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6141 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. QUAINT.1 (Noah Webster)
QUAINT, a. [The latter word would lead us to refer quaint to the Latin accinctus, ready, but Skinner thinks it more probably from comptus, neat, well dressed.]
6142 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. QUARRY.6 (Noah Webster)
QUARRY, n. [I know not whether the original sense of this word was a pit or mine, from digging, or whether the sense was a place for squaring stone. L. curro. If the sense was a pit, it may be referred to the Heb.]
6143 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. RABBLE.3 (Noah Webster)
2. The lower class of people, without reference to an assembly; the dregs of the people.
6144 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. RECOMMIT.3 (Noah Webster)
2. To refer again to a committee; as, to recommit a bill to the same committee.
6145 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. RECOMMITMENT.1 (Noah Webster)
RECOMMITMENT, n. A second or renewed commitment; a renewed reference to a committee.
6146 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. RECOMMITTED.1 (Noah Webster)
RECOMMITTED, pp. Committed anew; referred again.
6147 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. RECOMMITTING.1 (Noah Webster)
RECOMMITTING, ppr. Committing again; referring again to a committee.
6148 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. REFER.1 (Noah Webster)
REFER, v.t. [L. refero; re and fero, to bear.]
6149 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. REFER.2 (Noah Webster)
… court refers a cause to individuals for examination and report. A person whose opinion is requested, sometimes refers the inquirer to another person or …
6150 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. REFER.4 (Noah Webster)
You profess and practice to refer all things to yourself.
6151 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. REFER.5 (Noah Webster)
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.
6152 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. REFER.6 (Noah Webster)
To refer one’s self, to betake; to apply. [Little used.]
6153 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. REFER.7 (Noah Webster)
REFER, v.i.
6154 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. REFER.8 (Noah Webster)
1. To respect; to have relation. Many passages of Scripture refer to the peculiar customs of the orientals.
6155 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. REFER.10 (Noah Webster)
In suits it is good to refer to some friend of trust.
6156 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. REFER.11 (Noah Webster)
3. To allude; to have respect to by intimation without naming. I refer to a well known fact.
6157 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. REFERABLE.1 (Noah Webster)
REFERABLE, a.
6158 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. REFERABLE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. That may be referred; capable of being considered in relation to something else.
6159 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. REFERABLE.4 (Noah Webster)
It is a question among philosophers, whether all the attractions which obtain between bodies, are referable to one general cause.
6160 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. REFEREE.1 (Noah Webster)
… is referred; particularly, a person appointed by a court to hear, examine and decide a cause between parties, pending before the court, and make report to the …