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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.

Capable of, or admitting of, being returned.

One who returns.

Admitting no return. Chapman.

Vesture. [Obs.] Richrevesture of cloth of gold. E. Hall.

A gaping. [Obs.]

An armature for a dynamo or motor having the conductors wound on a ring.

The condition of being a roturier.

A roturier. [Obs.] Howell.

A person who is not of noble birth; specif., a freeman who during the prevalence of feudalism held allodial land.

Cabling. See Cabling. gwilt.

The act of breaking apart, or separating; the state of being asunder; as, the rupture of the skin; the rupture of a vessel or fiber; the rupture of a lutestring. Arbuthnot. Hatch from the egg, that soon, Bursting with kindly rupture, forth disclosed Their callow young. Milton.

Having a rupture, or hernia.

Same as Burstwort.

Capable of being saturated; admitting of saturation. -- Sat`u*ra*bil"i*ty, n.

Impregnating to the full; saturating.

ully; to sate. Innumerable flocks and herbs covered that vast expanse of emerald meadow saturated with the moisture of the Atlantic. Macaulay. Fill and saturate each kind With good according to its mind. Emerson.

Filled to repletion; holding by absorption, or in solution, all that is possible; as, saturated garments; a saturated solution of salt.

The act of saturating, or the state of being saturating; complete penetration or impregnation.

One who, or that which, saturates.