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6001 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ALLUSIVE.1 (Noah Webster)
ALLUSIVE, a. Having reference to something not fully expressed.
6002 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ALONE.10 (Noah Webster)
… it refers being omitted; let me alone; let them alone; let it alone; that is, suffer it to be unmolested, or to remain as it is, or let it remain by itself.
6003 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ANTECEDENT.2 (Noah Webster)
… substitute refers; as, Solomon was the prince, who built the Temple. In logic, the first of two propositions in an enthymeme, or argument of two propositions …
6004 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ANTIQUE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Old; ancient; of genuine antiquity; in this sense it usually refers to the flourishing ages of Greece and Rome; as an antique statue.
6005 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ANY.5 (Noah Webster)
2. Some; an indefinite number, plurally; for though the word is formed from one, it often refers to many. Are there any witnesses present? The sense seems to be a small, uncertain number.
6006 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. APPEAL.2 (Noah Webster)
1. To refer to a superior judge or court, for the decision of a cause depending, or the revision of a cause decided in a lower court.
6007 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. APPEAL.4 (Noah Webster)
2. To refer to another for the decision of a question controverted, or the counteraction of testimony or facts; as, I appeal to all mankind for the truth of what is alleged.
6008 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. APPEAL.11 (Noah Webster)
4. A call upon a person; a reference to another for proof or decision.
6009 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. APPEALING.1 (Noah Webster)
APPEALING, ppr. Removing a cause to a higher tribunal; prosecuting as a private person for an offense; referring to another for a decision.
6010 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. APPLICATION.8 (Noah Webster)
6. The act of directing or referring something to a particular case, to discover or illustrate the agreement or disagreement; as, I make the remark and leave you to make the application.
6011 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. APPLY.4 (Noah Webster)
3. To put, refer or use, as suitable or relative to something; as, to apply the testimony to the case.
6012 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. APPREHENSION.3 (Noah Webster)
2. The mere contemplation of things without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment; the operation of the mind in contemplating ideas, without comparing them with others, or referring them to external objects; simple intellection.
6013 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ASP.2 (Noah Webster)
… be referred. Bruce thinks it the coluber cerastes. Linne.
6014 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ASTERISK.2 (Noah Webster)
The figure of a star thus, *, used in printing and writing as a reference to a passage or note in the margin, or to fill the space when a name is omitted.
6015 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ASTERISM.4 (Noah Webster)
2. An asterisk, or mark of reference. [This is less proper.]
6016 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. AUDITOR.3 (Noah Webster)
… to refer accounts, on which an action is brought, to auditors for adjustment, and their report, if received, is the basis of the judgment.
6017 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BANKRUPT.1 (Noah Webster)
BANKRUPT, n. [Eng. rout, defeat. This may signify bench-broken, or bank-broken; most probably the latter, referring to the fund or stock. The last syllable is the Latin ruptus contracted; Norm. roupt, rous, broken.]
6018 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BARGAIN.7 (Noah Webster)
To strike a bargain, is to ratify an agreement, originally by striking, or shaking hands. The Latin ferire foedus, may represent a like ceremony, unless it refers to the practice of killing a victim, at the solemn ratification of oaths.
6019 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BASALT.1 (Noah Webster)
… . Lunier refers it to the Ethiopic basal, iron, a word I cannot find.]
6020 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BEARING.7 (Noah Webster)
… and referred to a point on the compass, or resulting from sinical proportion.