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Palinodial :: Palinodial (a.) Of or pertaining to a palinode, or retraction..

Linguatulina :: Linguatulina (n. pl.) An order of wormlike, degraded, parasitic arachnids. They have two pairs of retractile hooks, near the mouth. Called also Pentastomida..

Retractive :: Retractive (a.) Serving to retract; of the nature of a retraction.

Retractor :: Retractor (n.) A bandage to protect the soft parts from injury by the saw during amputation.

Retractor :: Retractor (n.) In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel..

Withdrawal :: Withdrawal (n.) The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction.

Retractile :: Retractile (a.) Capable of retraction; capable of being drawn back or up; as, the claws of a cat are retractile..

Saccate :: Saccate (a.) Of or pertaining to the Saccata, a suborder of ctenophores having two pouches into which the long tentacles can be retracted..

Swallow :: Swallow (v. t.) To retract; to recant; as, to swallow one's opinions..

Retractate :: Retractate (v. t.) To retract; to recant.

Retractable :: Retractable (a.) Capable of being retracted; retractile.

Proboscidifera :: Proboscidifera (n. pl.) An extensive division of pectinibranchiate gastropods, including those that have a long retractile proboscis, with the mouth at the end, as the cones, whelks, tritons, and cowries. See Illust. of Gastropoda, and of Winkle..

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

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..

Unspeak :: Unspeak (v. t.) To retract, as what has been spoken; to recant; to unsay..

Retinaculum :: Retinaculum (n.) One of the retractor muscles of the proboscis of certain worms.

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

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

Retraction :: Retraction (n.) The act of retracting, or drawing back; the state of being retracted; as, the retraction of a cat's claws..

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

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