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onsisting of an arrangement of two mirrors, for reflecting light upon the larynx, and for examining its image.

A speculum for examining a natural passage, as the urethra.

To study mineralogy by collecting and examining minerals. Miss Edgeworth.

An instrument for examining the condition of the ear.

Divination by examining the soles of the feet.

To walk through or over; especially, to travel over for the purpose of surveying or examining; to inspect by traversing; specifically, to inspect officially the boundaries of, as of a town or parish, by walking over the whole line.

The act of carefully viewing or examining. [R.] Tatler.

An instrument for examining the depth or other circumstances of a wound, ulcer, or cavity, or the direction of a sinus, of for exploring for bullets, for stones in the bladder, etc. Parr. Probe, or Probe-pointed, scissors (Surg.), scissors used to open wounds, the blade of which, to be thrust into the orifice, has a bu…

forsake; as, to quit work; to quit the place; to quit jesting. Such a superficial way of examining is to quit truth for appearance. Locke. To quit cost, to pay; to reimburse. -- To quit scores, to make even; to clear mutually from demands. Does not the earth quit scores with all the elements in the noble fruits that…

e finger a shock to the fetus, so that it bounds upward, and falls back again against the examining finger.

field. They are regarded as nonperiodic, transverse pulses in the ether. They are used in examining opaque objects, as for locating fractures or bullets in the human body.

Closely examining, or inquiring; careful; sctrict. -- Scru"ti*nous*ly, adv.

An optical instrument for forming and examining spectra (as that of solar light, or those produced by flames in which different substances are volatilized), so as to determine, from the position of the spectral lines, the composition of the substance.

An instrument used in auscultation for examining the organs of the chest, as the heart and lungs, by conveying to the ear of the examiner the sounds produced in the thorax.

An apparatus for examining the interior of the mouth.

An instrument for examining wounds and fistulas, and for passing setons, and the like; a probe, -- called also specillum.

ally (Naut.), to pass along and under, as a cable, for the purpose of taking it in, or of examining it.

An institution organized and incorporated for the purpose of imparting instruction, examining students, and otherwise promoting education in the higher branches of literature, science, art, etc., empowered to confer degrees in the several arts and faculties, as in theology, law, medicine, music, etc. A university may e…

Doing or done without sight; not seeing or examining. [Colloq.] Unsight unseen, a colloquial phrase, denoting unseeing unseen, or unseen repeated; as, to buy a thing unsight unseen, that is, without seeing it. For to subscribe, unsight, unseen, To a new church discipline. Hudibras. There was a great confluence of chapm…

To see; to behold; especially, to look at with attention, or for the purpose of examining; to examine with the eye; to inspect; to explore. O, let me view his visage, being dead. Shak. Nearer to view his prey, and, unespied, To mark what of their state he more might learn. Milton.