Restringing; astringent; styptic. A restringent medicine.

To strive anew.

Disposed to rest; indisposed toexercton; sluggish; also, restive.

A second subjection.

To sublime again.

Act of sweating again.

A flying back; resilience.

The act of resulting; that which results; a result.

That which results. A reultant force or motion. An eliminant.

A result.

HAving results or effects.

Resultant.

Being without result; as, resultless investigations.

Capable of, or admitting of, being resumed.

To take back.

To summon again.

A second summons.

The act of resuming; as, the resumption of a grant, of delegated powers, of an argument, of specie payments, etc.

Taking back; resuming, or tending toward resumption; as, resumptive measures.

Inverted in position; appearing to be upside down or reversed, as the flowers of the orchis and the leaves of some plants.

Resupinate.

The state of luing on the back; the state of being resupinate, or reversed.

Lying on the back; supine; hence, careless.

To supply again.

The act of rising again; resurrection.

One who rises again, as from the dead.

To take from the grave; to disinter.

A rising again; the resumption of vigor.

One who steals bodies from the grave, as for dissection.

To raise from the dead.

A second or new survey.

Capable of resuscitation; as, resuscitable plants.

One who, or that which resuscitates. Also used adjectively.

To come to life again; to revive.

The act of resuscitating, or state of being resuscitated.

Tending to resuscitate; reviving; revivifying.

One who, or that which, resuscitates.

To prepare for use, as flax, by separating the fibers from the woody part by process of soaking, macerating, and other treatment.

A shelf behind the altar, for display of lights, vases of flowers, etc.

To sell in small quantities, as by the single yard, pound, gallon, etc.; to sell directly to the consumer; as, to retail cloth or groceries.

One who retails anything; as, a retailer of merchandise; a retailer of gossip; -- used also of businesses, including large corporations; as, Sears, Roebuck is one the the country's largest retailers.

The act of retailing.

To belong; to pertain.

Capable of being retained.

The act of retaining; retention.

One who, or that which, retains.

The act of retaining; retention.

To take or receive again.

One who takes again what has been taken; a recaptor.

To return like for like; specifically, to return evil for evil; as, to retaliate upon an enemy.

The act of retaliating, or of returning like for like; retribution; now, specifically, the return of evil for evil; e.g., an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.

Same as Retaliatory.

Tending to, or involving, retaliation; retaliative; as retaliatory measures.

Retardation; delay.

The act of retarding; hindrance; the act of delaying; as, the retardation of the motion of a ship; -- opposed to acceleration.

Tending, or serving, to retard.

having a limited or below normal mental ability; same as mentally retarded; -- used especially in relation to performance in academic tasks.

One who, or that which, retards.

The act of retarding; retardation.

To care for; to heed; to reck.

A net or network; a plexus; particularly, a network of blood vessels or nerves, or a part resembling a network.

Resembling network; retiform.

Act of disclosing or uncovering something concealed.

To tell again.

A white crystalline hydrocarbon, polymeric with benzene. It is extracted from pine tar, and is also found in certain fossil resins.

That which is retained.

The act of retaining, or the state of being ratined.

That which retains or confines; a restraint.

In a retentive manner.

The quality of being retentive.

The power of retaining; retentive force; as, the retentivity of a magnet.

A muscle which serves to retain an organ or part in place, esp. when retracted. See Illust. of Phylactolemata.

Any one of several species of bryozoans of the genus Retepora. They form delicate calcareous corals, usually composed of thin fenestrated fronds.

To annual, as orders.

The act of weaving or forming again.

A rhetorician; a careful writer.

Rhetoric.

A gladiator armed with a net for entangling his adversary and a trident for despatching him.

Netlike.

The quality or state of being reticent, or keeping silence; the state of holding one's tonque; refraining to speak of that which is suggested; uncommunicativeness.

Reticence.

Inclined to keep silent; reserved; uncommunicative.

A small net.

Having the form of a net, or of network; formed with interstices; retiform; as, reticular cartilage; a reticular leaf.

An extensive division of rhizopods in which the pseudopodia are more or less slender and coalesce at certain points, forming irregular meshes. It includes the shelled Foraminifera, together with some groups which lack a true shell.

One of the Reticularia.

In a reticular manner.

Resembling network; having the form or appearance of a net; netted; as, a reticulated structure.

The quality or state of being reticulated, or netlike; that which is reticulated; network; an organization resembling a net.

A little bag, originally of network; a woman's workbag, or a little bag to be carried in the hand.

Same as Reticularia.

Forming a network; characterized by a reticulated sructure.

The second stomach of ruminants, in which folds of the mucous membrane form hexagonal cells; -- also called the honeycomb stomach. The neuroglia.

Composed of crossing lines and interstices; reticular; netlike; as, the retiform coat of the eye.

The delicate membrane by which the back part of the globe of the eye is lined, and in which the fibers of the optic nerve terminate. See Eye.

A connecting band; a fraenum; as, the retinacula of the ileocaecal and ileocolic valves. One of the annular ligaments which hold the tendons close to the bones at the larger joints, as at the wrist and ankle.

A retinoid compound (C20H28O), closely related to vitamin A, which is a component of the visual pigments in the eye. It is also called retinaldehyde and vitamin A aldehyde.

A translucent variety of serpentine, of a honey yellow or greenish yellow color, having a waxy resinlike luster.

Retinite.

Having reticulated veins.

That part of the eye of an invertebrate which corresponds in function with the retina of a vertebrate.

Of or pertaining to resin; derived from resin; specifically, designating an acid found in certain fossil resins and hydrocarbons.

An inflammable mineral resin, usually of a yellowish brown color, found in roundish masses, sometimes with coal.

Inflammation of the retina.

A retinoid compound (C20H28O2), closely related to vitamin A. It is also called tretinoin and vitamin A acid.

Resinlike, or resinform; resembling a resin without being such.

A hydrocarbon oil C32H16, obtained by the distillation of resin, -- used as a solvent, as an antiseptic, and in printer's ink.

One of group of two to four united cells which occupy the axial part of the ocelli, or ommatidia, of the eyes of invertebrates, and contain the terminal nerve fibrillae. See Illust. under Ommatidium.

Of or pertaining to retinophorae.

The study of the retina of the eye by means of the ophthalmoscope.

The body of retainers who follow a prince or other distinguished person; a train of attendants; a suite.

One of the group of pigmented cells which surround the retinophorae of invertebrates. See Illust. under Ommatidium.

Having, or characterized by, retinul/.

A bird having small polygonal scales covering the tarsi.

Retirement; -- mostly used in a jocose or burlesque way.

A kind of retrenchment, as in the body of a bastion, which may be disputed inch by inch after the defenses are dismantled. It usually consists of two faces which make a reentering angle.

The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; also, a place to which one retires.

Private; secluded; quiet; as, a retired life; a person of retired habits.

The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; withdrawal; seclusion; as, the retirement of an officer.

One who retires.