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To retire; to go back. [Obs.] W. Hales.

A kind of retrenchment, as in the body of a bastion, which may be disputed inch by inch after the defenses are dismantled. It usually consists of two faces which make a reëntering angle.

The act of retrograding, or moving backward.

t, as a planet. Hutton. And if he be in the west side in that condition, then is he retrograde. Chaucer.

By retrograding; so as to retrograde.

A tribe of spiders including those which lie in wait and leap upon their prey; the leaping spiders.

One of the Saltigradæ a tribe of spiders which leap to seize their prey.

The act of contradicting one's self or itself; repugnancy in conceptions or in terms; a proposition consisting of two members, one of which contradicts the other; as, to be and not to be at the same time is a self-contradiction.

Contradicting one's self or itself.

The act of degrading one's self, or the state of being so degraded.

Half radial.

See Radial engine, above.

Having six rays; -- said of certain sponge spicules. See Illust. of Spicule.

Toward the left side; sinistrally.

A feme sole trader.

A small California surf fish (Micrometrus aggregatus); -- called also shiner.

A cerecloth. [Obs.]

Stars not included in any constellation; -- called also informed, or unformed, stars.

Sporadic. [R.]

from other things of the same kind, or in scattered instances; separate; single; as, a sporadic fireball; a sporadic case of disease; a sporadic example of a flower. Sporadic disease (Med.), a disease which occurs in single and scattered cases. See the Note under Endemic, a.