Word Meanings - RETRACE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To trace back, as a line. Then if the line of Turnus you retrace, He springs from Inachus of Argive race. Driden. 2. To go back, in or over ; to go over again in a reverse direction; as, to retrace one's steps; to retrace one's proceedings.

Additional info about word: RETRACE

1. To trace back, as a line. Then if the line of Turnus you retrace, He springs from Inachus of Argive race. Driden. 2. To go back, in or over ; to go over again in a reverse direction; as, to retrace one's steps; to retrace one's proceedings. 3. To trace over again, or renew the outline of, as a drawing; to draw again.

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• REVERSED
  Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree. Reversed positive or negative , a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left. Abney. (more info) 1. Turned side for side,
• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.
• AGAINSAY
  To gainsay. Wyclif.
• STEPSTONE
  A stone laid before a door as a stair to rise on in entering the house.
• AGAIN
  again; on + geán, akin to Ger. gegewn against, Icel. gegn. Cf. 1. In return, back; as, bring us word again. 2. Another time; once more; anew. If a man die, shall he live again Job xiv. 14. 3. Once repeated; -- of quantity; as, as large again,
• ARGIVE
  Of or performance to Argos, the capital of Argolis in Greece. -- n.
• STEPSISTER
  A daughter of one's stepfather or stepmother by a former marriage.
• TURNUS
  A common, large, handsome, American swallowtail butterfly, now regarded as one of the forms of Papilio, or Jasoniades, glaucus. The wings are yellow, margined and barred with black, and with an orange- red spot near the posterior angle of the hind
• STEPSON
  A son of one's husband or wife by a former marriage.
• TRACEABLE
  Capable of being traced. -- Trace"a*ble*ness, n. -- Trace"a/bly, adv.
• AGAINST
  1. Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over. Jacob saw the angels of God come against him. Tyndale. 2. From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in
• REVERSEDLY
  In a reversed way.
• AGAIN; AGAINS
  Against; also, towards . Albeit that it is again his kind. Chaucer.
• REVERSELESS
  Irreversible. A. SEward.
• RETRACE
  1. To trace back, as a line. Then if the line of Turnus you retrace, He springs from Inachus of Argive race. Driden. 2. To go back, in or over ; to go over again in a reverse direction; as, to retrace one's steps; to retrace one's proceedings.
• DIRECTION
  The pointing of a piece with reference to an imaginary vertical axis; -- distinguished from elevation. The direction is given when the plane of sight passes through the object. Wilhelm. Syn. -- Administration; guidance; management; superintendence;
• REVERSER
  One who reverses.
• REVERSE
  1. To return; to revert. Spenser. 2. To become or be reversed.
• AGAINWARD
  Back again.
• REVERSELY
  In a reverse manner; on the other hand; on the opposite. Bp. Pearson.
• LADY'S TRACES; LADIES' TRESSES; LADIES TRESSES
  A name given to several species of the orchidaceous genus Spiranthes, in which the white flowers are set in spirals about a slender axis and remotely resemble braided hair.
• THEREAGAIN
  In opposition; against one's course. If that him list to stand thereagain. Chaucer.
• UPTRACE
  To trace up or out.
• INTRACELLULAR
  Within a cell; as, the intracellular movements seen in the pigment cells, the salivary cells, and in the protoplasm of some vegetable cells.
• BED STEPS
  Steps for mounting a bed of unusual height.
• OSTRACEAN
  Any one of a family of bivalves, of which the oyster is the type.
• MISDIRECTION
  An error of a judge in charging the jury on a matter of law. Mozley & W. (more info) 1. The act of directing wrongly, or the state of being so directed.