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Blanch :: Blanch (a.) To whiten, as the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling water and afterwards into cold, so as to harden the surface and retain the juices..

Lien :: Lien (n.) A legal claim; a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty; a right in one to control or hold and retain the property of another until some claim of the former is paid or satisfied.

Wimple :: Wimple (n.) A covering of silk, linen, or other material, for the neck and chin, formerly worn by women as an outdoor protection, and still retained in the dress of nuns..

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

Suppress :: Suppress (v. t.) To retain without disclosure; to conceal; not to reveal; to prevent publication of; as, to suppress evidence; to suppress a pamphlet; to suppress the truth..

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..

Stank :: Stank (n.) Water retained by an embankment; a pool water.

Retainer :: Retainer (n.) One who, or that which, retains..

Remora :: Remora (n.) An instrument formerly in use, intended to retain parts in their places..

Air Bladder :: Air bladder () An air sac, sometimes double or variously lobed, in the visceral cavity of many fishes. It originates in the same way as the lungs of air-breathing vertebrates, and in the adult may retain a tubular connection with the pharynx or esophagus..

Follower :: Follower (n.) One who follows; a pursuer; an attendant; a disciple; a dependent associate; a retainer.

Hewe :: Hewe (n.) A domestic servant; a retainer.

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..

Dependent :: Dependent (n.) One who depends; one who is sustained by another, or who relies on another for support of favor; a hanger-on; a retainer; as, a numerous train of dependents..

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

Irretention :: Irretention (n.) Want of retaining power; forgetfulness.

Retention :: Retention (n.) The power of retaining; retentiveness.

Habit :: Habit (n.) The usual condition or state of a person or thing, either natural or acquired, regarded as something had, possessed, and firmly retained; as, a religious habit; his habit is morose; elms have a spreading habit; esp., physical temperament or constitution; as, a full habit of body..

Jackman :: "Jackman (n.) One wearing a jack; a horse soldier; a retainer. See 3d Jack, n..

Retain :: Retain (v. t.) To restrain; to prevent.

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