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See Aret. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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

A feathery crown of seed; egret; as, the aigrette or down of the dandelion or the thistle.

An amoret. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

ls and inclosed in a small glass or silver bulb. In a later variety, called the liquid barretter, wire is replace by a column of liquid in a very fine capillary tube.

Containing two atoms or equivalents of carbon in the molecule. [Obs. or R.]

An apparatus for delivering measured quantities of liquid or for measuring the quantity of liquid or gas received or discharged. It consists essentially of a graduated glass tube, usually furnished with a small aperture and stopcock.

A kind of dress goods, made with a soft and glossy surface like cashmere.

A machine for raising guns or mortar into their carriages.

A little cigar; a little fine tobacco rolled in paper for smoking.

A small collar; specif., a woman's collar of lace, fur, or other fancy material.

A scoop or ring with either a blunt or a cutting edge, for removing substances from the walls of a cavity, as from the eye, ear, or womb.

Same as Egret, n.,

Rubbed or worn away; chafed.

Rubbed; marked; as, pock-fretten, marked with the smallpox. [Obs.] Wright.

One who, or that which, frets.

Interlaced; linked together; -- said of charges or bearings. See Fretted.

An imitation of leather, made of paper and cloth.

herself to idleness, show, and pleasure; -- so called from the church of Notre Dame de Lorette, in Paris, near which many of them resided.

See Pockmarked.