Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who or that which replenishes; specifically, in electricity, a static influence- or induction-machine used for maintaining the charge of a quadrant electrometer.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who replenishes.

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  • noun Agent noun of replenish; one who replenishes.

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Examples

  • Trustee David Liddiment, the author of the report, regretted its failure to woo a young "replenisher" audience that might stick with the station as they aged.

    Radio 4: The BBC won't hurt your beloved station | Vanessa Thorpe 2011

  • When we feel depleted, love is the best replenisher -- which includes the love we feel for ourselves, the love we freely give to others, and the love that comes to us from the people we care for and admire most.

    Marc Lesser: The Courage To Do Less 2010

  • And I didn't make enough use of pushing Tri-X to 4000 using HC110 replenisher; I've gotten several lovely pictures out of that, despite the fog levels and the weird film curvature that results.

    Making Light: Open thread 135 2010

  • When we feel depleted, love is the best replenisher -- which includes the love we feel for ourselves, the love we freely give to others, and the love that comes to us from the people we care for and admire most.

    Marc Lesser: Doing Less Means More Productivity, Kindness & Love 2009

  • After letting my OCD make a raving loon out of me for the rest of the afternoon, I eventually got myself a foot-long sub (the sandwich, not a tiny vessel full of seamen), a large bottle of orange Gatorade (my personal favorite electrolyte replenisher), and locked myself in my hotel room, determined to work out a plan of action.

    The Comical Life of Troy Hickman #4: A Little of Column A, A Little of Column B… 2009

  • Father, the Sonne, and the holy Ghost, the blessed Trinitie, our onely God, maker and preseruer of all things, replenisher of all things euery where, who by thy goodnesse doest cause all men to loue the giuer of wisedome our onely Mediatour, and leader of vs all vnto blessed knowledge by the onely Sonne his word, our Lord

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Suddenly, its backmounted air replenisher purged itself, expelling a burst of vapor strong enough to push Riker off the edge and out of the gravity field.

    DARK VICTORY WILLIAM SHATNER 1999

  • And certainly this replenisher of the privy majesty shone in his blessed face at the first to them that saw him, and he might by that sight and will draw them to him.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 5 1230-1298 1900

  • But it is the better test of love; and perhaps also the better preserver and replenisher of love.

    Hints for Lovers 1899

  • The new electrometer is really a combination of three inventions -- of Sir William Thomson's portable electrometer to indicate whether or no the instrument is sufficiently charged; of the replenisher by Mr. Varley for charging or discharging; and of the quadrant electrometer for reading off the minute tensions measured.

    Western Worthies A Gallery of Biographical and Critical Sketches of West of Scotland Celebrities 1879

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