Definition of return

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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..

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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..
Septennial :: Septennial (a.) Happening or returning once in every seven years; as, septennial elections in England..
Reflection :: Reflection (n.) The return of rays, beams, sound, or the like, from a surface. See Angle of reflection, below..
Overthrow :: Overthrow (n.) A faulty return of the ball by a fielder, so that the striker makes an additional run..
Reviction :: Reviction (n.) Return to life.
Clough :: Clough (n.) A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land.
Relapse :: Relapse (v.) One who has relapsed, or fallen back, into error; a backslider; specifically, one who, after recanting error, returns to it again..
Home-coming :: Home-coming (n.) Return home.
Return :: Return (v. i.) To revert; to pass back into possession.
Cope :: Cope (v. t.) To make return for; to requite; to repay.
Revie :: Revie (v. t.) To vie with, or rival, in return..
Return :: Return (n.) A day in bank. See Return day, below..
Rich :: Rich (superl.) Yielding large returns; productive or fertile; fruitful; as, rich soil or land; a rich mine..
Resign :: Resign (v. t.) To sign back; to return by a formal act; to yield to another; to surrender; -- said especially of office or emolument. Hence, to give up; to yield; to submit; -- said of the wishes or will, or of something valued; -- also often used reflexively..
Reanswer :: Reanswer (v. t. & i.) To answer in return; to repay; to compensate; to make amends for.
Feu :: Feu (n.) A free and gratuitous right to lands made to one for service to be performed by him; a tenure where the vassal, in place of military services, makes a return in grain or in money..
Regress :: Regress (n.) The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression. The progress or regress of man..
Non Est Inventus :: Non est inventus () The return of a sheriff on a writ, when the defendant is not found in his county..
Retroaction :: Retroaction (n.) Action returned, or action backward..
Involution :: Involution (n.) The return of an enlarged part or organ to its normal size, as of the uterus after pregnancy..
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