Definition of answer

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Answer (v. i.) To be or act in return.

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Indirect :: Indirect (a.) Not tending to an aim, purpose, or result by the plainest course, or by obvious means, but obliquely or consequentially; by remote means; as, an indirect accusation, attack, answer, or proposal..
Rowel :: Rowel (n.) A roll of hair, silk, etc., passed through the flesh of horses, answering to a seton in human surgery..
Amenableness :: Amenableness (n.) The quality or state of being amenable; liability to answer charges; answerableness.
Correspond :: Correspond (v. i.) To be adapted; to be congruous; to suit; to agree; to fit; to answer; -- followed by to.
Redditive :: Redditive (a.) Answering to an interrogative or inquiry; conveying a reply; as, redditive words..
Query :: Query (n.) A question; an inquiry to be answered or solved.
Sergeant :: Sergeant (n.) Formerly, in England, an officer nearly answering to the more modern bailiff of the hundred; also, an officer whose duty was to attend on the king, and on the lord high steward in court, to arrest traitors and other offenders. He is now called sergeant-at-arms, and two of these officers, by allowance of the sovereign, attend on the houses of Parliament (one for each house) to execute their commands, and another attends the Court Chancery..
Surf :: Suretyship (n.) The state of being surety; the obligation of a person to answer for the debt, default, or miscarriage of another..
Accountable :: Accountable (a.) Liable to be called on to render an account; answerable; as, every man is accountable to God for his conduct..
Cipher :: Cipher (v. t.) To get by ciphering; as, to cipher out the answer..
Responsory :: Responsory (n.) The answer of the people to the priest in alternate speaking, in church service..
Return :: Return (v. i.) To speak in answer; to reply; to respond.
Answer :: Answer (n.) To render account to or for.
Sponsor :: Sponsor (n.) One who binds himself to answer for another, and is responsible for his default; a surety..
Enigmatical :: Enigmatical (a.) Relating to or resembling an enigma; not easily explained or accounted for; darkly expressed; obscure; puzzling; as, an enigmatical answer..
Short :: Short (superl.) Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant; as, he gave a short answer to the question..
Answerable :: Answerable (a.) Correspondent; conformable; hence, comparable..
Stop :: Stop (n.) A member, plain or molded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts. This takes the place, or answers the purpose, of a rebate. Also, a pin or block to prevent a drawer from sliding too far..
Catechetical :: Catechetical (a.) Relating to or consisting in, asking questions and receiving answers, according to the ancient manner of teaching..
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..
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