A reply or response to an address, remark, request, or any expression of desire or opinion.

Roman History. A reply sent by the emperor to an appeal for guidance, esp. one from a magistrate on a legal point.

A blast blown in opposition to another blast.

An answer or response; (Roman Law) a reply given by a jurisconsult in answer to a legal query.

gen. A response to a demand; a reply to a letter or dispatch. Obsolete.

Judaism. A written reply by a rabbi or Talmudic scholar to an inquiry on some matter of Jewish law.

The response of a reader to a text, esp. as arising from the effect of cultural context and other factors on the reader's experience of the text.