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To go the rounds along a chain of sentinels; to traverse a police district or beat.

One who patrols; a watchman; especially, a policeman who patrols a particular precinct of a town or city.

A nickname for a policeman; -- so called from Sir Robert Peel. [British Slang] See Bobby.

A foot soldier; a policeman; also, an office attendant; a messenger. [India]

Relating to the police. [R.]

Policed. [Obs.] Bacon.

A superintendent of a department who has control of its police establishment, together with extensive powers of municipal regulation. [France] Brande & C.

urative or preventive. Sir T. Browne. Preventive service, the duty performed by the armed police in guarding the coast against smuggling. [Eng]

ion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering; as, a raid of the police upon a gambling house; a raid of contractors on the public treasury. [Colloq. U. S.]

y. The herdsmen near the frontier adjudicated their own disputes, and regulated their own police. Bancroft.

ty. Rogues' gallery, a collection of portraits of rogues or criminals, for the use of the police authorities. -- Rogue's march, derisive music performed in driving away a person under popular indignation or official sentence, as when a soldier is drummed out of a regiment. -- Rogue's yarn, yarn of a different twist a…

A patrolman; also, a policeman who acts as an inspector over the rounds of the patrolmen.

The headquarters of the police force of any precinct.

A police station. [India] Kipling.

uffers, touters, or any of those bloodless sharpers who are, perhaps, better known to the police. Dickens.

ans of which they have a distinctive appearance; as, the uniform of the artillery, of the police, of the Freemasons, etc. There are many things which, a soldier will do in his plain clothes which he scorns to do in his uniform. F. W. Robertson. In full uniform (Mil.), wearing the whole of the prescribed uniform, with o…

ormerly held in each ward of London for trying defaults in matters relating to the watch, police, and the like. Brande & C. "Wards and wardmotes." Piers Plowman.

A place where persons under temporary arrest by the police of a city are kept; a police station; a lockup.

A Turkish policeman. [Written also zaptieh.]