resumption (rezumpshon)

[= F. résomp tion = Sp. resuncion = Pg. resumpção = It. risunzione, covery (of a sick person), ML. lit. a taking up again, resumption, -ce.] The act of rising again; resurrection. Cole ridge. Night and day... the never-ending resurgence of the human spirit against the dead weight of oppre ion. the future state. In the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage. Mat. xxii. 30. 2. In general, a rising again; a springing again into life or to a previous mode of existence; a restoration. Fix thyself firmly upon that belief of the general resurrection, and thou wilt never doubt of either of the particular resurrections , either from sin, by God's grace, or from worldly calamities, by God's power. Donne, Sermons, xii. 3. Removal of a corpse from the grave for dis section; body-snatching. [Colloq.] resurrectionary (rez-u-rek's hon-a-ri), a . [ resurrection + -ary.] 1. Restoring to life; reviving. Old men and women,... ugly and blind, who always seemed by resurrectionary proce to be recalled out of the elements for the sudden peopling of the solitude! Dickens , Uncommercial Traveller, vii. 2. Pertaining to or consisting in the act of resurrecting or digging up. [Colloq.] A resurrectionary operation in quest of a presumed fault in the mains. Elect. Rev., XXIL 288. resurrectionist (rez-u-rek's hon-ist), n. [= F. résur rection i ste ( resurrection + -ist .] 1. One who makes a practice of stealing bodies from the grave for di ection: also used adjec resurgent (re-ser'jent), a. and n. [L. resur gen(t-)s, ppr. of resurgere, rise again: see re surge.] I. a. Rising again or from the dead. Cole ridge. within him. A friend The resurgent threatening past was making a conscience George Eliot, Middle march, lxi. whose bright temper, buoyant fancy, and Dowden, Shelley, II. 59. generous heart ever leaped resurgent from the strokes of fortune. II. n. One who or that which rises again; especially, one who rises from the dead. Syd ney Smith. resurprise (rē-sér-prīz′), n. [ He has emerged from his resurrectionist delvings in the graveyards of rhyme, without confounding moral dist i net ions, [or] vitiating his taste. Whipple , E . and Rev., I. 32. Hence-2. One who unearths anything from long concealment or obscurity. [Colloq.] In short,...he was merely a resurrectionist of obsolete heresies. Mi Edge worth , Helen, xi. resurrectionize (rez-u-rek's hon-iz), v. t.; pret. and pp. resurrect ionized, ppr. resurrect ionizing. [ Half these gentlemen are not included in the common collection of the poets, and must be resurrect ionised at Stationers' Hall. Southey, To Mi Barker, April 3, 1804. IMG:content-2105.png:[blocks in formation] Also spelled resurrectionise . resurrection-man (rez-u-rek's hon-man), n. Same as resurrectionist . Dickens , Tale of Two Cities, ii. 14. resurrection-plant (rez-u-rek's hon-plant), n. A name for several plants which, when dried, reëxpand if wetted. (a) The rose of Jericho. See Anastatic a . (b) Selaginella lepidophylla , found from Texas and Mexico to Peru. It forms a nest-like ball when dry (whence called bird's - nest mo ), but when moistened un- folds and displays its elegant, finely cut, fern-like branches radiating from a coiled central stem. (c) One of the fig- marigolds, Mesembryanthemum Tripolium . [The name has doubtle been applied to other hygrometric plants.] resurvey (re-ser-va'), v . t . [ survey .] 1. To survey again or anew; review. 2. To read and examine again. Once more re- survey These poor rude lines of thy deceased lover. Shak., Sonnets, xxxii. IMG:content-2106.png:[blocks in formation] ret (flax or hemp), break or heckle (flax), steep, 2. To sell at second hand. soak, D. Flem. reten , ret (flax or hemp), = Sw. röta , putrefy, rot (flax or hemp), steep, soak; cf. rot.] To expose, as the gathered stems of fibrous plants, to moisture, in order, by partial fermentation or rotting, to facilitate the ab- str action of the fiber. Retting is practised upon flax, hemp, jute, and other exogenous fiber-plants. Dew- retting , effected simply by exposing the material to the weather for a limited time, is largely applied to flax in Ru ia. Water - retting , the ordinary proce , consists sim- ply in steeping or macerating the stems in