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

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

Retractible :: Retractible (a.) Retractable.

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

Unspeak :: Unspeak (v. t.) To retract, as what has been spoken; to recant; to unsay..

Revel :: Revel (v. t.) To draw back; to retract.

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

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

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

Proboscidifera :: Proboscidifera (n. pl.) An extensive division of pectinibranchiate gastropods, including those that have a long retractile proboscis, with the mouth at the end, as the cones, whelks, tritons, and cowries. See Illust. of Gastropoda, and of Winkle..

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.

Retract :: Retract (v. t.) To take back,, as a grant or favor previously bestowed; to revoke..

Guttural :: Guttural (n.) A sound formed in the throat; esp., a sound formed by the aid of the back of the tongue, much retracted, and the soft palate; also, a letter representing such a sound..

Retracting :: Retracting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Retrac.

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

Retract :: Retract (v. t.) To withdraw; to recall; to disavow; to recant; to take back; as, to retract an accusation or an assertion..

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

Irretractile :: Irretractile (a.) Not 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..

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