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Word Meanings - RETRACTIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Serving to retract; of the nature of a retraction. -- Re*tract"ive*ly, adv.

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  • SERVING
    a & n. from Serve. Serving board , a flat piece of wood used in serving ropes. -- Serving maid, a female servant; a maidservant. -- Serving mallet , a wooden instrument shaped like a mallet, used in serving ropes. -- Serving man, a male servant,
  • RETRACT
    1. To draw back; to draw up; as, muscles retract after amputation. 2. To take back what has been said; to withdraw a concession or a declaration. She will, and she will not; she grants, denies, Consents, retracts, advances, and then files.
  • SERVO-MOTOR
    A relay apparatus; specif.: An auxiliary motor, regulated by a hand lever, for quickly and easily moving the reversing gear of a large marine engine into any desired position indicated by that of the hand lever, which controls the valve
  • RETRACTOR
    One who, or that which, retracts. Specifically: In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel.
  • TRACTORATION
    See PERKINISM
  • SERVILELY
    In a servile manner; slavishly.
  • TRACTITE
    A Tractarian.
  • SERVILENESS
    Quality of being servile; servility.
  • SERVABLE
    Capable of being preserved. (more info) 1. Capable of being served. 2. Etym:
  • SERVITORSHIP
    The office, rank, or condition of a servitor. Boswell.
  • SERVER
    1. One who serves. 2. A tray for dishes; a salver. Randolph.
  • TRACTARIAN
    Of or pertaining to the Tractarians, or their principles.
  • SERVIAN
    Of or pertaining to Servia, a kingdom of Southern Europe. -- n.
  • TRACTARIANISM
    The principles of the Tractarians, or of those persons accepting the teachings of the "Tracts for the Times."
  • SERVALINE
    Related to, or resembling, the serval.
  • SERVICE
    The act of bringing to notice, either actually or constructively, in such manner as is prescribed by law; as, the service of a subpoena or an attachment. (more info) 1. The act of serving; the occupation of a servant; the performance of labor for
  • TRACTION
    1. The act of drawing, or the state of being drawn; as, the traction of a muscle. 2. Specifically, the act of drawing a body along a plane by motive power, as the drawing of a carriage by men or horses, the towing of a boat by a tug. 3. Attraction;
  • TRACTORY
    A tractrix.
  • SERVAGE
    Serfage; slavery; servitude. Chaucer.
  • TRACTILE
    Capable of being drawn out in length; ductile. Bacon.
  • DISSERVE
    To fail to serve; to do injury or mischief to; to damage; to hurt; to harm. Have neither served nor disserved the interests of any party. Jer. Taylor. (more info) Etym:
  • INTRACTABILITY
    The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd.
  • RESERVE
    1. To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. "I have reserved to myself nothing." Shak. 2. Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain. Gen.
  • DESERVEDNESS
    Meritoriousness.
  • CONSERVATIONAL
    Tending to conserve; preservative.
  • SUBCONTRACTOR
    One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor.
  • UNNATURE
    To change the nature of; to invest with a different or contrary nature. A right heavenly nature, indeed, as if were unnaturing them, doth so bridle them . Sir P. Sidney.
  • MISOBSERVE
    To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. Locke.
  • SUBSERVIENCE; SUBSERVIENCY
    The quality or state of being subservient; instrumental fitness or use; hence, willingness to serve another's purposes; in a derogatory sense, servility. The body wherein appears much fitness, use, and subserviency to infinite functions. Bentley.
  • INSERVE
    To be of use to an end; to serve.
  • DETRACTIVE
    1. Tending to detractor draw. 2. Tending to lower in estimation; depreciative.
  • PUBLIC-SERVICE CORPORATION; QUASI-PUBLIC CORPORATION
    A corporation, such as a railroad company, lighting company, water company, etc., organized or chartered to follow a public calling or to render services more or less essential to the general public convenience or safety.
  • OBSERVANCY
    Observance.
  • MANSERVANT
    A male servant.
  • BOND SERVICE
    The condition of a bond servant; sevice without wages; slavery. Their children . . . upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bond service. 1 Kings ix. 21.

 

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