water, common- ly in open ponds, sometimes in vats of warm water, the re- sult being more speedily attained by the latter treatment. A dam of 50 feet long, 9 feet broad, and 4 feet deep is sufficient to ret the produce of an acre of flax. 3. To deal out in small quantities; tell in broken parts; tell to many; tell again; hand down by report: as, to retail slander or idle reports. ret2t, v. t. [ME. retten , recten , rectare , simulating L. rectus , right), repute, impute, charge, reputare , repute, impute, ascribe: see repute , v.] To impute; ascribe. That ye ne rette it nat my vileinye, Though that I pleynly speke in this matere. rett. A Middle English contraction of redeth (modern readeth ). retable (re-ta'bl), n. [F. retable , OF. retaule , restaule (ML. reflex retaule ), an altarpiece, rere- dos, retable, = Sp. retablo = Pg. retabolo , re- tabulo , a picture; of doubtful origin: ( а ) ас- cording to Scheler, restabilis , fixed opposite (or in some other particular sense), rest are , rest, stay (see rest2 ); (b) according to Brachet, a contraction of OF. * riere - table , * arriere - table , a reredos, arriere , rear, behind, + table , table: see rear3 and table . In either view the Sp. and Pg. are prob. from the F.] A structure raised above an altar at the back, either independent in itself, or forming a deco- rative frame to a picture, a bas-relief, or the Glanville, Pre-existence of Souls, xiv. To wonder at a you sand insect forms, These hatch'd, and those resuscitated worms,.. Once prone on earth, now buoyant upon air. of art itself. Usually that face only which looks to- ward the choir and nave of the church is called the retable , and the reverse is called the counter - retable . Sometimes the retable is a movable structure of hammered silver or other precious work, supported on the altar itself. This decorative feature is not found in the earliest ages of the Christian church. Many retables in Italy are made of Della Robbia ware, with figures in high relief, and richly colored in ceramic enamels. One of the most magnificent examples is the Pala d'Oro of the Basilica of St. Mark, in Venice. See altar - ledge and reredos . retaill (rē'tāl), n. and a . [Early mod. E. re- taile ; retaille , retail , retaille , F. retaille , a piece cut off, a shred, paring (= Sp. retal = Pg. retalho , a shred, remnant, = It. ri- taglio , a shred, piece, a selling by the piece, retail ( a ritaglio , by retail)), retailler , cut, shred, pare, clip, F. retailler , cut, recut, trim (a pen), prune (a tree) (= Pr. retalhar , recut, = Cat. retallar = Sp. retajar , cut around, recut, trim, = Pg. retalhar = It. ritagliare , slice, shred, pare, cut), re- , again, + tailler , cut: see tail2 , tally , and cf. detail . The sense 'retail,' which does not appear in F., may have been derived from It.] I. n. The sale of commodities in small quantities or parcels, or at second hand; Methinks the truth should live from age to age, As 'twere retail'd to all posterity. Shak., Rich. III., iii. 1. 77. He could repeat all the observations that were retailed in the atmosphere of the play-houses. Goldsmith, Vicar, xvi. retail2+ (rē-tāl'), n . [Irreg. (perhaps by confu- sion with retail1 ) retaliare , retaliate: see retaliate .] Retaliation. He that doth injury may well receive it. To look for good and do bad is against the law of retail . Rev. T. Adams , Works, II. 116. [ retail1 + retailer (rē-tā'lėr or rē'tā-lėr), n. -er1. Cf. Pg. retalhador , one who shreds or clips; It. ritagliatore , a retail seller.] 1. A re- tail dealer; one who sells or deals out goods in small parcels or at second hand. I was informed of late dayes that a certaine blinde re- tayler, called the Diuell, vsed to lend money vpon pawnes or anie thing. Nashe , Pierce Penile e, p. 9. retailment (re-tal'ment), n. ment .] The act of retailing. retain (re-tan'), v. [Early mod. E. retayne ; retaynen , reteynen , OF. F. retenir , re- tanir = Pr. retener , retenir = Sp. retener = Pg . reter = It. ritenere , retinere , pp. retentus , hold back, re- , back, + tenere , hold: see ten- ant .] I. trans . 1t. To hold back; restrain; hinder from action, departure, or escape; keep back; detain. Ser, if it please your lordshepe for to here, ffor your wurchippe yow most your self reteyne , And take a good avise in this mater. For empty fystes, men vse to say, Cannot the Hawke retayne . gospel. 