[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

re-turn \re-turn"\, v. t.  i.
   to turn again.
   1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

return \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.
      1913 webster

            on their embattled ranks the waves return. --milton.
      1913 webster

            if they returned out of bondage, it must be into a
            state of freedom.                     --locke.
      1913 webster

            dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
                                                  --gen. iii.
                                                  19.
      1913 webster

   2. to come back, or begin again, after an interval, regular
      or irregular; to appear again.
      1913 webster

            with the year
            seasons return; but not me returns
            day or the sweet approach of even or morn. --milton.
      1913 webster

   3. to speak in answer; to reply; to respond.
      1913 webster

            he said, and thus the queen of heaven returned.
                                                  --pope.
      1913 webster

   4. to revert; to pass back into possession.
      1913 webster

            and jeroboam said in his heart, now shall the
            kingdom return to the house of david. --1kings xii.
                                                  26.
      1913 webster

   5. to go back in thought, narration, or argument. "but to
      return to my story." --fielding.
      1913 webster
see also:
returned returning turn 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

return \return"\, v. t.
   1. to bring, carry, send, or turn, back; as, to return a
      borrowed book, or a hired horse.
      1913 webster

            both fled attonce, ne ever back returned eye.
                                                  --spenser.
      1913 webster

   2. to repay; as, to return borrowed money.
      1913 webster

   3. to give in requital or recompense; to requite.
      1913 webster

            the lord shall return thy wickedness upon thine own
            head.                                 --1 kings ii.
                                                  44.
      1913 webster

   4. to give back in reply; as, to return an answer; to return
      thanks.
      1913 webster

   5. to retort; to throw back; as, to return the lie.
      1913 webster

            if you are a malicious reader, you return upon me,
            that i affect to be thought more impartial than i
            am.                                   --dryden.
      1913 webster

   6. to report, or bring back and make known.
      1913 webster

            and all the people answered together, . . . and
            moses returned the words of the people unto the
            lord.                                 --ex. xix. 8.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

   8. hence, to elect according to the official report of the
      election officers. eng.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

   10. to convey into official custody, or to a general
       depository.
       1913 webster

             instead of a ship, he should levy money, and return
             the same to the treasurer for his majesty's use.
                                                  --clarendon.
       1913 webster

   11. tennis to bat the ball back over the net.
       1913 webster

   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.
       1913 webster

   to return a lead card playing, to lead the same suit led
      by one's partner.
      1913 webster

   syn: to restore; requite; repay; recompense; render; remit;
        report.
        1913 webster
see also:
to return a lead 

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

return \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.
      1913 webster

            at the return of the year the king of syria will
            come up against thee.                 --1 kings xx.
                                                  22.
      1913 webster

            his personal return was most required and necessary.
                                                  --shak.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

            you made my liberty your late request:
            is no return due from a grateful breast? --dryden.
      1913 webster

   3. that which is returned. specifically:
      a a payment; a remittance; a requital.
          1913 webster

                i do expect return
                of thrice three times the value of this bond.
                                                  --shak.
          1913 webster
      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.
          1913 webster

                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.
          1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

   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.
          1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

   7. pl. fort.  mining the turnings and windings of a trench
      or mine.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster
see also:
return day return ball return bend return flue return pipe 

