Definition of outline

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Outline (v. t.) To draw the outline of.

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Wagon-headed :: Wagon-headed (a.) Having a top, or head, shaped like the top of a covered wagon, or resembling in section or outline an inverted U, thus /; as, a wagonheaded ceiling..
Contour :: Contour (n.) The outline of a horizontal section of the ground, or of works of fortification..
Monography :: Monography (n.) Representation by lines without color; an outline drawing.
Line :: Line (n.) Form of a vessel as shown by the outlines of vertical, horizontal, and oblique sections..
Scheme :: Scheme (n.) Any lineal or mathematical diagram; an outline.
Balloon :: Balloon (n.) The outline inclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.
Delineation :: Delineation (n.) The act of representing, portraying, or describing, as by lines, diagrams, sketches, etc.; drawing an outline; as, the delineation of a scene or face; in drawing and engraving, representation by means of lines, as distinguished from representation by means of tints and shades; accurate and minute representation, as distinguished from art that is careless of details, or subordinates them excessively..
Odontograph :: Odontograph (n.) An instrument for marking or laying off the outlines of teeth of gear wheels.
Saddleback :: Saddleback (n.) Anything saddle-backed; esp., a hill or ridge having a concave outline at the top..
Camera Obscura :: Camera obscura () An apparatus in which the images of external objects, formed by a convex lens or a concave mirror, are thrown on a paper or other white surface placed in the focus of the lens or mirror within a darkened chamber, or box, so that the outlines may be traced..
Adumbration :: Adumbration (n.) A faint sketch; an outline; an imperfect portrayal or representation of a thing.
Quadrate :: Quadrate (a.) A plane surface with four equal sides and four right angles; a square; hence, figuratively, anything having the outline of a square..
Perspective :: Perspective (a.) The effect of distance upon the appearance of objects, by means of which the eye recognized them as being at a more or less measurable distance. Hence, aerial perspective, the assumed greater vagueness or uncertainty of outline in distant objects..
Profile :: Profile (n.) To shape the outline of an object by passing a cutter around it.
Outlined :: Outlined (imp. & p. p.) of Outlin.
Bosh :: Bosh (n.) Figure; outline; show.
Curl :: Curl (v. i.) To move in curves, spirals, or undulations; to contract in curving outlines; to bend in a curved form; to make a curl or curls..
Gonys :: Gonys (n.) The keel or lower outline of a bird's bill, so far as the mandibular rami are united..
Ambitus :: Ambitus (n.) The exterior edge or border of a thing, as the border of a leaf, or the outline of a bivalve shell..
Round :: Round (a.) Having a curved outline or form; especially, one like the arc of a circle or an ellipse, or a portion of the surface of a sphere; rotund; bulging; protuberant; not angular or pointed; as, a round arch; round hills..
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