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One who is recidivous or is characterized by recidivism; an incorrigible criminal. -- Re*cid`i*vis"tic (#), a.

Tending or liable to backslide or r

A formulary or prescription for making some combination, mixture, or preparation of materials; a receipt; especially, a prescription for medicine.

An instrument with two arms that are pivoted together at one end, and a graduated arc, -- used by military engineers for measuring and laying off angles of fortifications.

The quality or state of being recipient; a receiving; reception; receptiveness.

A receiver; the person or thing that receives; one to whom, or that to which, anything is given or communicated; specifically, the receiver of a still.

Recurring in vicissitude; alternate.

The quality or condition of being reciprocal; reciprocalness. [R.]

In a reciprocal manner; so that each affects the other, and is equally affected by it; interchangeably; mutually. These two particles to reciprocally affect each other with the same force. Bentley.

The quality or condition of being reciprocal; mutual return; alternateness.

To move forward and backward alternately; to recur in vicissitude; to act interchangeably; to alternate. One brawny smith the puffing bellows plies, And draws and blows reciprocating air. Dryden. Reciprocating engine, a steam, air, or gas engine, etc., in which the piston moves back and forth; -- in distinction from a…

The act of reciprocating; interchange of acts; a mutual giving and returning; as, the reciprocation of kindness.

Mutual action and reaction.

Having horns turning backward and then forward, like those of a ram. [R.] Ash.

Reciprocal. [Obs.]

Reciprocal. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Reciprocal. Bacon.

The act of cutting off. Sherwood.

The act of reciting; the repetition of the words of another, or of a document; rehearsal; as, the recital of testimony.

The act of reciting; rehearsal; repetition of words or sentences. Hammond.