2. To hold or keep in po e ion; reserve as one's own. The King do me he retain'd against thir utmost oppos i- tion. Milton, Hist. Eng., ii. Among debts of equal degree, the executor. is al- lowed to pay himself first, by retaining in his hands so much as his debt amounts to. Black stone , Com., II. xxxii. 3. To continue in the use or practice of; pre- Jer. Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), I. 851. The duties on the retail of drinks made from tea, coffee, and chocolate. S. Dowell , Taxes in England, II. 44. At (by, or formerly to) retail, in small quantities; a little at a time, as in the sale of merchandise. And marchauntes yt be not in yt fraunshes of the for sayd cite yt they selle noo wyne ne ne noon oder mar- cha und is is to retaille wt in ye cite ne in ye subarbis of ye Charter of London , in Arnold's Chron., p. 25. Now, all that God doth by retail bestowe On perfect'st men to thee in gro e he giues. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Triumph of Faith, Ded. These, and most other things which are sold by retail , are generally fully as cheap, or cheaper, in great towns than in the remoter parts of the country. Adam Smith , Wealth of Nations, i. 8. II. a . Of or pertaining to sale at retail; con- cerned with sale at retail: as, retail trade; a re- resuscitative (rē-sus'i-ta-tiv), a . [ OF.res us- citatif , res sus cit at if , F. res sus cit at if ; as resusci- tate + -ive .] Tending to resuscitate; reviving; revivifying; raising from apparent death; re- producing. Res usc it at i ye faculty, a name given by and abatements take place, to the discredit of the author. Sir William Hamilton to the reproductive faculty of the mind. resuscitator (rē-sus'i-ta-tor), n. [F. re usci- teur = Sp. resucitador = Pg. res usc it a dor = It. risus cit a tore, resuscitator , one who raises again from the dead, res usc it are , raise up: see resuscitate .] One who resuscitates. resveriet, n. See reverie . ret1 (ret), v . t .; pret. and pp. retted , ppr. retting . [ retten , reten , reten , reeten , IMG:content-2107.png:[blocks in formation] Oh, you cannot be So heavenly and so absolute in all things, And yet retain such cruel tyranny! Beau . and Fl ., Laws of Candy, ii. 1. William the Conqueror in all the time of his Sickne retained to the very last his Memory and Speech. Baker , Chronicles, p. 31. 4. To keep in mind; preserve a knowledge or idea of; remember. Sette no man a-worke that is reteyignde in any man-ys service. English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 333. They say you have retained brisk Master Practice Here of your counsel. B. Jonson , Magnet ick Lady, ii. 1. retaill (re-tal'), v . t . [ retail1 , n., in the phrase "to sell by retail ." Cf. It. ritagliare , retail.] 1. To sell in small quantities or parcels. He is wit's pedler, and retails his wares At wakes and wa ails, meetings, markets, fairs. Shak ., L. L. L., v. 2. 317. The keepers of ale-houses pay for a licence to retail ale and spirituous liquors. Adam Smith , Wealth of Nations, v. 2. Retayne a straunger after his estate and degree. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 102. Syn. 2-4. Reserve, Preserve , etc. See keep . II.t in trans . 1. To keep on; continue. No more can impure man retain and move In that pure region of a worthy love. The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia retain In whose armie followed William Longes pee, accompanied with a piked number of English warriors retaining vnto him. Hakluyt's Voyages , II. 34. retainable (re-tā'na-bl), a . [ retain + -able . ] Capable of being retained. retainal (rē-tā'nal), n. [ retain + -al .] The act of retaining. Annual Rev. , II. (1804), p. 631. [Rare.] retaindershipt (rē-tān'der-ship), n. [For re tainership : see retainer and -ship .] The state of being a retainer or dependent. It was the policy of these kings to make them all [clergy and nobility] of their own livery or retain der ship . N. Bacon . ( Imp . Dict . ) retainer1 (rē-tā'nėr), n . [Formerly also re tainour ; retain our ; retain + -er1 . Cf. OF. retencur (Sp. retenedor , It. retenitore ), a retainer, detainer, retenir , retain: see retain .] 