Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter R - Page 54
Resurrectionize (v. t.) To raise from the dead. [R.] -- Southey.
Resurvey (v. t.) To survey again or anew; to review. -- Shak.
Resurvey (n.) A second or new survey.
Resurvey (n.) A new survey or study.
Resuscitable (a.) Capable of resuscitation; as, resuscitable plants.
Resuscitant (n.) One who, or that which resuscitates. Also used adjectively.
Resuscitate (a.) Restored to life.
Resuscitated (imp. & p. p.) of Resuscitate.
Resuscitating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Resuscitate.
Resuscitate (v. t.) To revivify; to revive; especially, to recover or restore from apparent death; as, to resuscitate a drowned person; to resuscitate withered plants.
Resuscitate (v. i.) To come to life again; to revive.
Resuscitation (n.) The act of resuscitating, or state of being resuscitated.
Resuscitative (a.) Tending to resuscitate; reviving; revivifying.
Resuscitator (n.) One who, or that which, resuscitates.
Ret (v. t.) See Aret.
Ret (v. t.) To prepare for use, as flax, by separating the fibers from the woody part by process of soaking, macerating, and other treatment.
Retable (n.) A shelf behind the altar, for display of lights, vases of wlowers, etc.
Retail (v.) The sale of commodities in small quantities or parcels; -- opposed to wholesale; sometimes, the sale of commodities at second hand.
Retail (a.) Done at retail; engaged in retailing commodities; as a retail trade; a retail grocer.
Retailed (imp. & p. p.) of Retail.
Retailing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Retail.
Retail (n.) 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.
Retail (n.) To sell at second hand.
Retail (n.) To distribute in small portions or at second hand; to tell again or to many (what has been told or done); to report; as, to retail slander.
Retailer (n.) One who retails anything; as, a retailer of merchandise; a retailer of gossip.
Retailment (n.) The act of retailing.
Retained (imp. & p. p.) of Retain.
Retaining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Retain.
Retain (v. t.) To continue to hold; to keep in possession; not to lose, part with, or dismiss; to retrain from departure, escape, or the like.
Retain (v. t.) To keep in pay; to employ by a preliminary fee paid; to hire; to engage; as, to retain a counselor.
Retain (v. t.) To restrain; to prevent.
Retain (v. i.) To belong; to pertain.
Retain (v. i.) To keep; to continue; to remain.
Retainable (a.) Capable of being retained.
Retainal (n.) The act of retaining; retention.
Retainer (n.) One who, or that which, retains.
Retainer (n.) One who is retained or kept in service; an attendant; an adherent; a hanger-on.
Retainer (n.) Hence, a servant, not a domestic, but occasionally attending and wearing his master's livery.
Retainer (n.) The act of a client by which he engages a lawyer or counselor to manage his cause.
Retainer (n.) The act of withholding what one has in his hands by virtue of some right.
Retainer (n.) A fee paid to engage a lawyer or counselor to maintain a cause, or to prevent his being employed by the opposing party in the case; -- called also retaining fee.
Retainer (n.) The act of keeping dependents, or the state of being in dependence.
Retainment (n.) The act of retaining; retention.
Retake (v. t.) To take or receive again.
Retake (v. t.) To take from a captor; to recapture; as, to retake a ship or prisoners.
Retaker (n.) One who takes again what has been taken; a recaptor.
Retaliated (imp. & p. p.) of Retaliate.
Retaliating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Retaliate.
Retaliate (v. t.) 就（傷害等）進行報復 To return the like for; to repay or requite by an act of the same kind; to return evil for (evil). [Now seldom used except in a bad sense.]
Retaliate (v. i.) 報復；回敬 [（+against/ on/ upon）] To return like for like; specifically, to return evil for evil; as, to retaliate upon an enemy.
Retaliation (n.) 報復 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.
Retaliative (a.) Same as Retaliatory.
Retaliatory (a.) 報復的；回敬的 Tending to, or involving, retaliation; retaliative; as retaliatory measures.
Retaliatory (a.) Of or relating to or having the nature of retribution; "retributive justice demands an eye for an eye" [syn: retaliatory, relatiative, retributive, retributory, vindicatory].
Retarded (imp. & p. p.) of Retard.
Retarding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Retard.
Retard (v. t.) 使減速；妨礙；阻止；推遲，延遲 To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progress; to render more slow in progress; to impede; to hinder; as, to retard the march of an army; to retard the motion of a ship; -- opposed to accelerate.
Retard (v. t.) To put off; to postpone; as, to retard the attacks of old age; to retard a rupture between nations.
Syn: To impede; hinder; obstruct; detain; delay; procrastinate; postpone; defer.
