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Tennyson.

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.

Ret"i*cen*cy (?), n. Reticence.

Ret"i*cent (?), a. [L. reticens, p. pr. of reticere to keep silence; re- + tacere to be silent. See Tacit.] Inclined to keep silent; reserved; uncommunicative.

Ret"i*cle (?), n. [See Reticule.] 1. A small net.

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

Re*tic"u*lar (?), 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.

2. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to a reticulum.

||Re*tic`u*la"ri*a (?), n. pl. [NL. See Reticular.] (Zoöl.) 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.

Re*tic`u*la"ri*an (?), n. (Zoöl). One of the Reticularia.

Re*tic"u*lar*ly, adv. In a reticular manner.

{ Re*tic"u*late (?), Re*tic"u*la`ted (?) }, a. [L. reticulatus. See Reticule.] 1. Resembling network; having the form or appearance of a net; netted; as, a reticulated structure.

2. Having veins, fibers, or lines crossing like the threads or fibers of a network; as, a reticulate leaf; a reticulated surface; a reticulated wing of an insect.

Reticulated glass, ornamental ware made from glass in which one set of white or colored lines seems to meet and interlace with another set in a different plane. -- Reticulated micrometer, a micrometer for an optical instrument, consisting of a reticule in the focus of an eyepiece. -- Reticulated work (Masonry), work constructed with diamond-shaped stones, or square stones placed diagonally.

Re*tic`u*la"tion (?), n. The quality or state of being reticulated, or netlike; that which is reticulated; network; an organization resembling a net.

The particular net you occupy in the great reticulation.

Carlyle.

Ret"i*cule (?), n.. [F. réticule, L. reticulum, dim. of rete a net. Cf.Retina, Reticle.] 1. A little bag, originally of network; a woman's workbag, or a little bag to be carried in the hand. De Quincey.

2. A system of wires or lines in the focus of a telescope or other instrument; a reticle.

||Re*tic`u*lo"sa (?), n. pl. [NL.] (Zoöl.) Same as Reticularia.

Re*tic"u*lose` (?), a. Forming a network; characterized by a reticulated sructure.

Reticulose rhizopod (Zoöl.), a rhizopod in which the pseudopodia blend together and form irregular meshes.

||Re*tic"u*lum (?), n.;pl. Reticula (#). [L. dim. of rete a net.] ||(Anat.) (a) The second stomach of ruminants, in which folds of the ||mucous membrane form hexagonal cells; -- also called the honeycomb ||stomach. (b) The neuroglia.

Ret"i*form (?), a. [L. rete a net + -form. cf. F. rétiforme.] Composed of crossing lines and interstices; reticular; netlike; as, the retiform coat of the eye.

Ret"i*na (?), n. [NL., from L. rete a net. Cf. Reticule.] (Anat.) The delicate membrane by which the back part of the globe of the eye is lined, and in which the fibers of the optic nerve terminate. See Eye.

The fibers of the optic nerve and the retinal blood vessels spread out upon the front surface of the retina, while the sensory layer (called Jacob's membrane), containing the rods and cones, is on the back side, next the choroid coat.

||Ret`i*nac"u*lum (?), n.; pl. Retinacula (#). [L., a holdfast, a band. ||See Retain.] 1. (Anat.) (a) A connecting band; a frænum; as, the ||retinacula of the ileocæcal and ileocolic valves. (b) One of the ||annular ligaments which hold the tendons close to the bones at the ||larger joints, as at the wrist and ankle.

2. (Zoöl) One of the retractor muscles of the proboscis of certain worms.