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One who reclaims.

That can not be reclaimed.

Lard; grease. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]

The squirrel monkey.

Squeamish. [Obs.]

An outer, or exterior. wall. See Vauntmure. [Obs.] Hakluyt.

See Wayment. [Obs.]

A Turkish chief who supports a mounted militia bearing the same name. Smart.

A district from which a Zaim draws his revenue. Smart.

To relinquish all claim to; -- used when an insured person gives up to underwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, which may remain after loss or damage by a peril insured against.

elf-abandoned, or given up to vice; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked ; as, an abandoned villain.

(a) The relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege, as to mill site, etc. (b) The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband, or child; desertion.

To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit.

To own or recognize in a particular character or relationship; to admit the claims or authority of; to give recognition to. In all thy ways acknowledge Him. Prov. iii. 6. By my soul, I'll ne'er acknowledge thee. Shak.

To discharge, as a claim or debt; to clear off; to pay off; to requite. A responsibility that can never be absolutely acquitted. I. Taylor.

A right of action; as, the law gives an action for every claim.

To aim; to direct. [Obs.] Chaucer. And this good knight his way with me addrest. Spenser.

Settlement of claims; an equitable arrangement of conflicting claims, as in set-off, contribution, exoneration, subrogation, and marshaling. Bispham.

A right formerly claimed by the states of the German Empire of joining their own ministers with those of the emperor in public treaties and negotiations to the common interest of the empire. Encyc. Brit.

they. Adverse possession (Law), a possession of real property avowedly contrary to some claim of title in another person. Abbott.