Definition of return

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Return (n.) The certificate of an officer stating what he has done in execution of a writ, precept, etc., indorsed on the document..

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Reanswer :: Reanswer (v. t. & i.) To answer in return; to repay; to compensate; to make amends for.
Recourse :: Recourse (v. i.) To return; to recur.
Remise :: Remise (v. t.) To send, give, or grant back; to release a claim to; to resign or surrender by deed; to return..
Quarterly :: Quarterly (adv.) By quarters; once in a quarter of a year; as, the returns are made quarterly..
Jugular :: "Jugular (a.) One of the large veins which return the blood from the head to the heart through two chief trunks, an external and an internal, on each side of the neck; -- called also the jugular vein..
Answer :: Answer (n.) Something done in return for, or in consequence of, something else; a responsive action..
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..
Pay :: Pay (v. t.) To satisfy, or content; specifically, to satisfy (another person) for service rendered, property delivered, etc.; to discharge one's obligation to; to make due return to; to compensate; to remunerate; to recompense; to requite; as, to pay workmen or servants..
Reflection :: Reflection (n.) The return of rays, beams, sound, or the like, from a surface. See Angle of reflection, below..
Resonance :: Resonance (n.) A prolongation or increase of any sound, either by reflection, as in a cavern or apartment the walls of which are not distant enough to return a distinct echo, or by the production of vibrations in other bodies, as a sounding-board, or the bodies of musical instruments..
Clough :: Clough (n.) A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land.
Grilse :: Grilse (n.) A young salmon after its first return from the sea.
Rotation :: Rotation (n.) Any return or succesion in a series.
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..
Regress :: Regress (v. i.) To go back; to return to a former place or state.
Reversion :: Reversion (n.) The act of returning, or coming back; return..
Returner :: Returner (n.) One who returns.
Anniversary :: Anniversary (n.) The annual return of the day on which any notable event took place, or is wont to be celebrated; as, the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence..
Report :: Report (v. t.) To bring back, as an answer; to announce in return; to relate, as what has been discovered by a person sent to examine, explore, or investigate; as, a messenger reports to his employer what he has seen or ascertained; the committee reported progress..
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..
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