remise

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
remise
    n 1: an expensive or high-class hackney
    2: a small building for housing coaches and carriages and other
       vehicles [syn: {coach house}, {carriage house}, {remise}]
    3: (fencing) a second thrust made on the same lunge (as when
       your opponent fails to riposte)
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Remise \Re*mise"\ (r?-m?z"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Remised}
   (-m?zd"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Remising}.] [F. remise delivery,
   surrender, fr. remettre to put back, deliver, L. remittere.
   See {Remit}.]
   To send, give, or grant back; to release a claim to; to
   resign or surrender by deed; to return. --Blackstone.
   [1913 Webster]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Remise \Re*mise"\, n. (Law)
   A giving or granting back; surrender; return; release, as of
   a claim.
   [1913 Webster]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Remise \Re*mise"\, n.
   1. A house for covered carriages; a chaise house. --Sterne.
      [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

   2. A livery carriage of a kind superior to an ordinary
      fiacre; -- so called because kept in a remise. --Cooper.
      [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
    

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