1. One who or that which retains. One that has forgot the common meaning of words, but an admirable retainer of the sound. IMG:content-2109.png:[blocks in formation] If we once forsake the strict rules of Religion and Goodne , and are ready to yield our selves to whatever hath got retainers enough to set up for a custom, we may know where we begin, but we cannot where we shall make an end. Stilling fleet , Sermons, I. ii. Kendall, a needy retainer of the court, who had, in obedience to the royal mandate, been sent to Parliament by a packed corporation in Cornwall. Macaulay , Hist. Eng., vi. Another [abuse of maintenance], and that more directly connected with the giving of liveries, was the gathering round the lord's household of a swarm of armed retainers whom the lord could not control, and whom he conceived himself bound to protect. IMG:content-2110.png:[blocks in formation] a , retaining wall; b, c , breast-walls. retake (re-tak'), v. t. [ take .] 1. To take again. A day should be appointed when the remonstrance should be retaken into consideration. Clarendon. Thy chair, a grief to all the brethren, stands Vacant, but thou retake it, mine again! Tennyson , Balin and Balan. 2. To take back; recapture. retaker (rē-tāʼkėr), n . [ retake + -er1.] One who takes again what has been taken; a re- captor. Imp . Dict . retardative Accidental causes retarded at times, and at times ac celerated, the progre of the controversy. Webster , Speech at Plymouth, Dec. 22, 1820. While, however, the predatory activities have not prevented the development of sympathy in the directions open to it, they have retarded it throughout its entire range. H. Spencer, Prin. of Psychol., § 512. 2. To defer; postpone; put off. succe . Those relations which describe the tricks and vices only of mankind, by increasing our suspicion in life, retard our Goldsmith , Vicar, xxvi. My friends, the time is coming when a State Church will be unknown in England, and it rests with you to accelerate or retard that happy consummation. John Bright , in G. Barnett Smith, ii. Retarded motion, in physics , that motion which exhibits continual diminution of velocity, as the motion of a body projected upward. If the diminutions of velocity are equal in equal times, the motion is said to be uniformly retarded. The laws of retarded motion are the same as those of accelerated motion, only the order is reversed. See acceleration . - Retarding ague, a form of ague in which the paroxysm comes at a little later hour each day. =Syn. 1. To detain, delay. II. in trans . To be delayed or later than usual. Some years it (the inundation of the Nile] hath also retarded, and came far later then usually it was expected. Sir T. Browne , Vulg. Err., vi. 8. [= F . retard = Sp. retardo = It. ritardo ; from the verb.] Retardation. - In retard, retarded; kept back; delayed in growth or progre . retaliate (re-tal'i-at), v .; pret. and pp. retali- ated , ppr. retaliating . [L. retaliatus , pp. of retard (re-tärd'), n. retaliare , requite, retaliate (cf. talio , retaliation in kind; lex talion is , law of retaliation), re- , back, again, + talis , such: see talion . Cf. re- tail2.] I. trans . To return in kind; repay or requite by an act of the same kind: now se!- dom or never used except in the sense of re- turning evil for evil: as, to retaliate injuries. Our amba ador sent word... to the Duke's sonne his visit should be retaliated . Sir T. Herbert , Travels in Africa, p. 137. The kindne which he has graciously shown them may be retaliated on those of his own persuasion. Dryden, Hind and Panther, To the Reader. Let it be the pride of our writers,.. disdaining to retaliate the illiberality of British authors, to speak of the A people of great natural capacities have been kept for centuries in retard . The Atlantic , LVIIL. 516. Retard of the tide, the interval between the transit of the moon at which a tide originates and the appearance of the tide itself. retardant (re-tär'dant), a . [L. retard an ( t- ) s , ppr. of retard are , retard: see retard .] Retarding; tending to delay or impede motion, growth, or progre . [Rare.] We know the retardant effect of society upon artists of exalted sensibility. Stedman , Poets of America, p. 468. [= OF. (and retardation (re-tär-dā'shon), n . Stubbs , Const. Hist., § 470. 