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Rettery
- - A place or establishment where flax is retted. See Ret.
Retting
- verb - place (flax, hemp, or jute) in liquid so as to promote loosening of the fibers from the woody tissue
Rotters
- noun - a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible; "only a rotter would do that"; "kill the rat"; "throw the bum out"; "you cowardly little pukes!"; "the British call a contemptible person a `git'"
Rotting
- verb - (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action
- become physically weaker; "Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world"
- break down; "The bodies decomposed in the heat"
Ruttier
- adjective - full of ruts; "rutty farm roads"
Rutting
- verb - be in a state of sexual excitement; of male mammals
- hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove; "furrow soil"
Ruttish
- adjective - feeling great sexual desire; "feeling horny"
Settees
- noun - a long wooden bench with a back
- a small sofa
Setters
- noun - a long-haired dog formerly trained to crouch on finding game but now to point
- one who sets written material into type
Setting
- verb - a mounting consisting of a piece of metal (as in a ring or other jewelry) that holds a gem in place; "the diamond was in a plain gold mount"
- a table service for one person; "a place setting of sterling flatware"
- adapt for performance in a different way; "set this poem to music"
- alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard;
- apply or start; "set fire to a building"
- arrange attractively; "dress my hair for the wedding"
- arrangement of scenery and properties to represent the place where a play or movie is enacted
- bear fruit; "the apple trees fructify"
- become gelatinous; "the liquid jelled after we added the enzyme"
- decide upon or fix definitely; "fix the variables"; "specify the parameters"
- disappear beyond the horizon; "the sun sets early these days"
- equip with sails or masts; "rig a ship"
- establish as the highest level or best performance; "set a r