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RETROMINGENTS

Volume 3 · 48 words · 1771 Edition

in natural history, a class or division of animals, whose characteristic it is that they hate, or make water, backwards, both male and female.

REEVE, REEVE, or GREVE, the bailiff of a franchise, or manor, thus called, especially in the west of England. Hence shire-reeve, sheriff, port-greve, &c.