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An electrometer registering by photography.

A nephoscope registering by photography, commonly consisting of a pair of cameras used simultaneously.

An instrument for registering the movements of the diaphragm, or midriff, in respiration.

A phrenologist.

One of a group of marsupials including the phalangists.

Physics. [R.] -- Phys`i*col"o*gist, n. [R.]

A physiologist.

A tablet; a register; hence, a list or scheme inscribed on a tablet. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

A proteid body, separated by some physiologists from blood plasma. It is probably identical with fibrinogen.

the common people, under the superintendence of a tribune or some subordinate plebeian magistrate, without the intervention of the senate.

An instrument for determining and registering the variations in the size or volume of a limb, as the arm or leg, and hence the variations in the amount of blood in the limb. -- Pleth`ys*mo*graph"ic, a.

A self-registering rain gauge.

The branch of meteorology treating of the automatic registration of the precipitation of rain, snow, etc.; also, the graphic presentation of precipitation data.

One of the chief magistrates of the Italian republics in the Middle Ages. Brande & C.

as a foundation, a substructure, or a terrace wall. It is especially employed by archæologists in two senses:

In Athens, originally, the military commanderin-chief; but, afterward, a civil magistrate who had jurisdiction in respect of strangers and sojourners. In other Grecian cities, a high military and civil officer.

levying taxes, etc.; -- so called in Louisiana. Bouvier. -- Police justice, or Police magistrate, a judge of a police court. -- Police offenses (Law), minor offenses against the order of the community, of which a police court may have final jurisdiction. -- Police station, the headquarters of the police, or of a se…

A number or aggregate of heads; a list or register of heads or individuals. We are the greater poll, and in true fear They gave us our demands. Shak. The muster file, rotten and sound, upon my life, amounts not to fifteen thousand poll. Shak.

or cuts hair; a barber. [R.] (c) One who extorts or plunders. [Obs.] Bacon. (d) One who registers voters, or one who enters his name as a voter.

The act of voting, or of registering a vote. Polling booth, a temporary structure where the voting at an election is done; a polling place.