A person appointed or employed to inspect or examine something (now historical and rare); spec. †(a) a person appointed by a court to inspect a…

Any of various municipal or government officials appointed to inspect the quality of goods and to ensure they have been manufactured in accordance…

An inspector. Obsolete.

English regional. With prefixed noun: (the title of) a minor local official appointed to oversee or inspect what is denoted by the noun. Now chiefly…

An inspector.

One who inspects or looks carefully at or into; an overseer, a superintendent; spec. an officer appointed to examine into, and supervise or report…

Scottish. An inspector. Obsolete.

A person who makes rounds of inspection; spec. (U.S.) a police officer in charge of a patrol (now historical).

One who pries or peeps; spec. one who makes an intrusive official investigation. Originally U.S.