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5. To make good; to make amends for.
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But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored, and sorrows end. Shak.
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6. (Fine Arts) (a) To bring back from a state of injury or decay, or from a changed condition; as, to restore a painting, statue, etc. (b) To form a picture or model of, as of something lost or mutilated; as, to restore a ruined building, city, or the like.
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Syn. -- To return; replace; refund; repay; reinstate; rebuild; reëstablish; renew; repair; revive; recover; heal; cure.
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Restore (?), n. Restoration. [Obs.] Spenser.
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Restorement (?), n. Restoration. [Obs.]
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Restorer (?), n. One who, or that which, restores.
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Restrain (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Restrained (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Restraining.] [OE. restreinen, F. restreindre, fr. L. restringere, restrictum; pref. re- re- + stringere to draw, bind, or press together. See , v. t., and cf. .] 1. To draw back again; to hold back from acting, proceeding, or advancing, either by physical or moral force, or by any interposing obstacle; to repress or suppress; to keep down; to curb.
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Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature
Gives way to in repose! Shak.
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2. To draw back toghtly, as a rein. [Obs.] Shak.
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3. To hinder from unlimited enjoiment; to abridge.
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Though they two were committed, at least restrained of their liberty. Clarendon.
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4. To limit; to confine; to restrict. Trench.
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Not only a metaphysical or natural, but a moral, universality also is to be restrained by a part of the predicate. I. Watts.
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5. To withhold; to forbear.
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Thou restrained prayer before God. Job. xv. 4.
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Syn. -- To check; hinder; stop; withhold; repress; curb; suppress; coerce; restrict; limit; confine.
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Restrainable (?), a. Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
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Restrainedly, adv. With restraint. Hammond.
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Restrainer (?), n. One who, or that which, restrains.
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Restrainment (?), n. The act of restraining.
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Restraint (?), n. [OF. restraincte, fr. restrainct, F. restreint, p. p. of restraindre, restrendre. See .] 1. The act or process of restraining, or of holding back or hindering from motion or action, in any manner; hindrance of the will, or of any action, physical or mental.
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No man was altogether above the restrains of law, and no man altogether below its protection. Macaulay.
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2. The state of being restrained.
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3. That which restrains, as a law, a prohibition, or the like; limitation; restriction.
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For one restraint, lords of the world besides. Milton.
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Syn. -- Repression; hindrance; check; stop; curb;�oercion; confinement; limitation; restriction.
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Restrengthen (?), v. t. To strengthen again; to fortify anew.
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Restrict (?), a. [L. restrictus, p. p. of restringere. See .] Restricted. [Obs.]
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Restrict, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Restricted; p. pr. & vb. n. Restricting.] To restrain within bounds; to limit; to confine; as, to restrict worlds to a particular meaning; to restrict a patient to a certain diet.
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Syn. -- To limit; bound; circumscribe; restrain; repress; curb; coerce.
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Restriction (?), n. [F. restriction, L. restrictio.] 1. The act of restricting, or state of being restricted; confinement within limits or bounds.
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This is to have the same restriction with all other recreations,that it be made a divertisement. Giv. of Tonque.
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2. That which restricts; limitation; restraint; as, restrictions on trade.
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Restrictionary (?), a. Restrictive. [R.]
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Restrictive (?), a. [Cf. F. restrictif.]
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1. Serving or tending to restrict; limiting; as, a restrictive particle; restrictive laws of trade.
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2. Astringent or styptic in effect. [Obs.] Wiseman.
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--Restrictively, adv. -- Restrictiveness, n.
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Restringe (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Restringed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Restringing (?).] [L. restringere. See .] To confine; to contract; to stringe. [Obs.]
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Restringency (?), n. Quality or state of being restringent; astringency. [Obs.] Sir W. Petty.
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Restringent (?), a. [L. restringens, p. pr.: cf. F. restringent.] Restringing; astringent; styptic. [Obs.] -- n. A restringent medicine. [Obs.] Harvey.
