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A relation of events in chronological order, each event being recorded under the year in which it happened. "Annals the revolution." Macaulay. "The annals of our religion." Rogers.

ng or attach to, as by a string, so that the thing is suspended; as, a seal appended to a record; the inscription was appended to the column.

Pertaining to, or contained in, archives or records. Tooke.

The place in which public records or historic documents are kept. Our words . . . . become records in God's court, and are laid up in his archives as witnesses. Gov. of Tongue.

A keeper of archives or records. [R.]

lies after judgment, to inquire whether a jury has given a false verdict in any court of record; also, the convicting of the jury so tried. Bouvier.

certify; to affirm to be true or genuine; as, to attest the truth of a writing, a copy of record. Facts . . . attested by particular pagan authors. Addison.

An instrument by which the power of hearing can be gauged and recorded on a scale.

An instrument for the instantaneous self-recording or printing of time. Knight.

A pneumatic reproducer for a phonograph, controlled by the recording stylus on the principle of the relay. It produces much clearer and louder tones than does the ordinary vibrating disk reproducer.

An instrument for recording automatically the variations of atmospheric pressure.

A form of barometer so constructed as to inscribe of itself upon paper a record of the variations of atmospheric pressure.

An instrument for recording both pressure and temperature, as of the atmosphere.

An inferior court of law, not of record.

Ostentatious display, either by words or other means; publication; show; description; record. Obtrude the blazon of their exploits upon the company. Collier. Thy tongue, thy face, thy limbs, actions, and spirit, Do give thee fivefold blazon. Shak.

The art of recording pecuniary or business transactions in a regular and systematic manner, so as to show their relation to each other, and the state of the business in which they occur; the art of keeping accounts. The books commonly used are a daybook, cashbook, journal, and ledger. See Daybook, Cashbook, Journal, an…

An instrument for making such tracings, as a recording brontometer.

An instrument for noting or recording phenomena attendant on thunderstorms.

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

A device for recording the amount of cash received, usually having an automatic adding machine and a money drawer and exhibiting the amount of the sale.