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To cause or permit to lean, incline, rest, etc., to place in a recumbent position; as, to recline the head on the hand. The mother Reclined her dying head upon his breast. Dryden.

Falling or turned downward; reclinate.

One who, or that which, reclines.

Recumbent. Reclining dial, a dial whose plane is inclined to the vertical line through its center. Davies & Peck (Math. Dict.).

To close again. Pope.

To clothe again.

To open; to unclose. [R.] Harvey.

Shut up, sequestered; retired from the world or from public notice; solitary; living apart; as, a recluse monk or hermit; a recluse life In meditation deep, recluse From human converse. J. Philips.

In a recluse or solitary manner.

Quality or state of being recluse.

A state of retirement from the world; seclusion.

Affording retirement from society. "Some reclusive and religious life." Shak.

The habitation of a recluse; a hermitage.

To boil or cook again; hence, to make over; to vamp up; to reconstruct. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

A second coction or preparation; a vamping up.

The act of recognizing, or the state of being recognized; acknowledgment; formal avowal; knowledge confessed or avowed; notice. The lives of such saints had, at the time of their yearly memorials, solemn recognition in the church of God. Hooker.

One of a jury impaneled on an assize. Blackstone.

Pertaining to, or connected with, recognition.

The quality or condition of being recognizable.

Capable of being recognized. [Written also recognisable.] -- Rec"og*ni`za*bly, adv.