Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter R - Page 54
Resurrectionize (v. t.) To raise from the dead. [R.] -- Southey.
Resurvey (n.) A second or new survey.
Resurvey (v. t.) To survey again or anew; to review. -- Shak.
Resurvey (n.) A new survey or study.
Resuscitable (a.) Capable of resuscitation; as, resuscitable plants. -- Boyle.
Resuscitant (n.) One who, or that which resuscitates. Also used adjectively.
Resuscitate (a.) Restored to life. [R.] -- Bp. Gardiner.
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.
These projects, however often slain, always resuscitate. -- J. S. Mill.
Resuscitate (v.) Cause to regain consciousness; "The doctors revived the comatose man" [syn: resuscitate, revive].
Resuscitate (v.) Return to consciousness; "The patient came to quickly"; "She revived after the doctor gave her an injection" [syn: come to, revive, resuscitate].
Resuscitation (n.) The act of resuscitating, or state of being resuscitated.
The subject of resuscitation by his sorceries. -- Sir W. Scott.
Resuscitation (n.) The act of reviving a person and returning them to consciousness; "although he was apparently drowned, resuscitation was accomplished by artificial respiration."
Resuscitative (a.) Tending to resuscitate; reviving; revivifying.
Resuscitator (n.) [L.] One who, or that which, resuscitates.
Resuscitator (n.) Specifically: (Med.) A device which is used to force oxygen or a mixture of oxygen and other gases into the lungs of patients who are suffering from asphyxiation, to revive the patient and induce resumption of respiration.
Resuscitator (n.) A breathing apparatus used for resuscitation by forcing oxygen into the lungs of a person who has undergone asphyxia or arrest of respiration.
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.
Retain (v. i.) To belong; to pertain. [Obs.]
A somewhat languid relish, retaining to bitterness. -- Boyle.
Retain (v. i.) To keep; to continue; to remain. [Obs.] -- Donne.
Retained (imp. & p. p.) of Retain.
Retaining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Retain.
Retain (v. t.) 保留，保持；留住；擋住，攔住 To continue to hold; to keep in possession; not to lose, part with, or dismiss; to retrain from departure, escape, or the like. "Thy shape invisible retain." -- Shak.
Be obedient, and retain Unalterably firm his love entire. -- Milton.
An executor may retain a debt due to him from the testator. -- Blackstone.
Retain (v. t.) To keep in pay; to employ by a preliminary fee paid; to hire; to engage; as, to retain a counselor.
A Benedictine convent has now retained the most learned father of their order to write in its defense. -- Addison.
Retain (v. t.) To restrain; to prevent. [Obs.] -- Sir W. Temple.
Retaining wall (Arch. & Engin.), a wall built to keep any movable backing, or a bank of sand or earth, in its place; -- called also retain wall.
Syn: To keep; hold; restrain. See Keep.
Retain (v.) Hold back within; "This soil retains water"; "I retain this drug for a long time"; "the dam retains the water."
Retain (v.) Allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature; "We cannot continue several servants any longer"; "She retains a lawyer"; "The family's fortune waned and they could not keep their household staff"; "Our grant has run out and we cannot keep you on"; "We kept the work going as long as we could"; "She retained her composure"; "this garment retains its shape even after many washings" [syn: retain, continue, keep, keep on].
Retain (v.) Secure and keep for possible future use or application; "The landlord retained the security deposit"; "I reserve the right to disagree" [syn: retain, hold, keep back, hold back].
Retain (v.) Keep in one's mind; "I cannot retain so much information."
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. -- Cowell.
Retainer (n.) (Law) The act of a client by which he engages a lawyer or counselor to manage his cause.
Retainer (n.) (Law) The act of withholding what one has in his hands by virtue of some right.
Retainer (n.) (Law) 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. -- Bouvier. -- Blackstone.
Retainer (n.) The act of keeping dependents, or the state of being in dependence. -- Bacon.
Retainer (n.) A fee charged in advance to retain the services of someone [syn: retainer, consideration].
Retainer (n.) A person working in the service of another (especially in the household) [syn: servant, retainer].
Retainer (n.) A dental appliance that holds teeth (or a prosthesis) in position after orthodontic treatment.
Retainment (n.) The act of retaining; retention. -- Dr. H. More.
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.
Retake (n.) A shot or scene that is photographed again.
Retake (v.) Take back by force, as after a battle; "The military forces managed to recapture the fort" [syn: recapture, retake].
Retake (v.) Capture again; "recapture the escaped prisoner" [syn: recapture, retake].
Retake (v.) Photograph again; "Please retake that scene."
Retaker (n.) One who takes again what has been taken; a recaptor. -- Kent.
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.]
One ambassador sent word to the duke's son that his visit should be retaliated. -- Sir T. Herbert.
It is unlucky to be obliged to retaliate the injuries of authors, whose works are so soon forgotten that we are in danger of appearing the first aggressors. -- Swift.
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.
Retaliate (v.) Take revenge for a perceived wrong; "He wants to avenge the murder of his brother" [syn: revenge, avenge, retaliate].
Retaliate (v.) Make a counterattack and return like for like, especially evil for evil; "The Empire strikes back"; "The Giants struck back and won the opener"; "The Israeli army retaliated for the Hamas bombing" [syn: retaliate, strike back].
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.
God . . . takes what is done to others as done to himself, and by promise obloges himself to full retaliation. -- Calamy.
Syn: Requital; reprisal; retribution; punishment.
Retaliation (n.) Action taken in return for an injury or offense [syn: retaliation, revenge].
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.) 再講；重述；重數 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.) 惹烯 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.) 保持的；記性好的 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.) 保持地；記性好地 In a retentive manner.
Retentiveness (n.) 保持力；好記性 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.) 記憶力；【物】保磁性 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.
Compare: Phylactolemata
Phylactolema, Phylactolemata (n. pl.) [NL.] (Zool.) 被唇綱 Same as Phylactol[ae]ma.
Phylactolaema, Phylactolaemata (n. pl.) (Zool.) An order of fresh-water Bryozoa in which the tentacles are arranged on a horseshoe-shaped lophophore, and the mouth is {Lophopoda"> covered by an epistome. Called also {Lophopoda, and hippocrepians.
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.) 結網蜘蛛 Any spider which spins webs to catch its prey.
Retiary (n.) 古羅馬帶網之角鬥士 A retiarius.
Compare: Retiarius
Retiarius (n.) (Rom. Antiq.) 網鬥士（拉丁語：retiarius）是古羅馬以仿漁夫裝備——手拋網（rete）、三叉戟（fuscina 或 tridens）和匕首（pugio）進行搏鬥的角鬥士。 A gladiator armed with a net for entangling his adversary and a trident for despatching him.
Retiary (a.) 網的，網狀的；張成網狀的；結網的；以網為武器的 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.