What is "to refer one's self"

Refer \Re*fer"\ (r[-e]*f[~e]r"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Referred (r[-e]*f[~e]rd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Referring.] [F. r['e]f['e]rer, L. referre; pref. re- re- + ferre to bear. See Bear to carry.]

1. To carry or send back. [Obs.]
   --Chaucer.

2. 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. 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.

   To refer one's self, to have recourse; to betake one's self; to make application; to appeal. [Obs.]

   I'll refer me to all things sense.
   --Shak.