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characters developed by the use of heat; pertaining to the characters of minerals when examined before the blowpipe; as, the pyrognostic characters of galena.

An officer whose business it is to examine and prepare causes for trial in the ecclesiastical courts.

To address questions to; to examine by questions.

To search for; to examine. [R.] Sir T. Herbert.

The act of asking; interrogation; inquiry; as, to examine by question and answer.

To notice; to observe; to examine. [Obs.] Shak.

To search again; to examine anew.

cut, as far as. If these examples of grown men reach not the case of children, let them examine. Locke.

To arrange and present the reasons for or against; to examine or discuss by arguments; to debate or discuss; as, I reasoned the matter with my friend. When they are clearly discovered, well digested, and well reasoned in every part, there is beauty in such a theory. T. Burnet.

To come to an accounting; to make up accounts; to settle; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust relations of desert or penalty. "Parfay," sayst thou, "sometime he reckon shall." Chaucer. To reckon for, to answer for; to pay the account for. "If they fail in their bounden duty, they shall recko…

To review; to reëxamine. [Obs.] South.

To examine with the eye to make a preliminary examination or survey of; esp., to survey with a view to military or engineering operations.

Admitting of being reëxamined or reconsidered. Story.

xism of spiral bacterium (Spirochæte) in the blood. It is not usually fatal. Called also famine fever, and recurring fever.

swer; to announce in return; to relate, as what has been discovered by a person sent to examine, explore, or investigate; as, a messenger reports to his employer what he has seen or ascertained; the committee reported progress. There is no man that may reporten all. Chaucer.

To search or examine with continued care; to seek diligently.

s as long as six months, by a newly elected official, as the governor of a province, to examine into the conduct of a predecessor.

anner; with fixed purpose; boldly; firmly; steadily; with perseverance. Some.. facts he examines, some he resolutely denies. Swift.

To go over and examine critically or deliberately. Specifically:

One who reviews or reëxamines; an inspector; one who examines publications critically, and publishes his opinion upon their merits; a professional critic of books.