Emily Dickinson Lexicon

REC-U-BA'TION, n. [L. recubo; re and cubo, to lie down.]

The act of lying or leaning. [Little used.] – Brown.

RE-CULE, v.i.

To recoil. [Not used. See Recoil.] – Barret.

RE-CUMB', v.i. [L. recumbo; re and cumbo, to lie down.]

To lean; to recline; to repose. – Allen.

RE-CUMB'ENCE, n. [from L. recumbens.]

The act of reposing or resting in confidence. Ld. North.

RE-CUMB'EN-CY, n.

1. The posture of leaning, reclining or lying. – Brown.
2. Rest; repose; idle state. – Locke.

RE-CUMB'ENT, a. [L. recumbens.]

1. Leaning; reclining; as, the recumbent posture of the Romans at their meals.
2. Reposing; inactive; idle. – Young.

RE-CUMB'ENT-LY, adv.

In a recumbent posture.

RE-CU'PER-A-BLE, a.

Recoverable. Chaucer.

RE-CU-PER-A'TION, n. [L. recuperatio.]

Recovery, as of any thing lost.

RE-CU'PER-A-TIVE, or RE-CU'PER-A-TO-RY, a.

Tending to recovery; pertaining to recovery.

RE-CUR', v.i. [L. recurro; re and curro, to run; Fr. recourir.]

1. To return to the thought or mind. When any word has been used to signify an idea, the old idea will recur in the mind when the word is heard. – Watts.
2. To resort; to have recourse. If to avoid succession in eternal existence, they recur to the punctum stans of the schools, they will very little help us to a more positive idea of infinite duration. – Locke.

RE-CURE, n.

Cure; recovery. [Not in use.] – Knolles.

RE-CURE, v.t. [re and cure.]

To cure; to recover. [Not in use.]

RE-CURE-LESS, a.

Incapable of cure or remedy. [Not in use.] – Bp. Hall.

RE-CUR'RENCE, or RE-CUR'REN-CY, n. [See Recur.]

1. Return; as, the recurrence of error. – Brown.
2. Resort; the having recourse.

RE-CUR'RENT, a. [L. recurrens.]

1. Reuniting from time to time; as, recurrent pains of a disease. – Harvey.
2. In crystalography, a recurrent crystal is one whose faces, being counted in annular ranges from one extremity to the other, furnish two different numbers which succeed each other several times, as 4, 8, 4, 8, 4.
3. In anatomy, the recurrent nerve is a branch of the par vagum, given off in the upper part of the thorax, which is reflected and runs up along the trachea to the larynx. – Wistar.

RE-CUR'RING, ppr.

Returning to the thought or mind; resorting or having recourse to.

RE-CUR'SION, n. [L. recursus, recurro; re and curro, to run.]

Return. [Little used.] – Boyle.

RE-CURV'ATE, a.

1. In botany, bent, bowed or curved downward; as, a recurvate leaf. – Martyn.
2. Bent outward; as, a recurvate prickle, awn, petiole, calyx or corol. – Martyn.

RE-CURV'ATE, v.t. [L. recurvo; re and curvo, to bend.]

To bend back.

RE-CURV-A'TION, or RE-CURV'I-TY, n.

A bending or flexure backward. – Brown.

RE-CURVE, v.t. [recurv'; L. recurvo, supra.]

To bend back.

RE-CURV'ED, pp.

Bent back or downward; as, a recurved leaf. – Martyn.

RE-CURV'I-ROS-TER, n. [L. recurvus, bent back, and rostrum, a beak.]

A fowl whose beak or bill bends upward, as the avoset.

RE-CURV'OUS, a. [L. recurvus.]

Bent backward. – Derham.