To recall, as a declaration, words or saying; to disavow; to recant; as, to retract an accusation, charge or assertion. I would as freely have retracted the charge of idolatry, as I ever made it.

To take back; to rescind.

To draw back, as claws.

To take back; to unsay; to withdraw concession or declaration. She will, and she will not; she grants, denies, consents, retracts, advances, and then flies.

Among horsemen, the prick of a horse’s foot in nailing a shoe.