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

Irretractile :: Irretractile (a.) Not tractile or ductile.

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

Retracted :: Retracted (imp. & p. p.) of Retrac.

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

Rhachiglossa :: Rhachiglossa (n. pl.) A division of marine gastropods having a retractile proboscis and three longitudinal rows of teeth on the radula. It includes many of the large ornamental shells, as the miters, murices, olives, purpuras, volutes, and whelks. See Illust. in Append..

Opelet :: Opelet (n.) A bright-colored European actinian (Anemonia, / Anthea, sulcata); -- so called because it does not retract its tentacles..

Retracting :: Retracting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Retrac.

Retractor :: Retractor (n.) A muscle serving to draw in any organ or part. See Illust. under Phylactolaemata.

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

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

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..

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 act of retracting, or drawing back; the state of being retracted; as, the retraction of a cat's claws..

Paraphimosis :: Paraphimosis (n.) A condition in which the prepuce, after being retracted behind the glans penis, is constricted there, and can not be brought forward into place again..

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.

Withdrawer :: Withdrawer (n.) One who withdraws; one who takes back, or retracts..

Recantation :: Recantation (n.) The act of recanting; a declaration that contradicts a former one; that which is thus asserted in contradiction; retraction.

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

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