Emily Dickinson Lexicon

RECK'ON-ED, pp. [rek'nd]

Counted; numbered; esteemed; reputed; computed; set or assigned to in account.

RECK'ON-ER, n. [rek'ner.]

One who reckons or computes. Reckoners without their host must reckon twice. – Camden.

RECK'ON-ING, n.

1. The act of counting or computing; calculation.
2. An account of time. – Sandy.
3. A statement of accounts with another; a statement of comparison of accounts mutually for adjustment; as in the proverb, “short reckonings make long friends.” The way to make reckonings even, is to make them often. – South.
4. The charges or account made by a host. A coin would have a nobler use than to pay a reckoning. – Addison.
5. Account taken. – 2 Kings xxii.
6. Esteem; account; estimation. You make no further reckoning of beauty, than of an outward fading benefit nature bestowed. – Sidney.
7. In navigation, an account of the ship's course and distance calculated from the log-board without the aid of celestial observation. This account from the log-board, is called dead reckoning. – Mar. Dict.

RECK-ON-ING, ppr. [rek'ning.]

Counting; computing; esteeming; reputing; stating an account mutually.

RECK'ON-ING-BOOK, n.

A book in which money received and expended is entered. – Johnson.

RE-CLAIM', v.i.

To cry out; to exclaim. – Pope.

RE-CLAIM', v.t. [F. reclamer; L. reclamo; re and clamo, to call. See Claim.]

1. To claim back; to demand to have returned. The vender may reclaim the goods. – Z. Swift.
2. To call back from error, wandering or transgression, to the observance of moral rectitude; to reform; to bring back correct deportment or course of life. It is the intention of Providence in its various expressions of goodness, to reclaim mankind. – Rogers.
3. To reduce to the state desired. Much labor is requir'd in trees, to tame / Their wild disorder and in ranks reclaim. – Dryden.
4. To call back; to restrain. Or is her tow'ring flight reclaim'd, / By seas from Icarus' downfall nam'd? – Prior.
5. To recall; to cry out against. The headstrong horses hurried Octavius along, and were deaf to his reclaiming them. [Unusual.] – Dryden.
6. To reduce from a wild to a tame or domestic state; to tame; to make gentle; as, to reclaim a hawk, an eagle or a wild beast.
7. To demand or challenge; to make a claim; a French use.
8. To recover. – Spenser.
9. In ancient customs, to pursue and recall, as a vassal. – Encyc.
10. To encroach on what has been taken from one; to attempt to recover possession. A tract of land [Holland] snatched from an element perpetually reclaiming its prior occupancy. – Coxe, Switz.

RE-CLAIM'A-BLE, a.

That may be reclaimed, reformed; or tamed.

RE-CLAIM'ANT, n.

One that opposes, contradicts or remonstrates against. – Waterland.

RE-CLAIM'ED, pp.

Recalled from a vicious life; reformed; tamed; domesticated; recovered.

RE-CLAIM'ING, ppr.

Recalling to a regular course of life; reforming; recovering; taking; demanding.

RE-CLAIM'LESS, a.

1. Not to be reclaimed. – Lee.
2. Demand; challenge of something to be restored; claim made. – Gallatin. In botany, reclined, as a leaf; bent downward, so that the point of the leaf is lower than the base. – Martyn. A reclinate stem is one that bends in an arch toward the earth. – Lee.

REC-LA-MA'TION, n.

Recovery.

REC'LIN-ATE, a. [L. reclinatus. See Recline.]

In botany, reclined, as a leaf; bent downward, so that the point of the leaf is lower than the base. – Martyn.

REC-LIN-A'TION, n.¹

The act of leaning or reclining.

REC-LIN-A'TION, n.²

In dialing, the angle which the plane of the dial makes with a vertical plane which it intersects in a horizontal line. Brande.

RE-CLINE', a. [L. reclinis.]

Leaning; being in a leaning posture. They sat recline, / On the soft downy bank damask'd with flowers. – Milton. [Little used.]

RE-CLINE', v.t.¹ [L. reclino; re and clino, to lean.]

To lean back; to lean to one side or sidewise; as, to recline the head on a pillow, or on the bosom of another, or on the arm. The mother / Reclin'd her dying head upon his breast. – Dryden.

RE-CLINE', v.t.²

To lean; to rest or repose; as, to recline on a couch.

RE-CLIN'ED, pp.

Inclined back or sidewise.

RE-CLIN'ING, ppr.

Leaning back or sidewise; resting; lying.

RE-CLOSE', v.t. [s or z; re and close.]

To close or shut again.

RE-CLOS'ED, pp.

Closed again.

RE-CLOS'ING, ppr.

Closing again.

RE-CLUDE', v.t. [L. recludo; re and claudo, cludo.]

To open. [Little used.] – Harvey.