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Containing or producing pyrites.

One who quaffs, or drinks largely.

Consisting chiefly of quartz; containing quartz.

Bearing racemes, as the currant.

To ferment, or cause to ferment, again. Blackmore.

One who reefs; -- a name often given to midshipmen. Marryat.

tment, 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.…

Capable of being referred, or considered in relation to something else; assignable; ascribable. [Written also referrible.] It is a question among philosophers, whether all the attractions which obtain between bodies are referable to one general cause. W. Nicholson.

One to whom a thing is referred; a person to whom a matter in dispute has been referred, in order that he may settle it.

The act of referring, or the state of being referred; as, reference to a chart for quidance.

One to whose decision a cause is referred; a referee. [Obs.] Bacon.

A diplomatic agent's note asking for instructions from his government concerning a particular matter or point.

Containing a reference; pointing to something out of itself; as, notes for referential use. -- Ref`er*en"tial*ly, adv.

The act of referring; reference. Laud.

One who refers.

Referable. Hallam.

Yielding resin; as, a resiniferous tree or vessel.

One who puts on roofs.

generating or producing dew. [R.]

A division of pectinibranchiate gastropods, having the head prolonged into a snout which is not retractile.