n.
1.embodiment in a new form (especially the reappearance or a person in another form)
2.a second or new birth
3.the Hindu or Buddhist doctrine that person may be reborn successively into one of five classes of living beings (god or human or animal or hungry ghost or denizen of hell) depending on the person's own actions
Idiom of the Day
fall by the wayside
to give up or fail before the end of something
The man fell by the wayside and could no longer compete in the design competition.