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6161 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PHYSICAL.1 (Noah Webster)
… , with reference to material things; as, muscular strength is physical force; armies and navies are the physical force of a nation; whereas wisdom, knowledge …
6162 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. POINTEDLY.3 (Noah Webster)
1. With direct assertion; with direct reference to a subject; with explicitness; as, he declared pointedly he would accede to the proposition.
6163 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. POLYMORPH.1 (Noah Webster)
POLYMORPH, n. [Gr. many and form.] A name given by Soldani to a numerous tribe or series of shells, which are very small, irregular and singular in form, and which cannot be referred to any known genus.
6164 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. POSITION.2 (Noah Webster)
1. State of being placed; situation; often with reference to other objects, or to different parts of the same object.
6165 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PRELATICALLY.1 (Noah Webster)
PRELATICALLY, adv. With reference to prelates.
6166 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PRONOUN.2 (Noah Webster)
… which refers immediately to guilty, as its antecedent.
6167 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PROSELYTE.1 (Noah Webster)
… primarily refers to converts to some religious creed.
6168 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PROSPECTIVELY.1 (Noah Webster)
PROSPECTIVELY, adv. With reference to the future.
6169 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PROVIDED.2 (Noah Webster)
… here refer to the whole member of the sentence.
6170 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PROVIDENTIAL.1 (Noah Webster)
… God; referable to divine providence; proceeding from divine direction or superintendence; as the providential contrivance of things; a providential escape …
6171 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PRUDENCE.3 (Noah Webster)
Prudence is principally in reference to actions to be done, and due means, order, season and method of doing or not doing.
6172 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PUT.74 (Noah Webster)
To put over, to refer; to send.
6173 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PUT.88 (Noah Webster)
1. To refer to; to expose; as, to put the fate of the army or nation to a battle; to put the safety of the state to hazard.
6174 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.]
6175 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.]
6176 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.
6177 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.
6178 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. RECOMMITMENT.1 (Noah Webster)
RECOMMITMENT, n. A second or renewed commitment; a renewed reference to a committee.
6179 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. RECOMMITTED.1 (Noah Webster)
RECOMMITTED, pp. Committed anew; referred again.
6180 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. RECOMMITTING.1 (Noah Webster)
RECOMMITTING, ppr. Committing again; referring again to a committee.