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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vi To answer a defendant's plea.

II. Reply ·vt To return for an Answer.

III. Reply ·vi To make a return in words or writing; to Respond; to Answer.

IV. Reply ·vi That which is said, written, or done in answer to what is said, written, or done by another; an answer; a response.

V. Reply ·vi Figuratively, to do something in return for something done; as, to reply to a signal; to reply to the fire of a battery.