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.
5. Account taken. 2 Kings xxii. Addison.
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.