reprise

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Music A repetition of a phrase or verse.
2. n. Music A return to an original theme.
3. n. A recurrence or resumption of an action.
4. v. To repeat or resume an action; make a reprise of.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To take again; retake.
2. To recompense; pay.
3. To take; arrest.
4. n. A taking by way of retaliation; reprisal.
5. n. In masonry, the return of a molding in an internal angle.
6. n. In maritime law, a ship recaptured from an enemy or a pirate. If recaptured within twenty-four hours of her capture, she must be restored to her owners; if after that period, she is the lawful prize of those who have recaptured her.
7. n. plural In law, yearly deductions, duties, or payments out of a manor and lands, as rent-charge, rent-seek, annuities, and the like. Also written reprizes.
8. n. In music: The act of repeating a passage, or a passage repeated.
9. n. A return to the first theme or subject of a short work or section, after an intermediate or contrasted passage.
10. n. A revival of an obsolete or forgotten work.
11. n. Blame; reproach.

Wiktionary

1. n. A recurrence or resumption of an action.
2. n. music A repetition of a phrase, or a return to an earlier theme.
3. n. fencing A renewal of a failed attack, after going back into the on guard position.
4. v. obsolete, transitive To take (something) up or on again.
5. v. To repeat or resume an action
6. v. obsolete To recompense; to pay.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. obsolete A taking by way of retaliation.
2. n. (Law) Deductions and duties paid yearly out of a manor and lands, as rent charge, rent seck, pensions, annuities, and the like.
3. n. A ship recaptured from an enemy or from a pirate.
4. v. obsolete To take again; to retake.
5. v. obsolete To recompense; to pay.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. repeat an earlier theme of a composition