Definition of return

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Return (v. t.) To give back in reply; as, to return an answer; to return thanks..

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Report :: Report (v. t.) To return or repeat, as sound; to echo..
Gratuity :: Gratuity (n.) Something voluntarily given in return for a favor or service, as a recompense or acknowledgment..
Ebb :: Ebb (v. i.) To flow back; to return, as the water of a tide toward the ocean; -- opposed to flow..
Restitution :: Restitution (v.) The act of returning to, or recovering, a former state; as, the restitution of an elastic body..
Refit :: Refit (v. i.) To obtain repairs or supplies; as, the fleet returned to refit..
Mutuary :: Mutuary (n.) One who borrows personal chattels which are to be consumed by him, and which he is to return or repay in kind..
Reflux :: Reflux (a.) Returning, or flowing back; reflex; as, reflux action..
Reflect :: Reflect (v. i.) To be sent back; to rebound as from a surface; to revert; to return.
Retaliate :: Retaliate (v. t.) To return the like for; to repay or requite by an act of the same kind; to return evil for (evil). [Now seldom used except in a bad sense..
Quotidian :: Quotidian (n.) Anything returning daily; especially (Med.), an intermittent fever or ague which returns every day..
Relapsing :: Relapsing (a.) Marked by a relapse; falling back; tending to return to a former worse state.
Annual :: Annual (a.) Of or pertaining to a year; returning every year; coming or happening once in the year; yearly.
Ritualism :: Ritualism (n.) Specifically :(a) The principles and practices of those in the Church of England, who in the development of the Oxford movement, so-called, have insisted upon a return to the use in church services of the symbolic ornaments (altar cloths, encharistic vestments, candles, etc.) that were sanctioned in the second year of Edward VI., and never, as they maintain, forbidden by competennt authority, although generally disused. Schaff-Herzog Encyc. (b) Also, the principles and practices o
Return :: Return (n.) The turnings and windings of a trench or mine.
Recompense :: Recompense (v. t.) To return an equivalent for; to give compensation for; to atone for; to pay for.
Inboard :: Inboard (a. & adv.) From without inward; toward the inside; as, the inboard stroke of a steam engine piston, the inward or return stroke..
Doctor :: Doctor (v. t.) To tamper with and arrange for one's own purposes; to falsify; to adulterate; as, to doctor election returns; to doctor whisky..
Return :: Return (v. t.) To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
Change :: Change (v. t.) Small money; the money by means of which the larger coins and bank bills are made available in small dealings; hence, the balance returned when payment is tendered by a coin or note exceeding the sum due..
Revertive :: Revertive (a.) Reverting, or tending to revert; returning..
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