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    Return , 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, 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.
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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.
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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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    Return , 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?
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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.
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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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