Definition of describe

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Describe (v. i.) To use the faculty of describing; to give a description; as, Milton describes with uncommon force and beauty..

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Stork :: Storify (v. t.) To form or tell stories of; to narrate or describe in a story.
Graphical :: Graphical (a.) Well delineated; clearly and vividly described.
Teller :: Teller (n.) One who tells, relates, or communicates; an informer, narrator, or describer..
Lichenographist :: Lichenographist (n.) One who describes lichens; one versed in lichenography.
Mortar :: Mortar (n.) A short piece of ordnance, used for throwing bombs, carcasses, shells, etc., at high angles of elevation, as 45ยก, and even higher; -- so named from its resemblance in shape to the utensil above described..
Draw :: Draw (v. t.) To represent by lines drawn; to form a sketch or a picture of; to represent by a picture; to delineate; hence, to represent by words; to depict; to describe..
Indescribable :: Indescribable (a.) Incapable of being described.
Tagliacotain :: Tagliacotain (a.) Of or pertaining to Tagliacozzi, a Venetian surgeon; as, the Tagliacotian operation, a method of rhinoplasty described by him..
Paint :: Paint (v. t.) Fig.: To represent or exhibit to the mind; to describe vividly; to delineate; to image; to depict.
Crystallographer :: Crystallographer (n.) One who describes crystals, or the manner of their formation; one versed in crystallography..
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..
Depict :: Depict (v. t.) To represent in words; to describe vividly.
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..
Nix :: Nix (fem.) One of a class of water spirits, commonly described as of a mischievous disposition..
Enchase :: Enchase (v. t.) To delineate or describe, as by writing..
Femalize :: Femalize (v. t.) To make, or to describe as, female or feminine..
Lilliputian :: Lilliputian (a.) Of or pertaining to the imaginary island of Lilliput described by Swift, or to its inhabitants..
Trajectory :: Trajectory (n.) The curve which a body describes in space, as a planet or comet in its orbit, or stone thrown upward obliquely in the air..
Hiss :: Hiss (n.) Any sound resembling that above describe.
Describable :: Describable (a.) That can be described; capable of description.
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