Record (v. t.) 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.
Record (v. t.) An official contemporaneous writing by which the acts of some public body, or public officer, are recorded; as, a record of city ordinances; the records of the receiver of taxes.
Record (v. t.) An authentic official copy of a document which has been entered in a book, or deposited in the keeping of some officer designated by law.
Record (v. t.) An official contemporaneous memorandum stating the proceedings of a court of justice; a judicial record.
Record (v. t.) The various legal papers used in a case, together with memoranda of the proceedings of the court; as, it is not permissible to allege facts not in the record.
Record (v. t.) Testimony; witness; attestation.
Record (v. t.) That which serves to perpetuate a knowledge of acts or events; a monument; a memorial.
Record (v. t.) That which has been, or might be, recorded; the known facts in the course, progress, or duration of anything, as in the life of a public man; as, a politician with a good or a bad record.
Record (v. t.) That which has been publicly achieved in any kind of competitive sport as recorded in some authoritative manner, as the time made by a winning horse in a race.
Recordance (n.) Remembrance.
Recordation (v. t.) Remembrance; recollection; also, a record.
Recorder (n.) One who records; specifically, a person whose official duty it is to make a record of writings or transactions.
Recorder (n.) The title of the chief judical officer of some cities and boroughs; also, of the chief justice of an East Indian settlement. The Recorder of London is judge of the Lord Mayor's Court, and one of the commissioners of the Central Criminal Court.
Recorder (n.) A kind of wind instrument resembling the flageolet.
Recordership (n.) The office of a recorder.
Recording (a.) 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 (n.) The act of investing again with a body; the state of being furnished anew with a body.
Recouch (v. i.) To retire again to a couch; to lie down again.
Recount (v. t.) To count or reckon again.
Recount (n.) A counting again, as of votes.
Recount (v.) 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.
Recountment (n.) Recital.
Recoup (v. t.) Alt. of Recoupe
Recoupe (v. t.) 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.
Recoupe (v. t.) To get an equivalent or compensation for; as, to recoup money lost at the gaming table; to recoup one's losses in the share market.
Recoupe (v. t.) To reimburse; to indemnify; -- often used reflexively and in the passive.
Recouper (n.) One who recoups.
Recoupment (n.) The act of recouping.
Recourse (n.) A coursing back, or coursing again, along the line of a previous coursing; renewed course; return; retreat; recurence.
Recourse (n.) Recurrence in difficulty, perplexity, need, or the like; access or application for aid; resort.
Recourse (n.) Access; admittance.
Recourse (v. i.) To return; to recur.
Recourse (v. i.) To have recourse; to resort.
Recourseful (a.) Having recurring flow and ebb; moving alternately.
Recover (v. t.) To cover again.
Recovered (imp. & p. p.) of Recover
Recovering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Recover
Recover (v. t.) To get or obtain again; to get renewed possession of; to win back; to regain.
Recover (v. t.) To make good by reparation; to make up for; to retrieve; to repair the loss or injury of; as, to recover lost time.
Recover (v. t.) To restore from sickness, faintness, or the like; to bring back to life or health; to cure; to heal.
Recover (v. t.) To overcome; to get the better of, -- as a state of mind or body.
Recover (v. t.) To rescue; to deliver.
Recover (v. t.) To gain by motion or effort; to obtain; to reach; to come to.
Recover (v. t.) To gain as a compensation; to obtain in return for injury or debt; as, to recover damages in trespass; to recover debt and costs in a suit at law; to obtain title to by judgement in a court of law; as, to recover lands in ejectment or common recovery; to gain by legal process; as, to recover judgement against a defendant.
Recover (v. i.) To regain health after sickness; to grow well; to be restored or cured; hence, to regain a former state or condition after misfortune, alarm, etc.; -- often followed by of or from; as, to recover from a state of poverty; to recover from fright.
Recover (v. i.) To make one's way; to come; to arrive.
Recover (v. i.) To obtain a judgement; to succeed in a lawsuit; as, the plaintiff has recovered in his suit.
Recover (n.) Recovery.
Recoverable (a.) 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.
