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to come again to mind. When any word has been used to signify an idea, the old idea will recur in the mind when the word is heard. I. Watts.

possess. [Obs.] When their powers, impaired through labor long, With due repast, they had recured well. Spenser.

Incapable of cure. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

The act of recurring, or state of being recurrent; return; resort; recourse. I shall insensibly go on from a rare to a frequent recurrence to the dangerous preparations. I. Taylor.

Returning from time to time; recurring; as, recurrent pains.

Displayed with the back toward the spectator; -- said especially of an eagle.

The act of recurring; return. [Obs.] Boyle.

Recurved.

The act of recurving, or the state of being recurved; a bending or flexure backward.

To curve in an opposite or unusual direction; to bend back or down.

Curved in an opposite or uncommon direction; bent back; as, a bird with a recurved bill; flowers with recurved petals.

A bird whose beak bends upward, as the avocet.

Having the beak bent upwards.

Recurvation.

Recurved. Derham.

Incurable. [Obs.]

Not recurring.

Nonrecurrent.

A precursor. [Obs.] Shak.

A forerunning. [Obs.] Shak.