| • | The act of retiring or withdrawing one's self, especially
   from what is dangerous or disagreeable. | 
											
															| • | The place to which anyone retires; a place or privacy or
   safety; a refuge; an asylum. | 
											
															| • | 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. | 
											
															| • | The withdrawing of a ship or fleet from an enemy for the
   purpose of avoiding an engagement or escaping after defeat. | 
											
															| • | 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. | 
											
															| • | A special season of solitude and silence to engage in
   religious exercises. | 
											
															| • | 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. | 
											
															| • | To make a retreat; to retire from any position or
   place; to withdraw; as, the defeated army retreated from the field. |