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.

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.

The cardinal bird. The summer redbird (Piranga rubra). The scarlet tanager. See Tanager.

The European robin. The American robin. See Robin. The knot, or red-breasted snipe; -- called also robin breast, and robin snipe. See Knot.

A small ornamental leguminous tree of the American species of the genus Cercis. See Judas tree, under Judas.

The European goldfinch.

One who wears a red coat; specifically, a red-coated British soldier.

obs. imp. of Read, or Rede.

To grow or become red; to blush.

A clause in a deed by which some new thing is reserved out of what had been granted before; the clause by which rent is reserved in a lease.