Retard (v. i.) 減慢；受到阻滯 To stay back. [Obs.] -- Sir. T. Browne.
Retard (n.) 減速；阻滯；延遲 Retardation; delay.
Retard (n.) A mentally retarded person. [Colloq. and disparaging]
Retard (n.) A person who is stupid or inept, especially in social situations. [Colloq. and disparaging]
Retard of the tide, or Age of the tide, The interval between the transit of the moon at which a tide originates and the appearance of the tide itself. It is found, in general, that any particular tide is not principally due to the moon's transit immediately proceeding, but to a transit which has occured some time before, and which is said to correspond to it. The retard of the tide is thus distinguished from the lunitidal interval. See under Retardation. -- Ham. Nav. Encyc.
Retard (n.) A person of subnormal intelligence [syn: idiot, imbecile, cretin, moron, changeling, half-wit, retard].
Retard (v.) Cause to move more slowly or operate at a slower rate; "This drug will retard your heart rate".
Retard (v.) Be delayed.
Retard (v.) Slow the growth or development of; "The brain damage will retard the child's language development" [syn: check, retard, delay].
Retard (v.) Lose velocity; move more slowly; "The car decelerated" [syn: decelerate, slow, slow down, slow up, retard] [ant: accelerate, quicken, speed, speed up].
Retardation (n.) 遲延；妨礙；阻止；【物】減速度 The act of retarding; hindrance; the act of delaying; as, the retardation of the motion of a ship; -- opposed to acceleration.
The retardations of our fluent motion. -- De Quinsey.
Retardation (n.) That which retards; an obstacle; an obstruction.
Hills, sloughs, and other terrestrial retardations. -- Sir W. Scott.
Retardation (n.) (Mus.) The keeping back of an approaching consonant chord by prolonging one or more tones of a previous chord into the intermediate chord which follows; -- differing from suspension by resolving upwards instead of downwards.
Retardation (n.) The extent to which anything is retarded; the amount of retarding or delay.
Retardation of the tide. (a) The lunitidal interval, or the hour angle of the moon at the time of high tide any port; the interval between the transit of the moon and the time of high tide next following.
Retardation of the tide. (b) The age of the tide; the retard of the tide. See under Retard, n.
Retardation (n.) A decrease in rate of change; "the deceleration of the arms race" [syn: deceleration, slowing, retardation] [ant: acceleration].
Retardation (n.) The extent to which something is delayed or held back.
Retardation (n.) Any agent that retards or delays or hinders; "flame-retardant" [syn: retardant, retardent, retardation].
Retardation (n.) Lack of normal development of intellectual capacities [syn: retardation, mental retardation, backwardness, slowness, subnormality].
Retardation (n.) The act of slowing down or falling behind [syn: slowdown, lag, retardation].
Retardative (a.) Tending, or serving, to retard.
Retarder (n.) One who, or that which, retards.
Retarder (n.) (Steam Boiler) Any of various devices, as a helix of flat metal strip, introduced into a boiler tube to increase the heating effect of the fire.
Retarder (n.) (Photog.) A substance, as potassium bromide, added to a developer to retard its action.
Retardment (n.) The act of retarding; retardation. -- Cowley.
Retched (imp. & p. p.) of Retch.
Retching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Retch.
Retch (v. i.) To make an effort to vomit; to strain, as in vomiting. [Written also reach.]
Beloved Julia, hear me still beseeching!
(Here he grew inarticulate with retching.) -- Byron.
Retch (v. t. & i.) To care for; to heed; to reck. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Retch (n.) An involuntary spasm of ineffectual vomiting; "a bad case of the heaves" [syn: heave, retch].
Retch (v.) Eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night" [syn: vomit, vomit up, purge, cast, sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate, throw up] [ant: keep down].
Retch (v.) Make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit [syn: gag, heave, retch].
Retchless (a.) Careless; reckless. [Obs.] -- Dryden. --- Retch"less*ly, adv. -- Retch"less*ness, n. [Obs.]
Rete (n.) (Anat.) A net or network; a plexus; particularly, a network of blood vessels or nerves, or a part resembling a network.
Rete (n.) A network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels [syn: plexus, rete].
Rete, () (From Latin "net") A net or network; a plexus; particularly, a network of blood vessels or nerves, or a part resembling a network.
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Retecious (a.) Resembling network; retiform.
Retection (n.) Act of disclosing or uncovering something concealed. [Obs.] -- Boyle.
Retell (v. t.) To tell again.
Retell (v.) Render verbally, "recite a poem"; "retell a story" [syn: recite, retell].
Retell (v.) Make into fiction; "The writer fictionalized the lives of his parents in his latest novel" [syn: fictionalize, fictionalise, retell].
