So that my arrows Would have reverted to my bow
again. --Shak.
2. (Law) To return to the proprietor after the termination of
a particular estate granted by him.
3. (Biol.) To return, wholly or in part, towards some
pre["e]xistent form; to take on the traits or characters
of an ancestral type.
4. (Chem.) To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble
state or the reverse; thus, phosphoric acid in certain
fertilizers reverts.
An active promoter in making the East Saxons converts,
or rather reverts, to the faith. --Fuller.
Till happy chance revert the cruel scence. --Prior.
The tumbling stream . . . Reverted, plays in
undulating flow. --Thomson.
2. To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
3. (Chem.) To change back. See {Revert}, v. i.
{To revert a series} (Alg.), to treat a series, as y = a + bx
+ cx^{2} + etc., where one variable y is expressed in
powers of a second variable x, so as to find therefrom the
second variable x, expressed in a series arranged in
powers of y.