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A gladiator armed with a net for entangling his adversary and a trident for despatching him.

A retiarius.

The quality or state of being reticent, or keeping silence; the state of holding one's tonque; refraining to speak of that which is suggested; uncommunicativeness. Such fine reserve and noble reticence. Tennyson.

Reticence.

Inclined to keep silent; reserved; uncommunicative.

A reticule. See Reticule,2. [R.]

Having the form of a net, or of network; formed with interstices; retiform; as, reticular cartilage; a reticular leaf.

An extensive division of rhizopods in which the pseudopodia are more or less slender and coalesce at certain points, forming irregular meshes. It includes the shelled Foraminifera, together with some groups which lack a true shell.

One of the Reticularia.

In a reticular manner.

Resembling network; having the form or appearance of a net; netted; as, a reticulated structure.

The quality or state of being reticulated, or netlike; that which is reticulated; network; an organization resembling a net. The particular net you occupy in the great reticulation. Carlyle.

A system of wires or lines in the focus of a telescope or other instrument; a reticle.

Same as Reticularia.

Forming a network; characterized by a reticulated sructure. Reticulose rhizopod (Zoöl.), a rhizopod in which the pseudopodia blend together and form irregular meshes.

The second stomach of ruminants, in which folds of the mucous membrane form hexagonal cells; -- also called the honeycomb stomach.

Composed of crossing lines and interstices; reticular; netlike; as, the retiform coat of the eye.

The delicate membrane by which the back part of the globe of the eye is lined, and in which the fibers of the optic nerve terminate. See Eye.

A connecting band; a frænum; as, the retinacula of the ileocæcal and ileocolic valves.

Of or pertaining to the retina. Retinal purple (Physiol. Chem.), the visual purple.