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Withdrawal :: Withdrawal (n.) The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction.

Retractable :: Retractable (a.) Capable of being retracted; retractile.

Protractor :: Protractor (n.) A muscle which extends an organ or part; -- opposed to retractor.

Protract :: Protract (v. t.) To extend; to protrude; as, the cat can protract its claws; -- opposed to retract..

Retractive :: Retractive (a.) Serving to retract; of the nature of a retraction.

Palinode :: Palinode (n.) An ode recanting, or retracting, a former one; also, a repetition of an ode..

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

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..

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

Retract :: Retract (n.) The pricking of a horse's foot in nailing on a shoe.

Retract :: Retract (v. i.) To draw back; to draw up; as, muscles retract after amputation..

Retractor :: Retractor (n.) One who, or that which, retracts..

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

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

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..

Retraction :: Retraction (n.) The act of retracting, or drawing back; the state of being retracted; as, the retraction of a cat's claws..

Unpredict :: Unpredict (v. i.) To retract or falsify a previous prediction.

Rhinophore :: Rhinophore (n.) One of the two tentacle-like organs on the back of the head or neck of a nudibranch or tectibranch mollusk. They are usually retractile, and often transversely furrowed or plicate, and are regarded as olfactory organs. Called also dorsal tentacles. See Illust. under Pygobranchia, and Opisthobranchia..

Retractor :: Retractor (n.) A bandage to protect the soft parts from injury by the saw during amputation.

Unnotify :: Unnotify (v. t.) To retract or withdraw a notice of.

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