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A second charter; a renewal of a charter. D. Webster.

Mutually interchangeable. These two rules will render a definition reciprocal with the thing defined. I. Watts.

A second or renewed colonization.

A second or renewed commitment; a renewed reference to a committee.

To render an equivalent to, for service, loss, etc.; to requite; to remunerate; to compensate. He can not recompense me better. Shak.

of reconciling, or the state of being reconciled; reconcilenment; restoration to harmony; renewal of friendship. Reconciliation and friendship with God really form the basis of all rational and true enjoyment. S. Miller.

Renewed consecration.

To take up for renewed consideration, as a motion or a vote which has been previously acted upon.

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.

A coursing back, or coursing again, along the line of a previous coursing; renewed course; return; retreat; recurence. [Obs.] "Swift recourse of flushing blood." Spenser. Unto my first I will have my recourse. Chaucer. Preventive physic . . . preventeth sickness in the healthy, or the recourse thereof in the valetudina…

To get or obtain again; to get renewed possession of; to win back; to regain. David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away. 1. Sam. xxx. 18.

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

Hence, to restore the wasted vigor of; to renew in strength or health; to reinvigorate.

which some new thing is reserved out of what had been granted before; the clause by which rent is reserved in a lease. Cruise.

A demanding back; a second or renewed demand.

Restored to wholeness or a perfect state; renewed. Bacon.

Restoration to a whole or sound state; renewal; renovation. Dr. H. More.

The European red band fish, or fireflame. See Rend fish.

The fourth stomach of a ruminant; rennet. [Prov. Eng. or Scot.]

The enacting or passing of a law a second time; the renewal of a law.