Definition of describe

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Describe (v. t.) To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out; as, to describe a circle by the compasses; a torch waved about the head in such a way as to describe a circle..

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Witch :: Witch (n.) A certain curve of the third order, described by Maria Agnesi under the name versiera..
Depaint :: Depaint (v. t.) To paint; to picture; hence, to describe; to delineate in words; to depict..
Widmanstatten Figures :: Widmanstatten figures () Certain figures appearing on etched meteoric iron; -- so called after A. B. Widmanstatten, of Vienna, who first described them in 1808. See the Note and Illust. under Meteorite..
Wormian :: Wormian (a.) Discovered or described by Olanus Wormius, a Danish anatomist..
"""haemony " :: Haemony (n.) A plant described by Milton as of sovereign use against all enchantments..
Stork :: Storify (v. t.) To form or tell stories of; to narrate or describe in a story.
Labarum :: Labarum (n.) The standard adopted by the Emperor Constantine after his conversion to Christianity. It is described as a pike bearing a silk banner hanging from a crosspiece, and surmounted by a golden crown. It bore a monogram of the first two letters (CHR) of the name of Christ in its Greek form. Later, the name was given to various modifications of this standard..
Describe :: Describe (v. i.) To use the faculty of describing; to give a description; as, Milton describes with uncommon force and beauty..
Devise :: Devise (v. t.) To say; to relate; to describe.
Gothic :: Gothic (n.) The style described in Gothic, a., 2..
Tagliacotain :: Tagliacotain (a.) Of or pertaining to Tagliacozzi, a Venetian surgeon; as, the Tagliacotian operation, a method of rhinoplasty described by him..
Descriptive :: Descriptive (a.) Tending to describe; having the quality of representing; containing description; as, a descriptive figure; a descriptive phrase; a descriptive narration; a story descriptive of the age..
Personate :: Personate (v. t.) To personify; to typify; to describe.
Orbit :: Orbit (n.) The path described by a heavenly body in its periodical revolution around another body; as, the orbit of Jupiter, of the earth, of the moon..
Trochoid :: Trochoid (n.) The curve described by any point in a wheel rolling on a line; a cycloid; a roulette; in general, the curve described by any point fixedly connected with a moving curve while the moving curve rolls without slipping on a second fixed curve, the curves all being in one plane. Cycloids, epicycloids, hypocycloids, cardioids, etc., are all trochoids..
Curve :: Curve (a.) A line described according to some low, and having no finite portion of it a straight line..
Identity :: Identity (n.) The condition of being the same with something described or asserted, or of possessing a character claimed; as, to establish the identity of stolen goods..
Nix :: Nix (fem.) One of a class of water spirits, commonly described as of a mischievous disposition..
Teller :: Teller (n.) One who tells, relates, or communicates; an informer, narrator, or describer..
Terrier :: Terrier (n.) In modern usage, a book or roll in which the lands of private persons or corporations are described by their site, boundaries, number of acres, or the like..
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