Answer

1. n. 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.
2. n. To speak in defense against; to reply to in defense; as, to answer a charge; to answer an accusation.
3. n. 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.
4. n. To respond to satisfactorily; to meet successfully by way of explanation, argument, or justification, and the like; to refute.
5. n. To be or act in return or response to.
6. n. 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.
7. n. To render account to or for.
8. n. To atone; to be punished for.
9. n. To be opposite to; to face.
10. n. To be or act an equivalent to, or as adequate or sufficient for; to serve for; to repay.
11. 1n. 1 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.
12. 1n. 1 To speak in defense against; to reply to in defense; as, to answer a charge; to answer an accusation.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.