Whether the birds or she recorded best.
W. Browne.
Rec"ord (rk"rd), n. [OF. recort, record, remembrance, attestation,
record. See Record, v. t.] 1. A writing by which some act or event, or
a number of acts or events, is recorded; a register; as, a record of
the acts of the Hebrew kings; a record of the variations of temperature
during a certain time; a family record.
2. Especially: (a) An official contemporaneous writing by which the
acts of some public body, or public officer, are recorded; as, a record
of city ordinances; the records of the receiver of taxes. (b) An
authentic official copy of a document which has been entered in a book,
or deposited in the keeping of some officer designated by law. (c) An
official contemporaneous memorandum stating the proceedings of a court
of justice; a judicial record. (d) The various legal papers used in a
case, together with memoranda of the proceedings of the court; as, it
is not permissible to allege facts not in the record.