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A person employed to walk over and inspect a section of tracks.

of latitude and departure corresponding to any given course and distance may be found by inspection. It contains the lengths of the two sides of a right-angled triangle, usually for every quarter of a degree of angle, and for lengths of the hypothenuse, from 1 to 100. (b) (Railroad) A platform with one or more tracks,…

A person who inspects a mine daily; -- called also underviewer.

A vessel for holding urine; especially, a bottle or tube for holding urine for inspection.

The diagnosis of diseases by inspection of urine. Sir T. Browne.

The act of seeing or beholding; sight; look; survey; examination by the eye; inspection. Thenceforth I thought thee worth my nearer view. Milton. Objects near our view are thought greater than those of a larger size are more remote. Locke. Surveying nature with too nice a view. Dryden.

A person appointed to inspect highways, fences, or the like, and to report upon the same.

Specifically: To go or come to see for inspection, examination, correction of abuses, etc.; to examine, to inspect; as, a bishop visits his diocese; a superintendent visits persons or works under his charge.

Liable or subject to be visited or inspected. "All hospitals built since the Reformation are visitable by the king or lord chancellor." Ayliffe.

The act of visiting, or the state of being visited; access for inspection or examination. Nothing but peace and gentle visitation. Shak.

A superior, or a person lawfully appointed for the purpose, who makes formal visits of inspection to a corporation or an institution. See Visit, v. t., 2, and Visitation, n., 2. The king is the visitor of all lay corporations. Blackstone.

A forest officer appointed to walk over a certain space for inspection; a forester.

roperly in its place; -- said of a buoy. To watch over, to be cautiously observant of; to inspect, superintend, and guard.

One who professes to be able to divine diseases by inspection of the urine.

from the bottom to the lower deck, to preserve the pumps from damage and facilitate their inspection.