Definition of reply

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Reply (v. i.) To make a return in words or writing; to respond; to answer.

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Repartee :: Repartee (n.) A smart, ready, and witty reply..
Response :: Response (n.) Reply to an objection in formal disputation.
Abbreviator :: Abbreviator (n.) One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty is to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form..
Respond :: Respond (v. i.) To say somethin in return; to answer; to reply; as, to respond to a question or an argument..
Rejoin :: Rejoin (v. t.) To state in reply; -- followed by an object clause.
Replication :: Replication (n.) An answer; a reply.
Surrein :: Surrebuter (n.) The reply of a plaintiff to a defendant's rebutter.
Reply :: Reply (v. i.) Figuratively, to do something in return for something done; as, to reply to a signal; to reply to the fire of a battery..
Sour :: Sour (superl.) Disagreeable; unpleasant; hence; cross; crabbed; peevish; morose; as, a man of a sour temper; a sour reply..
Rejoin :: Rejoin (v. i.) To answer to a reply.
Replyer :: Replyer (n.) See Replier.
Answer :: Answer (n.) A counter-statement of facts in a course of pleadings; a confutation of what the other party has alleged; a responsive declaration by a witness in reply to a question. In Equity, it is the usual form of defense to the complainant's charges in his bill..
Adroit :: Adroit (a.) Dexterous in the use of the hands or in the exercise of the mental faculties; exhibiting skill and readiness in avoiding danger or escaping difficulty; ready in invention or execution; -- applied to persons and to acts; as, an adroit mechanic, an adroit reply..
Respondent :: Respondent (n.) One who maintains a thesis in reply, and whose province it is to refute objections, or overthrow arguments; -- distinguished from opponent..
Return :: Return (v. i.) To speak in answer; to reply; to respond.
Deposition :: Deposition (n.) The act of laying down one's testimony in writing; also, testimony laid or taken down in writing, under oath or affirmation, before some competent officer, and in reply to interrogatories and cross-interrogatories..
Replication :: Replication (n.) The reply of the plaintiff, in matters of fact, to the defendant's plea..
Facetious :: Facetious (a.) Characterized by wit and pleasantry; exciting laughter; as, a facetious story or reply..
Shrewd :: Shrewd (superl.) Able or clever in practical affairs; sharp in business; astute; sharp-witted; sagacious; keen; as, a shrewd observer; a shrewd design; a shrewd reply..
Surrejoinder :: Surrejoin (v. i.) To reply, as a plaintiff to a defendant's rejoinder..
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