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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Goal :: Goal (n.) The mark set to bound a race, and to or around which the constestants run, or from which they start to return to it again; the place at which a race or a journey is to end..
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..
Circulate :: Circulate (v. i.) To move in a circle or circuitously; to move round and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body..
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..
Owe :: Owe (v.) Hence: To have or be under an obigation to restore, pay, or render (something) in return or compensation for something received; to be indebted in the sum of; as, the subject owes allegiance; the fortunate owe assistance to the unfortunate..
Regratiatory :: Regratiatory (n.) A returning or giving of thanks.
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..
Reciprocation :: Reciprocation (n.) The act of reciprocating; interchange of acts; a mutual giving and returning; as, the reciprocation of kindnesses..
Antiperiodic :: Antiperiodic (n.) A remedy possessing the property of preventing the return of periodic paroxysms, or exacerbations, of disease, as in intermittent fevers..
Answer :: Answer (v. i.) To speak or write by way of return (originally, to a charge), or in reply; to make response..
Acknowledgment :: Acknowledgment (n.) Something given or done in return for a favor, message, etc..
Saving :: Saving (a.) Bringing back in returns or in receipts the sum expended; incurring no loss, though not gainful; as, a saving bargain; the ship has made a saving voyage..
Return :: Return (n.) The turnings and windings of a trench or mine.
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..
Abjuration :: Abjuration (n.) The act of abjuring or forswearing; a renunciation upon oath; as, abjuration of the realm, a sworn banishment, an oath taken to leave the country and never to return..
Concoction :: Concoction (n.) Abatement of a morbid process, as a fever and return to a normal condition..
Reversion :: Reversion (n.) The returning of an esttate to the grantor or his heirs, by operation of law, after the grant has terminated; hence, the residue of an estate left in the proprietor or owner thereof, to take effect in possession, by operation of law, after the termination of a limited or less estate carved out of it and conveyed by him..
Predict :: Predict (v. t.) To tell or declare beforehand; to foretell; to prophesy; to presage; as, to predict misfortune; to predict the return of a comet..
Reflect :: Reflect (v. i.) To throw back light, heat, or the like; to return rays or beams..
Again :: Again (adv.) In return, back; as, bring us word again..
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