in commerce, a second payment of the price of exchange, or rather the price of a new exchange due upon a bill of exchange that comes to be protested, and to be refunded the bearer by the drawer or indorser.

REFLECTION, among ecclesiastics, a spare meal or repast, just sufficient for the support of life: hence the hall in convents, and other communities, where the monks, nuns, &c. take their refectory or meals in common, is called the refectory.