The Sporting Dictionary and Rural Repository, Volume 2 (of 2) / Of General Information upon Every Subject Appertaining to the Sports of the Field

by William Taplin

RETAIN

—is a term applicable only to the act of propagation between a HORSE and MARE: when the mare is stinted, and will receive the horse no more, she is then said to retain, (the masculine semen,) and considered safe in respect to conception, and the future production of a foal.