revie

English

Etymology

re- +‎ vie

Verb

revie (third-person singular simple present revies, present participle revying, simple past and past participle revied)

1. (obsolete) To vie with, or rival, in return.
2. (obsolete) To exceed an adversary's wager in a card game.

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3. (obsolete) To make a retort; to bandy words.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “revie”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• reive, rieve, verie