Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Recovery \Re*cov"er*y\ (r?*k?v"?r*?), n.
   1. The act of recovering, regaining, or retaking possession.

   2. Restoration from sickness, weakness, faintness, or the
      like; restoration from a condition of mistortune, of
      fright, etc.

   3. (Law) The obtaining in a suit at law of a right to
      something by a verdict and judgment of court.

   4. The getting, or gaining, of something not previously had.
      [Obs.] ``Help be past recovery.'' --Tusser.

   5. In rowing, the act of regaining the proper position for
      making a new stroke.

   {Common recovery} (Law), a species of common assurance or
      mode of conveying lands by matter of record, through the
      forms of an action at law, formerly in frequent use, but
      now abolished or obsolete, both in England and America.
      --Burrill. Warren.