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court, as party, juror, etc., intended to secure him from arrest in coming, staying, and returning.

ut about (Naut.), to change direction; to tack. -- To put back (Naut.), to turn back; to return. "The French . . . had put back to Toulon." Southey. -- To put forth. (a) To shoot, bud, or germinate. "Take earth from under walls where nettles put forth." Bacon. (b) To leave a port or haven, as a ship. Shak. -- To put…

An intermittent fever which returns every fourth day, reckoning inclusively, that is, one in which the interval between paroxysms is two days.

By quarters; once in a quarter of a year; as, the returns are made quarterly.

Speedy; hasty; swift; not slow; as, be quick Oft he her his charge of quick return Repeated. Milton.

An intermittent fever which returns every fifth day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts three days.

Return; requital; quittance. [Obs.]

Recompense; return; repayment. [Obs.] Shak.

Occurring or returning daily; as, a quotidian fever.

A second access or approach; a return. Hakewill.

To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force; as, every body reacts on the body that impels it from its natural state.

To answer in return; to repay; to compensate; to make amends for. Which in weight to reanswer, his pettiness would bow under. Shak.

A returning ascent or ascension; acclivity. Cowper.

To call back; to summon to return; as, to recall troops; to recall an ambassador.

To return, or bat back, the ball when served; as, it is your turn to receive.

f or pertaining to recession or withdrawal. Recessional hymn, a hymn sung in a procession returning from the choir to the robing room.

To charge or accuse in return.

The quality or condition of being reciprocal; mutual return; alternateness.

To give and return mutually; to make return for; to give in return; to unterchange; to alternate; as, to reciprocate favors. Cowper.

The act of reciprocating; interchange of acts; a mutual giving and returning; as, the reciprocation of kindness.