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Reclaim
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. i.) To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.
(2):
(v. i.) To draw back; to give way.
(3):
(n.) The act of reclaiming, or the state of being reclaimed; reclamation; recovery.
(4):
(v. t.) To call back to rectitude from moral wandering or transgression; to draw back to correct deportment or course of life; to reform.
(5):
(v. t.) To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.
(6):
(v. t.) To reduce from a wild to a tamed state; to bring under discipline; - said especially of birds trained for the chase, but also of other animals.
(7):
(v. t.) To exclaim against; to gainsay.
(8):
(v. t.) To call back, as a hawk to the wrist in falconry, by a certain customary call.
(9):
(v. t.) Hence: To reduce to a desired state by discipline, labor, cultivation, or the like; to rescue from being wild, desert, waste, submerged, or the like; as, to reclaim wild land, overflowed land, etc.
(10):
(v. i.) To bring anyone back from evil courses; to reform.
(11):
(v. t.) To correct; to reform; - said of things.
(12):
(v. t.) To claim back; to demand the return of as a right; to attempt to recover possession of.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Reclaim'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/r/reclaim.html. 1828.
