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6221 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. THEREFORE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. For that; for that or this reason, referring to something previously stated.
6222 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. THESE.1 (Noah Webster)
… , these refers to the things or persons which are nearest in place or order, or which are last mentioned.
6223 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. THEY.2 (Noah Webster)
1. The men, the women, the animals, the things. It is never used adjectively, but always as a pronoun referring to persons, or as a substitute referring to things.
6224 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. THINE.4 (Noah Webster)
The principal use of thine now is when a verb is interposed between this word and the noun to which it refers. I will not take any thing that is thine. Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory.
6225 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. THIS.6 (Noah Webster)
In some cases, it refers to what is future, or to be immediately related.
6226 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. THIS.8 (Noah Webster)
Here this refers to the whole subsequent member of the sentence.
6227 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. THIS.11 (Noah Webster)
In this case, this, in the singular, refers to the whole term of time, or period; this period of forty years.
6228 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. THIS.16 (Noah Webster)
5. When this and that refer to different things before expressed, this refers to the thing last mentioned, and that to the thing first mentioned. [See These .]
6229 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. THOSE.1 (Noah Webster)
… in reference to two things or collections of things, those refers to the first mentioned, as these does to the last mentioned. [See These, and the example there …
6230 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. THOUGH.14 (Noah Webster)
This is generally or always elliptical, referring to some expression preceding or understood.
6231 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. THREE.4 (Noah Webster)
2. It is often used like other adjectives, without the noun to which it refers.
6232 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. TIFFANY.1 (Noah Webster)
TIFFANY, n. [According to the Italian and Spanish Dictionaries, this word is to be referred to taffeta.]
6233 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. TILL.11 (Noah Webster)
… it refers being in one case expressed by a single word, as now, or the, or time, with this, or that, etc., and in the other by a verb with its adjuncts; as, occupy till I come …
6234 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. TIME.13 (Noah Webster)
5. Life or duration, in reference to occupation. One man spends his time in idleness; another devotes all his time to useful purposes.
6235 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. TIME.18 (Noah Webster)
8. Repetition; repeated performance, or mention with reference to repetition. The physician visits his patient three times in a day.
6236 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. TRIANGULAR.2 (Noah Webster)
In botany, a triangular stem has three prominent longitudinal angles; a triangular leaf has three prominent angles, without any reference to their measurement or direction.
6237 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. UMPIRE.3 (Noah Webster)
… is referred. Thus the emperor of Russia was constituted umpire between Great Britain and the United States, to decide the controversy respecting the slaves …
6238 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. VENDIBLE.1 (Noah Webster)
… no reference to such legal fitness.
6239 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. WHETHER.1 (Noah Webster)
WHETHER, pronoun or substitute. [L. The sense seems to be what, or which of two, referring either to persons or to sentences.]
6240 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. WHETHER.6 (Noah Webster)
… or refers to a noun, and in the latter to a sentence or clause.]