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Recovery, as of anything lost, especially of the health or strength.

Of or pertaining to recuperation; tending to recovery.

Same as Regenerator.

To come back; to return again or repeatedly; to come again to mind. When any word has been used to signify an idea, the old idea will recur in the mind when the word is heard. I. Watts.

To arrive at; to reach; to attain. [Obs.] Lydgate.

Incapable of cure. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

The act of recurring, or state of being recurrent; return; resort; recourse. I shall insensibly go on from a rare to a frequent recurrence to the dangerous preparations. I. Taylor.

Returning from time to time; recurring; as, recurrent pains.

Displayed with the back toward the spectator; -- said especially of an eagle.

The act of recurring; return. [Obs.] Boyle.

Recurved.

The act of recurving, or the state of being recurved; a bending or flexure backward.

To curve in an opposite or unusual direction; to bend back or down.

Curved in an opposite or uncommon direction; bent back; as, a bird with a recurved bill; flowers with recurved petals.

A bird whose beak bends upward, as the avocet.

Having the beak bent upwards.

Recurvation.

Recurved. Derham.

The state of being recusant; nonconformity. Coke.

Obstinate in refusal; specifically, in English history, refusing to acknowledge the supremacy of the king in the churc, or to conform to the established rites of the church; as, a recusant lord. It stated him to have placed his son in the household of the Countess of Derby, a recusant papist. Sir W. Scott.…