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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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3,528 words match “RET”

AFORETHOUGHT a. 2 definitions

Premeditated; prepense; previously in mind; designed; as, malice aforethought, which is required to constitute murder. Bouvier.

In time past; formerly. "He prayed . . . as he did aforetime." Dan. vi. 10.

AIGRET; AIGRETTE n. 4 definitions

The small white European heron. See Egret.

ALEXIPYRETIC a. 2 definitions

Serving to drive off fever; antifebrile. -- n.

A kind of light armor used in the sixteenth century, esp. by the Swiss. Fairholt.

ALLEGRETTO a. 2 definitions

Quicker than andante, but not so quick as allegro. -- n.

AMORET n. 3 definitions

An amorous girl or woman; a wanton. [Obs.] J. Warton.

An amoret. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

ANACHORET; ANACHORETICAL n.

See Anchoret, Anchoretic. [Obs.]

ANCHORET; ANCHORITE n.

mself, usually for religious reasons; a hermit; a recluse. [Written by some authors anachoret.] Our Savior himself . . . did not choose an anchorite's or a monastic life, but a social and affable way of conversing with mortals. Boyle.

ANCHORETIC; ANCHORETICAL a.

Pertaining to an anchoret or hermit; after the manner of an anchoret.

The practice or mode of life of an anchoret.

ANTIMONIURETED a.

Combined with or containing antimony; as, antimoniureted hydrogen. [Written also antimoniuretted.]

ANTIPYRETIC a. 2 definitions

Efficacious in preventing or allaying fever. -- n.

Doubting; skeptical. [Obs.] Cudworth.

Without fever; -- applied to days when there is an intermission of fever. Dunglison.

A small tree or shrub. [Obs.] Spenser. Among thick-woven arborets, and flowers Imbordered on each bank. Milton.

A place in which a collection of rare trees and shrubs is cultivated for scientific or educational purposes.

To reckon; to ascribe; to impute. [Obs.] Chaucer.