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to retire
To withdraw; to take away; to make to retire.--Johnson. This transitive use of the verb, which had b...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
The old war-term for retreat. Thus Shakspeare makes Richard Plantagenet exclaim
"Ne'er may he live to see a sunshine day,
That cries Retire, if Warwick bid him stay."
To withdraw; to take away; to make to retire.--Johnson. This transitive use of the verb, which had b...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.