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

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

Retraction :: Retraction (n.) The state or condition of a part when drawn back, or towards the center of the body..

Irretractile :: Irretractile (a.) Not retractile.

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

Retraction :: Retraction (n.) The act of retracting or shortening; as, the retraction of a severed muscle; the retraction of a sinew..

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..

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..

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

Linguatulina :: Linguatulina (n. pl.) An order of wormlike, degraded, parasitic arachnids. They have two pairs of retractile hooks, near the mouth. Called also Pentastomida..

Serpula :: Serpula (n.) Any one of numerous species of tubicolous annelids of the genus Serpula and allied genera of the family Serpulidae. They secrete a calcareous tube, which is usually irregularly contorted, but is sometimes spirally coiled. The worm has a wreath of plumelike and often bright-colored gills around its head, and usually an operculum to close the aperture of its tube when it retracts..

Retractor :: Retractor (n.) In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel..

Palinode :: Palinode (n.) A retraction; esp., a formal retraction..

Retractate :: Retractate (v. t.) To retract; to recant.

Unlook :: Unlook (v. t.) To recall or retract, as a look..

Pluroderes :: Pluroderes (n. pl.) A group of fresh-water turtles in which the neck can not be retracted, but is bent to one side, for protection. The matamata is an example..

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

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

Forelock :: Forelock (n.) A cotter or split pin, as in a slot in a bolt, to prevent retraction; a linchpin; a pin fastening the cap-square of a gun..

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

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