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Restrive (?), v. i. To strive anew.
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Resty (?), a. Disposed to rest; indisposed toexercton; sluggish; also, restive. [Obs.] Burton.
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Where the master is too resty or too rich to say his own prayers. Milton.
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Resubjection, n. A second subjection.
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Resublime (?), v. t. To sublime again. Newton. -- Resublimation (#), n.
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Resudation (?), n. [L. resudare to sweat again. See .] Act of sweating again.
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Result (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Resulted; p. pr. & vb. n. Resulting.] [F. résulter, fr. L. resultare, resultarum, to spring or leap back, v. intens. fr. resilire. See .] 1. To leap back; to rebound. [Obs.]
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The huge round stone, resulting with a bound. Pope.
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2. To come out, or have an issue; to terminate; to have consequences; -- followed by in; as, this measure will result in good or in evil.
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3. To proceed, spring, or rise, as a consequence, from facts, arguments, premises, combination of circumstances, consultation, thought, or endeavor.
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Pleasure and peace do naturally result from a holy and good life. Tillotson.
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Coloq. Resulting trust (Law), a trust raised by implication for the benefit of a party granting an estate. The phrase is also applied to a trust raised by implication for the benefit of a party who advances the purchase money of an estate, etc. Bouvier. -- Coloq. Resulting use (Law), a use which, being limited by the deed, expires or can not vest, and thence returns to him who raised it. Bouvier.
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Syn. -- To proceed; spring; rise; arise; ensue; terminate.
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Result (?), n. 1. A flying back; resilience. [Obs.]
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Sound is produced between the string and the air by the return or the result of the string. Bacon.
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2. That which results; the conclusion or end to which any course or condition of things leads, or which is obtained by any process or operation; consequence or effect; as, the result of a course of action; the result of a mathematical operation.
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If our proposals once again were heard,
We should compel them to a quick result. Milton.
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3. The decision or determination of a council or deliberative assembly; a resolve; a decree.
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Then of their session ended they bid cry
With trumpet's regal sound the great result. Milton.
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Syn. -- Effect; consequence; conclusion; inference; issue; event. See .
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Resultance (?), n. The act of resulting; that which results; a result. Donne.
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Resultant (?), a. [L. resultans, p. pr. : cf. F. résultant.] Resulting or issuing from a combination; existing or following as a result or consequence.
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Coloq. Resultant force or Coloq. Resultant motion (Mech.), a force which is the result of two or more forces acting conjointly, or a motion which is the result of two or more motions combined. See Composition of forces, under .
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Resultant, n. That which results. Specifically: (a) (Mech.) A reultant force or motion. (b) (Math.) An eliminant.
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The resultant of homogeneous general functions of n variables is that function of their coefficients which, equaled to zero, expresses in the simplest terms the condition of the possibility of their existence. Sylvester.
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Resultate (?), n. [L. resultatus, p. p. ] A result. [Obs.] “The resultate of their counsil.” BAcon.
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Resultful (?), a. HAving results or effects.
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Resultive (?), a. Resultant. [Obs.] Fuller.
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Resultless, a. Being without result; as, resultless investigations.
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Resumable (?), a. Capable of, or admitting of, being resumed. Sir M. HAle.
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Resumé (?), n. [F. See .] A summing up; a condensed statement; an abridgment or brief recapitulation.
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The exellent little résumé thereof in Dr. Landsborough's book. C. Kingsley.
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Resume (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Resumed (?);p. pr. & vb. n. Resuming.] [L. resumere, resumptum; pref. re- re- + sumere to take: cf. F. résumer. See , .] 1. To take back.
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The sun, like this, from which our sight we have,
Gazed on too long, resumes the light he gave. Denham.
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Perhaps God will resume the blessing he has bestowed ere he attains the age of manhood. Sir W. Scott.
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2. To enter upon, or take up again.
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Reason resumed her place, and Passion fled. Dryden.
