Word Meanings - RE-COLLECT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To collect again; to gather what has been scattered; as, to re- collect routed troops. God will one day raise the dead, re-collecting our scattered dust. Barrow.

Related words: (words related to RE-COLLECT)

• COLLECTIVENESS
  A state of union; mass.
• COLLECTEDLY
  Composedly; coolly.
• TROOPSHIP
  A vessel built or fitted for the conveyance of troops; a transport.
• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.
• COLLECTIBLE
  Capable of being collected.
• RAISE
  To create or constitute; as, to raise a use that is, to create it. Burrill. To raise a blockade , to remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
• COLLECTIVISM
  The doctrine that land and capital should be owned by society collectively or as a whole; communism. W. G. Summer.
• RAISED
  1. Lifted up; showing above the surroundings; as, raised or embossed metal work. 2. Leavened; made with leaven, or yeast; -- used of bread, cake, etc., as distinguished from that made with cream of tartar, soda, etc. See Raise, v. t., 4. Raised
• AGAINSAY
  To gainsay. Wyclif.
• COLLECTIVELY
  In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.
• ROUTINARY
  Involving, or pertaining to, routine; ordinary; customary. Emerson.
• AGAIN
  again; on + geán, akin to Ger. gegewn against, Icel. gegn. Cf. 1. In return, back; as, bring us word again. 2. Another time; once more; anew. If a man die, shall he live again Job xiv. 14. 3. Once repeated; -- of quantity; as, as large again,
• GATHERER
  An attachment for making gathers in the cloth. (more info) 1. One who gathers or collects.
• SCATTERLING
  One who has no fixed habitation or residence; a vagabond. "Foreign scatterlings." Spenser.
• GATHERABLE
  Capable of being gathered or collected; deducible from premises. Godwin.
• SCATTER-BRAIN
  A giddy or thoughtless person; one incapable of concentration or attention.
• RAISER
  One who, or that which, raises .
• ROUT
  To roar; to bellow; to snort; to snore loudly. Chaucer.
• AGAINST
  1. Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over. Jacob saw the angels of God come against him. Tyndale. 2. From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in
• ROUTISH
  Uproarious; riotous.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• BESCATTER
  1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
• CROUT
  See SOURKROUT
• MEGATHEROID
  One of a family of extinct edentates found in America. The family includes the megatherium, the megalonyx, etc.
• GROUTY
  Cross; sulky; sullen.
• MISRAISE
  To raise or exite unreasonable. "Misraised fury." Bp. Hall.
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• THEREAGAIN
  In opposition; against one's course. If that him list to stand thereagain. Chaucer.
• TROUT
  Any one of numerous species of fishes belonging to Salmo, Salvelinus, and allied genera of the family Salmonidæ. They are highly esteemed as game fishes and for the quality of their flesh. All the species breed in fresh water, but after spawning
• DROUTH
  See TENNYSON
• TAXGATHERER
  One who collects taxes or revenues. -- Tax"gath`er*ing, n.