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Refer
REFER', v.t. [L. refero; re and fero, to bear.]
1. To direct, leave or deliver over to another person or tribunal for information or decision; as when parties to a suit refer their cause to another court; or the court refers a cause to individuals for examination and report. A person whose opinion is requested, sometimes refers the inquirer to another person or other source of information.
2. To reduce as to the ultimate end.
You profess and practice to refer all things to yourself.
3. To reduce; to assign; as to an order, genus or class. Naturalists are sometimes at a loss to know to what class or genus an animal or plant is to be referred.
To refer one's self, to betake; to apply. [Little used.]
REFER', v.i.
1. To respect; to have relation. Many passages of Scripture refer to the peculiar customs of the orientals.
2. To appeal; to have recourse; to apply.
In suits it is good to refer to some friend of trust.
3. To allude; to have respect to by intimation without naming. I refer to a well known fact.
refer appears in definitions for these words:
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Abase Abstract According Adore Advent Aggravate Allude Alluding Allusion Allusive Alone Antecedent Antique Any Appeal Appealing Application Apply Apprehension Aspic Asterisk Asterism Auditor Bankrupt Bargain Basalt Bearing Belong Bigness Blossom But Capital Cast Catechism Childishness Churlishness Circle Commit Commitment Committed Committee Committing Comparative Comparison Compromise Conception Concerning Conclude Concrete Condition Considering Consult Contemplate Continual Contrary Coptic Dagger Day Decency Defer Dispose Dwarf Either Enough Erratum Especially Excepting Exhibit Expect Exterior Foible For Fray Generalize Generosity Glory Greatness Ground Harvest He Head Hither Hundred If Indecorum Index Influence Injustice Innuendo Insuperable Integrity Interlocutory Ipecacuanha It Least Leather-seller Lend Lest Magnitude Man Manage Mean Meaning Mind Modern Modest Moral Morality Multitude Mutually Neither Never Notwithstanding Now Number Obelisk On Once One Paper Physical Pointedly Polymorph Position Prelatically Pronoun Proselyte Prospectively Provided Providential Prudence Put Quaint Quarry Rabble Recommit Recommitment Recommitted Recommitting Refer Referable Referee Reference Referendary Referment Referrible Regard Relate Relating Relation Relative Religion Remit Remitted Report Reside Respect Respecting Respectless Retrospective Rout Sailer Sear Seeing Senior Sequester Shade She Sporadic Sporadical Star State Still Stone Storm Stow Strake Submit Submitted Submitting Such Superstition Survey Tablature Table Tall Tegument That Their Then Therefore These They Thine This Those Though Three Tiffany Tiller Time Triangular Umpire Vendibility Whether Who Wide Zeugma
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