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REPEAT

Volume 3 · 68 words · 1771 Edition

in music, a character shewing that what was last played or sung must be repeated or gone over again.

REPELLENTS, in medicine, remedies which drive back a morbid humour into the mass of blood from which it was unduly secreted.

The most remarkable in the class of repellents are the white of an egg, the lapis calaminaris, litharge of gum, red-lead, tatty, pampholix, house-leek, putty, and cow web.