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6041 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.
6042 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.
6043 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.
6044 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.
6045 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. APPEAL.11 (Noah Webster)
4. A call upon a person; a reference to another for proof or decision.
6046 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.
6047 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.
6048 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.
6049 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.
6050 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ASP.2 (Noah Webster)
… be referred. Bruce thinks it the coluber cerastes. Linne.
6051 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.
6052 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ASTERISM.4 (Noah Webster)
2. An asterisk, or mark of reference. [This is less proper.]
6053 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.
6054 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.]
6055 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.
6056 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BASALT.1 (Noah Webster)
… . Lunier refers it to the Ethiopic basal, iron, a word I cannot find.]
6057 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BEARING.7 (Noah Webster)
… and referred to a point on the compass, or resulting from sinical proportion.
6058 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BELONG.13 (Noah Webster)
8. To relate to, or be referred to.
6059 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BIGNESS.1 (Noah Webster)
… some reference in the mind to known measure. We also say, one thing is as big as another; in which case we give the idea of unknown size, by a known object. Big and …
6060 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BLOSSOM.2 (Noah Webster)
… have reference to the fruit which is to succeed. Thus we use flowers, when we speak of shrubs cultivated for ornament; and bloom, in a more general sense, as flowers …