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The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; withdrawal; seclusion; as, the retirement of an officer. O, blest Retirement, friend of life's decline. Goldsmith. Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books. Thomson.

One who retires.

Reserved; shy; not forward or obtrusive; as, retiring modesty; retiring manners.

A white crystalline hydrocarbon produced indirectly from retene.

A group of spiders which spin irregular webs; -- called also Retitelariæ.

imp. & p. p. of Retell.

Same as Retortion.

To bend or curve back; as, a retorted line. With retorted head, pruned themselves as they floated. Southey.

One who retorts.

Act of retorting or throwing back; reflection or turning back. [Written also retorsion.] It was, however, necessary to possess some single term expressive of this intellectual retortion. Sir W. Hamilton.

Containing retort.

To toss back or again.

To touch again, or rework, in order to improve; to revise; as, to retouch a picture or an essay.

One who retouches.

To trace back, as a line. Then if the line of Turnus you retrace, He springs from Inachus of Argive race. Driden.

To draw back; to draw up or shorten; as, the cat can retract its claws; to retract a muscle.

Capable of being retracted; retractile.

To retract; to recant. [Obs.]

The act of retracting what has been said; recantation.

Retractable.