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To drive or beat back; to repulse. Who him, recount'ring fierce, as hawk in flight, Perforce rebutted back. Spenser.

Capable of being rebutted.

The giving of evidence on the part of a plaintiff to destroy the effect of evidence introduced by the defendant in the same suit.

The answer of a defendant in matter of fact to a plaintiff's surrejoinder.

A falling back or descending a second time; a relapse. W. Montagu.

Kicking back; recalcitrating; hence, showing repugnance or opposition; refractory.

To kick against; to show repugnance to; to rebuff. The more heartily did one disdain his disdain, and recalcitrate his tricks. De Quincey.

A kicking back again; opposition; repugnance; refractoriness.

To call back; to summon to return; as, to recall troops; to recall an ambassador.

Capable of being recalled.

Recall. [R.] R. Browning.

To withdraw or repudiate formally and publicly (opinions formerly expressed); to contradict, as a former declaration; to take back openly; to retract; to recall. How soon . . . ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void! Milton.

The act of recanting; a declaration that contradicts a former one; that which is thus asserted in contradiction; retraction. The poor man was imprisoned for this discovery, and forced to make a public recantation. Bp. Stillingfleet.

One who recants.

To qualify again; to confer capacity on again. Atterbury.

To repeat, as the principal points in a discourse, argument, or essay; to give a summary of the principal facts, points, or arguments of; to relate in brief; to summarize.

The act of recapitulating; a summary, or concise statement or enumeration, of the principal points, facts, or statements, in a preceding discourse, argument, or essay.

One who recapitulates.

Of the nature of a recapitulation; containing recapitulation.

A tool used for applying a fresh percussion cap or primer to a cartridge shell in reloading it.