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3. To begin again; to recommence, as something which has been interrupted; as, to resume an argument or discourse.
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Resummon (?), v. t. To summon again.
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Resummons (?), n. A second summons.
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Resumption (?), n. [cf. F. résumption, L. resumptio restoration, recovery, fr. resumere. See .] 1. The act of resuming; as, the resumption of a grant, of delegated powers, of an argument, of specie payments, etc.
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2. (Eng.Law) The taking again into the king's hands of such lands or tenements as he had granted to any man on false suggestions or other error.
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Resumptive (?), a. [cf. L. resumptivus restorative.] Taking back; resuming, or tending toward resumption; as, resumptive measures.
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Resupinate (?), a. [L. resupinatus, p. p. of resupinare to bend back. See .] Inverted in position; appearing to be upside down or reversed, as the flowers of the orchis and the leaves of some plants.
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Resupinated (?), a. Resupinate.
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Resupination (?), n. The state of luing on the back; the state of being resupinate, or reversed.
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Our Vitruvius calleth this affection in the eye a resupination of the figure. Sir H. Wotton.
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Resupine (?), a. [L. resupinus; pref. re- re- + supinus bent backward, supine.] Lying on the back; supine; hence, careless. Sir K. Digby.
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He spake, and, downward swayed, fell resupine,
With his huge neck aslant. Cowper.
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Resupply (?), v. t. To supply again.
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Resurgence (?), n. The act of rising again; resurrection.
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Resurgent (?), a. [L. resurgens, -entis, p. pr. of resurgere. See .] Rising again, as from the dead. Coleridge.
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Resurgent, n. One who rises again, as from the dead. [R.] Sydney Smith.
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Resurrect (?), v. t. [See .] 1. To take from the grave; to disinter. [Slang]
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2. To reanimate; to restore to life; to bring to view (that which was forgotten or lost). [Slang]
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Resurrection (?), n. [F. résurrection, L. resurrectio, fr. resurgere, resurrectum, to rise again; pref. re- re- + surgere to rise. See .] 1. A rising again; the resumption of vigor.
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2. Especially, the rising again from the dead; the resumption of life by the dead; as, the resurrection of Jesus Christ; the general resurrection of all the dead at the Day of Judgment.
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Nor after resurrection shall he stay
Longer on earth. Milton.
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3. State of being risen from the dead; future state.
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In the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage. Matt. xxii. 30.
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4. The cause or exemplar of a rising from the dead.
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I am the resurrection, and the life. John xi. 25.
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Coloq. Cross of the resurrection , a slender cross with a pennant floating from the junction of the bars. -- Coloq. Resurrection plant (Bot.), a name given to several species of Selaginella (as Selaginella convoluta and Selaginella lepidophylla), flowerless plants which, when dry, close up so as to resemble a bird's nest, but revive and expand again when moistened. The name is sometimes also given to the rose of Jericho. See under .
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Resurrectionist (?), n. One who steals bodies from the grave, as for dissection. [Slang]
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Resurrectionize (?), v. t. To raise from the dead. [R.] Southey.
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Resurvey (?), v. t. To survey again or anew; to review. Shak.
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Resurvey (?), n. A second or new survey.
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Resuscitable (?), a. Capable of resuscitation; as, resuscitable plants. Boyle.
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Resuscitant (?), n. One who, or that which resuscitates. Also used adjectively.
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Resuscitate (?), a. [L. resuscitatus, p. p. of resuscitare; pref. re- re- + suscitare to raise, rouse. See .] Restored to life. [R.] Bp. Gardiner.
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Resuscitate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Resuscitated (?);p. pr. & vb. n. Resuscitating.] To revivify; to revive; especially, to recover or restore from apparent death; as, to resuscitate a drowned person; to resuscitate withered plants.
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Resuscitate, v. i. To come to life again; to revive.
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These projects, however often slain, always resuscitate. J. S. Mill.
