APage 331
- English Word Answer Definition To atone; to be punished for.
- English Word Answer Definition To be opposite to; to face.
- English Word Answer Definition To be or act an equivalent to, or as adequate or sufficient for; to serve for; to repay.
- English Word Answer Definition To be or act in accommodation, conformity, relation, or proportion to; to correspond to; to suit.
- English Word Answer Definition To speak or write by way of return (originally, to a charge), or in reply; to make response.
- English Word Answer Definition To make a satisfactory response or return.
- English Word Answer Definition To render account, or to be responsible; to be accountable; to make amends; as, the man must answer to his employer for the money intrusted to his care.
- English Word Answer Definition To be or act in return.
- English Word Answer Definition To be or act by way of compliance, fulfillment, reciprocation, or satisfaction; to serve the purpose; as, gypsum answers as a manure on some soils.
- English Word Answer Definition To be opposite, or to act in opposition.
- English Word Answer Definition To be or act as an equivalent, or as adequate or sufficient; as, a very few will answer.
- English Word Answer Definition To be or act in conformity, or by way of accommodation, correspondence, relation, or proportion; to conform; to correspond; to suit; -- usually with to.
- English Word Answer Definition A reply to a change; a defense.
- English Word Answer Definition Something said or written in reply to a question, a call, an argument, an address, or the like; a reply.
- English Word Answer Definition Something done in return for, or in consequence of, something else; a responsive action.
- English Word Answer Definition A solution, the result of a mathematical operation; as, the answer to a problem.
- English Word Answer Definition A counter-statement of facts in a course of pleadings; a confutation of what the other party has alleged; a responsive declaration by a witness in reply to a question. In Equity, it is the usual form of defense to the complainant's charges in his bill.
- English Word Answerable Definition Obliged to answer; liable to be called to account; liable to pay, indemnify, or make good; accountable; amenable; responsible; as, an agent is answerable to his principal; to be answerable for a debt, or for damages.
- English Word Answerable Definition Capable of being answered or refuted; admitting a satisfactory answer.
- English Word Answerable Definition Correspondent; conformable; hence, comparable.