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6041 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. APPEAL.11 (Noah Webster)
4. A call upon a person; a reference to another for proof or decision.
6042 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.
6043 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.
6044 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.
6045 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.
6046 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ASP.2 (Noah Webster)
… be referred. Bruce thinks it the coluber cerastes. Linne.
6047 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.
6048 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ASTERISM.4 (Noah Webster)
2. An asterisk, or mark of reference. [This is less proper.]
6049 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.
6050 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.]
6051 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.
6052 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BASALT.1 (Noah Webster)
… . Lunier refers it to the Ethiopic basal, iron, a word I cannot find.]
6053 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BEARING.7 (Noah Webster)
… and referred to a point on the compass, or resulting from sinical proportion.
6054 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BELONG.13 (Noah Webster)
8. To relate to, or be referred to.
6055 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 …
6056 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 …
6057 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BUT.11 (Noah Webster)
In this use but, butan, is a participle equivalent to excepting, and may be referred to the person speaking, or more naturally, it is equivalent to excepted, and with the following words, or clause, forming the case absolute.
6058 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CAPITAL.11 (Noah Webster)
By the customary omission of the noun, to which the adjective, capital, refers, it stand for,
6059 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CAST.48 (Noah Webster)
To cast on, to refer or resign to.
6060 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CATECHISM.3 (Noah Webster)
2. An elementary book containing a summary of principles in any science or art, but appropriately in religion, reduced to the form of questions and answers, and sometimes with notes, explanations, and references to authorities.