Definition of recover

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Recover (v. t.) To make good by reparation; to make up for; to retrieve; to repair the loss or injury of; as, to recover lost time..

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Ranger :: Ranger (n.) The keeper of a public park or forest; formerly, a sworn officer of a forest, appointed by the king's letters patent, whose business was to walk through the forest, recover beasts that had strayed beyond its limits, watch the deer, present trespasses to the next court held for the forest, etc..
Creep :: Creep (v. i.) To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable..
Recover :: Recover (v. i.) To obtain a judgement; to succeed in a lawsuit; as, the plaintiff has recovered in his suit..
Reclaim :: Reclaim (n.) The act of reclaiming, or the state of being reclaimed; reclamation; recovery..
Recuperation :: Recuperation (n..) Recovery, as of anything lost, especially of the health or strength..
Recover :: Recover (v. i.) To make one's way; to come; to arrive.
Recure :: Recure (v. t.) To recover; to regain; to repossess.
Recovery :: Recovery (n.) In rowing, the act of regaining the proper position for making a new stroke..
Voucher :: Voucher (n.) The act of calling in a person to make good his warranty of title in the old form of action for the recovery of lands.
Recuperate :: Recuperate (v. i.) To recover health; to regain strength; to convalesce.
Reception :: Reception (n.) A retaking; a recovery.
Weldon''s Process :: Weldon's process () 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..
Recover :: Recover (v. t.) To cover again.
Retrieve :: Retrieve (n.) The recovery of game once sprung; -- an old sporting term.
Revalescent :: Revalescent (a.) Growing well; recovering strength.
Revive :: Revive (v. i.) Hence, to recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression; as, classical learning revived in the fifteenth century..
Decumbiture :: Decumbiture (n.) Aspect of the heavens at the time of taking to one's sick bed, by which the prognostics of recovery or death were made..
Hustings :: Hustings (n. pl.) A court formerly held in several cities of England; specif., a court held in London, before the lord mayor, recorder, and sheriffs, to determine certain classes of suits for the recovery of lands within the city. In the progress of law reform this court has become unimportant..
Crowfoot :: Crowfoot (n.) A tool with a side claw for recovering broken rods, etc..
Convalescent :: Convalescent (n.) One recovering from sickness.
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