comptrol

& v. [CONTROL.] comp-trol-ler, s. [CONTROLLER.] *1. One who regulates or controls. 2. An officer whose duty it is to examine and certify public accounts. IMG:content-0440.png:[blocks in formation] in the Lithographic Slate of Solenhofen, which is of Upper Oolite age. It is founded upon the Com psognathus longipes , a small reptile with toothed Because of its affinities to birds. It resembled jaws about two feet long, but which is interesting them, not merely in its long neck, slight head, and small fore-limbs, but in its long hind-limbs, enabling it, in the opinion of Prof. Huxley, to walk in an erect or semi-erect position. The occurrence of a the same direction, have suggested a the com probation of the best and most famous learned men and vniuersities, and also by the a ent of the whole real me."- Foz: Martyrs, p. 981. reptile so bird-like, and some other facts pointing whether the Connecticut footprints, long regarded as avian, may not have been those of erect walking Dinosaurian reptiles. 1. The office or position of a comptroller. *2. Superintendence, regulation.