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One who investigates the derivation of words.

8th century. Eulerian integrals, certain definite integrals whose properties were first investigated by Euler.

tent tribunal, as a means of ascertaining the truth of any alleged matter of fact under investigation before it; means of making proof; -- the latter, strictly speaking, not being synonymous with evidence, but rather the effect of it. Greenleaf. Circumstantial evidence, Conclusive evidence, etc. See under Circumstantia…

The act of examining, or state of being examined; a careful search, investigation, or inquiry; scrutiny by study or experiment.

steries; in the modern Greek Church, a deputy of the patriarch , who visits the clergy, investigates ecclesiastical cases, etc.

The act of depriving or divesting of shoes. [Obs.] Chambers.

The act of depriving or divesting of flesh; excarnification; -- opposed to incarnation.

To inspect; to investigate; to decipher. [R.] To take some pains in excusing some old monuments. F. Junius (1654).

An afterpiece of a comic description, either a farce or a travesty.

To fish out; to find out by skill or laborious investigation; to search out. "To expiscate principles." [R.] Nichol. Dr.Burton has with much ingenuity endeavord to expiscate the truth which may be involved in them. W. L. Alexander.

ectricity, as produced by certain forms of inductive apparatus, on account of Faraday's investigations of their laws.

fat, immediately beneath the skin; the stronger layer of connective tissue covering and investing all muscles; an aponeurosis.

Invested with the power of determining destiny. [Obs.] "The fated sky." Shak.

ce supposed to be held either mediately or immediately from the sovereign, and absolutely vested in the owner.

To invest with a fee or feud; to give or grant a corporeal hereditament to; to enfeoff.

One in whom the property of an estate is vested, subject to the estate of a life renter. I am fiar of the lands; she a life renter. Sir W. Scott.

To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize. Whose white vestments figure innocence. Shak.

Infirm; unstable. "Firmless sands." Sylvester.

A flaming torch, esp. one made by combining together a number of thick wicks invested with a quick-burning substance (anciently, perhaps, wax; in modern times, pitch or the like); hence, any torch.

Not funded; not fixed, invested, or determined; as, floating capital; a floating debt. Trade was at an end. Floating capital had been withdrawn in great masses from the island. Macaulay. Floating anchor (Naut.), a drag or sea anchor; drag sail. -- Floating battery (Mil.), a battery erected on rafts or the hulls of shi…