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 Retargé: m. ée: f. as Retardé. Retargement, & Retarger. as Retardement, & Retarder. Retaster. To tast againe.

Retatiné: m. ée: f. Withered, shrunke in, decayed, old.

Retaxer. To tax him that hath taxed vs, to returne one taxation for another.

Reteinct: m. cte: f. Died the second time, or died againe.

Reteindre. as Retaindre. Reteinture: f. A re-dying, a second or new dying, a dying ouer againe.

Retenail: m. An hold, or thing to hold by.

Retendre. To stretch out againe.

Reteneur: m. A retainer, detainer, withholder.

Retenir. To retaine, withhold, stay, keep back; restraine, containe, bridle, hold in; also, to preserue, or maintaine.  Retenir place pour voir. To keepe, also, to take vp, a place to see in.  Retenir par puissance de fief. A Lord, by the priuiledge of his Seigniorie, to redeeme, or euict, from a purchaser the tenement bought of his vassall.  Ie retiens apres. I craue the next: ¶Rab. Retenter. To reattempt, reassay, put vnto hazard againe.

Retention: f. A retention, detaining, withholding; a keeping in the hands.

Retentir. To resound, to ring againe, to yeeld an eccho, or great sound.  Lieu ou la voix ne retentit pas. A dull, dampe, or deafe, place.

Retentissement: m. A resounding, or a ringing againe, a rebounding of the voyce, an eccho-like returning of sound for sound.  Retentissement de harnois. The clashing of, or the sound yeelded by the slashing on, armour.

Retentive: f. la ret. The retaining force of nature whereby food is held in the stomacke vntill it bee fully concocted.  Il n'a nulle retentive en la bouche. He hath no hold of his tongue, he cannot forbeare speaking.

Retentras. Il fait du ret. He is deafe of that eare, or seemes to listen to somewhat else; or making as if hee had more to listen to, heedes not greatly what one sayes vnto him.

Retentum. vn ret. in mente Curiæ. Is when a Court pronounces not a full Arrest, but reserues somewhat to be afterwards ordered.

Retenu: m. uë: f. Retained, detained, withheld, stayed backe; restrained, kept in.  Homme retenu. A graue, sober, discreet, aduised, well stayed fellow; one whose wild oats are sowne.

Retenuë: f. as Retention; also, a retinew; also, discretion, staiednesse, aduisednesse; also, a grant in reuersion of an Office in the Kings house. Droict de retenuë. A priuiledge of some Landlords, to redeeme within fortie dayes the land sold by their tenants, paying to the purchaser, besides his reasonable costs and charges, as much as he gaue for it. Linagier sur Linagier n'a point de retenuë. One kinsman cannot recouer the land bought by another: (So it seemes that neere kinsmen haue, in some cases, the benefit of Droict de retenuë, as well as Landlords in others.) Plaider par retenuë. (C'est quand les parties ne plaident à vne fois, & à toutes fins;) To proceed but slackly, by pauses, or by halues.

Retenuëment. Sparingly, restrainedly; stayedly, aduisedly.

Reths. Looke Rets. Retiaire. Casting a net in fight, therewith to take an enemie.

Reticence: f. Silence, concealement, counsell-keeping.

Retien: m. A retention; restraint, bridle, holding backe.

Retier: m. A Net-maker.

Retiercement. By way, or after the rate, of a third out of a third.

Retiers: m. A third part of a third, as of nine, three; of three, one.

Retif. Looke Restif. Retiforme: com. Fashioned like a net.

Retinacle: m. A stay, or hold; any thing whereby another is retained or held backe.

Retine: f. The fift thinne membrane of the eye; soft, white, and a nourisher of the glassie humor.

Retirade: f. The retrait, or the retiring of an Armie; also, a place of retrait, or of retirall, for defendants behind a breach.

Retiré: m. ée: f. Retired, withdrawne, put or got back, pulld or drawne in; also, plucked or taken from; also, harboured, receiued, intertained; also, shot backe or againe.

Retirée: f. A retirall, withdrawing, recoyle.

Retirement: m. A retiring, withdrawing, recoyling, fetching or putting backe, pulling or gathering in; also, a drawing or comming neere; also, a pulling or plucking away from; also, a priuate harbouring, or receiuing (as of stealers, or of stollen things;) also, a shooting backe, or againe.  Retirement des nerfs. The shortening, or shrinking of the sinewes.

Retirer. To retire, withdraw; fetch or put backe, pull in, gather vp, recouer, bring or draw backe vnto; also, to shorten, contract, shrinke; also, to take, or plucke from; also, to receiue, harbour, intertaine; also, to shoot backe, or againe.  Se retirer. To recoyle, retire, giue backe; to shrinke; to withdraw himselfe.  Retirer à. To resemble, be like, or come neere vnto, in face, or fashion.  Retirer ce qu'on donne. To giue a thing and take a thing; to weare the diuells gold-ring (say we in a triuiall prouerbe.)  Retirer son espingle du jeu. To desist from, to quit, leaue off, giue ouer; to draw his necke out of the coller (say we.)  Qu'on ne peut retirer. An irreuocable, or vnrecouerable matter.  Qui ne retire de sa vache que la queuë ne perd pas tout: Prov. He that can recouer the least part of his owne, yet looses not all, or is not to neglect it; for better is something, how little soeuer, then nothing.

Retisser. To weaue againe.

Retistre. The same.

Retoiser. To fathome ouer againe.

Retombe: f. A false cup, wherein drinke falling into an odde corner, seemes to be drunke vp; also, a flat vault, or a roome thats made vault-wise.

Retombée: f. A falling backe; also, a crooking, as of a sickle turned backwards. Retombée de humeurs. A running of humors; or a disease wherin the humors that grieued one place leaue it, and get into another.