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Military police, the body of soldiers detailed to preserve civil order and attend to sanitary arrangements in a camp or garrison.

The inherent power of a government to regulate its police affairs. The term police power is not definitely fixed in meaning. In the earlier cases in the United States it was used as including the whole power of internal government, or the powers of government inherent in every sovereignty to the extent of its dominions…

by laws for the maintenance of peace and order, enforced by organized administration. "A policed kingdom." Howell.

A member of a body of police; a constable.

oken, sign, or cognizance, worn on the person; as, the badge of a society; the badge of a policeman. "Tax gatherers, recognized by their official badges. " Prescott.

A magistrate or policeman. [Slang, Eng.]

A club; esp., a policeman's club.

A nickname for a policeman; -- from Sir Robert Peel, who remodeled the police force. See Peeler. [Slang, Eng.] Dickens.

ccount before a master in chancery. -- Charge sheet, the paper on which are entered at a police station all arrests and accusations. -- To sound the charge, to give the signal for an attack.

A watchman; an officer of customs or police. [India]

To tread heavily or clumsily; to clump. The policeman with clamping feet. Thackeray.

A policeman. [Slang] Cop waste, a kind of cotton waste, composed chiefly

The chief police officer of a large city. [East Indies]

That divides; pas, a divisional line; a divisional general; a divisional surgeon of police. Divisional planes (Geol.), planes of separation between rock masses. They include joints.

Hence, any assigned service or business; as, the duties of a policeman, or a soldier; to be on duty. With records sweet of duties done. Keble. To employ him on the hardest and most imperative duty. Hallam. Duty is a graver term than obligation. A duty hardly exists to do trivial things; but there may be an obligation t…

An armed policeman in France. Thackeray.

of residence of any chief officer, as the general in command of an army, or the head of a police force; the place from which orders or instructions are issued; hence, the center of authority or order. The brain, which is the headquarters, or office, of intelligence. Collier.

ecruiting, discharge, administration, accountability for money and property, instruction, police, and discipline.

Seated or serving on horseback or similarly; as, mounted police; mounted infantry.

ested with an office, whether civil, military, or ecclesiastical; as, a church officer; a police officer; a staff officer. "I am an officer of state." Shak.