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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..

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

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

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

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

Irretractile :: Irretractile (a.) Not tractile or ductile.

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

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

Swallow :: Swallow (v. t.) To retract; to recant; as, to swallow one's opinions..

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

Irretractile :: Irretractile (a.) Not retractile.

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

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

Rhachiglossa :: Rhachiglossa (n. pl.) A division of marine gastropods having a retractile proboscis and three longitudinal rows of teeth on the radula. It includes many of the large ornamental shells, as the miters, murices, olives, purpuras, volutes, and whelks. See Illust. in Append..

Retraction :: Retraction (n.) The act of withdrawing something advanced, stated, claimed, or done; declaration of change of opinion; recantation..

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

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

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..

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..

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