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One who recaptures; one who takes a prize which had been previously taken.

To know again; to perceive the identity of, with a person or thing previously known; to recover or recall knowledge of. Speak, vassal; recognize thy sovereign queen. Harte.

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

The getting, or gaining, of something not previously had. [Obs.] "Help be past recovery." Tusser.

The law that objects which have been previously combined as part of a single mental state tend to recall or suggest one another; -- adopted by many philosophers to explain the phenomena of the association of ideas.

an not be said to reflect upon any external object, except so far as that object has been previously perceived, and its image become part and parcel of our intellectual furniture. Sir W. Hamilton. All men are concious of the operations of their own minds, at all times, while they are awake, but there few who reflect up…

, when it enters obliquely a medium of a different density from that through which it has previously moved. Refraction out of the rarer medium into the denser, is made towards the perpendicular. Sir I. Newton.

is heated by being brought into contact with masses of iron, brick, etc., which have been previously heated by the outgoing, or escaping, hot air or gas.

Developed with steep slopes inside a district previously worn down nearly to base level; -- said of topography, or features of topography, as valleys, hills, etc.

To have ( a notion or idea) come into the mind again, as previously perceived, known, or felt; to have a renewed apprehension of; to bring to mind again; to think of again; to recollect; as, I remember the fact; he remembers the events of his childhood; I cannot remember dates. We are said to remember anithing, when th…

ng remembrance; reminding one of something. Some other of existence of which we have been previously conscious, and are now reminiscent. Sir W. Hamilton.

on or edition of any printed work; specifically, the publication in one country of a work previously published in another.

To take back,, as a grant or favor previously bestowed; to revoke. [Obs.] Woodward.

a composition made principally of glue and molassess, with which forms of type are inked previously to taking an impression from them. W. Savage.

Not new; already or previously or used by another; as, a secondhand book, garment. At second hand. See Hand, n., 10.

the allegation of special or new matter, as distingiushed from a direct denial of matter previously alleged on the side. Bouvier. The popular denomination of the whole science of pleading. Stephen. The phrase is sometimes popularly applied to the specious, but unsound, argumentation of one whose aim is victory, and no…

duction of a solid substance (as a long rod, or a cord wound on a roller) into a cylinder previously filled with a liquid.

To sow, as seed, over something previously sown. [Obs.] That can not be done with joy, when it shall be indifferent to any man to superseminate what he please. Jer. Taylor.

The sowing of seed over seed previously sown. [Obs.] Abp. Bramhall.

p for each horse, all of which goes to the winner, or is divided among several, as may be previously agreed.