[5] : WordNet (r) 2.0

return
     n 1: document giving the tax collector information about the
          taxpayer's tax liability; "his gross income was enough
          that he had to file a tax return" syn: tax return, income
          tax return
     2: a coming to or returning home; "on his return from australia
        we gave him a welcoming party" syn: homecoming
     3: the occurrence of a change in direction back in the opposite
        direction syn: coming back
     4: getting something back again; "upon the restitution of the
        book to its rightful owner the child was given a tongue
        lashing" syn: restitution, restoration, regaining
     5: the act of returning to a prior location; "they set out on
        their return to the base camp"
     6: the income arising from land or other property; "the average
        return was about 5" syn: issue, proceeds, take, takings,
         yield, payoff
     7: happening again especially at regular intervals; "the
        return of spring" syn: recurrence
     8: a quick reply to a question or remark especially a witty or
        critical one; "it brought a sharp rejoinder from the
        teacher" syn: rejoinder, retort, riposte, replication,
         comeback, counter
     9: the key on electric typewriters or computer keyboards that
        causes a carriage return and a line feed syn: return key
     10: a reciprocal group action; "in return we gave them as good
         as we got" syn: paying back, getting even
     11: a tennis stroke that returns the ball to the other player;
         "he won the point on a cross-court return"
     12: american football the act of running back the ball after a
         kickoff or punt or interception or fumble
     13: the act of someone appearing again; "his reappearance as
         hamlet has been long awaited" syn: reappearance
     v 1: come back to place where one has been before, or return to a
          previous activity syn: go back, get back, come
          back
     2: give back; "render money" syn: render
     3: go back to a previous state; "we reverted to the old rules"
        syn: revert, retrovert, regress, turn back
     4: go back to something earlier; "this harks back to a previous
        remark of his" syn: hark back, come back, recall
     5: bring back to the point of departure syn: take back, bring
        back
     6: return in kind; "return a compliment"; "return her love"
     7: make a return; "return a kickback"
     8: answer back syn: retort, come back, repay, riposte,
         rejoin
     9: be restored; "her old vigor returned" syn: come back
     10: pay back; "please refund me my money" syn: refund, repay,
          give back
     11: pass down; "render a verdict"; "deliver a judgment" syn: render,
          deliver
     12: elect again syn: reelect
     13: be inherited by; "the estate fell to my sister"; "the land
         returned to the family"; "the estate devolved to an heir
         that everybody had assumed to be dead" syn: fall, pass,
          devolve
     14: return to a previous position; in mathematics; "the point
         returned to the interior of the figure"
     15: give or supply; "the cow brings in 5 liters of milk"; "this
         year's crop yielded 1,000 bushels of corn"; "the estate
         renders some revenue for the family" syn: render, yield,
          give, generate
     16: submit a report, etc. to someone in authority; "submit a
         bill to a legislative body"
see also:
tax return income tax return homecoming coming back restitution restoration 
regaining issue proceeds take takings 
yield payoff recurrence rejoinder retort 
riposte replication comeback counter return key 
paying back getting even reappearance go back get back 
come back render revert retrovert regress 
turn back hark back come back recall take back 
bring back repay rejoin refund give back 
deliver reelect fall pass devolve 
give generate 

