Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter R - Page 20

Reclaim (v. i.) To draw back; to give way.

Reclaim (n.) The act of reclaiming, or the state of being reclaimed; reclamation; recovery.

Reclaimable (a.) That may be reclaimed.

Reclaimant (n.) One who reclaims; one who cries out against or contradicts.

Reclaimer (n.) One who reclaims.

Reclaimless (a.) That can not be reclaimed.

Reclamation (n.) The act or process of reclaiming.

Reclamation (n.) Representation made in opposition; remonstrance.

Reclasp (v. i.) To clasp or unite again.

Reclinant (a.) Bending or leaning backward.

Reclinate (a.) Reclined, as a leaf; bent downward, so that the point, as of a stem or leaf, is lower than the base.

Reclination (n.) The act of leaning or reclining, or the state of being reclined.

Reclination (n.) The angle which the plane of the dial makes with a vertical plane which it intersects in a horizontal line.

Reclination (n.) The act or process of removing a cataract, by applying the needle to its anterior surface, and depressing it into the vitreous humor in such a way that the front surface of the cataract becomes the upper one and its back surface the lower one.

Reclined (imp. & p. p.) of Recline

Reclining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Recline

Recline (v. t.) To cause or permit to lean, incline, rest, etc.; to place in a recumbent position; as, to recline the head on the hand.

Recline (v. i.) To lean or incline; as, to recline against a wall.

Recline (v. i.) To assume, or to be in, a recumbent position; as, to recline on a couch.

Recline (v. t.) Having a reclining posture; leaning; reclining.

Reclined (a.) Falling or turned downward; reclinate.

Recliner (n.) One who, or that which, reclines.

Reclining (a.) Bending or curving gradually back from the perpendicular.

Reclining (a.) Recumbent.

Reclose (v. t.) To close again.

Reclothe (v. t.) To clothe again.

Reclude (v. t.) To open; to unclose.

Recluse (a.) Shut up; sequestered; retired from the world or from public notice; solitary; living apart; as, a recluse monk or hermit; a recluse life.

Recluse (a.) A person who lives in seclusion from intercourse with the world, as a hermit or monk; specifically, one of a class of secluded devotees who live in single cells, usually attached to monasteries.

Recluse (a.) The place where a recluse dwells.

Recluse (v. t.) To shut up; to seclude.

Reclusely (adv.) In a recluse or solitary manner.

Recluseness (n.) Quality or state of being recluse.

Reclusion (n.) A state of retirement from the world; seclusion.

Reclusive (a.) Affording retirement from society.

Reclusory (n.) The habitation of a recluse; a hermitage.

Recoct (v. t.) To boil or cook again; hence, to make over; to vamp up; to reconstruct.

Recoction (n.) A second coction or preparation; a vamping up.

Recognition (n.) The act of recognizing, or the state of being recognized; acknowledgment; formal avowal; knowledge confessed or avowed; notice.

Recognitor (n.) One of a jury impaneled on an assize.

Recognitory (a.) Pertaining to, or connected with, recognition.

Recognizability (n.) The quality or condition of being recognizable.

Recognizable (a.) Capable of being recognized.

Recognizance (n.) An obligation of record entered into before some court of record or magistrate duly authorized, with condition to do some particular act, as to appear at the same or some other court, to keep the peace, or pay a debt. A recognizance differs from a bond, being witnessed by the record only, and not by the party's seal.

Recognizance (n.) The verdict of a jury impaneled upon assize.

Recognizance (n.) A token; a symbol; a pledge; a badge.

Recognizance (n.) Acknowledgment of a person or thing; avowal; profession; recognition.

Recognization (n.) Recognition.

Recognized (imp. & p. p.) of Recognize

Recognizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Recognize

Recognize (v. t.) To know again; to perceive the identity of, with a person or thing previously known; to recover or recall knowledge of.

Recognize (v. t.) To avow knowledge of; to allow that one knows; to consent to admit, hold, or the like; to admit with a formal acknowledgment; as, to recognize an obligation; to recognize a consul.

Recognize (v. t.) To acknowledge acquaintance with, as by salutation, bowing, or the like.

Recognize (v. t.) To show appreciation of; as, to recognize services by a testimonial.

Recognize (v. t.) To review; to reexamine.

Recognize (v. t.) To reconnoiter.

Recognize (v. i.) To enter an obligation of record before a proper tribunal; as, A B recognized in the sum of twenty dollars.

Recognizee (n.) The person in whose favor a recognizance is made.

Recognizer (n.) One who recognizes; a recognizor.

Recognizor (n.) One who enters into a recognizance.

Recognosce (v. t.) To recognize.

Recoiled (imp. & p. p.) of Recoil

Recoiling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Recoil

Recoil (v. i.) To start, roll, bound, spring, or fall back; to take a reverse motion; to be driven or forced backward; to return.

Recoil (v. i.) To draw back, as from anything repugnant, distressing, alarming, or the like; to shrink.

Recoil (v. i.) To turn or go back; to withdraw one's self; to retire.

Recoil (v. t.) To draw or go back.

Recoil (n.) A starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking; as, the recoil of nature, or of the blood.

Recoil (n.) The state or condition of having recoiled.

Recoil (n.) Specifically, the reaction or rebounding of a firearm when discharged.

Recoiler (n.) One who, or that which, recoils.

Recoilingly (adv.) In the manner of a recoil.

Recoilment (n.) Recoil.

Recoin (v. t.) To coin anew or again.

Recoinage (n.) The act of coining anew.

Recoinage (n.) That which is coined anew.

Re-collect (v. t.) To collect again; to gather what has been scattered; as, to re-collect routed troops.

Recollected (imp. & p. p.) of Recollect

Recollecting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Recollect

Recollect (v. t.) To recover or recall the knowledge of; to bring back to the mind or memory; to remember.

Recollect (v. t.) Reflexively, to compose one's self; to recover self-command; as, to recollect one's self after a burst of anger; -- sometimes, formerly, in the perfect participle.

Recollect (n.) A friar of the Strict Observance, -- an order of Franciscans.

Recollection (n.) The act of recollecting, or recalling to the memory; the operation by which objects are recalled to the memory, or ideas revived in the mind; reminiscence; remembrance.

Recollection (n.) The power of recalling ideas to the mind, or the period within which things can be recollected; remembrance; memory; as, an event within my recollection.

Recollection (n.) That which is recollected; something called to mind; reminiscence.

Recollection (n.) The act or practice of collecting or concentrating the mind; concentration; self-control.

Recollective (a.) Having the power of recollecting.

Recollet (n.) Same as Recollect, n.

Recolonization (n.) A second or renewed colonization.

Recolonize (v. t.) To colonize again.

Recombination (n.) Combination a second or additional time.

Recombine (v. t.) To combine again.

Recomfort (v. t.) To comfort again; to console anew; to give new strength to.

Recomfortless (a.) Without comfort.

Recomforture (n.) The act of recomforting; restoration of comfort.

Recommence (v. i.) To commence or begin again.

Recommence (v. i.) To begin anew to be; to act again as.

Recommence (v. t.) To commence again or anew.

Recommencement (n.) A commencement made anew.

Recommended (imp. & p. p.) of Recommend

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