Definition of return

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Return (v. t.) To give in requital or recompense; to requite.

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Saving :: Saving (a.) Bringing back in returns or in receipts the sum expended; incurring no loss, though not gainful; as, a saving bargain; the ship has made a saving voyage..
Return :: Return (n.) The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building, face of a building, or any member, as a molding or mold; -- applied to the shorter in contradistinction to the longer; thus, a facade of sixty feet east and west has a return of twenty feet north and south..
Tertian :: Tertian (n.) A disease, especially an intermittent fever, which returns every third day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts one day..
Resound :: Resound (v. t.) To throw back, or return, the sound of; to echo; to reverberate..
Hypostrophe :: Hypostrophe (n.) A relapse, or return of a disease..
Recharge :: Recharge (v. t. & i.) To charge or accuse in return.
Return :: Return (n.) A day in bank. See Return day, below..
Pay :: Pay (v. t.) To satisfy, or content; specifically, to satisfy (another person) for service rendered, property delivered, etc.; to discharge one's obligation to; to make due return to; to compensate; to remunerate; to recompense; to requite; as, to pay workmen or servants..
Return :: Return (v. i.) To speak in answer; to reply; to respond.
Revie :: Revie (v. t.) To vie with, or rival, in return..
Recriminate :: Recriminate (v. t.) To accuse in return.
Light :: Light (superl.) Not heavily burdened; not deeply laden; not sufficiently ballasted; as, the ship returned light..
Withernam :: Withernam (n.) A second or reciprocal distress of other goods in lieu of goods which were taken by a first distress and have been eloigned; a taking by way of reprisal; -- chiefly used in the expression capias in withernam, which is the name of a writ used in connection with the action of replevin (sometimes called a writ of reprisal), which issues to a defendant in replevin when he has obtained judgment for a return of the chattels replevied, and fails to obtain them on the writ of return..
Recompense :: Recompense (n.) An equivalent returned for anything done, suffered, or given; compensation; requital; suitable return..
Acknowledgment :: Acknowledgment (n.) Something given or done in return for a favor, message, etc..
Regredience :: Regredience (n.) A going back; a retrogression; a return.
Rich :: Rich (superl.) Yielding large returns; productive or fertile; fruitful; as, rich soil or land; a rich mine..
Redient :: Redient (a.) Returning.
Returning :: Returning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Retur.
Reecho :: Reecho (v. i.) To give echoes; to return back, or be reverberated, as an echo; to resound; to be resonant..
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