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noun

Finder n.

One who, or that which, finds; specifically (Astron.), A small telescope of low power and large field of view, attached to a larger telescope, for the purpose of finding an object more readily, called also a finder telescope or finder scope.

(Micros.) A slide ruled in squares, so as to assist in locating particular points in the field of vision.

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Etymology of 'Finder'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Finder" Quotes from Famous Books

... Hunting and Trapping in South Park, Where a Boy, Unaided, Kills and Scalps Two Indians—Meeting with Fremont, the "Path-finder" ...

— Thirty-One Years on the Plains and In the Mountains • William F. Drannan

... modified and improved his ingenious range finder, and we illustrate herewith from Engineering the form in which it is now manufactured. It consists of a metal box, the lid of which is shown open in the engraving, and on this lid are fitted three prisms which are the essential constituents of the instrument. ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891 • Various

... smell of them. But many English people liked them; and they were so much esteemed by the Dyaks, that when the fruit was ripe they encamped for the night under the trees. When a durian fell to the ground with a great thud, they all jumped up to look for it, as the fallen fruit belongs to the finder, and they loved it so that they willingly sacrificed their sleep for it. Woe be to the man, however, on whose head the fruit falls, for it is so hard and heavy ...

— Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak • Harriette McDougall

... hunters who never find them. It is customary for the profits of such a find to be divided among the tribe or family making the discovery, and even in case a hunter can prove that he has shot an otter at sea which has come ashore, the finder receives a certain proportion of the profits, most of the hunting done by these natives partaking of a ...

— The Young Alaskans • Emerson Hough

... there were one thing he clung to, it was my good opinion; and when both were involved, as was the case in these commercial cruces, the man was on the rack. My own position, if you consider how much I owed him, how hateful is the trade of fault-finder, and that yet I lived and fattened on these questionable operations, was perhaps equally distressing. If I had been more sterling or more combative things might have gone extremely far. But, in truth, I was just ...

— The Wrecker • Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne

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