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g backward; also, the state of being turned or bent backward; displacement backwards; as, retroversion of the uterus.

To turn back.

In a state of retroversion.

To thrust back. [R.] Dr. H. More.

Abstruse. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

The act of retruding, or the state of being retruded. In virtue of an endless remotion or retrusion of the constituent cause. Coleridge.

To try (esp. judicially) a second time; as, to retry a case; to retry an accused person.

See Aret. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A place or establishment where flax is retted. See Ret. Ure.

g flax for use by soaking, meceration, and kindred processes; -- also called rotting. See Ret. Ure.

To blunt; to turn, as an edge; figuratively, to cause to be obtuse or dull; as, to retund confidence. Ray. Cudworth.

To turn back; to go or come again to the same place or condition. "Return to your father's house." Chaucer. On their embattled ranks the waves return. Milton. If they returned out of bondage, it must be into a state of freedom. Locke. Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. Gen. iii. 19.

Capable of, or admitting of, being returned.

One who returns.

Admitting no return. Chapman.

Having the end rounded and slightly indented; as, a retuse leaf.

Characterized by accretion; made up; as, accrete matter.

the matter added, by an accession of parts externally; an extraneous addition; as, an accretion of earth. A mineral . . . augments not by grown, but by accretion. Owen. To strip off all the subordinate parts of his as a later accretion. Sir G. C. Lewis.

Relating to accretion; increasing, or adding to, by growth. Glanvill.

A furious onset or attack. [Obs.] Spenser.