Definition of answer

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Answer (v. i.) To be opposite, or to act in opposition..

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Liable :: Liable (v. t.) Bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; answerable; as, the surety is liable for the debt of his principal..
Alpha :: Alpha (n.) The first letter in the Greek alphabet, answering to A, and hence used to denote the beginning..
Answer :: Answer (n.) To be or act an equivalent to, or as adequate or sufficient for; to serve for; to repay..
Rejoinder :: Rejoinder (n.) The defendant's answer to the plaintiff's replication.
Arquebuse :: Arquebuse (n.) A sort of hand gun or firearm a contrivance answering to a trigger, by which the burning match was applied. The musket was a later invention..
Severance :: Severance (n.) The act of dividing; the singling or severing of two or more that join, or are joined, in one writ; the putting in several or separate pleas or answers by two or more disjointly; the destruction of the unity of interest in a joint estate..
Catechism :: Catechism (n.) A book containing a summary of principles, especially of religious doctrine, reduced to the form of questions and answers..
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..
Answer :: Answer (v. i.) To speak or write by way of return (originally, to a charge), or in reply; to make response..
Oracle :: Oracle (n.) The answer of a god, or some person reputed to be a god, to an inquiry respecting some affair or future event, as the success of an enterprise or battle..
Sponsor :: Sponsor (n.) One who binds himself to answer for another, and is responsible for his default; a surety..
Answer :: Answer (n.) A counter-statement of facts in a course of pleadings; a confutation of what the other party has alleged; a responsive declaration by a witness in reply to a question. In Equity, it is the usual form of defense to the complainant's charges in his bill..
Battler :: Battler (n.) A student at Oxford who is supplied with provisions from the buttery; formerly, one who paid for nothing but what he called for, answering nearly to a sizar at Cambridge..
Reply :: Reply (v. i.) To make a return in words or writing; to respond; to answer.
Wapentake :: Wapentake (n.) In some northern counties of England, a division, or district, answering to the hundred in other counties. Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, and Nottinghamshire are divided into wapentakes, instead of hundreds..
Benediction :: Benediction (n.) The form of instituting an abbot, answering to the consecration of a bishop..
Competent :: Competent (a.) Answering to all requirements; adequate; sufficient; suitable; capable; legally qualified; fit.
Surety :: Surety (n.) One who is bound with and for another who is primarily liable, and who is called the principal; one who engages to answer for another's appearance in court, or for his payment of a debt, or for performance of some act; a bondsman; a bail..
Cortes :: Cortes (n. pl.) The legislative assembly, composed of nobility, clergy, and representatives of cities, which in Spain and in Portugal answers, in some measure, to the Parliament of Great Britain..
Cipher :: Cipher (v. t.) To get by ciphering; as, to cipher out the answer..
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