v. To claim back; to demand the return of as a right; to attempt to recover possession of.v. To call back, as a hawk to the wrist in falconry, by a certain customary call.v. To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.v. 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.v. Hence: To reduce to a desired state by discipline, labor, cultivation, or the like; to rescue from being wild, desert, waste, submerged, or the likev. To call back to rectitude from moral wandering or transgression; to draw back to correct deportment or course of life; to reform.v. To correct; to reform; -- said of things.v. To exclaim against; to gainsay.verb-intransitive. To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.verb-intransitive. To bring anyone back from evil courses; to reform.verb-intransitive. To draw back; to give way.n. The act of reclaiming, or the state of being reclaimed; reclamation; recovery.