3. A sutler, camp-follower, or any person serving with an army who, though not enlisted, is subject to orders according to the rules and articles of war.-4. One who is connected with or frequents a certain place; an attendant. That indulgence and undisturbed liberty of conscience which the retainers to every petty conventicle enjoy. Black stone, Com., IV. iv. retainer2 (rē-tā'nėr), п . [Formerly also re tainour ; retenir , retain, inf. used as a noun: see retain . Cf. detainer 2.] 1. The act English nation without prejudice. Irving , Sketch-Book, p. 78. Our blood may boil at hearing of atrocities committed, without being able to ascertain how those atrocities were provoked, or how they may have been retaliated . W. R. Greg, Misc. E ays, 1st ser., p. 52. II. in trans. To return like for like; especial ly (now usually), to return evil for evil. Liberality may lead the person obliged with the sense of the duty he lies under to retaliate . Goldsmith, Citizen of the World, lxvi. =Syn. See revenge, n. of retaining dependents; entrance into service retaliation (re-tal-i-a's hon), n . [L. as if *re as a retainer; the state of being a retainer. The Kings Officers and Farmors were to forfeit their ing in Routs and unlaw full A emblies. taliatio ( n- ), retaliare , retaliate: see retaliate .] The act of retaliating; the return of like for like; the doing of that to another which he has Places and Holds in case of unlaw full Retainer , or partak done to us; especially (now usually), requital Bacon, Hist. Hen. VII., p. 66. 2. That by which a person's services are secured; a fee. The same Thomas Cromwell, earl of E ex, hath allured and drawn unto him by retain ours many of your subjects. Bp. Burnet , Records, I. iii., No. 16. 3. Specifically, in law : ( a ) Same as retaining fee (which see, under feel ). (b) An authority given to an attorney or a solicitor to proceed in an action. (c) The unlawful taking or detention of a known servant from his master during the period of service. Robinson. (d) The act of an executor or administrator who is a creditor of the decedent, or whose estate he represents, in withholding from the fund so much as will pay what is due him: formerly allowed to be done even before any other creditors whose debts were of equal degree were paid. - General retainer, a fee given by a party to secure a priority of claim on the counsel's services for any case that he may have in any court which that counsel attends. - Special retainer, a fee for a particular case which is expected to come on. retainership (rē-tā ́nėr-ship), n . [ retainer1 + -ship.] The state of being a retainer or follower; hence, a feeling of loyalty or attachment to a chief. [Rare.] All the few in whom yet lingered any shadow of retain ership toward the fast-fading chieftainship of Glen warlock seemed to cherish the notion that the heir of the house had to be tended and cared for like a child. G. Mac Donald , Warlock o' Glen warlock, xiii. retaining (rē-tāʼning), p . a . [Ppr. of retain , v .] Keeping in po e ion; serving to retain; keep- ing back; engaging. - Retaining fee. See feel . - Retaining lien. See lien2. - Retaining wall, a wall built to prevent a bank, as of earth, from slipping down or being washed away; a revetment. See cut in next column. retainment (re-tān'ment), n. [ retain + -ment.] The act of retaining; retention. retain-wall (rē-tān'wâl), n . Same as retaining wall (which see, under retaining ). of evil; reprisal; revenge. First, I will shew you the antiquity of these manors. Secondly, I will a little discu the ancient honour of this manor of Levenham. Thirdly, I will give you a touch what respects you are likely to find from me; and fourthly, what retaliation I expect again from you. MS . Harl . 646. ( Hall i well .) The lex talion is, or law of retaliation , can never be in all cases an adequate or permanent rule of punishment. Black stone , Com., IV. i. F.) retardation = Sp. retard a cion = Pg. retar dação = It. ritard azione , retardatio ( n- ), retard are , pp. retard at us , retard: see retard . ] 1. The act of retarding or making slower, or its effect; the hindering of motion, growth, or progre , or the hindrance effected; the act of delaying or impeding. If the embryonic type were the offspring, then its failure to attain to the condition of the parent is due to the supervention of a slower rate of growth; to this phenomenon the term retardation was applied. E. D. Cope , Origin of the Fittest, p. 125. 