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rson holding a similar office in other civic societies. Little masters, certain German engravers of the 16th century, so called from the extreme smallness of their prints. -- Master in chancery, an officer of courts of equity, who acts as an assistant to the chancellor or judge, by inquiring into various matters refer…

appropriate to, the affairs of war; as, a military parade; military discipline; military bravery; military conduct; military renown. Nor do I, as an enemy to peace, Troop in the throngs of military men. Shak.

. Monograms are often used on seals, ornamental pins, rings, buttons, and by painters, engravers, etc., to distinguish their works. Monogram.

, and chambered, or divided into several cavities by simple curved partitions, which are traversed and connected together by a continuous and nearly central tube or siphuncle. See Tetrabranchiata.

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

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

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In art: A line drawn by pencil, pen, graver, or the like, by which the boundary of a figure is indicated.

in any part of a fortification to protect the defenders from a rear or ricochet fire; a traverse. Farrow.

Capable of being passed, traveled, navigated, traversed, penetrated, or the like; as, the roads are not passable; the stream is passablein boats. His body's a passable carcass if it be not hurt; it is a throughfare for steel. Shak.

ring a given period, usually a year, the total of which consists of the sum of the miles traversed by all the passengers on the road in the period in question.

pursuit, or object of taste -- a kind of enthusiastic fondness for anything. Cogan. The bravery of his grief did put me Into a towering passion. Shak. The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still. Pope. Who walked in every path of human life, Felt every passion. Akenside. When state…

One who discovers a way or path; one who explores untraversed regions. The cow is the true pathfinder and pathmaker. J. Burroughs.

To go the rounds along a chain of sentinels; to traverse a police district or beat.

ver; especially, to travel over for the purpose of surveying or examining; to inspect by traversing; specifically, to inspect officially the boundaries of, as of a town or parish, by walking over the whole line.

The act of perambulating; traversing. Bacon.

The region which is included within the outlet of the pelvis, and is traversed by the urinogenital canal and the rectum.

oducing a representation of an object on wood, by photography, for the use of the wood engraver.

A wheel, usually with radial handles projecting from the rim, for traversing the saddle of a machine tool, esp. an automatic machine tool, by hand.

r connected pistons, working in a cylindrical case which is provided with ports that are traversed by the valve.