Definition of return

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Return (n.) The certificate of an officer stating what he has done in execution of a writ, precept, etc., indorsed on the document..

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Cope :: Cope (v. t.) To make return for; to requite; to repay.
Return :: Return (n.) An answer; as, a return to one's question..
Non Est Inventus :: Non est inventus () The return of a sheriff on a writ, when the defendant is not found in his county..
Reform :: Reform (v. i.) To return to a good state; to amend or correct one's own character or habits; as, a man of settled habits of vice will seldom reform..
Antistrophe :: Antistrophe (n.) In Greek choruses and dances, the returning of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right to left. Hence: The lines of this part of the choral song..
Reply :: Reply (v. t.) To return for an answer.
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..
Return :: Return (v. t.) To retort; to throw back; as, to return the lie..
Retroactive :: Retroactive (a.) Fitted or designed to retroact; operating by returned action; affecting what is past; retrospective.
Revolution :: Revolution (n.) Return to a point before occupied, or to a point relatively the same; a rolling back; return; as, revolution in an ellipse or spiral..
Restitution :: Restitution (v.) The act of returning to, or recovering, a former state; as, the restitution of an elastic body..
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..
Orientation :: Orientation (n.) Fig.: A return to first principles; an orderly arrangement.
Refluent :: Refluent (a.) Flowing back; returning; ebbing.
Return :: Return (v. t.) To convey into official custody, or to a general depository..
Cycle :: Cycle (n.) An interval of time in which a certain succession of events or phenomena is completed, and then returns again and again, uniformly and continually in the same order; a periodical space of time marked by the recurrence of something peculiar; as, the cycle of the seasons, or of the year..
Regratiatory :: Regratiatory (n.) A returning or giving of thanks.
Doctor :: Doctor (v. t.) To tamper with and arrange for one's own purposes; to falsify; to adulterate; as, to doctor election returns; to doctor whisky..
Render :: Render (v. t.) To return; to pay back; to restore.
Ebb :: Ebb (n.) The reflux or flowing back of the tide; the return of the tidal wave toward the sea; -- opposed to flood; as, the boats will go out on the ebb..
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