return 
Thursday, the vij Day of May, we retornyed by the same 
watir of Brent to Venese ageyne. 
Torkinyton, Diarie of Eng. Travel), p. 9. 
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn 
No traveller returns. Shak., Hamlet, iii. 1. 80. 
She was so familiarly receiv'd [in heaven] 
As one returning, not as one arriv'd. 
Dryden, Eleonora, 1. 133. 
3. To go or come back to a former state ; pass 
back ; in general, to come by any process of re- 
trogression. 
The sea returned to his strength when the morning ap- 
peared. Ex. xiv. 27. 
Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander re- 
turneth into dust. SAa*., Hamlet, v. 1. 232. 
4. To come again ; come a second time or re- 
peatedly; repeat a visit. 
Thou to mankind 
Be good and friendly still, and oft return! 
Milton, P. L., viil. 651. 
So sweetly she bade me adieu, 
I thought that she bade me return. 
Shenstone, A Pastoral Ballad, 1. 6. 
5. To a,ppear or begin again after a periodical 
revolution. 
The wind returneth again according to his circuits. 
Eccles. i. 6. 
Thus with the year 
Seasons return, but not to me returns 
Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn. 
Milton, P. L., iii. 41. 
6. To revert; come back to the original pos- 
sessor; hence, to fall to the share of a person; 
become the possession of either a previous or 
a new owner. 
In the year of the jubile the field shall return unto him 
of whom it was bought. Lev. xxvii. 24. 
Had his necessity made use of me, 
I would have put my wealth into donation, 
And the best half should have return'd to him. 
Shak.,T. of A., iii. 2.91. 
7. To go back in thought or speech; comeback 
to a previous subject of consideration ; recur. 
Now will I retourne azen, or I precede ony ferthere, for 
to declare zou the othere weyes, that drawen toward 
Babiloyne. Mandeville, Travels, p. 53. 
But to return to the verses : did they please you? 
Shak., L. L. L., iv. 2. 156. 
8. To reappear; come back before the mind. 
The scenes and forms of death with which he had been 
familiar in Naples returned again and again before his 
eyes. J. H. Shorthouse, John Inglesant, xxxvi. 
9. To make reply; retort. 
A plain-spoken and possibly high-thinking critic might 
here perhaps return upon me with my own expressions. 
Scribner's Mag., IV. 126. 
10. To yield a return; give a value or profit. 
[Rare.] 
Allowing 25. men and boies to euery Barke. they will 
make 5000. persons, whose labours returne yeerely to 
about 135000. pound sterling. 
Capt. John Smith, Works, II. 246. 
11. In fencing, to give a thrust or cut after 
parrying a sword-thrust. 
return 1 (re-tern'), n. [< ME. return; cf . OF. re- 
tor, retur, retour, F. retour = Pr. retorn = Sp. Pg. 
retorno = It. ritorno; from the verb : see return!, 
v., and cf. retour.} 1. The act of sending, bring- 
ing, rendering, or restoring to a former place, 
position, owner, or state ; the act of giving back 
in requital, recompense, retort, or response ; 
election, as of a member of Congress or of Par- 
liament ; also, the state of being returned. See 
return!, v. t. 
Ill pawn my victories, all 
My honours to you, upon his good returns. 
Shak., T. of A., iii. 5. 82. 
Once the girl gave me a pair of beaded moccasons, in 
return, I suppose, for my bread and cider. 
S. Judd, Margaret, H. 4. 
5131 
Contempt instead, dishonour, obloquy '! 
Hard recompense, unsuitable return 
For so much good, so much beneficence 1 
Milton, P. R., 111. 132. 
(6) Profit, as arising from labor, effort, exertion, or use ; 
advantage ; a profitable result. 
The fruit which comes from the many days of recrea- 
tion and vanity is very little; . . . but from the few hours 
we spend in prayer and the exercises of a pious life the 
return is great. Jer. Taylor, Holy Living, i., Int. 
Just Gods ! shall all things yield returns hut love? 
Pope, Autumn, 1. 78. 
(c) A response ; a reply ; an answer. 
Say, if my father render fair retun\ 
It is against my will. Shak., Hen. \ 
They neither appeared, nor sent satisfying reasons for 
their absence ; but in stead thereof, many insolent, proud, 
railing, opprobrious returns. 
