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An action to recover damages against one who found goods, and would not deliver them to the owner on demand; an action which lies in any case to recover the value of goods wrongfully converted by another to his own use. In this case the finding, though alleged, is an immaterial fact; the injury lies in the conversion.…

To recover or release from the state of being monopolized. [R.] Unmonopolizing the rewards of learning and industry. Milton.

To convert or recover from the state of a proselyte. Fuller.

Of infirm health; seeking to recover health; sickly; weakly; infirm. My feeble health and valetudinarian stomach. Coleridge. The virtue which the world wants is a healthful virtue, not a valetudinarian virtue. Macaulay.

profits of an estate obtained by a tenant wrongfully holding over after warning. They are recoverable in a process of removing.

called into court to support or make good his warranty of title in the process of common recovery. Blackstone.

calling in a person to make good his warranty of title in the old form of action for the recovery of lands.

To be cured; to recover. [Obs.] Your daughter . . . shall warish and escape. Chaucer.

A process for the recovery or regeneration of manganese dioxide in the manufacture of chlorine, by means of milk of lime and the oxygen of the air; -- so called after the inventor.

To rest, as a horse, in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe. To wind a ship (Naut.), to turn it end for end, so that the wind strikes it on the opposite side.

A statute fixing the compensation that a workman may recover from an employer in case of accident, esp. the British act of 6 Edw. VII. c. 58 (1906) giving to a workman, except in certain cases of "serious and willful misconduct," a right against his employer to a certain compensation on the mere occurrence of an accide…

worm. Covetousness will wriggle itself out at a small hole. Fuller. Wriggling his body to recover His seat, and cast his right leg over. Hudibras.