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

Effect :: Effect (n.) Execution; performance; realization; operation; as, the law goes into effect in May..

Malexecution :: Malexecution (n.) Bad execution.

Respite :: Respite (n.) Temporary suspension of the execution of a capital offender; reprieve.

Elegit :: Elegit (n.) A judicial writ of execution, by which a defendant's goods are appraised and delivered to the plaintiff, and, if not sufficient to satisfy the debt, all of his lands are delivered, to be held till the debt is paid by the rents and profits, or until the defendant's interest has expired..

Reprieve :: Reprieve (v. t.) To delay the punishment of; to suspend the execution of sentence on; to give a respite to; to respite; as, to reprieve a criminal for thirty days..

Technic :: Technic (a.) The method of performance in any art; technical skill; artistic execution; technique.

Extract :: Extract (n.) A draught or copy of writing; certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgement therein, with an order for execution..

Burin :: Burin (n.) The manner or style of execution of an engraver; as, a soft burin; a brilliant burin..

Hangman :: Hangman (n.) One who hangs another; esp., one who makes a business of hanging; a public executioner; -- sometimes used as a term of reproach, without reference to office..

Levy :: Levy (v. i.) To seize property, real or personal, or subject it to the operation of an execution; to make a levy; as, to levy on property; the usual mode of levying, in England, is by seizing the goods..

Drill :: Drill (n.) The act or exercise of training soldiers in the military art, as in the manual of arms, in the execution of evolutions, and the like; hence, diligent and strict instruction and exercise in the rudiments and methods of any business; a kind or method of military exercises; as, infantry drill; battalion drill; artillery drill..

Insurrection :: Insurrection (n.) A rising against civil or political authority, or the established government; open and active opposition to the execution of law in a city or state..

Deforce :: Deforce (v.) To resist the execution of the law; to oppose by force, as an officer in the execution of his duty..

Guarantee :: Guarantee (n.) In law and common usage: to undertake or engage for the payment of (a debt) or the performance of (a duty) by another person; to undertake to secure (a possession, right, claim, etc.) to another against a specified contingency, or at all avents; to give a guarantee concerning; to engage, assure, or secure as a thing that may be depended on; to warrant; as, to guarantee the execution of a treaty..

Stiptic :: Stippling (n.) A mode of execution in which a flat or even tint is produced by many small touches.

Cross :: Cross (n.) A gibbet, consisting of two pieces of timber placed transversely upon one another, in various forms, as a T, or +, with the horizontal piece below the upper end of the upright, or as an X. It was anciently used in the execution of criminals..

Bodily :: Bodily (a.) Real; actual; put in execution.

Execution :: Execution (n.) The act of sacking a town.

Enforcement :: Enforcement (n.) A giving force to; a putting in execution.

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