2. To speak or write in return to, as in return to a call or question, or to a speech, declaration, argument, or the like; to reply to (a question, remark, etc.); to respond to. [1913 Webster]
She answers him as if she knew his mind. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
So spake the apostate angel, though in pain: . . . And him thus answered soon his bold compeer. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
3. To respond to satisfactorily; to meet successfully by way of explanation, argument, or justification, and the like; to refute. [1913 Webster]
No man was able to answer him a word. --Matt. xxii. 46. [1913 Webster]
These shifts refuted, answer thine appellant. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
The reasoning was not and could not be answered. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
4. To be or act in return or response to. Hence: (a) To be or act in compliance with, in fulfillment or satisfaction of, as an order, obligation, demand; as, he answered my claim upon him; the servant answered the bell. [1913 Webster]
This proud king . . . studies day and night To answer all the debts he owes unto you. --Shak. [1913 Webster] (b) To render account to or for. [1913 Webster]
I will . . . send him to answer thee. --Shak. [1913 Webster] (c) To atone; to be punished for. [1913 Webster]
And grievously hath C[ae]zar answered it. --Shak. [1913 Webster] (d) To be opposite to; to face. [1913 Webster]
The windows answering each other, we could just discern the glowing horizon them. --Gilpin. [1913 Webster] (e) To be or act an equivalent to, or as adequate or sufficient for; to serve for; to repay. [R.] [1913 Webster]
Money answereth all things. --Eccles. x. 19. [1913 Webster] (f) To be or act in accommodation, conformity, relation, or proportion to; to correspond to; to suit. [1913 Webster]
Weapons must needs be dangerous things, if they answered the bulk of so prodigious a person. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
Answer An"swer, v. i. 1. To speak or write by way of return (originally, to a charge), or in reply; to make response. [1913 Webster]
There was no voice, nor any that answered. --1 Kings xviii. 26. [1913 Webster]
2. To make a satisfactory response or return. Hence: 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. [1913 Webster]
Let his neck answer for it, if there is any martial law. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
3. To be or act in return. Hence: (a) 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. [1913 Webster]
Do the strings answer to thy noble hand? --Dryden. [1913 Webster] (b) To be opposite, or to act in opposition. (c) To be or act as an equivalent, or as adequate or sufficient; as, a very few will answer. (d) To be or act in conformity, or by way of accommodation, correspondence, relation, or proportion; to conform; to correspond; to suit; -- usually with to. [1913 Webster]
That the time may have all shadow and silence in it, and the place answer to convenience. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
If this but answer to my just belief, I ll remember you. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man. --Prov. xxvii. 19. [1913 Webster]
Answer An"swer, n. [OE. andsware, AS. andswaru; and against + swerian to swear. [root]177, 196. See Anti-, and Swear, and cf. 1st un-.] 1. A reply to a charge; a defense. [1913 Webster]
At my first answer no man stood with me. --2 Tim. iv. 16. [1913 Webster]
2. Something said or written in reply to a question, a call, an argument, an address, or the like; a reply. [1913 Webster]
A soft answer turneth away wrath. --Prov. xv. 1. [1913 Webster]
I called him, but he gave me no answer. --Cant. v. 6. [1913 Webster]
3. Something done in return for, or in consequence of, something else; a responsive action. [1913 Webster]
Great the slaughter is Here made by the Roman; great the answer be Britons must take. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
4. A solution, the result of a mathematical operation; as, the answer to a problem. [1913 Webster]
5. (Law) 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. --Bouvier. [1913 Webster]
Syn: Reply; rejoinder; response. See Reply. [1913 Webster]
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