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Retire
v. i.
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To go back or return; to draw back or away; to keep aloof; to withdraw or retreat, as from observation; to go into privacy; as, to retire to his home; to retire from the world, or from notice.
Retire
v. i.
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To retreat from action or danger; to withdraw for safety or pleasure; as, to retire from battle.
Retire
v. i.
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To withdraw from a public station, or from business; as, having made a large fortune, he retired.
Retire
v. i.
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To recede; to fall or bend back; as, the shore of the sea retires in bays and gulfs.
Retire
v. i.
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To go to bed; as, he usually retires early.
Retire
n.
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The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; also, a place to which one retires.
Retire
n.
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A call sounded on a bugle, announcing to skirmishers that they are to retire, or fall back.
Retired
a.
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Private; secluded; quiet; as, a retired life; a person of retired habits.
Retired
a.
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Withdrawn from active duty or business; as, a retired officer; a retired physician.
Retirement
n.
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The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; withdrawal; seclusion; as, the retirement of an officer.
Retirement
n.
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A place of seclusion or privacy; a place to which one withdraws or retreats; a private abode.
Retirer
n.
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One who retires.
Retiring
a.
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Reserved; shy; not forward or obtrusive; as, retiring modesty; retiring manners.
Retiring
a.
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Of or pertaining to retirement; causing retirement; suited to, or belonging to, retirement.
Retistene
n.
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A white crystalline hydrocarbon produced indirectly from retene.
Retitelae
n. pl.
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A group of spiders which spin irregular webs; -- called also Retitelariae.
Retold
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imp. & p. p. of Retell.
Retorsion
n.
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Same as Retortion.
Retorted
imp. & p. p.
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of Retort
Retorting
p. pr. & vb. n.
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of Retort
Retort
n.
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To bend or curve back; as, a retorted line.
Retort
n.
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To throw back; to reverberate; to reflect.
Retort
n.
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To return, as an argument, accusation, censure, or incivility; as, to retort the charge of vanity.
Retort
v. i.
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To return an argument or a charge; to make a severe reply.
Retort
v. t.
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The return of, or reply to, an argument, charge, censure, incivility, taunt, or witticism; a quick and witty or severe response.
Retort
v. t.
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A vessel in which substances are subjected to distillation or decomposition by heat. It is made of different forms and materials for different uses, as a bulb of glass with a curved beak to enter a receiver for general chemical operations, or a cylinder or semicylinder of cast iron for the manufacture of gas in gas works.
Retorter
n.
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One who retorts.
Retortion
v. t.
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Act of retorting or throwing back; reflection or turning back.
Retortion
v. t.
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Retaliation.
Retortive
a.
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Containing retort.