Retell (v.) To say, state, or perform again; "She kept reiterating her request" [syn: repeat, reiterate, ingeminate, iterate, restate, retell].
Retene (n.) (Chem.) A white crystalline hydrocarbon, polymeric with benzene. It is extracted from pine tar, and is also found in certain fossil resins.
Retent (n.) That which is retained. -- Hickok.
Retention (n.) 保留；保持；記憶力；【醫】閉尿 The act of retaining, or the state of being ratined.
Retention (n.) The power of retaining; retentiveness.
No woman's heart So big, to hold so much; they lack retention. -- Shak.
Retention (n.) That which contains something, as a tablet; a ???? of preserving impressions. [R.] -- Shak.
Retention (n.) The act of withholding; retraint; reserve. -- Shak.
Retention (n.) Place of custody or confinement.
Retention (n.) (Law) The right of withholding a debt, or of retaining property until a debt due to the person claiming the right be duly paid; a lien. -- Erskine. Craig.
Retention cyst (Med.), A cyst produced by obstruction of a duct leading from a secreting organ and the consequent retention of the natural secretions.
Retention (n.) The act of retaining something [syn: retention, keeping, holding].
Retention (n.) The power of retaining and recalling past experience; "he had a good memory when he was younger" [syn: memory, retention, retentiveness, retentivity].
Retention (n.) The power of retaining liquid; "moisture retentivity of soil" [syn: retentiveness, retentivity, retention].
Retention (n.) Scottish law. The right which the possessor of a movable has, of holding the same until he shall be satisfied for his claim either against such movable or the owner of it; a lien.
Retention (n.) The right of retention is of two kinds, namely, special or general.
Retention (n.) Special retention is the right of withholding or retaining property of goods which are in one's possession under a contract, till indemnified for the labor or money expended on them.
Retention (n.) General retention is the right to withhold or detain the property of another, in respect of any debt which happens to be due by the proprietor to the person who has the custody; or for a general balance of accounts arising on a particular train of employment. 2 Bell's Com. 90, 91, 5th ed. Vide Lien.
Retentive (a.) Having power to retain; as, a retentive memory.
Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit. -- Shak.
Retentive (n.) That which retains or confines; a restraint. [R.] -- Bp. Hall.
Retentive (a.) Good at remembering; "a retentive mind"; "tenacious memory" [syn: retentive, recollective, long, tenacious] [ant: forgetful, short, unretentive].
Retentive (a.) Having the capacity to retain something.
Retentive (a.) Having the power, capacity, or quality of retaining water; "soils retentive of moisture".
Retentively (adv.) In a retentive manner.
Retentiveness (n.) The quality of being retentive.
Retentiveness (n.) The power of retaining and recalling past experience; "he had a good memory when he was younger" [syn: memory, retention, retentiveness, retentivity].
Retentiveness (n.) The property of retaining possessions that have been acquired [syn: retentiveness, retentivity].
Retentiveness (n.) The power of retaining liquid; "moisture retentivity of soil" [syn: retentiveness, retentivity, retention].
Retentivity (n.) The power of retaining; retentive force; as, the retentivity of a magnet.
Retentivity (n.) The power of retaining and recalling past experience; "he had a good memory when he was younger" [syn: memory, retention, retentiveness, retentivity].
Retentivity (n.) The property of retaining possessions that have been acquired [syn: retentiveness, retentivity].
Retentivity (n.) The power of retaining liquid; "moisture retentivity of soil" [syn: retentiveness, retentivity, retention].
Retentor (n.) A muscle which serves to retain an organ or part in place, esp. when retracted. See Illust. of Phylactolemata.
Retepore (n.) (Zool.) Any one of several species of bryozoans of the genus Retepora. They form delicate calcareous corals, usually composed of thin fenestrated fronds.
Retex (v. t.) To annual, as orders. [Obs.] -- Bp. Hacket.
Retexture (n.) The act of weaving or forming again. -- Carlyle.
Rethor (n.) A rhetorician; a careful writer. [Obs.]
If a rethor couthe fair endite. -- Chaucer.
Rethoryke (n.) Rhetoric. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Retiarius (n.) A gladiator armed with a net for entangling his adversary and a trident for despatching him.
Retiary (n.) (Zool.) Any spider which spins webs to catch its prey.
Retiary (n.) A retiarius.
Retiary (a.) Netlike.
This work is in retiary, or hanging textures. -- Sir T. Browne.
Retiary (a.) Constructing or using a web, or net, to catch prey; -- said of certain spiders.
Retiary (a.) Armed with a net; hence, skillful to entangle.
Scholastic retiary versatility of logic. -- Coleridge.
Reticence (n.) 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.
Such fine reserve and noble reticence. -- Tennyson.