Definition of return

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Return (n.) The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building, face of a building, or any member, as a molding or mold; -- applied to the shorter in contradistinction to the longer; thus, a facade of sixty feet east and west has a return of twenty feet north and south..

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Frequency :: Frequency (n.) The condition of returning frequently; occurrence often repeated; common occurence; as, the frequency of crimes; the frequency of miracles..
Light :: Light (superl.) Not heavily burdened; not deeply laden; not sufficiently ballasted; as, the ship returned light..
Returnable :: Returnable (a.) Legally required to be returned, delivered, given, or rendered; as, a writ or precept returnable at a certain day; a verdict returnable to the court..
Owe :: Owe (v.) Hence: To have or be under an obigation to restore, pay, or render (something) in return or compensation for something received; to be indebted in the sum of; as, the subject owes allegiance; the fortunate owe assistance to the unfortunate..
Ungrateful :: Ungrateful (a.) Not grateful; not thankful for favors; making no returns, or making ill return for kindness, attention, etc.; ingrateful..
Reward :: Reward (v. t.) To give in return, whether good or evil; -- commonly in a good sense; to requite; to recompense; to repay; to compensate..
Rehibition :: Rehibition (n.) The returning of a thing purchased to the seller, on the ground of defect or frand..
Recur :: Recur (v. i.) To come back; to return again or repeatedly; to come again to mind.
Exchange :: Exchange (n.) The act of giving or taking one thing in return for another which is regarded as an equivalent; as, an exchange of cattle for grain..
Withernam :: Withernam (n.) A second or reciprocal distress of other goods in lieu of goods which were taken by a first distress and have been eloigned; a taking by way of reprisal; -- chiefly used in the expression capias in withernam, which is the name of a writ used in connection with the action of replevin (sometimes called a writ of reprisal), which issues to a defendant in replevin when he has obtained judgment for a return of the chattels replevied, and fails to obtain them on the writ of return..
Quotidian :: Quotidian (n.) Anything returning daily; especially (Med.), an intermittent fever or ague which returns every day..
Reversion :: Reversion (n.) The act of returning, or coming back; return..
Back :: Back (adv.) In return, repayment, or requital..
Return :: Return (v. t.) To give back in reply; as, to return an answer; to return thanks..
Reflect :: Reflect (v.) To bend back; to give a backwa/d turn to; to throw back; especially, to cause to return after striking upon any surface; as, a mirror reflects rays of light; polished metals reflect heat..
Predict :: Predict (v. t.) To tell or declare beforehand; to foretell; to prophesy; to presage; as, to predict misfortune; to predict the return of a comet..
Recursion :: Recursion (n.) The act of recurring; return.
React :: React (v. i.) To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force; as, every body reacts on the body that impels it from its natural state..
Reply :: Reply (v. i.) To make a return in words or writing; to respond; to answer.
Reflux :: Reflux (a.) Returning, or flowing back; reflex; as, reflux action..
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