Definition of return

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Return (n.) The rendering back or delivery of writ, precept, or execution, to the proper officer or court..

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Return :: Return (v. t.) To convey into official custody, or to a general depository..
Reply :: Reply (v. i.) To make a return in words or writing; to respond; to answer.
Septennial :: Septennial (a.) Happening or returning once in every seven years; as, septennial elections in England..
Return :: Return (n.) The rendering back or delivery of writ, precept, or execution, to the proper officer or court..
Sell :: Sell (v. t.) To transfer to another for an equivalent; to give up for a valuable consideration; to dispose of in return for something, especially for money..
Return :: Return (n.) A day in bank. See Return day, below..
Seal :: Seal (n.) An arrangement for preventing the entrance or return of gas or air into a pipe, by which the open end of the pipe dips beneath the surface of water or other liquid, or a deep bend or sag in the pipe is filled with the liquid; a draintrap..
Lend :: Lend (v. t.) To allow the possession and use of, on condition of the return of an equivalent in kind; as, to lend money or some article of food..
Sidereal :: Sidereal (a.) Measuring by the apparent motion of the stars; designated, marked out, or accompanied, by a return to the same position in respect to the stars; as, the sidereal revolution of a planet; a sidereal day..
Respond :: Respond (v. i.) To show some effect in return to a force; to act in response; to accord; to correspond; to suit.
Borrow :: Borrow (v. t.) To receive from another as a loan, with the implied or expressed intention of returning the identical article or its equivalent in kind; -- the opposite of lend..
Farm :: Farm (v. t.) To give up to another, as an estate, a business, the revenue, etc., on condition of receiving in return a percentage of what it yields; as, to farm the taxes..
Bail Bond :: Bail bond () A bond or obligation given by a prisoner and his surety, to insure the prisoner's appearance in court, at the return of the writ..
Revert :: Revert (v. i.) To return to the proprietor after the termination of a particular estate granted by him.
Return :: Return (n.) The act of returning (intransitive), or coming back to the same place or condition; as, the return of one long absent; the return of health; the return of the seasons, or of an anniversary..
Reflect :: Reflect (v. i.) To throw back light, heat, or the like; to return rays or beams..
Render :: Render (v. t.) To return; to pay back; to restore.
Remise :: Remise (n.) A giving or granting back; surrender; return; release, as of a claim..
Cope :: Cope (v. t.) To make return for; to requite; to repay.
Tertian :: Tertian (n.) A disease, especially an intermittent fever, which returns every third day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts one day..
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