Definition of return

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Return (v. t.) To retort; to throw back; as, to return the lie..

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Reversion :: Reversion (n.) A return towards some ancestral type or character; atavism.
Lotus :: Lotus (n.) The lotus of the lotuseaters, probably a tree found in Northern Africa, Sicily, Portugal, and Spain (Zizyphus Lotus), the fruit of which is mildly sweet. It was fabled by the ancients to make strangers who ate of it forget their native country, or lose all desire to return to it..
Revenue :: Revenue (n.) Hence, return; reward; as, a revenue of praise..
Loop :: Loop (n.) A wire forming part of a main circuit and returning to the point from which it starts.
Return :: Return (n.) The sending back of a commission with the certificate of the commissioners.
Returner :: Returner (n.) One who returns.
Recriminate :: Recriminate (v. i.) To return one charge or accusation with another; to charge back fault or crime upon an accuser.
Counterstroke :: Counterstroke (n.) A stroke or blow in return.
Remise :: Remise (n.) A giving or granting back; surrender; return; release, as of a claim..
Reversion :: Reversion (n.) The act of returning, or coming back; return..
Reflection :: Reflection (n.) The return of rays, beams, sound, or the like, from a surface. See Angle of reflection, below..
Revolution :: Revolution (n.) Return to a point before occupied, or to a point relatively the same; a rolling back; return; as, revolution in an ellipse or spiral..
Render :: Render (n.) A return; a payment of rent.
Gerlind :: Gerlind (n.) A salmon returning from the sea the second time.
Proleptical :: Proleptical (a.) Anticipating the usual time; -- applied to a periodical disease whose paroxysms return at an earlier hour at every repetition.
Replevy :: Replevy (v. t.) To take or get back, by a writ for that purpose (goods and chattels wrongfully taken or detained), upon giving security to try the right to them in a suit at law, and, if that should be determined against the plaintiff, to return the property replevied..
Vail :: Vail (n.) Avails; profit; return; proceeds.
Remigrate :: Remigrate (v. i.) To migrate again; to go back; to return.
Antistrophe :: Antistrophe (n.) In Greek choruses and dances, the returning of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right to left. Hence: The lines of this part of the choral song..
Recriminate :: Recriminate (v. t.) To accuse in return.
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