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.

The act of recomposing.

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.

To concentrate again; to concentrate thoroughly.

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.

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

To become reconciled.

Reconciliation.

One who reconciles.

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

Serving or tending to reconcile.

The act or process of recondensing.

To condense again.

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

A repository; a storehouse.

To conduct back or again.

To confirm anew.

To recomfort; to comfort.

To join or conjoin anew.

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.

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

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

A second conquest.

To consecrate anew or again.

Renewed consecration.

To consider again; as, to reconsider a subject.

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

To console or comfort again.

To consolidate anew or again.

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

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

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

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

The act or state of recontinuing.

To continue anew.

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

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

A second conversion.

A person who has been reconverted.

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

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

Act of reconveying.

To copy again.

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.

Remembrance; recollection; also, a record.

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

The office of a recorder.

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.

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

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

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.

Recital.

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.

One who recoups.

The act of recouping.

To return; to recur.

Having recurring flow and ebb; moving alternately.

Recovery.

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.

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

One who recovers.

The demandant in a common recovery after judgment.

The act of recovering, regaining, or retaking possession.

Recreancy.

The quality or state of being recreant.

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

To take recreation.

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

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

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

Recrementitious.

Of the nature of a recrement. See Recrement, 2 (b).

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

To accuse in return.

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

Recriminatory.

One who recriminates.

Having the quality of recrimination; retorting accusation; recriminating.

To cross a second time.

Recrudescence.

To be in a state of recrudescence; esp., to come into renewed freshness, vigor, or activity; to revive.

Growing raw, sore, or painful again.

A supply of anything wasted or exhausted; a reenforcement.

One who, or that which, recruits.

The act or process of recruiting; especially, the enlistment of men for an army.

The process or recrystallizing.

To crystallize again.

Of or pertaining to the rectum; in the region of the rectum.

Rectangular.

Rectangular.

Right-angled; having one or more angles of ninety degrees.

The quality or condition of being rectangular, or right-angled.

Capable of being rectified; as, a rectifiable mistake.

The act or operation of rectifying; as, the rectification of an error; the rectification of spirits.

That which rectifies or refines; esp., a part of a distilling apparatus in which the more volatile portions are separated from the less volatile by the process of evaporation and condensation; a rectifier.

One who, or that which, rectifies.

To make or set right; to correct from a wrong, erroneous, or false state; to amend; as, to rectify errors, mistakes, or abuses; to rectify the will, the judgment, opinions; to rectify disorders.

Straight; consisting of a straight line or lines; bounded by straight lines; as, a rectineal angle; a rectilinear figure or course.

The quality or state of being rectilinear.

Rectilinear.

Having the veins or nerves straight; -- said of leaves.

See Government, n., 7.

Having a straight beak.

Arranged in exactly vertical ranks, as the leaves on stems of many kinds; -- opposed to curviserial.