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The act of refashioning, or the state of being refashioned. [R.] Leigh Hunt.

To fasten again.

To restore after hunger or fatique; to refresh. [Archaic] Sir T. Browne.

Refreshment after hunger or fatique; a repast; a lunch. [His] feeble spirit inly felt refection. Spenser. Those Attic nights, and those refections of the gods. Curran.

Refreshing; restoring.

A room for refreshment; originally, a dining hall in monasteries or convents.

To refute; to disprove; as, to refel the tricks of a sophister. [Obs.] How he refelled me, and how I replied. Shak.

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 investigatio…

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.

The right to approve or reject by popular vote a meassure passed upon by a legislature.

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.

To figure again. Shak.

To fill, or become full, again.

To find again; to get or experience again. Sandys.