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.

With the year
Seasons return; but not me returns
Day or the sweet approach of even or morn. Milton.

He said, and thus the queen of heaven returned. Pope.

And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom return to the house of David. 1Kings xii. 26.

Both fled attonce, ne ever back returned eye. Spenser.

The Lord shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head. 1 Kings ii. 44.

If you are a malicious reader, you return upon me, that I affect to be thought more impartial than I am. Dryden.

And all the people answered together, . . . and Moses returned the words of the people unto the Lord. Ex. xix. 8.

Instead of a ship, he should levy money, and return the same to the treasurer for his majesty's use. Clarendon.

To return a lead (Card Playing), to lead the same suit led by one's partner.

Syn. -- To restore; requite; repay; recompense; render; remit; report.

At the return of the year the king of Syria will come up against thee. 1 Kings xx. 22.

His personal return was most required and necessary. Shak.

You made my liberty your late request:
Is no return due from a grateful breast? Dryden.

Return ball, a ball held by an elastic string so that it returns to the hand from which it is thrown, -- used as a plaything. -- Return bend, a pipe fitting for connecting the contiguous ends of two nearly parallel pipes lying alongside or one above another. -- Return day (Law), the day when the defendant is to appear in court, and the sheriff is to return the writ and his proceedings. -- Return flue, in a steam boiler, a flue which conducts flame or gases of combustion in a direction contrary to their previous movement in another flue. -- Return pipe (Steam Heating), a pipe by which water of condensation from a heater or radiator is conveyed back toward the boiler.