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.

Reserved; shy; not forward or obtrusive; as, retiring modesty; retiring manners.

A white crystalline hydrocarbon produced indirectly from retene.

A group of spiders which spin irregular webs; -- called also Retitelariae.

imp. p. p. of Retell.

Same as Retortion.

The return of, or reply to, an argument, charge, censure, incivility, taunt, or witticism; a quick and witty or severe response.

One who retorts.

Act of retorting or throwing back; reflection or turning back.

Containing retort.

To toss back or again.

A partial reworking,as of a painting, a sculptor's clay model, or the like.

One who retouches.

To trace back, as a line.

The pricking of a horse's foot in nailing on a shoe.

Capable of being retracted; retractile.

To retract; to recant.

The act of retracting what has been said; recantation.

Retractable.

Capable of retraction; capable of being drawn back or up; as, the claws of a cat are retractile.

The act of retracting, or drawing back; the state of being retracted; as, the retraction of a cat's claws.

That which retracts, or withdraws.

One who, or that which, retracts. In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel. An instrument for holding apart the edges of a wound during amputation. A bandage to protect the soft parts from injury by the saw during amputation. A muscle serving to draw in any organ or part. See Illust. under Phylactolaemata.

Retreat.

A portrait; a likeness.

To transform anew or back.

To translate anew; especially, to translate back into the original language.

The withdrawing, or open renunciation, of a suit in court by the plaintiff, by which he forever lost his right of action.

To tread again.

To make a retreat; to retire from any position or place; to withdraw; as, the defeated army retreated from the field.

Furnishing or serving as a retreat.

The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira.

To cause or suffer retrenchment; specifically, to cut down living expenses; as, it is more reputable to retrench than to live embarrassed.

The act or process of retrenching; as, the retrenchment of words in a writing.

A secdond trial, experiment, or test; a second judicial trial, as of an accused person.

To pay back; to give in return, as payment, reward, or punishment; to requite; as, to retribute one for his kindness; to retribute just punishment to a criminal.

One who makes retribution.

The act of retributing; repayment.

Of or pertaining to retribution; of the nature of retribution; involving retribution or repayment; as, retributive justice; retributory comforts.

That may be retrieved or recovered; admitting of retrieval.

The act retrieving.

A seeking again; a discovery.

Retrieval.

One who retrieves.

To trim again.

Refuse; dregs.

To act backward, or in return; to act in opposition; to be retrospective.

Action returned, or action backward.

Fitted or designed to retroact; operating by returned action; affecting what is past; retrospective.

In a retroactive manner.

To go back.

The act of retroceding.

Any extension of a church behind the high altar, as a chapel; also, in an apsidal church, all the space beyond the line of the back or eastern face of the altar.

Copulating backward, or from behind.

Copulation from behind.

A leading or bringing back.

Reflexed; bent or turned abruptly backward.

The act of reflexing; the state of being retroflexed. Cf. Retroversion.

Refracted; as, a retrofract stem.

Begetting young by retrocopulation.

The act of retrograding, or moving backward.

To go in a retrograde direction; to move, or appear to move, backward, as a planet.

By retrograding; so as to retrograde.

Retrogression.

The act of retrograding, or going backward; retrogradation.

Tending to retrograde; going or moving backward; declining from a better to a worse state.

In a retrogressive manner.

The quality or state of being retromingent.

Organized so as to discharge the urine backward. An animal that discharges its urine backward.

Driving back; repelling.

Bent backward or downward.

A looking back on things past; view or contemplation of the past.

The act, or the faculty, of looking back on things past.

Looking backward; contemplating things past; -- opposed to prospective; as, a retrospective view.

By way of retrospect.

The inoculation of a cow with human vaccine virus.

A turning or bending backward; also, the state of being turned or bent backward; displacement backwards; as, retroversion of the uterus.

To turn back.

In a state of retroversion.

To thrust back.

Abstruse.

The act of retruding, or the state of being retruded.

To try (esp. judicially) a second time; as, to retry a case; to retry an accused person.

See Aret.

A place or establishment where flax is retted. See Ret.

The act or process of preparing flax for use by soaking, maceration, and kindred processes; -- also called rotting. See Ret.

To blunt; to turn, as an edge; figuratively, to cause to be obtuse or dull; as, to retund confidence.

The act of returning (intransitive), or coming back to the same place or condition; as, the return of one long absent; the return of health; the return of the seasons, or of an anniversary.

Capable of, or admitting of, being returned.

One who returns.

Admitting no return.

Having the end rounded and slightly indented; as, a retuse leaf.

Rule.

Realm.

A second union; union formed anew after separation, secession, or discord; as, a reunion of parts or particles of matter; a reunion of parties or sects.

To unite again; to join after separation or variance.

In a reunited manner.

A second uniting.

To urge again.

To vaccinate a second time or again.

The act of growing well; the state of being revalescent.

Growing well; recovering strength.

A second or new valuation.

To vamp again; hence, to patch up; to reconstruct.

An officer, steward, or governor.

A revealing; a disclosure.

The quality or state of being revealable; revealableness.

Capable of being revealed.

One who, or that which, reveals.

Act of revealing.

To vegetate anew.