Retiariae 
Retiariae (iv-shi-a'ri-e), H. /il. [XL., pi. of reti- 
iirin, fern, of rrtiiifiux. adj. : sec icti/iri/.] The 
spinning spiders ; spiders which spin a web for 
the capture of their prey. See Jletitelse. 
retiarius (re-shi-a'ri-us), M.; pi. retiarii (-1). 
[L. : see retiary] In Bom. antiq., a gladiator 
who wore only a short tunic and carried a tri- 
dent and a net. With these implements he endeavored 
to entangle and despatch his adversary, who was armed 
with helmet, shield, and sword. 
retiary (re'shi-a-ri), a. and . [= F. retiaire, 
< L. retiarins, one who fights with a net, prop, 
adj., pertaining to a net, < rete, a net: see rete.] 
1. a. 1. Net-like. 
Retiary and hanging textures. 
Sir T. Browne, Garden of Cyrus 11. 
2. Spinning a web, as a spider; of or pertain- 
ing to the Betiarix. 
\Ve will not dispute the pietures of retiary spiders, and 
their position in the web. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., v. 19. 
3. Armed with a net; hence, skilful to entan- 
gle. 
Scholastic retiarii versatility of logic. Coleridge. 
II. .; pi. retiaries (-riz). 1. Same as reti- 
arius. 2. A retiary spider; a member of the 
Betid rife. 
reticence (ret'i-sens), . [< OF. reticence, F. 
reticence = Sp. Pg. reticeucia = It. reticenza, < 
L. reticentia, silence, < reticen(t-)s, silent, reti- 
cent: see reticent.'] 1. The factor character 
of being reticent; a disposition to keep, or the 
keeping of, one's own counsel ; the state of be- 
ing silent; reservation of one's thoughts or 
opinions. 
Many times, I wis, a smile, a reticence or keeping silence, 
may well express a speech, and make It more emphatical. 
Uoiland, tr. of Plutarch, p. 841. 
I found, 
Instead of scornful pity or pure scorn, 
Such fine reserve and noble reticence. 
Tennyson, Geraint. 
2. In rliet., aposiopesis.=Syn. 1. Reserve, tacitur- 
nity. 
reticency (ret'i-sen-si), . [As reticence (see 
-w).] Reticence. Imp. IMct. 
reticent (ret'i-seut), a. [< L. reticen(t-)s, ppr. 
of reticere, be silent, < re-, again, + tacere, be 
silent: see tacit.} Disposed to be silent; re- 
served; not apt to speak about or reveal any 
matters : as, he is very reticent about his affairs. 
Upon this he is naturally reticent. 
lamb, To Coleridge. (Latham.) 
Mr. (jlegg, like all men of his stamp, was extremely reti- 
cent about his will. Georye Eliot, Mill on the Floss, i. 12. 
reticle (ret'i-kl), . [< F. reticule, a net: see 
reticule.] Same as reticule, 2. 
The reticle [of the transit-telescope] is a network of fine 
spider lines placed in the focus of the objective. 
Newcomb and Uoiden, Astron., p. 70. 
reticula, n. Plural of retieulum. 
reticular (re-tik'u-lar), . [= F. reticulaire = 
Sp. Pg. reticular = It. retieolare, < NL. "reticu- 
laris, < L. retieulum, a little net : see reticule.] 
1. Formed like a net or of network. Hence, by 
extension 2. Having many similar openings 
which are large in proportion to the solid parts. 
3. Like a network ; entangled; complicated. 
The law [in England] is blind, crooked, and perverse, 
but sure and equal ; its administration is on the practice 
of by gone ages, slow, reticular, complicated. 
The Century, XXVI. 822. 
4. In anat., forming or formed by reticulation; 
retial; full of interstices ; eancellate; areolar; 
cellular: as, reticular substance, tissue, or mem- 
brane, which is the areolar or cellular or ordi- 
nary connective tissue. The rete mucosum of 
the skin is sometimes specifically called the re- 
ticular body. See rete Keticular cartilage, a 
cartilage in which the matrix is permeated with yellow 
elastic fibers. Also called rluxtic fibrocartUage, yellow 
elastic cartilage. Reticular formation, the formatio 
reticularis, a formation occupying the anterior and lateral 
area of the oblongata dorsad of the pyramids and lower 
olives and extending up into the pons (and mesencepha- 
lon). The ninth, tenth, and eleventh nerves mark its lat- 
eral boundaries. It presents interlacing longitudinal and 
transverse fibers with interspersed ganglion-cells. These 
cells are more frequent in the lateral parts, or formatio 
reticularis grisea, which are marked off from the medi- 
an parts, or formatio reticularis alba, by the hypoglossal 
nerve-roots. Reticular lamina. See lamina. Reticu- 
lar layer of skin, the deeper-lying part of the corium, 
below the papillary layer. 
reticulare (re-tik-u-la're), . [NL., neut. of 
"reticularis: see reticular.] The reticular epi- 
dermal layer, more fully called corpus reticu- 
lare; the rete mucosum (which see, under rete). 
