Definition of recover

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Recover (v. t.) To gain by motion or effort; to obtain; to reach; to come to.

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Rabate :: Rabate (v.) To recover to the fist, as a hawk..
Cessavit :: Cessavit (n.) A writ given by statute to recover lands when the tenant has for two years failed to perform the conditions of his tenure.
Post-disseizin :: Post-disseizin (n.) A subsequent disseizin committed by one of lands which the disseizee had before recovered of the same disseizor; a writ founded on such subsequent disseizin, now abolished..
Recovery :: Recovery (n.) Restoration from sickness, weakness, faintness, or the like; restoration from a condition of mistortune, of fright, etc..
Recuperable :: Recuperable (a.) Recoverable.
Recoveree :: Recoveree (n.) The person against whom a judgment is obtained in common recovery.
Recover :: Recover (v. t.) To cover again.
Recover :: Recover (v. i.) To regain health after sickness; to grow well; to be restored or cured; hence, to regain a former state or condition after misfortune, alarm, etc.; -- often followed by of or from; as, to recover from a state of poverty; to recover from fright..
Revalescent :: Revalescent (a.) Growing well; recovering strength.
Recovery :: Recovery (n.) The getting, or gaining, of something not previously had..
Creep :: Creep (v. i.) To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable..
Recuperation :: Recuperation (n..) Recovery, as of anything lost, especially of the health or strength..
Recover :: Recover (v. t.) To overcome; to get the better of, -- as a state of mind or body..
Recuperatory :: Recuperatory (a.) Of or pertaining to recuperation; tending to recovery.
Restoration :: Restoration (n.) The state of being restored; recovery of health, strength, etc.; as, restoration from sickness..
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..
Escheat :: Escheat (n.) A writ, now abolished, to recover escheats from the person in possession..
Redraft :: Redraft (n.) A new bill of exchange 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..
Recover :: 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..
Cosinage :: Cosinage (n.) A writ to recover possession of an estate in lands, when a stranger has entered, after the death of the grandfather's grandfather, or other distant collateral relation..
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