recoct
English
Etymology
From Latin recoctus, past participle of recoquere (“to cook or boil over again”). See re- and cook.
Verb
recoct (third-person singular simple present recocts, present participle recocting, simple past and past participle recocted)
- (obsolete, transitive) To boil or cook again.
- (obsolete, transitive, by extension) To make over; to revamp or reconstruct.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for recoct in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Anagrams
- toccer