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A writ issuing out of chancery, or a superior court, to call up the records of a inferior court, or remove a cause there depending, in order that the party may have more sure and speedy justice, or that errors and irreguarities may be corrected. It is obtained upon complaint of a party that he has not received justice,…

A narrative of events; a history; a record.

A writer of a chronicle; a recorder of events in the order of time; an historian. Such an honest chronicler as Griffith. Shak.

The record or inscription made by a chronograph.

An instrument for measuring or recording intervals of time, upon a revolving drum or strip of paper moved by clockwork. The action of the stylus or pen is controlled by electricity.

A description or record of past time; history. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

One of a set of photographs of a moving object, taken for the purpose of recording and exhibiting successive phases of the motion. --Chron`o*pho*tog"ra*phy, n.

One employed to keep records or accounts; a scribe; an accountant; as, the clerk of a court; a town clerk. The clerk of the crown . . . withdrew the bill. Strype.

inuous thought; to think. He that calleth a thing into his mind, whether by impression or recordation, cogitateth and considereth, and he that employeth the faculty of his fancy also cogitateth. Bacon.

never fail to set it down by way of commonplace. Swift. Commonplace book, a book in which records are made of things to be remembered.

A machine for adding numbers and making a printed record of the sum.

A certificate showing what appears upon record touching a matter in question.

The entry of such adjuornment and the grounds thereof on the record.

A duplicate roll (record or account) kept by an officer as a check upon another officer's roll. Burrill.

the nobility and gentry in a town. -- Court hand, the hand or manner of writing used in records and judicial proceedings. Shak. -- Court lands (Eng. Law), lands kept in demesne, -- that is, for the use of the lord and his family. -- Court marshal, one who acts as marshal for a court. -- Court party, a party attach…

A court of record held once a year, in a particular hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward of the leet. Blackstone.

Law), the principal justice of the peace in a county, who is also keeper of the rolls and records of the sessions of the peace.

A contrivance for recording the revolutions of a wheel, as of a bicycle.

A journal of accounts; a primary record book in which are recorded the debts and credits, or accounts of the day, in their order, and from which they are transferred to the journal.

center. -- Dead reckoning (Naut.), the method of determining the place of a ship from a record kept of the courses sailed as given by compass, and the distance made on each course as found by log, with allowance for leeway, etc., without the aid of celestial observations. -- Dead rise, the transverse upward curvatur…