What does "recruit" mean?

Additional senses

1. 2.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.
2. 3.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. 4.To gain new supplies of men for military or other service; to raise or enlist new soldiers; to enlist troops.
4. 5.A supply of anything wasted or exhausted; a reënforcement. The state is to have recruits to its strength, and remedies to its distempers. Burke.
5. 6.Specifically, a man enlisted for service in the army; a newly enlisted soldier.