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olored European actinian (Anemonia, or Anthea, sulcata); -- so called because it does not retract its tentacles.

An ode recanting, or retracting, a former one; also, a repetition of an ode.

Of or pertaining to a palinode, or retraction. J. Q. Adams.

A condition in which the prepuce, after being retracted behind the glans penis, is constricted there, and can not be brought forward into place again.

A group of fresh-water turtles in which the neck can not be retracted, but is bent to one side, for protection. The matamata is an example.

An extensive division of pectinibranchiate gastropods, including those that have a long retractile proboscis, with the mouth at the end, as the cones, whelks, tritons, and cowries. See Illust. of Gastropoda, and of Winkle.

To extend; to protrude; as, the cat can protract its claws; -- opposed to retract.

A muscle which extends an organ or part; -- opposed to retractor.

ions formerly expressed); to contradict, as a former declaration; to take back openly; to retract; to recall. How soon . . . ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void! Milton.

declaration that contradicts a former one; that which is thus asserted in contradiction; retraction. The poor man was imprisoned for this discovery, and forced to make a public recantation. Bp. Stillingfleet.

A muscle which serves to retain an organ or part in place, esp. when retracted. See Illust. of Phylactolemata.

One of the retractor muscles of the proboscis of certain worms.

To draw back; to retract. [Obs.] Harvey.

A division of marine gastropods having a retractile proboscis and three longitudinal rows of teeth on the radula. It includes many of the large ornamental shells, as the miters, murices, olives, purpuras, volutes, and whelks. See Illust. in Append.

on the back of the head or neck of a nudibranch or tectibranch mollusk. They are usually retractile, and often transversely furrowed or plicate, and are regarded as olfactory organs. Called also dorsal tentacles. See Illust. under Pygobranchia, and Opisthobranchia.

sion of pectinibranchiate gastropods, having the head prolonged into a snout which is not retractile.

accata, a suborder of ctenophores having two pouches into which the long tentacles can be retracted.

gills around its head, and usually an operculum to close the aperture of its tube when it retracts.

To retract; to recant; as, to swallow one's opinions. "Swallowed his vows whole." Shak.

To recall or retract, as a look. [R.] Richardson.