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An instrument or register which records the presence of watchmen on their beats. Knight.

An instrument for determining and registering the duration of more or less complex operations of the mind. Dunglison.

The chief magistrate of a nome or nomarchy.

f, not at all; not; nothing of; -- used emphatically. "They knew that I was none of the register that entered their admissions in the universities." Fuller. -- None-so-pretty (Bot.), the Saxifraga umbrosa. See London pride (a), under London.

A book in which notes of hand are registered.

A jag, or snag; a knob; a protuberance; also, the point or gist, as of a story. [Colloq.]

One skilled in numismatics; a numismatologist.

A list of the dead, or a register of anniversary days when service is performed for the dead.

To attach, as by a bond. [Obs.] He had obliged all the senators and magistrates firmly to himself. Bacon.

A machine for registering the distance traversed by a vehicle or pedestrain.

of a vehicle, to measure the distance traversed; also, a wheel used by surveyors, which registers the miles and rods traversed.

ed; a house or apartment in which public officers and others transact business; as, the register's office; a lawyer's office.

drugs and medicines as may be obtained without special preparation or compounding; not magistral.

An instrument for registering the changes observable with an oncometer.

An instrument for recording the height of the liquid in an endosmometer or for registering osmotic pressures.

An osteologist.

One versed in osteology; an osteologist.

jugate or restrain by awe or great fear. The king was present in person to overlook the magistrates, and overawe these subjects with the terror of his sword. Spenser.

One who delivers a panegyric; a eulogist; one who extols or praises, either by writing or speaking. If these panegyrists are in earnest. Burke.

A large dark-colored variety of the leopard, by some zoölogists considered a distinct species. It is marked with large ringlike spots, the centers of which are darker than the color of the body.