v. t.
To withdraw from circulation, or from the market; to take up and pay; as, to retire bonds; to retire a note. →
n.
Marked by coarseness; shaggy; ragged; disordered; -- said of dress, appearance, or the like; as, a rough coat. →
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One who, or that which, hulls; especially, an agricultural machine for removing the hulls from grain; a hulling machine. →
v. t.
To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot; as, politicians agitate desperate designs. →
n.
The doctrine of uniformity in the geological history of the earth; -- in part equivalent to uniformitarianism, but also used, more broadly, as opposed to catastrophism. →
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A small European freshwater fish (Gobio fluviatilis), allied to the carp. It is easily caught and often used for food and for bait. In America the killifishes or minnows are often called gudgeons. →