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Reciprocal migration; interchange of dwelling place by migration. [R.] Sir M. Hale.

Interchange; mutual or reciprocal change.

Having a mutual or reciprocal relation or parallelism; correlative.

Mutual or reciprocal relation; correlation.

Opposite in order, relation, or effect; reversed; inverted; reciprocal; -- opposed to direct.

The neuter reciprocal pronoun of It; as, the thing is good in itself; it stands by itself. Borrowing of foreigners, in itself, makes not the kingdom rich or poor. Locke.

A unit of conductivity, being the reciprocal of the ohm.

To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.

Reciprocally acting or related; reciprocally receiving and giving; reciprocally given and received; reciprocal; interchanged; as, a mutual love, advantage, assistance, aversion, etc. Conspiracy and mutual promise. Sir T. More. Happy in our mutual help, And mutual love. Milton. A certain shyness on such subjects, which…

ophers, as to the intervention of the First Cause, by which they account for the apparent reciprocal action of the soul and the body.

the reciprocal of reluctance.

To interchange; to transfer reciprocally.

oduce formally; to offer for acquaintance; as, to present an envoy to the king; (with the reciprocal pronoun) to come into the presence of a superior. Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the lord. Job i. 6

, 6464, 32, 16, 8, 4, 2 -- Harmonic progression, a progression in which the terms are the reciprocals of quantities in arithmetical progression, as

To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition.

The mutual or reciprocal action of chemical agents upon each other, or the action upon such chemical agents of some form of energy, as heat, light, or electricity, resulting in a chemical change in one or more of these agents, with the production of new compounds or the manifestation of distinctive characters. See Blow…

Reciprocal advantages, obligations, or rights; reciprocation. Reciprocity treaty, or Treaty of reciprocity, a treaty concluded between two countries, conferring equal privileges as regards customs or charges on imports, or in other respects.

Reciprocal. [Obs.]

Reciprocal. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Reciprocal. Bacon.