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Refund v. t. To fund again or anew; to replace (a fund or loan) by a new fund; as, to refund a railroad loan.

Refund v. t.

To pour back. (R. & Obs.) "Were the humors of the eye tinctured with any color, they would refund that color upon the object."

To give back; to repay; to restore. "A governor, that had pillaged the people, was... sentenced to refund what he had wrongfully taken."

To supply again with funds; to reimburse. (Obs.)

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"Refund" Quotes from Famous Books

... it doesn't result in complete cure, it almost invariably makes the rupture better. If it doesn't do that, we are always ready to refund the purchaser's money, as fully explained in ...

— Cluthe's Advice to the Ruptured • Chas. Cluthe & Sons

... whole business was to be done over again. At last the sum claimed by the queen, fourteen hundred thousand pounds, was reduced by agreement to eight hundred thousand, and one-half of this the envoys undertook on the part of the States to refund in annual payments of thirty thousand pounds, while the remaining four hundred thousand should be provided for by some subsequent arrangement. All attempts, however, to obtain a promise from the queen to restore the cautionary towns to the republic in case ...

— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley

... Dr. O'Grady, "to go back on the whole theory of necessary expenses? Would you refuse to allow the unfortunate secretary of a charitable society to refund himself for the postage stamps he uses in sending ...

— General John Regan - 1913 • George A. Birmingham

... I have taken in these matters will meet your approbation, and that the President will not refund to parties claiming cotton or other property, without the strongest evidence of loyalty and friendship on the part of the claimant, or unless some other positive end is to ...

— Memoirs of Three Civil War Generals, Complete • U. S. Grant, W. T. Sherman, P. H. Sheridan

... fellow made a fuss, it was occasionally necessary to return his money, if it was found impossible to bully him into silence. In one or two instances, where I had promised a cure upon prepayment of two or three hundred dollars, I was either sued or threatened with suit, and had to refund a part or the whole of the amount; but most folks preferred to hold their tongues, rather than expose to the world the extent ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 • Various

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