in pneumatics, a glass vessel for containing the thing on which an experiment in the air-pump is to be made.

receptor or receptator, in law, is commonly understood in a bad sense, and used for such as knowingly receive stolen goods from thieves, and conceal them. This crime is felony, and the punishment is transportation for 14 years.

RECENSIO was an account taken by the censors, every lustrum, of all the Roman people. It was a general survey, at which the equites, as well as the rest of the people, were to appear. New names were now put upon the censor's list, and old ones cancelled. The recensio, in short, was a more solemn and accurate sort of probatio, and answered the purpose of a review, by showing who were fit for military service.