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Hopperings :: Hopperings (n.) Gravel retaining in the hopper of a cradle.

Orthotone :: Orthotone (a.) Retaining the accent; not enclitic; -- said of certain indefinite pronouns and adverbs when used interrogatively, which, when not so used, are ordinarilly enclitic..

Retention :: Retention (n.) The act of retaining, or the state of being ratined..

Hygrometrical :: Hygrometrical (a.) Readily absorbing and retaining moisture; as, hygrometric substances, like potash..

Retaining :: Retaining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Retai.

Retention :: Retention (n.) The right of withholding a debt, or of retaining property until a debt due to the person claiming the right be duly paid; a lien..

Retainment :: Retainment (n.) The act of retaining; retention.

Holding :: Holding (n.) The act or state of sustaining, grasping, or retaining..

Keep :: Keep (n.) A cap for retaining anything, as a journal box, in place..

Leachy :: Leachy (a.) Permitting liquids to pass by percolation; not capable of retaining water; porous; pervious; -- said of gravelly or sandy soils, and the like..

Long-breathed :: Long-breathed (a.) Having the power of retaining the breath for a long time; long-winded.

Revetment :: Revetment (v. t.) A facing of wood, stone, or any other material, to sustain an embankment when it receives a slope steeper than the natural slope; also, a retaining wall..

Countermarch :: Countermarch (n.) An evolution by which a body of troops change front or reverse the direction of march while retaining the same men in the front rank; also, a movement by which the rear rank becomes the front one, either with or without changing the right to the left..

Retentivity :: Retentivity (n.) The power of retaining; retentive force; as, the retentivity of a magnet..

Cool :: Cool (superl.) Not retaining heat; light; as, a cool dress..

Retainal :: Retainal (n.) The act of retaining; retention.

Fomes :: Fomes (n.) Any substance supposed to be capable of absorbing, retaining, and transporting contagious or infectious germs; as, woolen clothes are said to be active fomites..

Pallial :: Pallial (a.) Of or pretaining to a mantle, especially to the mantle of mollusks; produced by the mantle; as, the pallial line, or impression, which marks the attachment of the mantle on the inner surface of a bivalve shell. See Illust. of Bivalve..

Wad :: Wad (n.) Specifically: A little mass of some soft or flexible material, such as hay, straw, tow, paper, or old rope yarn, used for retaining a charge of powder in a gun, or for keeping the powder and shot close; also, to diminish or avoid the effects of windage. Also, by extension, a dusk of felt, pasteboard, etc., serving a similar purpose..

Lignite :: Lignite (n.) Mineral coal retaining the texture of the wood from which it was formed, and burning with an empyreumatic odor. It is of more recent origin than the anthracite and bituminous coal of the proper coal series. Called also brown coal, wood coal..

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