3. To remedy the evil consequence of, to repair, as a loss or damadge.

Accept my sorrow, and retrieve my fall.

Prior.

There is much to be done . . . and much to be retrieved.

Burke.

Syn. -- To recover; regain; recruit; repair; restore.

Re*trieve" (?), v. i. (Sport.) To discover and bring in game that has

been killed or wounded; as, a dog naturally inclined to retrieve.

Walsh.

Re*trieve", n. 1. A seeking again; a discovery. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

2. The recovery of game once sprung; -- an old sporting term. [Obs.]

Nares.

Re*trieve"ment (?), n. Retrieval.

Re*triev"er (?), n. 1. One who retrieves.

2. (Zoöl.) A dor, or a breed of dogs, chiefly employed to retrieve, or

to find and recover game birds that have been killed or wounded.

Re*trim" (?), v. t. To trim again.

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