1. To bring, carry, send, or turn, back; as, to return a borrowed book, or a hired horse. Both fled attonce, ne ever back returned eye. Spenser.
2. To repay; as, to return borrowed money.
3. To give in requital or recompense; to requite. The Lord shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head. 1 Kings ii. 44.
4. To give back in reply; as, to return an answer; to return thanks.
5. To retort; to throw back; as, to return the lie. If you are a malicious reader, you return upon me, that I affect to be thought more impartial than I am. Dryden.
6. To report, or bring back and make known. And all the people answered together, . . . and Moses returned the words of the people unto the Lord. Ex. xix. 8.
7. To render, as an account, usually an official account, to a superior; to report officially by a list or statement; as, to return a list of stores, of killed or wounded; to return the result of an election.
8. Hence, to elect according to the official report of the election officers. [Eng.]
9. To bring or send back to a tribunal, or to an office, with a certificate of what has been done; as, to return a writ.
10. To convey into official custody, or to a general depository. Instead of a ship, he should llevy money, and return the same to the treasurer for his majesty's use. Clarendon.