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An instrument or apparatus for measuring or detecting tithonicity; an actinometer. [R.]

An apparatus for the detection of trichinæ in the flesh of animals, as of swine.

To detect in a misstep; to catch; to convict. [R.] These her women can trip me if I err. Shak.

perpetual villanage, never to be manumitted. Milton. Some faint traces of villanage were detected by the curious so late as the days of the Stuarts. Macaulay.

, by night. Watchman beetle (Zoöl.), the European dor. -- Watchman's clock, a watchman's detector in which the apparatus for recording the times of visiting several stations is contained within a single clock. -- Watchman's detector, or Watchman's time detector, an apparatus for recording the time when a watchman vis…

tration of President Grant to defraud the government of the excise taxes. The frauds were detected in 1875 through the efforts of the Secretary of the Treasury. B. H. Bristow, and most of the offenders were convicted.