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To say somethin in return; to answer; to reply; as, to respond to a question or an argument.

The act of responding; the state of being respondent; an answering. A. Chalmers. The angelical soft trembling voice made To the instruments divine respondence meet. Spenser.

Disposed or expected to respond; answering; according; corresponding. Wealth respondent to payment and contributions. Bacon.

A loan upon goods laden on board a ship. It differs from bottomry, which is a loan on the ship itself. Bouvier.

Or of pertaining to a spondee; consisting of spondees.

A poetic foot of two long syllables, as in the Latin word leges.

Money. [Slang, U.S.] Bartlett.

A joint of the backbone; a vertebra.

Having dorsal vertebræ with long and divided transverse processes; -- applied to certain reptiles.

To wiegh over and above. [Obs.]

The first month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, corresponding nearly to our April. After the Babylonish captivity this month was called Nisan. Kitto.

The substitution of one root vowel for another, thus indicating a corresponding modification of use or meaning; vowel permutation; as, get, gat, got; sing, song; hang, hung. Earle.

Nearly; approximately; with close correspondence, in quality, manner, degree, etc.; as, about as cold; about as high; -- also of quantity, number, time. "There fell . . . about three thousand men." Exod. xxii. 28.

To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances. "They accomodate their counsels to his inclination." Addison.

Agreement, harmony, or just correspondence of things; as, the accord of light and shade in painting.

Agreeing; consonant; harmonious; corresponding; conformable; -- followed by with or to. Strictly accordant with true morality. Darwin. And now his voice accordant to the string. Coldsmith.

Accordingly; correspondingly. [Obs.] Shak.

Agreeably; correspondingly; suitably; in a manner conformable. Behold, and so proceed accordingly. Shak.

s, or the immediate object of motion or tendency to, expressed by a preposition. It corresponds to the objective case in English.

The twelfth month of the Hebrew ecclesiastical year, and the sixth of the civil. It corresponded nearly with March.