Definition of return

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Return (v. t.) To bat (the ball) back over the net.

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Recoil :: Recoil (v. i.) To start, roll, bound, spring, or fall back; to take a reverse motion; to be driven or forced backward; to return..
Burden :: Burden (n.) The verse repeated in a song, or the return of the theme at the end of each stanza; the chorus; refrain. Hence: That which is often repeated or which is dwelt upon; the main topic; as, the burden of a prayer..
Loop :: Loop (n.) A wire forming part of a main circuit and returning to the point from which it starts.
Quintan :: Quintan (n.) An intermittent fever which returns every fifth day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts three days..
Ebb :: Ebb (v. i.) To return or fall back from a better to a worse state; to decline; to decay; to recede.
Reciprocalness :: Reciprocalness (n.) The quality or condition of being reciprocal; mutual return; alternateness.
Reflect :: Reflect (v. i.) To throw back light, heat, or the like; to return rays or beams..
Lotus :: Lotus (n.) The lotus of the lotuseaters, probably a tree found in Northern Africa, Sicily, Portugal, and Spain (Zizyphus Lotus), the fruit of which is mildly sweet. It was fabled by the ancients to make strangers who ate of it forget their native country, or lose all desire to return to it..
Mutuary :: Mutuary (n.) One who borrows personal chattels which are to be consumed by him, and which he is to return or repay in kind..
Return :: Return (n.) A day in bank. See Return day, below..
Regreet :: Regreet (v. t.) To greet again; to resalute; to return a salutation to; to greet.
Exchange :: Exchange (n.) The act of giving or taking one thing in return for another which is regarded as an equivalent; as, an exchange of cattle for grain..
Retort :: Retort (v. i.) To return an argument or a charge; to make a severe reply.
Grilse :: Grilse (n.) A young salmon after its first return from the sea.
Double :: Double (v. i.) To return upon one's track; to turn and go back over the same ground, or in an opposite direction..
Reciprocation :: Reciprocation (n.) The act of reciprocating; interchange of acts; a mutual giving and returning; as, the reciprocation of kindnesses..
Retroaction :: Retroaction (n.) Action returned, or action backward..
Return :: Return (n.) The turnings and windings of a trench or mine.
Exchange :: Exchange (n.) The thing given or received in return; esp., a publication exchanged for another..
Recur :: Recur (v. i.) To come back; to return again or repeatedly; to come again to mind.
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