Reticularia 1 (re-tik-u-la'ri-a), n. ill [NL., 
ueiit. pi. of * reticularis, reticular: see reticule.] 
Foraminiferoiis protozoans: a synonym of For- 
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iiniiiiitrra. Also Betii'iiliinn. II'. II. Carpenter, 
1862.' 
Reticularia 2 (re-tik-u-la'ri-ii), n. [NL. (Bul- 
liard, 1791), < L. rctirnliim, a little net: see reti- 
ci/l/ 1 ,] A genus of myxomycetous fungi, giving 
name to the family Bi'tiniliiriaivie. The spores, 
capillitium, and columella are uniformly bright- 
colored, without lime. 
Reticulariaceae (re-tik-u-la-ri-a'se-e), n. pi. 
[NL. (Rostafinski, 1875), < Beticularia^ + -acese] 
A small family of myxomycetous fungi, taking 
its name from the genus Beticiihiriii. 
reticularian (re-tik-u-la'ri-an), n. and n. [< Be- 
ticiilaria 1 + -.] 1. a. Saving a reticulated 
or foraminated test ; pertaining to the Beticu- 
laria, or having their characters. 
II. . A member of the Reticularia ; a fora- 
minifer. 
reticularly (re-tik'u-lar-li), arfc. So as to be 
reticulate ; in a reticular manner. 
The outer surface of the chorlon is reticularly ridged. 
Owen, Anat, 
reticulary (re-tik'u-la-ri), a. [< NL. reticularis: 
see reticular.'] Same as reticular. 
The Khine, of a vile, reddish-drab color, and all cut into 
a reticulary work of branches. . . . was far from beautiful 
about Rotterdam. Carlyle, in Fronde(Llfe in London, xx.). 
reticulate (re-tik'u-lat), a. [= F. reticule = Pg. 
reticulatlo = It. reticolato, < L. reticulatus, made 
like a net, < retieulum, a little net : see reticule.] 
Netted; resembling network; having distinct 
lines or veins crossing as in network; covered 
with netted lines. Specifically (a) In zoo/., having 
distinct lines or veins crossing like network. (b) In 
mineral. , applied to minerals occurring in parallel fibers 
crossed by other fibers which are also parallel, so as to ex- 
hibit meshes like those of a net. (c) In bot. : (1) Resem- 
bling network ; netted or mesh-like ; retiform : said espe- 
cially of a venation. (2) Netted-veined ; retinerved : said 
of leaves or other organs. See netted'Veined, and cuts 1 to 
6 under nervation. Reticulate tarsus, in ornith., a tar- 
sometatarsus covered with reticulations produced by nu- 
merous small plates separated by lines of impression. The 
reticulate tarsus is specially distinguished from the WMbf- 
late tarsus, and also from the laminate or booted tarsus. See 
reticulation, 3, and cuts under booted and ecutellate. 
reticulate (re-tik'u-lat), v. ; pret. and pp. re- 
ticulated, ppr. reticulating. [< reticulate, a] 
I. trans. To form into network; cover with in- 
tersecting lines resembling network. [Rare.] 
Spurs or ramifications of high mountains, making down 
from the Alps, and, as it were, reticulating these provinces, 
give to the vallies the protection of a particular inclosure 
to each. Je/ereon, To La Fayette (Correspondence, II. 105). 
H. in/rails. In zool., to cross irregularly so 
as to form meshes like those of a net: as, lines 
which reticulate on a surface. 
reticulated (re-tik'u-la-ted), p. a. [< reticulate 
+ -eif-.] Same as reticulate, a Reticulated 
glass, see glass. Reticulated head-dress, .same as 
crespine. Reticulated line, a line formed of a succes- 
sion of loops or links, like a chain ; a catenulated line. 
[Rare. J Reticulated masonry. Same as reticulated 
work. Reticulated micrometer, a reticule or network 
in equal squares, intended to be placed in the focus of a 
telescope and be viewed generally by a low power. Such 
an instrument is useful in some zone-work. Reticu- 
lated molding, in arch., a molding ornamented with 
Reticulated Molding. Walls of Old Samm. Wiltshire, England. 
a fillet interlaced in vari- 
ous ways like network, or 
otherwise formed so as to 
present a meshed appear- 
ance. It is found chiefly in 
buildings in the Byzantine 
and Romanesque styles. 
Reticulated work, a 
variety of masonry wherein the stones are square and laid 
lozengewise, so that the joints resemble the meshes of a 
net This form of masonry was very common among the 
Reticulated Molding. 
retierce" 
Romans, in Auvergne in France in the middle ages, and 
elsewhere. Also known as opus ret icidaluin. See also cut 
under opus. 
reticulately (re-tik'u-lat-li), ailr. So as to form 
a network or reticulation. 
