recovery

Definitions

1. 1.Restoration from sickness, weakness, faintness, or the like; restoration from a condition of mistortune, of fright, etc.
2. 2.(Law) The obtaining in a suit at law of a right to something by a verdict and judgment of court.
3. 3.The getting, or gaining, of something not previously had. [Obs.] "Help be past recovery." Tusser.
4. 4.In rowing, the act of regaining the proper position for making a new stroke. Common recovery (Law), a species of common assurance or mode of conveying lands by matter of record, through the forms of an action at law, formerly in frequent use, but now abolished or obsolete, both in England and America. Burrill. Warren.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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• What is restoration from sickness, weakness, faintness, or the like; restoration from a condition of mistortune, of fright, etc called?
• What is the obtaining in a suit at law of a right to something by a verdict and judgment of court called?
• What is the getting, or gaining, of something not previously had. [Obs.] "Help be past recovery." Tusser called?