Return bend

Return \Re*turn"\, n.
   1. The act of returning (intransitive), or coming back to the
      same place or condition; as, the return of one long
      absent; the return of health; the return of the seasons,
      or of an anniversary.
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            At the return of the year the king of Syria will
            come up against thee.                 --1 Kings xx.
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            His personal return was most required and necessary.
                                                  --Shak.
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   2. The act of returning (transitive), or sending back to the
      same place or condition; restitution; repayment; requital;
      retribution; as, the return of anything borrowed, as a
      book or money; a good return in tennis.
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            You made my liberty your late request:
            Is no return due from a grateful breast? --Dryden.
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   3. That which is returned. Specifically:
      (a) A payment; a remittance; a requital.
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                I do expect return
                Of thrice three times the value of this bond.
                                                  --Shak.
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      (b) An answer; as, a return to one's question.
      (c) An account, or formal report, of an action performed,
          of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, and the
          like; as, election returns; a return of the amount of
          goods produced or sold; especially, in the plural, a
          set of tabulated statistics prepared for general
          information.
      (d) The profit on, or advantage received from, labor, or
          an investment, undertaking, adventure, etc.
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                The fruit from many days of recreation is very
                little; but from these few hours we spend in
                prayer, the return is great.      --Jer. Taylor.
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   4. (Arch.) The continuation in a different direction, most
      often at a right angle, of a building, face of a building,
      or any member, as a molding or mold; -- applied to the
      shorter in contradistinction to the longer; thus, a facade
      of sixty feet east and west has a return of twenty feet
      north and south.
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   5. (Law)
      (a) The rendering back or delivery of writ, precept, or
          execution, to the proper officer or court.
      (b) The certificate of an officer stating what he has done
          in execution of a writ, precept, etc., indorsed on the
          document.
      (c) The sending back of a commission with the certificate
          of the commissioners.
      (d) A day in bank. See {Return day}, below. --Blackstone.
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   6. (Mil. & Naval) An official account, report, or statement,
      rendered to the commander or other superior officer; as,
      the return of men fit for duty; the return of the number
      of the sick; the return of provisions, etc.
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   7. pl. (Fort. & Mining) The turnings and windings of a trench
      or mine.
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   {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.
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