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Containing, expressing, or implying a question; as, an interrogatory sentence.

nd examine into with care and accuracy; to find out by careful inquisition; as, to investigate the causes of natural phenomena.

The act of investigating; the process of inquiring into or following up; research; study; inquiry, esp. patient or thorough inquiry or examination; as, the investigations of the philosopher and the mathematician; the investigations of the judge, the moralist.

Given to investigation; inquisitive; curious; searching.

One who searches diligently into a subject.

To water; to wet; to moisten with running or dropping water; to bedew.

The act or process of irrigating, or the state of being irrigated; especially, the operation of causing water to flow over lands, for nourishing plants.

To wrinkle. [Obs.]

The figures of two heads on a medal or coin, either side by side or joined.

Coupled together.

Having a smooth surface, as if polished.

A linen roller used in dressing wounds.

A legatee. [R.] Ayliffe.

An ambassador or envoy.

One to whom a legacy is bequeathed.

The office of a legate.

Of or pertaining to a legate; as, legatine power. Holinshed.

The sending forth or commissioning one person to act for another. "The Divine legation of Moses." Bp. Warburton.

Connected; tied; -- a term used when successive tones are to be produced in a closely connected, smoothly gliding manner. It is often indicated by a tie, thus staccato.

A testator; one who bequeaths a legacy. Dryden.