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.

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.

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.

Proceeding from, or expressing, reverence; having a reverent quality; reverent; as, reverential fear or awe.

In a reverential manner.

In a reverent manner; in respectful regard.

One who reveres.

A part turned or folded back so as to show the inside, or a piece put on in imitation of such a part, as the lapel of a coat.

The act of reversing; the causing to move or face in an opposite direction, or to stand or lie in an inverted position; as, the reversal of a rotating wheel; the reversal of objects by a convex lens.

To return; to revert.

Turned side for side, or end for end; changed to the contrary; sinistrorse or sinistral; as, a reversed, or sinistral, spiral or shell.

In a reversed way.

Irreversible.

In a reverse manner; on the other hand; on the opposite.

One who reverses.

The quality of being reversible.

Capable of being reversed; as, a chair or seat having a reversible back; a reversible judgment or sentence.

In a reversible manner.

Serving to effect reversal, as of motion; capable of being reversed.

The act of returning, or coming back; return.

That which is to be received in reversion.

One who has a reversion, or who is entitled to lands or tenements, after a particular estate granted is terminated.

A certain game at cards.

One who, or that which, reverts.

Turned back; reversed. Specifically: (Her.) Bent or curved twice, in opposite directions, or in the form of an S.

A remedy which restores the natural order of the inverted irritative motions in the animal system.

One who, or that which, reverts.

Capable of, or admitting of, reverting or being reverted; as, a revertible estate.

Reverting, or tending to revert; returning.

Same as Reverie.

A loose or irregular train of thought occurring in musing or mediation; deep musing; daydream.

To take effect or vest again, as a title; to revert to former owner; as, the title or right revests in A after alienation.

The apartment, in a church or temple, where the vestments, etc., are kept; -- now contracted into vestry.

Same as Revestiary.

Vesture.

To face, as an embankment, with masonry, wood, or other material.