Emily Dickinson Lexicon

RE-SUR-VEY-ING, ppr.

Surveying anew; reviewing.

RE-SUS'CI-TATE, v.t. [L. resuscito; re and suscito, to raise.]

1. To revivify; to revive; particularly, to recover from apparent death; as, to resuscitate a drowned person; to resuscitate withered plants.
2. To reproduce, as a mixed body from its ashes. – Chimistry.

RE-SUS'CI-TA-TED, pp.

Revived; revivified; reproduced.

RE-SUS'CI-TA-TING, ppr.

Reviving; revivifying; reproducing.

RE-SUS-CI-TA'TION, n.

1. The act of reviving from a state of apparent death; the state of being revivified. – Pope.
2. The reproducing of a mixed body from its ashes.

RE-SUS'CI-TA-TIVE, a.

Reviving; revivifying; raising from apparent death; reproducing.

RE-SUS'CI-TA-TOR, n.

One who resuscitates.

RE-TAIL, n.

The sale of commodities in small quantities or parcels, or at second hand. – Addison.

RE-TAIL, v.t. [Fr. retailer; re and tailler, to cut; It. ritagliare.]

1. To sell in small quantities or parcels, from the sense of cutting or dividing; opposed to selling by wholesale; as, to retail cloth or groceries.
2. To sell at second hand. – Pope.
3. To tell in broken parts; to tell to many; as, to retail slander or idle reports.

RE-TAIL-ED, pp.

Sold in small quantities.

RE-TAIL'ER, or RE'TAIL-ER, n. [This word, like the noun Retail, is often, perhaps generally, accented on the first syllable in America.]

One who sells goods by small quantities or parcels.

RE-TAIL-ING, ppr.

Selling in small quantities.

RE-TAIL-MENT, n.

Act of retailing.

RE-TAIN, v.i.

1. To belong to; to depend on; as, coldness mixed with a somewhat languid relish retaining to bitterness. – Boyle. [Not in use. We now use Pertain.]
2. To keep; to continue. [Not in use.]

RE-TAIN, v.t. [Fr. retenir; It. ritenere; Sp. retener; L. retineo; re and teneo, to hold.]

1. To hold or keep in possession; not to lose or part with or dismiss. The memory retains ideas which facts or arguments have suggested to the mind. They did not like to retain God in their knowledge. – Rom. i.
2. To keep, as an associate; to keep from departure. Whom I would have retained with use. – Phil. xiii.
3. To keep back; to hold. An executor may retain a debt due to him from the testator. – Blackstone.
4. To hold from escape. Some substances retain heat much longer than others. Metals readily receive and transmit heat, but do not long retain it. Seek cloths that retain their color.
5. To keep in pay; to hire. A Benedictine convent has now retained the most learned father of their order to write in its defense. – Addison.
6. To engage; to employ by a fee paid; as, to retain a counselor.

RE-TAIN-ED, pp.

Held; kept in possession; kept as an associate; kept in pay; kept from escape.

RE-TAIN-ER, n.

1. One who retains; as an executor, who retains a debt due from the testator. – Blackstone.
2. One who is kept in service; an attendant; as, the retainers of the ancient princes and nobility.
3. An adherent; a dependant; a hanger on. – Shak.
4. A servant, not a domestic, but occasionally attending and wearing his master's livery. – Encyc. Cowel.
5. Among lawyers, a fee paid to engage a lawyer or counselor to maintain a cause.
6. The act of keeping dependants, or being in dependence. – Bacon.

RE-TAIN-ING, ppr.

Keeping in possession; keeping as an associate; keeping from escape; hiring; engaging by a fee.

RE-TAKE, v.t. [pret. retook; pp. retaken. re and take.]

1. To take again. – Clarendon.
2. To take from a captor; to recapture; as, to retake a ship or prisoners.

RE-TAK-EN, pp.

Taken again; recaptured.

RE-TAK-ER, n.

One who takes again what has been taken; a recaptor. – Kent.

RE-TAK-ING, n.

A taking again; recapture.

RE-TAK-ING, ppr.

Taking again; taking from a captor.

RE-TAL'I-ATE, v.i.

To return like for like; as, to retaliate upon an enemy.

RE-TAL'I-ATE, v.t. [Low L. retalio; re and talio, from talis, like.]

To return like for like; to repay or requite by an act of the same kind as has been received. It is now seldom used except in a bad sense, that is, to return evil for evil; as, to retaliate injuries. In war, enemies often retaliate the death or inhuman treatment of prisoners, the burning of towns or the plunder of goods. It is unlucky to be obliged to retaliate the injuries of authors, whose works are so soon forgotten that we are in danger of appearing the first aggressors. – Swift.