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A person appointed and authorized to audit or examine an account or accounts, compare the charges with the vouchers, examine the parties and witnesses, allow or reject charges, and state the balance.

an pod. A screw auger has a twisted blade, by the spiral groove of which the chips are discharge.

A priming tube connecting the charge chamber with the gallery, or place where the slow match is applied. Knight.

A additional charge to a coat of arms, given as a mark of honor. Cussans.

ible dynamo. When there is an excess of power the dynamo is driven by the engine so as to charge a small storage battery; when there is a deficiency of power the dynamo reverses and acts as an auxiliary motor. Sometimes called Pieper system. -- Automixte car, etc.

Any charge in addition to the regular charge for freight of goods shipped.

Moving or operating backward; as, back action. Back charges, charges brought forward after an account has been made up. -- Back filling (Arch.), the mass of materials used in filling up the space between two walls, or between the inner and outer faces of a wall, or upon the haunches of an arch or vault. -- Back press…

One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon a line of public travel. [U.S.]

Originally, a person put in charge of something especially, a chief officer, magistrate, or keeper, as of a county, town, hundred, or castle; one to whom power Abbott. Lausanne is under the canton of Berne, governed by a bailiff sent every three years from the senate. Addison.

A narrow opening, often cruciform, through which arrows might be discharged.

Any solid spherical, cylindrical, or conical projectile of lead or iron, to be discharged from a firearm; as, a cannon ball; a rifball; -- often used collectively; as, powder and ball. Spherical balls for the smaller firearms are commonly called bullets.

An officer who has charge of a ballot box. [Obs.] Harrington.

under the left arm. Originally it was used for supporting the musket and twelve cases for charges, but later only as a cartridge belt.

Being a bankrupt or in a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay, or legally discharged from paying, one's debts; as, a bankrupt merchant.

An opening in the wall of a fortress, through which missiles were discharged upon an enemy.

A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged. Knight.

basic, or not siliceous, is used, and additions of basic material are made to the molten charge during treatment. Opposed to acid process, above. Called also Thomas process.

A man who has charge of a bathorse and his load. Macaulay.

Provisions ordered from the buttery; also, the charges for them; -- only in the pl., except when used adjectively. [Univ. of Oxford, Eng.]

A number of coated jars (Leyden jars) so connected that they may be charged and discharged simultaneously.