Syn. — To restore; requite; repay; recompense; render; remit; report.
Return
(Re*turn") n.
1. The act of returning 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.
At the return of the year the king of Syria will come up against thee.
1 Kings xx. 22.
His personal return was most required and necessary.
Shak. 2. The act of returning 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.
You made my liberty your late request:
Is no return due from a grateful breast?
Dryden. 3. That which is returned. Specifically: (a) A payment; a remittance; a requital.
I do expect return
Of thrice three times the value of this bond.
Shak. (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.
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. 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.
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.
