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- English Word Retentive Definition That which retains or confines; a restraint.
- English Word Retentively Definition In a retentive manner.
- English Word Retentiveness Definition The quality of being retentive.
- English Word Retentivity Definition The power of retaining; retentive force; as, the retentivity of a magnet.
- English Word Retentor Definition A muscle which serves to retain an organ or part in place, esp. when retracted. See Illust. of Phylactolemata.
- English Word Retepore Definition Any one of several species of bryozoans of the genus Retepora. They form delicate calcareous corals, usually composed of thin fenestrated fronds.
- English Word Retex Definition To annual, as orders.
- English Word Retexture Definition The act of weaving or forming again.
- English Word Rethor Definition A rhetorician; a careful writer.
- English Word Rethoryke Definition Rhetoric.
- English Word Retiarius Definition A gladiator armed with a net for entangling his adversary and a trident for despatching him.
- English Word Retiary Definition Any spider which spins webs to catch its prey.
- English Word Retiary Definition A retiarius.
- English Word Retiary Definition Netlike.
- English Word Retiary Definition Constructing or using a web, or net, to catch prey; -- said of certain spiders.
- English Word Retiary Definition Armed with a net; hence, skillful to entangle.
- English Word Reticence Definition 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.
- English Word Reticence Definition A figure by which a person really speaks of a thing while he makes a show as if he would say nothingon the subject.
- English Word Reticency Definition Reticence.
- English Word Reticent Definition Inclined to keep silent; reserved; uncommunicative.
- English Word Reticle Definition A small net.
- English Word Reticle Definition A reticule. See Reticule, 2.
- English Word Reticula Definition of Reticulum
- English Word Reticular Definition Having the form of a net, or of network; formed with interstices; retiform; as, reticular cartilage; a reticular leaf.
- English Word Reticular Definition Of or pertaining to a reticulum.
- English Word Reticularia Definition An extensive division of rhizopods in which the pseudopodia are more or less slender and coalesce at certain points, forming irregular meshes. It includes the shelled Foraminifera, together with some groups which lack a true shell.
- English Word Reticularian Definition One of the Reticularia.
- English Word Reticularly Definition In a reticular manner.
- English Word Reticulate Definition Alt. of Reticulated
- English Word Reticulated Definition Resembling network; having the form or appearance of a net; netted; as, a reticulated structure.