reti

n. [ See Retiarius. ] 1. (Zool.) Any spider which spins webs to catch its prey. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A retiarius. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. LL. retiarius. ] 1. Netlike. [ 1913 Webster ]

This work is in retiary, or hanging textures. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Constructing or using a web, or net, to catch prey; -- said of certain spiders. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Armed with a net; hence, skillful to entangle. [ 1913 Webster ]

Scholastic retiary versatility of logic. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. reticentia: cf. F. réticence. ] 1. The quality or state of being reticent, or keeping silence; the state of holding one's tonque; refraining to speak of that which is suggested; uncommunicativeness. [ 1913 Webster ]

Such fine reserve and noble reticence. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Rhet.) A figure by which a person really speaks of a thing while he makes a show as if he would say nothingon the subject. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Reticence. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. reticens, p. pr. of reticere to keep silence; re- + tacere to be silent. See Tacit. ] Inclined to keep silent; reserved; uncommunicative. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Reticule. ] 1. A small net. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A reticule. See Reticule, 2. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. réticulaire. See Reticule. ] 1. Having the form of a net, or of network; formed with interstices; retiform; as, reticular cartilage; a reticular leaf. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to a reticulum. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Reticular. ] (Zool.) An extensive division of rhizopods in which the pseudopodia are more or less slender and coalesce at certain points, forming irregular meshes. It includes the shelled Foraminifera, together with some groups which lack a true shell. [ 1913 Webster ]