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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…

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

A writing acknowledging the taking or receiving of goods delivered; an acknowledgment of money paid.

A retaking; a recovery. [Obs.] Bacon.

The act of recovering, regaining, or retaking possession.

The process of taking in a reef. Reefing bowsprit, a bowsprit so rigged that it can easily be run in or shortened by sliding inboard, as in cutters.

A resuming or retaking possession of what one has lately foregone; -- applied especially to land; the entry by a lessor upon the premises leased, on failure of the tenant to pay rent or perform the covenants in the lease. Burrill. Card of reëtry, (Whist), a card that by winning a trick will bring one the lead at an adv…

The right of taking in preference to others; the choice of taking or refusing; option; as, to give one the refusal of a farm; to have the refusal of an employment.

gives succor, aid, or comfort; also, the person who relieves from performance of duty by taking the place of another; a relay.

The act of taking food. From dance to sweet repast they turn. Milton.

cases for wrongful distress, but it may generally now be brought in all cases of wrongful taking or detention. Bouvier.

The act of taking from an enemy by way of reteliation or indemnity. Debatable ground, on which incursions and reprisals continued to take place. Macaulay.

A taking by way of retaliation. [Obs.] Dryden.

The forcible retaking, or taking away, against law, of things lawfully distrained.

The taking of lands into the hands of the king where a general livery, or oustre le main, was formerly mis-sued, contrary to the form and order of law.

In a good sense, satisfaction; gratitude. [Obs.] The Council taking notice of the many good services performed by Mr. John Milton, . . . have thought fit to declare their resentment and good acceptance of the same. The Council Book (1651).

The act of going to, or making application; a betaking one's self; the act of visiting or seeking; recourse; as, a place of popular resort; -- often figuratively; as, to have resort to force. Join with me to forbid him her resort. Shak.

The act of resping or breathing; the act of taking in and giving out air; the aggregate of those processes bu which oxygen is introduced into the system, and carbon dioxide, or carbonic acid, removed.

The taking again into the king's hands of such lands or tenements as he had granted to any man on false suggestions or other error.

Taking back; resuming, or tending toward resumption; as, resumptive measures.