[6] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

414 moby thesaurus words for "return":
   crt spot, dm display, doppler signal, if signal, im display,
   rf echoes, about-face, acknowledge, acknowledgment,
   action and reaction, advent, advert, afford, alternate,
   alternation, amends, answer, answer back, answering, antiphon,
   arrival, atavism, atonement, automatic reaction,
   autonomic reaction, back answer, back talk, backchat, backing,
   backset, backslide, backsliding, backward deviation,
   backward motion, backward step, bandy, be here again,
   be quits with, be reflected, be sent back, beam, beat, beat signal,
   benefit, blips, blood money, boom, boomerang, bounce back,
   bounceback, bounces, bring back, bring in, capital gains,
   carry back, change, circle, cleanup, clear profit, cock,
   come again, come and go, come around, come back, come back at,
   come home, come in, come round, come round again, come up again,
   comeback, coming, commute, compensate, compensation, consideration,
   convalescence, cooperate, counter, counterblast, counterblow,
   counterchange, counterstroke, cycle, cyclicalness, damages,
   deliver, disenchantment, display, dividends, double, double back,
   double-dot display, doubling, duplication, earn, earnings, echo,
   echo back, echo signal, evasive reply, exchange, extradite,
   extradition, fall astern, fall behind, falling back, filthy lucre,
   flash back, flip-flop, gain, gains, get, get back at, get behind,
   get even with, gettings, give, give acknowledgment, give and take,
   give answer, give back, give-and-take, giving back, gleanings,
   go back, go backwards, go behind, go home, gross, gross profit,
   guerdon, hoard, homecoming, honorarium, imitation, income,
   indemnification, indemnity, interchange, interest, intermit,
   intermittence, intermittency, jerk back, keep coming, kickback,
   killing, lapse, lapse back, local oscillator signal, logroll,
   lose ground, lucre, makings, meed, meter, neat profit, net,
   net profit, offer, oscillate, oscillation, output signal,
   paper profits, pay, pay back, pay off, payment, pelf,
   pendulum motion, percentage, periodicalness, periodicity, perk,
   perks, permute, perquisite, pickings, picture, pips, piston motion,
   place in, plagiarism, predictable response, price, proceeds,
   proffer, profit, profits, pull back, pulsate, pulsation, pulse,
   put back, quittance, quotation, radar signal, rake-off, rally,
   react, reaction, reactivate, reading, ready reply, reappear,
   reappearance, rebirth, rebound, recede, receipt, receipts,
   recession, recidivate, recidivation, recidivism, reciprocate,
   reciprocation, reciprocity, reclamation, recoil, recommit,
   recommitment, recompense, reconstitute, reconversion, reconvert,
   recoupment, recover, recovery, recrudescence, recruit,
   recuperation, recur, recurrence, recursion, reddition, redoubling,
   redress, reduplication, reecho, reenact, reentrance, reentry,
   reestablish, refill, reflect, reflection, reflex, reflex action,
   refluence, reflux, reform, refund, refundment, regain, regress,
   regression, regular wave motion, regurgitation, rehabilitate,
   rehabilitation, reimbursement, reincarnation, reinstall, reinstate,
   reinstatement, reinstitute, reintegrate, reinvest, rejoin,
   rejoinder, relapse, remand, remandment, remigration, remit,
   remitter, remuneration, render, rendition, renew, renewal, reoccur,
   reoccurrence, reparation, repartee, repatriate, repatriation,
   repayment, repeat, repercuss, repetition, replace, replacement,
   replacing, replenish, replication, reply, report, repost,
   reproduction, requital, requite, requitement, rescript,
   rescription, resound, respond, respondence, response, responsion,
   responsory, restitution, restoration, restore, restoring, results,
   resume, resumption, resurface, retaliate, retaliation, retort,
   retribution, retroaction, retrocede, retrocession, retroflex,
   retroflexion, retrogradation, retrograde, retrogress,
   retrogression, retroversion, retrovert, retrusion, return answer,
   return for answer, return signal, return the compliment, returning,
   returns, revenue, reverberate, reverberation, reversal, reverse,
   reversion, revert, reverting, revest, revolve, revulsion, reward,
   rhythm, riposte, rise, roll, roll around, rollback, rotate, rumble,
   salvage, satisfaction, say, say in reply, seasonality, send back,
   sending back, setback, shoot back, short answer, signal,
   signal display, slip back, slipping back, smart money,
   snappy comeback, solatium, sound, spot, sternway, store, swap,
   switch, take, take back, take-in, takings, talk back, target image,
   throwback, trace, trade, transmitter signal, transpose, turn,
   turn back, turn in, turnabout, undulate, undulation,
   unthinking response, video signal, wealth, wergild, wheel,
   wheel around, winnings, witty reply, witty retort,
   yes-and-no answer, yield

[7] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

return, contracts, remedies. persons who are beyond the sea are exempted 
from the operation of the statute of limitations of pennsylvania, and of 
other states, till after a certain time has elapsed after their returning. 
as to what shall be considered a return, see 14 mass. 203; 1 gall. 342; 3 
johns. 263; 3 wils. 145; 2 bl. rep. 723; 3 littell's rep. 48; 1 harr.  
johns. 89, 350; 17 mass. 180. 

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