Retire
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; also, a place to which one retires.
(2): ( v. i.) To go to bed; as, he usually retires early.
(3): ( n.) A call sounded on a bugle, announcing to skirmishers that they are to retire, or fall back.
(4): ( v. t.) To withdraw; to take away; - sometimes used reflexively.
(5): ( v. t.) To withdraw from circulation, or from the market; to take up and pay; as, to retire bonds; to retire a note.
(6): ( v. t.) To cause to retire; specifically, to designate as no longer qualified for active service; to place on the retired list; as, to retire a military or naval officer.
(7): ( v. i.) To go back or return; to draw back or away; to keep aloof; to withdraw or retreat, as from observation; to go into privacy; as, to retire to his home; to retire from the world, or from notice.
(8): ( v. i.) To retreat from action or danger; to withdraw for safety or pleasure; as, to retire from battle.
(9): ( v. i.) To withdraw from a public station, or from business; as, having made a large fortune, he retired.
(10): ( v. i.) To recede; to fall or bend back; as, the shore of the sea retires in bays and gulfs.
King James Dictionary [2]
1. To withdraw to retreat to go from company or from a public place into privacy as, to retire from the world to retire from notice. 2. To retreat from action or danger as, to retire from battle. 3. To withdraw from a public station. General Washington, in 1796, retired to private life. 4. To break up, as a company or assembly. The company retired at eleven o'clock. 5. To depart or withdraw for safety or for pleasure. Men retire from the town in summer for health and pleasure. But in South Carolina, the planters retire from their estates to Charleston, or to an isle near the town. 6. To recede to fall back. The shore of the sea retires in bays and gulfs.
Reti'Re, To withdraw to take away.
He retired himself, his wife and children into a forest.
As when the sun is present all the year, and never doth retire his golden ray.
This transitive use of retire is now obsolete.
Reti'Re, n.
1. Retreat recession a withdrawing. Obs. 2. Retirement place of privacy. Obs.
