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Retreat
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) The place to which anyone retires; a place or privacy or safety; a refuge; an asylum.
(2):
(n.) The act of retiring or withdrawing one's self, especially from what is dangerous or disagreeable.
(3):
(v. i.) To make a retreat; to retire from any position or place; to withdraw; as, the defeated army retreated from the field.
(4):
(n.) The retiring of an army or body of men from the face of an enemy, or from any ground occupied to a greater distance from the enemy, or from an advanced position.
(5):
(n.) The withdrawing of a ship or fleet from an enemy for the purpose of avoiding an engagement or escaping after defeat.
(6):
(n.) A signal given in the army or navy, by the beat of a drum or the sounding of trumpet or bugle, at sunset (when the roll is called), or for retiring from action.
(7):
(n.) A special season of solitude and silence to engage in religious exercises.
(8):
(n.) A period of several days of withdrawal from society to a religious house for exclusive occupation in the duties of devotion; as, to appoint or observe a retreat.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Retreat'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/r/retreat.html. 1828.
