Emily Dickinson Lexicon

RE-EX-AM'IN-A-BLE, a.

That may be re-examined or re-considered. – Judge Story.

RE-EX-AM-IN-A'TION, n.

A renewed or repeated examination.

RE-EX-AM'INE, v.t. [re and examine.]

To examine anew. – Hooker.

RE-EX-AM'IN-ED, pp.

Examined again.

RE-EX-AM'IN-ING, ppr.

Examining anew.

RE-EX-CHANGE, n. [re and exchange.]

1. A renewed exchange.
2. In commerce, the exchange chargeable on the re-draft of a bill of exchange. The rate of re-exchange is regulated with respect in the drawer, at the course of exchange between the place where the bill of exchange was payable, and the place where it was drawn. Re-exchanges can not be cumulated. – Walsh.

RE-EX-PORT, n.

Any commodity re-exported.

RE-EX-PORT, v.t. [re and export.]

To export again; to export what has been imported. In the United States, a drawback is allowed on commodities re-exported.

RE-EX-PORT-A'TION, n.

The act of exporting what has been imported.

RE-EX-PORT-ED, pp.

Exported after being imported.

RE-EX-PORT-ING, ppr.

Exporting what has been imported.

RE-FASH'ION, v.t.

To fashion, form or mold into shape a second time. – Macknight.

RE-FASH'ION-ED, pp.

Fashioned again.

RE-FASH'ION-ING, ppr.

Shaping a second time.

RE-FECT', v.t. [L. refectus, reficio; re and facio, to make.]

To refresh; to restore after hunger or fatigue. [Not in use.] – Brown.

RE-FEC'TION, n. [Fr. from L. refectio.]

1. Refreshment after hunger or fatigue. – South. Pope.
2. A spare meal or repast. – Encyc.

RE-FECT'IVE, a.

Refreshing; restoring.

RE-FECT'IVE, n.

That which refreshes.

RE-FECT'O-RY, n. [Fr. refectoire.]

A room of refreshment; properly, a hall or apartment in convents and monasteries, where a moderate repast is taken. – Encyc.

RE-FEL', v.t. [L. refello.]

To refute; to disprove to repress; as, to refel the tricks of a sophister. [Little used.] – Shak.

RE-FER', v.i.

1. To respect; to have relation. Many passages of Scripture refer to the peculiar customs of the orientals.
2. To appeal; to have recourse; to apply. In suits it is good to refer to some friend of trust. – Bacon.
3. To allude; to have respect to by intimation without naming. I refer to a well known fact.

RE-FER', v.t. [L. refero; re and fero, to bear; Fr. referrer; It. referire; Sp. and Port. referir.]

1. To direct, leave or deliver over to another person or tribunal for information or decision; as when parties to a suit refer their cause to another court; or the court refers a cause to individuals for examination and report. A person whose opinion is requested, sometimes refers the inquirer to another person or other source of information.
2. To reduce as to the ultimate end. You profess and practice to refer all things to yourself. – Bacon.
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. To refer one's self, to betake; to apply. [Little used.] – Shak.

REF'ER-A-BLE, a.

1. That may be referred; capable of being considered in relation to something else. – More.
2. That may be assigned; that may be considered as belonging to or related to. It is a question among philosophers, whether all the attractions which obtain between bodies, are referable to one general cause. – Nicholson.

REF-ER-EE', n.

One to whom a thing 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 court. In New England, a referee differs from an arbitrator, in being appointed by the court to decide in a cause which is depending before that court. An arbitrator is chosen by parties to decide a cause between them.

REF'ER-ENCE, n.

1. A sending, dismission or direction to another for information. – Swift.
2. Relation; respect; view toward. The Christian religion commands sobriety, temperance, and moderation, in reference to our appetites and passions. – Tillotson.
3. Allusion to. In his observations he had no reference to the case which has been stated.
4. In law, the process of assigning a cause depending in court, for a hearing and decision, to persons appointed by the court.