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To return one charge or accusation with another; to chargeback fault or crime upon an accuser. It is not my business to recriminate, hoping sufficiently toBp. Stillingfleet.

The act of recriminating; an accusation brought by the accused against the accuser; a counter accusation. Accusations and recriminations passed back ward and forward between the contending parties. Macaulay.

Recriminatory.

One who recriminates.

Having the quality of recrimination; retorting accusation; recriminating.

To cross a second time.

Recrudescence.

To be in a state of recrudescence; esp., to come into renewed freshness, vigor, or activity; to revive.

The state or condition of being recrudescent. A recrudescence of barbarism may condemn it [land] to chronic poverty and waste. Duke of Argyll.

Growing raw, sore, or painful again.

To repair by fresh supplies, as anything wasted; to remedy lack or deficiency in; as, food recruits the flesh; fresh air and exercise recruit the spirits. Her cheeks glow the brighter, recruiting their color. Glanvill.

One who, or that which, recruits.

The act or process of recruiting; especially, the enlistment of men for an army.

The process or recrystallizing.

To crystallize again. Henry.

Of or pertaining to the rectum; in the region of the rectum.

A four-sided figure having only right angles; a right-angled parallelogram.

Rectangular. Hutton.

Right-angled; having one or more angles of ninety degrees. -- Rec*tan"gu*lar*ly (r, adv. -- Rec*tan"gu*lar*ness, n.

The quality or condition of being rectangular, or right-angled.