Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter R - Page 54

Resurrectionize (v. t.) To raise from the dead.

Resurvey (v. t.) To survey again or anew; to review.

Resurvey (n.) A second or new survey.

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.) 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.) To return like for like; specifically, to return evil for evil; as, to retaliate upon an enemy.

Retaliation (n.) 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.) Tending to, or involving, retaliation; retaliative; as retaliatory measures.

Retarded (imp. & p. p.) of Retard

Retarding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Retard

Retard (v. t.) 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.

Retard (v. i.) To stay back.

Retard (n.) Retardation; delay.

Retardation (n.) The act of retarding; hindrance; the act of delaying; as, the retardation of the motion of a ship; -- opposed to acceleration.

Retardation (n.) That which retards; an obstacle; an obstruction.

Retardation (n.) 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.

Retardative (a.) Tending, or serving, to retard.

Retarder (n.) One who, or that which, retards.

Retardment (n.) The act of retarding; retardation.

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.

Retch (v. t. & i.) To care for; to heed; to reck.

Retchless (a.) Careless; reckless.

Rete (n.) A net or network; a plexus; particularly, a network of blood vessels or nerves, or a part resembling a network.

Retecious (a.) Resembling network; retiform.

Retection (n.) Act of disclosing or uncovering something concealed.

Retell (v. t.) To tell again.

Retene (n.) 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.

Retention (n.) The act of retaining, or the state of being ratined.

Retention (n.) The power of retaining; retentiveness.

Retention (n.) That which contains something, as a tablet; a //// of preserving impressions.

Retention (n.) The act of withholding; retraint; reserve.

Retention (n.) Place of custody or confinement.

Retention (n.) 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.

Retentive (a.) Having power to retain; as, a retentive memory.

Retentive (n.) That which retains or confines; a restraint.

Retentively (adv.) In a retentive manner.

Retentiveness (n.) The quality of being retentive.

Retentivity (n.) The power of retaining; retentive force; as, the retentivity of a magnet.

Retentor (n.) A muscle which serves to retain an organ or part in place, esp. when retracted. See Illust. of Phylactolemata.

Retepore (n.) 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.

Retexture (n.) The act of weaving or forming again.

Rethor (n.) A rhetorician; a careful writer.

Rethoryke (n.) Rhetoric.

Retiarius (n.) A gladiator armed with a net for entangling his adversary and a trident for despatching him.

Retiary (n.) Any spider which spins webs to catch its prey.

Retiary (n.) A retiarius.

Retiary (a.) Netlike.

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.

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.

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