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Having a red tail. Red-tailed hawk (Zoöl.), a large North American hawk (Buteo borealis). When adult its tail is chestnut red. Called also hen hawck, and red-tailed buzzard.

The red-tailed hawk.

To obtain again.

That may be reobtained.

Done at retail; engaged in retailing commodities; as a retail trade; a retail grocer.

One who retails anything; as, a retailer of merchandise; a retailer of gossip.

The act of retailing.

t with, or dismiss; to retrain from departure, escape, or the like. "Thy shape invisibleretain." Shak. Be obedient, and retain Unalterably firm his love entire. Milton. An executor may retain a debt due to him from the testator. Blackstone.

Capable of being retained.

The act of retaining; retention.

One who, or that which, retains.

The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.

Having the tail crossed by conspicuous bands of color. Ring- tailed cat (Zoöl.), the cacomixle. -- Ring-tailed eagle (Zoöl.), a young golden eagle.

A bird having a distinct band of color across the tail, as the hen harrier.

ny species of small ground snakes of the family Uropeltidæ; -- so called from their rough tails.

Having the tail, or lower part of the body, bright red.

A European gold wasp (Chrysis ignita) which has the under side of the abdomen bright red, and the other parts deep bluish green with a metallic luster. The larva is parasitic in the nests of other wasps and of bees.

Having the outer feathers much the longest, the others decreasing regularly to the median ones.

(Milvulus forficatus) of the Southern United States and Mexico, which has a deeply forked tail. It is light gray above, white beneath, salmon on the flanks, and fiery red at the base of the crown feathers.

The captain of a vessel that sails upon the sea.