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6261 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 .]
6262 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 …
6263 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. THOUGH.14 (Noah Webster)
This is generally or always elliptical, referring to some expression preceding or understood.
6264 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.
6265 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.]
6266 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 …
6267 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.
6268 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.
6269 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.
6270 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 …
6271 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. VENDIBLE.1 (Noah Webster)
… no reference to such legal fitness.
6272 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.]
6273 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. WHETHER.6 (Noah Webster)
… or refers to a noun, and in the latter to a sentence or clause.]
6274 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. WHO.2 (Noah Webster)
… , always referring to persons. It forms whose in the genitive or possessive case, answering to the L. Cujus, and whom in the objective or accusative case. Who, whose …
6275 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. WIDE.2 (Noah Webster)
… , which refers to the extent or distance between the ends.
6276 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ZEUGMA.1 (Noah Webster)
… supplement, referred to another more remote. Thus in Virgil, Hicillius arma, hic currus fuit; where fuit, which agrees directly with currus, is referred also …
6277 The Pocket Ellen G. White Dictionary, p. Adventist.2 (Jud Lake & Michael W. Campbell)
A term used to describe a believer in the *second coming of Jesus Christ; most often used as a shortened form for Seventh-day Adventist after the organization of the de-nomination in 1863. Also used to refer to the followers of *William Miller.
6278 The Pocket Ellen G. White Dictionary, p. animal passions.2 (Jud Lake & Michael W. Campbell)
… to refer to the inner emotions, especially as they related to sex and sexuality. The term was popularized by Orson Fowler, Lydia Folger Fowler, and Lorenzo …
6279 The Pocket Ellen G. White Dictionary, p. besotted.2 (Jud Lake & Michael W. Campbell)
Intoxicated or drunk. Ellen G. White describes how the “intoxicating cup,” referring to alcoholic wine, has a “besotting power.” Such inebriation causes the senses to become benumbed (DA 222).
6280 The Pocket Ellen G. White Dictionary, p. church.2 (Jud Lake & Michael W. Campbell)
… often referred to as being “in meeting,” was what was important, not the actual building (3T 518). Especially up through the 1880s, a church building was C frequently …