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A stated allowance to a person in consideration of past services; payment made to one retired from service, on account of age, disability, or other cause; especially, a regular stipend paid by a government to retired public officers, disabled soldiers, the families of soldiers killed in service, or to meritorious autho…

spirit. Nor is their courage or their wealth so low, That from his wars they poorly would retire. Dryden.

The state of being in retirement from the company or observation of others; seclusion.

ded; lonely; solitary; as, a private room or apartment; private prayer. Reason . . . then retires Into her private cell when nature rests. Milton.

Seclusion from company or society; retirement; privacy; secrecy. Bacon.

Appropriated to retirement; private; not open to the public. " Privy chambers." Ezek. xxi. 14.

. & Obs.] His jealousy . . . attends the business, the recreations, the publications, and retirements of every man. Jer. Taylor. Publication of a libel (Law), such an exhibition of a libel as brings it to the notice of at least one person other than the person libeled. -- Publication of a will (Law), the delivery of a…

To retire; to recoil. [Obs.] Spenser.

Hence, a recess; a retired place. [Obs.] "In a retired receipt together lay." Chapman.

A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion. Departure from his happy place, our sweet Recess, and only consolation left. Milton.

Shut up, sequestered; retired from the world or from public notice; solitary; living apart; as, a recluse monk or hermit; a recluse life In meditation deep, recluse From human converse. J. Philips.

A state of retirement from the world; seclusion.

Affording retirement from society. "Some reclusive and religious life." Shak.

To turn or go back; to withdraw one's self; to retire. [Obs.] "To your bowers recoil." Spenser.

To retire again to a couch; to lie down again. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

A central or retired work within any other work.

a drunken man. Ps. cvii. 27. He, with heavy fumes oppressed, Reeled from the palace, and retired to rest. Pope. The wagons reeling under the yellow sheaves. Macualay.

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

Retirement; -- mostly used in a jocose or burlesque way. [U.S.] Bartlett. What one of our great men used to call dignified retiracy. C. A. Bristed.

Of or pertaining to retirement; causing retirement; suited to, or belonging to, retirement. Retiring board (Mil.), a board of officers who consider and report upon the alleged incapacity of an officer for active service. -- Retiring pension, a pension granted to a public officer on his retirement from office or servic…