(obsolete) An officer of state charged with the duty of procuring and dispatching diplomas and decrees.
referral
The act or process of transferring someone or something to another, of sending by reference, or referring.
(slang) A document used by schools detailing some form of a student's misbehavior and listing the actions taken before and after the student's receipt of the referral.
“I found this site in my referrers a few days ago and so far I'm enjoying what I've read.”
“I found a site through my referrers last night that had all the male-edited weblogs in one column, and all the female-edited weblogs in another.”
“Snippets of search engine referrers that attracted people here looking for St. Patrick's Day suggest there are widely divergent ideas of the Irish culture.”