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 Retomber. To fall backe or againe; to fall into a relapse.

Retondir de toutes parts. To ring, or to resound all ouer.

Retondre. To shaue, or sheere againe.

Retondu: m. uë: f. New shauen, clipped, shorne.

Retorceure: f. A twining, wreathing, twisting; a wrying, a wresting backe; a retorting.

Retordement: m. as Retorceure. Retordeur: m. A twister, twiner; a wrester, a retorter, a wrier, backe.

Retordre. To twine, wreath, twist; retort; wrie, wrest backe.

Retordure: f. as Retorceure. Retorquable: com. Retortable.

Retorqué: m. ée: f. Retorted, wrested backe, writhen backward.

Retorquer. To retort, writh backward, wrest backe, to returne violently, to throw or shoot againe.

Retors: m. orse: f. as Retort. Retort: m. orte: f. Twisted, twined, wreathed; wrested, or wrung, backe; retorted, violently returned.

Retorte: f. A retort, or crooked bodie; a Lymbecke of glasse (varnished or leaded within) for th' extracting of oyle out of wood, and other hard, and drie substances.

Retouble: m. A field or ground sowne euerie yeare.

Retouchement: m. A second touch, a touching againe.

Retoucher. To touch againe.

Retouiller. To mingle, meddle, ruffle, puzzle, or confound againe.

Retour: m. A returne, returning, comming backe.  Retour de Matines. A displeasure done in secret & on a sudden; or the fittist time to surprise a priuate foe; Looke Matines. Fustaye qui est sur son retour. That is some 200 yeres old.  Avoir retour de. To play quit, crie quittance, be euen with.  Tout le retour qu'il en peut avoir. All the helpe, remedie, or amends which he can get for, or from.  Baillez moy mon retour. Said by such as, hauing paid more then was due, demaund the rest againe; & hence;  Il me faut deux deniers de retour. I must haue two pence backe againe.  Il luy doit cela de retour. He is beholden to him for that.  À beau jeu beau retour: Pro. Round worke, square play, as good returned as came, one good (or bad) turne for another.

Retourné: m. ée: f. Returned, come or gone, backe; also, restored.

Retourner. To returne, to come or goe backe; also, to restore; also, to giue bootie for a thing exchanged. Retourner au champ du bois. Looke Bois. Retourner ses chasses. A Hawke (that hath flowne out at her full pitch) to come in againe. Retourner à ses moutons. To resume the subiect from which he hath digressed, to fall in hand with it againe. Retourner sa robbe. To turne his gowne, or coat; to Pernize, or Apostatize it; to play the turne-coat. Retourner sur soy. Looke Soy. Mais n'y retournez plus. But doe so no more. Il n'est chance qui ne retourne: Prov. All things that haue beene will be; no chance but comes againe. Il ne vas pas du tout à honte qui de demie voye retourne: Prov. Looke Honte. Qui mieux ne peut à sa vieille retourne: Prov. He that can get no yong, falls backe to his old, stuffe.

Retracer. To retrace, or trace backe; to turne often, and the selfesame way, vpon.  Retracer son los. Often to repeat his praises.

Retractation: f. A retractation; a recanting, reuoking.

Retracter. To recant, reuoke, or call backe; also, as Retraicter. Retraction: f. as Retractation; also, a retraction; withdrawing; redeeming; also, the crampe.

se Retrahir. To retire, or withdraw, himselfe.

Retraict: m. An Aiax, Priuie, house of Office; also, a recouerie, redeeming, or drawing backe of things aliened, or ingaged.  Retraict de barre, ou de Cour (in the customes of Britanie) Quand le Iuge du superieur ou de l'inferieur veut cognoistre du delict, ou different: ¶Ragueau. Retraict censuel, & feodal. The power a Lord Censuel, and Feodal haue, to redeeme, euict, or draw backe from a Purchaser th' estates gotten by him of their vassalls.  Retraict conventionnel. A couenant, or prouiso in a bargaine, giuing the seller libertie to redeeme the thing he passed (therein resembling our Morgage.)  Retraict du gobelet. The Butterie.  Retraict Lignagier. A power, giuen by custome vnto the neerest kinsman of one that sells land, to rebuy it within a certaine time (commonly a yeare and a day) for as much as was payed for it; but this must be a kinsman of the stocke, or side, by which the land came to the seller.  En retraict. Priuately, retiredly, alone.

Retraict: m. cte: f. Retired, withdrawne; drawne backe; straitned, growne narrower, shrunke vp.

Retraicte: f. A retrait, retiring, withdrawing; a drawing backe, a returning; also, a place of refuge, of succour, of safegard; also, a straitning, narrowing, or shrinking vp.  Droict de retraicte. The power of redeeming, or of buying, land morgaged, ingaged, or sold.

Retraicter. To reuise, peruse, ouerlooke, ouersee, runne ouer; also, to handle, repeat, or intreat of, againe.

Retrainer. To drag, or draw, backe.

Retaintif: m. Looke Restrainctif. Retraire. To withdraw; draw backe; plucke out or vnto; also, to shrinke, narrow, straiten, draw in; also, to vpbraid, or twit in the teeth.  Retraire en servage. To challenge, or auerre, one to be his slaue.

Retrait: m. aitte: f. as Retraict. Retraitte: f. as Retraicte. Retranchement: m. An abridgement; abatement; cutting off part of.

Retrancher. as Retrencher. Retransitif: m. iue: f. Retransitiue, reflectiue vpon it selfe.

Retrasser. as Retraicter; also, to amend, correct, reforme, repaire.

Retrayable: com. Which may be fetched, or drawne, backe.

Retrayeur: m. A redeemer, a fetcher or drawer back of.

Retrecir. To straiten, contract, narrow, bind or make strait.

Retrecissement: m. A straitning, narrowing, contracting, shortening.