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‖ riverso Obs. rare.
Also 6 riuersa.
[a. It. riverso ‘a back-blow’ (Florio).]
= reverse n. 7. (See also reverso.) Also fig.
1595Saviolo Practise i. 11, I would not aduise any freend of mine..to strik neither mandrittaes nor riuersaes. Ibid. L 3 b, If you see he keepes his dagger winding towardes his right side, thrust a riuersa at his face. 1600O. E. (M. Sutcliffe) Repl. to Libel i. iii. 81, I haue thought good to bestow on them these Riuersoes, and Tramazzones. |