RETARDING
RET'ARDING, participle present tense Abating the velocity of motion; hindering; delaying.
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RETARDMENT
RET'ARDMENT, noun The act of retarding or delaying.
RETCH
RETCH, verb intransitive [See Reach.]To make an effort to vomit; to heave; as the stomach; to strain, as in vomiting; properly to reach.
RETCHLESS
RETCHLESS, careless, is not in use. [See Reckless.]
RETECTION
RETEC'TION, noun [Latin retectus, from retego, to uncover; re and tego, to cover.]The act of disclosing or producing to view something concealed; as the retection of the native ...
RETENT
RETENT', noun That which is retained.
RETENTION
RETEN'TION, noun [Latin retentio, retineo; re and teneo, to hold.]1. The act of retaining or keeping.2. The power of retaining; the faculty of the mind by which it retains ideas...
RETENTIVE
RETEN'TIVE, adjective Having the power to retain; as a retentive memory; the retentive faculty; the retentive force of the stomach; a body retentive of heat or moisture.
RETENTIVENESS
RETEN'TIVENESS, noun The quality of retention; a retentiveness of memory.
RETICENCE
RET'ICENCE,RET'ICENCY, noun [Latin reticentia, reticeo; re and tacco, to be silent.]Concealment by silence. In rhetoric, aposiopesis or suppression; a figure by which a person r...
RETICENCY
RET'ICENCY, n. [L. reticentia, reticeo; re and tacco, to be silent.]Concealment by silence. In rhetoric, aposiopesis or suppression; a figure by which a person really speaks of ...
RETICLE
RET'ICLE, noun [Latin reticulum, from rete, a net.]1. A small net.2. A contrivance to measure the quantity of an eclipse; a kind of micrometer.
RETICULAR
RETIC'ULAR, adjective [supra.] Having the form of a net or of net-work; formed with interstices; as a reticular body or membrane.In anatomy, the reticular body, or rete mucosum,...
RETICULATE
RETIC'ULATE,RETIC'ULATED, adjective [Latin reticulatus, from rete, a net.] Netted; resembling net-work; having distinct veins crossing like net-work; as a reticulate corol or pe...
RETICULATED
RETIC'ULATED, a. [L. reticulatus, from rete, a net.] Netted; resembling net-work; having distinct veins crossing like net-work; as a reticulate corol or petal.
RETICULATION
RETICULA'TION, noun Net-work; organization of substances resembling a net.
RETIFORM
RET'IFORM, adjective [Latin retiformis; rete, a net, and forma, form.]Having the form of a net in texture; composed of crossing lines and interstices; as the retiform coat of th...
RETINA
RET'INA, noun [Latin from rete, a net.] In anatomy, one of the coats of the eye, being an expansion of the optic nerve over the bottom of the eye, where the sense of vision is f...
RETINASPHALT
RETINASPHALT', noun A bituminous or resinous substance of a yellowish or reddish brown color, found in irregular pieces very light and shining. [See Retinite.]
RETINITE
RET'INITE, noun [Gr. resin.] Pitchstone; stone of fusible pitch, of a resinous appearance, compact, brown, reddish, gray, yellowish, blackish or bluish, rarely homogeneous, and ...
RETINUE
RET'INUE, noun [Latin retineo; re and tenco, to hold.]The attendants of a prince or distinguished personage, chiefly on a journey or an excursion; a train of persons.
RETIRADE
RETIRA'DE, nounIn fortification, a kind of retrenchment in the body of a bastion or other work, which is to be disputed inch by inch, after the defenses are dismantled. It usual...
RETIRE
RETI'RE, verb intransitive1. To withdraw; to retreat; to go from company or from a public place into privacy; as, to retire from the world; to retire from notice.2. To retreat f...
RETIRED
RETI'RED, adjective1. Secluded from much society or from public notice; private. He lives a retired life; he has a retired situation.2. Secret; private; as retired speculations....
RETIREDLY
RETI'REDLY, adverb In solitude or privacy.
RETIREDNESS
RETI'REDNESS, noun A state of retirement; solitude; privacy or secrecy.
RETIREMENT
RETI'REMENT, noun1. The act of withdrawing from company or from public notice or station.2. The state of being withdrawn; as the retirement of the mind from the senses.3. Privat...