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Brettice :: Brettice (n.) The wooden boarding used in supporting the roofs and walls of coal mines. See Brattice.

Brettices :: Brettices (pl. ) of Brettic.

Carburetting :: Carburetting () of Carbure.

Dewretting :: Dewretting (n.) Dewrotting; the process of decomposing the gummy matter of flax and hemp and setting the fibrous part, by exposure on a sward to dew, rain, and sunshine..

Fretting :: Fretting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fre.

Libretti :: Libretti (pl. ) of Librett.

Librettist :: Librettist (n.) One who makes a libretto.

Lorettine :: Lorettine (n.) One of a order of nuns founded in 1812 at Loretto, in Kentucky. The members of the order (called also Sisters of Loretto, or Friends of Mary at the Foot of the Cross) devote themselves to the cause of education and the care of destitute orphans, their labors being chiefly confined to the Western United States..

Prettily :: Prettily (adv.) In a pretty manner.

Prettiness :: Prettiness (n.) The quality or state of being pretty; -- used sometimes in a disparaging sense.

Regretting :: Regretting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Regre.

Retting :: Retting (n.) The act or process of preparing flax for use by soaking, maceration, and kindred processes; -- also called rotting. See Ret..

Retting :: Retting (n.) A place where flax is retted; a rettery.

Water-retting :: Water-retting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Water-re.