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Shak., Hen. V., ii. 4. 127. They neither appeared, nor sent satisfying reasons for their absence; but in stead thereof, many insolent, proud, railing, opprobrious returns. N. Morton, New England's Memorial, p. 204. (d) A report; a formal or official account of an action performed or a duty discharged, or of facts, statistics, and the like; especially, in the plural, a set of tabulated statistics prepared for general information: as, agricultural returns ; census returns ; election returns . The return of members of Parliament is, strictly speaking, the return by the sheriff or other returning officer of the writ addre ed to him, certifying the election in pursuance of it. No note was taken of the falsification of election returns , or the dangers peculiar to elective governments. Bancroft, Hist. Const., II. 150. Accordingly in some of the earlier returns it is po ible that the sheriff, or the persons who joined with him in electing the knights of the shire, elected the borough Stubbs , Const. Hist., § 422. members also. But a fairly adequate instrument of calculation is sup plied by the Registrar-General's marriage- returns . Quarterly Rev., CXLV. 50. (e) In fencing , a thrust or cut given in answer to a sword thrust: a more general term for riposte , which has a specific meaning, signifying the easiest and quickest return stroke available under given circumstances. 4. In law : (a) The bringing or sending back of a proce or other mandate to the tribunal whence it i ued, with a short statement (usually indorsed on the proce ) by the officer to whom it i ued, and who returns it, stating what he has done under it, or why he has done nothing. The return is now usually made by filing the proce , with indorsed certificate, in the clerk's office. (b) The official certificate so indorsed. (c) The day on which the terms of a proce or other mandate require it to be returned. See return - day . I must sit to bee kild, and stand to kill my selfe! I could vary it not so little as thrice ouer agen; 'tas some eight returnes like Michel mas Terme! Tourneur , Revenger's Tragedy, v. 1. 5. pl . A light-colored mild-flavored kind of tobacco.-6. In arch ., the continuation of a return-tag returnable (rē-tėr'na-bl), a . [ return1 + -able .] 1. Capable of being returned. Sins that disceit is ay returnable , Of very force it is agreable That therwithall be done the recompence. Wyatt , Abused Lover. 2. In law , legally required to be returned, delivered, given, or rendered: as, a writ or precept returnable at a certain day; a verdict re turnable to the court.