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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.