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Ellipsograph :: Ellipsograph (n.) An instrument for describing ellipses; -- called also trammel.

Generatrix :: Generatrix (n.) That which generates; the point, or the mathematical magnitude, which, by its motion, generates another magnitude, as a line, surface, or solid; -- called also describent..

Prescription :: Prescription (n.) A direction of a remedy or of remedies for a disease, and the manner of using them; a medical recipe; also, a prescribed remedy..

Underwrite :: Underwrite (v. t.) To subscribe one's name to for insurance, especially for marine insurance; to write one's name under, or set one's name to, as a policy of insurance, for the purpose of becoming answerable for loss or damage, on consideration of receiving a certain premium per cent; as, individuals, as well as companies, may underwrite policies of insurance..

Zoographer :: Zoographer (n.) One who describes animals, their forms and habits..

Facet :: Facet (n.) A smooth circumscribed surface; as, the articular facet of a bone..

Scribe :: Scribe (v. t.) To write, engrave, or mark upon; to inscribe..

Order :: Order (n.) That which prescribes a method of procedure; a rule or regulation made by competent authority; as, the rules and orders of the senate..

Nix :: Nix (fem.) One of a class of water spirits, commonly described as of a mischievous disposition..

Amercement :: Amercement (n.) The infliction of a penalty at the discretion of the court; also, a mulct or penalty thus imposed. It differs from a fine,in that the latter is, or was originally, a fixed and certain sum prescribed by statue for an offense; but an amercement is arbitrary. Hence, the act or practice of affeering. [See Affeer.].

Cribbing :: Cribbing (n.) The act of inclosing or confining in a crib or in close quarters.

Depict :: Depict (v. t.) To represent in words; to describe vividly.

Element :: Element (n.) Sometimes a curve, or surface, or volume is considered as described by a moving point, or curve, or surface, the latter being at any instant called an element of the former..

Sarcophagus :: Sarcophagus (n.) A coffin or chest-shaped tomb of the kind of stone described above; hence, any stone coffin..

Proscriptionist :: Proscriptionist (n.) One who proscribes.

Dietarian :: Dietarian (n.) One who lives in accordance with prescribed rules for diet; a dieter.

Crib :: Crib (n.) A stall for oxen or other cattle.

Efface :: Efface (v. t.) To cause to disappear (as anything impresses or inscribed upon a surface) by rubbing out, striking out, etc.; to erase; to render illegible or indiscernible; as, to efface the letters on a monument, or the inscription on a coin..

Paint :: Paint (v. t.) Fig.: To represent or exhibit to the mind; to describe vividly; to delineate; to image; to depict.

Mortar :: Mortar (n.) A short piece of ordnance, used for throwing bombs, carcasses, shells, etc., at high angles of elevation, as 45¡, and even higher; -- so named from its resemblance in shape to the utensil above described..

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