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To vest again with possession or office; as, to revest a magistrate with authority.

Hence, an official or public document; a register; a record; also, a catalogue; a list. The rolls of Parliament, the entry of the petitions, answers, and transactions in Parliament, are extant. Sir M. Hale. The roll and list of that army doth remain. Sir J. Davies.

A register or roll showing the order in which officers, enlisted men, companies, or regiments are called on to serve.

The science of runes. -- Ru*nol"o*gist, n.

pregnated with, salt. Saliferous rocks (Geol.), the New Red Sandstone system of some geologists; -- so called because, in Europe, this formation contains beds of salt. The saliferous beds of New York State belong largely to the Salina period of the Upper Silurian. See the Chart of Geology.

ighted, but no example of one has been reliably shown to exist. They are believed by ufologists to originate in outer space, but they are generally presumed to be misinterpretations of ordinary phenomena, illusions or imaginary objects. Fraudulent photographs purporting to show flying saucers are published from time to…

rmerly regarded as an order. They are distributed among several orders by modern ornithologists.

ders of Scotland, who preserved and repeated the traditions of the tribes; also, a genealogist. [Written also senachy.] [Scot.]

An apparatus for registering the shocks and undulatory motions of earthquakes.

The art of registering the shocks and undulatory movements of earthquakes.

attends the Court Chancery. The sergeant of the town of Rome them sought. Chaucer. The magistrates sent the serjeant, saying, Let those men go. Acts xvi. 35. This fell sergeant, Death, Is strict in his arrest. Shak.

The head of an Arab family, or of a clan or a tribe; also, the chief magistrate of an Arab village. The name is also applied to Mohammedan ecclesiastics of a high grade. [Written also scheik, shaik, sheikh.]

he production of which may be required on certain occasions. Among these papers are the register, passport or sea letter, charter party, bills of lading, invoice, log book, muster roll, bill of health, etc. Bouvier. Kent. -- To make ship, to embark in a ship or other vessel.

hat which we properly call "slander", or "Backbiting." Tillotson. [We] make the careful magistrate The mark of slander. B. Jonson.

To register (as on a slate and subject to revision), for an appointment. [Polit. Cant]

Capital letter, under Capital, a. -- Small piece, a Scotch coin worth about 2 -- Small register. See the Note under 1st Register, 7. -- Small stuff (Naut.), spun yarn, marline, and the smallest kinds of rope. R. H. Dana, Jr. -- Small talk, light or trifling conversation; chitchat. -- Small wares (Com.), various sma…

The treble; the highest vocal register; the highest kind of female or boy's voice; the upper part in harmony for mixed voices.

ho, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.

Formerly, the chief magistrate of the United Provinces of Holland; also, the governor or lieutenant governor of a province.

Stahl, a German physician and chemist of the 17th century; as, the Stahlian theory of phlogiston.