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Ret [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. See Aret.

2. To prepare for use, as flax, by separating the fibers from the woody part by process of soaking, macerating, and other treatment.

Retable [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

Retail [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. RETA'IL ,

2. RETAIL, verb transitive

3. To sell in small quantities or parcels, from the sense of cutting or dividing; opposed to selling by wholesale; as, to retail cloth or groceries.

4. To sell at second hand.

5. To tell in broken parts; to tell to many; as, to retail slander or idle reports.

Retail [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The sale of commodities in small quantities or parcels, or at second hand.

Retail [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

Retail [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To sell in small quantities, as by the single yard, pound, gallon, etc.; to sell directly to the consumer; as, to retail cloth or groceries.

2. To sell at second hand.

3. To distribute in small portions or at second hand; to tell again or to many (what has been told or done); to report; as, to retail slander.

Retail [Verb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The sale of commodities in small quantities or parcels; -- opposed to wholesale; sometimes, the sale of commodities at second hand.

Retailed [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Sold in small quantities.

Retailed [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Retailer [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. RETA'ILER ,

2. RE'TAILER, noun [This word, like the noun retail, is often, perhaps generally accented on the first syllable in America.]

3. One who sells goods by small quantities or parcels.

Retailer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

Retailing [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Selling in small quantities.

Retailing [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Retailment [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The act of retailing.

Retain [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To belong to; to depend on; as coldness mixed with a somewhat languid relish retaining to bitterness.

2. [Not in use. We now use pertain.]

3. To keep; to continue. [Not in use.]

Retain [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To hold or keep in possession; not to lose or part with or dismiss. The memory retains ideas which facts or arguments have suggested to the mind.

2. They did not like to retain God in their knowledge. Romans 1:28 .

3. To keep, as an associate; to keep from departure.

4. Whom I would have retained with me. Philemon 1:13 .

5. To keep back; to hold.

6. An executor may retain a debt due to him from the testator.

7. To hold from escape. Some substances retain heat much longer than others. Metals readily receive and transmit heat, but do not long retain it. Seek cloths that retain their color.

8. To keep in pay; to hire.

9. A Benedictine convent has now retained the most learned father of their order to write in its defense.

10. To engage; to employ by a fee paid; as, to retain a counselor.

Retain [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To belong; to pertain.

2. To keep; to continue; to remain.

Retain [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To continue to hold; to keep in possession; not to lose, part with, or dismiss; to retrain from departure, escape, or the like.

2. To keep in pay; to employ by a preliminary fee paid; to hire; to engage; as, to retain a counselor.

3. To restrain; to prevent.

Retainable [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Capable of being retained.

Retainal [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The act of retaining; retention.

Retained [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Held; kept in possession; kept as an associate; kept in pay; kept from escape.

Retained [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Retainer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. One who retains; as an executor, who retains a debt due from the testator.

2. One who is kept in service; an attendant; as the retainers of the ancient princes and nobility.

3. An adherent; a dependant; a hanger on.

4. A servant, not a domestic, but occasionally attending and wearing his master's livery.

5. Among lawyers, a fee paid to engage a lawyer or counselor to maintain a cause.

6. The act of keeping dependents, or being in dependence.

Retainer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who, or that which, retains.

2. One who is retained or kept in service; an attendant; an adherent; a hanger-on.

3. Hence, a servant, not a domestic, but occasionally attending and wearing his master's livery.

4. The act of a client by which he engages a lawyer or counselor to manage his cause.

5. The act of withholding what one has in his hands by virtue of some right.

6. A fee paid to engage a lawyer or counselor to maintain a cause, or to prevent his being employed by the opposing party in the case; -- called also retaining fee.

7. The act of keeping dependents, or the state of being in dependence.

Retaining [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Keeping in possession; keeping as an associate; keeping from escape; hiring; engaging by a fee.

Retaining [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Retainment [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The act of retaining; retention.

Retake [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. preterit tense retook; participle passive retaken. [re and take.]

2. To take again.

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

Retake [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To take or receive again.

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

Retaker [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

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

Retaker [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

Retaking [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A taking again; recapture.

Retaking [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Taking again; taking from a captor.

Retaliate [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To return like for like; as, to retaliate upon an enemy.

Retaliate [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To return like for like; to repay or requite by an act of the same kind as has been received. It is now seldom used except in a bad sense, that is, to return evil for evil; as, to retaliate injuries. In war, enemies often retaliate the death or inhuman treatment of prisoners, the burning of towns or the plunder of goods.

2. It is unlucky to be obliged to retaliate the injuries of authors, whose works are so soon forgotten that we are in danger of appearing the first aggressors.

Retaliate [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To return like for like; specifically, to return evil for evil; as, to retaliate upon an enemy.

Retaliate [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.]

Retaliated [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Returned, as like for like.

Retaliated [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Retaliating [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Returning, like for like.

Retaliating [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Genesis 3:19

In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground— because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”

Genesis 8:3

And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.

The waters receded steadily from the earth, and after 150 days the waters had gone down.

Genesis 8:9

But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.

But the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him in the ark, because the waters were still covering the surface of all the earth. So he reached out his hand and brought her back inside the ark.

Genesis 8:11

And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.

And behold, the dove returned to him in the evening with a freshly plucked olive leaf in her beak. So Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.

Genesis 8:12

And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.

And Noah waited seven more days and sent out the dove again, but this time she did not return to him.

Genesis 14:7

And they returned, and came to En-mishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites that dwelt in Hazezon-tamar.

Then they turned back to invade En-mishpat (that is, Kadesh), and they conquered the whole territory of the Amalekites, as well as the Amorites who lived in Hazazon-tamar.

Genesis 14:16

And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.

He retrieved all the goods, as well as his relative Lot and his possessions, together with the women and the rest of the people.

Genesis 14:17

And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings that were with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which is the king’s dale.

After Abram returned from defeating Chedorlaomer and the kings allied with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet him in the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the King’s Valley).

Genesis 15:16

But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.

In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”

Genesis 16:9

And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.

So the angel of the LORD told her, “Return to your mistress and submit to her authority.”

Genesis 18:10

And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.

Then the LORD said, “I will surely return to you at this time next year, and your wife Sarah will have a son!” Now Sarah was behind him, listening at the entrance to the tent.

Genesis 18:14

Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.

Is anything too difficult for the LORD? At the appointed time I will return to you—in about a year—and Sarah will have a son.”

Genesis 18:33

And the LORD went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place.

When the LORD had finished speaking with Abraham, He departed, and Abraham returned home.

Genesis 19:27

And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD:

Early the next morning, Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the LORD.

Genesis 20:7

Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine.

Now return the man’s wife, for he is a prophet; he will pray for you and you will live. But if you do not restore her, be aware that you will surely die—you and all who belong to you.”

Genesis 21:32

Thus they made a covenant at Beer-sheba: then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.

After they had made the covenant at Beersheba, Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army got up and returned to the land of the Philistines.

Genesis 22:5

And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you,

“Stay here with the donkey,” Abraham told his servants. “The boy and I will go over there to worship, and then we will return to you.”

Genesis 22:19

So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beer-sheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beer-sheba.

Abraham went back to his servants, and they got up and set out together for Beersheba. And Abraham settled in Beersheba.

Genesis 24:62

And Isaac came from the way of the well Lahai-roi; for he dwelt in the south country.

Now Isaac had just returned from Beer-lahai-roi, for he was living in the Negev.

Genesis 27:30

And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

As soon as Isaac had finished blessing him and Jacob had left his father’s presence, his brother Esau returned from the hunt.