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A yellow crystalline substance allied to pyrrol, obtained by the distillation of gelatin.

fteenth century, when applied to Italian art or literature; as, the sculpture of the quattrocento; quattrocento style. --Quat`tro*cen"tist (#), n.

A Sprengel explosive consisting of potassium chlorate and mono- nitrobenzene.

Act or fact of coming or being drawn near or together; establishment or state of cordial relations.

nterchanging or interchanged; given and received; due from each to each; mutual; as, reciprocal love; reciprocal duties. Let our reciprocal vows be remembered. Shak.

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.

eably; 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 rotary engine, in which the piston travels continuously in one direction in a circul…

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

Reciprocal advantages, obligations, or rights; reciprocation. Reciprocity treaty, or Treaty of reciprocity, a treaty concluded between two countries, conferring equal privileges as regards customs or charges on imports, or in other respects.

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

Reciprocal. [Obs.]

A kind of dynamite used in blasting. [U.S.]

To cede or grant back; as, to retrocede a territory to a former proprietor.

Disposed or likely to retrocede; -- said of diseases which go from one part of the body to another, as the gout.

The act of retroceding.

Any extension of a church behind the higggggggh altar, as a chapel; also, in an apsidal church, all the space beyond the line of the back or eastern face of the altar.

Copulating backward, or from behind.

Copulation from behind. Sir T. Browne.