To call back, as a
hawk to the wrist in falconry, by a certain customary call.
To call back from flight or disorderly
action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.
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.
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.
To call back to rectitude from moral
wandering or transgression; to draw back to correct deportment or
course of life; to reform.
To correct; to reform; -- said of
things.
To exclaim against; to gainsay.