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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..

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

Rack :: Rack (a.) An instrument or frame used for stretching, extending, retaining, or displaying, something..

Cognizance :: Cognizance (n.) The distinguishing mark worn by an armed knight, usually upon the helmet, and by his retainers and followers: Hence, in general, a badge worn by a retainer or dependent, to indicate the person or party to which he belonged; a token by which a thing may be known..

Retain :: Retain (v. t.) To keep in pay; to employ by a preliminary fee paid; to hire; to engage; as, to retain a counselor..

Abridge :: Abridge (v. t.) To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense; as, to abridge a history or dictionary..

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

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..

Evergreen :: Evergreen (a.) Remaining unwithered through the winter, or retaining unwithered leaves until the leaves of the next year are expanded, as pines cedars, hemlocks, and the like..

Reformado :: Reformado (v. t.) An officer who, in disgrace, is deprived of his command, but retains his rank, and sometimes his pay..

Tenacious :: Tenacious (a.) Apt to retain; retentive; as, a tenacious memory..

Occlude :: Occlude (v. t.) To take in and retain; to absorb; -- said especially with respect to gases; as iron, platinum, and palladium occlude large volumes of hydrogen..

Sacrist :: Sacrist (n.) A sacristan; also, a person retained in a cathedral to copy out music for the choir, and take care of the books..

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..

Retainer :: Retainer (n.) Hence, a servant, not a domestic, but occasionally attending and wearing his master's livery..

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..

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

Ideation :: Ideation (n.) The faculty or capacity of the mind for forming ideas; the exercise of this capacity; the act of the mind by which objects of sense are apprehended and retained as objects of thought.

Costive :: Costive (a.) Retaining fecal matter in the bowels; having too slow a motion of the bowels; constipated.

Scapulary :: Scapulary (n.) A bandage passing over the shoulder to support it, or to retain another bandage in place..

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