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The United States official "Biennial Register."

A volume or collection of sheets in which accounts are kept; a register of debts and credits, receipts and expenditures, etc.

Registered.

A clerk who registers passengers, baggage, etc., for conveyance, as by railway or steamship, or who sells passage tickets at a booking office.

An office where passengers, baggage, etc., are registered for conveyance, as by railway or steamship.

racted to him a miscellaneous party of monarchists and Republican malcontents. -- Bou*lan"gist (#), n.

A magistrate of a borough.

A chief magistrate of a municipal town in Holland, Flanders, and Germany, corresponding to mayor in England and the United States; a burghmaster.

An inferior magistrate or judge among the Mohammedans, usually the judge of a town or village.

time, adapted to the purposes of civil life, as years, months, weeks, and days; also, a register of the year with its divisions; an almanac.

s. This period immediately follows the primordial or Cambrian period, and is by many geologists regarded as the beginning of the Silurian age, See the Diagram, under Geology.

An instrument which, when placed in contact with the chest, will register graphically the comparative duration and intensity of the heart's movements.

A register, or record, as of a monastery or church.

A book in which is kept a register of money received or paid out.

To insert in a catalogue; to register; to catalogue. [R.] Coles.

One of two magistrates of Rome who took a register of the number and property of citizens, and who also exercised the office of inspector of morals and conduct.

An official registration of the number of the people, the value of their estates, and other general statistics of a country.

An official seat, as of a chief magistrate or a judge, but esp. that of a professor; hence, the office itself. The chair of a philosophical school. Whewell. A chair of philology. M. Arnold.

ertain office or duty; as, in the miserable character of a slave; in his character as a magistrate; her character as a daughter.

as an enemy, or game; to hunt. We are those which chased you from the field. Shak. Philologists, who chase A panting syllable through time and place. Cowper.