n.
1.(law) an interest in an estate that reverts to the grantor (or his heirs) at the end of some period (e.g., the death of the grantee)
2.a return to a normal phenotype (usually resulting from a second mutation)
3.a reappearance of an earlier characteristic
4.turning in the opposite direction
5.returning to a former state
6.a failure to maintain a higher state
Idiom of the Day
keep body and soul together
to keep alive, to survive
It was very cold in the mountains but somehow the hiker was able to keep body and soul together and survived.