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- English Word Recurve Definition To curve in an opposite or unusual direction; to bend back or down.
- English Word Recurved Definition Curved in an opposite or uncommon direction; bent back; as, a bird with a recurved bill; flowers with recurved petals.
- English Word Recurviroster Definition A bird whose beak bends upward, as the avocet.
- English Word Recurvirostral Definition Having the beak bent upwards.
- English Word Recurvity Definition Recurvation.
- English Word Recurvous Definition Recurved.
- English Word Recusancy Definition The state of being recusant; nonconformity.
- English Word Recusant Definition Obstinate in refusal; specifically, in English history, refusing to acknowledge the supremacy of the king in the churc, or to conform to the established rites of the church; as, a recusant lord.
- English Word Recusant Definition One who is obstinate in refusal; one standing out stubbornly against general practice or opinion.
- English Word Recusant Definition A person who refuses to acknowledge the supremacy of the king in matters of religion; as, a Roman Catholic recusant, who acknowledges the supremacy of the pope.
- English Word Recusant Definition One who refuses communion with the Church of England; a nonconformist.
- English Word Recusation Definition Refusal.
- English Word Recusation Definition The act of refusing a judge or challenging that he shall not try the cause, on account of his supposed partiality.
- English Word Recusative Definition Refusing; denying; negative.
- English Word Recuse Definition To refuse or reject, as a judge; to challenge that the judge shall not try the cause.
- English Word Recussion Definition The act of beating or striking back.
- English Word Red Definition . imp. & p. p. of Read.
- English Word Red Definition To put on order; to make tidy; also, to free from entanglement or embarrassement; -- generally with up; as, to red up a house.
- English Word Red Definition Of the color of blood, or of a tint resembling that color; of the hue of that part of the rainbow, or of the solar spectrum, which is furthest from the violet part.
- English Word Red Definition The color of blood, or of that part of the spectrum farthest from violet, or a tint resembling these.