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RECRUIT, v.t. [L. cresco.]

1. To repair by fresh supplies any thing wasted. We say, food recruits the flesh; fresh air and exercise recruit the spirits.

Her cheeks glow the bright, recruiting their color.

2. To supply with new men any deficiency of troops; as, to recruit an army.

RECRUIT, v.i.

1. To gain new supplies of any thing wasted; to gain flesh, health, spirits, &c.; as, lean cattle recruit in fresh pastures.

2. To gain new supplies of men; to raise new soldiers.

RECRUIT, n. The supply of any thing wasted; chiefly, a new raised soldier to supply the deficiency of an army.



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RECRUIT, v.t. [L. cresco.]

1. To repair by fresh supplies any thing wasted. We say, food recruits the flesh; fresh air and exercise recruit the spirits.

Her cheeks glow the bright, recruiting their color.

2. To supply with new men any deficiency of troops; as, to recruit an army.

RECRUIT, v.i.

1. To gain new supplies of any thing wasted; to gain flesh, health, spirits, &c.; as, lean cattle recruit in fresh pastures.

2. To gain new supplies of men; to raise new soldiers.

RECRUIT, n. The supply of any thing wasted; chiefly, a new raised soldier to supply the deficiency of an army.


RE-CRUIT, n.

The supply of any thing wasted; chiefly, a new raised soldier to supply the deficiency of an army.


RE-CRUIT, v.i.

  1. To gain new supplies of any thing wasted; to gain flesh, health, spirits, &c.; as, lean cattle recruit in fresh pastures.
  2. To gain new supplies of men; to raise new soldiers. – Addison.

RE-CRUIT, v.t. [Fr. recruter; It. reclutare; Sp. reclutar; Port. reclutar or recrutar; from the root of Fr. recroître; re and croître, to grow, L. cresco; It. ricrescere, to increase.]

  1. To repair by fresh supplies any thing wasted. We say, food recruits the flesh; fresh air and exercise recruit the spirits. Her cheeks glow the brighter, recruiting their color. – Glanville.
  2. To supply with new men any deficiency of troops; as, to recruit an army.

Re*cruit"
  1. To repair by fresh supplies, as anything wasted; to remedy lack or deficiency in; as, food recruits the flesh; fresh air and exercise recruit the spirits.

    Her cheeks glow the brighter, recruiting their color. Glanvill.

  2. To gain new supplies of anything wasted; to gain health, flesh, spirits, or the like; to recuperate; as, lean cattle recruit in fresh pastures.
  3. A supply of anything wasted or exhausted; a reënforcement.

    The state is to have recruits to its strength, and remedies to its distempers. Burke.

  4. Hence, to restore the wasted vigor of; to renew in strength or health; to reinvigorate.
  5. To gain new supplies of men for military or other service; to raise or enlist new soldiers; to enlist troops.
  6. Specifically, a man enlisted for service in the army; a newly enlisted soldier.
  7. To supply with new men, as an army; to fill up or make up by enlistment; as, he recruited two regiments; the army was recruited for a campaign; also, to muster; to enlist; as, he recruited fifty men.

    M. Arnold.
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Recruit

RECRUIT, verb transitive [Latin cresco.]

1. To repair by fresh supplies any thing wasted. We say, food recruits the flesh; fresh air and exercise recruit the spirits.

Her cheeks glow the bright, recruiting their color.

2. To supply with new men any deficiency of troops; as, to recruit an army.

RECRUIT, verb intransitive

1. To gain new supplies of any thing wasted; to gain flesh, health, spirits, etc.; as, lean cattle recruit in fresh pastures.

2. To gain new supplies of men; to raise new soldiers.

RECRUIT, noun The supply of any thing wasted; chiefly, a new raised soldier to supply the deficiency of an army.

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importance

IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

3. Weight or consequence in self-estimation.

He believes himself a man of importance.

4. Thing implied; matter; subject; importunity. [In these senses, obsolete.]

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preclude

PRECLU'DE, v.t. [L. proecludo; proe, before, and cludo, claudo, to shut.]

1. To prevent from entering by previously shutting the passage, or by any previous measures; hence, to hinder from access, possession or enjoyment. Sin, by its very nature, precludes the sinner from heaven; it precludes the enjoyment of God's favor; or it precludes the favor of God.

The valves preclude the blood from entering the veins.

2. To prevent from happening or taking place.

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