Syn. -- To withdraw; leave; depart; secede; recede; retreat; retrocede.
Re*tire", n. 1. The act of retiring, or the state of being retired;
also, a place to which one retires. [Obs.]
The battle and the retire of the English succors.
Bacon.
[Eve] discover'd soon the place of her retire.
Milton.
2. (Mil.) A call sounded on a bugle, announcing to skirmishers that
they are to retire, or fall back.
Re*tired" (?), a. 1. Private; secluded; quiet; as, a retired life; a
person of retired habits.
A retired part of the peninsula.
Hawthorne.
2. Withdrawn from active duty or business; as, a retired officer; a
retired physician.
Retired flank (Fort.), a flank bent inward toward the rear of the work.
-- Retired list (Mil. & Naval), a list of officers, who, by reason of
advanced age or other disability, are relieved from active service, but
still receive a specified amount of pay from the government.
-- Re*tired"ly, adv. -- Re*tired"ness, n.
Re*tire"ment (?), n. [Cf. F. retirement.] 1. The act of retiring, or
the state of being retired; withdrawal; seclusion; as, the retirement
of an officer.
O, blest Retirement, friend of life's decline.
Goldsmith.
Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books.
Thomson.
2. A place of seclusion or privacy; a place to which one withdraws or
retreats; a private abode. [Archaic]
This coast full of princely retirements for the sumptousness of
their buildings and nobleness of the plantations.
Evelyn.
Caprea had been the retirement of Augustus.
Addison.
Syn. -- Solitude; withdrawment; departure; retreat; seclusion; privacy.
See Solitude.
Re*tir"er (?), n. One who retires.
Re*tir"ing, a. 1. Reserved; shy; not forward or obtrusive; as, retiring
modesty; retiring manners.
2. Of or pertaining to retirement; causing retirement; suited to, or
belonging to, retirement.
Retiring board (Mil.), a board of officers who consider and report upon
the alleged incapacity of an officer for active service. -- Retiring
pension, a pension granted to a public officer on his retirement from
office or service.
Ret"i*stene (?), n. (Chem.) A white crystalline hydrocarbon produced
indirectly from retene.
||Ret`i*te"læ (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. rete a net + tela a web.] (Zoöl.) A
||group of spiders which spin irregular webs; -- called also
||Retitelariæ.
Re*told" (?), imp. & p. p. of Retell.
Re*tor"sion (?), n. Same as Retortion.
Re*tort" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Retorted; p. pr. & vb. n. Retorting.]
[L. retortus, p. p. of retorquere; pref. re- re- + torquere to turn
twist. See Torsion, and cf. Retort, n., 2.] 1. To bend or curve back;
as, a retorted line.
With retorted head, pruned themselves as they floated.
Southey.