Word Meanings - DETECTIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Fitted for, or skilled in, detecting; employed in detecting crime or criminals; as, a detective officer.
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- 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.