Refer(v. i.) To have recourse; to apply; to appeal; to betake one's self; as, to refer to a dictionary.
Refer(v. i.) To have relation or reference; to relate; to point; as, the figure refers to a footnote.
Refer(v. i.) To carry the mind or thought; to direct attention; as, the preacher referred to the late election.
Refer(v. i.) To direct inquiry for information or a guarantee of any kind, as in respect to one's integrity, capacity, pecuniary ability, and the like; as, I referred to his employer for the truth of his story.
Refer(v. t.) To carry or send back.
Refer(v. t.) Hence: To send or direct away; to send or direct elsewhere, as for treatment, aid, information, decision, etc.; to make over, or pass over, to another; as, to refer a student to an author; to refer a beggar to an officer; to refer a bill to a committee; a court refers a matter of fact to a commissioner for investigation, or refers a question of law to a superior tribunal.
Refer(v. t.) To place in or under by a mental or rational process; to assign to, as a class, a cause, source, a motive, reason, or ground of explanation; as, he referred the phenomena to electrical disturbances.
Referable(a.) Capable of being referred, or considered in relation to something else; assignable; ascribable.
Reference(n.) The act of referring, or the state of being referred; as, reference to a chart for guidance.
Reference(n.) That which refers to something; a specific direction of the attention; as, a reference in a text-book.
Reference(n.) Relation; regard; respect.
Reference(n.) One who, or that which, is referred to.
Reference(n.) One of whom inquires can be made as to the integrity, capacity, and the like, of another.
Reference(n.) A work, or a passage in a work, to which one is referred.
Reference(n.) The act of submitting a matter in dispute to the judgment of one or more persons for decision.
Reference(n.) The process of sending any matter, for inquiry in a cause, to a master or other officer, in order that he may ascertain facts and report to the court.
Reference(n.) Appeal.
Referment(n.) The act of referring; reference.
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