busk vs remission

busk

verb
  • To tack, cruise about. 

  • To solicit money by entertaining the public in the street or in public transport. 

noun
  • A strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset to stiffen it. 

  • A corset. 

remission

verb
  • To change the mission of; to provide with a new mission. 

noun
  • A reduction or cancellation of the penalty for a criminal offence; in particular, the reduction of a prison sentence as a recognition of the prisoner's good behaviour. 

  • A pardon of a sin; (chiefly historical, also figuratively) the forgiveness of an offence, or relinquishment of a (legal) claim or a debt. 

  • An act of remitting, returning, or sending back. 

  • An abatement or lessening of the manifestations of a disease; a period where the symptoms of a disease are absent. 

  • A lessening of amount due, as in either money or work, or intensity of a thing. 

  • A referral of a case back to another (especially a lower or inferior) court of law; a remand, a remittal. 

  • Reflection or scattering of light by a material; reemission. 

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