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See Aret. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A shelf behind the altar, for display of lights, vases of wlowers, etc.

Done at retail; engaged in retailing commodities; as a retail trade; a retail grocer.

One who retails anything; as, a retailer of merchandise; a retailer of gossip.

The act of retailing.

To continue to hold; to keep in possession; not to lose, part with, or dismiss; to retrain from departure, escape, or the like. "Thy shape invisibleretain." Shak. Be obedient, and retain Unalterably firm his love entire. Milton. An executor may retain a debt due to him from the testator. Blackstone.…

Capable of being retained.

The act of retaining; retention.

One who, or that which, retains.

The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.

To take from a captor; to recapture; as, to retake a ship or prisoners.

One who takes again what has been taken; a recaptor. Kent.

To return the like for; to repay or requite by an act of the same kind; to return evil for (evil). [Now seldom used except in a bad sense.] One ambassador sent word to the duke's son that his visit should be retaliated. Sir T. Herbert. It is unlucky to be obliged to retaliate the injuries of authors, whose works are so…

The act of retaliating, or of returning like for like; retribution; now, specifically, the return of evil for evil; e.g., an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. God . . . takes what is done to others as done to himself, and by promise obloges himself to full retaliation. Calamy.

Same as Retaliatory.

Tending to, or involving, retaliation; retaliative; as retaliatory measures.

; to prevent from progress; to render more slow in progress; to impede; to hinder; as, to retard the march of an army; to retard the motion of a ship; -- opposed to Ant: accelerate.

The act of retarding; hindrance; the act of delaying; as, the retardation of the motion of a ship; -- opposed to Ant: acceleration. The retardations of our fluent motion. De Quinsey.

Tending, or serving, to retard.

One who, or that which, retards.