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Definition of Finders
1. finder [n] - See also: finder
Lexicographical Neighbors of Finders
Literary usage of Finders
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Modern American Law: A Systematic and Comprehensive Commentary on the by Eugene Allen Gilmore, William Charles Wermuth (1917)
"Liens of finders.—At common law. The common law gave no lien to finders of ...
Also, the courts explained the exclusion of finders on the grounds of policy. ..."
2. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1879)
"He began by sneering at General WBAY as " somewhat of an enthusiast : "— " He
was formerly Chairman of the Committee on Range-finders, and, ..."
3. Naval Ordnance: A Text-book Prepared for the Use of the Midshipmen of the by Roland Irvin Curtin, United States Naval Academy, Thomas Lee Johnson (1915)
"There are two types of range-finders used in the navy: (1) The Barr and Stroud, (2)
the Bausch and Lomb. The first of these types is made in England, ..."
4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1852)
"Four Months among the Gold finders in Alia California. By JT Brooks, MD 1849. 7.
Across the Rocky Mountains from New York to California. ..."
5. Automatic Telephony: A Comprehensive Treatise on Automatic and Semi by Arthur Bessey Smith, Wilson Lee Campbell (1914)
"This starts all the secondary line finders in the group. The first finder to
arrive at the calling trunk will stop, clear the line and cause the stopping of ..."
6. The Microscope and Its Revelations by William Benjamin Carpenter (1883)
"finders.—AH Microscopists occasionally, and some continually, feel the need of
a ready means of finding, upon a glass slide, the particular object, ..."
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