Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for RE-FER'
RE-FER', v.i.
- To respect; to have relation. Many passages of Scripture refer to the peculiar customs of the orientals.
- To appeal; to have recourse; to apply. In suits it is good to refer to some friend of trust. – Bacon.
- To allude; to have respect to by intimation without naming. I refer to a well known fact.
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