referer

[Eng. refer; -er.] One who refers. re-fer-ment, s. [Eng. refer; -ment.] The act of referring; a reference for decision or exam in a tion. re-fer-ment', v. t. [Pref. re-, and Eng. ferment, v. (q. v.)] To ferment again or anew. "Th' admitted nitre agitates the flood, Revives its tires, and referments the blood." Black more : Creation, vi. rě-ferred, pa . par . or a. [REFER.] rě-fer-ri-ble, a . [REFERABLE.] re-fig'-ûre, v . t. [Pref. re-, and Eng. figure , v. (q. v.)] To figure, fashion, or form anew; to refashion; to reproduce as in a copy. "Ten times thyself were happier than thou art, If ten of thine ten times refigured thee." Shakesp.: Sonnet 6. IMG:content-0350.png:[blocks in formation] 1. To purify; to reduce to a fine state, to free or clear from impurities, sediment, or the like; to defecate, to clarify, to fine. "The parts more pure in rising are ref in'd." South: Ovid; Metamorphosis xiv. 2. To reduce from the ore; to free or separate from other metals, or from dro or alloy. "I will refine them, as silver is refined." -Zechariah xii. 9. 3. To purify from all that is gro , coarse, debasing, low, vulgar, rude, clownish, or the like; to educate or raise, as the taste; to impart high culture to; to polish. "Ingenious Art, with her expre ive face, Steps forth to fashion and refine the race." Cowper: Charity , 98. B. Intransitive: 1. To become pure or clear; to be freed or cleared from impurities, sediment, or the like. "The pure limpid stream when foul with stains, Works itself clear, and as it runs refines." Add is on. ( Todd.) 2. To improve in accuracy, delicacy, taste, or performance. "Chaucer refined on Boccace, and mended his stories.*" -Dryden: Fables . (Pref.) 3. To affect nicety in thought or language. "He makes another paragraph about our refining in controversy, and coming nearer still to the church of Rome."-Atterbury. rě-fined, pa. par. & a. [REFINE.) A. As pa . par .: (See the verb.) B. As adjective : 1. Made pure; freed from impurities, dro , alloy, or the like. pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia refinedly 2. Free from coarsene , vulgarity, rudene , or the like; of high culture; polished. "Po e or of a soul, refined." Cowper: Tirocinium, 721. B. Intransitive : 3393 1. To bend or turn back; to be reflected. "Inanimate matter moves always in a straight line and never reflects in an angle, nor bends in a circle."-Bent "Will any dog Refinedly leave his bitches and his bones To turn a wheel?" Dryden. ( Todd .) raffinement.] 1. The act or proce of refining, purifying, or clearing from extraneous matter; purification, clarification; spec if., the proce of freeing metals, liquids, or other substances from impurities or crudities which impair their quality or unfit them for their appropriate uses. 2 The state of being pure or purified. 3. The state of being free from all that is gro , coarse, debasing, low, vulgar, rude, clownish, or the like; purity of taste, mind, or the like; elegance of taste, manners, language, .; high culture, polish. "That sensibility of pain, with which Refinement is endued." Cowper: Task, iv. 359. 4. That which proceeds from refining, or the desire to appear refined; the result of exce ive elaboration, polish, or nicety; affected subtlety; as, the refinements of cunning. rě-fin-er, s. [Eng.ref in(e); -er.] 1. One who refines liquors, metals, sugar, or other substances. "He shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver." Malachi ii. 3. 2. One who refines, educates, or polishes the taste, manners, .; as, a refiner of language. 3. An inventor of superfluous subtleties; one who is over vice in discrimination, argument, reasoning, philosophy, or the like. "Now 'seeking the truth' is almost become as much a phrase among these gentlemen as 'seeking the Lord' was amorg another set of refiners."-Water land: Works, viii. 47.