2. In physics : (a) A continuous decrement of velocity; a negative acceleration. The fall of meteoric dust on to the earth must cause a small retardation of the earth's rotation, although to an amount probably quite insensible in a century. Thomson and Tait , Nat. Phil., § 830. It was generally supposed that the discrepancy between the theoretical and observed result is due to a retardation of the earth's rotation by the friction of the tides. C. A. Young , General Astronomy, § 461. (b) In acoustics and optics, the distance by which one wave is behind another. Better call- ed retard , being translation of French retard . In reflexion at the surface of a denser medium the re- flected ray undergoes a retardation in respect to the inc i- dent ray of a half wave-length. Lommel , Light (trans.), p. 240. = Syn. Retribution , Reprisal , etc. See revenge. retaliative (re-tal'i-a-tiv), a. [ retaliate + -ive.] Tending to or of the nature of retalia- 3t. Postponement; deferment. tion; retaliatory; vindictive; revengeful. Quar- terly Rev. ( Imp . Dict . ) retaliatory (re-tal'i-ā-to-ri), a . [ retaliate + Out of this ground a man may devise the means of altering the colour of birds, and the retardation of hoar hairs. Bacon , Nat. Hist., § 851. ory.] Pertaining to or of the nature of retal- 4. Specifically, in music : ( a ) The act, proce , iation. The armed neutrality was succeeded by retaliatory embargoes, and on the 2d of April, 1801, the battle of Copenhagen prostrated the power of Denmark. Woolsey, Introd. to Inter. Law, § 191. retama (re-tämä or re-tāʼmä), n . [ ma , Ar. retama .] Any one of a small group of plants forming the section Retama (sometimes considered a genus - Boi ier , 1839), in the ge- nus Genista . They are yellow-flowered shrubs with rush like branches, which are leafle or bear a few unifoliate leaves. They are found in the Mediterranean region and the Canaries. Some species are useful for fixing sands. The region of retama , the first bushes of which are met with at the pa which admits the traveller into the Llano de la Retama. Encyc. Brit ., IV. 798. retard (re-tärd'), v . [ retarder , F. retarder = Pr. Sp. Pg. retardar = It. ritard are , tardare , make slow, delay, re- , back, + tar- dare , make slow, 〈 tardus , slow: see tardy .] I. trans . 1. To make slow or slower; obstruct in motion or progre ; delay; impede; clog; hin- der. This will retard or result of diminishing the speed or pace of the tempo. (b) The prolongation of a concordant tone into a chord where it is a discord which is resolved upward: opposed to anticipation , and distinguished from suspension by the upward resolution. [It would be well, however, if retardation were made the generic term, with suspension as a species.] 5. In teleg ., decrease in the speed of telegraph signaling due to self-induction and induction from surrounding conductors.-6. That which retards; a hindrance; an obstruction; an impediment. We find many persons who in seven years meet not with a violent temptation to a crime, but their battles are 99. IMG:content-2111.png:[blocks in formation] The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia retardative The retardative effects would also be largely increased, to a serious extent, in fact, in the case of the telephones. Pop . Sci . Mo. , XXVII. 717. retardatory (re-tär'da-to-ri), a. [ retard + -atory.] Tending or Tending or having power to retard. Instant promptitude of action, adequate retardatory Athenæum , No. 2862, p. 308. retarder (rē-tär'dėr), n . One who retards; that which serves as a hindrance, impediment, or cause of retardation. power. This disputing way of enquiry is so far from advancing science that it is no inconsiderable retarder . 