Emily Dickinson Lexicon

RE-PORT, n.

1. An account returned; a statement or relation of facts given in reply to inquiry, or by a person authorized to examine and make return to his employer. From Thetis sent as spies to make report. – Waller.
2. Rumor; common fame; story circulated. Report, though often originating in fact, soon becomes incorrect, and is seldom deserving of credit. When we have no evidence but popular report, it is prudent to suspend our opinions in regard to the facts.
3. Repute; public character; as, evil report and good report. – 2 Cor. vi. Cornelius was of good report among the Jews. – Acts x.
4. Account; story; relation. It was a true report that I heard in my own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom. – 1 Kings x.
5. Sound; noise; as, the report of a pistol or cannon. – Bacon.
6. An account or statement of a judicial opinion or decision, or of a case argued and determined in a court of law, chancery, &c. The books containing such statements are also called reports.
7. An official statement of facts, verbal or written; particularly, a statement in writing of proceedings and facts exhibited by an officer to his superiors; as, the reports of the heads of departments to congress, of a master in chancery on to the court, of committees to a legislative body, and the like.