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Cornwall, for the administration of justice among the tinners therein, are also courts of record. Blackstone.

A contrivance for recording the speed of a railway train. Knight.

eing hired; -- called also statute fair. [Eng.] Cf. 3d Mop, 2. Halliwell. Statute book, a record of laws or legislative acts. Blackstone. -- Statute cap, a kind of woolen cap; -- so called because enjoined to be worn by a statute, dated in 1571, in behalf of the trade of cappers. [Obs.] Halliwell. -- Statute fair. Se…

cital of that which has occurred; a description of past events; a history; a statement; a record. One malcontent who did indeed get a name in story. Barrow. Venice, with its unique city and its Impressive story. Ed. Rev. The four great monarchies make the subject of ancient story. Sir W. Temple.

check is torn out, on which the number, amount, and destination of the check are usually recorded.

part at the tip of the playing arm of phonograph which sits in the groove of a phonograph record while it is turning, to detect the undulations in the phonograph groove and convert them into vibrations which are transmitted to a system (since 1920 electronic) which converts the signal into sound; also called needle. Th…

s, officers subscribe their official acts, and secretaries and clerks subscribe copies or records.

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.

ine of a divine and supernatural agency in the production of the miracles and revelations recorded in the Bible, and in the grace which renews and sanctifies men, -- in opposition to the doctrine which denies the agency of any other than physical or natural causes in the case. [Written also supranaturalism.]…

life and ministry, in distinction from the writer of John's Gospel, which gives a fuller record of his teachings.

A kind of customary payment by a tenant; -- a word used in old records. Cowell. Burrill.

A recording or registering tachometer; also, its autographic record.

wheel with inclined vanes, which is turned by the current. The rotations of the wheel are recorded by clockwork.

tion. (c) To pull down; to pull to pieces; as, to take down a house or a scaffold. (d) To record; to write down; as, to take down a man's words at the time he utters them. -- To take effect, To take fire. See under Effect, and Fire. -- To take ground to the right or to the left (Mil.), to extend the line to the right…

A message transmitted and recorded by a teleautograph.

An instrument for recording and reproducing sound by local magnetization of a steel wire, disk, or ribbon, moved against the pole of a magnet connected electrically with a telephone receiver, or the like.

Any apparatus recording meteorological phenomena at a distance from the measuring apparatus, as by electricity or by compressed air; esp., an apparatus recording conditions at many distant stations at a central office. -- Tel`e*me`te*or*o*graph"ic (#), a.

A seismic movement or shock far from the recording instrument. -- Tel`e*seis"mic (#), a.

A record of fluctuations of temperature made automatically at a distant station.

A machine or contrivance for indicating or recording something, particularly for keeping a check upon employees, as factory hands, watchmen, drivers, check takers, and the like, by revealing to their employers what they have done or omitted.