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pect to one's integrity, capacity, pecuniary ability, and the like; as, I referred to his employer for the truth of his story.

ly (tobacco, salt, etc.) used chiefly as a means of taxation. Such monopolies are largely employed in Austria, Italy, France, and Spain.

ered by a person sent to examine, explore, or investigate; as, a messenger reports to his employer what he has seen or ascertained; the committee reported progress. There is no man that may reporten all. Chaucer.

An instrument employed for replacing a displaced organ or part.

Tending, or pertaining, to reproduction; employed in reproduction. Lyell.

A dor, or a breed of dogs, chiefly employed to retrieve, or to find and recover game birds that have been killed or wounded.

and receives into the treasury for public use. Revenue cutter, an armed government vessel employed to enforce revenue laws, prevent smuggling, etc.

nvocation of the Province of Canterbury, England. Both English and American revisers were employed on the work. It was first published in a complete form in 1885, and is a revised form of the Authorized Version. See Authorized Version, under Authorized.

Employed to travel; traveling; as, a riding clerk. "One riding apparitor." Ayliffe.

um, a white crystalline substance. It has a cooling, saline, slightly bitter taste and is employed as a mild purgative. It was discovered by Seignette, an apothecary of Rochelle, and is called also Seignete's salt.

A primitive form of speech; one of the earliest terms employed in language; a word from which other words are formed; a radix, or radical.

One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc. [Cant, U.S.]

Malicious waste or destruction of an employer's property or injury to his interests by workmen during labor troubles.

Employed in sacrifice. [R.] Johnson.

a sharp salty taste, obtained from gas works, from nitrogenous matter, etc. It is largely employed as a source of ammonia, as a reagent, and as an expectorant in bronchitis. So called because originally made from the soot from camel's dung at the temple of Jupiter Ammon in Africa. Called also muriate of ammonia. -- Sa…

s districts of Chili and Peru. It is deliquescent and cannot be used in gunpowder, but is employed in the production of nitric acid. Called also cubic niter. -- Saltpeter acid (Chem.), nitric acid; -- sometimes so called because made from saltpeter.

One who saps; specifically (Mil.), one who is employed in working at saps, building and repairing fortifications, and the like.

pertaining to the planet Saturn; as, the Saturnian year. Saturnian verse (Pros.), a meter employed by early Roman satirists, consisting of three iambics and an extra syllable followed by three trochees, as in the line: --Thê queen | wâs isn | thê kistch | ên eatîng | bread ând | honêy.

A machine formerly employed for reducing dislocations of the humerus.

Hence, anything graduated, especially when employed as a measure or rule, or marked by lines at regular intervals. Specifically: