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Return
RETURN, v.i. [L. torno.]
1. To come or go back to the same place. The gentleman goes from the country to London and returns, or the citizen of London rides into the country and returns. The blood propelled from the heart, passes through the arteries to the extremities of the body, and returns through the veins. Some servants are good to go on errands, but not good to return.
2. To come to the same state; as, to return from bondage to a state of freedom.
3. To answer.
He said, and thus the queen of heaven return'd.
4. To come again; to revisit.
Thou to mankind be good and friendly still, and oft return.
5. To appear or begin again after a periodical revolution.
With the year seasons return, but not to me returns day -
6. To show fresh signs of mercy.
Return, O Lord, deliver my soul. Psa 6.
To return to God, to return from wickedness, to repent of sin or wandering from duty.
RETURN', v.t.
1. To bring, carry or send back; as, to return a borrowed book; to return a hired horse.
2. To repay; as, to return borrowed money.
3. To give in recompense or requital.
In any wise, return him a trespass-offering. 1 Sam 6.
The Lord shall return thy wickedness upon thy own head. 1 Ki 2.
4. To give back in reply; as, to return an answer.
5. To tell, relate or communicate.
And Moses returned the words of the people to the Lord.
Exo 19.
6. To retort; to recriminate.
If you are a malicious reader, you return upon me, that I affect to be thought more impartial than I am.
7. To render an account, usually an official account to a superior. Officers of the army and navy return to the commander the number of men in companies, regiments, etc.; they return the number of men sick or capable of duty; they return the quantity of ammunition, provisions, etc.
8. To render back to a tribunal or to an office; as, to return a writ or an execution.
9. To report officially; as, an officer returns his proceedings on the back of a writ or precept.
10. To send; to transmit; to convey.
Instead of a ship, he should levy money and return the same to the treasurer for his majesty's use.
RETURN', n.
1. The act of coming or going back to the same place.
Takes little journeys and makes quick returns.
2. The act of sending back; as the return of a borrowed book or of money lent.
3. The act of putting in the former place.
4. Retrogression; the act of moving back.
5. The act or process of coming back to a former state; as the return of health.
6. Revolution; a periodical coming to the same point; as the return of the sun to the tropic of Cancer.
7. Periodical renewal; as the return of the seasons or of the year.
8. Repayment; reimbursement in kind or in something equivalent, for money expended or advanced, or for labor. One occupation gives quick returns; in others, the returns are slow. The returns of the cargo were in gold. The farmer has returns in his crops.
9. Profit; advantage.
From these few hours we spend in prayer, the return is great.
10. Remittance; payment from a distant place.
11. Repayment; retribution; requital.
Is no return due from a grateful breast?
12. Act of restoring or giving back; restitution.
13. Either of the adjoining sides of the front of a house or ground-plot, is called a return side.
14. In law, the rendering back or delivery of a writ, precept or execution, to the proper officer or court; or the certificate of the officer executing it, indorsed. We call the transmission of the writ to the proper officer or court, a return; and we give the same name to the certificate or official account of the officer's service or proceedings. The sheriff or his subordinate officers make return of all writs and precepts. We use the same language for the sending back of a commission with the certificate of the commissioners.
15. A day in bank. The day on which the defendant is ordered to appear in court, and the sheriff is to bring in the writ and report his proceedings, is called the return of the writ.
16. In military and naval affairs, an official account, report or statement rendered to the commander; as the return of men fit for duty; the return of the number of the sick; the return of provisions, ammunition, etc.
return appears in definitions for these words:
Abandon Abjuration Access Acknowledgment Advise Again Aloe Anniversary Annual Annually Answer Answerer Araignee Arnoldist Astrea Back Backreturn Bailbond Beat Better Biennially Bishop Bittern Borrow Borrowed Borrowing Bourn Bow Burden Camel-backed Canvass Canvasser Cavatina Certainly Chain Chop Church Circular Circularly Circulate Circulation Cold Come Compensate Composition Concurrent Consultation Cope Countermarch Counterstroke Crural Cut Cycle Deal Deprecate Desert Desertion Discredit Dust Ebb Echo Eddy-wind Elastic Elisor Elogy Embattle Ember Emphysem Empty Emulgent End Epistrophe Escape Exacerbation Exchange Excursion Exigent Exile Fair Finding Fit For Frequency Friendly General Get Give Gratefully Gratitude Gratuity Heal Heart Hie Himself Hiss Home Homeward How Hypothecate Impatient Indorsement Ingratitude Irremeable Irreturnable Kind Lapse Leather-seller Lend Light Loan Meritorious Meritoriousness Meticulous More Much Mutual Neaped Nibble Nisiprius Nundinal Nutation Obligation Offering Otherwise Outrage Overplus Palmer Parade Parol Pelican Period Periodic Pine Platonic Postliminium Precipitance Proleptic Pump Putrefy Quarterly Quick Quittal Quittance Quotidian Ransom Re Re-echo Re-echoed Re-echoing Re-entering React Reascent Rebellow Rebellowing Reboation Recharge Recharged Recharging Reciprocal Reciprocalness Reciprocate Reciprocated Reciprocation Reclaim Recoil Recompense Recourse Recover Recovering Recriminate Recriminating Recrimination Recur Recurrence Recurrent Recursion Reddition Redditive Redient Redouble Redoubled Redoubling Reflect Reflected Refluent Reflux Reform Refund Refunding Regreet Regreeted Regress Regression Regressive Regressively Regular Regularly Relapse Relove Remigrate Remittance Remurmur Render Rendered Rendering Rent Repay Repel Repent Replevin Replevy Replication Replier Reply Report Reprisal Requital Requite Requiting Resale Resalute Resonance Resonant Resound Resounded Resounding Respeak Restitution Restoration Restore Restored Restorer Restoring Result Resulting Resurrection Retaliate Retaliated Retaliating Retaliation Retaliatory Retort Retorted Retorting Retribute Retributed Retribution Retroaction Retroactive Retroactively Return Returnable Returner Returning-officer Returnless Revenge Revenged Revengement Revenger Revenue Reverberant Reverberate Reverberatory Reverse Reversion Revert Revertible Reverting Revest Revibrate Reviction Revie Revival Revive Reviviscence Revolution Reward Rewarding Routine Samsons-post Saving Septennial Set Soon Spirit Steam Sublimate Sublime Submit Succede Suitable Tertian Therefore Token Trave Turn Unanswered Underproportioned Ungrateful Ungratefulness Unpardoned Unproductive Unsatisfied Unsuitable Use Valve Vein Vengeance Vibration Void Wages War Warn Wild-goose Wind Year Yield
Abandon Abjuration Access Acknowledgment Advise Again Aloe Anniversary Annual Annually Answer Answerer Araignee Arnoldist Astrea Back Backreturn Bailbond Beat Better Biennially Bishop Bittern Borrow Borrowed Borrowing Bourn Bow Burden Camel-backed Canvass Canvasser Cavatina Certainly Chain Chop Church Circular Circularly Circulate Circulation Cold Come Compensate Composition Concurrent Consultation Cope Countermarch Counterstroke Crural Cut Cycle Deal Deprecate Desert Desertion Discredit Dust Ebb Echo Eddy-wind Elastic Elisor Elogy Embattle Ember Emphysem Empty Emulgent End Epistrophe Escape Exacerbation Exchange Excursion Exigent Exile Fair Finding Fit For Frequency Friendly General Get Give Gratefully Gratitude Gratuity Heal Heart Hie Himself Hiss Home Homeward How Hypothecate Impatient Indorsement Ingratitude Irremeable Irreturnable Kind Lapse Leather-seller Lend Light Loan Meritorious Meritoriousness Meticulous More Much Mutual Neaped Nibble Nisiprius Nundinal Nutation Obligation Offering Otherwise Outrage Overplus Palmer Parade Parol Pelican Period Periodic Pine Platonic Postliminium Precipitance Proleptic Pump Putrefy Quarterly Quick Quittal Quittance Quotidian Ransom Re Re-echo Re-echoed Re-echoing Re-entering React Reascent Rebellow Rebellowing Reboation Recharge Recharged Recharging Reciprocal Reciprocalness Reciprocate Reciprocated Reciprocation Reclaim Recoil Recompense Recourse Recover Recovering Recriminate Recriminating Recrimination Recur Recurrence Recurrent Recursion Reddition Redditive Redient Redouble Redoubled Redoubling Reflect Reflected Refluent Reflux Reform Refund Refunding Regreet Regreeted Regress Regression Regressive Regressively Regular Regularly Relapse Relove Remigrate Remittance Remurmur Render Rendered Rendering Rent Repay Repel Repent Replevin Replevy Replication Replier Reply Report Reprisal Requital Requite Requiting Resale Resalute Resonance Resonant Resound Resounded Resounding Respeak Restitution Restoration Restore Restored Restorer Restoring Result Resulting Resurrection Retaliate Retaliated Retaliating Retaliation Retaliatory Retort Retorted Retorting Retribute Retributed Retribution Retroaction Retroactive Retroactively Return Returnable Returner Returning-officer Returnless Revenge Revenged Revengement Revenger Revenue Reverberant Reverberate Reverberatory Reverse Reversion Revert Revertible Reverting Revest Revibrate Reviction Revie Revival Revive Reviviscence Revolution Reward Rewarding Routine Samsons-post Saving Septennial Set Soon Spirit Steam Sublimate Sublime Submit Succede Suitable Tertian Therefore Token Trave Turn Unanswered Underproportioned Ungrateful Ungratefulness Unpardoned Unproductive Unsatisfied Unsuitable Use Valve Vein Vengeance Vibration Void Wages War Warn Wild-goose Wind Year Yield
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