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Recant :: Recant (v. t.) To withdraw or repudiate formally and publicly (opinions formerly expressed); to contradict, as a former declaration; to take back openly; to retract; to recall..

Pluroderes :: Pluroderes (n. pl.) A group of fresh-water turtles in which the neck can not be retracted, but is bent to one side, for protection. The matamata is an example..

Rostrifera :: Rostrifera (n. pl.) A division of pectinibranchiate gastropods, having the head prolonged into a snout which is not retractile..

Retract :: Retract (n.) The pricking of a horse's foot in nailing on a shoe.

Irretractile :: Irretractile (a.) Not retractile.

Serpula :: Serpula (n.) Any one of numerous species of tubicolous annelids of the genus Serpula and allied genera of the family Serpulidae. They secrete a calcareous tube, which is usually irregularly contorted, but is sometimes spirally coiled. The worm has a wreath of plumelike and often bright-colored gills around its head, and usually an operculum to close the aperture of its tube when it retracts..

Retraction :: Retraction (n.) The state or condition of a part when drawn back, or towards the center of the body..

Retract :: Retract (v. t.) To take back,, as a grant or favor previously bestowed; to revoke..

Unlook :: Unlook (v. t.) To recall or retract, as a look..

Retract :: Retract (v. i.) To take back what has been said; to withdraw a concession or a declaration.

Retractor :: Retractor (n.) One who, or that which, retracts..

Retract :: Retract (v. t.) To draw back; to draw up or shorten; as, the cat can retract its claws; to retract a muscle..

Retraction :: Retraction (n.) The act of retracting or shortening; as, the retraction of a severed muscle; the retraction of a sinew..

Rhinophore :: Rhinophore (n.) One of the two tentacle-like organs on the back of the head or neck of a nudibranch or tectibranch mollusk. They are usually retractile, and often transversely furrowed or plicate, and are regarded as olfactory organs. Called also dorsal tentacles. See Illust. under Pygobranchia, and Opisthobranchia..

Unpredict :: Unpredict (v. i.) To retract or falsify a previous prediction.

Retractation :: Retractation (n.) The act of retracting what has been said; recantation.

Retractor :: Retractor (n.) An instrument for holding apart the edges of a wound during amputation.

Retraction :: Retraction (n.) The act of withdrawing something advanced, stated, claimed, or done; declaration of change of opinion; recantation..

Guttural :: Guttural (n.) A sound formed in the throat; esp., a sound formed by the aid of the back of the tongue, much retracted, and the soft palate; also, a letter representing such a sound..

Palinode :: Palinode (n.) An ode recanting, or retracting, a former one; also, a repetition of an ode..

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