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An instrument for recording simultaneously the pressure and temperature of a gas; a combined thermograph and barograph.

The trace or record made by means of a thermograph.

An instrument for automatically recording indications of the variation of temperature.

An instrument for recording graphically the variations of temperature, or the indications of a thermometer.

To ascertain or record the time, duration, or rate of; as, to time the speed of horses, or hours for workmen.

A person who keeps a record of the time spent by workmen at their work.

music of a piano. Anon they move In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood Of flutes and soft recorders. Milton.

of a dispute between parties by mutual agreement. Transaction of a society, the published record of what it has done or accomplished.

A copy or exemplification of a record. [Obs.] Lord Herbert.

n it, and for each point as many holes as there are half hours in a watch. It is used for recording the courses made by the ship in each half hour, by putting a peg in the corresponding hole. -- Traverse jury (Law), a jury that tries cases; a petit jury. -- Traverse sailing (Naut.), a sailing by compound courses; the…

whose valence is three. Triads of the Welsh bards, poetical histories, in which the facts recorded are grouped by threes, three things or circumstances of a kind being mentioned together. -- Hindoo triad. See Trimurti.

ildren in fine clothes, and yet starve their minds. Locke. They are simple, but majestic, records of the feelings of the poet; as little tricked out for the public eye as his diary would have been. Macaulay.

A court of record, held by the sheriff twice a year in every hundred within his county. Blount.

Not written in a book; unrecorded. "UnbookedEnglish life." Masson.

To remove from a file or record.

vestry. See def. 2, above. -- Vestry clerk, an officer chosen by the vestry, who keeps a record of its proceedings; also, in England, one who keeps the parish accounts and books. -- Vestry meeting, the meeting of a vestry or vestry board; also, a meeting of a parish held in a vestry or other place.

A device for vibrating the pen of a siphon recorder to diminish frictional resistance on the paper. (4) An oscillator.

An instrument to observe and record vibrations.

ed by a hunter upon seeing the fox break cover. -- View of frankpledge (Law), a court of record, held in a hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward of the leet. Blackstone. -- View of premises (Law), the inspection by the jury of the place where a litigated transaction is said to have occurred.…

ssault. Do violence to do man. Luke iii. 14. We can not, without offering violence to all records, divine and human, deny an universal deluge. T. Burnet. Looking down, he saw The whole earth filled with violence. Milton.