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aken them and who wrongfully detains them. Blackstone. Writ of recaption (Law), a writ to recover damages for him whose goods, being distrained for rent or service, are distrained again for the same cause.Wharton.

The act of retaking or recovering by capture; especially, the retaking of a prize or goods from a captor.

A retaking; a recovery. [Obs.] Bacon.

To claim back; to demand the return of as a right; to attempt to recover possession of. A tract of land [Holland] snatched from an element perpetually reclaiming its prior occupancy. W. Coxe.

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 recover or recall the knowledge of; to bring back to the mind or memory; to remember.

To conquer again; to recover by conquest; as, to reconquer a revolted province.

Recoverable. Sir T. Elyot.

To recover health; to regain strength; to convalesce.

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

Of or pertaining to recuperation; tending to recovery.

To recover; to regain; to repossess. [Obs.] When their powers, impaired through labor long, With due repast, they had recured well. Spenser.

ility to suffer or to be forfeited, by paying a price or ransom; to ransom; to rescue; to recover; as, to redeem a captive, a pledge, and the like. Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles. Ps. xxv. 22. The Almighty from the grave Hath me redeemed. Sandys.

change which the holder of a protected bill draws on the drawer or indorsers, in order to recover the amount of the protested bill with costs and charges.

To gain anew; to get again; to recover, as what has escaped or been lost; to reach again.

The legal means to recover a right, or to obtain redress for a wrong. Civil remedy. See under Civil. -- Remedy of the mint (Coinage), a small allowed deviation from the legal standard of weight and fineness; -- called also tolerance.

To recover former fullness. [Obs.] The humors will not replenish so soon. Bacon.

A personal action which lies to recover possession of goods and chattle wrongfully taken or detained. Originally, it was a remedy peculiar to cases for wrongful distress, but it may generally now be brought in all cases of wrongful taking or detention. Bouvier.

unal, sometimes called Court of Consience, founded by act of Parliament to facilitate the recovery of small debts from any inhabitant or trader in the district defined by the act; -- now mostly abolished. (b) A court of equity for the relief of such persons as addressed the sovereign by supplication; -- now abolished.…

am, stretched spring, etc., to the elastic limit; also, the work performed by the body in recovering from such strain.