Reclaim

·vi To draw back; to give way.

II. Reclaim ·vt To exclaim against; to Gainsay.

III. Reclaim ·vi To bring anyone back from evil courses; to Reform.

IV. Reclaim ·noun The act of reclaiming, or the state of being reclaimed; reclamation; recovery.

V. Reclaim ·vt To call back, as a hawk to the wrist in falconry, by a certain customary call.

VI. Reclaim ·vt To Correct; to Reform;

— said of things.

VII. Reclaim ·vt To claim back; to demand the return of as a right; to attempt to recover possession of.

VIII. Reclaim ·vt To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.

IX. Reclaim ·vi To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to Contradict; to take exceptions.

X. Reclaim ·vt 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.

XI. Reclaim ·vt To call back to rectitude from moral wandering or transgression; to draw back to correct deportment or course of life; to Reform.

XII. Reclaim ·vt 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.