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To make a report, or response, in respect of a matter inquired of, a duty enjoined, or information expected; as, the committee will report at twelve o'clock.

To cause to perceive or understand; to acquaint; to inform; to convince; to assure; to make certain. Sir, be resolved. I must and will come. Beau & Fl. Resolve me, Reason, which of these is worse, Want with a full, or with an empty purse Pope. In health, good air, pleasure, riches, I am resolved it can not be equaled b…

Resinlike, or resinform; resembling a resin without being such.

ed or sold; especially, in the plural, a set of tabulated statistics prepared for general information.

Seeking information; authorized to examine witnesses or ascertain facts; as, a rogatory commission. Woolsey.

A person sent out to gain and bring in tidings; especially, one employed in war to gain information of the movements and condition of an enemy. Scouts each coast light-armèd scour, Each quarter, to descry the distant foe. Milton.

under the treasury department, and in time of war it aids the war department in securing information concerning the movements of the enemy.

en court; -- so called because anciently moved for by the attorneys at side bar, that is, informally. Burril. -- Side box, a box or inclosed seat on the side of a theater. To insure a side-box station at half price. Cowper. -- Side chain, one of two safety chains connecting a tender with a locomotive, at the sides. -…

Of or pertaining to signals, or the use of signals in conveying information; as, a signal flag or officer. The signal service, a bureau of the government (in the United States connected with the War Department) organized to collect from the whole country simultaneous raports of local meteorological conditions, upon com…

A gathering of people for social purposes; an informal party or reception; as, a church sociable. [Colloq. U. S.]

Stars not included in any constellation; -- called also informed, or unformed, stars.

To turn informer; to betray a secret. [Slang]

any object or scene intended, not for exhibition as an original work of art, but for the information, instruction, or assistance of the maker; as, a study of heads or of hands for a figure picture.

To inform secretly. [Obs.]

Information without oath; an entry of a material fact or circumstance on the record for the information of the court, at the death or insolvency of a party.

An informer; a talebearer. [Obs.] "Accusing sycophants, of all men, did best sort to his nature." Sir P. Sidney.

inistrated in or as in tabloids, or small condensed bits; as, a tabloid form of imparting information.

The act of informing officiously; communication of sectrts, scandal, etc., maliciously.

nything) in any analogous way; as, to tap telegraph wires for the purpose of intercepting information; to tap the treasury.

ct, as an instructor; to manage, as a preceptor; to guide the studies of; to instruct; to inform; to conduct through a course of studies; as, to teach a child or a class. "He taught his disciples." Mark ix. 31. The village master taught his little school. Goldsmith.