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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.

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 distraine…

One who recaptures; one who takes a prize which had been previously taken.

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

The European goldfinch.

A mass of parenchym

To escape. [Obs. or Poetic.] Milton. Out of this prison help that we may scape. Chaucer.

the wheel in an escapement (as of a clock or a watch) into the teeth of which the pallets play.

One who has narrowly escaped the gallows for his crimes. [Colloq.] Dickens.

se head were symbolically placed the sins of the people, after which he was suffered to escape into the wilderness. Lev. xvi. 10.

A graceless, unprincipled person; one who is wild and reckless. Beaconsfield.

Destitute of a scape.

Same as Escapement, 3.

The case, or impermeable apparel, in which a diver can work while under water.

An ancient mode of punishing criminals among the Persians, by confining the victim in a trough, with his head and limbs smeared with honey or the like, and exposed to the sun and to insects until he died.