Reclaim(v. t.)
- To claim back; to demand the return of as a right; to attempt to recover possession of.
Reclaim(v. t.)
- To call back, as a hawk to the wrist in falconry, by a certain customary call.
Reclaim(v. t.)
- To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.
Reclaim(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.
Reclaim(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.
Reclaim(v. t.)
- To call back to rectitude from moral wandering or transgression; to draw back to correct deportment or course of life; to reform.
Reclaim(v. t.)
- To correct; to reform; -- said of things.