Word Meanings - DETECTIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Fitted for, or skilled in, detecting; employed in detecting crime or criminals; as, a detective officer.

SCOUT
A swift sailing boat. So we took a scout, very much pleased with the manner and conversation of the passengers. Pepys.
EMISSARYSHIP
The office of an emissary.
EMISSARY
An agent employed to advance, in a covert manner, the interests of his employers; one sent out by any power that is at war with another, to create dissatisfaction among the people of the latter. Buzzing emissaries fill the ears Of listening crowds
DETECTIVE
Fitted for, or skilled in, detecting; employed in detecting crime or criminals; as, a detective officer.
ESCOUT
See HAYWARD
BOY SCOUT
Orig., a member of the "Boy Scouts," an organization of boys founded in 1908, by Sir R. S. S. Baden-Powell, to promote good citizenship by creating in them a spirit of civic duty and of usefulness to others, by stimulating their interest
TRACKSCOUT
See TRACKSCHUYT
OUTSCOUT
To overpower by disdain; to outface. Marston.