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A history or account of martyrs; a register of martyrs. Bp. Stillingfleet.

To enroll; to enter in a register; specifically, to enter or admit to membership in a body or society, particularly in a college or university, by enrolling the name in a register. In discovering and matriculating the arms of commissaries from North America. Sir W. Scott.

ppiness, and the minimum of misery. P. Colquhoun. Maximum thermometer, a thermometer that registers the highest degree of temperature attained in a given time, or since its last adjustment.

A register of months. Bp. Stillingfleet.

An instrument which registers meteorologic phases or conditions.

the atmosphere and its phenomena, or to meteorology. Meteorological table, Meteorological register, a table or register exhibiting the state of the air and its temperature, weight, dryness, moisture, motion, etc.

eir equipment; a mustering officer; an inspector. [Eng.] -- Muster roll (Mil.), a list or register of all the men in a company, troop, or regiment, present or accounted for on the day of muster. -- To pass muster, to pass through a muster or inspection without censure. Such excuses will not pass muster with God. South…

The description of muscles, including the study of muscular contraction by the aid of registering apparatus, as by some form of myograph; myology.

An account of deaths, or of the dead; a register of deaths; a collection of obituary notices.

An instrument for measuring or registering the amount of cloudiness.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.