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

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

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..

Irretractile :: Irretractile (a.) Not retractile.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

Rostrifera :: Rostrifera (n. pl.) A division of pectinibranchiate gastropods, having the head prolonged into a snout which is not retractile..

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..

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

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..

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

Retractation :: Retractation (n.) The act of retracting what has been said; recantation.

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