Definition of return

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Return (n.) An official account, report, or statement, rendered to the commander or other superior officer; as, the return of men fit for duty; the return of the number of the sick; the return of provisions, etc..

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Reanswer :: Reanswer (v. t. & i.) To answer in return; to repay; to compensate; to make amends for.
Respond :: Respond (v. i.) To say somethin in return; to answer; to reply; as, to respond to a question or an argument..
Reflection :: Reflection (n.) The return of rays, beams, sound, or the like, from a surface. See Angle of reflection, below..
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.
Homing :: Homing (a.) Home-returning; -- used specifically of carrier pigeons.
Non Est Inventus :: Non est inventus () The return of a sheriff on a writ, when the defendant is not found in his county..
Quotidian :: Quotidian (n.) Anything returning daily; especially (Med.), an intermittent fever or ague which returns every day..
Regressive :: Regressive (a.) Passing back; returning.
Postliminy :: Postliminy (n.) The return to his own country, and his former privileges, of a person who had gone to sojourn in a foreign country, or had been banished, or taken by an enemy..
Elastic :: Elastic (a.) Springing back; having a power or inherent property of returning to the form from which a substance is bent, drawn, pressed, or twisted; springy; having the power of rebounding; as, a bow is elastic; the air is elastic; India rubber is elastic..
Grilse :: Grilse (n.) A young salmon after its first return from the sea.
Church :: Church (v. t.) To bless according to a prescribed form, or to unite with in publicly returning thanks in church, as after deliverance from the dangers of childbirth; as, the churching of women..
Repair :: Repair (v. i.) To return.
Return :: Return (n.) The profit on, or advantage received from, labor, or an investment, undertaking, adventure, etc..
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..
Retort :: Retort (n.) To return, as an argument, accusation, censure, or incivility; as, to retort the charge of vanity..
Retort :: Retort (v. i.) To return an argument or a charge; to make a severe reply.
Reflux :: Reflux (n.) A flowing back, as the return of a fluid; ebb; reaction; as, the flux and reflux of the tides..
Returnless :: Returnless (a.) Admitting no return.
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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