or granting back; surrender; return; release, as of
      a claim.
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