Lewis & Short

rĕ-cŏquo, coxi, coctum, 3, v. a., to cook or boil over again.

  1. I. Lit.: Peliam, * Cic. Sen. 23, 83; cf. of the same: fessos aetate parentes, Val. Fl. 6, 444: lana recocta (in dyeing), Sen. Ep. 71, 31: ceram (in the sun), Plin. 21, 14, 49, § 84: Velabrensi massa recocta fumo, Mart. 11, 53, 10.
    1. B. Transf., to prepare again by fire; to burn, melt, cast, or forge again, Plin. 16, 6, 8, § 23: re coquunt patrios fornacibus enses, Verg. A. 7, 636; so, electrum aurumque, id. ib. 8, 624: spicula, Luc. 7, 148: ferrum, Flor. 3, 20, 6.
  2. II. Trop.: (Cicero se) Apollonio Moloni formandum ac velut recoquendum dedit, to recast, remould, * Quint. 12, 6, 7: Fuffitio seni recocto, youthful, hale, lusty (alluding to the fable of Pelias), Cat. 54, 5; so, scriba, Hor. S. 2, 5, 55: anus vino, Petr. Fragm. in Diom. p. 517 P.