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RECLAIMING

Volume 9 · 94 words · 1778 Edition

or RECLAIMING, in our ancient customs, a lord's pursuing, prosecuting, and recalling, his vassal, who had gone to live in another place without his permission.

Reclaiming is also used for the demanding of a person, or thing, to be delivered up to the prince or state to which it properly belongs; when, by any irregular means, it is come into another's possession.

falconry, is taming a hawk, &c., and making her gentle and familiar.

A partridge is said to reclaim, when she calls her young ones together, upon their fluttering too much from her.