Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Refund

Refund (r?*f?nd") , transitive verb

[Prefix re- + fund.]

To fund again or anew; to replace (a fund or loan) by a new fund; as, to refund a railroad loan.

Refund (r?*f?nd") , transitive verb

[Latin refundere; pref. re- re- + fundere to pour: compare French refondre, refonder. See Fuse to melt, and compare Refound to cast again, 1st Refuse.]

1.
To pour back. [Rare & Obsolete]
Were the humors of the eye tinctured with any color, they would refund that color upon the object. — Ray
2.
To give back; to repay; to restore.
A governor, that had pillaged the people, was... sentenced to refund what he had wrongfully taken. — L'Estrange
3.
To supply again with funds; to reimburse. [Obsolete]