Retentiveness
(Re*ten"tive*ness), n. The quality of being retentive.
Retentivity
(Re`ten*tiv"i*ty) n. The power of retaining; retentive force; as, the retentivity of a magnet.
Retentor
(||Re*ten"tor) n. [L., a retainer.] (Zoöl.) A muscle which serves to retain an organ or part in
place, esp. when retracted. See Illust. of Phylactolemata.
Retepore
(Re`te*pore) n. [L. rete a net + porus pore.] (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of bryozoans
of the genus Retepora. They form delicate calcareous corals, usually composed of thin fenestrated
fronds.
Retex
(Re*tex") v. t. [L. retexere, lit., to unweave; pref. re- re + texere to weave. ] To annual, as
orders. [Obs.] Bp. Hacket.
Retexture
(Re*tex"ture) n. The act of weaving or forming again. Carlyle.
Rethor
(Reth"or) n. [Cf. F. rhéteur. See Rhetor.] A rhetorician; a careful writer. [Obs.]
If a rethor couthe fair endite.
Chaucer. Rethoryke
(Reth"o*ryke) n. Rhetoric. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Retiarius
(||Re`ti*a"ri*us) n. [L., fr. rete a net.] (Rom.Antiq.) A gladiator armed with a net for entangling
his adversary and a trident for despatching him.
Retiary
(Re"ti*a*ry) n. [See Retiarius.]
1. (Zoöl.) Any spider which spins webs to catch its prey.
2. A retiarius.
Retiary
(Re`ti*a*ry), a. [Cf. LL. retiarius.]
1. Netlike.
This work is in retiary, or hanging textures.
Sir T. Browne. 2. Constructing or using a web, or net, to catch prey; — said of certain spiders.
3. Armed with a net; hence, skillful to entangle.
Scholastic retiary versatility of logic.
Coleridge. Reticence
(Ret"i*cence) n. [L. reticentia: cf. F. réticence.]
1. The quality or state of being reticent, or keeping silence; the state of holding one's tonque; refraining to
speak of that which is suggested; uncommunicativeness.
Such fine reserve and noble reticence.
Tennyson. 2. (Rhet.) A figure by which a person really speaks of a thing while he makes a show as if he would
say nothingon the subject.
Reticency
(Ret"i*cen*cy) n. Reticence.
Reticent
(Ret"i*cent) a. [L. reticens, p. pr. of reticere to keep silence; re- + tacere to be silent. See
Tacit.] Inclined to keep silent; reserved; uncommunicative.
