Chapter Rebrace to Receive of R by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

Recapitulatory
(Re`ca*pit"u*la*to*ry) a. Of the nature of a recapitulation; containing recapitulation.

Recapper
(Re*cap"per) n. (Firearms) A tool used for applying a fresh percussion cap or primer to a cartridge shell in reloading it.

Recaption
(Re*cap"tion) n. (Law) The act of retaking, as of one who has escaped after arrest; reprisal; the retaking of one's own goods, chattels, wife, or children, without force or violence, from one who has taken them and who wrongfully detains them. Blackstone.

Writ of recaption (Law), a writ to recover damages for him whose goods, being distrained for rent or service, are distrained again for the same cause. Wharton.

Recaptor
(Re*cap"tor) n. One who recaptures; one who takes a prize which had been previously taken.

Recapture
(Re*cap"ture) n.

1. The act of retaking or recovering by capture; especially, the retaking of a prize or goods from a captor.

2. That which is captured back; a prize retaken.

Recapture
(Re*cap"ture), v. t. To capture again; to retake.

Recarbonize
(Re*car"bon*ize) v. t. (Metal.) To restore carbon to; as, to recarbonize iron in converting it into steel.

Recarnify
(Re*car"ni*fy) v. t. To convert again into flesh. [Obs.] Howell.

Recarriage
(Re*car"riage) n. Act of carrying back.

Recarry
(Re*car"ry) v. t. To carry back. Walton.

Recast
(Re*cast") v. t.

1. To throw again. Florio.

2. To mold anew; to cast anew; to throw into a new form or shape; to reconstruct; as, to recast cannon; to recast an argument or a play.

3. To compute, or cast up, a second time.

Recche
(Rec"che) v. i. To reck. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Reccheles
(Rec"che*les) a. Reckless. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Recede
(Re*cede") v. i. [imp. & p. p. Receded; p. pr. & vb. n. Receding.] [L. recedere, recessum; pref. re- re- + cedere to go, to go along: cf. F. recéder. See Cede.]

1. To move back; to retreat; to withdraw.

Like the hollow roar
Of tides receding from the insulted shore.

Dryden.

All bodies moved circularly endeavor to recede from the center.

Bentley.

2. To withdraw a claim or pretension; to desist; to relinquish what had been proposed or asserted; as, to recede from a demand or proposition.

Syn. — To retire; retreat; return; retrograde; withdraw; desist.