Return, rē-turn′, v.i. to come back to the same place or state: to answer: to retort: to turn back: to repeat: to revert: to recur: to reappear.—v.t. to bring or send back: to transmit: to give back: to repay: to give back in reply: to report: to give an account: to cast back: to reflect: to re-echo: to revolve: to restore: to requite: to return a call: to elect, as a member of parliament: in card-playing, to lead back in response to the lead of one's partner: in tennis, to bat the ball back over the net: in fencing, to give a thrust or cut after parrying a sword-thrust.—n. the act of going back: revolution: periodic renewal: the act of bringing or sending back: restitution: repayment: the profit on capital or labour: a reply: a report or account, esp. official: (pl.) a light-coloured and mild kind of tobacco: (law) the rendering back of a writ to the proper officer: (mil.) the return of the men fit for duty: (archit.) the continuation in a different direction of the face of a building, as a moulding.—adj. Retur′nable, legally requiring to be returned.—ns. Return′-bend, a pipe-coupling in the shape of the letter
Retuse, rē-tūs′, adj. (bot.) terminating in a round end, with a centre somewhat depressed. [L. retusus—retundĕre, to blunt.]
Retyre, rē-tīr′, n. (Spens.) retirement.
Retzia, ret′si-a, n. a genus of brachiopods.
Reune, rē-ūn′, v.t. (obs.) to reunite.—v.i. to hold a reunion.—adjs. Reū′nient; Reū′nitive.
Reunion, rē-ūn′yun, n. a union after separation: an assembly or social gathering. [Fr. réunion—re-, again, union, union.]
Reunite, rē-ū-nīt′, v.t. to join after separation: to reconcile after variance.—v.i. to become united again: to join again.—v.t. Reū′nify.—adv. Reunī′tedly.—n. Reuni′tion.—adj. Reū′nitive.
Reurge, rē-urj′, v.t. to urge again.
Reus, rē′us, n. (law) a defendant. [L.]