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Webster 1913 Edition

(-k?m′)

Verb.

[L.

recumbere

; pref.

re-

back +

cumbere

(in comp.), akin to

cubare

to lie down.]

To lean; to recline; to repose.

[Obs.]

J. Allen (1761).

Verb.

[L. recumbo; re and cumbo, to lie down.] To lean; to recline; to repose.

recumb ‎(third-person singular simple present recumbs, present participle recumbing, simple past and past participle recumbed)

(obsolete, intransitive) To lean; to recline; to repose.
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