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Drag :: Drag (v. t.) Also, a skid or shoe, for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel..

Lag :: Lag (n.) The amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a steam engine, in opening or closing..

Trash :: Trash (v. t.) To hold back by a trash or leash, as a dog in pursuing game; hence, to retard, encumber, or restrain; to clog; to hinder vexatiously..

Retarded :: Retarded (imp. & p. p.) of Retar.

Retardment :: Retardment (n.) The act of retarding; retardation.

Encumber :: Encumber (v. t.) To impede the motion or action of, as with a burden; to retard with something superfluous; to weigh down; to obstruct or embarrass; as, his movements were encumbered by his mantle; his mind is encumbered with useless learning..

Retardative :: Retardative (a.) Tending, or serving, to retard..

Suspensive :: Suspension (n.) The prolongation of one or more tones of a chord into the chord which follows, thus producing a momentary discord, suspending the concord which the ear expects. Cf. Retardation..

Retardation :: Retardation (n.) The act of retarding; hindrance; the act of delaying; as, the retardation of the motion of a ship; -- opposed to acceleration..

Drag :: Drag (v. t.) Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; esp., a canvas bag with a hooped mouth, so used. See Drag sail (below)..

Slow :: Slow (v. t.) To render slow; to slacken the speed of; to retard; to delay; as, to slow a steamer..

Brake :: Brake (v. t.) A piece of mechanism for retarding or stopping motion by friction, as of a carriage or railway car, by the pressure of rubbers against the wheels, or of clogs or ratchets against the track or roadway, or of a pivoted lever against a wheel or drum in a machine..

Ritardando :: Ritardando (a.) Retarding; -- a direction for slower time; rallentado.

Shoe :: Shoe (n.) The part of a railroad car brake which presses upon the wheel to retard its motion.

Belate :: Belate (v. t.) To retard or make too late.

Delay :: Delay (n.) To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time; to retard the motion, or time of arrival, of; as, the mail is delayed by a heavy fall of snow..

Drag :: Drag (v. t.) Hence, anything that retards; a clog; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment..

Hysteresis :: Hysteresis (n.) A lagging or retardation of the effect, when the forces acting upon a body are changed, as if from velocity or internal friction; a temporary resistance to change from a condition previously induced, observed in magnetism, thermoelectricity, etc., on reversal of polarity..

Deaden :: Deaden (a.) To lessen the velocity or momentum of; to retard; as, to deaden a ship's headway..

Retardation :: Retardation (n.) The keeping back of an approaching consonant chord by prolonging one or more tones of a previous chord into the intermediate chord which follows; -- differing from suspension by resolving upwards instead of downwards.

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