Retrieve

re-trev', v. [-trieved (-trevd'), -trievn. ing.] To find again, restore from lo or injury; to Revelation. remedy the evil consequences of, repair, restore. Revenge, [OF. retrevver, -trover: see Trover.] — Retriev'er, ging.] n. One who, etc.; a dog trained to find and bring in tion birds that have been shot. — Retriev'able, a. — Refor, trieval, n. Act of retrieving. avenge. Retroact, re'troor ret'ro-akt, v. To act backward, sition in return or in opposition. [L. retro- (compar. of revanger, or red-, q. v.), backwards, move back, and E. -ful, act.] — Retroac'tion, n. Action returned, or action dictive; backward; operation on something past or preced- — Revenge'fulne , ing. — Retroactive, -iv, a. Fitted or designed to re- Revenue, troact; affecting what past; retrospective. —Reback, trocede, re'troor ret'ro-serl, v. To cede or grant produce back. — v. To go brick. — Retroce ion, -sesh'un, tion n. Act of retroceding; state of being retroceded or p. granted back. — Retrochoir, -kwir, n. (Eccl. Arch.) Reverberate, Any extension of a church behind the altar.— Retro back flex, -flexed, -flekst, a. {Bot.) Suddenly bent back repel ward.— Retro fract, -fract'ed, a. {Bot.) Bent back driven ward, as were by force, so as to appear as if broken; echo, refracted. — Retrograde, a. Moving or going back to ward; contrary; declining from a better to a worse ver'berant, state. {Astron.) Apparently moving backward, as a ing. planet.— v. To go or move backward. [OF. retro sending grader, L. retrogredi, -gre us grad i, to go, f grareechoing a step.] — Retro grad a'tion, n. Act of retro grad- Producing ing or moving backward. {Astron.) The apparent driving motion of the planets contrary to the order of the Revere, signs, that from east to west. State of being retro regard graded; a going backward. [OF.] — Retrogre ion, tion; n. Act of going backward retrogradation. — Retro- L. gre ive, -siv, a. Going or moving backward. n. Retrospect, v. To look back to affect what is past. ing — n. View or contemplation of things past; review; tion; survey reexamination. [L. retros pic ere specere, a person spectum, to look.] — Retrospection, n. Act or facpriests ulty of looking back on things past. — Retrospect- -encing.] ive, -iv, a. Tending or fitted to look back; looking erentia, back having reference to what is past affecting Rev'erencer, things past. — Retrospectively, adv. By way of erence retrospect in a retrospective manner. — Retrovert, clergy, v.t. To turn back. — Retroversion, -verShun, n. pas. A turning or falling backward. reverence, Retting, Rettery. See under Ret. revere;