Reclining dial, a dial whose plane is inclined to the vertical line through its center. Davies & Peck (Math. Dict.).

Reclose
(Re*close") v. t. To close again. Pope.

Reclothe
(Re*clothe") v. t. To clothe again.

Reclude
(Re*clude") v. t. [L. recludere to unclose, open; pref. re- again, back, un- + claudere to shut.] To open; to unclose. [R.] Harvey.

Recluse
(Re*cluse") a. [F. reclus, L. reclusus, from recludere, reclusum, to unclose, open, in LL., to shut up. See Close.] Shut up; sequestered; retired from the world or from public notice; solitary; living apart; as, a recluse monk or hermit; a recluse life.

In meditation deep, recluse
From human converse.
J. Philips.

Recluse
(Re*cluse"), n. [F. reclus, LL. reclusus. See Recluse, a.]

1. A person who lives in seclusion from intercourse with the world, as a hermit or monk; specifically, one of a class of secluded devotees who live in single cells, usually attached to monasteries.

2. The place where a recluse dwells. [Obs.] Foxe.

Recluse
(Re*cluse"), v. t. To shut up; to seclude. [Obs.]

Reclusely
(Re*cluse"ly), adv. In a recluse or solitary manner.

Recluseness
(Re*cluse"ness), n. Quality or state of being recluse.

Reclusion
(Re*clu"sion) n. [LL. reclusio: cf. F. reclusion.] A state of retirement from the world; seclusion.

Reclusive
(Re*clu"sive) a. Affording retirement from society. "Some reclusive and religious life." Shak.

Reclusory
(Re*clu"so*ry) n. [LL. reclusorium.] The habitation of a recluse; a hermitage.

Recoct
(Re*coct") v. t. [L. recoctus, p. p. of recoquere to cook or boil over again. See Re-, and 4th Cook.] To boil or cook again; hence, to make over; to vamp up; to reconstruct. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

Recoction
(Re*coc"tion) n. A second coction or preparation; a vamping up.

Recognition
(Rec`og*ni"tion) n. [L. recognitio: cf. F. recognition. See Recognizance.] The act of recognizing, or the state of being recognized; acknowledgment; formal avowal; knowledge confessed or avowed; notice.

The lives of such saints had, at the time of their yearly memorials, solemn recognition in the church of God.
Hooker.

Recognitor
(Re*cog"ni*tor) n. [LL.] (Law) One of a jury impaneled on an assize. Blackstone.

Recognitory
(Re*cog"ni*to*ry) a. Pertaining to, or connected with, recognition. Lamb.

Reclined to Recompense

Reclined
(Re*clined") a. (Bot.) Falling or turned downward; reclinate.

Recliner
(Re*clin"er) n. One who, or that which, reclines.

Reclining
(Re*clin"ing), a. (Bot.) (a) Bending or curving gradually back from the perpendicular. (b) Recumbent.


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