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Retreatful :: Retreatful (a.) Furnishing or serving as a retreat.

Sanitarium :: Sanitarium (n.) A health station or retreat; a sanatorium.

Creephole :: Creephole (n.) A hole or retreat into which an animal may creep, to escape notice or danger..

Redemptorist :: Redemptorist (n.) One of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, founded in Naples in 1732 by St. Alphonsus Maria de Liquori. It was introduced onto the United States in 1832 at Detroit. The Fathers of the Congregation devote themselves to preaching to the neglected, esp. in missions and retreats, and are forbidden by their rule to engage in the instruction of youth..

Bower :: Bower (n.) A rustic cottage or abode; poetically, an attractive abode or retreat..

Nest :: Nest (n.) A snug, comfortable, or cozy residence or situation; a retreat, or place of habitual resort; hence, those who occupy a nest, frequent a haunt, or are associated in the same pursuit; as, a nest of traitors; a nest of bugs..

Retreated :: Retreated (imp. & p. p.) of Retrea.

Retirement :: Retirement (n.) A place of seclusion or privacy; a place to which one withdraws or retreats; a private abode.

Tattoo :: Tattoo (n.) A beat of drum, or sound of a trumpet or bugle, at night, giving notice to soldiers to retreat, or to repair to their quarters in garrison, or to their tents in camp..

Withdraw :: Withdraw (v. i.) To retire; to retreat; to quit a company or place; to go away; as, he withdrew from the company..

Cave :: Cave (v. i.) To fall in or down; as, the sand bank caved. Hence (Slang), to retreat from a position; to give way; to yield in a disputed matter..

Retire :: Retire (v. i.) To go back or return; to draw back or away; to keep aloof; to withdraw or retreat, as from observation; to go into privacy; as, to retire to his home; to retire from the world, or from notice..

Draw :: Draw (v. i.) To move; to come or go; literally, to draw one's self; -- with prepositions and adverbs; as, to draw away, to move off, esp. in racing, to get in front; to obtain the lead or increase it; to draw back, to retreat; to draw level, to move up even (with another); to come up to or overtake another; to draw off, to retire or retreat; to draw on, to advance; to draw up, to form in array; to draw near, nigh, or towards, to approach; to draw together, to come together, to collect..

Retreat :: Retreat (n.) The place to which anyone retires; a place or privacy or safety; a refuge; an asylum.

Orthognathous :: Orthognathous (a.) Having the front of the head, or the skull, nearly perpendicular, not retreating backwards above the jaws; -- opposed to prognathous. See Gnathic index, under Gnathic..

Fastness :: Fastness (a.) A fast place; a stronghold; a fortress or fort; a secure retreat; a castle; as, the enemy retired to their fastnesses in the mountains..

Retreat :: Retreat (n.) The retiring of an army or body of men from the face of an enemy, or from any ground occupied to a greater distance from the enemy, or from an advanced position..

Surround :: Surround (v. t.) To inclose, as a body of troops, between hostile forces, so as to cut off means of communication or retreat; to invest, as a city..

Retire :: Retire (v. i.) To retreat from action or danger; to withdraw for safety or pleasure; as, to retire from battle..

Moulding :: Moulding (n.) A plane, or curved, narrow surface, either sunk or projecting, used for decoration by means of the lights and shades upon its surface. Moldings vary greatly in pattern, and are generally used in groups, the different members of each group projecting or retreating, one beyond another. See Cable, n., 3, and Crenelated molding, under Crenelate, v. t..

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