Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language

1. (n.) A summing up; a condensed statement; an abridgment or brief recapitulation.

2. (v. t.) To take back.

3. (v. t.) To enter upon, or take up again.

4. (v. t.) To begin again; to recommence, as something which has been interrupted; as, to resume an argument or discourse.