One who recoups.
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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.
Proctitis.
Straightness.
The right-hand page; -- opposed to verso.
Of or pertaining to both the rectum and the uterus.
Of or pertaining to both the rectum and the bladder.
Pertaining to a rector or governor.
The office, rank, or station of a rector; rectorship.
A governess; a rectrix.
Pertaining to a rector or a rectory; rectoral.
Government; guidance.
The province of a rector; a parish church, parsonage, or spiritual living, with all its rights, tithes, and glebes.
Of or pertaining to both the rectum and the vagina.
A rectoress.
A governess; a rectoress.
The terminal part of the large intestine; -- so named because supposed by the old anatomists to be straight. See Illust. under Digestive.
A straight muscle; as, the recti of the eye.
Recumbence.
To recoil.
Recoil.
To lean; to recline; to repose.
The act of leaning, resting, or reclining; the state of being recumbent.
Recumbence.
Leaning; reclining; lying; as, the recumbent posture of the Romans at their meals. Hence, figuratively; Resting; inactive; idle.
Recoverable.
To recover; to regain; as, to recuperate the health or strength.
Recovery, as of anything lost, especially of the health or strength.
Same as Regenerator.
Of or pertaining to recuperation; tending to recovery.
To come back; to return again or repeatedly; to come again to mind.
Cure; remedy; recovery.
Incapable of cure.
The act of recurring, or state of being recurrent; return; resort; recourse.
Returning from time to time; recurring; as, recurrent pains.
Displayed with the back toward the spectator; -- said especially of an eagle.
The act of recurring; return.
To bend or curve back; to recurve.
The act of recurving, or the state of being recurved; a bending or flexure backward.
To curve in an opposite or unusual direction; to bend back or down.
Curved in an opposite or uncommon direction; bent back; as, a bird with a recurved bill; flowers with recurved petals.
A bird whose beak bends upward, as the avocet.
Having the beak bent upwards.
Recurvation.
Recurved.
The state of being recusant; nonconformity.
One who is obstinate in refusal; one standing out stubbornly against general practice or opinion.
Refusal.
Refusing; denying; negative.
To withdraw oneself from serving as a judge or other decision-maker in order to avoid a real or apparent conflict of interest; -- often used with the reflexive; as, the judge recused himself due to a financial interest in the matter.
The act of beating or striking back.
The color of blood, or of that part of the spectrum farthest from violet, or a tint resembling these.
An eruption of red pimples upon the face, neck, and arms, in early infancy; tooth rash; strophulus.
Having hands red with blood; in the very act, as if with red or bloody hands; -- said of a person taken in the act of homicide; hence, fresh from the commission of crime; as, he was taken red-hand or red-handed.
Red with heat; heated to redness; as, red-hot iron; red-hot balls. Hence, figuratively, excited; violent; as, a red-hot radical.
Of or pertaining to a red letter; marked by red letters.
The European red band fish, or fireflame. See Rend fish.
Hot-short; brittle when red-hot; -- said of certain kinds of iron.
Having a red tail.
Pertaining to, or characterized by, official formality. See Red tape, under Red, a.
Strict adherence to official formalities.
One who is tenacious of a strict adherence to official formalities.
To reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape (matter for publication); to edit.
See Redactor.
The act of redacting; work produced by redacting; a digest.
One who redacts; one who prepares matter for publication; an editor.
A work having two parapets whose faces unite so as to form a salient angle toward the enemy.
To disprove; to refute; toconfute; to reprove; to convict.
The act of redarguing; refutation.
Pertaining to, or containing, redargution; refutatory.
The dunlin.
The char.
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