Re coverance (n.) Recovery.
Recoveree (n.) The person against whom a judgment is obtained in common recovery.
Recoverer (n.) One who recovers.
Recoveror (n.) The demandant in a common recovery after judgment.
Recovery (n.) The act of recovering, regaining, or retaking possession.
Recovery (n.) Restoration from sickness, weakness, faintness, or the like; restoration from a condition of mistortune, of fright, etc.
Recovery (n.) The obtaining in a suit at law of a right to something by a verdict and judgment of court.
Recovery (n.) The getting, or gaining, of something not previously had.
Recovery (n.) In rowing, the act of regaining the proper position for making a new stroke.
Recreance (n.) Recreancy.
Recreancy (n.) The quality or state of being recreant.
Recreant (a.) Crying for mercy, as a combatant in the trial by battle; yielding; cowardly; mean-spirited; craven.
Recreant (a.) Apostate; false; unfaithful.
Recreant (n.) One who yields in combat, and begs for mercy; a mean-spirited, cowardly wretch.
Re-create (v. t.) To create or form anew.
Recreated (imp. & p. p.) of Recreate
Recreating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Recreate
Recreate (v. t.) To give fresh life to; to reanimate; to revive; especially, to refresh after wearying toil or anxiety; to relieve; to cheer; to divert; to amuse; to gratify.
Recreate (v. i.) To take recreation.
Recreation (n.) The act of recreating, or the state of being recreated; refreshment of the strength and spirits after toil; amusement; diversion; sport; pastime.
Re-creation (n.) A forming anew; a new creation or formation.
Re-creative (a.) Creating anew; as, re-creative power.
Recreative (a.) Tending to recreate or refresh; recreating; giving new vigor or animation; reinvigorating; giving relief after labor or pain; amusing; diverting.
Recrement (n.) Superfluous matter separated from that which is useful; dross; scoria; as, the recrement of ore.
Recrement (n.) Excrement.
Recrement (n.) A substance secreted from the blood and again absorbed by it.
Recremental (a.) Recrementitious.
Recrementitial (a.) Of the nature of a recrement. See Recrement, 2 (b).
Recrementitious (a.) Of or pertaining to recrement; consisting of recrement or dross.
Recriminate (v. i.) To return one charge or accusation with another; to charge back fault or crime upon an accuser.
Recriminate (v. t.) To accuse in return.
Recrimination (n.) The act of recriminating; an accusation brought by the accused against the accuser; a counter accusation.
Recriminative (a.) Recriminatory.
Recriminator (n.) One who recriminates.
Recriminatory (a.) Having the quality of recrimination; retorting accusation; recriminating.
Recross (v. t.) To cross a second time.
Recrudency (n.) Recrudescence.
Recrudescence (n.) Alt. of Recrudescency
Recrudescency (n.) The state or condition of being recrudescent.
Recrudescency (n.) Increased severity of a disease after temporary remission.
Recrudescent (a.) Growing raw, sore, or painful again.
Recrudescent (a.) Breaking out again after temporary abatement or supression; as, a recrudescent epidemic.
Recruited (imp. & p. p.) of Recruit
Recruiting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Recruit
Recruit (v. t.) To repair by fresh supplies, as anything wasted; to remedy lack or deficiency in; as, food recruits the flesh; fresh air and exercise recruit the spirits.
Recruit (v. t.) Hence, to restore the wasted vigor of; to renew in strength or health; to reinvigorate.
Recruit (v. t.) To supply with new men, as an army; to fill up or make up by enlistment; as, he recruited two regiments; the army was recruited for a campaign; also, to muster; to enlist; as, he recruited fifty men.
Recruit (v. i.) To gain new supplies of anything wasted; to gain health, flesh, spirits, or the like; to recuperate; as, lean cattle recruit in fresh pastures.
Recruit (v. i.) To gain new supplies of men for military or other service; to raise or enlist new soldiers; to enlist troops.
Recruit (n.) A supply of anything wasted or exhausted; a reenforcement.
Recruit (n.) Specifically, a man enlisted for service in the army; a newly enlisted soldier.