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mucronate at the tip with a leafy rudiment. The sheath in 
the middle of the culm has a similar leafy rudiment. 
Spathe terminating, unfolding into other inner spathes, and 
into compound racemes. The fructification is with difficulty 
extricated in the females. Anthers compressed, brown 
edged with white. 
8. Restio cemuus.—Culm simple leafless, spikes tur¬ 
binate pendulous, scales blunt with a point. 
9. Restio tectorum.—Culm simple leafless, raceme com- 
pound erect. The houses are commonly thatched with this 
species at the Cape of Good Hope, both in town and 
country, and sometimes whole huts are built with it. A 
roof thatched with it will last twenty or thirty years, and 
would last much longer, if the south-east wind did not blow 
much dirt into it, which causes it to rot.—Thunberg enu¬ 
merates 19 more. 
These plants are all natives of the Cape of Good Hope, 
where some of them are used for making ropes, for brooms, 
or for thatching. Thunberg has a monograph, or dissertation 
expressly on this genus. 
To RE'STITUTE, v. a. [ restitutus, rcstituo, Lat.] To 
recover to a former stale. 
Restituted trade 
To every virtue lent his helping stores. Dyer. 
RESTITUTION, s. [restitutio , Lat.] The act of re¬ 
storing what is lost or taken away. 
He would pawn his fortunes 
To hopeless restitution, so he might 
Be call’d your vanquisher. Shakspeare. 
■ The act of recovering its former state or posture.—In the 
woodv parts of plants, which are their bones, the principles 
are socompounded, as to make them flexible without joints, 
and also elastic ; that so their roots may yield to stones, and 
their trunks to the wind, with a power of restitution. Grew. 
Restitution of stolen goods, is allowed to the pro¬ 
secutor, on a conviction of larceny, by stat. 21 Hen. VIII. 
c. 11. For, by the common law, there was no restitution 
of goods upon an indictment, because it is at the suit of the 
king only; and therefore the party was forced to bring an 
appeal of robbery, in order to have his goods again. But 
it being considered that the party, prosecuting the offender 
by indictment, deserves as much encouragement as he who 
prosecutes by appeal, this statute was made, which enacts, 
that if any person be'convicted of larceny by the evidence cf 
the party robbed, he shall have full restitution of his money, 
goods, and chattels, or the value of them out of the offender’s 
goods, if he has any, by a writ to be granted by the justices. 
And this writ of restitution shall reach the goods so stolen, 
notwithstanding the property of them is endeavoured to be 
altered by sale in market overt; or else, without such writ of 
restitution, the party may peaceably retake his goods, where¬ 
ver he happens to find them, unless a new property be fairly 
acquired therein; or, lastly, if the felon be convicted and 
pardoned, or be allowed his clergy, the party robbed may 
bring his action of trover against him for his goods, and re¬ 
cover a satisfaction in damages; but such action lies not be¬ 
fore prosecution, for so felonies would be made up and 
healed. 
RE'STITUTOR, s. [ restitutor, Lat.] A restorer.—Their 
rescuer, or restitutor, Quixote. Gayton. 
RE'STIVE, or Re'stiveness.' See Restiff, Restif- 
NESS. 
• RE'STLESS, adj. [Sax. pept’ea]-.] Being without sleep. 
Rest/esshe pass’d the remnants of the night. 
Till the fresh air proclaim’d the morning nigh : 
And burning ships, the martyrs of the fight, 
With paler fires beheld the eastern sky. Dryden. 
Unquiet; without peace. 
Ease to the body some, none to the mind 
From restless thoughts, that like a deadly swarm 
Of hornets arm’d, no sooner found alone. 
But rush upon me thronging, and present 
Times past, what once I was, and what am now. Milton, 
RES 
Unconstant; unsettled. 
He’s proud, fantastick, apt to change, 
Restless at home, and ever prone to range. Dryden, 
Not still; in continual motion. 
How could nature on their orbs impose 
Such restless revolution, day by day 
Repeated? Milton. 
RE'STLESSLY, ado. Without rest; unquietly.—When 
the mind casts and turns itself restlessly from one thing to 
another, strains this power of the soul to apprehend, that to 
judge, another to divide, a fourth to remember: thus tracing 
out the nice and scarce observable difference of some things, 
and the real agreement of others; at length it brings all the 
ends of a long hyphothesis together. South. 
RE'STLESSNESS, s. Want of sleep.— Restlessness and 
intermission from sleep, grieved persons are molested with, 
whereby the blood is dried. Harvey .—Want of rest; un¬ 
quietness. 
Let him keep the rest. 
But keep them with repining restlessness l 
Let him be rich and weary, that at least. 
If goodness lead him not, yet weariness 
May tosij him to my breast. Herbert. 
Motion; agitation.—The trembling restlessness of the 
needle, in any but the north point of the compass, manifests 
its inclination to the pole; which its wavering and its rest 
bear equal witness to. Boyle. 
RESTOR, North and South, two parishes of England, 
in Lincolnshire; the former 6 miles south-east of Louth, and 
the latter 5 miles north-west of Alford. - 
RESTO'RABLE, adj. What may be restored.—By cut¬ 
ting turf without any regularity, great quantities of restore- 
able land are made utterly desperate. Swift. 
RESTO'RAL, s. Restitution. Cotgrave .—One part of 
the Christian faith concerns the promises of pardon to our 
sins, and restoral into God’s favour upon the terms, pro¬ 
pounded in the Gospel, of sincere faith and repentance. 
Barrow. 
RESTORATION, s. [restauration, Fr.] The act of re¬ 
placing in a former state. 
Hail, royal Albion, hail to thee. 
Thy longing people’s expectation! 
Sent from the gods to set us free 
From bondage and from usurpation: 
Behold the different climes agree. 
Rejoicing in thy restoration. Dryden. 
Recovery.—The change is great in this restoration of the 
man, from a state of spiritual darkness, to a capacity of per¬ 
ceiving divine truth. Rogers. 
RESTORATION, in Theology, a term applied by those 
who maintain the doctrine of the final happiness of all man¬ 
kind, through the recovery of transgressors from a state of guilt 
and misery to pardon and felicity, in consequence of the penal 
discipline which they are doomed to endure in a future 
world. 
RESTORATION, a small island in the South Pacific 
ocean, on the east coast of New Holland, discovered by cap¬ 
tain Bligh in 1789. It is about a league in circuit, but is 
only a lump of rocks and stones covered with wood ; hence the 
trees are small, from the scanty soil. Some fruits are never¬ 
theless produced, of agreeable flavour, which contributed to 
support captain Bligh and his crew during their distressing 
voyage in an open boat, through the South Pacific. Oysters 
are plentiful, and it abounds in water. 
RESTORATION COVE, a bay on the north-west coast 
of North America, in Burke’s canal, not far from Fitzhugh’s 
sound. It was so called by captain Vancouver, from its be¬ 
ing discovered on the 29th May 1792, the anniversary of the 
restoration. The breadth of this cove at the entrance, in a 
north and south direction, is about a mile and a quarter, and 
its depth from the centre of the entrance in a north-east 
direction, is three quarters of a mile. The soundings, 
though 
