vi to draw back; to give way.
2. reclaim ·vt to exclaim against; to gainsay.
3. reclaim ·vi to bring anyone back from evil courses; to reform.
4. reclaim ·noun the act of reclaiming, or the state of being reclaimed; reclamation; recovery.
5. reclaim ·vt to call back, as a hawk to the wrist in falconry, by a certain customary call.
6. reclaim ·vt to correct; to reform;
said of things.
7. reclaim ·vt to claim back; to demand the return of as a right; to attempt to recover possession of.
8. reclaim ·vt to call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.
9. reclaim ·vi to cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.
10. reclaim ·vt 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.
11. reclaim ·vt to call back to rectitude from moral wandering or transgression; to draw back to correct deportment or course of life; to reform.
12. reclaim ·vt 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.