retainal

[Eng. retain; al.] The act of retaining. *rě-tain-der, *re-teyn-dour, s . [RETAIN.] A retainer, a dependent. "Other maner of householdes and other maner of reteyndour of housholde seruantes."- Fabyan : Chronicle (an. 1452). *rě-tain-der-ship, s . [Eng. retain der; -ship.] The state, position, or condition of a retainer. rě-tāin-er, *re-tain-our, s. [Eng. retain ; -er.] I. Ordinary Language : 1. One who or that which retains; a keeper; as, a retainer of sound. 2. One who is kept in service; a servant, an attendant, a dependent; spec if., a servant not a domestic, but occasionally attending and wearing his master's livery. "To see in which army his numerous retainers would be arrayed."- Macaulay : Hist . Eng ., ch. xiii. *3. One attached to or frequenting a place. "That indulgence and undisturbed liberty of conscience which the retainers to every petty сод venticle enjoy."- Black stone : Comment ., bk. iv., ch. 4. *4. The act of keeping dependents; the state of being in dependence. *5. Anything by which a person is retained or attached to a particular side or party. [II.1.] "The same Thomas Cromwell, earl of E ex, hath allured and drawn unto him by retain ours many of your subjects."-Burnet: Records , vol. i., bk. iii., No. 16. II. Law : 1. A preliminary fee paid to a counsel to secure his services, or rather to prevent the other side from securing them. A special retainer is a fee paid to secure the services of counsel for a particular case. A general retainer is a fee paid to secure a priority of claim on a counsel's services for any causes which the party paying the fee may have for trial. "The half-pay was meant to be a retainer as well as a reward."- Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xxiii. pine. pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia retaining 2. An authority given to an attorney or to a solicitor to proceed in an action. 3. The withholding what one has in his hands by virtue of some right. rě-tāin-ing, pr. par. or a. [RETAIN.] retaining-fee, s. Law: A general retainer. [RETAINER, II. 1.] retaining-wall, retain-wall, s. Engin.: A wall erected to maintain a bank of earth in position, as in sunk fences, faces of earth works, railway cuttings, sea-walls, . Strictly speaking, a wall erected to hold an artificial bank in upright or nearly upright position. [BREAST WALL, 2.]