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Resuscitation (?), n. [L. resuscitatio.] The act of resuscitating, or state of being resuscitated.
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The subject of resuscitation by his sorceries. Sir W. Scott.
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Resuscitative (?), a. Tending to resuscitate; reviving; revivifying.
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Resuscitator (?), n. [L.] 1. One who, or that which, resuscitates.
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2. Specifically: (Med.) A device which is used to force oxygen or a mixture of oxygen and other gases into the lungs of patients who are suffering from asphyxiation, to revive the patient and induce resumption of respiration.
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Ret (rĕt), v. t. See . [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Ret, v. t. [Akin to rot.] To prepare for use, as flax, by separating the fibers from the woody part by process of soaking, macerating, and other treatment. Ure.
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Retable (r�tāb'l), n. (Eccl.) A shelf behind the altar, for display of lights, vases of flowers, etc.
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Retail (rētāl), n. [F. retaille piece cut off, shred, paring, or OF. retail, from retailler. See , v.] The sale of commodities in small quantities or parcels; -- opposed to wholesale; sometimes, the sale of commodities at second hand.
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Retail, a. Done at retail; engaged in retailing commodities; as a retail trade; a retail grocer.
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Retail (r�tāl), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Retailed (?);p. pr. & vb. n. Retailing.] [Cf. F. retailler to cut again; pref. re- re + tailler to cut. See , n., , and cf. .] 1. To sell in small quantities, as by the single yard, pound, gallon, etc.; to sell directly to the consumer; as, to retail cloth or groceries.
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2. To sell at second hand. [Obs. or R.] Pope.
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3. To distribute in small portions or at second hand; to tell again or to many (what has been told or done); to report; as, to retail slander. “To whom I will retail my conquest won.” Shak.
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He is wit's peddler, and retails his wares
At wakes and wassails. Shak.
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Retailer (?), n. One who retails anything; as, a retailer of merchandise; a retailer of gossip; -- used also of businesses, including large corporations; as, Sears, Roebuck is one the the country's largest retailers.
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Retailment (?), n. The act of retailing.
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Retain (r�tān), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Retained (r�tānd); p. pr. & vb. n. Retaining.] [F. retainir, L. retinere; pref. re- re- + tenere to hold, keep. See , and cf. of a bridle, , .] 1. To continue to hold; to keep in possession; not to lose, part with, or dismiss; to restrain from departure, escape, or the like. “Thy shape invisible retain.” Shak.
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Be obedient, and retain
Unalterably firm his love entire. Milton.
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An executor may retain a debt due to him from the testator. Blackstone.
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2. To keep in pay; to employ by a preliminary fee paid; to hire; to engage; as, to retain a counselor.
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A Benedictine convent has now retained the most learned father of their order to write in its defense. Addison.
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3. To restrain; to prevent. [Obs.] Sir W. Temple.
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Coloq. Retaining wall (Arch. & Engin.), a wall built to keep any movable backing, or a bank of sand or earth, in its place; -- called also retain wall.
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Syn. -- To keep; hold; restrain. See .
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Retain, v. i. 1. To belong; to pertain. [Obs.]
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A somewhat languid relish, retaining to bitterness. Boyle.
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2. To keep; to continue; to remain. [Obs.] Donne.
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Retainable (?), a. Capable of being retained.
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Retainal (?), n. The act of retaining; retention.
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Retainer (?), n. 1. One who, or that which, retains.
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2. One who is retained or kept in service; an attendant; an adherent; a hanger-on.
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3. Hence, a servant, not a domestic, but occasionally attending and wearing his master's livery. Cowell.
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4. (Law) (a) The act of a client by which he engages a lawyer or counselor to manage his cause. (b) The act of withholding what one has in his hands by virtue of some right. (c) A fee paid to engage a lawyer or counselor to maintain a cause, or to prevent his being employed by the opposing party in the case; -- called also retaining fee. Bouvier. Blackstone.
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