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Return \Re*turn"\, v. t.
1. To bring, carry, send, or turn, back; as, to return a
borrowed book, or a hired horse.
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Both fled attonce, ne ever back returned eye.
--Spenser.
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2. To repay; as, to return borrowed money.
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3. To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
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The Lord shall return thy wickedness upon thine own
head. --1 Kings ii.
44.
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4. To give back in reply; as, to return an answer; to return
thanks.
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5. To retort; to throw back; as, to return the lie.
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If you are a malicious reader, you return upon me,
that I affect to be thought more impartial than I
am. --Dryden.
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6. To report, or bring back and make known.
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And all the people answered together, . . . and
Moses returned the words of the people unto the
Lord. --Ex. xix. 8.
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7. 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.
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8. Hence, to elect according to the official report of the
election officers. [Eng.]
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9. To bring or send back to a tribunal, or to an office, with
a certificate of what has been done; as, to return a writ.
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10. To convey into official custody, or to a general
depository.
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Instead of a ship, he should levy money, and return
the same to the treasurer for his majesty's use.
--Clarendon.
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11. (Tennis) To bat (the ball) back over the net.
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12. (Card Playing) To lead in response to the lead of one's
partner; as, to return a trump; to return a diamond for a
club.
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{To return a lead} (Card Playing), to lead the same suit led
by one's partner.
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Syn: To restore; requite; repay; recompense; render; remit;
report.
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Re-turn \Re-turn"\, v. t. & i.
To turn again.
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Return \Re*turn"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Returned}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Returning}.] [OE. returnen, retournen, F. retourner;
pref. re- re- tourner to turn. See {Turn}.]
1. To turn back; to go or come again to the same place or
condition. "Return to your father's house." --Chaucer.
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On their embattled ranks the waves return. --Milton.
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If they returned out of bondage, it must be into a
state of freedom. --Locke.
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Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
--Gen. iii.
19.
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2. To come back, or begin again, after an interval, regular
or irregular; to appear again.
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With the year
Seasons return; but not me returns
Day or the sweet approach of even or morn. --Milton.
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3. To speak in answer; to reply; to respond.
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He said, and thus the queen of heaven returned.
--Pope.
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4. To revert; to pass back into possession.
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And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the
kingdom return to the house of David. --1Kings xii.
26.
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5. To go back in thought, narration, or argument. "But to
return to my story." --Fielding.
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Return \Re*turn"\, n.
1. The act of returning (intransitive), or coming back to the
same place or condition; as, the return of one long
absent; the return of health; the return of the seasons,
or of an anniversary.
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At the return of the year the king of Syria will
come up against thee. --1 Kings xx.
22.
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His personal return was most required and necessary.
--Shak.
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2. The act of returning (transitive), or sending back to the
same place or condition; restitution; repayment; requital;
retribution; as, the return of anything borrowed, as a
book or money; a good return in tennis.
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You made my liberty your late request:
Is no return due from a grateful breast? --Dryden.
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3. That which is returned. Specifically:
(a) A payment; a remittance; a requital.
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I do expect return
Of thrice three times the value of this bond.
--Shak.
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(b) An answer; as, a return to one's question.
(c) An account, or formal report, of an action performed,
of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, and the
like; as, election returns; a return of the amount of
goods produced or sold; especially, in the plural, a
set of tabulated statistics prepared for general
information.
(d) The profit on, or advantage received from, labor, or
an investment, undertaking, adventure, etc.
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The fruit from many days of recreation is very
little; but from these few hours we spend in
prayer, the return is great. --Jer. Taylor.
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4. (Arch.) 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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5. (Law)
(a) The rendering back or delivery of writ, precept, or
execution, to the proper officer or court.
(b) The certificate of an officer stating what he has done
in execution of a writ, precept, etc., indorsed on the
document.
(c) The sending back of a commission with the certificate
of the commissioners.
(d) A day in bank. See {Return day}, below. --Blackstone.
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6. (Mil. & Naval) An official account, report, or statement,
rendered to the commander or other superior officer; as,
the return of men fit for duty; the return of the number
of the sick; the return of provisions, etc.
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7. pl. (Fort. & Mining) The turnings and windings of a trench
or mine.
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{Return ball}, a ball held by an elastic string so that it
returns to the hand from which it is thrown, -- used as a
plaything.

{Return bend}, a pipe fitting for connecting the contiguous
ends of two nearly parallel pipes lying alongside or one
above another.

{Return day} (Law), the day when the defendant is to appear
in court, and the sheriff is to return the writ and his
proceedings.

{Return flue}, in a steam boiler, a flue which conducts flame
or gases of combustion in a direction contrary to their
previous movement in another flue.

{Return pipe} (Steam Heating), a pipe by which water of
condensation from a heater or radiator is conveyed back
toward the boiler.
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