Definition of answer

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Answer (v. i.) To be or act in conformity, or by way of accommodation, correspondence, relation, or proportion; to conform; to correspond; to suit; -- usually with to..

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Obverse :: Obverse (a.) Anything necessarily involved in, or answering to, another; the more apparent or conspicuous of two possible sides, or of two corresponding things..
Attach :: Attach (v. t.) To take by legal authority: (a) To arrest by writ, and bring before a court, as to answer for a debt, or a contempt; -- applied to a taking of the person by a civil process; being now rarely used for the arrest of a criminal. (b) To seize or take (goods or real estate) by virtue of a writ or precept to hold the same to satisfy a judgment which may be rendered in the suit. See Attachment, 4..
Answerer :: Answerer (n.) One who answers.
Respond :: Respond (v. i.) To render satisfaction; to be answerable; as, the defendant is held to respond in damages..
Factorize :: Factorize (v. t.) To give warning to; -- said of a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached, the warning being to the effect that he shall not pay the money or deliver the property of the defendant in his hands to him, but appear and answer the suit of the plaintiff..
Defence :: Defence (n.) The defendant's answer or plea; an opposing or denial of the truth or validity of the plaintiff's or prosecutor's case; the method of proceeding adopted by the defendant to protect himself against the plaintiff's action.
Dicast :: Dicast (n.) A functionary in ancient Athens answering nearly to the modern juryman.
Obnoxious :: Obnoxious (a.) Subject; liable; exposed; answerable; amenable; -- with to.
Amoebean :: Amoebean (a.) Alternately answering.
Respondent :: Respondent (a.) Disposed or expected to respond; answering; according; corresponding.
Guaranty :: Guaranty (n.) In law and common usage: To undertake or engage that another person shall perform (what he has stipulated); to undertake to be answerable for (the debt or default of another); to engage to answer for the performance of (some promise or duty by another) in case of a failure by the latter to perform; to undertake to secure (something) to another, as in the case of a contingency. See Guarantee, v. t..
Nisan :: Nisan (n.) The first month of the jewish ecclesiastical year, formerly answering nearly to the month of April, now to March, of the Christian calendar. See Abib..
Responsal :: Responsal (n.) One who is answerable or responsible.
Indecisive :: Indecisive (a.) Not decisive; not bringing to a final or ultimate issue; as, an indecisive battle, argument, answer..
Calling :: Calling (n.) A naming, or inviting; a reading over or reciting in order, or a call of names with a view to obtaining an answer, as in legislative bodies..
Remediless :: Remediless (a.) Not answering as a remedy; ineffectual.
Replication :: Replication (n.) An answer; a reply.
Counterpart :: Counterpart (n.) A part corresponding to another part; anything which answers, or corresponds, to another; a copy; a duplicate; a facsimile..
Arraignment :: Arraignment (n.) The act of arraigning, or the state of being arraigned; the act of calling and setting a prisoner before a court to answer to an indictment or complaint..
Rejoinder :: Rejoinder (n.) The defendant's answer to the plaintiff's replication.
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