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Recognizee

The person in whose favor a recognizance is made.

Recoil

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

Recoiler

One who, or that which, recoils.

Recollect

A friar of the Strict Observance, -- an order of Franciscans.

Recollection

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.

Recomfort

To comfort again; to console anew; to give new strength to.

Recomforture

The act of recomforting; restoration of comfort.

Recommend

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.

Recommendable

Suitable to be recommended; worthy of praise; commendable.

Recommission

To commission again; to give a new commission to.

Recommit

To commit again; to give back into keeping; specifically, to refer again to a committee; as, to recommit a bill to the same committee.

Recompense

An equivalent returned for anything done, suffered, or given; compensation; requital; suitable return.

Recompensive

Of the nature of recompense; serving to recompense.

Recompilement

The act of recompiling; new compilation or digest; as, a recompilement of the laws.

Recompose

To compose again; to form anew; to put together again or repeatedly.

Reconcentrado

Lit., one who has been reconcentrated; specif., in Cuba, the Philippines, etc., during the revolution of 1895-98, one of the rural noncombatants who were concentrated by the military authorities in areas surrounding the fortified towns, and later were reconcentrated in the smaller limits of the towns themselves.

Reconcentration

The act of reconcentrating or the state of being reconcentrated; esp., the act or policy of concentrating the rural population in or about towns and villages for convenience in political or military administration, as in Cuba during the revolution of 1895-98.

Reconcilable

Capable of being reconciled; as, reconcilable adversaries; an act reconciable with previous acts.

Reconciliation

The act of reconciling, or the state of being reconciled; reconcilenment; restoration to harmony; renewal of friendship.

Recondite

Hidden from the mental or intellectual view; secret; abstruse; as, recondite causes of things.

Reconnoissance Reconnaissance

The act of reconnoitering; preliminary examination or survey. An examination or survey of a region in reference to its general geological character. An examination of a region as to its general natural features, preparatory to a more particular survey for the purposes of triangulation, or of determining the location of a public work. An examination of a territory, or of an enemy's position, for the purpose of obtaining information necessary for directing military operations; a preparatory expedition.

Reconnoitre Reconnoiter

To examine with the eye to make a preliminary examination or survey of; esp., to survey with a view to military or engineering operations.

Reconquer

To conquer again; to recover by conquest; as, to reconquer a revolted province.

Reconsider

To consider again; as, to reconsider a subject.

Reconsideration

The act of reconsidering, or the state of being reconsidered; as, the reconsideration of a vote in a legislative body.

Reconsolidation

The act or process of reconsolidating; the state of being reconsolidated.

Reconstruct

To construct again; to rebuild; to remodel; to form again or anew.

Reconstruction

The act of constructing again; the state of being reconstructed.

Reconstructive

Reconstructing; tending to reconstruct; as, a reconstructive policy.

Reconvene

To convene or assemble again; to call or come together again.

Reconvention

A cross demand; an action brought by the defendant against the plaintiff before the same judge.

Reconvertible

Capable of being reconverted; convertible again to the original form or condition.

Reconvey

To convey back or to the former place; as, to reconvey goods.

Record

A writing by which some act or event, or a number of acts or events, is recorded; a register; as, a record of the acts of the Hebrew kings; a record of the variations of temperature during a certain time; a family record.

Recorder

One who records; specifically, a person whose official duty it is to make a record of writings or transactions.

Recording

Keeping a record or a register; as, a recording secretary; -- applied to numerous instruments with an automatic appliance which makes a record of their action; as, a recording gauge or telegraph.

Recorporification

The act of investing again with a body; the state of being furnished anew with a body.

Recouch

To retire again to a couch; to lie down again.

Recount

To tell over; to relate in detail; to recite; to tell or narrate the particulars of; to rehearse; to enumerate; as, to recount one's blessings.

Recoupe Recoup

To keep back rightfully (a part), as if by cutting off, so as to diminish a sum due; to take off (a part) from damages; to deduct; as, where a landlord recouped the rent of premises from damages awarded to the plaintiff for eviction.

Recourseful

Having recurring flow and ebb; moving alternately.

Recoverable

Capable of being recovered or regained; capable of being brought back to a former condition, as from sickness, misfortune, etc.; obtainable from a debtor or possessor; as, the debt is recoverable; goods lost or sunk in the ocean are not recoverable.

Recoveree

The person against whom a judgment is obtained in common recovery.

Recoveror

The demandant in a common recovery after judgment.

Recovery

The act of recovering, regaining, or retaking possession.

Recreancy

The quality or state of being recreant.

Recreant

One who yields in combat, and begs for mercy; a mean-spirited, cowardly wretch.

Recreation

The act of recreating, or the state of being recreated; refreshment of the strength and spirits after toil; amusement; diversion; sport; pastime.

Recreative

Tending to recreate or refresh; recreating; giving new vigor or animation; reinvigorating; giving relief after labor or pain; amusing; diverting.

Recrement

Superfluous matter separated from that which is useful; dross; scoria; as, the recrement of ore.

Recrementitious

Of or pertaining to recrement; consisting of recrement or dross.

Recrimination

The act of recriminating; an accusation brought by the accused against the accuser; a counter accusation.

Recriminatory

Having the quality of recrimination; retorting accusation; recriminating.

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