1.To call back, as a hawk to the wrist in falconry, by a certain customary call.
2.To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting. "The headstrong horses hurried Octavius... along, and were deaf to his reclaiming them."
3.To reduce from a wild to a tamed state; to bring under discipline; said especially of birds trained for the chase, but also of other animals. "An eagle well reclaimed."
4.Hence: To reduce to a desired state by discipline, labor, cultivation, or the like; to rescue from being wild, desert, waste, submerged, or the like; as, to reclaim wild land, overflowed land, etc.
5.To call back to rectitude from moral wandering or transgression; to draw back to correct deportment or course of life; to reform. "It is the intention of Providence, in all the various expressions of his goodness, to reclaim mankind."
6.To correct; to reform; said of things. (Obs.) "Your error, in time reclaimed, will be venial."
7.To exclaim against; to gainsay. (Obs.)
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