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(Refer,) Refeir, v.2 Also: rafer; refir. [Appar. a conflation of Referv.1 and Affer(e v. or Effere v.1] Only in the pres. p.: To pertain to; to correspond or answer to. Cf. the phr. to the refeir in the later dial. — 1555 Crail Ch. Reg. 64.
Item, ane stand of blew satyne, … with ymagrye of gold, with abbis, stolis, fannonis, and paralyngis raferand thareto 1591 Edinb. Test. XXIII 293.
Tua pleuchtis with ȝockis, bewes, bamez & hors graytht refeiring thairto 1627 Rep. Parishes 128.
The teynd of Nisbet of old payed tuo chalder of victuall refeiring to the stock 1677 Edinb. B. Rec. X 292.
Proportionally refiring to the forsaid trew Scots weight abovementioned
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