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To look backward; hence, to affect or concern what is past. It may be useful to retrospect to an early period. A. Hamilton.

The act, or the faculty, of looking back on things past.

Looking backward; contemplating things past; -- opposed to prospective; as, a retrospective view. The sage, with retrospective eye. Pope.

A colorless stone of high luster, made of paste. It is much used as an inexpensive ornament.

ts, or are sweet, luscious, and high- flavored; as, a rich dish; rich cream or soup; rich pastry; rich wine or fruit. Sauces and rich spices are fetched from India. Baker.

A morbid growth or deposit of bony matter between or on the small pastern and the great pastern bones. J. H. Walsh.

A small ball of rich minced meat or fish, covered with pastry and fried.

a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers; as, to roll a field; to roll paste; to roll steel rails, etc.

A cylindrical piece of wood or other material, with which paste or dough may be rolled out and reduced to a proper thickness.

A kind of pudding made of paste spread with fruit, rolled into a cylindrical form, and boiled or steamed. -- a.

stic; rustic manners; rudeness; simplicity; artlessness. The sweetness and rusticity of a pastoral can not be so well expressed in any other tongue as in the Greek, when rightly mixed and qualified with the Doric dialect. Addison. The Saxons were refined from their rusticity. Sir W. Scott.

To make a rut or ruts in; -- chiefly used as a past participle or a participial adj; as, a rutted road.

A culinary utensil of metal with a plate or disk which is heated, and held over pastry, etc., to brown it.

so, to grade or vary according to a scale or system. Scaling his present bearing with his past. Shak. To scale, or scale down, a debt, wages, etc., to reduce a debt, etc., according to a fixed ratio or scale. [U.S.]

A blank book in which extracts cut from books and papers may be pasted and kept.

A kind of pasture grass (Cynodon Dactylon). See Bermuda grass: also Illustration in Appendix.

A dish of crust or pastry and meat or fish, etc., cooked together in alternate layers, -- a common food of sailors; as, a three-decker sea pie.

nses or to the mind; appreciably; with perception; susceptibly; sensitively. What remains past cure, Bear not too sensibly. Milton.

e. High on their heads, with jewels richly set, Each lady wore a radiant coronet. Dryden. Pastoral dales thin set with modern farms. Wordsworth.

To establish in the pastoral office; to ordain or install as pastor or rector of a church, society, or parish; as, to settle a minister. [U. S.]