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Retainer
n.
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Hence, a servant, not a domestic, but occasionally attending and wearing his master's livery.
Retainer
n.
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The act of a client by which he engages a lawyer or counselor to manage his cause.
Retainer
n.
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The act of withholding what one has in his hands by virtue of some right.
Retainer
n.
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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.
Retainer
n.
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The act of keeping dependents, or the state of being in dependence.
Retainment
n.
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The act of retaining; retention.
Retake
v. t.
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To take or receive again.
Retake
v. t.
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To take from a captor; to recapture; as, to retake a ship or prisoners.
Retaker
n.
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One who takes again what has been taken; a recaptor.
Retaliated
imp. & p. p.
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of Retaliate
Retaliating
p. pr. & vb. n.
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of Retaliate
Retaliate
v. t.
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To return the like for; to repay or requite by an act of the same kind; to return evil for (evil). [Now seldom used except in a bad sense.]
Retaliate
v. i.
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To return like for like; specifically, to return evil for evil; as, to retaliate upon an enemy.
Retaliation
n.
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The act of retaliating, or of returning like for like; retribution; now, specifically, the return of evil for evil; e.g., an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
Retaliative
a.
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Same as Retaliatory.
Retaliatory
a.
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Tending to, or involving, retaliation; retaliative; as retaliatory measures.
Retarded
imp. & p. p.
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of Retard
Retarding
p. pr. & vb. n.
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of Retard
Retard
v. t.
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To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progress; to render more slow in progress; to impede; to hinder; as, to retard the march of an army; to retard the motion of a ship; -- opposed to accelerate.
Retard
v. t.
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To put off; to postpone; as, to retard the attacks of old age; to retard a rupture between nations.
Retard
v. i.
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To stay back.
Retard
n.
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Retardation; delay.
Retardation
n.
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The act of retarding; hindrance; the act of delaying; as, the retardation of the motion of a ship; -- opposed to acceleration.
Retardation
n.
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That which retards; an obstacle; an obstruction.
Retardation
n.
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The keeping back of an approaching consonant chord by prolonging one or more tones of a previous chord into the intermediate chord which follows; -- differing from suspension by resolving upwards instead of downwards.
Retardation
n.
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The extent to which anything is retarded; the amount of retarding or delay.
Retardative
a.
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Tending, or serving, to retard.
Retarder
n.
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One who, or that which, retards.
Retardment
n.
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The act of retarding; retardation.
Retched
imp. & p. p.
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of Retch