reversement, n.m., (nav.) trans-shipment. V. transbordement.
reverser, v.a., to pour out again; to pour off; (nav.) to trans-ship (V. transborder); (com.) to transfer, to carry (forward or over).
reversi or reversis, n.m., reversis (card game).
réversibilité, n.f., (jur.) revertibility.
réversible, adj., reversible; (jur.) revertible.
réversion, n.f., (jur.) reversion.
réversoir, n.m., dam, weir.
revertier (-tié), n.m., sort of backgammon.
revêtement (-vê-tmān), n.m., (arch., mas.) covering, lining, coating, casing, facing; (fort.) revetement; (joinery) veneering.
revêtir, v.a., to clothe; to give clothes to, to invest; to dress; to put on, to assume; to endow a person with; to bestow on a person; (mas.) to line, to cover. — les pauvres; to clothe the poor. — un habit; to put on a coat. — ses pensées d’un style brillant; to clothe one’s thoughts in brilliant language. — la figure de quelqu’un; to put on the air of some one else. Les formes que revêt la pensée; the forms that thought assumes. — un personnage; to assume a character. Je me suis dépouillé de cet emploi pour l’en —; I threw up this employment in his favor, to bestow it on him. — une terrasse de gazon; to cover a terrace with turf.