5121 gere, cover: see tegument.] The act of disclosing or producing to view something concealed. This may be said to be rather a restoration of a body to its own colour, or a retection of its native colour, than a change. Boyle, Works, I. 685. retell (re-tel'), v. t. [ Whate'er Lord Harry Percy then had said... At such a time, with all the rest retold , May reasonably die, and never rise To do him wrong. Shak., 1 Hen. IV., i. 3. 73. n. [ME., for retenue, retinue: see ret i nue.] Retinue. Glanville. retent, retardment (rē-tärd'ment), n. [OF. retarde ment , F. retardement = Pr. retard a men = Pg. retard a men to = It. ritard a men to , retar damentum , retard are , retard: see retard .] The act of retarding; a retardation; delay. Which Malice or which Art no more could stay Than witches' charms can a retardment bring To the resuscitation of the Day, Or resurrection of the Spring. Cowley, Upon His Majesty's Restoration and Return. retaunt (re-tänt'), n. [ re- + taunt , n .] The repetition of a taunt. [Rare.] Wyth suche tauntes and retauntes, ye, in maner checke and checke mate to the uttermooste profe of my pacience. Hall, Richard III., f. 10. ( Hall i well.) retch1 (rech), v. [(a) recchen , can , stretch, extend, hold forth (see under rack1 , v.); mixed in mod. dial. use with (b) reach , rechen , ræcan , reach: see reach1 .] To reach. [Prov. Eng.] I retche with a weapen or with my hande, je attains. Palsgrave . ( Hall i well .) retch2 (rech), v. i. [Also formerly or dial. reach; rechen , hræcan , clear the throat, hawk, spit (cf. hrāca , spittle, expecto- ration, hræcea , hawking, clearing the throat, *hræcet an, hræctan , eructate, retch, hræcetung , retching), = Icel. hrækja , hawk, spit ( hrāki , spittle); cf. OHG. rachis on, MHG. rahsenen, hawk; prob. ult. imitative (cf. hawk3 ). The AS. hrace, throat, = MD. raecke = OHG. rahho, MHG. rache , G. rachen , throat, jaws, are prob. unrelated.] To make efforts to vomit. The ashes of the said barke given in wine hote is greatly commended for the reaching and spitting of blood. Holland, tr. of Pliny, xxiv. 4. "Beloved Julia, hear me still beseeching!" (Here he grew inarticulate with retching .) Byron, Don Juan, ii. 20. retch3t (rech), v. i. and t. [An a ibilated form of reck .] Same as reck . retchle t (rech'les), a . [An a ibilated form of reckle .] Same as reckle . I left my natiue soile, full like a retchle e man. Hakluyt's Voyages , I. 384. They are such retchle flies as you are, that blow cutpurses abroad in every corner; your foolish having of money makes them. B. Jonson, Bartholomew Fair, iii. 1. retchle lyt (rech'les-li), adv . Same as reck le ly . I do horribly and retchle ly neglect and lightly regard thy wrath hanging over my head. J. Bradford, Works (Parker Soc., 1853), II. 262. retchle ne et (rech'les-nes), n. Same as reckle ne . A viper that hast eat a pa age through me, Through mine own bowels, by thy retchle ne . B. Jonson, Magnet ick Lady, iv. 1. rete (rē'tē), n.; pl. retia (rē'shi-ä). [NL., It sends out convoluted ve els ( retia ) from the large cerebral cleft, which are connected with the roof of the cleft. Gegenbaur , Comp. Anat. (trans.), p. 513. Epidermal rete. Same as rete mucosum. - Rete Halleri. Same as rete vasculosum testis. - Rete Malpighii. Same as rete mucosum. - Rete mirabile, a network or plexus of small veins or arteries, formed by the immediate breaking up of a ve el of considerable size, terminating either by reuniting in a single ve el (bipolar), or in capillaries (unipolar). - Rete mirabile geminum or conjugatum, a plexus in which arteries and veins are combined. Rete mirabile of Galen, a meshwork of ve els formed by the intracranial part of the internal carotid artery in some mammals. - Rete mirabile simplex, a plexus consisting of arteries only, or of veins only. Rete mucosum, the deeper, softer part of the epidermis, below the stratum granulosum, consisting of prickle-cells. Also called stratum spinosum, rete mucosum Malpighii, rete Mal pighii, stratum Malpighii, corpus reticulare, corpus mucо sum, Malpighian layer, epidermal rete. See cuts under skin and sweat - gland. - Rete vasculosum testis, a network of ve els lying in the mediastinum testis, into which the tion of the testis, charging through the deferent i a. straight tubules empty. It holds the accumulated Also called rete vasculosum Halleri, rete Halleri, rete testis, rete testis Halleri, spermatic rete. retecious (re-te's hus), a. [Irreg.