Emily Dickinson Lexicon

RE-TRACE', v.t. [Fr. retracer; re and tracer, to trace.]

1. To trace back; to go back in the same path or course, as, to retrace one's steps; to retrace one's proceedings.
2. To track back, as a line. Then if the line of Turnus you retrace, / He springs from Inachus of Argive race. – Dryden.