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Answer :: Answer (n.) To be or act in accommodation, conformity, relation, or proportion to; to correspond to; to suit..

Unanswered :: Unanswered (a.) Not responded to in kind; unrequited; as, unanswered affection..

Duplicity :: Duplicity (n.) The use of two or more distinct allegations or answers, where one is sufficient..

Resolve :: Resolve (v. i.) To solve, as a problem, by enumerating the several things to be done, in order to obtain what is required; to find the answer to, or the result of..

Value :: Value (n.) The relative length or duration of a tone or note, answering to quantity in prosody; thus, a quarter note [/] has the value of two eighth notes [/]..

Obverse :: Obverse (a.) Anything necessarily involved in, or answering to, another; the more apparent or conspicuous of two possible sides, or of two corresponding things..

Plead :: Plead (v. t.) To allege or cite in a legal plea or defense, or for repelling a demand in law; to answer to an indictment; as, to plead usury; to plead statute of limitations; to plead not guilty..

Respondent :: Respondent (n.) One who answers in certain suits or proceedings, generally those which are not according to the course of the common law, as in equity and admiralty causes, in petitions for partition, and the like; -- distinquished from appellant..

Attach :: Attach (v. t.) To take by legal authority: (a) To arrest by writ, and bring before a court, as to answer for a debt, or a contempt; -- applied to a taking of the person by a civil process; being now rarely used for the arrest of a criminal. (b) To seize or take (goods or real estate) by virtue of a writ or precept to hold the same to satisfy a judgment which may be rendered in the suit. See Attachment, 4..

Reanswer :: Reanswer (v. t. & i.) To answer in return; to repay; to compensate; to make amends for.

Rejoinder :: Rejoinder (n.) An answer to a reply; or, in general, an answer or reply..

Stretto :: Stretto (n.) The crowding of answer upon subject near the end of a fugue.

Answer :: Answer (n.) To speak in defense against; to reply to in defense; as, to answer a charge; to answer an accusation..

Spiritful :: Spirited (a.) Animated; full of life or vigor; lively; full of spirit or fire; as, a spirited oration; a spirited answer..

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..

Useless :: Useless (a.) Having, or being of, no use; unserviceable; producing no good end; answering no valuable purpose; not advancing the end proposed; unprofitable; ineffectual; as, a useless garment; useless pity..

Demurrer :: Demurrer (n.) A stop or pause by a party to an action, for the judgment of the court on the question, whether, assuming the truth of the matter alleged by the opposite party, it is sufficient in law to sustain the action or defense, and hence whether the party resting is bound to answer or proceed further..

Contraremonstrant :: Contraremonstrant (n.) One who remonstrates in opposition or answer to a remonstrant.

Respeak :: Respeak (v. t.) To answer; to echo.

Praenomen :: Praenomen (n.) The first name of a person, by which individuals of the same family were distinguished, answering to our Christian name, as Caius, Lucius, Marcus, etc..

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