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An obligation of record entered into before some court of record or magistrate duly authorized, with condition to do some particular act, as to appear at the same or some other court, to keep the peace, or pay a debt. A recognizance differs from a bond, being witnessed by the record only, and not by the party's seal.…

Recognition. [R.]

To know again; to perceive the identity of, with a person or thing previously known; to recover or recall knowledge of. Speak, vassal; recognize thy sovereign queen. Harte.

The person in whose favor a recognizance is made. [Written also recognisee.] Blackstone.

One who recognizes; a recognizor. [Written also recogniser.]

One who enters into a recognizance. [Written also recognisor.] Blackstone.

To recognize. [R. & Obs.] Boyle.

To start, roll, bound, spring, or fall back; to take a reverse motion; to be driven or forced backward; to return. Evil on itself shall back recoil. Milton. The solemnity of her demeanor made it impossible . . . that we should recoil into our ordinary spirits. De Quincey.

One who, or that which, recoils.

In the manner of a recoil.

Recoil. [R.]

To coin anew or again.

The act of coining anew.

To recover or recall the knowledge of; to bring back to the mind or memory; to remember.

The act of recollecting, or recalling to the memory; the operation by which objects are recalled to the memory, or ideas revived in the mind; reminiscence; remembrance.

Having the power of recollecting. J. Foster.

Same as Recollect, n.

A second or renewed colonization.

To colonize again.

Combination a second or additional time.