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Same as Pyrena.

Of or pertaining to the Pyrenees, a range of mountains separating France and Spain. -- n.

A transparent body found in the chromatophores of certain Infusoria.

Comprising four years; as, a quadrennial period.

Once in four years.

A space or period of four years.

A complainant; a plaintiff.

A rent reserved in grants of land, by the payment of which the tenant is quit from other service. Blackstone.

A rent of the full annual value of the tenement, or near it; an excessive or unreasonably high rent. Blackstone.

One who is subjected to playing rack-rent.

The state or quality of being rare. And let the rareness the small gift commend. Dryden.

The act of recurring, or state of being recurrent; return; resort; recourse. I shall insensibly go on from a rare to a frequent recurrence to the dangerous preparations. I. Taylor.

Returning from time to time; recurring; as, recurrent pains.

The act of referring, or the state of being referred; as, reference to a chart for quidance.

An officer who delivered the royal answer to petitions. "Referendaries, or masters of request." Harmar.

A diplomatic agent's note asking for instructions from his government concerning a particular matter or point.

Containing a reference; pointing to something out of itself; as, notes for referential use. -- Ref`er*en"tial*ly, adv.

The act of refraining. [Obs.]

To strengthen again; to fortify anew.

To cut off; to pare away. Thy exuberant parts retrench. Denham.