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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Boomerang :: Boomerang (n.) A very singular missile weapon used by the natives of Australia and in some parts of India. It is usually a curved stick of hard wood, from twenty to thirty inches in length, from two to three inches wide, and half or three quarters of an inch thick. When thrown from the hand with a quick rotary motion, it describes very remarkable curves, according to the shape of the instrument and the manner of throwing it, often moving nearly horizontally a long distance, then curving upward t
Spiral :: Spiral (a.) A plane curve, not reentrant, described by a point, called the generatrix, moving along a straight line according to a mathematical law, while the line is revolving about a fixed point called the pole. Cf. Helix..
Character :: Character (v. t.) To distinguish by particular marks or traits; to describe; to characterize.
Carpologist :: Carpologist (n.) One who describes fruits; one versed in carpology.
Indefinable :: Indefinable (a.) Incapable of being defined or described; inexplicable.
Tartarus :: Tartarus (n.) The infernal regions, described in the Iliad as situated as far below Hades as heaven is above the earth, and by later writers as the place of punishment for the spirits of the wicked. By the later poets, also, the name is often used synonymously with Hades, or the Lower World in general..
Histographer :: Histographer (n.) One who describes organic tissues; an histologist.
Graphical :: Graphical (a.) Well delineated; clearly and vividly described.
Passionary :: Passionary (n.) A book in which are described the sufferings of saints and martyrs.
Hydrographer :: Hydrographer (n.) One skilled in the hydrography; one who surveys, or draws maps or charts of, the sea, lakes, or other waters, with the adjacent shores; one who describes the sea or other waters..
Hottentotism :: Hottentotism (n.) A term employed to describe one of the varieties of stammering.
Descrive :: Descrive (v. t.) To describe.
Galvanologist :: Galvanologist (n.) One who describes the phenomena of galvanism; a writer on galvanism.
Cosmologist :: Cosmologist (n.) One who describes the universe; one skilled in cosmology.
Fulgurating :: Fulgurating (a.) Resembling lightning; -- used to describe intense lancinating pains accompanying locomotor ataxy.
"""haemony " :: Haemony (n.) A plant described by Milton as of sovereign use against all enchantments..
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..
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..
Lichenographist :: Lichenographist (n.) One who describes lichens; one versed in lichenography.
Personate :: Personate (v. t.) To personify; to typify; to describe.
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