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The return of rays, beams, sound, or the like, from a surface. See Angle of reflection, below. The eye sees not itself, But by reflection, by some other things. Shak.

Produced in reaction, in resistance, or in return.

Flowing back; returning; ebbing. Cowper. And refluent through the pass of fear The battle's tide was poured. Sir W. Scott.

Returning, or flowing back; reflex; as, reflux action.

To return to a good state; to amend or correct one's own character or habits; as, a man of settled habits of vice will seldom reform.

A returning or giving of thanks. [Obs.] Skelton.

A going back; a retrogression; a return. [R.] Herrick.

To greet again; to resalute; to return a salutation to; to greet. Shak.

The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression. "The progress or regress of man". F. Harrison.

The act of passing back or returning; retrogression; retrogradation. Sir T. Browne. Edge of regression (of a surface) (Geom.), the line along which a surface turns back upon itself; -- called also a cuspidal edge. -- Regression point (Geom.), a cusp.

Passing back; returning.

rm in course, practice, or occurence; not subject to unexplained or irrational variation; returning at stated intervals; steadily pursued; orderlly; methodical; as, the regular succession of day and night; regular habits.

The returning of a thing purchased to the seller, on the ground of defect or frand.

d, or fallen back, into error; a backlider; specifically, one who, after recanting error, returns to it again. [Obs.]

Marked by a relapse; falling back; tending to return to a former worse state. Relapsing fever (Med.), an acute, epidemic, contagious fever, which prevails also endemically in Ireland, Russia, and some other regions. It is marked by one or two remissions of the fever, by articular and muscular pains, and by the presence…

To love in return. [Obs.] Boyle.

Coming back; returning. [R.] "Like the remeant sun." C. Kingsley.

To migrate again; to go back; to return. Boyle.

To send, give, or grant back; torelease a claim to; to resign or surrender by deed; to return. Blackstone.

To return; to pay back; to restore. Whose smallest minute lost, no riches render may. Spenser.