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Reconnoitre   Listen
verb
Reconnoitre, Reconnoiter  v. t.  
1.
To examine with the eye to make a preliminary examination or survey of; esp., to survey with a view to military or engineering operations.
2.
To recognize. (Obs.)





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"Reconnoitre" Quotes from Famous Books



... position on the hillside we commanded the road leading out of the village—the road that was all alive with carriages on this beautiful September morning. The W—— carriage had half halted to reconnoitre, and had only not hailed us because we ...
— On the Church Steps • Sarah C. Hallowell
... Junction of the French and Bavarian Armies they took Post behind a great Morass which they thought impracticable. Our General the next Day sent a Party of Horse to reconnoitre them from a little Hauteur, at about a [Quarter of an Hour's [5]] distance from the Army, who returned again to the Camp unobserved through several Defiles, in one of which they met with a Party of French that had been ...
— The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 - With Translations and Index for the Series • Joseph Addison and Richard Steele
... safely bound, we left him where he lay, and, while awaiting news from the ships which had been sent to reconnoitre, continued the exploration of ...
— Edison's Conquest of Mars • Garrett Putman Serviss
... "'I must reconnoitre,' said Louis; 'I don't understand his tactics.' And, to my dismay, he prepared to get out ...
— The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911 • Various
... it but to put up the horse and the machines at the hotel, while we walked round to reconnoitre; and this we did, tramping up one street and down another, with eyes bent on the ground, fruitlessly searching for a trace of the ...
— John Thorndyke's Cases • R. Austin Freeman


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