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the sumptousness of their buildings and nobleness of the plantations. Evelyn. Caprea had been the retirement of Augustus. Addison.

To take back what has been said; to withdraw a concession or a declaration. She will, and she will not; she grants, denies, Consents, retracts, advances, and then files. Granville.

The act of retracting what has been said; recantation.

To discover and bring in game that has been killed or wounded; as, a dog naturally inclined to retrieve. Walsh.

breed of dogs, chiefly employed to retrieve, or to find and recover game birds that have been killed or wounded.

To bring or send back to a tribunal, or to an office, with a certificate of what has been done; as, to return a writ.

An assembling of persons who have been separated, as of a family, or the members of a disbanded regiment; an assembly so composed.

ell; the state of being revalescent. Would this prove that the patient's revalescence had been independent of the medicines given him Coleridge.

To make known (that which has been concealed or kept secret); to unveil; to disclose; to show. Light was the wound, the prince's care unknown, She might not, would not, yet reveal her own. Waller.

r, filed to procure an examination and alteration or reversal of a final decree which has been duly signed and enrolled. Wharton. -- Commission of review (Eng. Eccl. Law), a commission formerly granted by the crown to revise the sentence of the court of delegates.

a proof) with a previous proof of the same matter, and mark again such errors as have not been corrected in the type.

as made out of Adam's rib. [Familiar & Sportive] How many have we known whose heads have been broken with their own rib. Bp. Hall. Chuck rib, a cut of beef immediately in front of the middle rib. See Chuck. -- Fore ribs, a cut of beef immediately in front of the sirloin. -- Middle rib, a cut of beef between the chuc…

A gay, lively dance for one couple, -- said to have been borrowed from Provence in France. W. Irving. Whose dancing dogs in rigadoons excel. Wolcott.

Most favorable or convenient; fortunate. The lady has been disappointed on the right side. Spectator.

to the bottom; to discover; to disclose; -- usually with up. They ripped up all that had been done from the beginning of the rebellion. Clarendon. For brethern to debate and rip up their falling out in the ear of a common enemy . . . is neither wise nor comely. Milton.

he faculty or power of laughing; disposed to laugh. Laughing is our busines, . . . it has been made the definition of man that he is risible. Dr. H. More.

That which is roasted; a piece of meat which has been roasted, or is suitable for being roasted. A fat swan loved he best of any roost [roast]. Chaucer. To rule the roast, to be at the head of affairs. "The new-made duke that rules the roast." Shak.

curing in small fragments; -- so called from Rocca, in Syria, whence alum is said to have been obtained; -- also called rock alum.

America, and forming broad, flat, coriaceous, dark fuscous or blackish expansions. It has been used as food in cases of extremity. -- Rock trout (Zoöl.), any one of several species of marine food fishes of the genus Hexagrammus, family Chiradæ, native of the North Pacific coasts; -- called also sea trout, boregat, bod…

successive contact with another, in suck manner that at every instant the parts that have been in contact are equal.