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One who investigates ethnography.

One who investigates the derivation of words.

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

A kind of uptight piano.

t 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 Circumstantial,…

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

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

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

iberal; especially, in a bad scene; extravagant; lavish. [R.] An active, expensive, indefatigable goodness. Sprat. The idle and expensive are dangerous. Sir W. Temple.

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.

ender, or lean, or of palliating; diminishing, or lessening; palliation, as of a crime; mitigation, as of punishment. To listen . . . to every extenuation of what is evil. I. Taylor.

ved; anything done or that comes to pass; an act; an event; a circumstance. What might instigate him to this devilish fact, I am not able to conjecture. Evelyn. He who most excels in fact of arms. Milton.

Anything that fatigues. [R.] It is such a fag, I came back tired to death. Miss Austen. Brain fag. (Med.) See Cerebropathy.

Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as, faint with fatigue, hunger, or thirst.

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

The art of preventing, curing, or mitigating diseases of horses and cattle; the veterinary art.

Mildness or mitigation of punishment; lenity. I could not discover the lenity and fabor of this sentence. Swift.

The young of an animal; a whelp. [Obs.] [The tigress] . . . followeth . . . after her fawns. Holland.

Having the quality of mitigating or curing fever. Boyle.

A medicine serving to mitigate or remove fever. -- a.