N. Morton, New England's Memorial, p. 204. 
(d) A report ; a formal or official account of an action per- 
formed or a duty discharged, or of facts, statistics, and 
the like ; especially, in the plural, a set of tabulated sta- 
tistics prepared for general information : as, agricultural 
returns; census returns; election returm. The return of 
members of Parliament is, strictly speaking, the return by 
return-tag 
returnable (re-ter'na-bl), a. [< return! + -ftble.} 
1. Capable of being returned. 
Sins that disceit is ay returnable, 
Of very force it is agreable 
That therwithall be done the recompence. 
Wyatt, Abused Lover. 
2. In law, legally required to be returned, de- 
livered, given , or rendered : as, a writ or pre- 
cept returnable at a certain day; a verdict re- 
turnable to the court. 
It may he decided in that court where the verdict is 
returnable. Sir M. Hale, Hist. Common Law of Eng., xii. 
'.,11.4.127. return-alkali (re-tern'al*ka-li), . In the 
manufacture of prussiate of potash (see prus- 
siiite) on a large scale, the salt obtained from 
the residual mother-liquor, which, after the lix- 
iviation of the calcined cake, the second crys- 
tallization, and second concentration, yet con- 
tains about 70 per cent, of potassium carbonate. 
The salts crystallizing out are also called blue salts. They 
are utilized by mixing them with the charge for another 
calcining process. 
the sheriff or other returning officer of the writ addressed return-ball (re-tern'bal), II. A ball used as 
to him, certifying the election in pursuance of it. a plaything, held by an elastic string which 
No note was taken of the falsification of election returns, 
or the dangers peculiar to elective governments. 
Bancroft, Hist. Const., II. 150. 
Accordingly in some of the earlier returns it is possible 
that the sheriff, or the persons who joined with him in 
electing the knights of the shire, elected the borough 
members also. Stubbs, Const. Hist., 422. 
But a fairly adequate Instrument of calculation is sup- 
causes it to return to the hand from which it is 
thrown. 
return-bead (re-tern'bed), n. In arcli. and carp., 
a double-quirk bead following an angle, and 
presenting the same profile on each face of the 
stuff. Also called bead and double quirk. See 
cut under bead. 
plied by the Registrar-General's mamage-re*. ' return-bend (re-tern'bend), n. A pipe-coupling 
^w, 4-U n ,-,!,,-., , *" Al, ~ 1 , . . TT 1 ____. 
Quarterly Rev., CXLV. 60. 
() In fencing, a thrust or cut given in answer to a sword- 
thrust : a more general term for riposte, which has a spe- 
cific meaning, signifying the easiest and quickest return 
stroke available under given circumstances. 
4. In law : (a) The bringing or sending back 
of a process or other mandate to the tribunal 
whence it issued, with a short statement (usu- 
ally indorsed on the process) by the officer to 
in the shape of the letter U, used for joining 
the ends of two pipes in making pipe-coils, 
heat-radiators, etc. Open return-bend, a return- 
bend having its branches separated in the form of the 
letter V. It differs from a closed return-bend in that the 
latter has its branches in contact. 
return-cargo (re-tern' kar"g6), M. A cargo 
brought back in return for or in place of mer- 
chandise previously sent out. 
return-check (re-tern'chek), n. A ticket for 
unuer it, orwny lie nas done readmission given to one of the audience who 
nothing. The return is now usually made by leaves a thea | er between the actg . 
filing the process, with indorsed certificate, in re turn crease fre-tern'kres) See rreaxfi 2 
th nlprVa nflR tr,\ Tho r>ffi i ^.Hfi^ <, return-crease ue-iern Kres;, H. see crease*, z. 
the clerk's office. (6) The official certificate so return da 
indorsed, (c) The day on which the terms of (j a y 
a process or other mandate require it to be re- 
turned. 
See return-day. 
I must sit to bee kild, and stand to kill my selfe ! I 
could vary it not so little as thrice oner agen ; 'tas some 
eight returnes like Michelmas Terme ! 
Tourneur, Revenger's Tragedy, v. 1. 
5. pi. A light-colored mild-flavored kind of to- 
bacco. 6. In arch., the continuation of a 
molding, projection, etc., in an opposite or dif- 
it Age: 
Returned Molding. From Apse of a Romanesque Church 
France. 
ferent direction ; also, a side or part which falls 
away from the front of any straight work. As 
a feature of a molding, it is usual at the termi- 
nation of the dripstone or hood of a window or 
door. 
I understand both these sides to be not only returns, but 
parts of the front Bacon, Building (ed. 1887). 
2. The act of going or coming back ; resump- 7. The air which ascends after having passed 
tion of a former place, position, state, condi- 
tion, or subject of consideration; recurrence, 
reappearance, or reversion. See return 1 , v. i. 
At the return of the year, the king of Syria will come 
up against thee. 1 Ki. xx. 22. 
In our returnes we visited all our friends, that reioyced 
much at our Victory against the Manahocks. 
Quoted in Capt. John Smith's Works, I. 188. 
To continue us in goodness there must be iterated re- 
turn* of misery. Sir T. Browne, Christ. Mor., ii. 11. 
through the working in a coal-mine. 8. In 
milit. engin., a short branch gallery for the re- 
ception of empty trucks. It enables loaded 
trucks to pass. 9. In music, same as reprise, 5. 
Clause of return, in Scots law. See clause. False 
return. See false. Return request, in the postal sys- 
tem of the United States, a request, printed or written on 
the envelop of a letter, that, if not delivered within a cer- 
tain time, it be returned to the writer's address, which is 
given. Keturns of a mine, in fort., the turnings and 
(re-tern'da), n. In law: (a) The 
iy legal process for the defendant to 
appear in court, or for the sheriff to return the 
process and his proceedings, or both, (b) A 
day in a term of court appointed for the return 
of all processes. 
returner (re-tfr'ner), n. [< return! + -er 3 .] 
One who or that which returns. 
The chapmen that give highest for this (bullion from 
Spain] are . . . those who can make most profit by it; 
and those are the returners of our money, by exchange, 
into those countries where our debts . . . make a need 
of it. Locke, Obs. on Encouraging the Coining of Silver. 
returning-board (re-ter'ning-bord), n. In 
some of the United States, a board consisting 
of certain designated State officers, who are by 
law empowered to canvass and declare returns 
of elections held within the State. 
returning-officer (re-ter'ning-of"i-ser), n. 1. 
The officer whose duty it is to make returns of 
writs, precepts, juries, etc. 2. The presiding 
officer at an election, who returns the persons 
duly elected. 
returnless (re-tern'les), a. [< return! + -less.} 
Without return ; admitting no return. [Rare.] 
But I would neuer credit in you both 
Least cause of sorrow, but well knew the troth 
Of this thine owne returne ; though all thy friends 
I knew, as well should make returnlesse ends. 
Chapman, Odyssey, xiii. 
return-match (re-tem'mach), n. A second 
match or trial played by the same two sets of 
opponents. 
For this year the Wellesburn return-match and the 
Marylebone match played at Rugby. 
T. Hughes, Tom Brown's School-Days, ii. 8. 
returnment (re-tern'ment), M. [< return! + 
-men t.} The act of returning ; a return ; a going 
back. [Rare.] 
Sometimes we yeeled ; but, like a ramme, 
That makes returnment to redouble strength, 
Then forc'd them yeeld. 
Heywood, If you Know not me (Works, ed. Pearson, 1874, 
The regular return of genial months, 
And renovation of a faded world. 
3. That which is returned. ,, 
in repayment or requital ; a recompense ; a payment ; a 
remittance. 
Within these two months, that 's a month before 
This bond expires, I do expect return 
Of thrice three times the value of this bond. 
trenc'ii; the va^tousTurning's^nu windings wMch]? the return-piece (re-tern'pes), n. Theat., a piece 
lines of a trench. of scenery forming an angle of a building. 
Camper, Task, vi. 123. return 2 (re-tern'), c. [< re- + turn.'} To turn return-shock (re-tern'shok), . An electric 
(a) That which is given again: as, to turn and return. Also written shock, due to the action of induction, sometimes 
distinctively re-turn. felt when a sudden discharge of electricity 
Face. O, you must follow, sir, and threaten him tame takes place in the neighborhood of the observer, 
He'll turn again else. as in the case of a lightning-flash. 
'"' him then ' B - Jmum ' Al<*emi.,t, iv. 4. return-tag (re-tern 'tag), . A tag attached to 
----' a railway-car, usually by slipping it on to the 
shackle of the seal, serving as evidence of tin- 
due arrival of the car, or as a direction to what 
uut; VI HUB UUIIU. . 1 .1 ., 
Shak., M. of V., i. 3. 160. retumablllty (re-ter-na-bil'i-ti), . [< retiirn- 
They export honour, and make him a return in envy. ('''''' + -% (see -bility).} The character of be- 
Bacon, Followers and Friends, ing returnable. 
