2. A place where flax is retted; a rettery. Ure.
Retund
(Re*tund") v. t. [L. retundere, retusum; pref. re- re- + tundere to beat.] To blunt; to turn, as
an edge; figuratively, to cause to be obtuse or dull; as, to retund confidence. Ray. Cudworth.
Re-turn
(Re-turn") v. t. & i. To turn again.
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.
On their embattled ranks the waves return.
Milton.
If they returned out of bondage, it must be into a state of freedom.
Locke.
Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Gen. iii. 19. 2. To come back, or begin again, after an interval, regular or irregular; to appear again.
With the year
Seasons return; but not me returns
Day or the sweet approach of even or morn.
Milton. 3. To speak in answer; to reply; to respond.
He said, and thus the queen of heaven returned.
Pope. 4. To revert; to pass back into possession.
And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom return to the house of David.
1Kings xii. 26. 5. To go back in thought, narration, or argument. "But to return to my story." Fielding.
Return
(Re*turn"), v. t.
1. To bring, carry, send, or turn, back; as, to return a borrowed book, or a hired horse.
Both fled attonce, ne ever back returned eye.
Spenser. 2. To repay; as, to return borrowed money.
3. To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
The Lord shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head.
1 Kings ii. 44. 4. To give back in reply; as, to return an answer; to return thanks.
5. To retort; to throw back; as, to return the lie.
If you are a malicious reader, you return upon me, that I affect to be thought more impartial than I am.
Dryden. 6. To report, or bring back and make known.
And all the people answered together, . . . and Moses returned the words of the people unto the Lord.
Ex. xix. 8.
