1. (v. t.) To direct to another place for information.

2. (v. t.) Hence: To send or direct away; to send or direct elsewhere, as for treatment, aid, information, 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. (v. t.) 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.

4. (v. i.) To have recourse; to apply; to appeal; to betake one's self; as, to refer to a dictionary.

5. (v. i.) To have relation or reference; to relate; to point; as, the figure refers to a footnote.

6. (v. i.) To carry the mind or thought; to direct attention; as, the preacher referred to the late election.

7. (v. i.) To direct inquiry for information or a guarantee of any kind, as in respect to one's integrity, capacity, pecuniary ability, and the like; as, I referred to his employer for the truth of his story.

account for accredit accredit with accrete to acknowledge address to advert advert to advise advise with affect allude allude to answer to appeal to appertain to apply apply to argue ascribe to ask assign assign to attach to attribute attribute to bargain be construed as be taken as bear on bear upon belong to bespeak betoken blame blame for blame on blurt blurt out breathe bring home to bring into play bring to attention bring to notice bring up call attention to call in charge charge on charge to check cite collogue comment commit commune compare notes concern confer confer with confess connect connect with connote consult consult with convert to use correspond to counsel credit credit with cross-refer cross-reference deal with deliberate denominate denote designate direct direct attention to direct to discuss discuss with emblematize enlist into service exchange observations exchange views exclaim fall back upon fasten upon father upon figure finger fix on fix upon focus on glance go hand in hand over hang on have connection with have conversations have recourse to hold conference imply import impress impute impute to indicate inquire of insert instance interest interject interpolate introduce invoke involve lay lay to let drop let fall liaise with link with look at look to make a cross-reference make reference to mean mention muse name negotiate note observe opine palaver parley pass on pass over pertain to pick out pin on pinpoint place upon point at point out point to powwow put heads together put in requisition quote reason with recur recur to refer to reference reflect regard relate to remark repair resort to respect revert to run saddle on saddle with say select send set down to settle upon signify sit down together sit down with speak specify spell stand for stigmatize study suggest symbol symbolize take counsel take note of take to take up with talk over talk to tie in with touch touch on touch upon treat of turn turn to turn to use typify use