Definition of return

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Return (v. i.) To speak in answer; to reply; to respond.

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Countercheck :: Countercheck (v. t.) To oppose or check by some obstacle; to check by a return check.
Returnable :: Returnable (a.) Capable of, or admitting of, being returned..
Quarterly :: Quarterly (adv.) By quarters; once in a quarter of a year; as, the returns are made quarterly..
Statutable :: Status quo () The state in which anything is already. The phrase is also used retrospectively, as when, on a treaty of place, matters return to the status quo ante bellum, or are left in statu quo ante bellum, i.e., the state (or, in the state) before the war..
Volley :: Volley (v. i.) To return the ball before it touches the ground.
Recur :: Recur (v. i.) To come back; to return again or repeatedly; to come again to mind.
Fyke :: Fyke (n.) A long bag net distended by hoops, into which fish can pass easily, without being able to return; -- called also fyke net..
Reward :: Reward (n.) That which is given in return for good or evil done or received; esp., that which is offered or given in return for some service or attainment, as for excellence in studies, for the return of something lost, etc.; recompense; requital..
Overthrow :: Overthrow (n.) A faulty return of the ball by a fielder, so that the striker makes an additional run..
Revolution :: Revolution (n.) The motion of any body, as a planet or satellite, in a curved line or orbit, until it returns to the same point again, or to a point relatively the same; -- designated as the annual, anomalistic, nodical, sidereal, or tropical revolution, according as the point of return or completion has a fixed relation to the year, the anomaly, the nodes, the stars, or the tropics; as, the revolution of the earth about the sun; the revolution of the moon about the earth..
Redient :: Redient (a.) Returning.
Relapsing :: Relapsing (a.) Marked by a relapse; falling back; tending to return to a former worse state.
Retroaction :: Retroaction (n.) Action returned, or action backward..
Jew :: "Jew (n.) Originally, one belonging to the tribe or kingdom of Judah; after the return from the Babylonish captivity, any member of the new state; a Hebrew; an Israelite..
Grilse :: Grilse (n.) A young salmon after its first return from the sea.
Redound :: Redound (n.) The coming back, as of consequence or effect; result; return; requital..
Torsion :: Torsion (n.) That force with which a thread, wire, or rod of any material, returns, or tends to return, to a state of rest after it has been twisted; torsibility..
Periodical :: Periodical (a.) Happening, by revolution, at a stated time; returning regularly, after a certain period of time; acting, happening, or appearing, at fixed intervals; recurring; as, periodical epidemics..
Return :: Return (n.) The certificate of an officer stating what he has done in execution of a writ, precept, etc., indorsed on the document..
Loop :: Loop (n.) A wire forming part of a main circuit and returning to the point from which it starts.
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