3. Armed with a net; hence, skillful to entangle. Scholastic retiary versatility of logic. Coleridge.
RETICENCE
Ret"i*cence, n. Etym: [L. reticentia: cf. F. réticence.]
1. The quality or state of being reticent, or keeping silence; the state of holding one's tonque; refraining to speak of that which is suggested; uncommunicativeness. Such fine reserve and noble reticence. Tennyson.
2. (Rhet.)
Defn: A figure by which a person really speaks of a thing while he makes a show as if he would say nothingon the subject.
RETICENCY
Ret"i*cen*cy, n.
Defn: Reticence.
RETICENT Ret"i*cent, a. Etym: [L. reticens, p. pr. of reticere to keep silence; re- + tacere to be silent. See Tacit.]
Defn: Inclined to keep silent; reserved; uncommunicative.
RETICLE
Ret"i*cle, n. Etym: [See Reticule.]