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reclaiming 音標拼音: [rikl'emɪŋ] 回收; 翻造 回收; 翻造 Reclaim \ Re* claim"\ ( r[- e]* kl[= a] m"), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Reclaimed} ( r[- e]* kl[= a] md"); p. pr. & vb. n. { Reclaiming}.] [ F. r[' e] clamer, L. reclamare, reclamatum, to cry out against; pref. re- re- clamare to call or cry aloud. See { Claim}.] 1. To call back, as a hawk to the wrist in falconry, by a certain customary call. -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting. [ 1913 Webster] The headstrong horses hurried Octavius . . . along, and were deaf to his reclaiming them. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] 3. 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. " An eagle well reclaimed." -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] 4. 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. [ 1913 Webster] 5. To call back to rectitude from moral wandering or transgression; to draw back to correct deportment or course of life; to reform. [ 1913 Webster] It is the intention of Providence, in all the various expressions of his goodness, to reclaim mankind. -- Rogers. [ 1913 Webster] 6. To correct; to reform; -- said of things. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] Your error, in time reclaimed, will be venial. -- Sir E. Hoby. [ 1913 Webster] 7. To exclaim against; to gainsay. [ Obs.] -- Fuller. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: To reform; recover; restore; amend; correct. [ 1913 Webster]
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