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Delineate :: Delineate (v. t.) To portray to the mind or understanding by words; to set forth; to describe.

Behemoth :: Behemoth (n.) An animal, probably the hippopotamus, described in Job xl. 15-24..

Misdescribe :: Misdescribe (v. t.) To describe wrongly.

Circumduction :: Circumduction (n.) The rotation of a limb round an imaginary axis, so as to describe a concial surface..

Cometographer :: Cometographer (n.) One who describes or writes about comets.

Define :: Define (v. t.) To determine the precise signification of; to fix the meaning of; to describe accurately; to explain; to expound or interpret; as, to define a word, a phrase, or a scientific term..

Overpaint :: Overpaint (v. t.) To color or describe too strongly.

Haliographer :: Haliographer (n.) One who writes about or describes the sea.

Sketch :: Sketch (n.) To plan or describe by giving the principal points or ideas of.

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..

Discrive :: Discrive (v. t.) To describe.

Tagliacotain :: Tagliacotain (a.) Of or pertaining to Tagliacozzi, a Venetian surgeon; as, the Tagliacotian operation, a method of rhinoplasty described by him..

Arc :: Arc (n.) The apparent arc described, above or below the horizon, by the sun or other celestial body. The diurnal arc is described during the daytime, the nocturnal arc during the night..

Hunterian :: Hunterian (a.) Discovered or described by John Hunter, an English surgeon; as, the Hunterian chancre. See Chancre..

Odyssey :: Odyssey (n.) An epic poem attributed to Homer, which describes the return of Ulysses to Ithaca after the siege of Troy..

Cone :: Cone (n.) A solid of the form described by the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of the sides adjacent to the right angle; -- called also a right cone. More generally, any solid having a vertical point and bounded by a surface which is described by a straight line always passing through that vertical point; a solid having a circle for its base and tapering to a point or vertex..

Epithet :: Epithet (v. t.) To describe by an epithet.

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

Lichenographist :: Lichenographist (n.) One who describes lichens; one versed in lichenography.

Wormian :: Wormian (a.) Discovered or described by Olanus Wormius, a Danish anatomist..

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