a hymn or other piece of music sung or played while a church congregation is leaving a service, or a choir is returning to the cloak room; a recessional hymn.
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A genetic trait determined by a recessive{2} allele; a trait not appearing in the phenotype unless both chromosomes of the organism have the same allele; also, an allele which is recessive{2}.
One of the descendants of Jonadab, the son of Rechab, all of whom by his injunction abstained from the use of intoxicating drinks and even from planting the vine. Jer. xxxv. 2-19. Also, in modern times, a member of a certain society of abstainers from alcoholic liquors.
To change again, or change back.
To charge or accuse in return.
To charter again or anew; to grant a second or another charter to.
To chase again; to chase or drive back.
A dish of food that has been warmed again, hence, fig., something made up from old material; a rehash.
To blow the recheat.
Sought out with care; choice. of rare quality, elegance, or attractiveness; peculiar and refined in kind.
Reckless.
To choose again.
To backslide; to fall again.
A falling back; a backsliding.
The state or quality of being recidivous; relapse, a falling back or relapse into prior criminal habits, esp. after conviction and punishment.
One who is recidivous or is characterized by recidivism; an incorrigible criminal.
Tending or liable to backslide or relapse to a former condition or habit.
A formulary or prescription for making some combination, mixture, or preparation of materials; a receipt.
An instrument with two arms that are pivoted together at one end, and a graduated arc, -- used by military engineers for measuring and laying off angles of fortifications.
The quality or state of being recipient; a receiving; reception; receptiveness.
Receiving; receptive.
That which is reciprocal to another thing.
The quality or condition of being reciprocal; reciprocalness.
In a reciprocal manner; so that each affects the other, and is equally affected by it; interchangeably; mutually.
The quality or condition of being reciprocal; mutual return; alternateness.
To give and return mutually; to make return for; to give in return; to interchange; to alternate; as, to reciprocate favors.
The act of reciprocating; interchange of acts; a mutual giving and returning; as, the reciprocation of kindness.
Mutual action and reaction.
Having horns turning backward and then forward, like those of a ram.
Reciprocal.
Reciprocal.
Reciprocal.
The act of cutting off.
The act of reciting; the repetition of the words of another, or of a document; rehearsal; as, the recital of testimony.
The act of reciting; rehearsal; repetition of words or sentences.
Of or pertaining to recitation; intended for musical recitation or declamation; in the style or manner of recitative.
Recitative.
A recital.
One who recites; also, a book of extracts for recitation.
To make account; to take heed; to care; to mind; -- often followed by of.
Inattentive to duty; careless; neglectful; indifferent.
Needing care; weak; feeble; as, a reckling child. A weak child or animal.
To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.
One who reckons or computes; also, a book of calculations, tables, etc., to assist in reckoning.
The act of one who reckons, counts, or computes; the result of reckoning or counting; calculation. An account of time. Adjustment of claims and accounts; settlement of obligations, liabilities, etc.
The act of reclaiming, or the state of being reclaimed; reclamation; recovery.
That may be reclaimed.
One who reclaims; one who cries out against or contradicts.
One who reclaims.
That can not be reclaimed.
The act or process of reclaiming.
To clasp or unite again.
Bending or leaning backward.
Reclined, as a leaf; bent downward, so that the point, as of a stem or leaf, is lower than the base.
The act of leaning or reclining, or the state of being reclined.
Having a reclining posture; leaning; reclining.
Falling or turned downward; reclinate.
One who, or that which, reclines.
Bending or curving gradually back from the perpendicular. Recumbent.
To close again.
To clothe again.
To open; to unclose.
To shut up; to seclude.
In a recluse or solitary manner.
Quality or state of being recluse.
A state of retirement from the world; seclusion.
Affording retirement from society.
The habitation of a recluse; a hermitage.
To boil or cook again; hence, to make over; to vamp up; to reconstruct.
A second coction or preparation; a vamping up.
The act of recognizing, or the state of being recognized; acknowledgment; formal avowal; knowledge confessed or avowed; notice.
One of a jury impaneled on an assize.
Pertaining to, or connected with, recognition.
The quality or condition of being recognizable.
Capable of being recognized.
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. The verdict of a jury impaneled upon assize.
Recognition.
To enter an obligation of record before a proper tribunal; as, A B recognized in the sum of twenty dollars.
The person in whose favor a recognizance is made.
One who recognizes; a recognizor.
One who enters into a recognizance.
To recognize.
A starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking; as, the recoil of nature, or of the blood.
One who, or that which, recoils.
In the manner of a recoil.
Recoil.
To coin anew or again.
The act of coining anew.
A friar of the Strict Observance, -- an order of Franciscans.
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.
Having the power of recollecting.
Same as Recollect, n.
A second or renewed colonization.
To colonize again.
Combination a second or additional time.
To combine again.
To comfort again; to console anew; to give new strength to.
Without comfort.
The act of recomforting; restoration of comfort.
To commence again or anew.
A commencement made anew.
To commend to the favorable notice of another; to commit to another's care, confidence, or acceptance, with favoring representations; to put in a favorable light before any one; to bestow commendation on; as, he recommended resting the mind and exercising the body.
Suitable to be recommended; worthy of praise; commendable.
The act of recommending.
That which recommends; a recommendation.
Serving to recommend; recommending; commendatory.
One who recommends.
To commission again; to give a new commission to.
To commit again; to give back into keeping; specifically, to refer again to a committee; as, to recommit a bill to the same committee.
A second or renewed commitment; a renewed reference to a committee.
To compact or join anew.
Recompense.
An equivalent returned for anything done, suffered, or given; compensation; requital; suitable return.
Recompense; requital.
One who recompenses.
Of the nature of recompense; serving to recompense.
A new compilation.
To compile anew.
The act of recompiling; new compilation or digest; as, a recompilement of the laws.
To compose again; to form anew; to put together again or repeatedly.
One who recomposes.
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