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.

Disposed or likely to retrocede; -- said of diseases which go from one part of the body to another, as the gout.

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.

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.

The beat of drum, or bugle blast, about break of day, to give notice that it is time for the soldiers to rise, and for the sentinels to forbear challenging.

To draw back; to retract.

Tumultuous festivity; revelry.

To reveal.

The act of revealing, disclosing, or discovering to others what was before unknown to them.

One who makes a revelation; a revealer.

One who revels.

Causing revulsion; revulsive. A revulsive medicine.

The act of reveling.

Fond of festivity; given to merrymaking or reveling.

The act of engaging in a revel; noisy festivity; reveling.

To reclaim; to demand the restoration of.

The act of revendicating.

The act of revenging; vengeance; retaliation; a returning of evil for evil.

Capable of being revenged; as, revengeable wrong.

Vengeance; revenge.

Full of, or prone to, revenge; vindictive; malicious; revenging; wreaking revenge.

Unrevenged.

Revenge.

One who revenges.

Executing revenge; revengeful.

That which returns, or comes back, from an investment; the annual rents, profits, interest, or issues of any species of property, real or personal; income.

To echo.

Having the quality of reverberation; reverberating.

To resound; to echo.

The act of reverberating; especially, the act of reflecting light or heat, or reechoing sound; as, the reverberation of rays from a mirror; the reverberation of rays from a mirror; the reverberation of voices; the reverberation of heat or flame in a furnace.

Of the nature of reverberation; tending to reverberate; reflective.

One who, or that which, produces reverberation.

A reverberatory furnace.

To cover again with verdure.

To regard with reverence, or profound respect and affection, mingled with awe or fear; to venerate; to reverence; to honor in estimation.

To regard or treat with reverence; to regard with respect and affection mingled with fear; to venerate.

One who regards with reverence.

Worthy of reverence; entitled to respect mingled with fear and affection; venerable.

Reverently.

Disposed to revere; impressed with reverence; submissive; humble; respectful; as, reverent disciples.