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To make fourfold; to double twice; to quadruple.

The act of making fourfold; a taking four times the simple sum or amount.

To a fourfold quantity; so as to be, or cause to be, quadruple; as, to be quadruply recompensed.

The middle of the three groups into which the rocks of the Canadian period have been divided in the American Lower Silurian system. See the Chart of Geology.

Multiplied by five; increased to five times the amount; fivefold. Quintuple time (Mus.), a time having five beats in a measure. It is seldom used.

The same as Quinquenerved.

(Mus.) A group of five connected notes; a turn of five notes.

iminish a sum due; to take off (a part) from damages; to deduct; as, where a landlord recouped the rent of premises from damages awarded to the plaintiff for eviction.

One who recoups. Story.

The act of recouping.

Recoverable. Sir T. Elyot.

To recover; to regain; as, to recuperate the health or strength.

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

Of or pertaining to recuperation; tending to recovery.

Same as Regenerator.

Double; doubled; reduplicative; repeated.

The act of doubling, or the state of being doubled.

Double; formed by reduplication; reduplicate. I. Watts.

To occupy again.

Inverted in position; appearing to be upside down or reversed, as the flowers of the orchis and the leaves of some plants.