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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Refer \Re*fer"\ (r?*f?r"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Referred}
      (-f?rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Referring}.] [F. r[82]f[82]rer, L.
      referre; pref. re- re- + ferre to bear. See {Bear} to carry.]
      1. To carry or send back. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
  
      2. Hence: To send or direct away; to send or direct
            elsewhere, as for treatment, aid, infirmation, decision,
            etc.; to make over, or pass over, to another; as, to refer
            a student to an author; to refer a beggar to an officer;
            to refer a bill to a committee; a court refers a matter of
            fact to a commissioner for investigation, or refers a
            question of law to a superior tribunal.
  
      3. To place in or under by a mental or rational process; to
            assign to, as a class, a cause, source, a motive, reason,
            or ground of explanation; as, he referred the phenomena to
            electrical disturbances.
  
      {To refer one's self}, to have recourse; to betake one's
            self; to make application; to appeal. [Obs.]
  
                     I'll refer me to all things sense.      --Shak.
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