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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Reaccess :: Reaccess (n.) A second access or approach; a return.
Answer :: Answer (v. i.) To speak or write by way of return (originally, to a charge), or in reply; to make response..
Elisor :: Elisor (n.) An elector or chooser; one of two persons appointed by a court to return a jury or serve a writ when the sheriff and the coroners are disqualified.
Vengeance :: Vengeance (n.) Punishment inflicted in return for an injury or an offense; retribution; -- often, in a bad sense, passionate or unrestrained revenge..
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..
Regratiatory :: Regratiatory (n.) A returning or giving of thanks.
Requite :: Requite (v. t.) To repay; in a good sense, to recompense; to return (an equivalent) in good; to reward; in a bad sense, to retaliate; to return (evil) for evil; to punish..
Recurrent :: Recurrent (a.) Returning from time to time; recurring; as, recurrent pains..
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..
Regreet :: Regreet (n.) A return or exchange of salutation.
Lend :: Lend (v. t.) To allow the custody and use of, on condition of the return of the same; to grant the temporary use of; as, to lend a book; -- opposed to borrow..
Heal :: Heal (v. i.) To grow sound; to return to a sound state; as, the limb heals, or the wound heals; -- sometimes with up or over; as, it will heal up, or over..
Report :: Report (v. t.) To return or repeat, as sound; to echo..
Return :: Return (v. t.) To lead in response to the lead of one's partner; as, to return a trump; to return a diamond for a club..
Reclaim :: Reclaim (v. t.) To claim back; to demand the return of as a right; to attempt to recover possession of.
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..
Revert :: Revert (v. i.) To return; to come back.
Exchange :: Exchange (n.) The thing given or received in return; esp., a publication exchanged for another..
Return :: Return (v. t.) To bring or send back to a tribunal, or to an office, with a certificate of what has been done; as, to return a writ..
Revert :: Revert (v. i.) To return, wholly or in part, towards some preexistent form; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type..
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