Generally the sporangium contains, besides the spores, 
a structure called the Capillitium, consisting sometimes 
of small thin-walled tubes anastomosing reticulately. 
Sachs, Botany (trans.), p. 275. 
reticulate-veined (re-tik'u-lat-vand), . Net- 
ted-veined. 
reticulation (re-tik-u-la'shon), n. [= F. reti- 
culation = It. re'ticulazioHc; <! reticulate + -ion] 
1. The character of being reticulated or net- 
like ; that which is reticulated ; a network, or 
an arrangement of veins, etc., resembling one. 
It is curious to observe the minute reticulations of tyr- 
anny which he had begun already to spin about a whole 
people, while cold, venomous, and patient he watched his 
victims from the centre of his web. 
Motley, Dutch Republic, I. 279. 
The Rhizomata [of Catamites undulatus\ . . . are beau- 
tifully covered with a cellular reticulation on the thin 
bark, and show occasional round arcoles marking the 
points of exit of the rootlets. 
Dawson, Geol. Hist. Plants, p. 168. 
2. In ornith., one of the plates or small scales the 
assemblage of which makes the tarsus of a bird 
reticulate; also, the whole set of such plates, 
and the state of being reticulate : distinguished 
from scutellation and lamination. The individual 
reticulations may be quite regularly six-sided, like the 
cells of honeycomb, or of various other figures. Reticu- 
lation of the sides and back of the tarsus often concurs 
with scutellation on the front. The impressed lines may 
be mere creases in uniformly soft integument, somewhat 
like those of the human palm, or they may separate hard, 
roughened, or granulated reticulations. It is most char- 
acteristic of the feet of wading and swimming birds to 
show reticulation, and of those of land-birds to be scutel- 
late or lafninate, or both. 
3. A method of copying a painting or drawing 
by the help of threads stretched across a frame 
so as to form squares, an equal number of pro- 
portional squares being made on the canvas 
or paper on which the copy is to be made. 
reticule (ret'i-kul), n. [< F. reticule, a net for 
the hair, a reticule, < L. retieulum, neut., also 
reticulus, m., a little net, reticule, double dim. of 
rete, a net: see rete. Doublet of reticle.] 1. 
A bag, originally of network, but later of any 
formation or material, carried by women in the 
hand or upon the arm, and answering the pur- 
pose of a pocket. 
There were five loads of straw, but then of those a lady 
could take no more than her reticule could carry. 
De ',""" ." Spanish Nun. 
Dear Muse, 'tis twenty years or more 
Since that enchanted, fairy time 
When you came tapping at my door, 
Your reticule stuffed full of rhyme. 
T. B. Aldrich, At Twoscore. 
2. An attachment to a telescope, consisting 
of a network of lines ruled on glass or of fine 
fibers crossing each other. These may form squares 
as in the reticulated micrometer, or they may be arranged 
meridionally, except two at right angles or perhaps one 
nearly at right angles, or otherwise. Also reticle. 
3. Same as reticnlum, 1. 
Reticulosa (re-tik-u-16'sa), n. pi. [NL., neut. 
pi. of "reticulosus, < L. retieulum, a little net: 
see reticule.] Same as Beticularia 1 . 
reticulose (re-tik'u-16s), a. In en torn., minutely 
or finely reticulate. 
retieulum (re-tik'u-lum), n. ; pi. reticula (-la). 
[NL., < L. retieulum, a little net: see reticule 
and reticle.] 1. A network. Also reticule. 
2. Neuroglia. Kolliker. 3. The network which 
pervades the substance of the cell and nucleus 
inclosing the softer portions of the protoplasm. 
4. The second stomach of a ruminant; that 
part of a quadripartite stomach which is be- 
tween the rumen or paunch and the omasum, 
psalterium, or manyplies; the hood or honey- 
comb-bag: so called from the reticulation of 
the ridges into which the mucous membrane is 
thrown up. It makes the best part of tripe. See 
cuts under ruminant and Tragulidie. 5. In lot., 
any reticulated structure; sometimes, specifi- 
cally, the fibrous web at the base of the petiole 
in some palms. 6. [cap.] A southern constel- 
lation, introduced by La Caille. Also Reticulus 
Ancient Roman Reticulated Work. 
retierce' (re-tyar-sa/), a. [Heraldic F.,< OF. 
retiers, a third part of a third, < re-, again, + 
tiers, third: see tierce.] In lier., divided fesse- 
wise into three equal parts, each of which is 
subdivided fessewise and bears three tinctures, 
which are the same in their order in each of the 
three parts; barry of nine, of three successive 
tinctures thrice repeated, as gules, or, sable, 
gules, or, sable, gules, or, sable. 
