Definition of return

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Return (v. t.) To convey into official custody, or to a general depository..

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Reaccess :: Reaccess (n.) A second access or approach; a return.
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..
Revenge :: Revenge (v. t.) To inflict harm in return for, as an injury, insult, etc.; to exact satisfaction for, under a sense of injury; to avenge; -- followed either by the wrong received, or by the person or thing wronged, as the object, or by the reciprocal pronoun as direct object, and a preposition before the wrong done or the wrongdoer..
Returning :: Returning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Retur.
Return :: Return (v. t.) To render, as an account, usually an official account, to a superior; to report officially by a list or statement; as, to return a list of stores, of killed or wounded; to return the result of an election..
Revolve :: Revolve (v. i.) To return; to pass.
Payment :: Payment (n.) That which is paid; the thing given in discharge of a debt, or an obligation, or in fulfillment of a promise; reward; recompense; requital; return..
Galilee :: Galilee (n.) A porch or waiting room, usually at the west end of an abbey church, where the monks collected on returning from processions, where bodies were laid previous to interment, and where women were allowed to see the monks to whom they were related, or to hear divine service. Also, frequently applied to the porch of a church, as at Ely and Durham cathedrals..
Again :: Again (adv.) In return, back; as, bring us word again..
Resound :: Resound (n.) Return of sound; echo.
Reversion :: Reversion (n.) That which reverts or returns; residue.
Homing :: Homing (a.) Home-returning; -- used specifically of carrier pigeons.
Revert :: Revert (v. i.) To return; to come back.
Returnable :: Returnable (a.) Capable of, or admitting of, being returned..
Return :: Return (v. t.) To bring, carry, send, or turn, back; as, to return a borrowed book, or a hired horse..
Proleptical :: Proleptical (a.) Anticipating the usual time; -- applied to a periodical disease whose paroxysms return at an earlier hour at every repetition.
Involution :: Involution (n.) The return of an enlarged part or organ to its normal size, as of the uterus after pregnancy..
Quartan :: Quartan (n.) An intermittent fever which returns every fourth day, reckoning inclusively, that is, one in which the interval between paroxysms is two days..
Sympode :: Symploce (n.) The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning and another at the end of successive clauses; as, Justice came down from heaven to view the earth; Justice returned to heaven, and left the earth..
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